Jennifer B. Stapleton

About Jennifer B. Stapleton

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Project Manager with over ten years of…

Experience

1. Director

   Equitable

   Nov 2017 — Present · Syracuse, NY, US

   Provide ongoing project management over site of enterprise projects at Equitable. Led system implementation of new SAP ERP platform. Prior to ERP implementation, coordinated the financial close and SEC filings to IPO and subsequent quarter closes. Guided system enhancement activities on legacy platform to remediate financial reporting challenges.• Coordinated SAP implementation activities across 12 squads/workstreams (100+ people) for $50 million dollar program. Implementation included general ledger, financial products subledger (FPSL), consolidations, accounts payable and reporting modules. Managed 10+ vendor relationships as a part of the implementation.• Drove key decisions impacting the SAP implementation by performing the appropriate evaluation and providing options with recommendations from key stakeholders to executive sponsors.• Provided direction and guidance of priorities. Drove strong program and project management structure and governance for department and program. • Partnered with Accounting, Finance and Actuarial teams to seamlessly execute the financial close. Support the relationship management between multiple vendors, internal staff and audit firm. Provided transparency in our quarterly close process by utilizing and publishing dashboards, providing status and escalation points as needed.• Coordinated execution of initial annual report and proxy statement through the development and ongoing support of a detailed calendar, meeting materials and communications. Supported the coordination of multiple vendor relationship including print vendor and proxy solicitor with appropriate business contacts. Promoted proactive decision making and assisted in the mitigation of issues.

Education

• Le Moyne College

  MBA, Business Administration

  2005 — 2007

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  BS, Finance

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Windows
• Budgeting
• Call Center
• Integration
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Process
• Databases
• Essbase
• Vendor Management
• Customer Service
• Strategic Planning
• Management
• Project Management
• Budgets
• Process Improvement
• Telecommunications
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Call Centers
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Visio
• Troubleshooting
• Voip
• Business Analysis