Esther Kim

• Enhance team coordination through daily stand-up meetings, fostering a positive work environment for team alignment and increased productivity.
• Improve client satisfaction with timely updates and transparent communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Successfully help plan, organize and facilitate a Lessons Learned workshop wit cross-functional teams to aid in strategic planning initiatives.
• Manage the project management office calender, scheduling meetings across teams to optimize time
• Assist in the development of presentations, effectively conveying crucial information to senior leadership.

• Provide new hires, managers, and senior leadership with excellent processes, resources, and tools to enable broader learning and development organization to run smoothly and efficiently
• Draft and execute appropriate legal contracts for vendor engagements.
• Partner closely with legal, Finance, and Supplier sourcing to manage external vendors and ensure that we are engaging legally
• Create purchase requisitions and edit vendor Purchase Orders (POs)
• Supplier onboarding and vendor management. Provide Ariba training when applicable

• Maintained $XXMillion+ budget for Apple Online Store Engineering. Assist finance manager with budget planning by tracking 650+ resources globally.
• Oversaw vendor relationships and SoW contractual obligations to ensure accuracy and SOX compliance; create purchase orders
• Assisted with creating keynote presentation to showcase Budget vs. Actual variance to senior management for resource planning
• Managed Resource Allocation within AOS internal tool
• Facilitated weekly Change Control Board meetings between various departments and stakeholders.
With focus on impact and bandwidth for all pending change requests
• Created use cases, submit bug reports in Radar, and establish product requirements to roll out new features and enhancements across all internal PMO tools
•Identified pain points to help boost inter-departmental efficiencies while providing exceptional customer service across various engineering teams

• Worked as financial liaison for Sales and Marketing, R&D, Human Resource, Legal and various Support teams across the business

• Monitored and approved all Sales and Marketing/R&D vendor expense for accuracy and SOX compliance

• Reviewed and approved business travel settlements, corporate credit card expenses and reimbursements for 800+ employees

• Performed credit card account reconciliations to ensure correct balances are recorded

• Computed and recorded Sales tax and Use Tax for purchases from selected national vendors.

• Assisted with the implementation of expense tool Concur with UI Path's RPA solutions. Provided training to all employees while upholding high standards and best practices

•Worked with Supply Chain Management team for extensive RMA audit

• Partnered with global corporate logistics teams to streamline project efficiency by resolving logistic conflicts overseas

• Assisted Direct Sourcing team in day-to-day functions of invoice processing: Reviewed 1000+ invoices weekly for validity and compliance with internal accounting policies and SOX controls

• Managed purchase requisitions, purchase orders and other contract fulfillments for key departments and global partners.

• Trained internal and external stakeholders regarding P2P workflow and systems to improve process efficiencies

• Generated ad-hoc reports for management and business partners upon request

•Identified, researched, and resolved billing variances to maintain system accuracy and currency

• Created purchase orders from purchase requisitions; processed receipts and invoices for payment.

• Reconciled HSBC (MXN) bank with SAP entries on a daily basis; assisted with Wells Fargo (USD) and Citibank (CAD) account reconciliation for cash management purposes.

• Administered and connected all MXN customs-Aduana Pedimento for bikes, parts and accessories dealer orders in SAP.

• Supported month/year-end closing by entering reversible and permanent journal entries.

• Worked closely with CFO to maintain CAPEX budget report for critical planning purposes

• Recorded intercompany inventory accruals, dealer bonus accruals, and re-classed invoices to assigned chart of accounts codes as needed.

• Conducted Infrastructure Cost Analysis to provide insight on current and historical trends within IoT organization unit; successfully reduced costs by 50% leading to savings of $25,000 when compared with current quarter to previous quarter.

• Contributed thought leadership to development and growth for IoT department within SAP Products and Innovation by: Publishing and delivering team blogs/articles to internal and external channels. • Monitored specific goals to make sure process and product quality goals are met within IoT Smart Connected Business.

• Assisted in content creation for Executive Vice President for All Hands meeting. In addition, Customer presentations and Keynotes.

• Supported in planning meetings, and overall coordination of project management activities

• Worked diligently with Accounts receivables, Sales, and customers to collect $400,000 of delinquent invoices within one month of employment date.

• Participated and assisted in physical audit of capital assets

• Developed high proficiency with Oracle R12

• Recorded fixed asset acquisitions, dispositions, and transfers

• Researched, resolved, and prevented invoice discrepancies by active interaction with customers, sales, and accounts receivables

• Efficiently matched vendor invoices to ensure accuracy of accounts payable check runs

• Assisted with general accounting month-end closing procedures