Gartner Expert

Michelle helped Thrivent launch a Transformation Management Office to guide strategic spending of $750M over a 3 year period. Her contributions included the finance aspects of the TMO including the development of templates for investment evaluation, process mapping, implementation of a governance framework as well as ongoing management of the transformation project spend.

At Ameriprise, Michelle supported a Technology Transformation, which reduced IT spend by $75M and completely overhauled Technology allocations back to the business to drive transparency and accountability.

Michelle spent 2 years at a PE-owned BPO/call-center company, and managed an FP&A team responsible for pricing, budgeting, and forecasting 25 clients with annual revenue of $400M. She also participated in M&A in the form of valuing/purchasing existing client call centers that were re-badged to Stream Global Services.

Michelle also spent 3 years at Deutsche Bank in the Private Wealth Management division as an internal consultant. She provided modeling expertise to support advisor acquisitions and support key initiative investments as well as supported internal audits to identify and implement process improvements

Ameriprise Financial, Sr. Finance Manager, Technology, 4 years

Stream Global Services, Sr. Finance Manager, Pricing & Revenue Finance, 2 years

Thrivent Financial, Finance Lead, 4 years