SAP S/4 Public Cloud Project Lead and Solution Architect - Ferrero Rocher Chocolates - Los Angeles, CA
(2024-05 - 2026-06)
Lead and Solution Architect for Delivery of North America Solutions.
- Data and Reporting Strategy Development – occupied a lead role in Ferrero's North America Reporting Strategy, approach and execution.
- Lead Program Requirement workshops in SAP FI/CO, and BI. Handled FS-CD efforts, from Master Data to postings, payments, and automated account maintenance.
- Lead all BRIM, FI/CO, and RTR Project deliverables - functional specification documents, process flows, UAT documents, etc.
- Lead effort to implement FP Subledger for Multi-GAAP standards.
- Lead Test Script development including complete execution and sign off approach.
- Played the role of Functional Lead with the technical team to evaluate all non-standard requirements.
- Lead cross stream communication and decision making for Finance.
- Played lead role in reporting to European SAP Lead and gathered sign offs for all Final Requirements.
- Executed BI initiatives by collaborating with all stakeholders to determine Reporting Requirement from Peoplesoft, Microsoft Word and Excel based teams
SAP S4 Public Cloud Project Lead and RTR Solution Architect - Corning, Inc - Corning, NY
(2023-04 - 2024-04)
Project Lead and Solution Architect for Corning, NY implementation.
- S4 Hana Public Cloud Project Lead duties included reporting to senior management, handling project management duties, project communication, and being the key liaison for all global units on the S/4 Hana project. Streams included R2R, OTC, P2P, and EWM.
- SAP Project BRIM, Finance and Reporting Lead for Fairport Implementation
- Lead Program Requirement workshops, documented findings, and worked with technical leads to confirm requirements. All RTR-based project deliverables lead this way.
- Lead all RTR and BRIM related Project deliverables - functional specification documents, process flows, UAT documents, etc.
- Confirmed all Test Scripts, through execution and sign off.
- Worked alongside technical team to work through all non-standard requirements
- Lead cross stream communication and decision making for Finance.
- OCM lead for project - developed Change Management approach and helped develop a process for ongoing changes.
SAP S/4 Public Cloud Hana - Record to Report Transformation Lead, & Subscription Order Management Solution Lead and Solution Architect - Pure Storage - Mountain View, CA
(2020-06 - 2022-01)
CFO Org representative to the SAP Transformation program.
- CFO advisory on RFP creation, win themes, response review.
- Lead Commissions, Premiums, Broker Collection and Billing process creation for Lease Services.
- Handled BRIM related details, including connection with Subscription Order Management, Convergent Charging and Invoicing, and SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting.
- Managed Collections and Disbursement process change in postings, payments, automated account maintenance, and Receivables. Updating schema to the G/L was designed.
- Liaised with Change Management and Training to create SAP Finance collateral and approach, SAP transaction guides - Lead stakeholder workshops on Financial Organizational Structure future state design
- Lead (alongside SI lead) RTR SAP project deliverables - Requirements, Process Flows (As-Is & To-Be), Functional Specifications, UAT testing approach, Test Scenario/Step creation, Security.
- Developed CFO Org Subscription Asset Policy Document
- Solution includes tracking of all Subscription and Field Service Assets, Asset Depreciation Logic, Asset Accounting logic, Asset Master - Service Master linkage.
- Developed Key Design Decision Framework for CFO Org
SAP Analytics Cloud lead - Engie North America - Houston
(2019-12 - 2020-04)
Lead for Proof of Concept for Financial Planning & Analytics.
- Developed 3 SAC Reporting models in core Finance, Controlling, and HR, CAPEX and Margin Planning
- Developed SAC Stories, Widgets, Charts, Public & Private views, Data Actions, Allocations, input templates, planning functions, and calculations.
- Developed training plan for SAC data loads, manual attribute adjustments, business rules, reconciliation, and role creation and assignment. Lead stakeholder communication and business case development for SAC as enterprise reporting hub.
Program Delivery Lead (Agile) - Kraft-Heinz - Chicago
(2017-11 - 2019-09)
Program Delivery Lead managing team of 15 ECC/BI resources.
