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15
years SAP experience across all SAP modules primarily FICO and latest ECC6
New GL ·
Industry
experience in Mining, Chemical, Component, Government Services, Engineering,
FMCG, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Telecommunications ·
SARBOX
(Sarbannes-Oxley) and Auditing aspects of Systems implementations ·
Detailed Technical Overview of ERP Architectures
at Application / Database and Technical level ·
Project implementation experience of FI, CO, SD,
MM, PS and Security ·
Exposure to new SAP product areas of BW, SEM, SRM,
CRM and APO and third party products such as Mercury Test Suite, SAP Central
and Ebydos Invoice Scanning solution. ·
Major Change Program initiative deployed at
several FTSE global companies ·
Systems Testing (Quick test Pro now Quality
Centre) experience in multi platform environments VAX SAP Middleware ·
Change
Control Procedures to ITIL Standards I am a very experienced ERP Financials Lead - across multiple disciplines compounded by in-depth
application and configuration knowledge in Financials and Logistic modules.
Seeing processes from a business functional perspective primarily, I have a
wide appreciation of Integration and the commercial benefits of ERP systems.
Overall I maintain key skills in niche areas of SAP namely Taxation,
Pricing, Product Costing and Profitability reporting. I fully appreciate that a comprehensive IT solution needs
strengthening by sound and reasoned business processes to achieve substantial
business benefits. I also have a keen eye for system integrity in terms of
Architecture and Master Data Strategy and flexing systems to obtain
commercial advantages. This builds on my Chartered Accounting background
(CIMA) and experience across many business solutions. Over the course
of many years, I have contributed significantly to projects from critiquing
business activities to protecting the client interests from the consultancies
they were engaged with. My skills have developed and have been constantly
updated in this fast moving area by partaking in strategic engagements and
contact with SAP UK and global partners giving a full appreciation of the SAP
customer environment. All of my projects over the last 4 years have
contributed to a companies profitable performance, substantial savings,
inertia for growth or flexibility on their business model. Overall in the
SAP field I have substantial knowledge in all Financial areas of SAP being
able to drawn on my Logistics functional knowledge for Finance process and
system benefits in the areas of day to day operations and business Reporting
analytics. |
SAP Experience: |
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January
2008 current British America Tobacco (Southamnpton) Currently
assisting BAT in the Role of Lead Finance Solutions designer for a number of
key areas for their Phase 2 rollout project. These areas include taxation,
Product Costing, Material Ledger, Freight Finance and Sales Transfer
pricing. Previous phase had a
singular module approach and my current role is focusing on fixing
integration issues and pulling together regional requirements of Africa, Asia
and Latin America. My key areas of expertise being utilized are SD Billing,
Taxation, Plants Abroad and CO-PA. System landscape also includes portals,
BI, and APO. Before my exit from the project I have been tasked with piloting
to the client deployment of New General Ledger. August
2007 December 2007 - Gistworld (Basingstoke) Facilitated
Gist (Marks and Spencer Distribution arm) with a number of existing project
issues and troubleshooting to resolution before their training and go-live
scheduled for January 2008. I was responsible for 8 project members. I picked
up new issues arising from User Acceptance testing. Although this was a core
financials SAP project, some of its delivery had failed from adopting a group
SAP Template. My role was to introduce some key deliverables to enable
dynamic customer pricing related to fuel price indices and Profit Centre
reporting suite to enable efficient management performance metrics. July
2005 July 2007 - GlaxoSmithKline (Brentford) Assisted
GlaxoSmithKline (GMS IT) with a number of support and project activities,
including outsourcing, testing control software implementation, invoice
scanning, and upgrade proposals. Leading a team of up to 15 finance team
members, they were adopting 16 new sites onto a multiple number of SAP
platforms, whilst strategically defining its future SAP upgrade and business
paths. This meant leading a synchronization project for Global chart of
accounts, SARBOX key controls, implementing global finance master data
policies, and supporting the finance community in their Financials
outsourcing deliverables. November
2004 July 2005 KLA Tencor Bearingpoint Consulting UK (Project Role from
Own company) This
assignment was initiated by the client project to rollout a US template into
Europe and Asia. The scheduled go-live was February 2005 on a big-bang
global basis. I played a centric role of 12 super users and 4 Regional
Finance Directors liaison with 10 SAP consultants. My key responsibility was
to represent the clients European Finance and Sales Directors interests from
an independent perspective, to check the configuration, coordinate testing
and liaise with the central US configuration teams and sub-contractors. The role
included requirements definition/rework, test planning, training and go-live
support and enhancement project definition for future requirements and
mentoring junior team members. April
2004 August 2004 Intec Telecom Systems
(Project Role from Own company) This
assignment was an improvement project for a seasoned SAP landscape. The
project focus was an improvement using the Project, Financial and Sales
applications. I initially started the project on the basis of my
multi-business processing experience of Financials and Logistics. The Client
requirement was to extend the database of Customers to include details of
Sales and Installations of their products on customer sites. As the company
was currently on an acquisition spree, it became essential to hold key
information about their customers to avoid embarrassment of trying to sell to
