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CRAIG A. TANGUAY

SUMMARY

SAP EPM/BPC Business Architect, Financial Transformation specialist, and Accountant with a strong and unique background in both Consulting and the traditional Accounting/Finance corporate world. A hands-on, client friendly professional who can effectively interface with a finance audience. A trusted leader who can help generate new business and ensure delivery excellence to clients.

SKILLS

Self-motivated, leader, problem solver, communicator, and team player.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (expert level, engagement leader, v5.0 – 10.1 NW/MS Classic/Embedded).

SAP Business Objects Cloud.

SAP delivery, pre-sales, project management, demo’s, assessments/health checks.

Project scoping and estimates, project and data strategy blueprinting, resource allocation, functional specs, technical specs, process mapping, and managing project checkpoints.

Business transformation specialist, process optimization and re-engineering.

Expert trainer on SAP BPC.

Managing, coaching, mentoring, and evaluating junior consultants.

Forecasting and Budgeting, Financial Modeling and Strategic Financial Planning.

Legal Entity and Managerial International Consolidation.

Financial, Managerial, and Government Accounting.

Financial Reporting, SEC External Reporting.

Sarbanes Oxley 404 compliance, Accounting Policies and Procedures.

MS Excel (expert level), MS Office Suite (intermediate to expert level), Visual Basic (intermediate level).

EXPERIENCE

HIGHLIGHTS

Practice Team leader, responsible for all aspects of the EPM Practice for my current firm.

SAP EPM/BPC Business Architect and Transformation Leader who has completed many full life-cycles end-to-end, upgrades, migration, health check, trainings, and support projects.

Consulting professional who can support all aspects of practice from pre-sales, delivery, to post go-live support.

In-depth Accounting/Finance knowledge that is consistently leveraged to improve project outcomes and client satisfaction.

Worked with BPC since 2005; started as a client of Outlooksoft V 5.0 pre-SAP.

Corporate experience includes working in Small-Cap, Mid-Cap, and Large-Cap Multi-National World-Class company environments, both public and private companies.

Excellent communicator, collaborator, presenter, and project expert resource who is comfortable interfacing with all levels from Staff to C-Level executives, domestic and international.

Former SAP finance employee with a passion for consulting and all products SAP.

INDUSTRY

EXPERIENCE

DICKINSON + ASSOCIATES

EPM PRACTICE LEADER (promotion): December 2016 – October 2017

SENIOR CONSULTANT April 2016 – December 2016

SAP Senior Business Architect/EPM Practice Leader, hired to help launch the D+A EPM practice group.

Lead Solution architect and engagement manager on all large delivery jobs, involved in all aspects of delivery to ensure quality standards.

Handle all incoming EPM sales leads, initial new business contact with client prospects.

Pre-Sales activities including demo’s, discovery sessions, assessments and health-checks, rescue/remediation projects, proof of concept/thought leadership.

Prepare and/or oversee all sales/delivery related documents (SOW, scoping and estimate of services, blueprints, PM tracking, test scripts, user guides, training material).

Created a custom demo system from the ground up, continuous updating and enhancing for client presentations.

Developed new original training material to support client project training sessions.

Work with Marketing to promote practice (social media, webinars, pod casts, marketing collateral, etc.).

Stay current and educate on all emerging issues and updates from SAP Product Development.

Work interactively with D+A’s and SAP’s sales executives as the D+A EPM primary point of contact and expert subject matter resource.

ITELLIGENCE US (UNIT OF NTT DATA) [NTT: NYSE]

DESIGN CONSULTANT (promotion): June 2013 – April 2016

SENIOR APPLICATION CONSULTANT: July 2011 – May 2013

Consulting Services primary engagement owner, responsible for successful project delivery.

Typically oversee two or more engagements at any one time, depending on size.

Lead Design Phase, Realization Phase, System Test Phase, User Acceptance Phase to go-live.

Be the “face” of the Itelligence Services team and client go-to contact.

Discuss and formulate solutions for complex client implementation issues as they arise.

