SUMMARY

• A manager with over 20 years significant experience both domestically and internationally in directing projects, program delivery, marketing and financial functions.
• Areas of expertise include project implementation, project management, budgeting, cost management and business process reengineering.
• Others areas include financial process improvements for tracking, mapping and validation.
• Valuable consumer products business management experience with key project roles in the implementation and development of new business models and profit improvement projects; an effective team leader with demonstrated ability in building partnerships, developing staff, identifying growth opportunities, revenues generation and planning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully drove project execution on time and on budget for: Process Improvement, Leveraging Opportunities (IT Sourcing and IT Testing Center of Excellence), Income Flex - Middleware, Aon Hewitt / AHRP, PRT Longevity Reinsurance, 5500 Soft Dollars, 5500, Minimum Requirement Distribution (RMDs), PruForce, Alliance Bernstein, Position Manager (PosMan), Revenue Disclosure and the Union Bank of California (UBOC) Retirement Plan Acquisition Project.
• Developed and created project charters, project plans, requirements, tasked identification, monitoring & tracking (deliverable tracker), risk assessment, documented management solutions, prepared and maintained post conversion issues, contacted organizational meetings and communication.
• Easily adapted to change and synthesized a vast amount of information. Self awareness to understand the issues in order to make an impact and challenge team for business results.
• Led cross-functional teams, coordinated external & internal resources, established clarity and focus of project mission and success. Monitored key performance metrics and update senior leadership.
• PM responsibility on UBOC Transition - Financial Control, Individual Directed Accounts (IDA), Communication & Education and Top 32 Client Profiles. As well as UBOC Transition Working & Project Team where all team information from various groups came together.

Project Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used Project Management tools in the areas of risk management, applications, scheduling, quality management and cost control to manage the day to day operations.
• Developed performance measurement metrics to control cost, improved the process of recruiting and ensured that statistical goals were met.
• Took initiative and action to purchase SAP to managed purchases, budgeting and the monitoring of the plan verses forecast strategies.
• Developed linkages with other organization through BPM to work collaboratively in teams and built consensus to improve the intensive paper-based approval processes into effective controlled processes.
• Worked with internal and external auditors in developing procedures to ensure compliance with the policies and the guidelines established by the Department of Labor.
• Established excellent relationships with customer centers, community organizations and institutions to increase the quantity and quality of applicants into DOL programs.
• Project Director for a team of 27. Developed business process improvements and strategy for business centers in three locations.

Business Financial Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for Procurement and Accounts Payable process improvement project. Worked with management to identified process improvements and cost savings opportunities in the procurement and accounts payable functions for a global corporation. Applied best practices redesigned for a traditional, manual and stand-alone process into an integrated, automated and technology-based one.
• Reviewed the traditional pharmaceutical products for the West Africa area that resulted in 13% increase in sales within 6 months. Managed cash flow projections and established internal controls.
• Business Director - Redesigned the cost accounting processes and cost management practices to provide effective product costing and continuous cost improvement capabilities for the pharmaceutical company. Redesigned standard rate methodologies using traditional costing techniques to provide visibility to processes and cost elements driving product costs. Restructured manufacturing cost center hierarchies. Diagnosed and simplified the cost allocation methodologies.

Finance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business Analyst for $5.1 million IT project to generate and validate 2 financial tools (Knowledge Management 1.6M and Customer Data Mart-$3.5M) resulting in the development of a financial tool that compiled and validated P&Ls data from 17 countries. Business outcomes included improved access to information, data tracking and elimination of human error. Key responsibilities included project management, work flow management, requirements analysis, business process mapping and data matrix for management reporting. Achieved total P&L responsibilities for Wal-Mart and CVS.
• Utilizing Activity Base Costing (ABC) principals/models, responsible for quarterly competitive, customer profitability analyses to indicated progress on each customer portfolio.
• Increased revenue by 7% through collaboration with Country Managers in developing a pricing strategy for Listerine, Halls Bags, Schick Tracer FX, Chiclets, and Lubriderm.
• Successfully coordinated strategic operating business plan for Wal-Mart team in North America, South America, and Europe.
• Created a financial view from database (SAP & Access) and presented a Tier B brand to Wal-Mart on an exclusive global basis from the direction of the President to benefit both the customer and Confidential .
• Evaluated international consumer products competitive position and license agreements in Ghana and Nigeria and recommended a strategy that increased sales 27% and profitability 17%.

Finance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed the business planning and forecasting application system implementation engagement. Led project team in refining and developing business and system requirements to support the design and construction of the forecasting tool. Designed input and output templates for forecast reports and reduced processing time 50% for line managers.
• Lead Business Analyst Hyperion Financial Management integration. Led and participated in various aspects of the migration and validation of historical financial data from legacy systems to the new financial consolidation environment. Assisted system development team testing for go-live.
• Created and developed a time efficient planning strategy with internal and external auditors which improved response time by 25%.