Liza Raizer

Experience

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  Titan Systems Corporation

  May 2001 - Nov 2001

  Accountant - Projects in Satellite Communications

  • Managed contractors relationships and maintained contractors financial information.• Communicated project information to internal/external stakeholders, created and distributed accounting reporting.• Calculated project billings, reconciled project financial reports on monthly basis. • Performed full Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable cycles.

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  Human Resources Incorporated

  Dec 2001 - Oct 2002

  Accountant

  • Performed account analysis, reconciled monthly bank statements for various programs and maintained check register.• Prepared journal entries in the accounting system and reconciled cash accounts.• Assisted in preparing financial statements and schedules for fixed assets.

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  Priority Pharmaceuticals

  Jan 2003 - Aug 2003

  Accountant Specialist - Vendor Relationships

  • Established and managed vendor relationships.• Entered and maintained product inventory into the database.• Reconciled all company credit cards on monthly basis.• Performed full Accounts Payable cycle, processed incoming invoices, ran invoice register, and updated the accounting system. Processed weekly checks.

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  Kennedy/Jenks Consultants

  Sept 2003 - Jan 2005

  Project Administrator - Software Implementation

  • Brought on board to replace project management and accounting software across the system and to establish project set up, monitoring and controlling, and project close-out processes.• Successfully consolidated and migrated project financial data and streamlined business processes in accounting and project management areas. Automated billing and reporting cycles for over 1K projects. Created and implemented procedures that increased efficiency, accelerated customer satisfaction and slashed error rates.• Led functional team to implement and manage project administration and accounting processes. • Became a go-to person across the system for complex project set-up, escalated client issues and troubleshooting inquiries.• Trained project managers on implemented accounting system across offices,• Set up project in implemented accounting system based on the contract information. Maintained project financial information and reconciled financial discrepancies with clients.• Established and maintained client relationships. Show less

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  RMC Water and Environment

  Jan 2005 - Jul 2007

  Project Accountant/Administrator

  • Administered project contracts with vendors and clients. Developed billing rates and project budgets and ensured all financial discrepancies were resolved in a timely manner.• Served as a client manager to implement client billing and customer care solutions. Established and managed long-term client and vendor relationships.• Managed all aspects of project administration including project initiation, monitoring and controlling, and close-out processes as part of the project oversight function• Collaborated with senior management to establish resource management system. Monitored project resources, forecasted future resource needs and advised management of issues due to resource availability.• Reviewed project financial progress, conducted revenue analysis and reported project status to stakeholders. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2010

  Project Manager

  • Built and directed an agile team that created enterprise-wide customer care solution for 100+ major financial institutions. Negotiated and gained consensus between organizations with competing priorities. • Served as a product manager on a critical web-based application for financial institutions. Responsible for the product scope, requirements, prioritization, and features. Worked with customers to understand and address their needs; created and communicated product capabilities and strategic functional roadmaps; and evaluated industry trends and best practices. Worked with agile development teams throughout software development cycle to ensure that the product meets business requirements.• Created processes to develop and maintain program artifacts, status reporting, tracked progress, assessed risk, and ensured program aligned with overall business strategy.• Participated and contributed to the strategic development and management of cash automation program which consolidated and replaced multiple legacy database applications across 31 cash offices.• Developed new processes and procedures associated with standardization cash operations across the system. Created executive summaries, schedules and workflow diagrams to illustrate complex concepts to stakeholders. Led multiple efforts to standardize business practices, create and evaluate business requirements, and identify points of integration of new database with customer-facing web-based application.• Led virtual cross-organizational team to design and execute a 2-year migration effort of 25K+ financial customers across 31 cash offices to a web-based solution allowing retirement of a legacy application. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  Jul 2010 - Mar 2014

  Transition Program Manager

  • Managed a three-year program to consolidate 38 data centers throughout US locations into two Federal Reserve Bank facilities. Defined program objectives, success criteria, scope, governance, a multi-year schedule, and communicated progress to stakeholders.• Directed multiple, virtual technical teams to ensure program was completed on schedule. Established goals and milestones, defined resource requirements, evaluated performances, and communicated progress to stakeholders and executives. Addressed issues in a timely manner and drove corrective action plans.• Identified process gaps, recommended, designed and implemented process improvements that effectively reduced number of cutover events, slashed error rates, and increased customer satisfaction.• Responsible for development and execution of onboarding strategy as well as providing mentorship to team members. Served as a mentor to project managers as part of Mentorship Program. Show less

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  World Traveler

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2015

  World Traveler

  Accomplished my personal goal to travel around the world for a year. Visited over 40 countries mostly by land and exceeded my own expectations by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Himalayas, not to mention swimming with the Great White sharks and riding ostriches.

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  First Republic Bank

  Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

  Consultant
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  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  Oct 2015 - Jun 2021

  Senior Manager

  • Recruited and led geographically dispersed technical and product agile delivery teams to launch National Integration Services (NIS) portfolio consisting of mission critical enterprise products in order to strengthen integration on-premises and Cloud platforms across the Federal Reserve System. Created repeatable processes to provide consistent customer experiences that aligned with high priority objectives and delivered business value. • Spearheaded product portfolio management and program administration including strategic objectives, budget, resource management, reporting and metrics, vendor management and program artifacts. Promoted and led organization change initiatives to better align resources across NIS portfolio. • Built a reputation as a leader to have a proven and consistent track record of delivering large scale multi-year System product initiatives by establishing trusted and collaborative working relationships with partners, promoting agile culture, organizing and driving both dedicated and distributed teams in scoping, planning, aligning and execution as well as fostering positive working environment.• Established Project Management Office (PMO) processes including status reports, customer metrics, program timelines, risk and issues management, as well as release management tools and templates that comply with System IT Technology Project Management (TPM) and promote standardization across NIS portfolio. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

  Jun 2021 - Dec 2022

  Assistant Vice President

  • Led technology organization as a technology officer in building a highly secure and resilient solution to transform and modernize a federal tax collection platform. Developed, drove, influenced, and communicated IT strategies including technical roadmaps that are aligned with customer needs, technology lifecycle management, data governance, vendor management and business value-based outcomes across the IT agile operating environments.• Developed strong relationships across the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors, Treasury, partners, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, delivering business value, and promotion of agile culture. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  Dec 2022 - now

  Assistant Vice President