PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior consulting professional with Big 4 SAP experience managing, complex global enterprise - level initiatives, transforming inefficient finance operations and developing effective long-term technology strategies to sustain growth and increase profitability.
• Fifteen years architecting SAP application solutions and technical infrastructures for billion dollar global organizations in energy, pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, and automotive.
• Group project manager who can work with senior stakeholders both IT and business teams.
• Extensive expertise in strategic & tactical planning, technical innovation, and offshore service partner management. Well versed in change management, AgileCommunication skills. BS Engineering & MBA Accounting.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• SAP FICO certified Stakeholder management
• Accounting Processes: Order2Cash, Record2Report PMO Creation & Administration
• SAP integration with internal & external systems Team management - onshore/offshore
• SAP Project Management Communication & presentation skills
• MS Office/Visio/MS Project/SharePoint Testing-UAT/RT/SIT
• Change Management & Training Cash/Liquidity management
• Business Process transformation Project Budget & Financial Management
• SAP ASAP SAP New GL & HANA

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed a project team of 12 in a business process transformation project enabled by SAP.
• The functional area was accounting and budgeting, planning & forecasting.
• This initiative required the development of a business case for the Confidential management team to support an initiative enabled by SAP FICO & BPC.
• The business case tool identified savings and revenue enhancement opportunities and the methodology used provided a method to manage the achievement of the benefits.

Confidential

SAP FICO

Responsibilities:

• Lead for SAP FICO systems “carveout” resulting from divesture of business unit.
• Finance lead for blueprinting session. Business processes included:
• Cash management
• Record2Report
• Order2Cash
• Procure2Pay
• Liquidity management

Confidential

Principal SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Directed solution delivery including application architecture and cutover plan/execution
• Managed Workstreams for
• Testing
• Change management & communication
• Project budget
• Financial reporting analytics using Business Objects
• Training
• Interface development-39 systems
• Member of the Executive Regional Steering Committee
• Developed cutover and contingency plans
• Managed project plans
• Provide technical & business leadership to the project team and business users
• Business process transformation design/evaluation
• Presented to senior executives and large communities of business users
• Executed the client SAP Roadmap
• Implemented PMO reporting tools-digital dashboards
• Worked with offshore teams and global PMO

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project financials
• Managed the card vendor
• Testing
• Plan design, update and daily task management
• Stakeholder management and status reporting
• Solution Architecture for the program integration with SAP FICO, HCM, travel management
• Coordination with the global implementation team and application of global program standards
• Reporting to the global PMO weekly
• Process flow analysis/controls, SOX and governance
• Compliance with information and privacy requirements

Confidential, New York, NY

PRACTICE HEAD

Responsibilities:

• Represented Confidential at Sapphire
• Design proposal to TD Confidential for SAP
• Directed the design/delivery of a COE for SAP with Business One
• Reviewed/responded to RFI’s/RFP’s.
• As an articulate C-level resource, effectively represented Confidential at both vendor & industry conferences.
• Produced winning results by expertly costing/pricing and resourcing projects.
• Worked closely with clients to develop onshore/offshore/near shore staffing & risk sharing models.
• Provided seasoned executive oversight of all projects.
• Created a pipeline of $14MM and rapidly closed $3.6MM in services business.
• Created name recognition and solidly established the Wipro “brand” in the Confidential banking industry by:
• Implemented a POC for top 10 US Confidential using SAP’s HANA
• Top 12 US Confidential - developed a POC for credit card customer acquisition/retention using Big Data techniques to source/evaluate multiple types of data: structures, streaming, social media, etc.
• Skillfully building alliances/relationships with both SAP & Oracle for core banking & GRC systems.
• Guiding team in implementation & execution of go-to-market plan.
• Developing a “Banking Center of Excellence” plan
• Big Data for Dodd Frank Act Regulatory Reporting & Compliance
• Preparing a practice business plan/P&L & 3-year plan, creating pricing models/strategies, developing best practices, tools & accelerators, devising PMO standards for banking projects & innovating IP/collateral materials for the practice.
• Assisting a Top 7 US Confidential in the definition of GRC, Basel II & Dodd Frank requirements and a technology selection process.

Confidential

Principal SAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAP PM for the implementation of SAP at Putnam Investments
• Developed specifications for a Confidential solution design, wrote requirements, created a task plan & implemented procedures for Confidential governance and reporting.
• Delivered a global SAP organizational design for Putnam Investments with 22 legal entities and multiple regional GAAP reports.
• Developed a SAP Blueprint for FICO related business processes at Putnam Investments
• Led to completion the Stanley acquisition with B&D.

Confidential

SAP Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led proposal development, including pricing, costing, staffing & margins, for all BoA services RFP’s.
• Directed 12-member SAP proposal team in responding to a $278MM global financial transformation RFP.
• Led a SAP technical upgrade for Confidential
• Senior member of the global financial template development team for Confidential
• Led a proposal response team for Confidential
• Led a SAP FICO Blueprinting team for Valero Energy
• Led a design and architecture team for a $400M RFP to include business intelligence/data acquisition/storage/entity-relationship modeling at Confidential of America.
• Led SAP Blueprinting for FICO.SD/PP/MM at a French cosmetics company
• SAP PM for a technical infrastructure upgrade at The Wrigley Company
• Directed a SAP process transformation for Aptar implementing best practices
• SAP PM for ERP implementation at York HVAC
• As HP’s Client Partner for technology services, presided over $100MM in annual services to the Confidential .
• Forged relationships with Confidential ’s senior technical & business stakeholders, as well as presenting new products/services offerings and a strategic approach to BoA expense management/risk mitigation.
• Led Confidential IT transformation, reducing Data Center locations from 138 to 64 and expenses 61%.
• Decreased BoA’s operational risk by managing smooth migration of ID system to RFID program, cutting asset loss $46MM.
• Devised strategy & implementation roadmap for BoA’s proposed global financial process transformation program.

Confidential

CONSULTING ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Responsibilities:

• SAP PM for Business One implementation at US-sub of a Swiss Reinsurance company
• Employed industry principles to develop accurate IP/business process models.
• Won pivotal deals with Confidential, Allstate & UMB with price competitive offers.
• Doubled services sales, to $38MM from $19MM.