Oversee, mentor, and evaluate Application and Senior Application Consultants.

Participate in all Senior Consultant bi-monthly management calls.

Work closely with Project/Engagement Managers and Specialist Solution Architects to ensure budget, utilization, best practices and earned value targets are met.

Lead training classes in BPC Administration and EPM ADD-IN template building.

Environment, Model, and Dimension architecture and setup.

Data Manager, Transformation/Conversion setup with BI consultants/clients to enable ECC/BW ETL (NW clients).

Security, Controls, and Business Process Flows (BPF) design and setup.

Configure Business Rules (Account Transformation, Currency Translation, Elim and Adj’s).

Configure Member Formulas and optimize use in a NW environment.

Configure, assess, and optimize typical and custom Logic Scripts.

Consolidation Engine or US Elimination, assessment and setup for consolidation projects.

Extensive Report/Input Template building in both EVDRE and EPM ADD-IN.

Visual Basic - Template enhancement (EPMExecuteAPI Functions, Custom VBA Events, EPM Macro Sheet Options, Form Controls, etc.)

Coordinate, assist, work alongside Technical and BW/MS Integration Consultants (SSIS, BW, etc.).

SENIOR CONTROLLER, SAP [SAP: NYSE]

November 2007 – July 2011

Supported all aspects of Finance and Controlling functions for the Global SAP Marketing organization. Reported to the SAP Marketing CFO.

Acted as the Financial Business Partner to the SAP Marketing stakeholder community.

Compiled and presented monthly forecast information to SAP AG Global Controlling.

Main liaison for the accounting team in SAP America for all accounting related matters.

Maintained all financial hierarchies encompassing SAP Marketing in ECC/BW and was key player in project to Globalize SAP Marketing structure.

Designed, built and implemented a new Global PO accrual process (millions of € EURO’s).

Designed new centralized process to collect and process CO reposting’s and budget transfers.

Took over and owned of all SAP Global Marketing SOX efforts {clean SOX record every year}.

Oversaw the legal entity/tax chargeback CO process to SAP AG.

Ongoing ad hoc projects {tax projects, hierarchy alignment, SRM lean workflow project, planning ad hoc requests, etc}.

Work daily with MS Office, SAP ERP {ISP}, SRM, BW, CRM.

GLOBAL MANAGER OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND CONSOLIDATION, CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION [CW: NYSE]

November 2002 – November 2007

Promoted to lead a full “life cycle” global implementation of SAP BPC 5.0/5.1.

CW Functional lead and internal PM for all aspects of the BPC environment design.

Responsible for the International Consolidation {Internal and External} of over 50 business units with revenues exceeding $1.8B.

Obtained initial SOX 404 compliance for two mains areas (Corporate Accounting and Financial Consolidation).

Took over and revamped the Corporate Accounting department.

Held four positions of increasing responsibility at my tenure in the organization.

Had up to 4 direct reports.

Positions Held

Global Manager of Business Systems and Consolidation - September 2006 – November 2007

Manager of Accounting Services - May 2004 – September 2006

Manager of Consolidation - May 2004 - June 2005 (covered position until new hire).

Group Accounting Manager - November 2002 – May 2004 (one of the three segments).

SR – ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL REPORTING, INVENTIV HEALTH INC.

May 2000 – November 2002

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, SONAR ENTERTAINMENT

February 1996 – May 2000

Positions Held

Senior Accountant (6/98-5/00) {promotion}

Staff Accountant (2/96-6/98)

STAFF ACCOUNTANT, ESSEX CORPORATE (DIVISION OF JOHN HANCOCK)

June 1993 – January 1996

Staff Accountant

EDUCATION

ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY - Peter J. Tobin College of Business

QUEENS NY

MBA FINANCE

December 2001

SUNY AT FREDONIA, FREDONIA

BS IN ACCOUNTING

May 1993

CERTIFICATIONS

PASSED ALL PARTS OF THE UNIFORM CPA EXAM - 1999

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