Project Manager Accounting

Janet Welch

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Norwalk, Connecticut 06851

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Education:

Masters in Business Administration, Accounting

Pace University Lubin School of Business, May 1998

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Rutgers University - Rutgers College, May 1996

Experience:

7/2007 - Present IBM - Project Manager, Worldwide Consolidation Accounting

. Consulting on Global Services contract to reengineer client

finance systems

o Topics include development of intercompany processes,

account reconciliations, system tieouts, and creation of

accounting policies

. Lead team responsible for consolidaton impacts due to

acquisition & divestiture of divisional operations

. Provide ongoing assistance to finance and accounting

organization for performance actuals and forecasting

o Projects include Constant Currency analysis, new data

warehouse development, SAP ledger exploration

7/2005 - 7/2007 IBM - Manager, Worldwide Consolidation Accounting

Operations

. Managed team of 12-15 system administrators responsible for

financial consolidation applications, including Hyperion

Enterprise, DB2, and web

o Successfully migrated legacy access management application

to web based tool creating significant work reductions and

increasing ease of use

o Implemented control procedures to eliminate variances

between applications due to manual and/or mass updates

. Assisted on numerous acquisitions to integrate accounting,

finance, and operational processes into IBM's financial

applications and business models

o Focus on balance sheet segmentation, development of cloned

applications, and integration testing

. Managed accounting consolidation operations for Asia Pacific

geography including system processing, accounting, tax &

external reporting

o Reviewed country results with team to ensure compliance

with US GAAP and resolved variances between local ledgers

and Hyperion

. Led team responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley reporting for

consolidation operations

o Reviewed key control indicators monthly & performed a full

SOX review of organization operations in tandem with audit

teams

o Implemented new Separation of Duties tool to ensure

consistency in compliance between departments

. Primary focal point for internal audit & PricewaterhouseCoopers

7/2004 - 7/2005 IBM - Senior Analyst, Corporate Accounting

. Presented I&E of worldwide Hardware and Software brands and

Segment Reporting to senior financial executives

o Responsibilities included analyzing monthly actuals,

performing forecast comparisons, and reviewing brand and

geography presentations

o Key interactions: CHQ Finance, Brand Finance, Investor

Relations, Accounting Policy organizations

. Reviewed external presentations including quarterly earnings,

Annual Report, SEC filings, and investor relations presentations

to ensure accuracy with consolidated actuals

. Performed restatement of external results for changes in equity

compensation accounting and sale of Personal Computer division

to Lenovo

. Developed reporting solution for Business Performance

Transformation Services, an externally reported subset of

Software and Services brands

5/2002 - 7/2004 IBM - Consolidation Operations Team Lead

. Team lead of organization responsible for consolidation of WW

IBM financial statements by Company, Brand, Geography & Segment

o Responsible for ensuring that each department accomplished

key process indicators according to schedule during monthly

close.

o Reduced the key workday schedules by streamlining close

activities so that processes could be performed

simultaneously, saving 3-4 hours per day on a 2.5 day

close.

o Mentored new hires who were trained on the 'how' of the

operations, giving them the insight of 'why' processes were

run

. Integrated acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting into

IBM's Global Services I&E and B/S teaming with cross-functional

group including consulting, finance, tax, business controls and

legal

o Coordinated transfer of PwCC financials from UK

Headquarters by designing and implementing a new method of

trial balance submission

o Successfully consolidated 50+ PwCC entities into newly

formed IBM division within one closing cycle

12/1996 - 5/2002 IBM - Accounting Analyst Positions

. Performed consolidation operations for Americas, Asia Pacific

and Headquarters

o Held desks that were responsible for trial balance

processing of countries (10 - 20 different countries on one

desk, based on geographic presence), journal submissions,

retained earnings closeouts, miscode corrections, and

ensured country results were consolidated according to US

GAAP

. Monitored accounting for worldwide intercompany processes

including loans, shipment of goods & services, RD&E expenses,

and allocations

o Wrote Hyperion Enterprise & Excel Retrieve reports to

detail intercompany relationships for analysis

o Determined elimination entries to resolve intercompany

variances

o Responsible for ensuring Hyperion Enterprise Logic rules

were established and accurately accounted for eliminations

Community: Board Member, Marty Lyons Foundation, New England Chapter

Skills: Hyperion Enterprise & Essbase, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Web

applications, DB2

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