Process Improvement Change Management

CLARE STULTZ

973-***-**** *********@*****.***

FINANCE PROFFESSIONAL

Highly focused, professionally motivated Financial Control Manager with 20 years + experience in the field of optimizing buyer and vendor negotiated agreements based on established company standards. Managed a specialized team of associates responsible for all aspects of vendor agreement review, reporting, execution, validation and audits. Areas of Expertise

Microsoft Office Suite

Process Improvement

Change Management

Financial Management

Account Reconciliation

Relationship Management

Team Building

Communication

Reporting

Data Analysis

Strategic Planning

Organization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BED BATH & BEYOND, UNION, NEW JERSEY 1997 - PRESENT FINANCIAL CONTROL MANAGER (2007 - PRESENT)

Manage 3 teams within the Financial Control division responsible for onboarding vendors, maintaining vendor agreements and reviewing documents responsible for initial and ongoing vendor relationships.

Manage, organize and distribute data based on revenue derived from vendor agreements negotiated by the buying teams to determine the return on investment for profitability reporting.

Overw and managed offshore team operational process hand off. Responsible for all aspects of department operational process transfers including desktop operational procedure documentation, process improvement plans, paperless environment execution and training coordination and handoff plan.

Coordinate with the internal and external audit teams to ensure compliance based on current company standards and US regulations.

Manage teams responsible for coding checks, reconciling manually calculated vendor agreements, updating and maintaining the Vendor Agreement Management System.

Direct Buying Office training sessions for use of various company centralized systems including the Agreement Management System, Vendor Portal and Vendor Chargeback System.

Implemented reporting to track day by day agreement collection activity for executive level reporting.

Manage transition team responsible for moving the legacy agreement process to the Base Oracle financial system. FINANCIAL CONTROL SUPERVISOR (2001 - 2007)

Supervised and trained a team of 5 to 7 Financial Control Vendor Rebate associates.

Tracked and maintained payroll records for the rebate team associates.

Supervised and organized the maintenance of soft and hard copies of vendor agreement files.

Prepared and reviewed manually calculated vendor agreements.

Retrieved hard and soft copies of documents required for internal and external audits.

Managed shared mailboxes used for intracompany communication.

Managed shared mailbox used for vendor communication and agreement inquiry and disputes. REBATE ANALYST (1997 - 2001)

Calculated manual agreements.

Maintained agreement related files.

Supported the supervisor with retrieving files for the buying teams and requested audits. EDUCATION

BA Sociology, Kean University, Union NJ

BA Criminal Justice, Kean University, Union NJ

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