Kristen Ann Winslet

Kristen Ann Winslet

IT Business
United Kingdom
Full-time Remote

نبذة عني

Enterprise IT Portfolio Management & Finance Professional with expertise in Project Management, IT Governance/Finance, FP&A & FinOps. Results oriented Corporate Business Process, Data, Application Development & Financial…

الخبرة

Data Platforms Delivery (Program/Project Delivery: Resource/Invoice Management & Reporting)

First Citizens Bank, Morristown, New Jersey
حتى الآن

Manage the day to day IT Resource & Invoice Operations to ensure program/project delivery across the project portfolio.
Resource & Invoice Management reporting providing actionable decisioning by executives and their project teams.

Data Platforms Delivery

First Citizens Bank, Morristown, New Jersey · Hackettstown , New Jersey , United States of America (USA)
Mar 2025 - May 2026 · 1 سنة 1 شهر

Manage the Day to Day IT Resource & Invoice Operations to ensure program/project delivery across the project portfolio., Resource & Invoice Management reporting providing actionable decisioning by executives and their project teams.

Portfolio Management Lead

Fiserv, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey · Berkeley Heights , New Jersey , United States of America (USA)
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 سنة 2 أشهر

Developed new ways of utilizing the Clarity project management application solving for business improvement efficiency and effectiveness., Partnered with executives on Governance issues, developing ways to resolve pain points.

IT Governance/Transformation

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey · Basking Ridge , New Jersey , United States of America (USA)
Aug 2012 - Aug 2023 · 10 سنوات 11 أشهر

Manage the day-to-day tracking of Statement of Work (SOW) and Data Processing (DP) vendor agreements for the Platform Architecture & Cloud Tools organization., Partner w/IT Vendor Management & Sourcing Supply Chain, Invoices & Requests.

Business & Financial Analyst, Green Energy Program

Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) - Contract Position, Newark, New Jersey · East Newark , New Jersey , United States of America (USA)
Jan 2010 - Feb 2011 · 1 سنة 1 شهر

Provided weekly & monthly metrics reporting for five green energy programs., Develop reporting tools and templates in MS Excel for reporting purposes.

Systems & Project Support, Corporate Finance & IT (Systems Re-Engineering & Project Management)

Multiple Consulting Firms, Morris & Somerset County, New Jersey
Jan 1998 - Jan 2002 · 4 سنوات

Managed distribution of updated Telecom Switching Data used by table’s management the Telecom Industry for billing.
Provided Functional Project Management support for the company’s national 3G Wireless Technology Test Trials.
Updated project issue logs, timelines, project records and presentations used for weekly vendor status update calls.
Analyzed the Help Desk Trouble Ticket Process for the company to ensure that the REMEDY trouble ticket system was effectively utilized by Helpdesk staff and made recommendations regarding changes to helpdesk management.
Analyzed MS Access data hierarchy codes via VLookup analysis for financial code translation mismatches between SAP & PeopleSoft, as well as performed testing in SAP modules during implementation.
Create training materials & procedure guides

Corporate Finance & Accounting Operations, Controllers Organization (Finance Manager)

AT&T Corporation, Morris & Somerset County, New Jersey
Jan 1987 - Jan 1998 · 11 سنوات

Monthly consolidations & financial GAAP reporting for the Consumer Markets Division president using financial information from multiple sources to prepare reports/charts in MS Excel & PowerPoint.
Reports were used at monthly BOD meetings.
Functional project manager for the corporate controllers’ organization in the ‘War Room’ as communications coordinator & liaison pertaining to the Lucent Technologies & NCR Initial Public Offering / BU Sale of Submarine Systems & Capital Corp.
Transformation of Sales & Use Tax Operations across the business streamlining process eliminating bottleneck pain points.
Staff accounting management included Statutory Reporting, Asset Management, Month Close of Latin American subsidiaries.
Provide field technicians with product & parts prices and investigate/troubleshooting incorrect pricing when identified.
Process sales orders for the General Business Service Military Sales Office for Public Payphone installations on military bases.

Project Portfolio Management (Client Project Portfolio Management/Business Process Re-Engineering)

Fiserv, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Developed new ways of utilizing the Clarity project management application solving for business improvement efficiency and effectiveness.
Invent new ways of utilizing Clarity Application to solve/transform process issues thru Service Now requests.
Partnered with executives on Governance issues, developing ways to resolve pain points.
Lead Key Deal calls to understand and communicate client project status.
Developed new client project intake PowerBI dashboards to track sales project requests.

IT Project/Program Management & FP&A (IT Portfolio Management & Application Development)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Manage the day-to-day tracking of Statement of Work (SOW) and Data Processing (DP) vendor agreements for the Platform Architecture & Cloud Tools organization.
Partner w/IT Vendor Management & Sourcing Supply Chain, Invoices & Requests.
Partner with FP&A regarding Annual AnaPlan IT Investment/Business Case Planning & Actuals Vs Budget/Outlook/Transfers.

