SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience leading and delivering complex business analytic and finance transformation solutions for multinational and domestic companies; Superior communication skills including facilitation, consultation, negotiation and influencing at all levels of an organization within both the business and technology. Served as Project Manager and Lead Architect /Implementer for various projects over the years delivering performance management and reporting solutions (business analysis, consolidations, planning, budgeting, forecasting) in SAP Business Intelligence (BI), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Business Objects (BOBJ).
• Big 4 consulting background and industry experience including consumer products, financial services, banking, insurance, manufacturing, telecom, entertainment and software.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) lead responsible for sales, design and delivery in various services / sector. 
• Design and deliver an enhanced financial management planning on SAP HANA for Client. The planning solution delivered an extensible data model producing capabilities at a detailed level to roll up to a hierarchical level. This is the first time the planning activity was viewed within the BPC environment at a high level and a transaction level made possible by SAP HANA. (Daily Operational Planning)
• Identify a unified, flexible software solution which will integrate with EXTERNAL financial and operational KPIs move the business forward and allow future growth of planning and analysis capabilities. Remove the number of system modifications/enhancements to remain as "out of the box" as possible. Meet the financial directives of phasing out unsupported and legacy applications and increase the ease of ownership by the application administrators software solution being completely hosted.
• Implement a unified financial planning and consolidation data platform including SAP ECC, SAP CUA, (BW 7.4, SAP HANA) and BPC 10 while leveraging the dimensions and applications developed during the program of work. The application development process included a series of interrelated activities required to account, record, report, and analyze business events and financial information.

Confidential

Business Analytics

Responsibilities:

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) lead responsible for Strategy, design and delivery within the financial services sector Clients: Confidential, Confidential
• Designed and delivered an enhanced CFO Merchant 360 degree dashboard and reporting platform using the Agile method on SAP HANA for business intelligence and predictive analytics for Confidential . The reporting platform delivered an extensible financial model producing predictive capabilities as well as insight to consumer trends by merchant and product. This platform allowed, for the first time, the executives to view sales trend, financial data and external data side - by-side across three independent lines of business. - Confidential
• Led an international team in the design and implement of the banking landscape (SAP core Banking, CRM, BPC, and Bank Analyzer) in IBM’s Dallas solution center which supports multiple physical channels (including branch, mobile employees, and self-service) proving business functionality for the SAP Banking Solution components including Front-end and channel devices integrated using SAP software products running on IBM infrastructure.

Confidential

Business Intelligence and Transformation

Responsibilities:

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) lead responsible for sales, design and delivery within the financial services sector.
• Designed and implemented a unified financial planning and consolidation platform including SAP ECC, BW 7.0 and 7.3, and BPC 10 while leveraging the dimensions and applications developed during the program of work. The application development process included a series of interrelated activities required to account, record, report, and analyze business events and financial information
• Led the program of work delivering a planning and financial consolidation platform on SAP BPC 7.5 Netweaver BW 7.3 The financial planning platform included complex revenue planning utilizing actuarial information, drivers based model, capital expenditure models, headcount and allocations development models, currency exchange impacts ultimately providing management and financial reporting in both FSA, IFRS, and GAAP Requirements - Confidential
• Provided subject matter expertise in design considerations for planning and consolidations applications on various client engagements and sales pursuits as client’s transition from legacy systems to the new SAP business planning and consolidations application.

Confidential

SAP BPC Practice

Responsibilities:

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) director responsiblity for sales, design and delivery within all client services
• Initiated and led a project with SAP to transform a supply chain company’s budgeting planning and consolidation process by making existing financial and sales protections even stronger to mitigate potential risks and supporting change within their operation using SAP Core systems and SAP Business Planning and Consolidations.
• Activities included defining and standardizing their FP&A processes which included external and internal data gathering, operational reviews for all existing capital projects, SGA costs, cash flow processes, and biweekly forecasting client profitability - This was the first SAP BPC 5.1 sale in the Northeast of the newly acquired Outlooksoft - CGMI
• Invited to lead the design team in the development and delivery of a new strategic management and budget formulation process and system using results-based management framework as the performance methodology and SAP ECC, BW and BPC 7.0 as the technology platform This client has the responsibility for the stewardship of resources and program implementation and has been mandated by its member states to transform and deliver transparency of information and significantly improve delivering benefits to the community it serves. This project will be the single largest transformation projects undertaken by this client in its long distinguished history - Confidential

Confidential

Financial Planning and Operations

Responsibilities:

• Initiated a transformation project of Financial and Sales protections to support change within the client’s operation. The Activities included determining the appropriate process characteristics for a leather manufacturing organization to streamline their financial planning process on a new system OutlookSoft by building connection points between disparate leather manufacturing processes which spanned various countries, currencies and languages.
• Developed solution(s) with our partners, SAP BPC, Thomson, and Microsoft to manage Tax compliance and provisioning with special attention to Fin 48 and FAS 109 by creating new financial models and data transformation methods leading to the creation of a Tax intelligence platform.