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Strategy Consulting and Robotic Process Automation:• Led projects conducting detailed assessments of finance, budget, and human resource processes for several federal agencies to identify and recommend robotic process automation or process improvements to drive business efficiency. • Led a team to perform analysis and develop detailed process maps for client review, process automation design, and development. • Facilitated interviews with subject matter experts to gather keystroke level detail on process execution, to assess the process complexity, and identify pain points.• Performed a cost benefit analysis to determine the business case for investing in automation software. Prepared and delivered findings detailing processes or process steps which could benefit from automation or process improvement. • Assisted leadership in setting the priority for the automation and process improvement options identified. Financial Reporting and Operations:• Led a work stream to manage the lifecycle of prepaid obligations for a large federal law enforcement agency and its shared services customers. • Served as a subject matter advisor on analysis of advances and inter-governmental transactions for the client’s financial analysis department.• Led a team to prepare and distribute monthly communication to shared services team highlighting pre-paid obligation activity and initiate action items.• Identified audit weakness due to procedural errors and implemented new procedures and controls which resulted in the elimination of the audit risk. • Redesigned metrics to assist stakeholders with identifying audit weaknesses and monitor asset life-cycle progress.

• Led a team to identify and execute business process improvement projects.• Developed guidelines and implemented proprietary software to automate the Illinois sales tax return preparation and quality control processes. This resulted in 80% of returns being completely automated and designated as “no touch returns”. • Managed monthly filing team ensuring productivity and increasing efficiency of return filings by 40%.• Analyzed trends in rejected returns to identify areas for internal software development and improve customer compliance.• Created interactive webinar with User Knowledge Learning team to walk clients through return registration and setup of multiple store locations.• Managed onboarding of strategic clients. Reviewed sales and use tax profiles for setup errors, prepared monthly account reconciliations and ensured jurisdictional compliance. • Provided design specifications and assisted with the quality assurance testing of a new filing delivery system.

• Responsible for the timely and proper recognition of revenues. • Managed the event financial statements for five major professional golf and tennis events. • Assisted with an accounting software conversion from Microsoft Dynamics to Systems Applications and Products (SAP) as well as transitioning to a new shared services center. • Developed procedures to streamline WBS code setup within corporate finance team, resulting in improved accuracy of revenue recognition and internal reporting. • Developed, implemented, and maintained divisional revenue schedules to improve the accuracy of projected yearly revenues and analysis of budgets.