We are excited to welcome Joanna Baines, Purchase to Pay Manager at McBride as our new Co-Chair for the Purchase to Pay Network.
Joanna started her journey in PTP and the Shared Services environment in December 2006 as an Accounts Payable Specialist. She has sixteen years’ experience in various roles within Accounts Payable, from specialist to management positions. Within that period, she has dealt with various systems (e.g. SAP, Ariba, MsInvoice, DMS) and processes within the Emea, Africa, Asia and America regions for such large multinational organisations as Shell, Accenture, IBM, HP, Lonza and McBride. Joanna has experience not only in transactional processing and team management, but also in quality and improvements areas, is certified Green Belt and is on course to complete her Black Belt this year. At McBride, Joanna manages a team of 16 colleagues (including two PTP Supervisors).
In terms of education, Joanna has a Master’s Degree in Linguistics and a Post Graduate Degree in Finance and Accounting.
Joanna is passionate about people and networking. In her free time she enjoys cooking, painting and travelling.
