Kristian Reister
Manager - Procurement and Supply Chain Business System Analyst @UKG
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WORK HISTORY
Manager - Procurement and Supply Chain Business System Analyst @UKG
Weston, FL, US
Strategic Vision and Roadmap: Define the long-term vision for financial systems, aligning it with business goals. Create a strategic roadmap that outlines enhancements, upgrades, and new features. Prioritize initiatives based on business impact and feasibility.Product Backlog Management: Maintain a well-organized backlog of features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Collaborate with senior leadership to prioritize backlog items based on business value, risk, and dependencies. Balance short-term needs with long-term goals, budgets, and resource availability to optimize system functionality.Requirements Gathering and Refinement: Manage a team of analysts who Collaborate with stakeholders (finance teams, IT, end-users) to gather system requirements. Translate business needs into technical specifications for development teams. Refine user stories and backlog items to ensure clarity and alignment.Vendor Relationship and Solution Evaluation: Engage Microsoft Dynamics ERP, supporting software vendors, and implementation partners to understand product capabilities and roadmaps. Evaluate new features and updates to determine their relevance for the finance unit. Negotiate contracts and licensing terms with vendors. Review and approve project budgets and invoices through delivery milestones.System Implementation and Upgrades: Lead implementations for Dynamics Finance and Operations. Serve as an escalation point for analyst, developers, testers, infrastructure to ensure successful deployment. Develop, manage, and refine process for system upgrades and ensure smooth transitions.Data Governance and Security: Implement security protocols to safeguard sensitive financial information. Comply with industry regulations related to financial data.Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies. Identify opportunities for process optimization and automation. Drive innovation by exploring advanced features and integrations.
EDUCATION
Nova Southeastern University
Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, General
Florida International University - College of Business
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General
SKILLS
ABOUT KRISTIAN REISTER
Passionate change agent professional with over a decade of experience leading multi-national enterprise level digital transformations leveraging the people, process, technology framework to achieve strategic objectives. Proven success leading large teams consisting of multiple implementation vendors, business advisory consultants, and internal stakeholders across the enterprise. Have played a lead role for all phases of delivery including initiative identification, charter creation, resources allocation and estimation, staff augmentation recommendations, discovery, scoping, vendor selection, budgeting, design, implementation, enhancement and integration requirements of cloud and on-premise solutions. Leverage strong interpersonal and analytical skills to drive collaboration across teams resulting in rapid data driven decisions.Functional areas of expertise: Organizational administration, general ledger, accounts payable, product information management, procurement, supply chain management, master planning, production control, inventory management, inventory accounting, warehouse management, asset management, travel and expense management, cost accounting, accounts receivable, sales and marketing, credit and collections, cash and bank management, human resources, domestic and international corporate tax, internal and external audit, segregation of duties.Implementation areas of expertise: Promoting a collaborative and engaging atmosphere, Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, and Scaled Agile delivery methodologies, project management, software vendor evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, structured program implementation, business processes modeling, business requirement management, master data management, organizational change management, end user training, continuous maintenance, and long-term support structuring.Technical areas of expertise: Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud and on premises solutions. Networking, security, enterprise solution architecture, enterprise data warehouse, middleware architecture, and system integration methods such as ETL, ELT, secure file transport, batch processing, application programming interface (API), OBDC SQL, OData protocol, electronic data exchange systems.
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