Roxanne Neilson

About Roxanne Neilson

I am a collaborative finance leader who excels at driving change across the organization and transforms finance into a more effective business partner. I am well-versed in the challenges of being in a rapidly growing international company and leverage my experience across multiple areas of finance to create high performing teams and drive innovative solutions. I truly enjoy working with team members at all levels within the organization to deconstruct their challenges, identify opportunities and implement sustainable solutions to fuel growth and profitability.

Experience

1. Continuous Improvement Leader

   Plexus Corp.

   Dec 2018 — Present · Appleton, WI, US

   Collaborate with key stakeholders across the global finance organization, including Operations Finance, Corporate Finance & Accounting, Corporate Treasury and Shared Services, to optimize financial processes and build a continuous improvement culture. Leverage my skills as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, experienced project manager and lead change agent while also lending my experience and expertise in multiple financial processes and functions. Key achievements include- Developed and deployed a financial analytics application to improve Operations Finance\'s ability to proactively monitor and analyze its revenue and margin performance against its expectations on a daily basis- Acted as primary business owner for the analytics solution, managing the development of new data models and user-facing visualizations within the tool in partnership with Finance leadership and a network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), training and supporting the global end user base, managing change requests and coordinating all technical requirements with internal IT partners and the third party vendor-Facilitated regional workshops to define what it means to be a business partner rather than a finance a data provider. Led teams through the journey of identifying their current responsibilities, understanding which add value and developing a portfolio of actions required to eliminate or minimize those not in line with the business partnering role- Led a global team to develop a standard, repeatable behavioral skills development program for Financial Analysts- Established and led a global continuous improvement council to empower and enable all Finance team members to engage in continuous improvement activities as part of their daily work- Led multiple kaizen events to improve financial processes.

Education

• University of South Florida

  Master of Science (M.S.), Accounting

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• U.s. Sec Filings
• Accounting
• Cognos
• Financial Analysis
• Consolidation
• Internal Audit
• Us Gaap
• Gaap
• Sap Erp
• Financial Audits
• Sap R/3
• Internal Controls
• Sap Products
• Forecasting
• Manufacturing
• Tax
• Six Sigma
• Financial Accounting
• Sec Filings
• Process Improvement
• Financial Reporting
• U.s. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Gaap)
• Finance Transformation
• Shared Services
• Finance
• Sarbanes-Oxley
• Treasury
• Business Process Improvement
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Statements
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Business Transformation
• Sap
• Corporate Finance
• Change Management
• Auditing
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• General Ledger
• Cost Accounting