- Team size of 15 ECC/BI resources, including offshore. Areas included BI-SD/CRM-UI. Solution leveraged BW/CRM on HANA, with Analysis for Office, SAP Analytics Cloud & SAP Design Studio for analytic reporting & dashboarding.
- Developed formal SAP-Agile methodology for Kraft Sales reporting team – Scrum cycles, meeting agendas, gates, signature logic, documentation templates, etc.
- Coordinated Agile Project Schedule with Kraft Leadership, Offshore Delivery Leadership, & Testing.
- Drove all workshops for 'critical' Web Intelligence, Analysis for Office, SAC and Design Studio reports during 3-week Sprints.
- Drove Master Data & Governance workshops with ERP MDG team.
- Lead for developing Functional Specs, coordination with Testing team over Test Scripts, and coordination of Technical Specs with offshore team.
SAP S/4 Hana Record to Report Consultant - New York Life Insurance Co - NYC, NY
(2017-07 - 2017-09)
- Developed SAP S/4 Hana Record to Report delivery strategy and roadmap for New York Life. Details included tool migration roadmap, Master Data Governance rules and migration plan, support model and governance, and training approach.
- Developed Enterprise Metric and Dashboarding approach for senior stakeholders, SLA metrics for Reporting delivery, and SAP reporting implementation toolkit.
- Formalized SAP Reporting Delivery processes, standards, templates, SLAs, and roles.
- Drove SAP Analytics Cloud Digital Transformation pilot for real time Claims Analytics. SAP Lumira storyboards developed for near real time operational reports. Source data included SAP Bank and Insurance Analyzer, SAP FI/CO, and external data sources.
SAP Supply Chain Reporting Program Lead and Solution Architect - Anheuser Busch - São Paulo, Brazil
(2014-07 - 2017-07)
Logistics Reporting Implementation lead for AB In-Bev Supply Chain "Delivery Analytics" project team. Responsibilities involved designing and developing essential reports, dashboards, and analytics-KPI frameworks to integrate management reporting with operational details. Focus on diagnostic and predictive analytic capabilities. Managed Team of 15+ resources across Supply Chain analytics team.
- Drove workshops and iterative prototype solutions in logistics optimization, routing, and inventory management
- Reporting solution leveraging SAP Analysis for Office, Web Intelligence, and Tableau. Worked with Finance end users to identify key reports by process area, Kpi's, and report rationalization.
- Developed Agile project management system, with AB InBev Supply Chain leadership. Developed 15-day scrum cycle, meeting cadence, artifact templates, and daily sprint approach.
- Drove Master Data and Hierarchy re-mappings, Historical Data conversion logic, Archiving approach.
- Coordinated BOBJ/Tableau training solution for the entire project team, leveraging a third-party provider. The initiative was to provide BOBJ/Tableau based training for all SAP users across the enterprise.
- Developed and delivered native HANA based Warranty Analytics solution for 2 business units, leveraging SAP HANA and Lumira.
Practice Partner - SAP on HANA Financial Transformation - Computer Science Corporation (CSC) - Falls Church, VA
(2008-10 - 2014-07)
Reporting Program Lead and Solution Architect – part of $70 million SAP Financial Transformation leveraging SAP ERP/BI solutions.
- Solution included BW 7.3 integration with CATs, with Project Planning through BW-IP. Solution included enterprise-wide Utilization and Project Profitability metrics leveraging SAP EPM 10.0
- Lead for Management Reporting & Analytics Delivery, specializing in Project Accounting/CATs, Asset Accounting, CO-PA, FI-GL, CCA/PCA, close-book reporting, and HANA Sidecar. Responsible for Spend Performance Management Reporting (SAP SPM) and contributed to the overall Enterprise Training strategy, including creating online and on-demand tutorials for reporting, input forms, and journal entries.
- Solution areas included SAP BW, SAP Business Objects, SAP Business Planning & Consolidations, and SAP Financial Supply Chain.
- Managed 60+ 'direct reports' – duties included reviews, billability, skill acquisition, and onboarding
- Lead Sapphire responsibility – coordinated a dozen talks from all of CSC
- QA VP on Novartis SAP BPC Planning/Budgeting initiative.
