Sherilyn Johnson Email & Phone Number

United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Irving, Tx

* Support Shared Services Accounting Leadership with Oracle MOM implementation ensuring business requirements are met through organizational change management, qualitative review of system configuration, functionality and report design.* Served as liaison with IT partners, developing test scripts, and published project communications.* Developed future-state processes, SOX compliance and Visio maps.* Led organizational change management, authored training manuals and conducted user training.*Supported migration of manual reconciliations to Trintech auto-reconciliations, leading UAT.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Utilized combination of accounting and systems expertise to perform ROI & trend analysis and systems’ procedural successes to design financially significant improvements. • Designed procedures to capture new types of data crucial for analysis, allowing Finance, Marketing, and Sales departments to review current performance and optimize processes. • Collaborated with Executive team to define fiscal year goals, select proposals from business partners, and create budget along with management plan for US/MX capital spend. • Supported in-restaurant hardware and software standardization, eliminated COGS recipe / menu inconsistencies, established testing methodology, resulting in improved menu deployment and financial accuracy. • Managed teams responsible for systems solutions in the areas of menu/recipe management, PCI compliance, Digital Ordering, Mobile Payments, Loyalty and Operations Level II technical support. • Spearheaded implementation of EMV credit card processing for all US locations. Collaborated with credit card processor to purchase and deploy hardware while negotiating better rates to reduce credit card expenses for restaurants. • Supported numerous departments companywide: o Implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution for Franchise Sales team. o Assisted adoption of HotSchedules Labor Management & Learning Management solutions. o Led migration to ADP Cloud solution to enable HR & Finance teams to utilize new functionality.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Led Systems Architects to design IT solutions for Restaurant & Food Service clients, optimizing operations for productivity and cost-efficiency while developing new revenue generation opportunities. • Utilized comprehensive understanding of corporate needs and applicable technology solutions to successfully secure client contracts. • Architected effective solutions strategies and presented proposals in clear manner, adapting explanation style to audiences of various technical knowledge levels.

Brinker International

• Ensured successful design and implementation of Mobile Payments initiative. • Orchestrated due diligence phase by developing business objectives, marketing/branding vision, and user experience plan that resulted in leadership adoption. • Led credit/gift card processing RFP, migration to outsourced provider, and implementation strategy with POS and mobile partners.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed and supported promotions of 60+ Accounting employees to Supervisor, Manager, and Director roles in variety of departments throughout career at Brinker International. • Managed 75+ local and globally professionals. Recruited, trained, and developed key talent to lead next generation of corporate’s Accounting Shared Services team.• Direct management of Financial Systems Support’s Accounting activities, including management of G/L, Cost, A/P, Supplier Partner Support, A/R, Credit Card, Gift Card, and Cash Accounting. • Developed and monitored Sarbanes-Oxley controls, reviewed Balance Sheet reconciliations, and supported quarterly/annual internal and external financial and sales tax audits. • Improved Accounts Receivable balance $4.6M by implementing dunning/collection letters.• Analyzed technology systems and accompanying operations to resolve foundational gaps and optimize efficiency while strategically aligning systems/procedures with corporate vision. • Actualized value creation during strategic review and restructuring of agreements with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) partners. Created measurable KPIs, conducted benchmark meetings, and developed various tools & innovative initiatives that ensured successful multi-discipline engagement. • Oversaw upgrade of PeopleSoft T&E system on-time and under budget without requiring outside consulting assistance.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Led two of three F&A BPO phases, outsourcing aspects of A/P, Vendor Support, Cash and Cost Accounting. Solved complex challenges related to the use and delivery of offshore services in the pursuit to balance short-term needs with long-term goals, achieving 30% to 40% savings in the delivery of accounting services to the organization. ($13M savings over five years)• Nominated for IQPC Shared Services Outsourcing Network program award under the category, “Excellence in Value Creation”.

• Responsible for multiple mission-critical, cross-functional projects. Served as Accounting Business Lead for successful IT initiatives. Sought-out to identify risks across the company and brainstormed solutions to generate further financial savings.• Designed R&M detailed data capture and trend analysis reports to assist Operations, Facilities, and Supply Chain Executives managing $24M in repair/replacement decisions. • Utilized continuous improvement strategies to refine systems and business processes across accounting, enabling 19% decrease in department staffing and a 4-day decrease in the monthly close process during a time when corporate headcount increased by 27%.• Reduced cost for non-electronic invoice data capture 74% and improved efficiencies and SOX Controls by creating and implementing Paperless Invoice Processing with document retention partner. • Led numerous cross-functional Supply Chain developments with Purchasing and Accounting, identifying opportunities with food cost price verification, inventory, recipe management processes and systems.• Spearheaded reengineering of Accounting department.

• Spearheaded numerous accounting systems projects during multi-year, web-based single source P&L system initiative. Projects included functionality design, user testing, training, implementation, and management design. • Actualized $4M in annual cost avoidance by developing KPI scorecards for both operators and accounting departments. • Reduced transaction audits from 100% to 32% with 99.5% accuracy rate through rules-based transaction audit tools.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Directed Large teams in the areas of Restaurant and G&A G/L, A/P, A/R, Cash Accounting.• Spearheaded transition for newly acquired company’s Accounting department, traveling to locations nationwide and implementing new Accounting systems. • Increased new-hire productivity 27% by designing and implementing job families and trainer positions.• Reduced headcount growth rate 12% during three-year period of rapid restaurant growth rate of 55%. • Designed and implemented department restructure/task realignment and technical process improvements.• Established Quality Teams to eliminate errors and develop solutions that improved accuracy, resulting in 66% error reduction.• Business Lead for the migration from a proprietary ERP system to implement AS400 ERP system, developed training materials by role and conducted Accounting and Treasury department training.

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Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba)