Project Manager Sales

Peter Amiras

Appleton, Bull Lane, Gerrards Cross,

Buckinghamshire, SL9 8RZ

Mob: 078******** Tel: 017**-***-*** E-mail: **.******@*****.***

I am an experienced as SAP - Project Manager, innovative, committed,

forward thinker, reliable who implements robust and effective business

solutions. I am flexible in adapting to various demanding environments and

working in multi-cultural and multi-geographical locations.

KEY SKILLS

Project management

Able to plan, motivate, direct and resolve business and technical issues

using PRINCE 2 methodology.

Effective stakeholder management and able to negotiate and manage

expectations.

Excellent communication skills at all levels from senior management to

end users

Effective overall team player, able to work well independently with

business and technical teams.

Direct and resolve procedural issues as well as and technical issues.

Analysis

Strong focus on client / organisations needs and able to leverage SAP

technology to convert these needs to technical solutions.

Strategic analysis the business needs and design of effective, robust SAP

ERP solutions.

Gathered and analysis user requirements and development of SAP data

modules in BI/BW using UML methodology

Performed gap analysis and resolved procedural and SAP issues with

effective practical solutions.

Analysed process mapping and produced business requirement documents and

the functional requirement documents.

At Johnson and Johnson I analysed the data coming from various sources

and established the rules on data remediation, this allowed us to use the

accurate data in establishing the stock at distributors.

Technical

Able to technically develop the ETL process, define DSO, Cubes,

Multiproviders, Bex and BO reporting.

Good knowledge of ECC, BODS and HANA.

Training

Trained senior managers and users on effective use of SAP - FICO /

SD/MM/BI reporting solutions.

Set up training work shops in a classroom environment as well "live

conference call" to remote offices.

Produced necessary documentation analysing each report for their daily

weekly reporting cycle.

Documentation

Produced business requirement documents, functional specifications and

technical specifications including low level design document.

Testing

Set up test scripts for UAT test in HPQC and analysed errors from

extractor mapping (ETL) to BI reporting.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

August 14 - Jan 15 SAP PM / BA Consultant

Pitney Bowes

Project manage the implementation, development of the SAP ECC to Voice

Recognition system.

Presenting the project to the stakeholders and the local business end

users.

Managing and defining the functional specifications of the ECC modules to

the IVR requirements.

Project managed the development of the requested data ECC extraction from

SD/FI/MM modules

Project managing the development team with the onshore and offshore teams

using Prince 2

Overseen the weekly unit testing, SIT and the final UAT to the final go

live with clean reliable data.

Formatting data from the back end systems and presenting the information in

XML format.

Managed and resolved business and technical issues and gaining stakeholder

approvals.

Dec 13 - July 14 SAP FI - PM Consultant Johnson

& Johnson

Project managed the SAP BW implementation project in Greece,

operationally and technically.

Project managed the implementation plan in Greece with respect to BI

finance report gaps.

Managing and directing the development to cater for the business needs as

well as technical limitations.

Architectural designing the flow of data from source to transform, clean

and load to ECC and BI modules.

Overseen the UAT with the users to identifying any issues in the process

and addressing them

Organising training courses on various modules such in FI, SD and MM with

the appropriate reports.

Defining and determining the scope of the implementation project from early

stages to final implementation.

I established the rules for data remediation of the data coming from

various outside distributors.

A secondary project I managed the developed the FI dashboard on the portal

from the BI perspective .

One template tab had the refresh times of the cube updates and when the FI

- BI/BW reports will be available.

Second template tab to represent the reconciliation of various BI reports

between various summary reports.

Sep 13 - Nov 13 HANA Certification studies

Arani ltd

Sep 12 to July 13 Global SAP PM

SABMiller

Project managed the implementation of the BI module in Poland and Ecuador.

Analyse the existing global BI / BW reports to meet the local FI

requirements and determine the gaps.

Enrich the data and enhance the global report template and the deployment

approach to implementation.

Work with the stakeholders on each division to insure the reports were

against business needs.

Conduct the KT sessions in a class room environment as well as "Live

meetings" methods.

Translate the business needs to technical specifications and work with the

developers to finalise report.

Implemented BI / BW and BOA solutions across the globe from design to final

deployment.

Co-ordinate progress made through the IPT testing, with the global office

and establishes criticalities.

Provided KT sessions in Poland and Ecuador in the use of the reports and

KPI in the reports.

Defined new reports and developed the FD's and worked with offshore

development team.

Worked with the developers to obtain design authority approval for the

reports according to business needs.

Prepared the users in Poland to use the BI / BW reports in the daily

business routine.

Dec 11 to Sep 12 Solutions Architect BI / BW

Xerox Ltd

A global retail and manufacturing company producing photocopiers.

Analysed the overnight BI / BW batch and optimized the extractors and

process chain to achieve the target completion

Worked with senior managers to identify the operational needs and design

the BI / BW systems to assist the operations, this involved various

departments such as the welcome centre to manufacturing.

Managed critical management needs often conflicting requirements.

