Joseph Tunstall
Seattle,Washington
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Process Owner of Record-to-Report
Jones Lang Lasalle
02.2024 - Current
- Prioritize change workstreams and allocate capital and resources to those areas that will be most impactful for finance & controllership
- Lead Team to oversee implementation of key finance systems and enhancements
- Collaborate with global Finance and business stakeholders to conduct full end-to-end process assessments and identify best practices, inconsistencies, challenges, and opportunities for improvement
- Conduct a thorough review of the R2R technology ecosystem to assess the effectiveness of our current tools and how capabilities are being utilized
- Establish clearly defined governance processes to ensure the requisite controls are in place and are consistently driving the expected outcomes
- Liaise with Finance Operations teams to manage day-to-day execution of the process
- Partner with the Finance data team to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the R2R process and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
Finance Systems Director
Jones Lang LaSalle
09.2021 - 02.2024
- Designed & Lead Development of processes for Organization's Financial Restructuring and Restatements, including Global Segment Allocations.
- Lead Automation initiatives, through the consolidation of Finance Operations tasks, entry calculation, and creation - with a focus on reducing month end close efforts.
- Built digitization road-map of process, policies, data, and system changes to achieve business outcomes.
- Directed and led documentation of business requirements, functional specifications and other deliverables.
- Focus on new business development, implementing plans to align new segments to corporate bookkeeping, forecasting, and financial reporting practices.
- Identified optimization potentials for process improvement, such as leveraging shared capabilities between processes, increasing adoption of technology, and streamlining finance capabilities to drive long-term improvements.
Finance Systems Director
Jones Lang LaSalle
01.2020 - 08.2021
- Owner of the Finance Business Systems design for the APAC Region (process framework and IT architecture). Work with Business stakeholders and capability owners to create road-maps of reaching target processing states. Drive the transformation and change management surrounding the implementation of new technology and process solutions.
- Create vision that leverages technology to automate and build integrated business architecture.
- Create and implement road-map and functional blueprint that standardizes and optimizes end to end value creation and drives toward target state.
- Validate business architecture design through capability mapping across systems and processes and bench-marking against best practices.
- Lead and Coordinate Finance Operations PS Excellence Teams during Month-End Close procedures, coordinating and addressing efforts to meet Controllership Close Deadlines.
- Work with External Audit teams to ensure procedures and systems are within compliance.
- Key Implementations: Oracle EPBCS, Accounts Payable Automation (ABBY & PEGA Systems), ServiceNow, PeopleSoft 9.2 PUMs, Journal Entry Automation.
Finance Manager, SME - Finance System Deployment
Jones Lang LaSalle
02.2017 - 12.2019
- Working within the Record-to-Report workstream, with a focus on General Ledger, Allocations, Intercompany, Payroll, and Fixed Assets, for the Global Implementation of PeopleSoft 9.2.
- Developed training and related Global Standard Operating Procedures documentation for End Users.
- Oversee Global Fixed Assets process, including Conversion, Testing, and Workflows.
- Created tools responsible for conversion and maintenance off all chartfields, and its alignment to developed standards.
- Design and implementation of Global Allocations to support internal and external reporting.
- Created and Designed the Global ASC 606 Process and Mechanisms.
Senior Associate II, Americas Controllership
Jones Lang LaSalle
08.2015 - 01.2017
- Create month-end reports and provide variance analysis for leadership, facilitate the budget for Corporate Segment Centers, including HR, Client-Accounting Services, IT, and Office Services.
- Oversee the Americas region Fixed Asset processes, including additions, depreciation, disposal, reconciliations, work-in-progress, and capitalization.
- Perform month-end close procedures, depreciation, and allocation processes.
- Provide Financial Analysis, Variance Commentary, and support to Corporate Segment Owners.
- Budget and forecast planning for Americas Capital Spend and Corporate Segments.
Senior Intercompany Associate, Controllership
Jones Lang LaSalle
08.2013 - 07.2015
- Responsible for all aspects of intercompany processes for the Americas Region.
- Developed and maintain accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financials.
- The point of contact for JLL Americas's 125+ international affiliated businesses, intercompany Billing, Accounts Payable, Treasury, and Wire Settlements, Currency Revaluation, and Expatriate Payroll.
- Preform month end close procedures, currency revaluation, and balance reconciliations.
- Analyze and report on month end variance between Americas region and EMEA/APAC.
- Develop best in practice procedures and internal controls for Global Intercompany.
- Provide training and guidance to financial teams in understanding international contracts, taxes, and currencies.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting
Ohio University
Athens, OH05-2013
Skills
- Systems & Implementation Experience: PeopleSoft Financials, Oracle Cloud (ARCs, EPM, Consolidation), OneStream, Kyriba, Tableau, Pagero, ABBYY, PEGA, Microsoft Office, Alteryx
Timeline
Global Process Owner of Record-to-Report
Jones Lang Lasalle
02.2024 - Current
Finance Systems Director
Jones Lang LaSalle
09.2021 - 02.2024
Finance Systems Director
Jones Lang LaSalle
01.2020 - 08.2021
Finance Manager, SME - Finance System Deployment
Jones Lang LaSalle
02.2017 - 12.2019
Senior Associate II, Americas Controllership
Jones Lang LaSalle
08.2015 - 01.2017
Senior Intercompany Associate, Controllership
Jones Lang LaSalle
08.2013 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Accounting
Ohio University
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