Erika Colligan

Current

• PeopleSoft Global SCM/FIN Specialist for North America, APAC, EMEA, and Latin America at EMC Global Consulting

Past

• Principal Consultant at Oracle/Peoplesoft
• Senior Consultant at Walker Interactive Systems
• Accounts Receivable Manager at Associated Pathology Medical Group, Inc.

• Accounts Receivable Manager at Chemical Dependency Institute
• Accounts Receivable Manager at Corus Autology Centers
• Accounts Receivable Manager at Convalescent Pharmaceutical Services
• Accounts Receivable at Idylwood Convalescent Hospital

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Education

• San Jose State University
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Information Technology and Services

Erika Colligan’s Summary

-Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) and Improvements (BPI): Extensive hands-on experience to assess, recommend and execute BPR and BPI. Diverse and successful experience to re engineer and implement Best Industry Practices for Financials ERP. Provided leadership and Subject Matter Expertise to lead core functional and technical resources in analysis, system design and detail process design along with conversions, interfaces, setup, knowledge transfer, and training.
-Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): Thorough hands-on experience with conducting implementation planning and strategy workshops, compile business process needs for requirements gathering and fit/gap analysis along with functional and technical assessments, design sessions and software configuration. Expertise in integration testing, interface assessments and end-user training along with security and post-production support.
-Best Industry Practices: Assessed, recommended and implemented Best Industry Practices to streamline, system integrate and migrate Financial suites, including legacy conversions, data cleansing and reporting. Distinguished as turn around specialist for optimizing and otherwise managing Financials.
-Business Development: Engaged customers in global/centralized for pre/post-sales cycle and developed partner company relationships. Authored and presented proposals, briefs and executive summaries. Independently developed and collaboratively contributed to client base growth.
-SLA and Oversight Management: Developed new and managed existing infrastructure to control Issue Management, Scope Management and Knowledge Management. Developed and implemented project management, control standards and processes. Developed and implemented organization change processes. Defined and delivered on SLAs. Built and executed operational policies and procedures.

Erika Colligan’s Specialties:

Over 15 years of FIN systems implementation experience. Over 11 years of NA, APAC, EMEA, and Latin America PS SCM/FIN functional consulting and team lead experience. Principal Global Specialist Consultant for PC, CA, BI, AR, and DM systems. Responsible for all phases of the software development cycle, including design specification, upgrades, HIPPA/SOX/GAAP/IFRS compliances, and implementation of the PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions specializing in the Order to Cash business process.

Erika Colligan’s Experience

• PeopleSoft Global SCM/FIN Specialist for North America, APAC, EMEA, and Latin America

  EMC Global Consulting

  (Financial Services industry)

  October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  * International Pharmaceutical and Clinical Services - Mexico, and Raleigh, NC
  Conducted the gap analysis, met local statutory & US GAAP requirements, VAT/IVA/IETU, inter-unit, full implementation, developed training documents and trained staff on PeopleSoft 9.0 PC, CA, BI, and AR Mexico roll-in for 5 business units.
  *Healthcare Research Hospital
  PeopleSoft PC, CA, BI, and AR fit gap upgrade scoping assessment - consisted of high level fit gap and implementation grants solution proposal assessment from version PS 8.4 to PS 9.0.
  *Utilities Industry
  PeopleSoft GL, BI, AR, PO, ePro, AP, AM, IN, and PC fit gap upgrade scoping assessment - consisted answering to RFP, high level fit gap and implementation proposal assessment from version PS 7.5 to PS 9.0 and JDE to PS 9.0.
  *National Retail Change – San Diego
  PS BI & AR version 8.8 SP1- Project consisted of fit/gap and implementation of 31 different retail billing types and unique custom netting requirement between AP/AR.
  * International Pharmaceutical and Life-sciences Services - Kansas City / New Jersey / Edinburgh UK/ Manchester UK
  Leading PS-based worldwide BI & AR solution from 8.4 to 8.9. Performed fit/gap analysis, functional design, customer Parent/Child relationships, multi-currency, multibook, VAT/GST, interunit and GAAP compliance. UPK development and execution of test scripts. Custom developed and conducted end user training.
  * Education and Government - Atlanta, Georgia
  Performed upgrade assessment from 7.5 to 8.9 for BI and AR
  * International Manufacturing Company- Taiwan/Shanghai-China/Mexico
  Team lead for PS 8.8 BI and AR implementation in Taiwan, Shanghai and Mexico. Fit/gap analysis, configuration, interface, conversion, test scripts, business and SOX process flows, VAT, end user training, & post go live support. Transfer to shared services.

