Accounts Payable Information Technology
Resume:
Christine Butler
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A dedicated, committed, results oriented professional with a unique wealth of knowledge and experience in: Procurement, Information Technology, finance, training, and implementation of operational improvements. Successful execution of initiatives showing outstanding quality and bottom-line performance. Effective communication and liaison skills proven by interaction with management, staff and peers. I also was the AP associated for our departments. That included handling purchase orders, mismatches, invoicing and invoice life cycle.
Expertise in: JDEdwards ERP, SAP Financials, Ariba and ITIL Management Processes. Extensive Environmental, Health and Safety regulations expert along with Facilities and Source Procurement responsibilities.c10+ years of experience in accounts payable.
9+ Years of experience with Ariba during my roles at Ethicon Endo-Surgery.
Expertise
Cost Improvement & Avoidance
Accounts payable
Application Support
Develop & Implement Process/Procedures
Project Management
Customer, Inventory, Vendor Management
Budgetary Planning & Control
Technology Deployment & Training
Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Accounts Payable / Procurement Systems Analyst
2014-2017
•JD Edwards: Updating, maintaining, and creating supplier address profiles, Long Address Number, Lot Number Prefix, Address, Contacts, etc.
•Ethicon Endo-Surgery Supplier Portal business liaison
•Investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in a timely manner, e.g. data integrity issues
•Makes key business decisions in critical and time-sensitive situations, e.g. delayed load, downtime, etc.
•Sends communication to suppliers and external users, e.g. news bulletins
•Designs and implements enhancements and corrective actions on critical functions and reports
•Trains internal and external users on key business processes, e.g. inventory replenishment level, vendor consignment, etc.
•Developing and writes user manuals
•Creates and maintains the process for access, provides access to all internal and external users,
•Investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving suppliers’ accounts payable issues, e.g. creating vouchers, reversing vouchers
•Investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving suppliers’ blanket/purchase order issues
•Updating, maintaining key component parameters, e.g. lead time, MOQ, branch plants, costing
•Requires specific access role in compliance with SOX guidelines; separate from Strategic Sourcing Specialist access
•Responsible for >$355k in supplier invoicing recovered
•Supplier portal updating records
•Analysis of ERP supplier spend verses capital requested
•ERP infrastructure enhancement testing contact
•Auditing contact for outside auditors
Ethicon Endo-Surgery-
Accounts Payable / Financial Analyst consultant
03/08-07/14
•Created spending database for analysis of past and present data
•Global finance department spend tracking and detailed expense reporting liaison.
•Manages all expenses and accurately accounts for the spending incurred within Facilities.
•Manages and reports analysis and monthly trending of all facilities related expenses.
•Provides extensive reporting showing monthly expense tracking versus budget.
•Provides financial data for Environmental, Health and Safety organization.
•Partners with Environmental, Health and Safety on required contractor documentation/database.
•Partners with Procurement to enforce spending guidelines to Facilities organization.
•Management of all Procurement for the facilities department.
•Initiates and works with new vendors for pricing and contracts.
•Facilities Account Payable contact for supplier questions/issues.
•Cost control analysis
Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Financial Analyst
05/07-09/07
•Provided analysis of Incident Management requests to standardize customer costing rate.
•Created Cost Models for Information Technology service areas.
•Participated on two Siemens Green Belt incident elimination project teams.
•Calculated labour rates for IT business areas.
Fidelity Investments –
Business Analyst Contractor
10/06-02/07
•Responsible for business analysis content of a Fidelity client financial database in order to prospect additional clients for Fidelity.
•Initiated data requirements from Executive Vice Presidents.
•Investigated, created and successfully delivered a financial retirement database. Participated on a Fidelity Marketing Plan team delivering retirement information to new clients.
University of Cincinnati-
Financial Analyst Contractor
05/06-09/06
•Managed University of Cincinnati utility monthly billing process and cost recovery.
•Calculated utility costs for campus buildings, local hospitals, and campus vendors.
•Configured utility rates based on usage, utility cost and percentage of staff labour per utility.
•Consistently met target times in the cost recovery process resulting in successful monthly billing.
•Created utility cost recovery documentation for all utility billing processes and procedures.
•Trained personnel on utility cost recovery procedures.
•Effective use of resources and assumptions underlying budget forecasts
Fidelity Investments-
Business Analyst Contractor
12/05-02/06
•Received mainframe data using Excel to extract pertinent financial information for analysis.
•Analyzed process improvement projects validating successful improvement implementation.
•Responsible for creating and delivering year end analysis reporting for Fidelity EPS organization.
•Responsible for analysis of Control Measures for Fidelity EPS organization.
•Created documentation based on recommendations from internal Fidelity auditors and external auditors.
