Sherry Elliott Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Contract employee working at Bonneville Power Administration as a Program Support Specialist in the Information Technology organization.Prepare Budget & ForecastReporting - Performance Metrics, FinancialContract Portfolio AdministrationInvoice ProcessingSharePoint Administrator

Beaverton, Oregon

Short term contract to document process flows and standard operating procedures to reflect recent changes in the Ecommerce organization.• Work directly with Director and VP of Ecommerce.• Interview managers to understand processes.• Created separate high level documentation and presentation for Brand presidents to facilitate conversations and alignment on responsibilities.

Vancouver, Wa

Five-month project with legal department to establish a management process for non-employed physician contracts. • Coordinated the contract management process and collaborated with cross functional teams to implement policies and procedures, serving as a contracts compliance resource.• Tracked contract portfolio and ensured that required reviews and approvals were obtained timely.• Developed process to update physician compensation benchmarks and fair market value analysis database. • Updated and eliminated backlog of contracts to the physician compensation benchmark and FMV analysis database. • Executed contract reviews and FMV analysis. • Prepared status reports for bi-weekly senior leadership contract review and approval meetings, which I attended.• Conducted weekly meetings with multiple network leadership teams to review contract status and concerns.

Beaverton, Oregon

Lead a diverse finance production support team of onshore and offshore resources in support of SAP, BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), GLUE, Coupa, and Concur applications. Responsible for issue identification, resolution and escalation. • Delivered results. Reduced incidents by 25% year over year and eliminated change ticket backlog within first year.• Managed resources for changes, incidents and service tickets. • Delivered a thoughtful and detailed approach, ensuring teams are engaged with timelines and action items. • Analyzed performance metrics, prepared and presented monthly presentation for management team.• Collaborated with cross functional, project, and business teams to implement new finance technical solutions and resolve complex incidents.• Strong business engagement built on relationships and trust.• Organized and facilitated meaningful meetings with clear agendas and action items.• Delivered clear, concise professional verbal and written communication.• Managed and resolved conflict successfully.• Encouraged participation and decision making by all team members and effectively managed group dynamics.• Leadership role in implementation of all Service Now functions (Incident, Service, Problem, and Knowledge)• Successful coordination and support of production system releases.• Active participation in Agile Development training.• Experience in migration to Cloud applications

Beaverton, Oregon

Portfolio and project management for Finance, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Digital and Direct to Consumer, from project inception to production release.• Developed a newly created position to ensure appropriate engagement between finance, cross functional and project teams in the delivery of system projects.• Central point of contact for the successful realization of project benefits.• Virtually reduced post production release incidents as a result of collaborative engagement, approval and communication process.• Leader in adopting automated testing and influential in the adoption by other teams on a company wide basis.• Reduced testing timelines from days to hours.• Managed testing progress. Wrote and reviewed test scripts and tracked status in Quality Center.• Drove process improvement, standardization, and common methodologies to drive efficiencies and scalability for growth.• Liaison between Nike Tech and finance teams to manage change and incident resolution.

Beaverton, Oregon

Managed operational and accounting aspects of multi- million- dollar royalty, patent, and licensee contract requirements and payments.• Managed staff of six to ensure contract compliance, payments and accounting accuracy.• Responsible for hiring staff and performing performance evaluations.• Drove process and system improvements to improve accuracy and efficiency.• Developed new methodology for calculating complex royalties for major league teams and led the creation of system changes to perform the calculations.• Reduced processing time to capture college team product sales and calculate royalties by 3 days each month by creating an automated process.• Represented Nike for all internal and external audits related to royalty, patents, and licensee payments.• Managed & approved month end close processes including: liability & prepaid account reconciliations, financial & accrual analysis, sales file uploads, GL journal entries.• Prepared SEC financial reporting for NIKE’s global royalty commitments.• Final reviewer and approver of high profile contract payments before meeting with executive leadership for payment authorization.• Provided oversight of database and resolution of system issues.• Exhibited strong relationship building skills with internal and external customers. • Collaborated with product teams, sports marketing, legal, and senior executives.• Sox compliance documentation and reviews• 1099 Reporting

Beaverton, Or

Beaverton, Oregon

Provide technical and business expertise and solutions to ensure accurate financial reporting.• Support Month End Close processes• Royalty Support• Warehouse Allocations