existing sites of acquired customers. The project involved coordinating 4
streams of work and to test and configure the ERP side of the system. The
other streams included SAP Portals, Business Warehouse and CRM. The initial
project went live after four months, and parallel ran for 1 month. June
2003 March 2004 MFI Furniture / Howdens Joinery / Experior
Consulting (Project Role from Own
company) Using
the Mercury Interactive toolsets, I developed and managed key personnel for
the implementation of Unit, Scenario and Integrated testing developments /
strategies. Focused mainly on the financials area, the client had implemented
all financial modules of SAP. Testing was completed and the necessary
corrections and re-testing completed. March 2002 December 2002 Orange
Telecommunications (Project Role - Rbase Consulting) Working with Authorisations within a Global SAP implementation and global strategy over 2 SAP systems, 4.5B and 46C. Managing the reviewing of existing old-style authorisations and paving the way for upgrade next year or merger of the two systems, taking on board many SARBOX objectives live at an early stage · SAP 4.6C · Modules implemented SD, MM, HR, FI, CO, PCA · Head Office, Bristol and 7 regional sites · 300 Users initially with roll-out to 20,000 ·
Revenue 16,000M February 2001 February2002
Construction Industry Training Board (Project Role - Rbase Consulting) Working initially as Upgrade coordinator in an Applications upgrade of FI, CO, MM and SD from 40B to 46C. Covering all functional improvements over all modules during a phase of user testing. The industry was Government Service, but the business processes associated with a non-logistical organization presented many challenges. After a successful upgrade the company then extended the system in the Sales area to facilitate another sector of the business. Joining with another 4 members of our company, the go-live end of last year, completed the companies ambition of being supported by one system. I lead the Logistics team in extending the system for the new sector within a single company code, with significant configuration within Billing, Pricing and powerful Management reporting within CO-PA. · SAP 4.6C · Modules implemented FI, CO, SD · 1 UK sites followed by 98 regional office · 300 Users · Revenue £20M pa |
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April 2000 February 2001 Pilkington
Engineering (Project Role - Diagonal Consulting) Working as MM Team Leader and Logistics Integration Manager for a leading blue-chip construction company. The project was to initiate Project Management in the building of new manufacturing plant. The budgets exceeded 700M, therefore close monitoring of project spend was required. I provided on-going support, Client team Training for the Logistics team and mentored the MM team through the Realisation phase. I then provided cover for a similar role for the SD team to a Go-Live in December last year. There were many integration points between FI, SD, MM and PS in terms of Project creation, user status, availability control and budgeting. Subsequent phases of the project will include a rollout within Europe followed by the Americas. Specific areas of configuration covered ITT proposals, Financial Statement Versions, and Electronic Purchase requisitioning/approval · SAP 4.6B · Modules implemented FI, CO, MM, PS, SD · 6 UK sites followed by 1 US and 6 European · 450 Users · Revenue 1B pa · 2 Divisions with separate PS requirements · Capital Purchasing and tendering |
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December 1997- December 1998 Harlow
Chemicals Synthomer Industries (Project Role - Diagonal Consulting) Working as SD/MM
Consultant · Chemical Process Industry SAP 4.0B · Modules implemented FI / CO / MM / QM / PP and SD · Three sites in the UK 110 Users Revenue £80M pa · Configuration of SD with co-ordination of master data entry, knowledge transfer, user training ·
The client has used SIS for its
operational reporting and CO-PA for Margin reporting |
Employment History: |
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TESI
Enterprises Limited, June 2003 to current Started my own company based on the depth and breadth of knowledge acquired over 14 years. Specialising in
Business process Re-engineering by adopting best business practices both
with or without IT technology, combined, depending on clients approach to
risk and investment testing/ outsourcing services, with a keen eye trained
on process improvement and efficient working practices and a constant
monitoring to original plan in terms of time and budget. |
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R/Base
Limited, 2001 to current Started as a
Consultant and have assisted with Customer presentations and tender
responses, followed by the upgrade and FI/SD project. During my time at Rbase my multiple
disciplines in SAP Systems allowed me to focus on client requirements from a
management perspective, and keeping the clients objectives in check by
designing key areas of the overall design to obtain the best outcome within
commercial constraints. The main abilities learnt here were the benefits of
business integration. |
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Diagonal
Computer Services, 1997 to 2001 Joined as SD Consultant and over the three years expanded on a number of modules including FI, MM, CO (-PA), and SAP Script as described by project summaries above. |
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GEC Plessey
Semiconductors, 1992 to 1997 Started in Finance
and progressed into Management Accounting, before being seconded onto the
companies SAP team at the Head Office in Swindon. The secondment included
initial scoping, system configuration, end-user training and support phases.
The implementation was worldwide, covering 8 sites, and 1300 users. The main
focus of the work was within Payables, Receivables and General Ledgers of FI
in UK, US, French, German and Italian Company codes. The most challenging
part of the project was the design and implementation of the French Bills of
Exchange and Drafts (using Special Ledger) for Customer receivables, and the
outputs required for all the different countries payment methods. I have
never seen Change Management synchronized so smoothly. |