Reviewed the process from order to cash, and analysed the receipt of order

and converting the order to

PO and then handing over to manufacturing module. This required the timely

information to be given to production as certain urgent orders had to be

dispatched within three hours from receipt of order.

Worked with the business relationship managers to link the technical

developments to the business needs.

This involved in generating a business requirement document and translating

that to technical specifications and project managing the implementation of

these projects.

Dec 2009 to Sep. 11 SAP - PM - BI/BW

Best Buy UK Ltd

Retail Electronics Company, with head office in USA.

Gathered user requirements, analysed, designed and established KPI's.

Worked with senior managers and end users to develop the necessary query

and build complex reporting around the BI / BW solution.

Managed and led the reporting development team leading up to IPT 3 and UAT

and final installation.

Worked with the overseas partners to identify issues and corrected local

and global reports

Worked with the business leads and designed the data model, from

requirements to multiproviders.

Analysed and developed the necessary bespoke queries using BEx tools.

Trained over 40 senior managers across the country and Europe on the use of

the SAP BI / BW tools.

Developed weekly and monthly KPI reports for senior management.

I was the focal point of all BI / BW queries, dealing with all local and

overseas issues.

Able to understand and write the "Exit" routines written in ABAP.

April 2009 to Nov 2009 SAP Business analyst Cash

Management Matters

A short term contract in Jordan which involved gathering and analysing

requirements for the implementation of SAP core banking module in the SAP

Banking services module and the BI module.

Analysed and implemented SAP back office and the BI / BW module in the

bank, treasury systems.

Performed the IPT and the UAT testing on the BI / BW module from cash

deposits through to BI module before the modules were implemented. Recorder

the defects and monitored the fixes.

Used UML methodology to gather user requirements, created the business case

translated this to technical specs.

Trained the end users in the BI and the Bank services section to insure

smooth process of the transactions.

1 Jul 2003 - Feb 2009 SAP PM (Permanent) TSI

(UK)

A manufacturing company based in High Wycombe with head office in USA.

Project managed the complete ECC 6.0 installation of the SAP system with

modules SD,MM,BI,FI,PP

Performed gap analysis & re-engineered the sales and production process to

optimize the SAP system. This resulted in increase in sales by $8 million.

This was achieved by using UML methodology.

Transformed the company from the legacy systems to SAP in SD,MM,PP,FI

modules in UK And Europe.

Performed all the performance testing on all modules from order entry to

cash receipts. Documented and requested the necessary changes to be made

to the system configuration.

I personally developed and implemented the monthly management reports with

respect to sales, stock holding, production and service. I also developed

and implemented daily, weekly and monthly KPI's management reports to

strategically guide the organization in achieving its goals and objectives.

Gathered functional requirements from senior managers to end users, in

order to optimize the use of the SAP system. This was done throughout the

UK and European offices. This I did by analysing sales orders, production

orders, procurement and delivery this resulted in a clean and smother

operations processes. This required re-configuring of SD,PP and MM from the

IT team.

Did the stress analysis of the process in the organization and made the

necessary changes.

Trained staff in all European offices in the usage of the SAP system.

Managed a team of five people that was responsible for in-house sales,

dealing with customers enquiries and converting these enquiries to orders

and insuring the delivery of order. This resulted in increase in sales by

$8 mil.

Resolved process issues and developed a smooth operation from order

received through to delivery.

By using my BEx queries I optimized the stock holding items by identifying

slow moving and redundant stock, and increased the stock turn over from 4.3

to 6.2 this also benefited the cash flow.

Feb 2002 - Jun 2003 Business Analyst (Contract) Cash

Management Matters

Responsible for the implementation and process change for the payment /

settlement system, this involved the analysis from of the complete process

from receipt of an instruction from customers to final settlement.

Worked and directed the programming team and converted requirements to

technical specifications.

Apr 1996 - Jan 2002 Project Manager (VP)

Citigroup

Responsible for building and managing relationships with internal banks and

external clients.

Improved the clearing systems from the front office to the backend and

final to the beneficiary's bank.

Managed and directed various concurrent software development / strategic

projects of global nature to introduce new offering and features of the

software product to corporate financial markets.

Established weekly meetings to identify and resolve process / software

issues.

2 EDUCATION / TRAINING

3 Aug 2013 - Sep 2013 HANA Course

Arani School

Aug 2013 - Sep 2013 Prince 2 ( Practitioner level) QA

school

4 Oct 2011 - nov 2011 BO course Correspondence.

Mar 2011- May 2011 SAP ABAP course ERP School -

Harrow (Part Time)

Feb 2009 - Apr 2009 SAP BW/BI7 ERP School -

Harrow

Mar 2005 - Sep 2005 UML methodology BCUC - new

university

Sep 1977 - Dec 1979 MBA Thesis on Production Management and

Control University of the Witwatersrand (SA)

INTEREST / HOBBIES

I am a very keen rugby supporter and spectator. I regularly attend Asthanga

Yoga classes and member of a Sports and chess club

Languages :

English, Greek, French(basic)

REFERENCES

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