SUMMARY:

• Project Manager / Enterprise Applications Architect: Specializing in Financial Systems Implementations, and global roll outs.
• Excel in liaising business (FP&A) needs and technical resources to achieve on - time, on-budget, and on-spec project completions.
• Able to merge stakeholders needs with business requirements, budgetary restrictions and logistical considerations to meet project deliverables.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Reporting
• BI
• Dashboards ad hoc
• Query
• Databases
• MS Project
• Visio
• Word
• Excel
• Access
• PowerPoint
• SQL Server
• SAP FI-CO
• Concur
• EDI
• ERP
• GLSU
• VIM
• HPSM
• HPQC
• HPPPMC++
• ABAP
• HTML
• BATCH
• R
• C
• VBA
• SQLSDLC
• AGILE
• SCRUM
• SaaS
• ETL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Systems Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Experience working in a global regulated (HIPAA, SOX, GxP) environment
• Led the Concur global rollout for EMEA and the SAP integration.
• Delivered full FI-CO chart of account conversion in support of mergers and acquisitions
• Conducted UAT, and training sessions after new rollouts
• Provided business analysis, document design decisions, reporting standards and hierarchies, and analyzed the as-is and to-be processes
• Led the development of project deliverables gathering business requirements, creating functional design documents, conducting gap analyses, creating report mockups, and conceptual data models
• Ensured the creation of an efficient technical solution that meets all functional business needs by working closely with the architects and developers
• Provided analysis and recommendations regarding data management, technical solutions, and the design of reports and dashboards
• Served as the business relationship manager for finance and compliance
• Worked with executives and senior leaders to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve finance strategic business objectives
• Developed SAP finance strategies to support business scalability, cost reductions, and SOX Compliance
• Delivered a T&E expense solution (Concur), SAP automated AP invoice processing design, Material Ledger Cost Accounting system, product line hierarchy redesign, and business object reporting solution
• Automated T&E and P-Card transaction postings to SAP and the reconciliation processes
• Project managed and delivered P2P Automation utilizing Concur Solutions
• Project managed automation of T&E reimbursements through ADP. A process that reduced error by 100%, accelerated the reimbursement process by 50% and saved $2.3M annually
• Project managed the extension of Concur to the EMEA countries
• Project managed the implementation of Vertex, and integration with SAP
• Supported SAP Integration testing and UAT for the Talecris and Novartis acquisitions
• Project managed the implementation of Business Objects as a reporting tool for T&E, compliance’s Sunshine Act data, and Aggregate Spend
• Delivered the CARS system integration to extend contract pricing for all US sales orders and government reporting for health care compliance (70% of Grifols revenue)
• Currently project managing the rollout of VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) system

,Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as a liaison between business needs and IT support to define business processes and system requirements
• Primary contact for process improvement, production fixes for SAP FI-CO
• Defined business rules based on Logical Data Models that include all required entities, attributes, key groups, and relationships
• In-depth experience analyzing data and creating reports with strong database query experience, working with large and multiple datasets/data warehouse
• Strong statistical, quantitative modeling, and forecasting skills
• Defined substitution and validation rules, and maintained the user exists within SAP
• Assisted with reconciliation for month-end closing and year-end closing
• Designed and developed a database to keep track of service requests, due dates for filings of business licenses, sales taxes and property taxes deadlines. It reduced the delinquency in filings by 99%, resulted in a cost saving of $1.2M annually, and provided senior management with real time KPIs
• Automated the tax audit process to save a total of 40 hours per month
• Created queries, custom reports, and macros in SAP and SQL
• Designed and developed a dashboard using VBA for Excel for the financial analysts
• Identified trends and patterns, facilitated and/or conducted root cause analysis, recommended solution and alternatives
• Developed a program in ABAP and VBA to automatically upload multiple journal entries from to SAP.

Researcher

Responsibilities:

• Intelligent Systems, Large scale camera networks, and image and video databases
• Automatic Object Recognition, and Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Designed a user interface and manipulated the SDK for custom pan and tilt