Finance and HR Transformation Lead (Strategy, functional, program)

Robert J Mollitor

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• FINANCE and HR SYSTEMS LEADER • BUSINESS LEADER •TECHNICAL LEADER

Hands on leader with over 20 years’ experience building teams, building relationships and cloud solutions, primarily in the Finance and HR area. Successfully partnering with leaders across the corporate pillars F&A (FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, etc.) HR (EC, Payroll, Learning, HCM, Talent) and Technology (PMO, Development, Architecture, Integration, BI, Security, Support) teams to deliver quality cost-effective solutions that change the way people work

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Developed 3-year Strategy for the finance and corporate businesses, moving from on premise solutions to a suite of cloud applications

●Phase I delivered- Stabilizing current foundation and deliver compliance driven projects

Finance -Developed and executed a consolidation of finance support functions under my area (Leading to a more efficient operating model and achieving consistent support levels across the globe).

Tax/Audit/Procurement-Vertex V 8.0 upgrade for compliance, Implementation of Coupa Cloud procurement and Vertex Sales & Use tax, Upgrade of Teammate cloud & ACL

Controllers group-Implement Lucernex Cloud Lease Management to support the replacement of our legacy rent payment system and support ASC842 for leases, and changes to support statutory reporting. Upgraded HFM Hyperion consolidation system. Created automation to support a more streamlined loading and consolidation process. Gained short term alignment on the strategic direction of the JD Edwards ERP platform

FP&A- Upgraded Hyperion (Planning, HFM, FDM) to maintain support. In support of the new CoA re-wrote the HFM application and re-built the planning platform in EPBCS (Oracle Cloud Planning system)

Manufacturing accounting – Developed plan to bring in automation around the reconciliation process and RFP for RPA

Develop Payment Strategy to better support the payment acceptance methods and simplification of the architecture and integration to support (Chose Adyen). Delivered the integration of a new Thailand diamond grading facility into the JDE/Hyperion systems

Retail Finance-Delivered Nuvolo -a facilities management system on ServiceNow Cloud system replacing the current Archibus system, yielding a better user experience and significant cost reduction. Delivered a new sales compensation system (Varicent Cloud) to replace and make more efficient the payment and incentives for sales associates

Developed 3-year Strategy for the HR Oracle cloud- Including changing the operating model, system consolidation, and business transformation

●Phase I delivered- Stabilizing current foundation and identifying future needs

Upgraded the current PeopleSoft HR system securing compliance and payroll tax updates

Moving support to 3rd party, entering offshore operating model to improve service level agreements, and 3rd party for tax updates

Developing Level 0-3 process maps for HR CoE’s to help identify, scope and procure new solution

Gained alignment and commitment from other internal technical areas (ETL, Security, Architecture and QA), CHRO, CIO, CFO to acquire funding and execute the plan

Conducted RFP with procurement for a global payroll provider, worked with UK to align and help deliver program for HR and Finance

Developed 3-year Strategy for Retail Operations team to transform Workforce management

●Delivered-Strategy to rollout Time Collection, Automated Scheduling, and commission system to the entire Tiffany and Co workforce

Delivered the migration of existing business units to Kronos dimensions SaaS application from on premise version

Took current customized application for Achieve and move to standard SaaS application

PREVIOUS RELEVANT ACHIEVEMENTS

Developed ERP and EPM roadmap

●Delivered the roadmap and successful replacement of JDE ERP with Oracle Financials (consolidating multiple systems, streamlining the CoA, and making the overall operating model more efficient)

●Developed a Scaled Agile framework that worked for delivery of the ERP system, that scaled after delivery (Running PSI’s, Retro’s, etc)

●Implemented and architected the Okta SSO solution to work replace the IBM Tivoli and streamline the onboarding process

●Delivered the replacement of Oracle Essbase for planning to EPBCS (data driven planning) for three large business units.

●Sunset the HFM consolidation system utilizing the ERP Subsidiary accounting hub function

●Led the initiative to execute an offshore model to help in the execution and ultimately steady state support operating model

Developed roadmap and led the technology team to implement Workday HR/Payroll SaaS solution from PeopleSoft.

●Led all efforts to document the current state architecture and worked with services team to develop delivery plan

●Led Development team that evaluated current state (300 integrations) and streamlined tot 70 integrations to support Payroll and HR business processes

●Responsible for building and managing post go live support and upgrade teams\

Built the roadmap and led implementation of many corporate systems

●Sales Compensation system

Strategy was Consolidation of various point solutions in Scholastic environments that handle sales compensation and reporting.

Successfully implemented three Divisions

●Led the implementation of the Global title acquisition system

New Products require P&L’s to determine the ROI, prior to production runs. This was currently isolated within business channels domestically. Scholastic was looking to involve their International subsidiaries in products that could have a more global market.

●Partnered with HRIS to lead the implementation of Taleo Onboarding

This included both building integrations that would assist in the onboarding process

●Part of the implementation team, that delivered the NetSuite ERP for Asia

Assisted with developing implementation strategy and working contractual adjustments

Built strategy to automate the feeds from our subsidiaries to HFM, creating a seamless closing process to our consolidation systems

Designed/Built an International data warehouse in Scholastic’s EPM environment

●Led the implementation of O365 (SharePoint, OneDrive and Yammer components)

My role was to configure and setup SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and My Sites. Served as the main administrator

Developed and executed project to move on premises SharePoint sites to O365.

Led training and collaboration sessions to help the corporation to adopt.

