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Alicia Parra

Business Processes Associate Consultant

Logistics

SAP Office Location SAP NSC Portugal, Porto Salvo, Lisbon SAP Phone Number +351-***-***-*** / +351-***-***-*** SAP Email acxvaf@r.postjobfree.com / acxvaf@r.postjobfree.com Special Note: I have family in the US therefore I don’t need relocation, only sponsorship for the visa.

Profile

Consultant with more than 2 years of experience in the logistics field, including Retail, Oil & Gas and Banking industries. Certified in core SAP areas as MM and SD. Currently working as a Senior Master Data Functional Analyst on a Retail implementation project for the biggest African Retailer, for the past year. During this project, she has also developed specific soft skills has communication, leadership and fast decision making. Has been involved in several project stages: business blueprint creation and gap analysis, implementation (design & build), creation of test cases and test execution. Before joining SAP Near Shore Center she has integrated Tobacco, FMCG, Consultancy and Banking industries.

With strong interpersonal and organizational skills, she shows hard work, commitment, critical thinking, always being a team player with customer and results focus. Quick learner with ability to face challenges, she really appreciates continuous learning in a daily basis.

SAP Experience – Summary

- Participant in the Africa Code Week – South Africa: hosted by SAP, this volunteering program has the goal to teach kids to learn how to code.

- SAP Retail: Since August 2015 working as a Senior Master Data Functional Analyst on a Retail full implementation project for the biggest African Retailer, currently in the testing phase within the Master Data stream

- Project experience in different environments, software implementation knowledge in Retail and Procurement and knowledge of FMCG, Oil & Gas and Banking Industries

- Experience in implementing a Fiori Procurement RDS in a FMCG customer

- Development of a Fiori Procurement demo

- Experience as a Project Management Office in a project to a FMCG customer

- Support in a Procurement project for an Oil & Gas customer: testing processes and training documentation

- Support in a Cash Management project for a customer in the Banking Industry: testing processes and training documentation

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Professional Experience & Certifications – Summary

- SAP Certified Application Associate:

o Procurement with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6

o Sales and Distribution with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6

- SAP Trainings:

o Procurement (MM)

o Solution Manager (SolMan)

o Sales and Distribution (SD)

o Agriculture Contract Management (ACM)

o Industry Solution Utilities (IS-U)

o Workforce Performance Builder (WPB)

o Information Steward (IS)

- Professional experience as Commercial Training & Development Trainee at Philip Morris International (providing training as well)

- Human Resources Intern at Henkel Iberia (mostly recruitment) and Consultant at Quorumaster (customer facing/workshops)

- Master’s degree in Management by a Top Portuguese University

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management by a Top Portuguese University

- IEFP Trainer Certified (CAP) since 2011

- Good command of Microsoft Office tools such as: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.

SAP Project Experience - Detail

Duration August 2015 - Present

Industry FMCG (South Africa)

Project Description Migration and Implementation of Retail SAP Best Practices Role Senior Master Data Functional Analyst

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Defect fix Expert (HP QC – HP ALM Quality Center):

- Responsible for fixing defects;

- Creation of test scenarios;

- Assist the customer in test execution;

- Creation of Master Data materials.

- Responsible for developing and delivering Functional Specifications (WRICEFs) documents for Article Master, Merchandise Hierarchy, Site Master, Customer Master and Assortment and Listing:

- Drive out all business requirements;

- Provide functional design overview;

- Provide technical (PI/ABAP/Data Services) overview;

- Test all necessary processes;

- Unit Test sign off;

- Knowledge of IDOCs/Web Services;

- Knowledge of Enterprise Information Management Solutions (Data Service, Information Steward);

- Experience in data migration in SAP and non-SAP solutions;

- Usage of Solution Manager (SolMan) tool to manage the documents. Consultant’s Profile

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- Responsible for developing and delivering Business Process Design (BPD) documents for Customer Master and Article Hierarchy:

- Map out specifics of each business process;

- Define functional solution design;

- Define detailed design for each business process;

- Define system configurations;

- Define technical/development related items (WRICEFs).

- Retail Master Data Full Implementation:

- Assist the customer with SAP Best Practices;

- Knowledge transfer;

- Test all necessary processes;

- On boarding and support new colleagues;

- Support the Project Manager in the re-planning phase;

- Support the build and design phase;

- Support the testing phase;

- Creation of Unit tests;

- Creation of Master Data Testing scenarios.

Duration July 2015

Industry Oil & Gas (Switzerland)

Project Description Financial Estimation – SAP implementation Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables SAP implementation estimation of several modules Duration 1 week - July 2015

Industry Internal SAP Project (Germany)

Project Description Certification Review

Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Materials Management Certification Review:

- Analysis of potential new questions;

- Evaluation of the certification complexity;

- Final revision of the new certification.

