Teams at ASCENDING LLC

Perform recurring labor cost allocations across departments, projects, entities, and funding sources; reconcile costs to payroll, general ledger, and HRIS records; support month-end close, audits, tax reporting, and forecasting. Build labor-cost and headcount dashboards, analyze workforce expenses, monitor employee-data quality, and improve documentation, controls, and allocation processes. Partner with FP&A, HRIS, Payroll, and business leaders while handling confidential compensation data.

Coordinates education and training programs, meetings, events, registrations, logistics, communications, and virtual sessions. Provides customer service and technical support to participants and stakeholders, maintains training materials and user guides, administers evaluations and surveys, prepares reports, and supports administrative, project-tracking, and office-management activities.

Leads supplier and third-party risk management across the full vendor lifecycle, including due diligence, risk tiering, onboarding, performance monitoring, renewals, remediation, and offboarding. Develops governance frameworks, evaluates contracts and assurance documentation, assesses cybersecurity and compliance controls, and prepares executive risk reporting. Partners with Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, Risk, business stakeholders, and suppliers to mitigate risk and optimize vendor value.