Kristena Bravo

Corporate travel, expense, card programs, accounts payable, procurement, supplier data management, and commercial payments.

• Ownership of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit, and PCard teams, managing a staff of 25 globally, including 4 managers and 2 supervisors. • Actively manage the collection of > $1B total annual revenue, while maintaining past due balances below 7% and below 0.5% for balances past due over 90 days. • Business Project Manager for the Payables invoice automation project which achieved 90% invoice automation in the first 5 months after the project went live. • Created an Operational Accounting Quarterly executive reporting package that tracked and analyzed a multitude of KPIs focusing on AR, AP, Credit, PCard, T&E, and automation. • Spearheaded recovery efforts internally and also through a recovery audit project that cumulatively recovered $0.8M in AP over payments and unapplied credit memos resulting from the 2015 JDSU/Lumentum spinoff. • Developed forecast models for Receivables and Payables to build into the overall cash forecast. • Owned all aspects of Corporate Card (PCard) program, internal metrics, and reporting. • Creation and maintenance of SOX narratives and controls for the Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes. Performing monthly and quarterly control testing and remediating any gaps to prevent SOX deficiencies. • Developed and instituted a Finance-wide employee rotation program including defining expected competencies, attributes, and behaviors for each grade level. • Business lead for various Kaizen events including the P2P cycle and PCard process. • Managing the global month-end close for 12 ledgers in the AP, Purchasing, and AR modules. • Owned, managed, and maintained customer credit portfolios, regularly reviewing customer credit worthiness and safeguarding against credit risk in a > $1.6B credit portfolio. • Responsible for reviewing and approving reconciliations and Balance Sheet Flux commentary. • Managed the quarterly preparation of the bad debt reserve analysis.

•Global Process Owner for all worldwide Accounts Payable and Travel Accounting functions. •Implemented policies and SOX controls, documented processes, and established best practices within a new organization. •Responsible for overseeing payment runs, managing employee expense report reimbursement, performing the global month-end close, compiling and presenting key metrics, booking monthly accruals, and preparing monthly reconciliations. •Managed a global staff of 11, including 1 manager and 1 supervisor, reviewing work, coaching and developing staff, and giving performing reviews. •Business Project Manager for the implementation of Oracle Cash Management module on 3 key bank accounts, reducing the monthly reconciliation time by 30 hours per month while restoring confidence and accuracy to the reconciliations. •Developed and implemented an online repository for all global reconciliations utilizing built-in workflows and approval dashboards for audit compliance. •Identified and remediated several severe compliance gaps in the Procure-To-Pay process. •Built and maintained excellent business partnerships with the Procurement, Logistics, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Accounting Departments. •Managed the processing of 7,000 invoices per month, globally.

•Prepared monthly actuals reporting, projections, headcount reporting, and regression analysis. •Prepared, seeded, and managed quarterly forecast cycles including loading projections, performing reasonableness validation, data analysis, and managing the expense and legal entity allocation processes. •Provisioned and maintained user security, filters, and access to Hyperion Planning dimensions and forms and prepared quarterly SOX reviews. •Performed regular reconciliations to ensure accurate data flows across multiple systems. •Established strong business partnerships with the FP&A, Accounting, and IT teams to forecast and proactively manage risks. •Oversaw ongoing requirements for all aspects of the month-end close and forecasting processes. •Supported end-user requests, ad hoc analysis, provided guidance, troubleshot and resolved issues. •Created training materials and provided regular live trainings and working labs for the global Finance, Sales, and Operations community on business information flows, reporting tools and reporting processes. •Participated in requirements documentation, systems configuration, test documentation and execution, issue identification, and resolution. •Liaised with internal stakeholders to develop delivery roadmaps and to define and document business processes. •Created FP&A, Accounting, and External Reporting reports and upload templates in Smart View for users. •Developed and maintained data diagram flows on key business system processes. •Planed, prioritized, and delivered systems enhancements. •Oversaw daily, monthly and ad hoc data backup processes. •Business project manager for multiple projects leading the requirement gathering, project design, unit testing, and user acceptance testing.

•Responsible for the North America disbursement process and Travel Accounting. •Overseeing payment runs, managing employee expense report reimbursement, performing the global month-end close, compiling and presenting key metrics, booking monthly accruals, and preparing monthly reconciliations. •Partnered closely with the Purchasing department to increase the volume of purchase order usage through the creation of online catalogs which reduced the amount of manual invoices needing to be processed, developed pcard, purchasing and travel policies, and to outlined best practices for the Procure to Pay process. •Created and implemented a global policy and process for the reimbursement of business expenses and hosted training sessions for all employees. This reduced the expense report rejection rate by 9%, while reigning in unauthorized employee spending. •Identified areas of exposure in the vendor maintenance process and implemented mitigating controls. •Regular collaboration with a global management team, working on projects, developing policies and standardizing processes. •Manage a staff of 3 direct reports, reviewing work, coaching and developing staff, performing reviews. •Regular SOX compliance, control creation, and testing of key worldwide processes. •Vendor profile creation and vendor master list maintenance. •Control the 1099 reporting process.

• Worldwide process owner for the Financial Statement Close process, coordinating the global monthly close, preparing monthly close calendars, preparing journal entries, and preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations. • Oracle General Ledger Superuser, responsible for chart of account structure, FSG report creation and maintenance, open/closing periods, posting journal entries, and reviewing suspense accounts. • Preparation and presentation to senior management of the monthly Balance Sheet with detailed commentary, the interim and quarterly Statement of Cash Flows, and the quarterly impairment package. • Gathered, analyzed, and presented quarterly efficiency metrics to senior management. • Automated the worldwide reconciliation approval and document retention process resulting in a substantial cost savings in preparation, review, audit, and record retention. • Regular SOX compliance, control creation and testing of key processes. • Unclaimed property process owner, responsible for managing internal properties, providing required due diligence, and internal forecasting for property escheatment. • Identified substantial exposure risk in the area of unclaimed property and reformed the process by creating internal controls, creating and implementing a policy, implementing 3rd party tracking and escheatment software, providing cross-functional employee training, creating quick access reference materials and creating a training video for all new employees. • Assisted with the preparation of external reporting documents including the 10K/10Q. • Key member of the Oracle R12 implementation team for GL, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets modules. Participated in all phases of the project, including requirement gathering, testing, and implementation. • Preparation and analysis of all key cash reconciliations.

• Automated the disbursement bank account reconciliation process, resulting in a significant monthly time savings. • Participated in the month-end close process, creating and posting accruals and reclass entries. • Preparation and analysis of key cash and balance sheet reconciliations. • Created, amortized, and retired prepaid assets in the Oracle Fixed Asset module and provided subledger analysis. • Reformed several key controls to surpass current guidelines, ensuring consistent SOX compliance. • Identified security issues with cash accounts and took proactive measures to safeguard against potential fraud. • Collaborated with the External Reporting Manager in preparation of the quarterly Statement of Cash Flows and assisted in the preparation of external reporting documents including the 10K/10Q. • Participated in a guest auditing program focusing on the area of inventory control, successfully pinpointed several critical process.