Project Manager Sales
Resume:
Paul Owens
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Phone: 415-***-**** Fax: 415-***-**** E Mail: abnuqz@r.postjobfree.com
OVERVIEW
An accomplished SAP consultant with a proven record of effectiveness.
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A critical thinker, focused on providing creative and effective solutions.
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Excellent interpersonal / communication skills. Both a team leader and a team player.
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Detail oriented and thorough, conforming to the highest standards of professionalism.
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Blue chip portfolio of past clients with references available.
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Wide range of capability across FI/CO as well as very strong cross application knowledge.
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Experienced in global rollouts, upgrades and expansion projects.
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Specializing in FI/CO and in project management has nearly 14 years of R/3 implementations
in industries as diverse as electronics, chemicals, beverages and consumer goods. Additionally
as a qualified Chartered Accountant with 11 year’s experience in the electronics, furniture and plastics industries, this is
a consultant who can leverage ‘real world’ learning to apply R/3 in an adaptable and commercially sensible way. The
scope of R/3 skills and experience covers nearly every facet of the FI/CO modules with particular in-depth knowledge of
profitability analysis, product costing, special ledger and profit center accounting
Brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, business acumen and leadership skills and has been instrumental in many
highly successful I.T and business changes.
EDUCATION
1982 - 1985
Dublin City University - B.A degree in Accounting & Finance
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA) 1987
CAREER
INDEPENDENT FI/CO CONSULTANT 2002 – Present
PRINCIPAL FI/CO CONSULTANT 1998 - 2002
Plaut Consulting Inc.
San Mateo, California, U.S.A
SENIOR FI/CO CONSULTANT 1997 - 1998
KPMG LLP
Radnor, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
MANUFACTURING CONTROLLER / SAP PROJECT MANAGER 1992 – 1997
Steelcase Strafor Plc
Poyle, England
COST ACCOUNTING MANAGER 1988 – 1991
Pitney Bowes Plc
Harlow, England
ACCOUNTANT 1986 - 1988
Nypro Ltd
Bray, Ireland
REFERENCES
• Sharon Wayne
Director of Finance, Special Projects
Diageo Plc
801 Main Ave
Norwalk, CT 06851
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• Shane Watson
BI Lead, Project Athena
Medtonic Medimune
18000 Devonshire St.
Chatsworth, CA 91325
abnuqz@r.postjobfree.com
• William White
Director, SAP
Diageo Plc
801 Main Ave
Norwalk, CT 06851
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EXPERIENCE
Polypipe SAP 5.0 Apr - June 2009
This manufacturer of piping products has SAP already implemented. This was a separate project to implement the
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business intelligence component of SAP, chiefly CO-PA.
The project that is billed as a ‘rapid implementation’ of 7 weeks involving a single consultant, myself, in conjunction
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with a couple of client resources. Project planning, system design, financial architecture, configuration and go live
were all executed personally.
The main features of the design were the tie back of purchase price variances to finished goods sold as raw materials
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price fluctuations are highly volatile resulting in violent swings in profitability.
Implemented changes in their product costing design with new cost component structure and new activity rates
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structure supporting my new design for ‘contribution margin’ reporting.
Medtronic – Project Athena SAP 4.6 March 2009
Engaged by this world class player in the medical engineering field to review their CO-PA design and write a report as
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to how it would integrate in their SAP system once they substituted a third party billing package for SAP’s SD module.
This involved extensive design review meetings with the project team, their BW designers as well as business users.
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After 4 weeks the report was presented to the project team and IT leadership. This report highlighted risks and
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opportunities as well as a detailed proposal for a CO-PA re-build project showing timelines, project plan and
resourcing required.
Smurfit-Stone – Project Compass III ECC 6.0 Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
Roll out of Order-to-Cash processes to the Container division of Smurfit-Stone, a client who already operates SAP FI
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and Profit Center Accounting.
Responsible for the CO-PA design and configuration.
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Participated in the Product Costing design, testing and roll out.
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Developed design and specification of code for Sales Billing document (invoices, credit notes).
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Diageo – Project Unity Releases 10 and 11 SAP 4.7 Sept 2006 – July 2008
GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION
Participant in a global project to unify all worldwide SAP instances within Diageo, the world’s largest adult beverage
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company, into one global instance based in London. This required migrating existing SAP clients based in Australia,
Brazil, Mexico and the United States to one in the UK. Apart from the technical issues associated with such an
endeavor, there were significant design inconsistencies in the local instances’ SAP designs which needed to be
resolved as part of this project.
