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Erica Williams is pursuing an MBA in Real Estate at the Wharton School and has a background in Supply Chain Management and Economics. She has worked as a Strategy Consultant at Accenture since 2015 where she has led various projects supporting M&A integration and cost savings initiatives. Her experience includes developing transition service agreements, integration planning, and benchmarking models to identify cost reduction opportunities.

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Erica Williams is pursuing an MBA in Real Estate at the Wharton School and has a background in Supply Chain Management and Economics. She has worked as a Strategy Consultant at Accenture since 2015 where she has led various projects supporting M&A integration and cost savings initiatives. Her experience includes developing transition service agreements, integration planning, and benchmarking models to identify cost reduction opportunities.

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ERICA WILLIAMS

1210 Chestnut St., Unit 304, Philadelphia, PA 19107


[email protected] | 301-385-7030

EDUCATION

THE WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA


Master of Business Administration Candidate; Major in Real Estate 2019 - 2021
 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
 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)

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

 Completed Honors College Honors Humanities Program and earned the Banneker / Key Scholarship of Full Distinction
 Learned basics of Mandarin through the UAE Global Immersion Experience
 Studied abroad in Taiwan: Exploring a Different China Language Immersion Program
 Served as President, Kappa Phi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
 Served as the Community Service Chair of W.E.B. Du Bois National Honor Society

EXPERIENCE

ACCENTURE New York, NY


Strategy Consultant 2017 - 2019
Senior Strategy Analyst 2016 - 2017
Strategy Analyst 2015 - 2016

Transition Services Agreement (TSA) Lead


 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
 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
 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


 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
 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
 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


 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
 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

 Interests: PropTech, urban tech, business development, marketing/content strategy, interior design
 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

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