●Crafted and leading the implementation of IAM, DLP strategy

Implemented Okta solution as a replacement for IBM Tivoli, driving significant cost savings thru architecture simplification.

Worked with the Security teams to leverage DLP in O365 to identify data leaks on both Exchange and SharePoint Online

EXPERIENCE

Intercept Pharmaceuticals New York (Consultant) – Feb 2020 to current

Intercept is a global pharmaceutical company with unique market position selling medication that treats liver disease

Finance Transformation lead Oracle Cloud Financials, EPM and Tax solutions

●Hired to turn around a finance track (Accounting) that was struggling and representing risk to the overall project

●Business representative to implementors to drive delivery of optimal solution

●Quickly made the lead for not just Accounting, but also TAX and FP&A. Helped the leader to tune the methodology, to help get the teams back on track

● Built L0-L4 process flows, solution diagrams, value chains, requirements to lock down scope and help guide the business to owning/learning the solution

●Assisted QA team to build the right testing strategy, and Change team to build learning strategy

●Implemented Vertex Sales and Use and VAT withholding solutions within Oracle cloud financials

Tiffany and Company New York/New Jersey – 2017 to Jan 2020

Tiffany is a global American luxury jewelry and specialty retailer headquartered in NY and publicly traded company

Director of Finance, HR and International Systems

●Manage group of 10 employees and 23 consultants (Blend of Developers, Analysts, Managers and Admins)

●Responsible for support of JDE Financial systems (1 E1, 22 World instances), including supporting systems (Qsoft, DAS, etc)

●Responsible for Identifying, leading, and shaping the Enterprise Business System Transformation roadmap.

●Responsible for overall enhancements and projects across all business systems

●Responsible for the success of the AMS partnerships that support the technologies.

●Responsible for consensus building among Executive leadership (CAO, CFO, CIO, President, SVP’s, etc.)

●Responsible for Negotiation of contracts with vendors (MSA’s, SoW’s, Change orders, etc.)

●Direct P&L budget and forecasting responsibility for 53 Technical assets, as well as technical and strategic roadmaps (HR systems -$6m, Finance Systems -$6M, and Corporate and Retail Systems-$3m)

●Appointed to the Architectural leadership team to help guide new technologies and build the new domain level “bricks”

Scholastic Inc., New York/New Jersey – 2008 to 2017

Scholastic is a publicly traded company the largest global publisher and distributor of children’s books

ERP/EPM Program Manager

●Manage group of 10 employees and 9 consultants (average as depending on projects)

●Responsible for Identifying, leading, and shaping the Enterprise Business System Transformation roadmap.

●Responsible for consensus building among Executive leadership (CAO, CFO, CIO, CHRO, President, SVP’s, etc.)

●Responsible for Negotiation of contracts with vendors (MSA’s, SoW’s, Change orders, etc.)

●Direct P&L budget and forecasting responsibility for 16 Technical assets, as well as technical and strategic roadmaps (HR systems, Finance Systems, Legal, and Collaboration systems)

●Appointed to the Architecture council leadership team, Selected, and graduated from the newly created Leadership Academy (Certified in SLII)

Sr Manager Enterprise Business Systems

Managed JDE, Hyperion, Peoplesoft and applications supporting that footprint

●Implemented Canadian Subsidiary ERP onto the domestic ERP and Hyperion Instance (first multi-currency implementation)

●Led the upgrade of Hyperion Essbase from version 6 to version 9, Begun execution of roadmap for the EPM environment

●Led the implementation of the Concur Travel

●Part of the core team that implemented of 3 way matching PO, invoice matching with supply chain

●Led the Requirements sessions for Scholastic distribution center onboarding to Planning systems

●Responsible for 1099 reporting, updating of state sales tax rates, monthly and annual closings processes on JDE, and other general JDE system administration

●Assist and reconciliations and close process. Provide support and guidance for maintaining and optimizing the JDE ERP System (G/L, A/P, Allocations, Fixed assets)

Ernst and Young., New York/New Jersey – 2006 to 2007

●Brought in to administer time and labor systems.

Weichert Realtors Morris Plains, New Jersey – 1995 to 2006.

Weichert Realtors is one of the fastest growing and largest independently owned real estate organizations in the country (~700mm in Revenue). 280 sales offices, 300 franchised offices, 3,000 employees, and 13,000 sales associates

Manager of Corporate Reporting– JDE, and Hyperion Financial Systems

●Implemented original AS400 ERP system, and JDE OneWorld, and Hyperion for Weichert

●Built the first Data Warehouse at Scholastic.

●Built dashboards to allow the executives to access any KPI (financial and statistical) in the organization, through custom development.

●Provide support and guidance for maintaining and optimizing the JDE ERP System, Assist and monitor reconciliations and close process.

●Responsible for all integrity reports, and keeping the 55 Companies in balance

●Financial/Business analysis. Including explanation of anomalies of information to executives in a formal presentation.

●Responsible for Ad-hoc analysis including: Projections, “what if” analysis, break even analysis, views

●Lead Budget Analyst including creation of templates, consolidated budget reporting to executives, uploading to JDE and other legacy systems, and creating and applying seasonality adjustments.

●Creation, modification, and maintain all Financial Statements on JDE

●Responsible for 1099 reporting, updating of state sales tax rates, monthly and annual closings processes on JDE, and other general JDE system administration

EDUCATION

PURSUING BS ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE, (112 credits toward, 3 classes left) West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

Diploma – BUSINESS APPLICATION PROGRAMMING (15 MONTH PROGRAM) - The Chubb Institute, Parsippany, New Jersey

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