• Treasury Team: Review and improve process and solution design on all areas of the treasury applications, testing and training.
• Hands-on configuration, support, design improvement reviews of current processes.
• Cash.Banking EBS, TAX/VAT SAF-T compliant (Europe) Money Market, Securities, FOREX), IHC (eIHB, PoBehalf), Payment Factory, Fidessa conversion to XML, interface, failed edi, Idocs. Supporting issues in over 25+ countries.

Countries: Japan Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Russia, UK, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, France and USA

• Design and configure BCM STP banking solution Including go live support and ticket resolution.
• Design /implement FSCM Treasury Risk, Cash and Intercompany Loans, Debt Management (via Money Market).
• Wrote BRD for stakeholder signoff, Functional Spec, testing scripts and UAT workshops with all teams
• Oversee Sales, Procurement for integration alignment for processes solution/impact
• Responsible for EBS design to ensure all companies are using EBS with prior advice on strategic CoA re-alignment
• Support BAU tickets for FSCM and FICO Month End Closing and Reporting (TAX/VAT, SAF-T Europe compliant)

Countries: Switzerland, Taiwan, China, US, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Portugal, UK (Joint Ventures) and Liechtenstein
SHL moved their head office in Hong Kong to Zug Switzerland and closing of HK office.

• Involved in redesign of CoA (short/long-term strategy) using SAP Best Practice templates, testing and training
• Advice and setup of Treasury, Money Markets, Securities, FOREX, Cash Mgmt Banking solution, Rev, Recognition
• Involved in all decision making in HANA including Legal & Fiscal advice as well as technical/functional designs
• Advice on reporting tools for consolidation and the setup of JV as well as Liechtenstein

GE takeover of Alstom required a new Chart of Accounts across the global company and various lines of GE business (Power, Water, Healthcare). This meant that consolidation was in Oracle (HFM and other legacy systems) but the main source of operations was in new updated Alstom SAP system, including PS, SD, SDasCO, MM, PM PP, BW, Concur, ARM, BCM and BPC. Ensure standardisation company wide
Four main areas of responsibilities – Treasury, SLO custom design, CO-PC and Master Data improvement/consistency

• Treasury impact solution design of companies that are to be aligned within the template
• Supporting globally all the treasury and Cash Management teams, including workshops, advice and solutions
• TAX/VAT, SAF-T Europe compliant changes Cleansing of GL & FICO master data inconsistencies and creating manuals for Level 3 support and wrote guides
• Custom design fields built and led all finance solution – automation and manual posting
  (adding custom fields) for reporting requirements impacting the new CoA - General Ledger
  
  • Trading Partner (inter and intracompany)
  • Reference x2 (Treasury, Cash Management EBS solution) and (Order Fulfilment relating to Power business)
  • Product Line (with or without Project System)
  • Project Code (with or without Project System)
  • Geography (revenue) (with or without Project System)
• Involved in the System Landscape Optimisation (SLO) between Alstom (SAP) GE (Oracle) for codeblock
• Product Costing support, alignment globally with test script design for UAT and regression
• Heavily involved in SD, MM, PP MRP, BW ensuring design solution processes, reporting was aligned
• Knowledge transfer to Level 2 (3rd party support) and level 3 demo, training technical and functional
• ASC 606 (Revenue Recognition) January 2018 Go-Live Jan

Involved in the original design phase 1. Requested back on the project phase 3 as complex issues arose Migrating from ERP to S/4 HANA Simple Finance – Germany, Portugal, France, UK, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine USA, India, China+++

Main duties – EMEA – Hands-on

• Manage timelines and project scope
• Review current ERP processes sales, purchasing and provide any document gap analysis to finance
• Plan process mapping workshops with SME and plan sign-off for review board
• Advisory Classic GL to NewGL (HANA) subsidiary companies Nespresso
• Prepare knowledge transfer workshops integration teams (FSCM, Treasury, Hedging, Credit, BCM)
• Prepare solution documents (blueprint, functional and technical documentation)
• Report weekly status progress to project managers and monthly stakeholder meetings
• Work with on/offshore teams to build solution, train and check functional/technical configuration
• Prepare all test plans / scripts – ensuring all FX rates, tax/VAT across SD and MM, MRP, PPE2E scripts
• Work alongside data migration and master data teams to ensure solution alignment
• Review all training materials for sign-off and run training workshops
• Provide post go-live support 2016 Europe and 2017 USA