Hewlett Packard Outsourced from Procter & Gamble to Hewlett Packard –
Quality & Regulatory Project
8/03-09/05
•Responsible for gathering data requirements for the Policies and Procedures Manual.
•Audited the PPM with continued validation on the HP and P&G shared media site.
•Responsible for gathering and validating P&G’s IT Standard Operating Procedures.
•Redesigned and implemented the Daily Operational Procedures database using the documented, verified SOPs.
•Managed the rollout of Sharepoint, an organizational shared media site.
•Created training plan and documentation for Global Sharepoint users.
•Provided group and individual training for Global SharePoint users.
•Achieved the delivery of corrected personnel data, resolving employee transition issues related to outsourcing.
•Participated in the development team and Global rollout of Team Play (Project Management Software).
•Developed and provided training along with hands-on workshops providing for Team Play users.
•Measured and analyzed training effectiveness and gap analysis to provide additional training needs.
•Participated in the development of a Team Play website for on-line documentation and required PM and user processes based on training analysis and user surveys.
The Procter and Gamble Company
Financial Consultant
1988-2003
•Created and managed the forecasts and budgets of the Computing organization with > $64MM and 11 Global Cost Centers with > 250 employees, including SAP and Oracle expenses.
•Managed monthly budget review meetings and analyzed financial statements monthly for unexplained variances.
•Corrected SAP invoicing issues resulting in savings of >$25k.
•Provided analysis of contract renewal rates and oversight of third party collection processes.
•Responsible for business forecasts, expense and capital.
Application Support
•Managed Global P&G IT Service Management (ITSM) Configuration Management database.
•Provided daily SAP, UNIX and TSO batch scheduling and incident resolution.
•Monitored incident, problem and change management queue using ITSM problem management tool.
•Acted as an escalation point to resolve issues on a weekly team schedule, including 24/7 support of mainframe and midrange applications.
•Administrator for the CMDB, updating and creating new templates as required by business area.
•Provided ad-hoc reporting and analysis for customers using ITSM Information Technology data.
Financial Support
•Created and managed the global forecasts and budgets of the Computing organization with >$64MM expense budget.
•Provided data and analysis of >250 employees for the P&G Computing Category.
•Managed monthly budget review meetings, analyzed financial statements on a monthly basis, prepared forecasts, and created budgets for Fiscal Year-end analysis.
•Managed Computing Capital Project forecasts and costs.
•Managed the contractor costs across P&G’s IT organization.
•Responsible for tracking mainframe, Oracle, and SAP costs for trending analysis.
Application Support
•Managed P&G’s three coffee plants inventory production systems.
•Successfully defined the Y2K conversion plan for the coffee finance and inventory systems.
•Created the testing plan and implementation of FOCUS software upgrade required for Y2K implementation.
•Exceeded Y2K deadline for application revision.
•Acted as the SPOC for Y2K application conversions for additional Food and Beverage divisions.
•Tracked the progress and reporting deliverables for the Y2K progress back to management.
•Participated on the ITIL methodology rollout team for P&G’s Information Technology organization.
•Provided and achieved successful ITIL processes and procedures for P&G’s IT organization.
•Defined the ITIL key deliverables for Procter and Gamble's North America applications resulting in Global process implementation across IT and non-IT organizations
•Provided Global ITSM database training for >1000 IT and application support employees.
Financial Support
•Provided over $1.5MM in savings from erroneous financial charges.
• Created and managed budgets for 11 global cost centers totaling >64MM.
•Managed re-engineering finance project resulting in greater accuracy in financial forecasting.
•Analyzed financial metrics monthly, resulting in management being able to meet dollar and headcount targets per P&G commitments.
•Documented finance processes and developed and launched a yearly Finance training class for IT managers resulting in a smoother budgeting process.
•Organized an Information Technology tour for high school seniors involving them in the business and processes of running a global IT environment.
•Participated in the Junior Achievement on-going curriculum rolling out to grade school students.
Helpdesk Technical Assistant
•Responsible for Helpdesk incident analysis.
•Designed documentation, training and processes resulting from incident analysis.
•Documented and implemented the Helpdesk Processes and Procedure Manual.
•Designed, documented and implemented a new-hire training plan.
•Responsible for training new Helpdesk personnel.
•Developed an off-site Disaster Recovery plan including processes and procedures partnering with other IT organizations participating in the P&G IT Disaster Recovery Plan.
•Functioned as on-site support for Global users of Peregrine incident tracking database system.
•Provided technical and operational support for two call distributor systems.
SPECIAL SKILLS
•Accounting
•Business Objects Reporting Application
•Ariba Spend Management
•JD Edwards
•Avenue-Company Tracking Retirement Asset database
•ITSM-Service Management Application and certification
•Six Sigma Yellow Belt training
•SAP Financials
•Aravo (supplier management data tool
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