Worked in the role of North American Management Report Team Lead and Global Financial Data Conversion Lead.
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Specific work involved:
o Analysis of gaps between local design and global template. Negotiation with global design authority to make
amendments to design to cover North American requirements,
o Redesign of legacy financial interfaces to interface with the new instance, and in some cases with a changed
FICO design.
o Design of the inter company trading model used to distribute profit to brand holders, distribution rights owners,
etc throughout the group.
o Design of interface with the global reporting package, Magnitude, from SAP (CO-PA, special GL and FI).
o Performed financial conversion of FI/CO history for the Australian/New Zealand, Mexican, US, Canadian and
Brazilian markets. This included income statement as well as balance sheet. Developed an MS Access
conversion tool to allow the efficient translation, summarization and output of extracted legacy data for upload
to new instance. This resulted in the conversion of nine months of history for the general ledger / COPA
records of over 50 company codes, operating in half a dozen currencies, in three weeks. Managed the
conversion of the fixed asset registers for the USA and Canada resulting in loading over 12,000 assets.
o During the North American move to the global instance, a major reorganization of the corporate structure was
implemented. This was a simplification of the corporate landscape, closing many company codes and crating
new ones. The change meant a significant redesign of processes, in addition to the complication added to the
conversion process.
Diageo Canada – Project Janus (Release 7) SAP 4.7 Oct 2005 – July 2006
Roll out of global SAP design to Diageo’s Canadian business. Configuration of all key points in the CO module (CO-
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PA, Cost Center / Internal Order Accounting) as well as customized management reporting solution using special
purpose ledger.
FI/CO lead responsible for implementation of Canadian sales tax configuration (GST/PST).
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Conversion of nine months detailed financial history (P&L and Balance Sheet) from legacy system to SAP. This
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involved specifying and building an enhancement in the BPCS legacy system to extract and summarize the P&L data
by customer / brand.
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Design of advertising and promotion reporting and control system based upon WBS elements (Project Systems).
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Design of interface between SAP and the manufacturing/bottling software (SPIRIT\1) as part of the parallel Product
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Costing / Cost Object Controlling project.
Coors Brewing Co. SAP 4.7 Nov 2004 – August 2005
An implementation of profit center accounting in a business where SAP R/3 has been running for 10 years. This was
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to support a BCS (consolidation) and BW (reporting) solution for this major player in the US beer market.
Specification and testing of custom programs to load trading partner and partner profit center on existing FI
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documents for the prior 10 years. Created similar programs to load these master data elements to all open purchase
and sales orders.
Specification and testing of load programs for CO master data to include profit center.
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Specification and testing of load programs for current fiscal year load of PCA ledger (approx 10 million documents).
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Design of PCA structure and configuration of the same.
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Planning of implementation and rollout.
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Diageo – Project Sheriff SAP 4.6 Nov 2001 – Nov 2004
GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION
This was a 3-year global project rolling out and localizing a global design for the world leader in the adult beverage
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business and was implemented in various phases.
Phase 1 (March 2002 – October 2002) – Integration of Seagram’s business into Diageo
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o Project leader of Phase 1 in addition to being System Architect for this phases’ design.
o Designed high volume data interfaces from AS400 based billing software (OA) to SAP and from JD Edwards
to SAP. Both interfaces used VBIS as middleware with integration to MS Outlook for error management.
o Designed interface from SAP FI-GL and COPA to Hyperion OLAP and Enterprise for management reporting.
o Managed testing and training of users
Phase 2 (July 2002 – December 2003) – Spirits Business Migration to SAP
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o Implemented partially concurrent with phase 1, and fulfilled the role of consultant responsible for COPA and
financial reporting primarily.
o Extended Hyperion interface from Phase 1 to include scope of phase 2 businesses and increased
functionality to include inventory volumes and values postings to Hyperion Enterprise.
o Significant work with substitutions and validations in FI, CO and SPL
o Implemented special purpose ledger (non cost of sales accounting ledger)
o Integration work with external data warehouse (Cognos)
o CO planning with Excel integration
o Reporting suite in COPA, SPL and Cost Center / Internal Accounting implemented.
o Designed interface from JBA to COPA for sales booking in SAP.
