SUMMARY:

• Intensive course on ‘Management Insights’ organised by CRAC via UMIST and U of M; received award for team management
• Represented University of Manchester as student tutor to the local community
• SAP R/3 Certified Consultant FICO (Release 4.0)
• Month end and yearend financial statements (AR, AP, P&L, BS) with PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Creating financial proposals for multinational clients (e.g. Nortel, Millipore) with PwC
• Familiar with IFRS and GAAP standards
• Design of financial business processes
• Use of a range of accounting software JDE, Hyperion, Exact, SAGE instant accounting
• Created and maintained Networks, WBS elements and Activities
• Planned and Budgeted activities
• Settling of WBS elements in relation to AuC’s
• Cost Planning for WBS elements and Networks
• Resolved Payroll issues surrounding wage types, NI contributions, SSP and legislation surrounding payroll
• HR: Personnel Administration, Training and Events
• HR: Ad Hoc Query reporting, Org Structure assignments
• Created and released Sales Orders
• Maintained pricing condition tables for financial postings
• Delivery and Returns of stock with Goods in Transit.
• Billing and monitoring of Credit Management
• Purchase Requisitions/Orders and its release strategy
• Workflow of release strategy for Purchase Orders
• Goods Receipting (MIGO) and Invoice Receipting (MIRO) of materials
• Maintenance of Material Master
• Motivated and lead project teams whilst monitoring performance
• Assigned clear areas of responsibility, delegating and prioritising appropriately
• Created an environment that recognised mutual support and achievement of goals
• Chairing meetings and covering the published agenda to meet targets

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IBM PC literate, with exposure to UNIX, MS DOS and NT server environmental operating systems/Platforms
• Software use include MS Office, Lotus Notes and statistical packages (e.g. GLIM, Mini tab, Micro tab) and more
• Familiar with programming languages, ‘C’, SQL, PHP, Pascal and FORTRAN 90
• Design and built web enabled database sites for PwC financial outsourcing department for further e - commerce related activities

EMPLOYMENT:

SAP BUsiness support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP technical Support for UK R2R and P2P business role out
• R2R Core Global Trainer (FICO).
• Guide business through the core FICO template and highlight local changes and differences
• Creation of all course materials for FICO - Assessments, Exercises, Slide Packs
• FICO/R2R Courses (Assets, Project Systems, CCA, Banking, Month and Year End, GL Accounting, PCA and COPA)
• Training Tool used for story boarding - Assima and Articulate
• Train the Trainers for each global roll out

SAP BPC team lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP BPC Work Stream Lead.
• Gathering Business requirements for Asset Management BPC/BI/ECC
• Gathering Business requirements from Car parts system (BoC) and relating to the company budgeting tool from a revenue and cost perspective
• Requirements gathering, implementing and testing reports for Finance and Manpower
• Month, Quarter, Annual closing and budgeting of Finance and Manpower in both BPC and ECC
• Scoping ECC-PS changes to implement a CAPEX and OPEX budgeting solution
• Identifying and planning the primary Asset Costs for budgeting and reporting purposes
• Created and maintained RICEF documentation
• Representing/Leading the best interests of the client (Honda) in relation to what had been delivered by the implementation partner (HCL-AXON)
• Fortnightly Reporting to sponsor (Finance Director) and program manager on project status
• SIT and UAT Lead for BPC and ECC Finance and Manpower.
• Identifying and blueprinting Costs and Revenues for the following processes:
• Travel and Expenses
• Training
• CAPEX and OPEX
• Assets and Disposals
• Utilities (Gas, Water, Electric)
• Secondary Materials ( Paints, Oils & Fluids, Fuels, Sealants)
• Operational Costs - CoS and Revenue on Finished and Semi Finished Goods (Cars and Engines)
• Reporting
• Legacy system interfacing

Sap training manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 5 consultants
• Captured, processed and implemented the training needs analysis and training plan
• Responsible for leading and delivering a timely training program across PP/QM/MM/WM/SD/FICO
• Regular meetings and conference calls with onsite Project Manager and US Sponsors to discuss Materials Delivery Tracker, Training Timetable, Super Users, Change Management, and more

SAP O2C and R2R training and business support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creation of content material for R2R (Banking, Month End and Assets/Int Ord)
• Creation of content material for O2C/FSCM/ (Collections/Disputes/Credit Management/Billing)
• Creation of content material for P2P (AP-Payment Run)
• CBT Recording and documenting SAP transactions for R2R, O2C and P2P
• Regular strategy meetings with client on how to create and deliver training to an ever changing scope and audience

