Rory Lynch

Experience

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  University of A Coruña

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2007

  Lector
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  Dell EMC

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2020

  Achievements include: ● Leading global initiatives by collaborating with cross functional stakeholders to identify program objectives, deliverables, requirements and risks. ● Coordinated development with stakeholders applying Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodologies. Examples include; implementing system capabilities to align standardised and consistent commission eligibility across the business. ● Managing the creation of a KPI dashboard to help senior leadership use key metrics to drive strategic decisions and identify focus areas within the organization. ● Continuous process improvement driven by PMO – I lead the implementation of a global sales compensation solution, replacing a regional model, saving circa 120 man-hours per month. ● Leading technical testing efforts by creating test plans, running daily touch points, and serving as the point person between the program team, stakeholders and technical/solution engineering teams while ensuring metrics were produced to track progress. ● Developing and managing project, communication, testing and change management plans. ● Serving as a project manager mentor to junior team members entering the PM role by coaching in project management methodologies and best practices. ● Created new operational models for the newly formed global PMO. ● Reporting program status to senior leadership. Show less Achievements included: ● Project management of Senior Management directives across both IT and Business and ensuring timely implementation. ● Developing short/medium/long term IT roadmaps for Sales Compensation. ● Coordinating dialog between interfacing Business work streams and IT development teams. ● Advising business customers of best practices in their space. ● Key point of contact for escalations and the coordination of timely resolution of IT fixes. ● Managed consistent communication of all planned IT changes and improvements to our customers. ● Field visits to Enterprise Sales Teams in NE US Region with Biz Ops and Sales Ops teams. Show less Achievements included: ● Management of the overall Program Portfolio, including managing scope, driving trade-off discussions and key inter-dependencies. ● Management of planning and execution (including financials) of all Portfolio projects, support resolution of key issues and risks, particularly those impacting other Program and Business work streams. ● Served as primary liaison to Integration Architecture Team and PMO for change requests (CCRB). ● Drive engagement with interfacing Business work streams in the Go to Market space. ● Align on priorities and scope for IT Integration projects and address cross-functional risks and issues. ● Coordinated cross-functional planning and delivery activities. ● Identify at-risk or off-track projects and key activities, support remediation and controls. Show less Achievements included: • Qualified Project Management Professional (PMI) while leading a team of 16 financial analysts covering 29 EMC entities across EMEA (specifically Mainland Europe, Middle East & Africa).• Ensuring the team met all SLA agreements in relation to Invoice processing, approvals & payments.• A constant review of the Aged Debt as well as working closely with the Treasury department for all payments, rejected payments and Direct Debits. • Daily interactions with the GL, CIP, Local Finance, Revenue Accounting & AR groups.• Preparation of all month end reconciliations of AP accounts and deal with all audit queries across the region from both internal and external auditors. • All escalations regarding invoices and payments were directed to me and need to be assessed and action taken as required. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager – Sales Compensation Program Management Office

    Aug 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Information Technology Business Partner

    Mar 2017 - Aug 2018

  • IT Program Manager - Dell/EMC Sales Compensation Integration Project

    Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

  • IT Finance Consultant

    Apr 2015 - Jul 2016

  • Accounts Payable Supervisor

    Sept 2007 - Mar 2015
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  Mater Private Network

  Apr 2021 - Sept 2021

  Local IT operations and project lead

  ~ Multiple projects including:o Operational IT lead for the Mater Private Cork Site o Project Manager for new Women's Health Clinico IT representative for Business Continuity Planning

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  Facebook

  Oct 2021 - Apr 2024

  Global Payroll Process & Project Lead

  - Leading global projects impacting the payroll organisation while working with cross functional teams (Employment Tax, Benefits, Accounting, HR, Legal, IT, Engineering & internal/external vendors)- Creating Governance Processes and transitioning them to operational teams- Establishment of leadership project prioritization and intake process for proposed projects, status updates and standardizing this across all regions: o Streamlined 6+ monthly readouts into 1 for leadership ensuring leadership direction is shared with global teams o Leverage data to support decision-making and enable change across the organization o Established ROI as requirement for Project Intake Process and later used for success metrics- Drive global continuous improvement projects across process, systems, data management, reporting & analytics aligned to our global strategy such as: o PECI integration pilot – improved systems integrations and scalability for payroll data between Meta systems and payroll processing vendor o Payroll BOT chat functionality – targeted at new hires to ensure timely and accurate 1st pay- Project management of transition to new payroll vendors in LATAM region and reducing cost per pay slip by 75% o Cross-functional project planning, stakeholder management, risk and mitigation planning, RAID log, identifying interdependencies, building test plans (SIT/UAT/E2E/Parallel), communication planning for employees, vendors and impacted cross functional partners, mentoring and empowering junior project team members Show less

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  Eli Lilly and Company

  Apr 2024 - now

  Clinical Trials Foundation Product Owner

  System Technology and Process Implementation • Serve as domain expert to drive the application and integration of functionality across the technology platform to deliver value in assigned area, with quality, on time, on budget and within scope. • Anticipate and proactively address technical challenges and navigate resolution to ensure quality product and maintain program timeline. • Prioritize and manage product backlog items to maintain lifecycle management. • Define, lead, and execute implementation plans to deliver on technology strategies and improvements. • Identify project implementation and system execution risks and raise issues appropriately. • Develop & monitor critical success factors for pilots/projects and report progress to ensure clear criteria exists to enable decision making. Technology Adoption • Act as the main POC between product technology teams and stakeholders. • Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT). • Maintain and grow expertise in clinical information systems & business strategies, processes and technology as it relates to clinical development. • Identify, monitor, and communicate global customer (internal and external) requirements as related to process and/or technology performance and improvements. Communication • Coach/train others as needed, to ensure the effective implementation and adoption of technology. • Lead organizational change, communication planning, and training initiatives related to the adoption and implementation of business functions. • Maintain and grow expertise in clinical information systems & business strategies, processes and technology as it relates to clinical development. • Provide guidance and consulting to forecasting expenses. • Lead and deliver progress reporting activities and system metrics to leadership, process owners and end users. • Partner with process owners, leadership, Quality and Tech@Lilly to ensure capable, integrated and efficient system usage across the portfolio. Show less