SUMMARY

• Leading implementation teams for VIM within entire Procure to Pay digital transformation process, focused not just on Accounts Payables but the wider Procurement and Finance integrations
• Extensive VIM customizing including PO and Non - PO scenarios; Ariba Network, Paper, Email and EDI Input channels; posting, parking and approval workflows
• Implementation of enhancements to solution through ABAP development and custom workflows including custom business rules, custom reporting functions, non-standard input channels and integration to other legacy systems. Development of custom approval workflows developed to replace standard VIM approval workflows
• Implementation of OCR solutions such as ICC and Kofax as well as integration with outsourced scanning providers. Installation and customizing to improve data capture from paper and electronic documents
• Planning and execution of unit, integration and system integration tests and related reporting and resolution fixes. Assistance with supporting client UAT testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Ecosystems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside Confidential and SAP sales teams to position VIM and Intelligent Capture to customers and to win sales
• Develop marketing material, prepare customer success stories, host product advisory councils and facilitate user groups to support expanding share of the market
• Research overall market and understand external forces and industry trends influencing Confidential ’s position within the market
• Direct product management on future direction of the products in line with research and customer feedback

Confidential

VIM Stream Lead

Responsibilities:

• Execution of detailed requirements capture and design workshops with key stakeholders from client, vendor and Service Integrator (SI)
• Responsible for the creation of detailed design documentation including system design and functional specifications for over 25 RICEFW objects
• Implementation of PoC solution in order to demo integration points between the various technical components ahead of design sign-off
• Configuration and testing of VIM within the S/4 HANA system in line with best practices and approved design
• Technical integration of Ariba Buyer and Fieldglass procurement systems for bi-directional transfer of data to and from S/4 HANA and VIM
• Enhancements to VIM Fiori apps to integrate directly Ariba Buyer for blocked invoice resolution
• Custom approval workflow using non-standard Chart of Authority for approvals using customer hierarchy defined in existing ECC landscape
• Implementation of Central / Satellite VIM with cross platform S/4 HANA and ECC integration
• Technical upgrade during project to latest S/4 HANA 1909 and VIM 16.3 components

Confidential

Senior VIM / Document Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of new email input channel to receive invoices directly from automated email inbox
• Enhancements to OCR solution in ICC to automatically validate more of the data being read from incoming invoices and flag discrepancies
• Day-to-day hands on knowledge transfer with junior VIM consultants as the team transitioned through personnel
• Prepare template rollout for next wave of countries to go-live with VIM solution - Singapore and USA

Confidential

Senior Accounts Payables Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Europe template for Accounts Payables solution encompassing VIM and SAP Payment Engine
• Localization of solution for 1st country rollout in Norway and prepared solution for subsequent countries
• Responsible for team of 5 including additional consultants, developers and business analysts
• 6 month extensive testing of solution with multiple rounds of UAT and Day in the Life testing cycles. Included extensive integrated scenarios with Retail and Wholesale project teams
• Focused on optimizing business process and integration between Finance and Procurement teams, including moving 3-Way match responsibility across the organization and introducing Supplier Management concepts
• Custom payment approval workflows with integration with SAP Payment Engine to ensure 4-Eye principal on payment proposal and payment runs
• Detailed GR/IR account monitoring

Confidential

Imaging Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Confidential Process Tracking System (PTS) which is a VIM competitor across two customer projects
• Complete design workshop execution, functional and technical documentation creation, installation and configuration, testing and support roles
• For Primetals, parallel output of invoice data sent to Oracle reporting ERP
• For ITT, advice on how to best to store electronic copies of invoices as this was a completely new digital transformation program for them
• Migration of FI/CO documents from legacy SAP systems to new central SAP system ensuring business rules meant only valid data was migrated and ensuring relevant content is accessible after migration
• Designed and built interface between BOBJ/WEBI and SAP Portal that allowed for the storage of electronic reports in a central ECC based archive that could be accessed from SAP Portal / Sharepoint. Estimated savings of $100,000 year from the reduction in printing costs plus brought these reports in line with their document retention policy

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Confidential Employee File Management (EFM) solution for head office with extension to scanning in Marston’s operated pubs across UK which reduced employee hiring times from 5 days to 0.5 days
• Custom OCR solution utilizing Confidential Capture Center (OCC) for scanning of signed delivery notes, capturing SAP delivery number and linking scanned document to SAP record
• Custom solutions for batch download and batch archive documents. Solutions delivered at a fraction of the cost of 3rd Party solutions and minimal additional IT overhead whilst matching client requirements 100%. Solutions built using ABAP plus .Net development, integrated through SAP NetWeaver
• Implemented EFM as part of a shared service center implementation for European employees
• Installed and configured scanning software and hardware utilizing Confidential Enterprise Scan and high speed Canon scanners. Advised on best practices for scanning historic data into SAP
• Implemented Confidential Archiving and Document Access (ADA) for custom archiving solution for Inchcape to store all outbound documents within the SAP DBM 7.0
• Pre-Sales and proof of concept activity for Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) and SAP Data Archiving

Confidential

SAP Document Management Solutions Lead

Responsibilities:

• Ran workshops with key business and IT stakeholders to understand legacy systems, gather requirements for SAP solution and propose solution architecture
• Extensive prototyping of solutions and presentation of these to mid/senior stakeholders and management for approval
• Configured SAP DMS for mapping of pipeline and valve objects and their related engineering diagrams and supporting documentation
• Custom UI for handheld devices in the field utilizing ESRI for GIS visualization and Syclo for downloading of Work Orders from SAP alongside documents from SAP DMS