Sean Marks Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Worldwide, Oo

Worldwide, Oo

Key Project: Fortune 20 Telecommunications Client – Technology Enabled Finance Transformation (14 Months)Lead on six releases including Order-to-Case & Finance Hypercare Lead, Finance Month-End Close and Parallel Testing Lead; responsibilities included cross-team integration tracking and leadership communicationsKey Responsibilities: • Directed the end-to-end testing landscape for integration, user acceptance and parallel close cycles spanning ~5,000+ test cases, ~400+ testers, and 4 client organizations (Accounting, FP&A, Tax, IT)• Facilitated weekly leadership update forums on testing progress including executive readouts to 25+ Directors, Executive Directors, Vice Presidents & Senior Vice Presidents• Developed supervisory Tableau dashboarding to highlight areas of greatest concern in conjunction with real time metric tracking and historical trending reducing overall program risk• Led 6+ person project management team tasked with implementing leading practices to increase end-user awareness and leadership transparency resulting in 50% year over year program implication improvement• Designed and executed transition from implementation team to long-term support organizations to manage the deployed global order-to-cash and finance SAP solution

Worldwide, Oo

Key Project: Fortune 10 Telecommunications Client – Custom Compliance Platform (13 Months)Platform product manager through eight agile release cycles while driving both functional and technical specifications, handling incoming feature requests and backlog groomingKey Responsibilities: • Orchestrated team of 10+ developers across platform workstreams Frontend (Angular), Backend (Java), DevOps (Rancher / Docker), and Reporting (Tableau)• Developed functional specifications (frontend and backend) including the business logic and technical specifications including entity relationship diagrams / data models, JAVA API & JSON structure and business logic workflows

Worldwide, Oo

Key Project: Global Information Services Client – Order-to-Cash & Revenue Recognition (24 Months)Functional lead analyst for revenue recognition assessment and implementation to ensure compliance with ASC-606, the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new revenue recognition standardsKey Responsibilities: • Spearhead cross-functional teams during assessment, visioning, and design phases working across internal (Advisory, Consulting, Tax) and client (Accounting, FP&A, IT) organizations• Developed requirements traceability matrix and functional design documentation leveraged for inbound and outbound data integration technical design and build

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Executed various aspects of audit fieldwork such as meetings with area management to understand different technologies, performing risk assessment reviews, testing of key processes, and formalized reporting of identified issues. Engaged in working with teams of 4 to 10 people on audits which included corporate systems support advisory, sales platform, video on demand platform, network advertising platform, end to end customer enhancement advisory, acquisition integration activities. Key Accomplishments:• Analyzed network advertising sales system rollout and developed a roles matrix to avoid user conflicts within the system and provided recommendations around strengthening system parameters• Reduced customer contact rates and improved data accuracy through assisting residential team in re-designing the order to activation customer experience• Identified gaps in the indirect sales channel deposit collection resulting in more than 50% of required deposits not being taken• Discovered inappropriate discounts in billing systems that resulted in revenue loss of ~$500,000 over six months• Reviewed change management processes, segregation of duties, system access, and testing documentation for applications across theenterprise to establish and validate controls in the respective environments

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Contributed to numerous initiatives on the financial shared services floor while working with multiple groups with different specialties. Integrated with testing and deployment teams for the PeopleSoft Financial Management software upgrade. Joined the quarterly SEC Filing Review Team responsible for processing and releasing the 10Q & 10K.Key Accomplishments:• Reviewed quarterly account reconciliations, monthly manual journal entries, and monthly premium registrations to ensure accuracy and adherence to corporate policies, guidelines, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act• Assisted in remedying outstanding account issues with balances over $1 million that arose through quality control review• Developed queries in PeopleSoft (8 & 9.1) and Citrix in an agile team environment improving application usability and efficiency for the finance department by approximately 20%• Optimized and updated daily reports using Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel reducing the required daily processing time by 50%• Created and implemented organizational documents using Microsoft Visio for distribution to corporate enterprise for greater visibility into the financial shared services department structure

New York, Us

• Exceeded monthly sale expectations by over 100% at both local and district levels• Developed a strong knowledge of store products and assisted customers with a variety of requests• Designed and led training sessions to familiarize both employees and customers with the Nook E-Reader• Collaborated with and presented recommendations to District Managers on how to optimize training

• Demonstrated a variety of soccer skills and training protocols to children ages 5 - 17• Evaluated each players abilities at the end of camp and gave guidance on how to improve• Operated closely with local travel coaches to improve team cohesion and skill level

Led team founding initiative which required presentations to high school administration, district school board, and corporate sponsors. Aided in carving out team structure to different committees and personal development workshops. Merged teams with local deaf school to increase community engagement as well broaden spectrum of learning and talent.Key Accomplishments:• Managed 60+ student high school team in collaboration with school faculty and corporate sponsors leading to top 24 in the world placement• Worked closely with Johnson & Johnson employee liaisons to coordinate both funding, mentorship, and development• Coordinated development of design ideas during brainstorming sessions and prepared designs in Autodesk Inventor• Organized alliances and game plans during competitions as well as coached drive team during matches

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Analytics

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