Tad Johnson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Liaison between Finance and ITDevelop and implement IT strategy for enterprise financial systems• Initiate and maintain key relationships with internal Finance business partners to partner strategically and manage process and delivery expectations. This includes balancing the voice of IT and of the business partner for development and change management, through clear communication. • Hold vendor accountable via negotiation to contractual obligations to upgrade to key finance application, saving Xcel $100,000 in application maintenance costs, reducing the complexity of the budget system replacement project• Step into short term leadership role (in place of a Senior IT Manager) during Enterprise Software Selection (ESS) process to choose an ERP vendor. Facilitate the meeting that brought the ESS team to a consensus recommendation. • Bring together key Finance and Operations leaders for peer utility conversations during ESS. Organize team to attend conference of key ERP vendor and craft team message for presentation. • Manage a portfolio of Application Change Requests for Finance business partners. This includes communication and escalation with business partners, IT, and Xcel strategic vendors, as well as proper prioritization, requirements definition, needs assessment, and release management. • Work as a change agent to improve and clarify process of application delivery and communication between IT and business partners• Initiate and develop ideas that turn into value propositions, including a project that is creating $4 million in value over 5 years by controlling the process for employee communications reimbursement• Assist in developing Strategic Plan for Internal Audit and Treasury, including developing IT input into Audit business analytics roadmap. • Quickly gather and prepare data for application audits and transmit to senior management

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

• Assisted with annual budget, year-end tax work papers, and various governmental reports• Prepared reports and analyzed operating results against budget, reviewing results with senior management, leading to operational changes• Managed capital and expense allocation for $800,000 new product rollout project• Reconciled $60 million monthly balance sheet and investigated discrepancies• Performed accounting activities in JDE, then SAP/ECC and BI during ERP rollout

• Billing Process Improvement: Translated business partner needs to development team for $1,000,000 billing process to automate and improve operating effectiveness, significantly reducing staff time, increasing accuracy of financial information • Managed project to eliminate 1/3 of business unit infrastructure, saving $800,000 over five years, plus significant control and information security gains• Initiated, then managed successful $500,000 1.5 year project to refresh business unit infrastructure, finishing months early• Led, trained, and coached team of technical analysts that supported 140+ traders, developers, and other backoffice staff worldwide in a rapidly changing application environment with minimal oversight• Initiated, developed, and maintained project to document application environment, starting and/or updating 60+ application installation/process documents• Identified and assessed risks on existing and potential IT applications and processes to ensure proper processes and procedures observed during implementation• Supported enterprise servers and applications in a large corporate environment, including Hyperion, Autosys, Citrix Metaframe, plus a large variety of networked trading applications and hardware

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Managed vendor relationships and purchased hardware, software, and IT services• Administered local and replicating databases for market positions holdings, customer relationship management, and inventory management

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

• Closed greatest number of work tickets in entire IT department during my tenure (800+)

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Supervised 20+ Customer Service Representatives at E-commerce Help Desk• Coached and evaluated employees to improve performance and customer satisfaction

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance Concentration

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science