SUMMARY

• Technology leader with proven experience focused on providing technology leadership, strategy, and operational efficiency aligned with corporate goals and objectives. ERP/SAP system migration expertise, process re - engineering, and financial reporting simplification projects. Focus on overhauling the IT cost structures of a company’s business process innovation, Digitalization, and Outsourcing.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Strategic IT Planning & Roadmaps Large Global ERP Implementations
• Project Management Outsourcing & Vendor Management
• Process Re-Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Melville, NY

Delivery Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of the Centralized Web based Blackline System modules for Task Manager, Account Reconciliation, and Akritiv Process Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool. Facilitating several project plans as well as assisting with resource allocation. Working with different implementation departments on balancing tasks, timelines, and project resources to manage the Blackline project scopes, goals, timelines, and track deliverables using appropriate tools.
• As part of the Leading Beauty Forward project on the Record to Report work stream, my achievements have been to transition transactional type work from the retained organization to the outsourcer Genpact in India with 100% success rate.
• Solution Identification: Recently completed various “as is” and “to be analysis” to transition Master Data and SAP reporting processes (RTR) to Genpact in India.
• Process Requirements gathering: We performed functional and non-functional requirement gathering as well as project planning around SAP system security, hosting, environment, and disaster recovery.
• Security System Strategy: Model and implemented the SAP security design and end-user structure for over 60 different North America system applications.
• SAP Chart of Account Master Data: Assessed, Configured and engaged, the transition of the complete process to the offshore Genpact team.

Executive Director / Financial Compliance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the SAP Budget to Report Global Center of Excellence including collaboration with Subject Matter Experts and participation in the B2R Regional Process Councils, SAP B2R workshop meetings as well as the coordination of the various Communities of Practice. Participation in special projects on the B2R Global Reporting, KPI monitoring and SAP B2R Reporting committee.
• Implemented the SAP Global Financial Variance Commentary tool for North America, APAC and EMEA Regions with regional affiliates to provide Balance sheet and Profit n Loss variance commentaries.
• Orchestrated and managed the SAP reporting standardization project, which lead to a reduction of system related reports by 50%. The Estee Lauder reporting catalog in CPM went from 564 to 214, in SAP RTR from 160 to 42 core reports and in SAP BI RTR from 127 to 101.
• Implemented the SAP Corporate Governance and Reporting Compliance review committee.

Confidential, New York, NY

Associate Director / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented ERP SAP ECC 6.0, both finance and controlling, SRM, Human Capital Management and Public Sector Management modules for Funds and Grants. Command the senior leadership role of the SAP implementation team with a mix of SITA consultants and Cornell employees to complete the project within the stipulated timeframe.
• Coordinated and managed the cutover plans for financial integration of legacy data and standardize business processes across company boundaries according to SAP standards.
• Implemented SAP SRM e-Procurement system in four months with a successful go-live of the Sic-Quest procurement vendor.
• Implemented the post-go-live hyper-care support centers as well as training the financial accounting end users.
• SAP Operations team to ensure all required General Ledger processes were scheduled and executed.

Confidential, Port Washington, NY

ERP SAP Finance and Controlling Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Full life cycle implementation of SAP’s Qualified Rapid Retail Practice. Worked with a tightly integrated team of experienced professionals specializing in mid-market SAP Retail Implementation. Areas of responsibilities include SAP FICO configuration, customization, design, and development. Mentoring and SAP knowledge transfer among team members.
• FICO scope included G/L, A/P, LIV, fixed assets, and integration with the POS system.
• Lead a cross-functional team in evaluating options for managing fixtures and supplies in the SAP system.
• We created all SAP FICO functional requirements as an input to application design as well as architecture, technical and functional design activities.
• Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes.
• Planning and executing data conversion activities as well as Supervising application build, and deploy activities.

Confidential , New York, NY

ERP Financial System Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the ERP SAP Media SDLC implementation actively involved in all phases of design, configuration, iterative testing, conversion planning, training, and support.
• Overall responsibilities include BI, FICO, SD, ISM and BW production support with the management of new SAP upgrades/implementations and system developments.
• Managing eight SAP system analysts and several consultants for projects assigned.
• Evaluated the BI reporting business requirements for 32 different Netherlands companies and implemented the SAP ERP and BI solution for the following modules, FI, AP (using vat tax) AR SD, and R3 reporting in each of those companies.
• SAP FICO Team lead on the implementation of the first full life-cycle SAP IS-Media/Ad Management system. Coordinated the IS Ad Management project team through all phases of implementation.
• Worked very closely with SAP developers to enhance the IS-Media software in order to meet or exceed VNU’s business requirements.