The European Shared Service Center, located in Barendrecht, The Netherlands, provides finance, information technology, human resources, communications, legal and environmental, health and safety support to all Ashland Inc. divisions in Europe: Ashland Distribution, Ashland Performance Materials, Valvoline and Ashland Water Technologies. My role as implementation lead was for the successful creation of the ESSC and implementation of the JD Edwards Financials ERP system.

• Responsible for the creation of the (ESSC) to consolidate the financial administration of 70 division offices at 45 locations throughout Europe into one “shared” service center. Ashland is a U.S. based, multinational petro-chemical company, with worldwide sales of $13.2 billion.
• Centralized broad range of financial functions to the ESSC including General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Multi-Currency Processing, Fixed Assets and Financial Modeling & Budgeting to reduce costs by using JD Edwards Financial Systems.
• Received the President’s Award for employee excellence for the successful creation of the ESSC and the successful consolidation of 70 division offices via the implementation of the JD Edwards financial system.