2006 - 2008Programme Manager Financials for global electronics company. Responsible for overall IT and user alignment of SAP SEM BCS (financial consolidation), BPS/Rolling Forecast, CPM (management cockpit, business balanced scorecard, customer profitability, variances) and BW 3.1/7.0 (integration, authorization, etc). Harmonization of masterdata. Data conversion. Based on both business and ICT requirements, preparation of a scope, blueprint, roadmap, and overall programme to provide strategic management information (financial and non-financial key figures, ratios). After approval, developments started (prototyping first). User acceptance testing. Training. SLAs. Risk and change management. Business control framework. IT-audit. Global roll-out to approx. 200 companies.
Heineken
- Programme Manager
Rueil-Malmaison2004 - 2005Programme Manager Migration and Consolidation for Dutch foods & beverages multinational, working with delegates and project managers from both business and ICT sides of the company. Scope study. Project plan for a migration and consolidation programme for 20 decentralized single-site ERP applications (sales, warehouse, distribution, finance, complex interfaces) and systems into one multi-site solution and central financial system (SAP FI-CO). Selection and implementation of new (outsourced) wide area network supporting QoS and priorities. Removal of all servers. Negotiations with hard/software and network suppliers. Sizing servers for development, test & user acceptance and production. Disaster recovery. Starting with business processes, user requirements, software development, user acceptance testing. Followed by a phased roll-out to support both new and old situation. Change management and communication. Standardisation of reference tables, master data (cleansing) and parameters used, authorizations. Service level agreements (ITIL) for systems & support, software development, including new user procedures. Reporting of internal and external data by SAP BW (finance, orders, invoices). Definition of tasks for the set-up of shared services operation for financials, business processes with split central/decentral, software development and interfaces. In addition to the business processes, business control framework definitions to provide risk prevention and to comply with international legislation and accountancy standards (Sarbanes-Oxley, IFRS)
