Financial Planning & Analysis, Process Automation & Transformation

Stacie Clarkson

415-***-**** **************@*****.*** San Francisco, CA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacie-clarkson-1201703/details/experience/ GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION PROCESS TRANSFORMATION Over 20 years of progressive operational experience in Finance, Strategy & Business Process Transformation. Strategic, agile program leader who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments. A thought leader to create future improvement roadmaps with clear executable plans that are in line with the business strategies and objectives. Outstanding facilitation and collaboration skills with global teams, including the ability to align diverse stakeholders and navigate ambiguity. Intellectually curious and engaging; takes on challenges with enthusiasm, dedication and determination.

Champions agile ways of working, fostering a test-and-learn mindset and continuous improvement across teams.

Develops and delivers executive-level communications, including status updates, Steering Committee & C-Level materials, and outcome reporting.

Coordinates change management and communication strategies to support adoption and sustainment of new processes and models.

Contributes to building a grass-roots culture of continuous improvement, data-based decisions and problem solving, system thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Strategic Leadership Program Management Global Business Services Strategic Road Mapping Artificial Intelligence Business Process Automation Go-to Market Contract Negotiations Financial Planning & Analysis Process Improvements Robotic Process Automation Cross-functional Project Management KPI Development & Tracking Vendor Management Share Services including Financial Evaluation, Site Selection, Implementation Data Analytics Lean Principles

Change Agent Decision-making Collaborative Quick Learner SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

Established a Global Business Process Automation Center of Excellence, saving > 100k hours of manual effort in less than 3 years. (March 2022 Sourcing Journal, January 2023 Sourcing Journal)

Successfully led AI Revenue Forecasting project to predict revenue with 99% accuracy globally. The AI model was successfully deployed globally and helped finance teams to pressure test their manual forecasts and helped leadership to drive more precise financial forecasts. (January 2024 Harvard Business School Case Study)

Renegotiated an 800+ page Master Service Agreement with key GBS vendor in 2018. Led the conversations and meetings with the vendor and negotiated the alignment of the amendments detailed into the new MSA, resulting in the vendor meeting ALL critical service level agreements (SLA) continuously, for the first time since the beginning of the relationship.

Met or exceeded goals in financial planning for 9 consecutive years. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Levis Strauss & Co. 2015-2025

VP, Customer Success GBS May 2023-Jan 2025

Promoted to lead global customer success teams in North and South America, Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, East Asia Pacific and greater China. Led the strategy, structure, and delivery of transformational initiatives aligned to the program’s strategic objectives.

● Maximized inventory availability to ensure orders from wholesale and retail customers were processed accurately, on time, and in full, to meet revenue goals.

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● Ensured Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions occurred on time, and accurately. Oversaw EDI customer implementation with best practice coding to prevent issues or disputes.

● Drove ad-hoc strategic cross-functional initiatives.

● Continued to lead the Global Business Process Automation COE Senior Director Director, Process Transformation & Global Business Services (GBS) Governance Oct 2017-May 2023 Promoted to lead a Business Automation Center of Excellence, servicing the entire Levi Strauss global organization.

● Built and led the Business Process Automation Center of Excellence (BPA COE) globally.

● Monitored vendor service agreements performance and worked cross-functionally to resolve service level issues.

● Managed global teams in high priority initiatives.

● Led financial planning and analysis and established both strategic and annual plans.

● Built and managed relationships with GBS partners and established governance at various organizational levels.

● Established, planned and led GBS program review cadence including Monthly Performance Reviews, Quarterly Steering Committee Reviews and internal cross-functional touch base meetings.

● Negotiated new contract terms with service providers and led the contract change request process.

● Led Revenue Prediction AI project and successfully deployed the model globally. GBS Performance Manager Sept 2015-Oct 2017

Designed and established a global cost center structure for the newly created Global Business Services (GBS) department for proper financial, operational, legal and tax tracking and reporting. Built and managed strong relationships as the primary liaison with GBS partners to drive resolution of issues (including the key third party vendor and Levi GBS Finance, Customer Success and IT tower leaders).

• Designed and managed a billing schedule with the key GBS third party vendor in order to ensure invoices received were correct and that financial forecasts and annual plans were accurate.

• Prepared quarterly Business Case updates to ensure planned financial savings from GBS were achieved.

• Charged with building accurate Global GBS annual financial plans and quarterly financial forecasts.

• Designed and maintained contract change request process for amendments to the 800 page MSA with the key GBS third party vendor. Negotiated new contract terms with key vendor.

• Established, planned and managed regular internal and external cadence of GBS review meetings.

• Drafted and designed all major GBS communications (Quarterly Newsletters and major announcements/updates to business)

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

Sr Manager Supply Chain Finance, Gap Inc. Jan 2012-Sept 2015 Sr Financial Analyst, Levi Strauss & Co. June 2008-Dec 2011 EDUCATION

B.S., Business Administration & Accounting, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. Carolina CERTIFICATIONS

LEAN SIX SIGMA, GREEN BELT TRAINING (Graduate level of Levi Strauss Machine Learning Bootcamp) TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office, Expert Level Excel, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), SAP, Oracle, Teams, Outlook, SmartSheet, Essbase, MS Access, Automation Anywhere, Python

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