Sarah Becker Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

We know that your business can only run as fast as your slowest task. We will focus on speeding up that task and any others that seem to be impeding your company’s success.Through analysis and strategy, we evaluate the processes in your workflow. The most essential elements that we identify are the systems that are holding you back. We will diligently and aggressively address these issues, with the goal of giving you freedom from them. We want to free up your time, increase your productivity and allow you the opportunity to focus on what’s really important — your life, in general — not mundane tasks that have, quite simply, gotten out of hand.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead the initiative to redefine the business area’s reporting metrics by compiling and standardizing data from multiple sources into the first ever Operations Packet used during monthly business reviews to analyze business area stability and make future decisions.• Reduced the creation time for the Weekly Report from 1 day to 20 minutes by utilizing tools within excel and automating the process.• Assessed stakeholder needs and convert corporate goals into measurable BI metrics, delivering actionable insights to drive value and accountability. Resulting in an 80M budget being reduced by 10%.• Lead initiative to reduce business area's License and Maintenance costs by 4.2M• Transformed large amounts of data into innovative visuals to tell the story of the business, aiding leaders in their decision making. • Analytically inclined by understanding the importance of data to make key business decisions

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Identified and created process efficiency within the Master Data Team (i.e. Alternate hierarchies project saved approx.15 hours per month. SAP User Interface 80-95% efficiency gained)• Became InfoPath and SharePoint Subject Matter Expert• Assisted Assurance Team in creating sophisticated workflows to further automate and enhance SOX 404 Assessment approval process

Minneapolis, Mn

• Enhanced the billing process by creating automation within excel resulting in a reduction of task time from 3 business days to 1 business day.• Consolidated information from multiple sources across multiple areas to bring focus to essential items

• Enhanced coordinating process from a manual paper based process to an excel based tracking system, resulting in a faster processing time and reduction in material costs• Simultaneously worked with numerous Project Managers on multiple jobs while prioritizing projects and handling various tasks quickly and efficiently..

• Lead the initiative to redefine the global reporting structure by compiling and standardizing data from multiple divisions in Asia, Europe and the USA into first ever global revenue and debt reporting system used during month end business reviews to analyze business and make future decisions • Designed, managed and distributed daily cash report, weekly debt report and monthly global revenue and debt reports, while maintaining the database in excel

• Improved efficiency of payroll process by creating an excel database to automate the manual certified payroll process

Ba, German, Math, History

Activities and Societies: • Member of the Women’s Varsity Hockey Team 2001-2005 • Studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria Fall 2003 • German.

Mini Masters Of The Lean Enterprise, Lean

Mini Master of the Lean Enterprise program focuses on gaining in-depth knowledge and problem-solving skills needed by professionals.

Business Process Improvement Certification

Business process improvement is the key skill set managers and professionals need to reduce costs, shorten service/cycle time, enhance.

Mba, International Business Practice

Activities and Societies: • Research on Analytical Competition - Internally analyzed a firm to determine its level of analytical.