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Business Process Optimization

Functional areas of work encompass regulatory, risk and controls; finance and accounting; technology enablement; and Business Process Optimization.

More Uses of the Business Process Optimization Toolkit:

 

Cost Reduction Strategies

Drive high impact / strategic procurement initiatives with the goal of driving substantial value realization efforts in all forms revenue generation, cost reductions and productivity improvements while maintaining or improving product quality and supplier service levels.

More Uses of the Cost Reduction Strategies Toolkit:

  • Arrange that your organization designs and implements supply chains that support business strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or Cost Reduction Strategies.
  • Visit supplier facilities and accurately assess technical capability in the awarding process, equipment, and capacity for rapid deployment of new product development and long term production.
  • Be accountable for achieving financial objectives by working with management to prepare the materials budget, scheduled expenditures, analyze variances, and initiate corrective actions with suppliers.
  • Confirm you undertake; lead appropriate supplier monitoring, corrective actions, and escalation where needed to ensure Purchasing milestones of the New Program Launch process are met on time.
  • Assure your organization develops and implements effective manufacturing processes by studying product requirements, researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment.
  • Negotiate long term contracts for supplier pricing, service and supply assurance agreement to support organization strategic planning and cost goals for all new programs.
  • Support the sourcing IT infrastructure team in strategy implementation, procurement initiatives, rfp activities, agreement negotiations, vendor and strategy management.
  • Formulate citrix wide value lever strategies that drive identified business strategies and objectives, achieve value delivery and to provide commercial and functional leadership for assigned projects.
  • Ensure you relay; lead cross business teams in the creation of annual supply chain planning to achieve total cost of ownership savings through improvements to Policy, Price, Process, Service Levels, and Supplier management.
  • Remain current with market trends through relationships with suppliers and market experts; identify and communicate new technologies and solutions to key problems in the assigned spend areas.
  • Ensure your organization evaluates and recommends plant layout changes and modifications to enhance space utilization, material flow, employee safety, and throughput, product consistency and inventory reductions.
  • Manage supply chain relationships with internal and external customers by monitoring, trending, analyzing and aligning key performance indicators through supply chain dashboard metrics.
  • Make sure that your organization develops short and long term manufacturing strategies, capital requirements, and actively participates in the development and introduction of new products, safety updates, process flows and Cost Reduction Strategies.
  • Be accountable for plant manufacturing operations in accordance with process and product specifications and quality standards, complying with contractual and/or customer requirements.
  • Lead the coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure orderly and timely transitions in material or production flow.
  • Manage: administrative support for purchasing projects and supplier management (supplier metrics and research, master data, market basket analysis, pricing analysis, monthly/quarterly reporting of kpis, savings reporting).
  • Manage: work closely with key stakeholders to develop effective category strategies that enable step change improvements in quality, service, innovation and sustainable annual cost reductions and value creation.
  • Confirm you shape; lead investigations related to contamination and procedural or analytical deviations or errors in the laboratory and ensure corrective actions are developed and implemented.
  • Support guided buying team in operationalizing negotiated contracts and agreements, working with vendors and procurement resources to set up catalogs and other IT solutions to increase efficiency and compliance.
  • Establish standards, develop goals and maintain order for Plant Production, Quality, Delivery, Safety, Environment and everything related to the satisfaction of the internal and external customers.
  • Confirm your organization oversees the development of product specifications and supplier alignment through the product lifecycle to ensure customer needs are met through new item development.
  • Ensure your organization evaluates and monitors labor and cost requirements comparing to budgets and performs variance analysis and reporting forecasts project and program progress trends and estimates at complete for time and cost.
  • Prioritization and planning identification of business requirements and cross organizational knowledge to prioritize, enhance collaboration and leverage the highest value opportunities in order of priority.
  • Pilot: relationship management collaborating with internal business partners and suppliers; the segmentation, communication, engagement, business review planning, problem resolution, and general ongoing relationship management efforts for assigned projects.
  • Identify Cost Reduction Strategies in schedule, quantities or contract specifications that align with project budget and design specification requirements.

 

Compliance

Confirm your organization assess, modify, enhance and develop the enterprise strategy for information security and Compliance in partnership with peers and business leaders, creating short and long term initiatives that support business objectives that mitigate organization risk and protect data security.

More Uses of the Compliance Toolkit:

