Barbara Gianquitto

Experience

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  ExxonMobil

  Aug 2003 - Sept 2006

  Team Leader, Team Senior, Project Advisor

  World's largest publicly traded international oil and petrochemicals organisation engaged in the exploration, production, transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas and the manufacture, transportation and sale of petroleum products; the company has over 80,000 employees for a $440.5 billion sales and net profit of $40.6 billion.; Worked as part of a multi-lingual business support centre and a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, the world's largest private oil and. The centre focused on to optimise the level of customer service and process efficiencies available to Esso's fuels customers across 14 European countries.Transactions totalling $4 billion/year.Key Achievements:Quickly moved from team member to team senior in the Vendor Contracts department to Project advisor in the development of a new global contract management system (GCMS) replacing the old legacy system (Oracle).This involved in-sourcing of the Tax activities still performed in Italy, which I personally took the lead for the implementation and satisfactory performance of these in to the shared service centre.Promoted to Team Leader I was a key player in the development of the European Knowledge Transfer program to migrate the activities to the new shared service centre in Budapest where ExxonMobil transferred the department. I was in charge of delivering the training to the new team in Budapest. Show less

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  Michelin

  Nov 2006 - Jun 2008

  Team Leader

  World's leading tyres manufacturer with 109,193 employees around the world, producing more than 150 million tyres with a net sales of € 14.8 billion with 72 production facilities in 19 countries.; Michelin Tyres European Shared Service centre handled credit control, accounting services and invoices for 12 European countries where I managed the account payable team of 15 members responsible for the payment on time of 6000 invoices a month providing services to 8 European countries.Key AchievementsInvoices paid on time percentage improved from 34% to 95%.Implementation of cross training and knowledge sharing to ensure resiliency in case of unavailability of a team member. Structured the team implementing a tracking system to monitor business critical invoices and payment on time. Show less

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  AstraZeneca

  Jun 2008 - Jan 2013

  One of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies operating in over 80 countries employing 60,000 people with a turnover of $35 billion.; The shared service centre function provides shared finance and accounting related services to our sales and marketing teams across Europe.Banking ManagerWorking as part of the Global Transactional Finance I am responsible for the Banking department dealing with 30 markets, managing 140 bank accounts with a busy team of 10 accounting administrators; my department is responsible for the outgoing payments and collection for Account Payables, Sales Order to Cash and Travel and Expenses.Transactions totalling $4 billion/yearKey AchievementsPromoted from Banking Team Leader to Process Lead I migrated activities from UK Operations to the European Shared Service Centre including Audit, Data Management, Intercompany and Banking (Pharmaceutical area).Implemented overnight payment runs for the Banking pharmaceutical sector, reducing manual work and achieving an efficient automated process.Reduced unnecessary costs by reducing number of payment run and preserving KPI % of invoices paid on time.Closure of credit cards facility by directing the expenditure through the correct channels.Implemented new policy for urgent payments across departments - reduction of urgent payments by 60% in 6 months achieving a subsequent dramatic reduction in cost.Identified new ways of working, breaking through the resistance when challenging the status quo. Show less

  • Banking and Sales Order to Cash Process Expert

    Oct 2012 - Jan 2013

  • Global Cash and Banking Project Lead

    Oct 2010 - Jan 2013

  • Banking Manager

    Jun 2008 - Oct 2010
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  AstraZeneca

  Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  Project Manager

  Led a cross functional tram of Finance, IS, procurement, six banking partners as three external providers assessing 220,000 separate suppliers, customers and employees. Fifteen separate formats were migrated to the new sepa standard system and, on launch day, AZ was one of only 20% organisations ready for the move. Project was delivered on time and under budget and nominated for an internal Amaze Award

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  AstraZeneca

  Sept 2014 - now

  R&D Pharmacovigilance - leading local case in-take project Data Analytics and Automation Global business services

  • Program Director

    Jan 2022 - now

  • GBS Data Programme Manager

    Aug 2018 - Apr 2022

  • Project Portfolio Manager C2C/P2P

    Feb 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Global Process Manager - Finance Transformation

    Sept 2016 - Feb 2018

  • Working capital project manager - SOTC

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2016