IT Governance/Transformation (Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Strategy/Planning)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Manage the day-to-day tracking of Statement of Work (SOW) and Data Processing (DP) vendor agreements for the Platform Architecture & Cloud Tools organization.
Partner w/IT Vendor Management & Sourcing Supply Chain, Invoices & Requests.
Partner with FP&A regarding Annual AnaPlan IT Investment/Business Case Planning & Actuals Vs Budget/Outlook/Transfers.

Program FinOps Management & FP&A (Cloud Engineering/Enablement, IT Cloud Infrastructure Governance)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Lead executive operational insight CI/CD from a program perspective around governance for the organization as it managed the Public Cloud across IT.
Managed FP&A funding transfers in AnaPlan.
Public Cloud Tools purchase/renewal oversight such as: Kubernetes, Hadoop, APIs, CloudHealth, Apache, NetApp, VMWare, Flexera, AWS, Azure, Oracle & Google Cloud Platforms.
Manage the program cost activities with regard to annual planning for the organization and PCM Program w/FP&A team.

Sr. Program Financial Analyst & Planning (Corporate Finance Office: Enterprise Cloud Program Reporting)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

FP&A Capital/Expense Reports & Statements; provide variance explanations around budget and outlook variances.
Utilize SmartView Hyperion, Essbase & PMR to report/maintain budget/outlook & cost center tables for Global Technology Services.
Prepare monthly & annual program results and forecast for the Public Cloud Migration/Modernization program from AnaPlan.

Sr. Systems Analyst (IT Business Operations: IT Clarity Implementation, Governance & Executive Reporting)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Provided executive reporting around resource management and program cost by department cost center/chart of accounts, cost center hierarchy; prepared enhancement requests around IT Clarity enhancements in support of cross organizational teams.
CIO Dashboard Application Development which provided decision-based metrics for CIO strategic decision making.

Sr. Technical Analyst (IT Business Operations: Return on Investment ‘ROI’ & Enterprise Special Projects Office)

Verizon Communications, Warren & Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Developed and reported to IT-Governance Leads and IT Leadership on IT Internal projects estimated costs and Rough Order of Magnitude estimates against Actuals through the Project Cost Analysis Model.
Knowledge Management Implementation Lead.

IT Project/Program Management ‘PMO’ & Vendor Management (Portfolio Financials & Reporting)

Avaya ‘Intelligent Communications’, Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Provide Business & Financial Analysis/Project Management Support for the Information Technology Project Management Office, (IT-PMO).
Supported executive management with information needed to properly monitor and manage its IT Projects, (Dollars, and Resource Hours & Rates).
Utilized Ariba for Vendor Management Reporting & SAP Chart of Accounts/Tables.
Prepare monthly Project Financials from SAP to monitor project capital & expense.
Provide details on project expense.
Develop Vendor Management Reporting for Ariba purchase orders providing visibility into remaining contract budget funding.

Business & Financial Analyst, Green Energy Program (Program Financials & Reporting)

Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) - Contract Position, Newark, New Jersey

Provided weekly & monthly metrics reporting for five green energy programs.
Develop reporting tools and templates in MS Excel for reporting purposes.
Work with systems teams on reporting/data issues and improved database improvements.
Provided integrated financial and operating information such as program performance, resource allocation and optimization to provide value to the business planning process on a continual basis.
Identify areas where changes are necessary.

Business & Financial Analyst, IT Governance Department (IT Program Management & IT Finance)

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife), Bridgewater, New Jersey

Prepared and posted monthly decision support & ad-hoc financials pertaining to an annual corporate IT project spend portfolio of $1.5B.
These financials included budget vs. actual and forecast variances analysis prepared from large Clarity Project Accounting System data extracts through the use of MS Excel pivot tables and partnered with the CFO & BU executive leads.
Conceptualized and developed a consolidated cross-organizational incremental spending report in MS Excel that was used by business IT controller teams to reconcile to budget major cost drivers and to monitor and control incremental spend.

Financial Reporting & IT Support, Northeast Region (Chief of Staff: Sales Metrics & User Security)

Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey

Performed sales analysis and prepared financial reports on sales-force dollar and volume mortgage numbers against budget.
Supported the on-boarding of new sales employees as it pertained to requesting laptops, providing user security access.

المهارات

برمجيات نظام تخطيط موارد المؤسسات MS أوفيس جوجل سويت Cloud FinOps FP&A Clarity JIRA PeopleSoft SAP/S4HANA GAAP Statutory FASB SEC requirements KPI metrics Project Management IT Governance Finance FinOps SAP S/4HANA Statutory Reporting SEC Reporting KPI Metrics Power BI ServiceNow Anaplan SmartView Hyperion Essbase PMR Kubernetes Hadoop APIs CloudHealth Apache NetApp VMWare Flexera AWS Azure Oracle Cloud Google Cloud Platform CI/CD Cognos Tableau Qlik MS Excel MS Word MS PowerPoint MS Project VLookup Pivot Tables Data Mining Dashboards
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