CURRICULUM VITAE
I am a diligent consulting specialist with 13+ years of experience in project management and successful end-to-end SAP BPC project implementations for global, in varying industries, international clients, having excellent organizational and interpersonal skills: from top Corporate level presentations to training at all company levels, with a capacity to handle diversified, complex and challenging projects, assignments and situations. I have focused skills in the following:
-Ability to write concepts or define detailed design of financial IT implementations and business operations;
-Availability to travel to client sites on weekly basis (100%);
-Capability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment;
-Extensive knowledge of MS Office with focus on Excel, as well as SAP BPC versions 4.2, BPC 5.0, 7.0,10 and 10.1, Embedded and Classic;
-Excellent leadership and management skills in a professional setting;
-Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment;
-Exceptional customer focus, teamwork, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills;
-Understanding relationships and forging communications between financial and technical stakeholders;
-Functional expertise in Financial Consolidation, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting;
EXPERIENCE
2016 – Present:
SACK CONSULTING, INC.- (BPC CONSULTING): Project and Consulting Manager /Principal
o2019 Assignments:
Sabert: (global manufactures of packaging products): Consolidation Design Consultant
-Design sessions for consolidation process;
Gerdau: (steel industry): Manager of BPC Design and Delivery
-Re-designed BPC 10.1 Embedded Budgeting process working directly with company’s Brazilian headquarters;
-Worked with multi-country offices to design Master Data and define best Practices;
-Engaged client on project definitions validation, and monitoring progress using financial analysis, metrics, and weekly status updates;
o2018 Assignments:
CPKelco: (chemical company): Project Manager of Accounting Process
-Managing and reporting in conjunction with successful international merger completion in the financial reporting, to align with new business hierarchy and new version of BPC (10);
-Created calculations and master data mapping with both financial and technical teams;
-Apprising client of new leading practices and implementing reporting process in BPC 10 environment;
o2016-2017 Assignments:
DowDuPont: (global chemical company): SAP BPC Reporting Manager
-Managed work streams for technical, functional, user acceptance testing and knowledge transfer between DuPont Corporation affiliates;
-Worked side by side with client in data modeling and project development;
-Successfully delivered Knowledge Transfer sessions to foreign contingency;
o10/2012- 07/ 2016 Employment
Deloitte Consulting, LLC: (consulting firm): Manager/Senior Consultant - IT Performance Management Team
-Managed a team of 10+ (on-shore and offshore) to deliver a multi-million, multi-stage financial transformation project of multiple processes (e.g. planning, budgeting and forecasting);
-Led design and presentations, including communications to client testing teams, and both Corporate level clients and business process administrators;
-Spearheaded and coordinated the management of the migration to a new process and the associated software;
-Worked with the corporate client teams to address needs and issues, such as process improvement analysis, statuses;
-Handled ECC and BW to validate data and new financial processes, build and testing;
-Created in-depth training material for end user addressing delta changes to version 10 of SAP BPC;
-Ran knowledge transfer sessions with the client;
-Led conversion team while also identifying areas for improvement and application of best practices;
o10/2008- 10/2012 Employment
E&Y, LLC and Global Analytics, (GA was acquired by E&Y in 2010): Senior Application Consultant, Application Consultant
-Spearheaded the proposal for 250K+ project and designated as the team lead to run said project team (3 people);
-Accomplished assignments using in-depth experience in designing, implementing, testing and launching on-site full scale financial consolidations transformation project;
-Developed full week-long training courses to transfer change management and business knowledge to clients at both user and administrative levels for a global corporation;
-Former clients include Parsons, National Grid and Cushman and Wakefield;
Global Analytics’ (international ERP delivery)
-Worked successfully with international finance group to create FX translation models, chart of accounts improvement and automated calculations as well as post-implementation support;
-Ran C level presentations and delivered new implementation training;
EDUCATION
oMcGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: 2002 - 2006
-Degree: Graduate B.A.
-Major: Economics
-Minor: Business Management
AFFILLIATIONS AND PERSONAL
oCommittee member and team leader for the Boston Brain Tumor Society and yearly walk (9 years);
oAbility to work outside the US: US, Canadian and European Union citizenships;
oFluent knowledge of English, French, and Polish; conversational Italian;
oOpen to travel;
References available upon request;