ERICA WILLIAMS
1210 Chestnut St., Unit 304, Philadelphia, PA 19107
ericawi@wharton.upenn.edu | 301-385-7030
EDUCATION
THE WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Master of Business Administration Candidate; Major in Real Estate
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Co-President of Wharton African American MBA Association (AAMBAA); member of Real Estate Club,
Wharton’s Innovation & Design Club, and Wharton Youth Mentor Volunteer Organization
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Relevant Coursework: Intro to Design (ARCH102), Contemporary Architectural Discourse: Race, Environment,
Gender (ARCH711), Real Estate Investment Analysis & Financing (REAL721), Urban Real Estate Economics
(REAL724), Corporate Finance (FNCE611)
Philadelphia, PA
2019 - 2021
ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management & Bachelor of Arts in Economics
College Park, MD
2011 - 2015
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Completed Honors College Honors Humanities Program and earned the Banneker / Key Scholarship of Full Distinction
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Learned basics of Mandarin through the UAE Global Immersion Experience
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Studied abroad in Taiwan: Exploring a Different China Language Immersion Program
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Served as President, Kappa Phi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
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Served as the Community Service Chair of W.E.B. Du Bois National Honor Society
EXPERIENCE
ACCENTURE
Strategy Consultant
Senior Strategy Analyst
Strategy Analyst
New York, NY
2017 - 2019
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
Transition Services Agreement (TSA) Lead
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Became main Transition Service Agreement (TSA) pre-sign point of contact for five critical client workstreams (HR, Marketing,
Operations/Manufacturing, Facilities, and Procurement); became sole TSA post-sign and pre-close point of contact
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Developed bottom up TSA cost model identifying $8.5 million in expected TSA costs; model outputs were used to provide cost
information to buyer and handed off to client at project end for ongoing TSA management
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Presented TSA readiness status and next steps between sign and close to seven client team executives, including divestiture lead, legal team
leadership, and key IT stakeholders
Integration Management Office Support
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Leveraged M&A merger integration current state assessment and pre-close and post-close dependency management best practices to
support buyer (Global Insurance Claims Administrator) EVP (Chief People Officer) with developing Day 1 and Day 100 workstream plans
for Human Resources
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Compiled Integrated Economics Cost Tracking model for client Finance workstream; model depicted quarterly and YoY summary views
of capital expenditures, enabling large insurance client to visualize variance between planned and actual expenses for IT; dashboard helped
client visualize impact to financial bottom line
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Drove Real Estate workstream workplan completion, identifying workplan gaps and supporting cross-functional planning and alignment by
training 4 members of executive leadership team on an internal synergy software
Zero Based Spend Team Support
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Conducted Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) analysis to develop insights around potential bottoms-up, enterprise-wide cost
savings; pinpointed top 80% of suppliers to identify cost reduction opportunities for 4 cost packages/business units (Legal, Marketing, HR,
Sales); each package was responsible for between $5-20 million in annual baseline expenditures
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Owned 1 benchmark model, pulling in 15 peer client baselines data sets to target savings potential by showing where a given organization
falls on a spectrum compared to industry peers
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Interests
: PropTech, urban tech, business development, marketing/content strategy, interior design
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Positions:
Active Management Leadership for Tomorrow Career Prep (2014) and MBA Prep (2018) Fellow, Former Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority Collegiate Transition Taskforce Co-Chair – North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter (2016-2019), Former Accenture National African
American Employee Resource Group Communications Lead (2017-2019)
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Languages
: Highly proficient speaker of Spanish