Finance Solution scope

• Treasury, Securities, Forex, Money Market, IHC phase 1, Controls and Compliance, Cash and Liquidity
• Credit Management (BP, segments rules, group, scores risk class, score range)
• Profitability Analysis, Product Costing designs Europe and N America
• Travel Management, Shared Services, Concur, Planning and Budgeting
• General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Payable and financial closing, Asset Accounting, Real Estate
• Fiori User Interfaces - SAP-Simple-Finance-Accounting-Dashboard-Fiori

Day-to-day Activities

• Configuration global template, compliance and auditing of financial systems, policies, and processes
• Updating technical and functional specification documents
• Incident diagnosis and resolution, incident prevention controls procedures and root cause analysis
• Change request: requirements, quality assurance

MAG involves 3 main airports Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands were moving from Oracle to SAP. UK wide with JV in USA. Including BW, BPC, ARIBA, Concur, Credit Management, Collections and Disputes

Lines of Business covered:

Passenger Aviation, Property, Business and General Aviation, Retail, Airport Lounges, Cargo Service and MAG USA (JV)

Working for the Head of Treasury in MAG

• Joined the project to ensure critical gaps/reporting requirements for Go-Live were on schedule
• Reviewed and updated functional and technical specs
• Provide knowledge transfer to all Treasury Finance teams across all lines of business to understand changes from Oracle to SAP including critical reporting to meet local and BPC consolidation requirements (BW & BPC)
• Provide a deep understanding for MAG business leads to understand requirements (main Treasury)

Covered the following areas

• All business workshops, SD, MM, Finance including Month End Reporting and Consolidation
• New General Ledger setup (including master data)
• FSCM (Treasury), Cash and liquidity (including Memo Records), credit Management, Collections and Disputes Banking, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS)
• Ariba/AP, Assets, Project System and Investment Management
• Testing, UAT, supporting super users by use of specially designed training and demo sessions

Involved in the original design phase 1. Requested back on the project phase 3 as complex issues arose Migrating from ERP to S/4 HANA Simple Finance – Germany, Portugal, France, UK, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine USA, India, China+++

Main duties – EMEA – Hands-on

• Manage timelines and project scope
• Review current ERP processes sales, purchasing and provide any document gap analysis to finance
• Plan process mapping workshops with SME and plan sign-off for review board
• Advisory Classic GL to NewGL (HANA) subsidiary companies Nespresso
• Prepare knowledge transfer workshops integration teams (FSCM, Treasury, Hedging, Credit, BCM)
• Prepare solution documents (blueprint, functional and technical documentation)
• Report weekly status progress to project managers and monthly stakeholder meetings
• Work with on/offshore teams to build solution, train and check functional/technical configuration
• Prepare all test plans / scripts – ensuring all FX rates, tax/VAT across SD and MM, MRP, PPE2E scripts
• Work alongside data migration and master data teams to ensure solution alignment
• Review all training materials for sign-off and run training workshops
• Provide post go-live support 2016 Europe and 2017 USA

Finance Solution scope

• Treasury, Securities, Forex, Money Market, IHC phase 1, Controls and Compliance, Cash and Liquidity
• Credit Management (BP, segments rules, group, scores risk class, score range)
• Profitability Analysis, Product Costing designs Europe and N America
• Travel Management, Shared Services, Concur, Planning and Budgeting
• General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Payable and financial closing, Asset Accounting, Real Estate
• Fiori User Interfaces - SAP-Simple-Finance-Accounting-Dashboard-Fiori

Day-to-day Activities

• Configuration global template, compliance and auditing of financial systems, policies, and processes
• Updating technical and functional specification documents
• Incident diagnosis and resolution, incident prevention controls procedures and root cause analysis
• Change request: requirements, quality assurance

SBD is a world-leading provider of Tools & Storage, Commercial Electronic Security, Engineered Fastening System/Solutions, Hospital & Healthcare, Pipeline Services and Infrastructure Products
Reporting to IT management, project manager, global process owners and stakeholders. In the absence of Project Manager, my responsibilities were to act as PM for decision making

Main duties (for internal project solutions)

