Christine Hislop Pudelko

• Drove operational excellence and cost reduction by championing
continuous improvement, process automation, and streamlining operations
across multiple departments.
• Led and executed complex cross-functional initiatives, including the
successful launch of new processes, consistently meeting deadlines.
• Enhanced financial integrity and compliance by leading month-end closing,
streamlining financial reporting, and supervising accurate completion of all
financial packages.
• Developed comprehensive risk management frameworks and implemented
robust internal controls to mitigate potential operational challenges and
safeguard organizational assets.
• Reduced employee turnover and increased morale by fostering a
collaborative and inclusive work culture, providing regular coaching, and
establishing clear performance expectations.
• Collaborated effectively with external auditors to ensure regulatory
compliance and the successful completion of all annual audits.

• Management of all general ledger, AR, AP, payroll, reconciliations, consolidations, monthly closing and analysis for four business units
• Supervise daily work product, career development and mentoring, and performance review/salary planning for 5 employees managing invoicing, receivables, contracts, cash application and customer setup
• Responsible for monthly close tasks including accrual analysis for revenue, COGS, payroll, insurance and all G&A expenses
• Developed implementation plan and training for NetSuite system with new add on functionalities for receivables, amortization, lease, prepaids and close task lists
• Ongoing collaboration with Operations, Commercial and Executive teams to establish improvements, and ensure cohesive cross functional processes that support greater efficiency
• Created, improved and documented processes across divisions allowing for standardization and efficiencies via a continuous improvement mindset
• Researched, vetted and implemented a centralized AP and payroll function to streamline diverse and disconnected approaches
• Grew leadership expertise in finance responsibility including analysis and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, explanation of anomalies and managing structure of general and subledgers.

• Responsible for consolidation and reporting of 48 global pharmaceutical entities
• Supervised daily work product, career development and mentoring, and performance review/salary planning for 5 direct and 45 indirect employees who managed back-office activities including AR, AP, and Reporting and Consolidations for a business that doubled revenues to over $1B in two years through acquisition and organic growth
• Implemented D365 ERP across 48 entities including building the functionality, cleaning the data across customers, and managing vendors and inventory parts
• Created and implemented policies and controls around manual journal entries, accruals, out of period and known but not posted exceptions.

• Led closing of quarterly and annual books of Industrial Solutions (IS) in preparation for consolidation to GE
• Created a global Controllership oversight team of 21 employees to centralize responsibilities and transition work into new global team, shape performance and career goals and define oversight for local finance teams
• Responsible for consolidation of all legal entities, eliminations and foreign currency revaluations and translations, analysis of balance sheet variances, explanation of anomalies, open/close periods for subledgers and general ledger and maintenance of chart of accounts and legal entity structure
• Implemented global SAP ERP by creating structure and process changes to integrate 10 local ledger systems and 8 subledger systems into one ERP
• Defined, built and tested accounting functions including currency conversions, eliminations, chart of accounts, subledger journal entries, access controls and definitions
• Collaborated with GE audit teams to respond to Audit Committee requests providing coverage and assurance for compliance with US and GE GAP
• Responded to requests for risk assessments, intangible impairment calculations, growth planning, information systems projects, outsourcing finance and other backoffice functions.

• Managed staff of 5 senior/staff accountants and analysts responsible for AP, client billing, AR and soft dollar/research spend management
• Oversaw financial operations of Canadian, UK, EU and Asia subsidiaries and branches, including consolidation and review of monthly operations and transactions into GE's reporting ledger, submission of monthly foreign currency translation reports, and revaluation of foreign currency transactions for US dollar reporting requirements
• Identified and integrated new billing software system via RFP process, creation of budget, project plan and timeline, review of client contracts, setup of billing and analysis of parallel invoices to approve software change
• Led development and implementation of Oracle ledger system, including new ledger structure, multiple sets of books, chart of accounts, mapping tables to upload prior activity, mapping tables to upload to corporate ledger, recurring entries, allocation tables, annual and quarterly calendars, defining users and related responsibilities plus training, change order process, tax calculations, year-end account rolls, sub ledger interfaces and journal entry procedures
• Created and utilized Sarbanes-Oxley audit plan to provide company-wide coverage
• Oversaw annual GE audits (external and internal), including process review, presentation of rationale for transactions, and creation of financial statements and related notes.