Coordination of stabilization and improvement initiatives:

• - Streamlining of quarter close (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI + Feeder)
• - Coordination of new reporting requirements (FI-GL/BI)
• - Conceptual design for data reduction (FI-GL/AR + Central Rules Engine)
• - Coordination and implementation of additional Company Codes, new branches (UK / US) (FI-GL/AP/AR/BI + Feeder)
• - Preparation and integration of major Template Release Upgrade (FI-GL/AP/AR/AA/BI)

Migration (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI):

• - Responsible for the Migration auf 25 Company Codes (US / UK / FR / DK / DE)
• - Coordination of Migration for 12 Legacy Systems into one central SAP installation
• - Preparation of Migration for FI-GL/AP/AR/AA/BI master data and movements
• - Migration Management and Go-Live planning and tracking
• - Global coordination of 5 Migration Teams
• - Setup and preparation of a Multi-GAAP / Multi Currency migration from various systems / sources covering (IFRS/HGB/UK-GAAP/French GAAP/US-Stat)
• - Definition of enrichment and allocation rules for multidimensional Migration to fulfill local management reporting and legal requirements
• - Development of a harmonized Migration Paper
• - Coordination of Migration Interface development
• - Development of LSMW Tools for data loads
• - Customizing preparation for migration

Integration (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI):

• - Responsible for the development of a seamless reporting function to headquarters.
• - Quality Assurance of Rollout implementation in close cooperation with the customer's Group Centre.
• - Design and realization of BAFIN and EZB Reporting
• - Process improvement and change management
• - Project Management for the internal Reporting and first quarter close.

Test (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI):

• - Coordination and tracking of System Tests for 25 Company Codes
• - Preparation of Functional / Integration and User Acceptance Testing
• - Reporting and tracking of Test status

Integration (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI/ECCS):

• - Coordination of Business Blueprint and Implementation Phase
• - Responsible for external and internal project team
• - Quality Assurance of BBP and coordination with headquarters
• - Subject matter expert for the Group Template and Group reporting stream.
• - Analysis of local required “BAFIN” reporting (APRA). Design of a local ECCS solution for automated APRA reporting
• - Process documentation improvement and redesign of Multi-GAAP (AU-IFRS / NZ-IFRS / German IFRS) environment
• - Streamlining reporting requirements and setup of a thin but multidimensional GL reporting stream
• - Change management for the Business Department

Migration (FI-GL/AA/AP/AR/BI):

• - In charge of all migration activities for 8 Company Codes in Australia and New Zealand
• - Preparation of migration conceptual design
• - Coordination of the migration interface development
• - Go-Live planning and support
• - Preparation and coordination of Decommissioning Strategy

Subject Matter Expert FI:

• - Responsible for the development of the FI part of the Global Reporting Template with following Modules:
• - FI-GL
• - FI-AA
• - FI-AP/AR
• - ECCS
• - Interface to BI
• - Documentation of Business and Technical design and close cooperation with BI and CO work streams
• - Design and realization of a local ECCS pre validation solution for HQ reporting data.
• - Improvement of Global reporting streams and integration of a centralized master data solution (GMD)
• - Customizing and Test of the developed solutions

Global Project Controlling:

• - Budget and Time controlling for Template Rollouts in Italy and Netherlands
• - Pre-study and project preparation for Australia Rollout.
• - Project Progress reporting to the Board.
• - Compliance Check of Rollouts and Audit coordination.
• - Local Project Team Trainings.

• - Documentation Conceptual Design of:
• - FI-GL
• - FI-SL
• - FI-AA
• - FI-AP/AR
• - Interface integration into FI
• - Interface preparation to EC-CS
• - Process analysis and Redesign
• - Change management to introduce new accounting system to business department
• - Customizing and Functional Test of FI-GL/SL/BL/AA/AP/AR
• - Migration of FI Data from Legacy System
• - Go-Live planning and support
• - Key User and End-User training (preparation and class room training)
• - Functional Test / Integration Test and User Acceptance test for FI-GL/SL/BL/AA/AP/AR.

So far:

• - Conceptualization of SAP Rollout to a Spain based subsidiary of the insurance company
• - Design of system landscape
• - Requirements Gathering and Fit-Gap Analysis
• - Creation of the RICEF Inventory (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)

• - Role of Key-Account Manager and onsite coordinator for a team of up to 7 Indian SAP Experts (MM, SD, PP, FI/CO, ABAP).
• - Project Management (Status tracking, PoC reporting)
• - Functional support for the FI-Team

• - System analysis and requirements gathering for identification of accounting, lease accounting, refinancing and controlling gaps
• - Writing of functional designs for closing of gaps in financial accounting, lease accounting, refinancing and controlling
• - Reviewing of technical designs from built team
• - Support to the test team for closing the gaps

• - Requirements gathering in Finance area
• - Fit/Gap Analysis based on multi-GAAP in newGL, contract accounting for accounts receivable and payable
• - Designing of Finance and Accounting To-Be Process in ARIS Toolset
• - Vendor selection and feasibility study for refinancing solution
• - Creation of architectural solutions for Doppel- and Triple-stock, refinancing and integration of a Bank subsidiary into the System Landscape

