BRET W. HALL[pic]**** Leigh Rd. Pompano Beach, FL 33062 ? 954-***-**** ?

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CORPORATE FINANCE / ERP / BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Executive Profile

. Manager, consultant and analyst with over 18 years of experience in

Corporate Finance and Information Technology (IT).

. Fortune 500 experience working with BP, Oracle, Iomega, Citco and

Federal Mogul.

. Governmental, inter-governmental (United Nations), startup and ERP

consultancy experience.

. Worked internationally in UK, Switzerland, Monaco, Netherlands,

Belgium, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

. Conducted business in multiple language settings including English,

French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

. Extensive leadership experience leading large scale project (ERP/BI)

and functional teams of up to 20 individuals including controllers,

accountants, analysts, consultants and engineers. Team and employee

development, recruitment and coaching,

. Goal-oriented, detail-conscious, self-motivator with a consistently

professional attitude and appearance.

Core Competencies - Functional

Strategic Planning Business Intelligence (BI) Change Management

Financial Systems & Enterprise Resource Planning Team Recruitment and Dev.

Reporting (ERP)

Planning & Analysis Project Management GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, IFRS

Budgeting & Forecasting Process Reengineering Presentation & Public

Speaking

Technical Skill Set

Oracle Financials Cognos Planning Hyperion Essbase

Coda Financials SQL Server, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, MS Excel

ETL

Microsoft Great Plains Microsoft Sharepoint PowerPoint, Project, Visio

Business Objects MS Access SQL, VBA, PHP

Professional Experience

Project Manager - ERP and BI, GlobeNet, Boca Raton, Florida, 2012 - Present

. Responsible for assessing all financial systems and proposing a long

term ERP and BI solution to GlobeNet

. Managed, developed and implemented a data warehouse for all

consolidated reporting and analysis requirements

. Project manager for large scale reimplementation of multi-currency,

multi-site ERP project

. Project Manager for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Team

recruitment, job definition, coaching and training.

. Dynamics GP, Powerpivot, SQL Server 2008 R2, Access, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS

Managing Director, I-Defi Inc, Pompano Beach, Florida, 2008- 2011

. Responsible for corporate accounting and budgeting, vendor and partner

contracts, sales and marketing.

. Conceived, established and created I-Defi Inc and I-Defi.com to

promote altruism and self improvement through the I-Defi Internet

Challenge.

. Developed a robust CMS (Content Management System) website using

software development tools such as Dreamweaver, FTP client, CPanel, MS

Access, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, and Photoshop.

Sr. Manager - Financial Systems/ERP/Business Intelligence (BI), Citco Group

S.A., Nyon, Switzerland, 2005-08

. Recruited, trained and established a Business Intelligence department

resulting in enhanced service to all business divisions addressing

their consolidated financial and business reporting needs and migrated

team from Group Finance to Global IT.

. Lead a direct team of five analysts and report writers with additional

project responsibility of up to 20 resources in the accounting,

finance and IT departments.

. Implemented a suite of business intelligence (BI) enterprise solutions

including: ETL, global corporate financial data warehouse, a corporate

budgeting application, a corporate forecasting application and a

management reporting platform for reporting monthly results against

plan and forecast.

. Responsible for a corporate wide ERP re-implementation project (CODA).

. Managed several change management process initiatives. Championed and

successfully implemented a financial reporting change management

platform to process Finance and business unit reporting requirements

efficiently in a cost effective manner.

. Led a successful reimplementation of a new global chart of accounts

which resulted in a more than 50% reduction in global transaction

processing, improved global consolidation turnaround times and

improved accounting consistency across all business units

internationally.

. Streamlined various monthly accounting processes including accrual

postings, intercompany adjustments and costing, banking

reconciliation, monthly close sequence and consolidation processes

resulting in much shorter lead times at month-end, fewer accounting

errors and improved analysis and data integrity.

Project Manager - Oracle Financials, Synercom S.A., Geneva, Switzerland,

2004

. Senior consultant for business consultancy firm with functional and

technical expertise, consisting of Oracle Financials advising,

implementation and process re/engineering for several international

private sector clients.

Financial Consultant - Oracle Financials, IM Ivory Mountain SARL,

Switzerland, UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, 2001-2003

. Consulted on various large scale ERP implementation and

reimplementation teams with 100% record of completing projects on time

and on budget. Best Practice Accounting Reviews: chart of accounts,

general ledger, accounting, system security

. Proposed and implemented various business process enhancements for

Fortune 500 companies resulting in best practice accounting

methodologies (GL, AR, AP, FA, and IC) to conform to IFRS and GAAP

reporting

. Financial Process and Accounting Analysis: Purchase to pay, financial

and management reporting, payroll accounting, order to cash,

intercompany accounting

. Accounting and ERP (Oracle) Training: General ledger, accounts

payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, system administration

. Financial Reporting: Implemented customized cash management reporting

application. Implemented customized consolidated P/L and B/S reporting

application. Implemented customized account mapping and reporting

application

. ERP (Oracle) Setup, Implementation and Reimplementation: General

Ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accounts payable,

purchasing, system administration

. Worked for private and public sector clients including British

Petroleum, BP Chemicals, Solvay Chemicals, WMO, EBU and ILO.

Manager FP&A / Project Manager / Sr. Financial Analyst, Iomega S.A.,

Geneva, Switzerland, 1997 - 1999

. Managed, developed and implemented a corporate enterprise software

application used to analyze and report company sales and gross margin

data in a client/server environment of multiple users.

. Responsible for all financial management reporting functions and a

team of five analysts.

. Successfully implemented a financial data warehouse and reporting

platform (Business Objects) resulting in enhanced reporting services

at lower cost to global headquarters and business units.

. Recruited and managed a team of 5 financial analysts within the FP&A

department responsible for business unit and corporate management

reporting, planning and analysis. Managed additional technical

resources for system development and maintenance.

Financial Analyst, Federal - Mogul S.A., Geneva, Switzerland, 1994 - 1997

. Responsible for all Finance department functions regarding the

consolidation of the European locations including forecasting,

budgeting, accounting, analysis, credit and reporting.

. Developed and implemented a company-wide Access database executive

information system.

. Reduced the monthly management reporting and close cycle from 25 to 5

days at Federal Mogul utilizing Access and Excel customized

applications allowing my department to spend 4 times more time

analyzing the monthly results and improving Finance and Accounting

forecasting .

Consultant on Development Issues, Finalization of Uruguay Round, GATT, U.N.

Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva, Switzerland, 1994

. Contracted to research and produce a document exploring the

implications of trade barriers and aid on economic, political and

social relationships between OECD and developing nations.

Education

Master of Arts -Double - Finance & International Relations

Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993

Bachelor of Science - Finance

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 1991

Personal

. US Citizen (US born)/ Resident of South Florida.

. Fluent in English and French. Conversational Spanish and Italian.

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