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Yavor Lazarov

Pittsburgh,PA

Summary

Technical systems leader with over 18 years of experience with Oracle ERP, custom and vendor applications in an enterprise environment, enabling IT professionals. A strong customer advocate who solves problems once. Strengths include process improvement, building customer relationships, and eliminating repetitive issues through team-based problem solving. Progressively responsible leadership roles in the Alcoa/Arconic IT Applications Department. Experience with leading two different company separation projects.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Global IT Finance Manager

Arconic Corp
Pittsburgh, PA
04.2022 - Current
  • Lead the Global IT Finance team, six Arconic employees and five contractors, interaction with VP and EVP leadership
  • Overseeing 60+ vendor as well as custom built applications used by the global finance community across NOA, EU, and Asia regions
  • Managing a budget of $4.5M
  • Finance apps portfolio evaluation and consolidation
  • Responsible for drafting the roadmap in the IT Finance area
  • Governing large highly visible projects such as GDW upgrade, EBS 12.2 upgrade, consolidation of EU and Asia EBS instances
  • Cross IT talent review and succession plan development
  • Arconic 3 year IT Roadmap contributor
  • Resources selection panelist
  • Performance evaluator and STAY discussions conductor.
  • Identified opportunities for cost savings through process improvements and automation initiatives.

IT Matrix Manager Finance, Oracle and TCS Relationship Manager

Arconic Corp
Pittsburgh, PA
03.2020 - 03.2022
  • Lead the TCS and Oracle relationships, responsible for 200+ onshore/offshore associates, interaction with director level
  • Developed/updated the IT Finance roadmap
  • Led the evaluation of the Metal Trading Treasury system
  • Led the Employees wellbeing sub team as part of Glint survey feedback
  • Budgeting/invoices/POs handling for the IT finance area
  • Automation of the TCS onboarding process
  • BU involvement and help, QAD GRP assessment, Kittsgreen, BCS
  • AventX install and mobile implementation
  • Automation of the treasury Bloomberg index prices
  • EBS R12.2.10 upgrade coordinator for the IT finance area
  • Quantum upgrade coordination and VPN tunnel remediation
  • Agile methodology sponsor
  • Mentor to new employees on the Finance team.
  • Created monthly reports for senior management summarizing operational performance metrics.
  • Provided leadership during times of organizational change or crisis situations.

IT Matrix Manager Treasury and Tax Applications

Arconic Inc
Pittsburgh, PA
11.2016 - 04.2020
  • Manage a team of five global employees, interaction with director level
  • Successfully managed the split of 60 Treasury and Tax applications for separation of Arconic
  • Led the Tax and Treasury cross functional teams
  • Led the planning and redesign of the custom-built Metal Trading Applications
  • Implemented support ticket tracking process to improve customer response times and efficiently convert support tickets to production changes
  • Co-Led implementation of AuditaNet tax application for Mexico and Deloitte tax filer for UK, compliant requirement with new tax digitization
  • Led the design of the SWIFT, FIS, Finastra and Arconic EBS process
  • Completed implementation of key cloud projects, Quantum (Treasury), TrackerPro (Tax), IGT (Treasury) to improve the efficiency and cost spending
  • Led the conversion effort of static html reports to interactive Power BI.
  • Developed and implemented strategies to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Senior IT Lead EHS Applications

Alcoa Inc
Pittsburgh, PA
09.2013 - 11.2016
  • Managed a team of three offshore developers
  • Responsible for separation of 25 applications, replicating functionality and data segregation, the global point of escalation for internal customers, responsible for successfully implementing projects, mentored junior teammate
  • Led the upgrade of Essential Suite, project which enabled tracking of global health injuries and environmental issues providing real time data
  • Led the upgrade of the Safety Data Sheet MSDGen system, safe handle of export-controlled data
  • Annually exceeded internal chargeback goals due to data driven stewardship of the dev pool
  • Successfully implemented 6 cloud wellness apps, on time and under budget
  • Designed and led the team’s compliance program resulting in SOX pass and highest expected score.

EBS IT Lead AR/Credit/Trade Management/Collections and Global Freight

Alcoa Inc
Pittsbur, PA
10.2011 - 09.2013
  • Responsible for the success (time, budget, complete to spec) of R12 Oracle upgrade and reported to Team Manager
  • Designed Oracle R12 deployment plan and oversaw the plan execution during test builds while managing offshore and onshore resources
  • Responsible for new IPS Freight deployments which significantly reduced the time spent in Accounts Payable activities and increased the accuracy of complex freight payments
  • Built robust operational standards, efficient change management procedures and maintained high compliance standards.

Senior Systems analyst Alcoa.com

Alcoa Inc
06.2009 - 10.2011
  • Oversaw offshore and onshore resources for production stability and successful projects (time, budget, complete to spec) and reported to Team Manager
  • Design and deployment of the Brazil Juruti website
  • Led the development and implementation of the Disaster Recovery website
  • Hands on experience with ASP, XML and SQL queries
  • Managed daily support and development activities for the offshore team ensuring SOX requirements are met and the project management methodology is followed.

Systems Analyst Finance and Audit Applications

Alcoa Inc
Pittsburgh, PA
09.2008 - 06.2009
  • Hands on development experience writing SQL queries and asp
  • Responsible for the support of STARS, internal audit application, Hyperion Financial Management, finance application for closing and reporting to Wall Street, eRFA, electronic request for authorizing a budget for a given project, RepLetter, controllers’ updates, SMART, management decision making application
  • Involvement in developing and troubleshooting custom codes as well as vendor changes related to new versions and upgrades
  • Responsible for the monthly ASAT compliance tests completion.

Duquesne University Cafeteria Manager

Aramark
01.2006 - 01.2008
  • Responsible for the daily cafeteria activities
  • Managing 35 food employees
  • Daily cash deposits, reconciliation, audit
  • Inventory and purchasing responsibilities.

Education

MBA - Concentration in Finance

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
05-2008

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Information Technology / Accounting Information

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
05-2006

Skills

  • Budget Forecasting
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Financial Modeling
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Performance Analysis
  • KPI Development
  • Improvement Recommendations
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mentoring and training

Timeline

Global IT Finance Manager

Arconic Corp
04.2022 - Current

IT Matrix Manager Finance, Oracle and TCS Relationship Manager

Arconic Corp
03.2020 - 03.2022

IT Matrix Manager Treasury and Tax Applications

Arconic Inc
11.2016 - 04.2020

Senior IT Lead EHS Applications

Alcoa Inc
09.2013 - 11.2016

EBS IT Lead AR/Credit/Trade Management/Collections and Global Freight

Alcoa Inc
10.2011 - 09.2013

Senior Systems analyst Alcoa.com

Alcoa Inc
06.2009 - 10.2011

Systems Analyst Finance and Audit Applications

Alcoa Inc
09.2008 - 06.2009

Duquesne University Cafeteria Manager

Aramark
01.2006 - 01.2008

MBA - Concentration in Finance

Duquesne University

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Information Technology / Accounting Information

Duquesne University

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