• Review current processes for process improvements ensuring SAP Best Practice for process mapping
• Provide SAP solutions for SBD internal projects in the form of BRDs to Review Board
• Project planning of the solutions passed by Review Board to rollout out globally
• Writing Test Plans (HPQC), Test Scripts and training/supporting all teams in the new solutions
• Run training sessions for new solutions and provide management specialised training across Europe
• Managing application and offshore development teams to guide/train in the support solution
• Prepared impact assessment / disaster recovery reports

Solution scope / Day-to-day Activities

• S/4 HANA– Advisory review/assessment for 2017 Class GL to NewGL (ERP or HANA) – Decision HANA
• Product Costing Hands-on Configuration to implement the SAP Product Costing new solution:
  
  • Reviewed AS-IS setup of the 10 year heavily customised SBD costing solution.
  • Sandbox copy of production to clean-up material master data and setup pilot solution/demo
  • Removed all custom programs/tables that were setup and replaced with standard SAP Costing
  • Provided gap analysis, design and led the configuration and implementation of Product Costing
  • Provided solution that is scaleable across all business units of SBD in Europe, USA and India
  • Ran workshops across business units, including Finance, MM, SD, MRP, PP and BW Team Leads
• Europe Treasury, Cash Management and Bank Transformation project: Consolidation of all banking
  • Provided gap analysis, design and lead the configuration and implementation of Treasury
  • Prepare BRD to review board, project plan, resource and ensure functional/technical alignment
  • Review and close banks officially to use the standard SBD main banks (unless business case)

• Asset Accounting
  • Provided solution across Europe to migrate Assets from spreadsheet to SAP Asset Accounting
• Profitability Analysis – including enhancement for BW
  • Reviewed G2N structure, pricing conditions/value fields, other value flows and master data for BW
• Tax/VAT (FI/SD/MM): A/c Assignment, Ariba, Material Management/CO-PC, mapping UNSPSC to GL
• Credit Management (BP, risk class, score range, segments rules, group, scores), Issue resolution (incoming tickets) CCA, PCA, IC/Purchasing/Billing, Concur, AR, AA Banking, PA and PC
• Vistex design support through to testing and training Sales, Procurement and Ariba

SAP ISRAEL AND FRANCE – SAP FICA BUSINESS ANALYST - CLALIT HEALTHCARE SERVICES

• Review all 3rd party project documentations, blueprints, functional and technical specifications
• Document SAP Best Practice, compliance and process improvements – 15 recommended 12 passed

2014: SAP BPC TRAINING PROJECT MANAGER - MARKS AND SPENCER – RESCUE PROJECT

• Reviewed/implemented new plan for stakeholder sign-off. Prepared materials required for deadline

Würth Itensis is a full-service provider and supports their sister company Würth Group of North America (WUGONA) as well as external markets in the field of IT infrastructure and IT outsourcing Working with IT Management, PMO, Application Support, Stakeholders in Switzerland and USA

• Design and lead the E2E Banking Solution for customers’ electronic bank statements in USA
• Project planning, interviewing resources (FICO, SWIFT, Interfaces, ABAP) and manage budgets
• Liaise /align directly with HSBC, Bank of America, JP Morgan & Wells Fargo (BAI/MTXXX)
• Provide training solution, process mapping strategy and user documentation for project handover
• Zero balance sweeping Daily Cash Pooling, multi-cash pool structures and customer interest calculation
• Update Customer Bank Statements using SAP Smartforms
• Project support in January 2015 for month-end closing and community support for users
• Treasury, FX, Financial Instruments/Products, Market Risk Analyzer, Credit Management
• Assess the current landscape and security setup and document findings prior to project (liabilities)

One of the World’s largest suppliers of unsaturated polyester resin for composites. Working alongside stakeholder, PMO, IT Management of HP, PM of Reichhold and customers

Main duties: (AP, AR, CCA, PCA, IO, Treasury-FX. Financial Instruments and BCM)