Phase 3 (January 2004 – November 2005) – Wines and Beers Migration to SAP
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o Rolled out global design above to Wines and Beers business.
o Responsible for in depth transaction data conversion for 3 months from Beers legacy system to SAP FI and
COPA.
o Split out brands from a joint venture partner in legacy systems and successfully converted into SAP. Involved
work with legal dept and financial dept.
o Extended Treasury configuration to new businesses
o Designed domestic inter company processes and configuration to meet trading requirements of Beers
division.
Visiontek Inc. SAP 4.5 Sept 2001 – Dec 2001
LEAD FICO CONSULTANT
Implementation of SAP in a 4-month project (fast track) for this electronics manufacturer.
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Designed and implemented product costing with attendant cost object reporting (discrete orders).
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Implemented COPA with specific requirement to develop a daily profitability report for this fast moving client.
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Developed financial reporting system using special purpose ledger, internal order accounting and cost center
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accounting.
ARTESA WINERY SAP 3.7 June 2001
SD PRICING / EXCISE TAX CONSULTANT
Worked with a small Napa Valley winery implementing SAP with internal consultants from their Spanish parent
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implementing SD pricing configuration for US federal and state excise taxes. In addition configured the state sales
taxes and assisted with reporting requirements.
ALLIED DOMECQ WINERIES SAP 4.0 Dec 2000 - Feb 2001
PROJECT MANAGER, CO DESIGN CONSULTANT GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION
Participated on a part time basis from sales call to blueprinting. Developed and presented proposal to client and won
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the contract.
Filled in as project manager initially building project team, establishing infrastructure and finishing system blueprint
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phase.
Subsequently, passed knowledge to finance team based on experience of previous beverage/winery
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implementations. Throughout implementation assisted on a part time basis the controlling team with design and
configuration tasks as required.
SUTTER HOME WINERY Nov 1999 - Aug 2001
SAP 3.7
LEAD CO CONSULTANT, PROJECT MANAGER
Initial scoping session for an upgrade job from R/3 3.1 to R/3 4.6 lead to complete re-implementation of SAP with
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complete re-design of financial reporting systems from a heavily customized special ledger backbone to a CO-PA
based system.
Detailed planning functionality added with integration of CO-PA planning with SD and CO-PA condition pricing.
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Implemented product costing (standard) and production order accounting (discrete).
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2 years of financial history converted from legacy R/3 system to new system (CO-PA) using own specified ABAP
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programs.
Took post-go live responsibility for project management ensuring a smooth transition to new environment.
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Undertook the role of planning manager for client using the R/3 system to build plan in CO-PA (making significant use
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of CO-PA valuations). Participated in recruitment of new planning manager for client and trained her whilst building
the next year’s plan.
RED BULL Dec 1999 - Apr 2000
LEAD CO CONSULTANT GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION
Performed the initial scoping and high level SAP design for the US business of an international beverage company.
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When the project was won, it was an international implementation between Europe and the U.S. Traveled to Europe
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to perform the global scoping and blueprinting for the worldwide design in CO. Design of CO organizational structure
and principle reporting interface between CO-PA and Oracle Financial Analyzer.
HIRSH INDUSTRIES Aug 1999 - Nov 1999
LEAD CO CONSULTANT
Implementation of profit center accounting, including transfer pricing between divisions in U.S and Mexico for a Steel
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Office Furniture manufacturer.
Implementation of profitability analysis with detailed automatic planning to product / customer level. Integration with
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PP-SOP. Planning system included own designed plant planning optimization ABAP to balance load between North
American plants. Development of reporting suite with authorizations into report tree.
Implementation of treasury (cash planning, cash position and liquidity forecasting).
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Implementation of special purpose ledger (cost of sales ledger).
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Meadowcraft Inc. Jul 1999 - Oct 1999
CO CONSULTANT
Worked to resolve issues in their product costing model and their production order reporting system.
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Worked with this manufacturer of garden and patio furniture in creating sales forecasting models with CO -PA. This
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involved the use of statistical models to forecast and calendarize sales volumes. This data was exported through a
configured link to SOP for manufacturing capacity planning and creating planned build schedules.