• Principal Consultant

  Oracle/Peoplesoft

  (Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — October 2005 (7 years 4 months)

  Broad and deep experience in functional PeopleSoft SCM/FIN including implementation integration, interface, multi-currencies, multi-books, conversion, fit/gap, business and GAAP processes documentation, end users training, ability to interact with technical staff, end users and report to management/technical team. US, EMEA, AsiaPac
  
  Principal Consultant Jan 2005 to Oct 2005
  Process Specialist Consultant Oct 2000 to Jan 2005
  Senior Consultant Apr 1999 to Oct 2000
  Consultant Jul 1998 to Apr 1999
  
  Financials and Supply Chain Subject Matter Expertise:
  *Billing *Accounts Receivable *Deduction Management
  *Order Management *Inventory *Contracts
  *Asset Management *Accounts Payable *General Ledger
  *VAT/GST *UPK *Multi-Currencies & Multibook Processing *Project Management *HIPPA/SOX/GAAP/IFRS compliances
  
  -National & International: Utilities, Retail Chain, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Software, Hospitality, Media, Healthcare, Life Science/Research, Wholesale, Chemical, Insurance, and Education and Government

• Senior Consultant

  Walker Interactive Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 7 months)

  Team leader responsible for implementation and day-to-day production support of Walker’s Credit and Accounts Receivable Management System (CARMS) and Billing systems. Managed requirements gathering, functional design and deployment through Go Live production cutover, including setting training, certification testing schema, and developing Policies and Procedures. Managed design and successfully deployed executive information system to provide in-house business owners with customer, product, industry, and line of business information.

• Accounts Receivable Manager

  Associated Pathology Medical Group, Inc.

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  February 1991 — January 1997 (6 years )

  Designed, automated, system support, create and execute company's policies&procedures, and managed billing and accounts receivable department for a high volume, multi-site physician medical group.

• Accounts Receivable Manager

  Chemical Dependency Institute

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  January 1989 — February 1991 (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for all areas of inpatient and outpatient medical billing and collections. Lead project to identified and collected receivables up to three years in arrears. Result: Collected outstanding payment in excess of $5 million and reduced average collection period to 20 days. Created and implementing office policies and procedures. Reduced collection write offs from 21% to 8%.

• Accounts Receivable Manager

  Corus Autology Centers

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years )

  Responsible for all areas of private blood bank billing and collections. Reduced average collection period from 90 to 25 days.

• Accounts Receivable Manager

  Convalescent Pharmaceutical Services

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  1986 — 1987 (1 year )

  Automate the AR for the IV/Home infusion department. Implemented and maintained the client file system that was adopted as the standard for the company. Interfaced with insurance companies and clients in the preparation and submission of third party insurance claims and collections. Responsible for special projects, maintaining database information, medical coding, and posting payments.

• Accounts Receivable

  Idylwood Convalescent Hospital

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  1985 — 1986 (1 year )

  Implemented, maintained and updated patient files. Coordinated, verify eligibility, pre-certified, prepared, and submitted Medicare, Medicaid, Workmans Compensation, and private third party insurance claims. Analyzed problem accounts, assisted with payroll, purchasing, and accounts payable.

Additional Information

Erika Colligan’s Groups:

* Member of OAUG - Oracle Applications Users Group,
* Member of Oracle RAC SIG - Oracle Real Application Clusters Special Interest Group Forum,
* Member of PeopleSoft Credit and Accounts Receivable (PSCARE) SIG
* Member of Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ User Group (DMUG)

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