• Advisory, Classic GL to NewGL ERP – decision NewGL – HANA Simple Finance not all modules ready
• Provide solution for the SEPA legal compliant 2014 and Treasury/Cash Banking Solution
• SME/lead to teams in USA and offshore developers providing technical / functional advice
• Review and sign-off Business Blueprint to ensure SAP Best Practice legal and compliance
• Implementation: SAP Bank Communication Management (SEPA compliance by February 2014)
• Implementation: PI, SWIFT Net network to ING and BMG Bank (Netting system)
• Implementation: Treasury-TM, MM, Credit Risk, digital signature and digital envelope
• Ensure bank and file format setup aligns to new BAI/MTXXXs sign-off. Use HPQC for test scripts
• Supported UAT, Go-Live and on-going training and review of training materials vs solution

Relocated to Switzerland for a permanent position with Actavis for a 25-country global implementation from their new office in Switzerland. Within 2.5 years the company merged with Watson Pharmaceutical USA. Working alongside Global Director of ERP, PMO, Change, HR, Stakeholders, and IT Management streams for weekly/monthly reporting updates.

Main duties: NewGL, Assets, EBS, Intercompany, Rev Recognition, Credit, Profitability and Product Costing

• Classic GL to NewGL upgrade decision and gap analysis for reporting equivalent
• Develop business blueprint and project planning of new Core Centre in Switzerland
• Run workshops in each country on new processes of the Core solution (50% travel)
• Sign-off business blueprint with global and local process owners and finalise pilot system
• Interview resources after 3rd party consultancy established
• Run fit-gap workshops for legal and compliance across Europe including consolidation (EC-CS)
• Maintain and govern the Core Model (SAP ECC6) and its solution
• Oversee finance 3rd party teams, offshore resources and internal teams (50 people)

Integration:

PP, SD, MM/WM, COGNOS, BI/BW, MRP, PP, Concur, SDW (Pricing system) and US, Hyperion

Project Scope (sole responsibility for Core pilot system setup from scratch)

• Treasury (FSCM) Re-design old IT2 Treasury system to new FSCM Corporate Treasury setup; Treasury Transaction Manager – MM – short to medium-term investments/borrowing liquid funds-Cash Management) ZB daily Sweeping, FX, Hedging, SWIFT, In-House Cash,
• Concur feeds to ERP notification, FX Rates and SEPA compliant
• Product Costing design and led the costing solution from current non-SAP setup to CO-PC
• Credit Management – (BP, risk class, score range, segments rules, group, scores)
• Profitability Analysis (G2N), Credit Management solution
• Master Data Governance (MDG) provided all finance and MM data objects
• CoA – review/ aligned reporting structure with global owners, GL, Cost centre and profit centre
• AP/VIM, Intercompany – purchasing, billing, PoS, Tax account determination of FI, MM, SD, IC reconciliation, Month-End and Year-End Closing
• Master data mapping of HFM/COGNOS with SAP EC-CS and BW for consolidation
• BCM and BPC implementation Phase 3.
• Oversee technical / functional implementation of PSCD/TRM (healthcare sister company)

UK, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, France, Turkey, Brazil, Switzerland, Denmark, China, Canada, India+++

Main duties

• Working across many divisions to provide solutions and country phased releases
• Provide solution to Portfolio Divestment Project, Buyer of de-scoped GSAP system
• Working with GSAP central team for project alignment and releases
• Sign-off business blueprint with global and local process owners
• Assisting in the data migration validation and loading and cutover plans
• Supporting customers in Aviation, Retail, Engineering (incl TSW)
• Supporting SSC in Malaysia with the new process updates and template releases

Integration: SD, MM, PP, MRP, PS, PM, BW, CSC and HR

• Portfolio Divestment (SX/NS) De-scope, design, prototype, build solutions and test functionality to support the business processes from the current GSAP Solution for Shell systems to the new buyer system in Europe. Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, FSCM treasury Cash Management, FX Rates, tax determination/maintenance. Supported General Ledger, Intercompany AP/VIM, AR, AA,
• Classic GL to NewGL for the Divestment
• RTR / OTC e-banking interface to Nordea bank with file format MTXXX
• Project System (CAPEX investment projects) new project setup and testing
• Data objects validation/sign/off for uploading to new system

• USA, India, China, Jordan, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Africa+
• Reporting to Program Director of Ericsson and sole responsibility of project in his absence.

