SUMMARY:

• Currently working on a major co - innovation project with SAP and a Fortune 500 manufacturing company to build the SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Chemicals industry solution
• 16+ years of experience as an SAP FICO consultant / SAP project manager, through all project phases
• Expertise include AP, Vendor Invoice Management, AR, FSCM, GL, CO, AA, Bank accounting, MM/SD/PS integration with FICO

STRENGTHS:

• Problem-solver
• Analytical
• Great team player

WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential

SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Finance Operations Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work on a major S/4 HANA Cloud co-innovation project between Confidential and SAP to build the next SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Chemicals industry solution
• Scope of involvement includes Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, FSCM (Credit Management, Collections & Dispute) Bank Management, Cash Operations, General Ledger and Master Data Management
• Lead Finance Operations team including functional and technical resources
• Leverage SAP Activate methodology to facilitate Fit-To-Standard workshop sessions with Confidential stakeholders
• Provide feedback to SAP on latest S/4HC releases through testing and client requirement gathering
• Support master data cleanup and harmonization of current SAP landscape to ensure smooth transition to S/4

SAP Finance Master Data Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drove data cleanup initiatives to reduce unnecessary master data records and associated analysis
• Managed teams compose of data SMEs, SAP functional consultants and ABAP resources
• Harmonized data records and data management processes across geographical regions
• Defined and rolled-out new Finance data governance strategy
• Trained Finance community on new data processes, governance and guiding principles
• Led teams through data reconciliation activities

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage and be fully accountable for multiple concurrent OSS projects
• Ensure schedule, cost and quality objectives are met
• Use hybrid approach of agile and waterfall for delivering projects
• Coordinate Confidential and vendor teams
• Deal with a high number of internal and external stakeholders

SAP Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led five teams through the entire project lifecycle, to deliver agreed upon scope, time and budget
• Managed planning, monitoring, and other aspects of the project
• Managed stakeholders’ expectations and responsible for customer satisfaction regarding project deliverables
• Establishes clear ownership for project tasks and ensure team members have the tools needed
• Tracks progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately
• Assesses project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals
• Proactively communicates project status, issues & risks to management
• Conducts regular status meetings with stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder’s needs and requirements continuously in view

Confidential

BI project manager

Responsibilities:

• Led testing, deployment and warranty activities of 80+ BI reports (SIT and pilot testing)
• Managed team of 30+ resources composed of Accenture, Confidential and vendor employees (onshore / offshore)
• Was the primary point of contact to the business reporting leads (director, senior director level)
• Communicated status to program manager and senior leadership stakeholders (VPs, SVPs)
• Implemented special action plan to prevent scope creep
• Supported the development of a Testing Center of Excellence offshore
• Coordinated post go-live change requests and enhancements from requirement gathering to delivery

User Acceptance Testing lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the preparation and the execution of 800+ UAT scripts and led 50+ business testers / 12 business UAT leads
• Delivered project on-time/budget
• Kept scope under control
• Created UAT plan in compliance with Confidential QA standards and methodology
• Managed and communicated the overall UAT updated schedule and status on a daily basis
• Presented weekly status to program manager and business VPs/SVPs

Accounts payable application architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assessed existing AP processes and technology through interviews
• Created a roadmap with immediate and long-term improvement initiatives
• Delivered workplan, kick-off materials, stakeholders’ matrix, focus group schedule, gap analysis / opportunity list, high-level roadmap and order of magnitude costs/benefits business case
• Developed a roadmap and a business cases for alleviating deficiencies and driving cost. The quality of the deliverable was recognized by the client leadership team
• Prepared kick-off materials and held kick-off meeting with all stakeholders
• Collect data for gap analysis (scanning, ERP capabilities)
• Identify interviewees and interview schedule
• Audited the accounts payable as-is solution (processes and technology)

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of the SAP functional solution in North America. The solution included around 70 high-level design documents and 400 SAP RICEFWs. The budget for this project piece was over $10M
• Led a team of 50 members (Accenture + client) located in North America and Switzerland
• Monitored completion of SAP build activities (configuration & development)
• Was responsible for the creation and execution of a dedicated Knowledge Transfer plan between the delivery team and the production support team which included 300+ deliverables and was performed over 4 weeks
• Supported data conversion and cutover activities. Created plan and procedure for the SAP process teams during data migration and cutover phases, clarifying teams’ roles a responsibilities and plan execution steps
• Provided guidance to UAT lead, supported the creation of the plan and schedule, was the primary UAT escalation point
• Performed language assessment for SAP master data objects (English / Spanish)
• Responsible for post all go-live support activities for the site of Jacksonville during the warranty phase

Testing lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated several iterations of the month-end process which included 1500+ tasks performed by 240 testers
• Held lessons learned sessions after each testing iteration to streamline month-end activities even further
• Build and maintain a dedicated MS project plan to monitor the progress, identify responsibilities and dependencies of all closing activities
• Designed and created JV templates to automate most of manual financial entries, saving weeks or work across business units
• Documented and rationalized end to end data flows for 100+ month-end reports
• Reported progress, issues and risks to Finance VP and program manager

SAP finance data advisor / test lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed 100+ SAP FI/CO related master data objects and deliverables
• Supported data conversion (ensure compliance to data standards for all finance and controlling master data)
• Planned and led the overall data testing effort for 150+ testers
• Coordinated the Product Costing effort at a plant as part of the business simulation effort
• Created language strategy documents detailing SAP capabilities and limitations around language management, recommendations for language management as part of the Confidential SAP roll-out