Duration 1 week - June 2015

Industry Aerospace (UK)

Project Description Fiori Procurement Estimation

Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables Estimation about Fiori Procurement applications Duration 1 week - May 2015

Industry Energy (Oman)

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Project Description Fiori Procurement Demo Creation Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables Demo creation about Fiori Procurement applications Duration 2 weeks - May 2015

Industry Internal SAP Project (Germany)

Project Description Fiori System Implementation

Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Check the Spanish translations made in a new internal Fiori Developed system;

- Creation of incidents in the Solution Manager tool. Duration April – May 2015

Industry FMCG (Egypt)

Project Description Implementation of a Fiori Procurement RDS Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Testing Fiori functional applications;

- Testing Functional specifications;

- Elaboration of functional specifications.

Duration January – March 2015

Industry FMCG (Switzerland)

Project Description Add On Removal and Standard SAP Functionalities Implementation

Role Project Management Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Support to the Coordination and Functional Lead;

- Weekly status updates with project team, reflected in the project plan;

- Recording and managing of project issues and escalations when necessary;

- Support of functional activities, such as Business BluePrint documentation;

- Testing functional specifications.

Duration November – December 2014

Industry Oil & Gas (Angola)

Project Description Improvement of the Procurement Process Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Design of a cockpit for tracking of purchasing documents;

- Elaboration of functional specifications;

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- Elaboration of test scripts;

- Testing functional specifications.

Duration 2 weeks - December 2014

Industry Oil & Gas (Angola)

Project Description Improvement of the Procurement Process Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables Support in the development of a SOW document. Duration October 2014

Industry Banking (Angola)

Project Description Cash Management - Upgrade

Role Logistics Associate Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

- Testing functional specifications;

- Defining test scripts to perform integrated solution testing;

- Test management in the Solution Manager tool.

Professional Experience and Certifications - Detail Commercial Training & Development Trainee - Philip Morris International - Lisbon (March 2013 – March 2014):

- Preparation of training sessions to Marketing and Sales team;

- Development and Management of SharePoint T&D area;

- T&D Budget control;

- Support to Commercial Approach Project;

- SharePoint tool training as trainee and as trainer.

- Developed skills: customer focus, communication, negotiation, organization and planning, training, teamwork, priorities management. Human Resources Intern - Henkel - Lisbon (April 2012 – March 2013):

- Recruitment: Implementation of group dynamics and Integration of new employees;

- Corporation communication preparation;

- Management of events;

- Coordination of medicine at work, health expenditures and vacations plan.

- Developed skills: communication, organization and planning, recruitment. Consultant – Quorumaster - Lisbon (May – December 2011):

- Commercial prospecting;

- Preparation of proposals and workshops of behavioral training;

- Recruitment and selection of new employees.

- Developed skills: customer focus, communication, negotiation, organization, training, recruitment, teamwork.

Human Resources Summer Intern - BNP Paribas Securities Services – Lisbon (June – October 2009):

- Recruitment: curricula screening and phone interviews; Consultant’s Profile

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- Preparation of training program;

- Partnership projects preparation.

- Developed skills: communication, organization, recruitment. C_TSCM62_66: Sales and Distribution with SAP ERP6.0 EhP6

- Materials and Customer Master Data;

- Pricing Configuration;

- Shipping and Billing processes.

C_TSCM52_66: Procurement with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6

- Materials and Vendor Master Data;

- Inventory Management;

- Invoice Verification.

Trainer Certification – IFP - Lisbon

General Information

Master’s degree in Management - ISCTE-IUL - Lisbon Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management - ISCTE-IUL - Lisbon SAP Certifications:

- C_TSCM52_66: Procurement with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6 (MM)

- C_TSCM62_66: Sales and Distribution with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6 (SD)

- SAP Training:

- Procurement (MM)

- Solution Manager (SolMan)

- Sales and Distribution (SD)

- Agriculture Contract Management (ACM)

- Industry Solution Utilities (IS-U)

- Workforce Performance Builder (WPB)

- Information Steward (IS)

- Retail – (Current) Self Study

- Transportation Management (TM) – Self Study

- HP QC training: HP ALM Quality Center

Citizenship: Portuguese

Languages:

- Portuguese: Mother tongue

- English: Fluent (written and spoken)

- Spanish: Intermediate (written and spoken)

- German: Beginner (written and spoken)

- French: Beginner (written and spoken)

Driving license: Category B1

Mobility-Business Travel: Available for Worldwide Projects The general data protection instructions of SAP pertaining to the maintenance of the consultant profiles have validity. The client obligates himself/itself to treating this information with confidentiality and to only using it for the intended purpose.

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