• - Software selection for a reporting solution to meet requirements from a parallel cost allocation project (center concept)
• - Selected software represented SAP BI with BW and BPS, various smaller own applications were to be decommissioned
• - Managing the first successful release of the reporting solution, the implementation of SAP BW with controlling and financial reports

• - Preliminary study to assess the feasibility of a Shared Service center for accounting processes for the CEEMA region (Central and eastern Europe) based affiliated companies of a leading insurance group
• - Primary objective was the isolation of processes per country (Poland, Croatia and Bulgaria in a first step) that could be centralized in opposition of processes that needed to stay local

• - In an off-shore mode, the client had been developing a new, J2E based lease contract system with accounting processes being interfaced to SAP FI (by using CSC’s ADD Middelware)
• - The responsibility of the project team consisted of conceptualization and testing of Accruals accounting processes as well as other main (batch) accounting processes such as "Sollstellung" (periodical debiting of customers), "Habenstellung" (periodical crediting of refinancing partners) and Fixed Asset Activation or deactivation from contract inceptions or terminations

• - Several historically independent affiliated companies of the Insurer’s UK and Ireland Group had to be brought on one single SAP implementation for entire back-office processes (GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, AA, Bank-Accounting and technical payments)
• - One joint Chart of accounts and harmonized accounting processes were imperative, as further projects were planned to outsource the processes into a shared service center
• - Conducting of joint workshops for requirements gathering
• - Fit Gap Analysis for all sub-ledger process (FI-AP, AR and AA)
• - Creation of business process design papers as well as technical design papers for FI-AR, FI-AP and FI-AA)
• - Coach to GL and CO team

• - Highly integrated SAP rollout to Spanish affiliated company
• - Retail and logistics driven project
• - Accounting for IFRS and local Spanish GAAP
• - Implementation of SAP FI, CO and AA according to Spanish book-keeping habits (e.g. wide use of bill of exchange accounting, withholding tax, deferred taxes)
• - Project Language Spanish

• - Business process analysis and documentation of SAP FI-AA/AP/AR in French
• - Conceptual design of a Multi-GAAP solution (HGB/US-GAAP/IFRS) based on FI-GL/SL/AA/BL with special “ESR” requirements for Switzerland bank accounting
• - Conceptual design of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and clearing process based on ESR.
• - Design of multidimensional Reporting in SAP FI-SL and build up for a replication logic to comply with Multi-GAAP reporting
• - Realization of the conceptual designs in SAP
• - Testing preparation of functional / integration and User Acceptance Testing
• - Classroom trainings in French
• - Migration preparation and Go-Live Support

• - Business process Analysis and Documentation for as-is VAT handling based on Multi-GAAP (IFRS / HGB).
• - Conceptual design of improved VAT Group setup, covering:
• o VAT report and reposting solution for FI-GL (AP/AR)
• o FI-AA customizing modification and strategy for productive Data enrichment
• - Realization of conceptual design
• - Testing and Training of accounting Key resources.
• - Implementation in productive environment

• - Business process analysis and documentation of SAP FI-AA/AP/AR
• - Conceptual design of a Multi-GAAP solution (HGB/US-GAAP/IFRS) based on FI-GL/SL/AA/BL with special “ESR” requirements for Switzerland.
• - Conceptual design of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and clearing process based on ESR.
• - Design of multidimensional Reporting in SAP FI-SL and build up for a replication logic to comply with Multi-GAAP reporting
• - Realization of the conceptual designs in SAP
• - Testing preparation of functional / integration and User Acceptance Testing
• - Classroom trainings
• - Migration preparation and Go-Live Support

• - SAP FI migration support
• - Preparation of Migration Data and design of Migration path from Legacy System to SAP FI (GL/AA/AP/AR/SL)
• - Multi GAAP migration split
• - Testing and Training of accounting key resources.

• - Coordination and realization of stabilization and improvement initiatives
• - Coordination and realization of new reporting requirements
• - Realization of the Management reporting (Planning & Analysis)
• - Conceptual design and realization of the actuarial Quota Share Tool
• - Conceptual design and realization of SAP Portal initiatives for the costing processes
• - Performance tuning measurements considering frontend and backend
• - Coaching of the general BI Support processes and guidance the Support teams
• - BEx Analyser, Query Designer, Web Query Designer, ABAP, data modeling

• - Conceptual design of a new planning and reporting template to integrate 10 ERP systems into the new leading financial feeder system for SAP BW
• - Redesign of the existing planning application in SAP BPS
• - Redesign of the established reports for the costing processes
• - Redesign of the status and tracking system to streamline the planning process
• - Realization and rollout of the implemented template for ES, PT, FR, DE

