COREE ELISE TERPSTRA
Tsawwassen,Canada
Summary
A resourceful, disciplined, agile professional with an enthusiasm to take on new opportunities and challenges quickly and deliver success.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, IT AND CLIENT SERVICES
Group HEALTH Benefit Solutions
01.2022 - 04.2024
- “Showcasing my project management brand within a new company”
- Quickly solidified a reputation for delivering large-scale, cross-functional projects, both in-flight and from initiation
- Acquired a team of 4 in our Project Management Office (PMO) and focused on brand development and a collaborative coaching culture, resulting in a promotion of key team members
- Software Implementation: Assumed and quickly executed the migration from CRM on-premises to Dynamics 365 Cloud Project, delivering $600k annual, revenue savings
- Automation Project: In parallel, initiated and successfully launched a process improvement project (Billing Automation), which also yielded a saving of $1.8M in projected new hires
- Product Development: Managed proof-of-concept projects, following agile methodology, from the development of a new, insurance benefit product to the creation and launch of a new, digital access platform for clients to purchase our new products
- PMO Establishment: Redesigned PMO artifacts and templates for ease of use and easy, new team member onboarding
- Emotional Intelligence Expert: Established and strengthened partnerships with Project Sponsors, built relationships with external IT vendors, stakeholders, and developers, and supported teams to develop, test, and deploy initiatives
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER IT AND FINANCE
CREATION TECHNOLOGIES
05.2019 - 01.2022
- (Senior Project Manager/Global Transformation Partner)
- “Won project of the year”
- Oversaw a portfolio of vertical and horizontal integrated projects, spanning multiple business units and functions
- Facilitated workshops to design, drive, and approve our annual, departmental project roadmap, including high-level timelines, assigning effort, and resources as well as documenting and measuring targeted ROI by project
- Hand-selected to help launch a Transformation Office while driving the strategic
- PARLEE TO MANAGERt@ GREAT IN TEGUNEjects including:
- ERP Costing Conversion: Provided executives with significant, detailed insight into manufacturing “Proven track record of leading business and technology projects” efficiencies by leading the Finance workstream in the Oracle ERP conversion from average to standard On-time, on-budget project delivery for multiple large-scale, transformation projects including: Function, from 11 locations to 1
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- Software and Policy Implementation: Implemented Concur expense, FCM Travel support software, as Reechessa ginsenoj@asam structure to deliver a new, continuous improvement vision supporting corporate well as upgraded travel policy to reflect new efficiencies and savings strategy
- This change resulted in two team member promotions and a process improvement mindset
- Forecasting and planning: Developed, monitored, and presented the Finance Team budget and forecast
- Worked with VP to build project impact into the budgeting and planning process
PROJECT LEAD/ACCOUNTANT/AR TEAM LEAD
CREATION TECHNOLOGIES
06.2011 - 03.2016
- “Highlighted a range of skills with leading projects”
- Led and managed the IFRS conversion project, adapting and changing financial statements from Canadian GAAP to IFRS
- Created a business case and project plan to revamp the intercompany receivable and payable process and settle over $10M in intercompany balances
- Rolled out a new process to create, update, review, and monitor monthly General Ledger reconciliations
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE TEAM LEAD
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC., (ROGERS RETAIL DIVISION)
02.2006 - 05.2011
- “Focus on growing leadership skills and executed major process improvements”
- Led a staff of 5 in the Accounts Receivable function process including monthly strategic planning with management reporting to the company controller
- Created and implemented a 3-month action plan to settle and recover $1.5M receivable balance from the customer
- Established and rolled out a detailed process to monitor fraudulent cash card activity, which yielded a recovery of CAD 20K stolen funds within the first three months of implementation
INVENTORY ACCOUNTANT
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC., (ROGERS RETAIL DIVISION)
01.2002 - 02.2006
- “Employee of the Quarter”
- Oversaw the physical inventory process for over 300 locations including scheduling, initiation, execution, reporting, and analysis
- Co-lead the successful and expedited implementation of a new inventory system across over 300 locations nationwide
- Software rollout and training completed in just under 3 weeks, resulting in my win of Employee of the Quarter
Education
graduate degree - Business Management Systems
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Skills
- 3rd level CGA
- Tect Management course seminars
- JIRA, CONVERGE, SHAREPOINT, MS PROJECT, TEAMS, AND SUITE EXPERT
- BUDGETING AND FORECASTING
- PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE WITH STRONG ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Timeline
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, IT AND CLIENT SERVICES
Group HEALTH Benefit Solutions
01.2022 - 04.2024
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER IT AND FINANCE
CREATION TECHNOLOGIES
05.2019 - 01.2022
PROJECT LEAD/ACCOUNTANT/AR TEAM LEAD
CREATION TECHNOLOGIES
06.2011 - 03.2016
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE TEAM LEAD
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC., (ROGERS RETAIL DIVISION)
02.2006 - 05.2011
INVENTORY ACCOUNTANT
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS INC., (ROGERS RETAIL DIVISION)
01.2002 - 02.2006
graduate degree - Business Management Systems
BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Training
5-day Project Management Professional course to obtain 35 contact hours
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
Project Management Professional certification
SCRUM ALLIANCE
Certified Scrum Master
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