Corporate Shared Services
Industry Advantages
- There are 64,000 four-year college students and 70,000 two-year college students in the Tampa Bay region.
- University of South Florida and University of Tampa have programs in place to supply the accounting majors needed by the industry.
- Three of the largest universities in the nation, USF, UCF and UF, each with more than 40,000 students , are located in Central Florida providing a substantial pool of talent majoring in business, IT, and liberal arts.
- The consensus amount shared services employers interviewed is that there is a good supply of experienced and recent college graduate back office labor.
- Shared service employers expressed opportunities to recruit multi-lingual employees, especially European and Hispanic.
- Local shared services employers interviewed by an independent consultant cited a positive business environment - a genuine interest on the part of local officials on attracting back office and shared services operations as a reason for locating operations in Tampa Bay.
- Tampa Bay is in the Eastern Time Zone along with 47 percent of the U.S. population and the New York financial markets.
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin received the 2006 Excellence Award for Best Use of Technology in a Shared Services Organization from the International Quality & Productivity Center. Lockheed Martin was also awarded first runner up in the category of Best Mature Shared Services Organization. The 4th Annual Excellence Awards were presented during the 2006 Shared Services Week in Orlando. The Shared Services Excellence Awards honor, recognize and promote Shared Services Organizations (SSOs)that demonstrate true best practices.
credits to Tampa Bay Partnership
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