Main duties

• Upgrade Classic GL to New GL – Go Live Jan 2006
• Overseeing multiple small to medium internal projects; GL, AR, AP, CO-PC, CO-PA, PS solution
• Travelling to various countries to conduct process change workshops for Template release
• Overseeing teams in Europe, USA, Canada and India (40)

Integration, Workflow, SD, MM, PM, PP, MRP, SD, QM, PM, BW, CSC, Concur, OCR, eBuyer and BPC

• Group Treasury and Cash Management / Banking Consolidation for IHC (2009) payment factory setup
• Product Costing updates for new core deployment release
• Profitability Analysis new releases and maintenance and Intercompany purchasing and billing
• Sole responsibility for the Global Asset Class alignment, phased project to meet legal and fiscal requirements across 30 countries working alongside process owners
• Venezuela Currency change –Bolivares (VEB) to Bolivares Fuerte (VEF). - Alongside SAP Germany
• NewGL setup, TAX determination (FI, MM, SD) maintenance, VAT / Excise Duty, reporting
• Ericsson UK Migration/consolidation of the Managed Services Division
• Recommended by IT Director to oversee this critical migration of Ericsson’s UK Managed Services Division (personnel and assets and company alignment to NewGL) into the Ericsson Ltd legal entity in support of a Group wide restructure aimed at achieving entity rationalization resulting in simplified and cost effective fiscal flows and accounting practices.
• Global MUS Template support

• Australia, Canada, Brazil, Beijing, Malaysia, India, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, UK and USA
• Reporting and assisting IT Director of Ericsson with sole responsibility of project in his absence.

Main duties

• Migration of newly acquired Marconi Company to Ericsson MUS Template
• Responsible for small to medium size Marconi companies that can be migrated 3-6 months
• Conduct pre-study workshop visits to each country including assessment of Classic GL
• Plan project migration, review testing scripts, cut-over and go-live support
• Ensure legal and Fiscal requirements ae adhered to in each country and align with MUS
• Support Marconi teams (Europe, Canada, India, Beijing)
• Support and manage each country from pre-study to go-live
• Documenting each workshop to discuss plans, solutions and migration

Integration:

CATS, HR, SD, MM, BW, Concur, PP, and OCR (scanning) WF and Ebuyer (online)

Finance responsibilities for migration to Ericsson MUS Template consolidation

• Product Costing analysist and maintenance
• Tax determination (FI, MM, SD), CO-PA uploads for each country
• Treasury and cash Management alignment, Inter-company (reconciliation), ME. YE closing
• Project System setting up new projects

• Second One of the largest media company in USA
• Reporting directly to PM and SMEs to review and update business processes, carrying out testing for ECC5 upgrade. Working with Shared Services Centre across all territories.

Main duties

• Preparation of blueprint for core template – FI, AP, AR, AA, CO-PA and Treasury
• Requirements gathering / GAP Analysis
• Setting up various system activities and projects
• Assisting BW teams in workshops and training
• Finance training of management and end-users across USA and UK
• Legal and Fiscal checklist for business and auditing purposes
• Master data mapping and alignment of finance objects

Reporting to PwC’s Strategic Advisor, Project Management Office (PMO) and Global Business Process owner review and sign-off template for UK.

Workshops / E2E Business Process Mapping

• Performance Management (BW): KPI Reporting and other customised reports
• Financial Management: TAX determination (FI, MM, SD), CCA, PCA, set-up for Partner Affairs
• E2E Tester: Unit/Integration, UAT, string, Integration, Regression
• Engagement Management (SD/MM): Billing, integration with CO-PA and CO-PC

Post go-live support SAP E2E Documentation Encyclopaedia

• Knowledge Transfer to USA (New York)
• Responsibility for directly managing a team to produce a project-wide strategy for PwC’s go-live handover document system (technical/non-technical) known as ‘Prophet Encyclopaedia’ post go-live

• Small project for newly formed company in 1997 – working for the head of bio-chemistry.
• Designed and led the project for clinical trials to be performed in-house from outsourcing company to gain full E2E control of monthly FDA approvals.
• Full course materials written and trained in house teams

• Created template design, managed and planned workshop with the process owners to be able to document all the E2E business processes across all modules for sign-off as part of the GLOBE project.

• Requirements gathering, fit gap analysis, configuration, running workshops to internal and external teams.
• E2E business process mapping of all finance process and writing test plans/scripts to support the solutions