• - Conceptual design and realization of a global financial and operational reporting platform, main processes: FI-GL/FI-AR/FI-AP/FI-AA/CO-PA/CO-OM/SD/MM/PP/BI/ Portal/Flat Files
• - Planning and design of an integrated BI architecture for all major processes
• - Coordination of the migration and integration of 30 SAP Companies and 45 non-SAP Companies worldwide
• - Portal interface for maintenance and reconciliation of master and transactional data for all non-SAP countries
• - Web-Reporting for FI and CO processes (e.g. P&L-, Balance Sheet-, Cash flow Statement, Contribution margin reports)
• - Conceptual design and realization of a management consolidation logic in BI over the group, divisions and regions
• - BI Trainings for administrators, key users and end users
• - Setup and coaching of the support organization

• - Conceptual design and realization of a global planning and reporting solution to support the operational planning and budgeting process for 30 countries
• - Integration of the plans for volumes, revenues, costs, investments, contribution margins, income, balance sheet and cash flow statements
• - Implemented workflow for the planning processes using SAP NW BI and IP and Visual Basic
• - Retraction of planned budgets and investments to ERP

• - Conceptual design and realization of a financial, controlling and sales reporting template
• - Conceptual design and implementation of an integrated BI architecture
• - Realization of standard reports for the management and the sales departments
• - Analysis and conceptual design for replacement of existing planning tools by SAP NW04s IP
• - Test management and execution of trainings for key users

• - Conceptual design of an integrated planning and reporting solution for the Sales and Revenue processes for 15 countries
• - Conceptual design of the BI strategy and architecture
• - Conceptual design of a planning workflow using a stepwise status and tracking system

• - Conceptual design and implementation of a web-based cost center planning and reporting solution for 90 employees in 15 countries
• - Implementation of a status and tracking system
• - Complex enhancements of ERP master and transactional data extractions
• - Retraction of Budgets from BW to the ERP
• - Automated derivation of authorizations and roles from a customizing table maintained by the business
• - Test management, preparation and coordination of trainings

• - Integration, enhancement and support of a worldwide Sales planning application using SAP BPS
• - Redesign and performance tuning of the data flow
• - Enhancement of planning layouts and reports
• - Retraction of CO-PA to ECC

• - Development and coaching of a BW / BPS support team responsible for 26 countries
• - Design and realization of template for production volume planning (enhancement of APO-DP functionality); Rollout into 26 countries
• - Design and realization of cash management planning and reporting

• - Design and implementation of SEM-BPS enhancements for a sales planning solution
• - Implementation of Web interfaces and User exits
• - Preparation of user tests and trainings

• - Conceptual design for a global BI template implementation considering SAP BW, SAP BPS, SAP BCS, SAP APO DP, SNP, PPDS, FI, CO, PP, MM
• - Design and implementation of a corporate planning application in BW-BPS with integration of APO DP,SNP,PPDS, FI, CO
• - Implementation of integrated planning applications for sales volumes, Revenues, Deductions, Cost center, Activity Prices, Costs of goods sold, Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Capital expenditures
• - Retraction of budgets and activity prices
• - Coordination of the user acceptance tests and performance of BI trainings

• - Conceptual design of BW tuning measurements
• - Design and implementation of archives
• - Design and implementation of the BI statistics and aggregates
• - Automation of the loading processes via process chains

• - Conceptual design of the SAP BW architecture for SAP SEM-BCS, Release 3.2
• - Implementation and administration of the SAP BW system
• - Implementation of SEM-BPS functions and creation of consolidation reports
• - Coordination and implementation of an automated user solution to provide additional sub-assignments for investment consolidation
• - Coordination of integration and user acceptance tests

• - Conceptual design and implementation of the legacy transfer for the initialization of a parallel evaluation area (IAS) under SAP CFM 2.0
• - Documentation & Coordination of tests

• - Conceptual design and technical integration of the SAP modules
• - Conceptual design and implementation of the R/3 authorizations and role concept
• - Realization of batch input programs for several migration requirements in SAP
• - Testing preparation of functional / integration and User Acceptance Testing
• - Classroom trainings
• - Migration preparation and Go-Live Support

• - Conceptual design and implementation of a profitability analysis in SAP BW using contribution schemes from SAP R/3
• - Conceptual design & implementation of the available standard logistic reporting
• - Activation and enhancement of the Business Content
• - Using of the LIS / LO standard extractors

• - Conceptual design and implementation of a XML interface between SAP R/3 and SAS Business Analytics (Data Warehouse)
• - Generation of XML code for the HGB and US-GAAP posting data and enhancement of the movements
• - Automated transfer from SAP R/3 to SAS

• - Conceptual design and implementation of the paragraph §341b HGB for the evaluation of financial securities under SAP R/3
• - Automated process for the month end closing
• - Preparation and coordination of the user acceptance tests

• - Conceptual design of a global rollout template for the portfolio software WinPAM
• - Implementation of an interface between WinPAM and SAP R/3 CFM
• - Functional tests and user acceptance tests
• - Documentation and rollout support

• - Implementation of a special purpose vehicle (subsidiary company) in SAP R/3 to serve as a counterparty for swaps and other credit sensitive derivative instruments
• - Coordination of user acceptance test

• - SAP TR migration support for the treasury (stocks, bonds, cash) for several insurance companies bundled within a major investment company
• - Implementation of migration programs using SAP ABAP
• - Preparation and coordination of migration tests
• - Support of the PMO