  • Develop and implement technical project management tools as plans, schedules, responsibility and Compliance metrics, cost estimating or demand forecasting using Climax Software.
  • Confirm you specify; lead the information security and governance, risk management, and Compliance teams and external vendors and service providers to ensure that the disciplines, protections, and procedures are in place to secure organizational systems and data.
  • Support and develop policies and internal controls working with legal and Compliance teams and business owners to ensure you are complying with regulatory obligations on an annual basis.
  • Supervise: validation of Compliance to policies, standards, process, procedures, controls and oversee enforcement efforts to ensure services are being provided with a high level of quality.
  • Identify: proactively identify audit and Compliance access related issues to reduce the risk of security exposures on the support systems and work with various teams to implement the improvements.
  • Orchestrate: partner with IT infrastructure and IT Business systems team to design governance and Compliance initiatives around change management, systems implementations, and asset governance programs.
  • Confirm your organization establishes and maintains organization wide policies and procedures that ensure data security and Compliance policies and practices align with all applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Direct: work as part of the software development team during all phases of the software lifecycle, assessing the planning for and implementation of the software process for Compliance with good engineering practices and customer requirements.
  • Orchestrate: mature and execute technology risk management strategy for cloud based solutions, working closely with business, technology, and information security to allow cloud platform capabilities.
  • Identify: partner with security and it to ensure centralized visibility of all identity based audit logs, and the development of reporting and metrics to enable operational and Compliance based objectives.
  • Steer: review and evaluates designs and project activities for Compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
  • Confirm your organization coordinates the activities of project teams working on complex and interrelated systems to ensure Compliance with all information technology policies, procedures and programming standards.
  • Facilitate and drive cross functional relationships ( as with Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, and Risk, Ethics and Compliance), providing overall leadership, direction and cohesiveness for Legal Department projects and stakeholder management.
  • Organize: advocate for security, privacy, and Compliance product improvements to the security, product, IT infrastructure and software development teams through customer use cases and stories.
  • Guide: review and evaluates designs and project activities for Compliance with applications design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
  • Secure that your organization monitors database governance, database services, and operational metrics to track and improve services levels, operational transparency and effectiveness, and audit and security Compliance.
  • Ensure service is delivered in line with agreed upon targets; Compliance controls, procedures, quality audits, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Devise: review and evaluate designs and project activities for Compliance with customer use cases, end end workflows, industry deployments, guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
  • Confirm your organization establishes and maintains DevSecOps Automation usage guidelines, standards and best practices, to ensure tool use is efficient, effective and adheres to organizational Compliance and security practices.
  • Establish a baseline security profile aligned with your Compliance requirements and ensure your capability for identifying and remediating known security vulnerabilities across all platforms.
  • Pilot: quality assurance engineering supports Compliance with applicable regulatory requirements by maintaining an effective quality management system and implementing continuous improvements.
  • Identify: successfully completes Compliance modules assigned annually by your organization and develops challenging yet compliant advertising messages while avoiding regulatory organization warning letters.
  • Ensure that all captures and programs are receiving the necessary level of Security support in order to achieve and maintain security Compliance objectives, and ensure Customer satisfaction respective to the security requirements.
  • Provide technical security expertise and leads security initiatives, help develop and implement your organizations security program, manage security tools and platforms, and ensure Compliance with security policies.
  • Confirm you command; embed the groups values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and Compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture.

 

Auditing

Partner with key business stakeholders to drive the adoption, design, implementation, operation, and remediation of control activities and other supporting requirements like policies, standards, processes, system configurations and reporting and compliance Auditing.

More Uses of the Auditing Toolkit:

  • Confirm your organization assess the capabilities of the Board of Directors and executive management to identify, measure, monitor, and control the risks of an institutions activities and to ensure the financial institutions safe, sound, and efficient operation.
  • Ensure you involve; engaged in all aspects of financial administration as budget and forecasts preparation and monitoring, maintenance of financial records, financial and operational reporting, general accounting, property accounting, internal Auditing and cost accounting.
  • Secure that your organization develops and lead the process for qualification, pre qualification, evaluation and Auditing of Vendors and Contractors.
  • Establish: ethical standards understands and models organizational values; treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others; work with integrity and ethically.
  • Be accountable for driving best practices for AWS Cloud Security in greenfield projects, reviewing current practices, and Auditing current policies/infrastructure.
  • Ensure your organization directs, lead and motivates cross functional team members in strategy development and day to day planning and execution of Quality Auditing processes and procedures.
  • Lead: design and implement new approaches to endpoint protection, malware detection and mitigation, Auditing, and fleet management to help protect your customers.
  • Warrant that your organization establishes and implements internal Auditing policies, standards and procedures to support proactive risk management control, accountability, economy and efficiency, and improving governance and business processes.
  • Confirm your organization establishes cross functional training programs in order to ensure quality technicians for skilled in quality testing methods and internal Auditing.
  • Ensure your organization directs the preparation of written audit reports in accordance with your organizations standards and policies, generally accepted Auditing standards and/or accounting principles.
  • Confirm your organization ensures that all systems are operated in accordance with best commercial practices with regard to account management, password management, physical/remote access, Auditing, data integrity, segregation and protection of customer confidential information.
  • Manage: tactfully assess and confront poor performance; quickly identifies issues needing corrective action; reports actions to CEO.
  • Ensure compliance with the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and organization policies and procedures.
  • Confirm your organization ensures departmental files and reports are generated and retained in accordance with Auditing, Accounting, and other regulatory departments.
  • Develop and manage procedures for vetting and Auditing vendors for compliance with the privacy and data security policies and legal requirements.
  • Be accountable for participating on the interdisciplinary team; providing the appropriate information to the team and utilizing the information received to ensure positive patient outcomes.
  • Be accountable for implementing the business continuity plan and asset protection policy and procedures in compliance with local low requirements.
  • Audit: design and implement innovative approaches to endpoint protection, malware detection and mitigation, Auditing, and fleet management to help protect your customers.
  • Develop: strategic thinking understands mission, strategic goals, objectives, and measures and understands how the area impacts organization; develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organizations strengths and weaknesses.
  • Be accountable for knowing, understanding and complying with organization and departmental policies and procedures while making sure are being enforced.
  • Identify training needs, develop training programs and materials, and conduct workshops with respect to Auditing approaches and techniques.
  • Develop Auditing and reporting for primary security tools as authentication directories and distributed authentication systems.
  • Perform database performance monitoring and Auditing, implement efficiency improvements, and modify existing databases and database management systems.
  • Resolve complex data integrity issues through oversight and regular Auditing of benefit program data while monitoring benefit contributions, metrics, and quarterly reports.
  • Administer internal audit program to ensure compliance to the quality management system through training auditors, Auditing processes and procedures, and measuring results.