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Lisa A. Natale

Londonderry,NH

Summary

Accomplished Accounting, Consulting, and IT Professional with over 20 plus years implementing, managing, and leadership of Oracle technology solutions. Focus was on utilizing her strong Accounting experience to support business strategy and growth. Additional experience with mergers and acquisitions from both Accounting and ERP and has lead efforts with divestitures

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager Business & Integration Architecture

Accenture
09.2019 - Current

Aligning technology with business strategy and goals they work directly with the client gathering requirements to analyze, design and/or implement technology best practice business changes.

Design best-practice technology solutions Undertake some or all of the following:

  • Provide/implement the strategy to understand and translate business requirements into technology solutions
  • Incorporate Industry, Function, and/or Business expertise into recommended solutions
  • Ensure technology business changes represent business requirements
  • Develop and implement the best business solutions for the client
  • Lead programs/projects focused on delivering agreed business outcomes for our clients and/or Accenture Partner with clients to understand the dynamic of value creation for the business solution
  • Analyze as-is and to-be processes to define system/technology requirements and bridge the gap between technology and the business
  • Deliver quality functional/application designs and ensure technology business changes represent business requirements

Independent Consultant - Oracle Cloud Financials

Frontera Consulting
05.2019 - 09.2019
  • Large Reinsurance Client
  • Advise and Implement client on best practice solutions Oracle Cloud Financials RTR, ATR, OTC, Expenses, Cash Management
  • Advise and direct Data Conversion best practice
  • Train users on applications
  • Configuration of above modules and document requirements, reports, interfaces

Sr. Manager ERP Systems

Indigo Agriculture
01.2018 - 04.2019
  • Responsible for configuration and support of all Oracle Cloud ERP Financial Tracks, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Cash Management, Record to Report, FRS reporting, PBCS, OTBI
  • Create and Manage Finance and HR roadmap
  • Responsible for Global rollout of Financials for Argentina
  • Manage offshore managed services contract for all support
  • Develop best practice recommendations for Entity growth
  • Support and analysis of month end close process to create efficiencies
  • Lead the Finance team in Quarterly and upgrade patching and testing
  • Stabilize applications due to implementation challenges

Director Business Operations

Kronos
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Leadership for Global Business Operations function with focus on:
  • Manage Global Order to Invoice team focused on Revenue and Booking review to minimize financial risk through the creation of efficient and well adopted processes and controls.
  • Contribute to company growth, both organically and through M&A activity by identifying synergies amongst cross collaborated functions to enhance productivity and capabilities.
  • Work closely with Revenue, Legal, Sales Operations, and Shared Services establishing worldwide policies for Global Order to Invoice and Master Data Management for company assets
  • Lead team with the following initiatives:
  • Order to Invoice CPQ Salesforce implementation
  • Rollout for ASC 606 System Implementation
  • Global Oracle Rollout

Sr. Solutions Architect, Project Manager

Tier 1 Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Lead Stabilization effort for Large Defense Contractor (38 Oracle Modules)
  • Establish Hyper Care 24x7 Production Support call center
  • Manage 25 external consultants for go-live support, issue resolution, project stabilization, and re engineer of business process maps and flows
  • Establish executive review, Production Release plan and other post production structure
  • Establish Month End Checklist and Calendar for month and Fiscal Year End

Sr. Manager

Cubist Pharmaceuticals
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Lead Business Analysis for all Finance systems supporting Accounting, Sourcing, Treasury, FP&A, and Tax
  • Manage Global Production Support for Finance systems. Including Oracle EBS RTR, OTC, PTP, ATR, and additional financial applications
  • Project Manager International financials roll-out
  • Direct external consultants comprised of Analysts and developers in support of the management of the Global Finance Systems Oracle and Non-Oracle
  • Implement and Lead Global testing process of all updates, patches, etc
  • With user community

Sr. Applications Manager

Interactive Data (acquired By ICE)
01.2006 - 01.2013

Sunday, May 1, 2022

  • Global Leadership for Finance and HR systems. Responsibilities include:
  • Implement and manage the Global Production Support for Oracle EBS RTR, PTP, OTC, ATR, HCM, Service Contracts, and Global Planning and Budgeting
  • Direct global team of Managers, Analysts, and Developers
  • Global Initiatives including:
  • Global Billing Assessment and Software selection process
  • Global R12 Upgrade
  • Global HR R12 Deployment
  • Lead Global Finance and HR in yearly roadmap process establishing key priorities
  • Project Lead for US, EMEA, and APAC implementation of Oracle RTR, PTP, OTC, Service Contracts, and self-service finance tool
  • Ensure consistent practices are used Globally throughout the company for ensuring ITGC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  • Lead RFP process for all Finance and HR projects

Mentor Network IT Program Manager

01.2002 - 01.2005
  • HR
  • PM upgrade/migration 11.07 to 11i
  • COA, Reporting, GL, AP, FA, CE
  • Architect/Implement for AR including 10 customizations and conversion of 2 years of historical data for 80 organizations
  • Lead for implementation Oracle Payroll, Advanced Benefits, HR and OTL including 30 customizations
  • Manage support GL, AR, AP, CE, FA, OAB, HR
  • Business process analysis, requirement analysis, system design and testing, user training
  • Responsible for instructing, directing and mentoring the organization with regard to Oracle technology and methodology.

Principal Consultant

Oracle Corporation
01.2000 - 01.2002
  • Lead the execution of all phases of ERP Life Cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and postproduction support,
  • Designed Open Interfaces, various processes, and reports in Oracle Financial Applications environment
  • Functional responsibilities have included business process analysis, requirement analysis, system design and testing, customer support, and conducting user training
  • Experience in developing statements of functional overviews, business processes, and other documentation to facilitate users’ acceptance
  • Experience in Systems and Operations Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Test Plan Preparation, Unit Testing, Systems Integration Testing, Conference Room Pilot (CRP), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Documentation
  • Performed systems configuration based on solutions design and defined setups of Oracle Financials Applications: GL, AR, AP, FA, PO, CE and integration setups for OM, INV, BOM
  • Experience in upgrade from 10.7 character to 11i and 11.03 to 11i
  • Extensive experience in post-implementation support, troubleshooting and resolving issues

Education

BA - Accounting

Golden Gate University

Skills

Operational Skills

  • Global Leadership Finance, IT and Consulting
  • Oracle Technology
  • Systems Implementation
  • Assessments and Road Maps
  • Finance Business Process
  • Project Management
  • Business Process Analysis

Industry

  • Healthcare
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Financial Services
  • Technology
  • Defense Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Reinsurance
  • Agricultural

Timeline

Senior Manager Business & Integration Architecture

Accenture
09.2019 - Current

Independent Consultant - Oracle Cloud Financials

Frontera Consulting
05.2019 - 09.2019

Sr. Manager ERP Systems

Indigo Agriculture
01.2018 - 04.2019

Director Business Operations

Kronos
01.2015 - 01.2018

Sr. Solutions Architect, Project Manager

Tier 1 Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2015

Sr. Manager

Cubist Pharmaceuticals
01.2013 - 01.2014

Sr. Applications Manager

Interactive Data (acquired By ICE)
01.2006 - 01.2013

Mentor Network IT Program Manager

01.2002 - 01.2005

Principal Consultant

Oracle Corporation
01.2000 - 01.2002

BA - Accounting

Golden Gate University
Lisa A. Natale