Developed a financial reporting suite in CO-PA to provide top management with short-term financial planning tools.
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SEBASTIANI VINEYARDS Nov 1998 – July 1999
LEAD CO CONSULTANT
Implementation of product costing for winery (moving average). Costing carried out to pre-bottling stage in legacy
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system and through own designed interface costs / quantities passed to SAP for bottling and packing. Product costing
carried out with 3 separate cost estimates maintained and reported in CO-PA.
Configured LIFO inventory valuation process in SAP.
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Implementation of profitability analysis. Design of interface into CO-PA for depletions reporting. Design of
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methodology for automatic planning of grape needs for 10 years into future with results being passed to SOP for
incorporation in vineyard planning system.
Configuration of treasury module (cash position, liquidity management).
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Configuration of special purpose ledger (cost of sales ledger).
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WELLA / SEBASTIAN July 1998 – Oct 1998
LEAD CO CONSULTANT, CO and FINANCIAL MGT. QUALITY AUDITOR
Quality Audit at a ‘live’ SAP customer implemented by another consulting partner.
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Identification of problems with their installation of CO-PA – prior consulting partner had failed to conduct an adequate
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sizing of data potential and consequently their CO-PA installation was swamped with records.
Design and re-creation of the operating concern in live environment to enable profitability analysis to be used as the
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business required.
Design of planning functionality in cost center accounting and profitability analysis. Creation of uploads from
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spreadsheet to planning in CO-PA and development of automatic planning functionality in CO-PA.
Configuration of cost of sales special purpose ledger.
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Resolved FI post implementation issues.
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Creation of various ABAP Query reports to extract line item customer data from CO-PA for daily reporting.
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Implementation of cash forecasting, bank reconciliation and cash position from treasury module.
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MURDOCK MADAUS SCHWABE Mar 1998 – Sept 1998
SAP 3.0
LEAD CO CONSULTANT
Design and configuration of CO module – Product costing (discrete manufacturing), profitability analysis (with CO-PA
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conditions), cost center accounting, profit center accounting, variance accounting and internal order accounting.
Specification of ABAP for manual FIFO adjustment at profit center level to inventory valuations.
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Design and documentation of planning process for annual plan build.
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Design and configuration of all accounting and controlling integration points from SD, MM and PP.
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Configuration of TR module – Cash management, bank reconciliation and liquidity forecasting.
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Configuration of special purpose ledger.
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Design and documentation of month end process with goals of fast closing and accuracy.
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Configuration of legal consolidation (group consisted of 10 manufacturing and sales companies).
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KANEKA CHEMICALS SAP 3.0 Nov 1997 – Dec 1997
SR. CONSULTANT FI/CO
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Post SAP implementation work for client to redesign accounting of MM postings into finance modules.
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Configuration of special purpose ledger and building of a suite of reports for management.
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Consulting work to prepare client for first year end audit using SAP
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UNIROYAL CHEMICALS SAP 3.0 Apr 1997 – Feb 1998
SR. CONSULTANT FI/CO
Redesign of chart of accounts and configuration of general ledger, foreign currency and month end processing.
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Design and configuration of profitability analysis module.
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Redesign of research and development accounting system and consequent configuration of internal order accounting
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with activities and classification system.
Design of interface to a legacy accounting consolidation system (Hyperion) from SAP.
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Reporting configuration (income statements, balance sheets, overhead statements, etc).
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Design and configuration of special purpose ledger.
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Design, configuration and implementation of management reporting suite in CO-PA
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STEELCASE STRAFOR SAP 2.2 1991 – Jan 1997
MANUFACTURING CONTROLLER, SAP PROJECT MANAGER
Working throughout the United Kingdom, have held a number of positions (some concurrent with each other) in this
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major office furniture manufacturer. Specific experience concerning SAP included:
o Management of small team (four people) implementing the FI, CO and TR modules.
o Configuration of general ledger, accounts payable, cash management, taxes and cost center accounting.
o Design and specification of interface to the bank for electronic funds transfer.
o Design and specification of interface from bank importing statement for automatic bank reconciliation.
o Design of interface from legacy sales system, based in France, importing sales revenues and deductions to
SAP.
o Configuration of user profiles and authorizations.
o Training of users (approx. 30 people).
o System administration for six months subsequent to going live.
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