Lead Functional consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business analysis and Data Conversion for Account Receivable
• Responsible for receivables process in 24 legal entities
• Bills of Exchange for Italy, Spain, France, Greece (Post-dated cheques)
• Account Assignments processing and configuration for AR/SD
• AR Layouts and Outputs (Dunning, Customer Statements, Invoices, BoE’s)
• Incoming Bank Statement and Automatic Customer Payments (Direct Debits)
• Coordination with Business on issues of data conversion for Master and Transactional data; Customer Master (60K + items) and Customer Open items (300K + items)
• Quality tracking of process steps via HPQC

Finance business analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business analysis and Blue Print workshops for Finance and Controlling; Scoping Icelandic
• Requirements
• Created and maintained RICEF documents
• GL Classic and New (Account grouping and rolling up into Corporate reporting - Cognos)
• Asset Accounting
• Sales and Receivables process and integration
• Purchasing and Payables process and integration
• Banking and EBS interface
• Overhead Costs: Project Systems (WBS elements) and Internal Orders
• Overhead Costs: Cost Centre Accounting and Activities
• Month / Year End and Reporting requirements
• Profit Centre Accounting and Cost Centre Accounting Integration and reporting
• Profitability Analysis - Customer/Product/Market segments costing - based for customer and product strategy
• P&L and Cost element groupings
• Scoping of Master data objects for data migration and Developments in FICO (forms, enhancements and interfaces)
• Creating project template for global organisation structure
• GAP analysis

SAP business analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create Problem Statement identifying issues and suggesting methods of improvement between Support team and Business
• Initialise and implement a process of reconciliation between the financial and accounting systems for the Foods and General Merchandise parts of the business
• Cleansing of financial reports and reports systems (Weekly, Monthly Quarterly and Annually) to implement consistent and uniformed reporting across the business; top down and bottom up
• Create and present detailed Business Plan and approach for implementation of retraining, and implementation of suggested solutions for reconciliation

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT - FICO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead FICO consultant on Netherlands integration project - AR, AP, GL, AA, BL, PA, PC, PCA, CCA, OM
• Workflow and IDOCs for Purchasing and Intercompany processing (transfer of Semi and Finished goods between plants)
• Logistics Execution from a FICO view point i.e. Management of stock movements and Exchange of information with Suppliers and make to order production
• Crown Paints Disentanglement project: Identify FICO data for deletion from Crown system in line with legal ruling for separation of Crown paints and ICI
• Integration of Alabastine (Polycell) into existing company code and obtain financial statements for Alabastine via PCA
• Merge/Integrate Alabastines GL to Akzo Nobels existing GL (i.e. Chart of Accounts)
• Merge/Adapt/Integrate Alabastines Month and Year End processes with that of Akzo Nobels
• Support existing live countries - India, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, and more
• Investigate and analyse fit of New GL for the purposes of reporting and additional Balance Sheet in an already existing Company Code

SAP TRAINER - FICO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• FICO training: AP, AR, FSCM, GL, BL, EC - PCA, COPA, COPC, Month and Year End
• Tailor FICO training to Super User audience Pan Europe
• Involve and coordinate Super Users in creation of Material, scripts
• Prepare, direct and focus training towards relevant sections of the business
• Prepare a quick and effective training program in the time allotted
• Create Dispute Case from work list
• Manual splitting for Creating a Dispute Case
• Add invoice to Dispute Case
• Block invoice interest
• Display and Change a Dispute Case
• Enter internal note to Dispute case
• Attach document to Dispute case
• Dispute Case history
• Solution to Dispute case
• Mass change to Disputes
• Payment Plan
• Create and Renew a Promise to Pay
• Status and Withdraw of Promise to Pay

SAP FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT AND SUPPORT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Waterstone’s Interfaces: EDI for Billing and Purchase Orders; Capturing of Stock movements in SAP and create outbound interface to CODA
• LIV for book purchases from suppliers: stock in transit and GR based invoicing; revaluation of stock when redundant
• Finance blueprint in finance and interface processes for Waterstone’s
• Project Systems support to Rail section of business (Activities, Networks and WBS elements in relation to product creation and costing)
• Design and implementation of the Confidential business in South Africa and China
• Initial design and build of Waterstone’s finance for Stock processes
• Interface design and build from SAP to CODA and other peripheral finance systems
• Documenting of Processes and design for Waterstone’s, Confidential - South Africa and China
• Support and some design of finance processes and applications for Jaguar
• Implement and oversee Month Quarterly and Year End processing
• Integrate South African Chart of Accounts with the existing Chart of Accounts for that of Jaguar Landrover

Sap SUPPORT AND TRAINING

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Finance Business Process Re-engineering
• Maintenance of SAP authorisations and securities roles and composite roles for FICO
• Maintenance of RICEF documents
• Global FICO training for Europe, Singapore and USA (Miami) and India (Bangalore)
• Attendee Training Plan, Creation and Delivery