Alfred S Byington

About Alfred S Byington

I am a senior finance executive looking to expand the traditional Financial Planning and Analysis role (FP & A) to also include my passion for using financial forensics to implement programs that increase sales and revenues, reduce inefficiencies in organizations, decrease risk to operations, and improve the overall customer support model. I have a track record of leading my team and those I work with to think outside the box, deliver results based on data-driven facts, and to always give 100% effort in the work that we do. Many of my roles have required an understanding of customer outcomes and require active listening and a spirit of collaboration and trust as well as an occasional touch of compromise. I try to understand and clarify all requirements in advance and communicate results in a complete, efficient, and concise manner.Core competencies include:• Budgeting/Forecasting• Business and Process Improvement• Capital Budgeting• Coaching & Mentoring• Contract Negotiation• Data Analytics• Financial Planning and Analysis• Identification of Cost Inefficiencies• IT Procurement• KPI Tracking and Measurement• License Optimization• Portfolio Management• Project Management• Sales and revenue modeling• Technology/Shared Service Chargebacks• Strategic Sourcing• Experience in multiple developer disciplines (ie waterfall, agile, devops) and associated metrics (milestones, sprint cycles, defect rates)Notable Business Improvement and Efficiency Initiatives:• Improved sales and billing processes resulting in 20% time reduction in contract processing in addition to improved billing accuracy measured by a 15% reduction in rebilling/write-off rates due to inaccurate billing• Established IT procurement processes and authorization matrix to process over 100 purchase order requests per month using both ServiceNow service request and Ariba workflows• Built service-based allocation practice for IT services using rate card and utilization metrics• Developed program management office and implemented robust business request processes in order to prioritize work requests and hold parties accountable for delivery• Improved IT asset management practice by implementing auto-discovery software to track over assets resulting in effective management of technical debt process to decommission aging/expired assets • Updated application registration processes to rationalize digital applications• Program managed multimillion dollar real estate initiative to decommission five NY-based datacenters

Experience

1. Head of Strategic Portfolio Business Office

   Scotiabank

   Nov 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Executive lead and oversight of administrative, governance, and project teams in Canada, Mexico, and Colombia for Enterprise Technology responsible for business and technology optimization initiatives through process, workforce, and contract efficiency programs. Thought leader to help transform enterprise technology into a service-oriented mindset using utilization metrics to drive consumption of technology services.• Executing on organizational and resource alignment related to financial support, governance, and service delivery to better position the team to deliver outcomes based on service priorities and efficiencies in automation.• Program level accountabilities and sponsorship for several third-party services innovation and optimization activities including a $250m investment in datacenter consolidation and cloud hosting/storage repatriation strategies.• Overall management and prioritization accountabilities for resource-based governance and hiring queues for technology resources.• Developing utilization-based KPIs to drive internal service-based chargebacks and more accurately predict capacity related investments.

Education

• Seton Hall University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• University of Dayton

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Skills

• Forecasting
• Project Portfolio Management
• Mergers
• Contract Negotiation
• Project Planning
• Budgets
• Finance
• Accounting
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Business Analysis
• Financial Reporting
• Leadership
• Process Improvement