PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Proven analytical and technology professional with more than a decade of experience providing business - focused software and systems support. Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills with a track record of developing exceptional teams, project management, customer service, purchasing and procurement. Well-versed in high-pressure, multi-national business environments, matrixes organizations, digital platforms and ERP systems including SAP/ECC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Applications: ECC SAP MM, SAP R3, SAP SRM, SAP Confidential 10.0, Ariba SAP

Software: Microsoft Office-Excel, PPT, Word, MS Sharepoint, Zycus- iAnalyze iSourcing, Infor/Extensity, Lotus Notes, IBM Service Now

Testing Tools: HP ALM

Other Skills: Bilingual- Fluent English and Spanish

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Sr. Analyst/Supplier Enablement Lead, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Support Global Supply Chain & Procurement Team through the implementation of Ariba Buyer-SAP nationwide.
• Leading national vendors through the Project Life-cycle and deployment.
• Support change management/procurement transformation and effectively communicate the development and implementation of purchasing work processes and program best practices.
• Manage Project status and time line through all milestones via formal communication and updates to team and Leadership
• Onboard Suppliers to Ariba, create catalogs, PO & Invoices
• Develop test cases scenarios and test plan for Ariba implementation
• Create Test Purchase Orders and Invoices
• Successfully rationalized Beverage category suppliers for the Southeast region, reducing the total number of suppliers used in the East coast by 61% and redirecting $3.9m in Spend to Preferred Suppliers
• Reduced PMO Ariba Readiness by 3 months by streamlining the data gathering and mapping process.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA/Midland, MI

Business Process Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Business Process Specialist
• Travel Expense Administrator Confidential
• Lotus Notes Enterprise Server Admin/ IT Help Desk Analyst

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for activities associated with proposal, validation, & review of SAP Risk Management rule set content.
• Maintain and establish logical access procedures for security process to maintain Corporate and Confidential compliance.
• Manage and Lead Security Role Changes working with Business leaders and Technical teams for new security roles and access.
• Security Track and Role Mapping Coordinator throughout various projects and milestones.
• Work closely with the Functional Teams and Technical Teams as well as the business leads to ensure Segregation of Duties ( Confidential ) and critical actions are understood and appropriately built into the roles
• Design and create single and composite roles and profiles while maintaining compliance controls
• Review and process all source to pay security access requests within service level agreements
• Approve creation, modification, or deletion of access risks within Dow’s Confidential & Critical Action rule set
• Lead and review remediation/mitigation of violations quarterly with respective department leads and managers
• Work with Internal Controls Teams to determine appropriate compensating controls to mitigate approved violations
• Support Security SMEs & role owners to ensure SAP ECC Security Roles or Transactions are not implemented with inherent Confidential violations
• Ensures that application security standards are well integrated into systems by incorporating Confidential testing into the security process
• Monitors and maintains SAP ECC application security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures that are in alignment with the corporate strategic plan and supports the project team during the implementation
• Responsible for implementation and integration of SAP Confidential - Confidential and other post go live sustainment tools
• Work with the business managers in refining risk and mitigating controls
• Support / educate business areas on risks and proposed mitigating controls
• Understand compliance related issues as it relates to SAP roles
• Establish & Implement Global standard process for SAP Risk Owners and deliver training for Source-to-Pay Roles
• Resolve Corporate Audit Defects where Dow was at risk of Fraud exposure
• Implement Global Mitigating Audit Control for Mitigated Risks

Procurement Process Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support users in a live SAP ECC production environment, acting as liaison between end users and technical teams
• Self Service Procurement SRM 7.0/SSP Subject Matter Expert
• Delivered SAP SRM Training globally to create e-Purchase Requisitions and Goods Receiving
• Requirement gathering and gap analysis through various project and milestones
• Supplier Catalog Onboarding/implementation- multi-region
• Develop test plans for SAP ECC and SRM Implementations
• Delivered SAP ECC Procurement Training, creation of Purchase Requisition and Purchase Orders to end users globally
• Liaison between Procurement and e-Business EDI teams
• Document Business requirements related to freight rates, routes, freight costing, Logistics Execution, Shipping Execution, and Freight payment

Travel Expense Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Audit Corporate card expenditures
• Manage Payment disbursements for all Travel Expense Reports
• Implement audit and best practice and Quality control for travel reimbursement program
• Delivered training to managers and end users for Extensity Infor

Lotus Notes Enterprise Server Admin, IT Help Desk Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and Support technical Lotus Notes email and database application support for end users. Activate Blackberry user on the enterprise servers and provide technical support
• Provided assistance to end users via telephone and e-mail. Provided level 1 support for SAP, Lotus Notes, standard desktop build issues, Citrix Meta-Frame and standard Microsoft Office Enterprise suite