Program Manager, Senior Project Manager and Manager Finance & Controlling Solutions
itelligence Consulting
Total years of experience :31 years, 7 Months
Global Template and Transformation projects for itelligence in China. Mentor for Project Managers.
Established an S/4 HANA competence centre in Asia focusing on S/4 HANA transformations and methodologies. Digital Workplace Transformation Project for Itelligence.
CRRC, Positec, Haitain, CITIC Daicastal, LGMG Heavy Machinery, CIMC, SICK China, BorgWarner.
1. PMO setup and establishment in Saudi Arabia for around 40 projects
2. Project audits and improvement recommendations
3. Project methodology
4. Resource allocation and costing with Delivery Managers
5. Direct engagement on projects as requested by Kaar or clients (Saudia, NOMAC, Cristal)
1.SAP Applications Management and Services are delivered to Exalogic customers
2.Contribute to the development and delivery of SAP Solutions
3.Provide high quality management information on customer service levels
Projects: -
Private Client: - Improve support for client. Engage stakeholders through Joint Business Planning. Re-focus on incident and ticket completion within SLA. Special focus on GRC and Fiori. Modules covered GRC(AC/PC), HCM with ESS/MSS, PM/EAM with LAM, FICO with BPC, BI dashboards.
Property Management Support Project: - Focus on requirements and issues list from go-live with Wipro. Special focus on Flexible RE-FX issues, BI dashboards, HCM and financial matters
1.Assist with pre-sales activities for all foreign potential clients in China and conduct program management for all foreign clients in China, clients are Magna, Faurecia, Benteler, GKN.
2.Establish a project management committee to assist with project management improvements.
3.SAP global template for one of the BorgWarner plants in China. Project Manger from realisation phase until go-live. Special processes include KanBan, Scheduling agreements in MM and SD, Supplier Workplace, documentary batch management and EDI for two big customers. Project was delivered successfully to the client. This then enabled itelligence to conduct the next project in Wuhan, China for Remy a new subsidiary of BorgWarner..
Joint Business Planning - Responsible for recording and planning for execution of the global requirements to sustain the business challenges into the future. Includes proof of concept and best of breed solutions.
Management of the SAP Competency Centre team of 30 people to support SAP in Cristal globally and to build a foundation for SAP continuous improvement.
Current Projects:-
(Business Objects dashboards on HANA)
Yanbu Simplicity - continuous improvement for MM and FI
Opentext - VIM
Global Treasury Management (loans, SPOT, Interest Rate Swaps)
CAPEX with IM/PS improvements (focus on SAP PPM)
Solution Manger (ALM) - with a heavy focus on chaRM and Incident Management
Training Improvement with Workforce Performance Builder
Financial Shared Services
Assist with pre-sales activities, sucessfully selling ITelligence solutions to Chinese local SME’s. Explaining SAP project phases and answering specific questions about what ITelligence and SAP can offer to the SME, covering production with forecast & inventory improvements, CRM with sales and service improvements.
Establish a project management committee to assist with project management improvements.
Build a full working CRM 7.0 prototype to use for business demonstration and review.
Belden Phase 2 project for INET and Cables products. Completed project scoping, preparation, blueprint, realisation/confirmation and go-live.
Establish Belden MDM/MDG project with initial focus on material master and reducing the number of SKU’s
Successfully completed the financial side of Belden Phase 3 Cables Project and completed demo/proof of concept for the variant configuration side of the project.
1. Conducting a business improvement project for the China, Hong Kong and Japan offices. Responsible for smooth running of the SAP system and environment in China. Conducted special requirements for the business where it does not fit within the SAP standard, eg China government reporting template with Deloitte, automate warehouse processes, freight/customs & Japan subcontracting. Roles cover SD, MM, FI, CO modules for which over 50 requirements have been successfully implemented.
2. Prepared scope and costing for the US and EU (Germany, France and UK) implementation projects. Configuring a template system based on original requirements gathering questionnaire and business process review.
3. Project Manager and Leader for Charmant UK SAP Project
Responsible for requirements gathering, project budget/resourcing and timeframe controls, cutover task list, data takeover management
Management of development process (forms and reports) with external developers
Management of external functional consultants when required during realisation phase.
Change Control Board setup fro better global controls against local requirements.
Requirements cover: EU taxes, ATP special rules (no APO), sales VOFM routines and SD userexits,
Manage and provide technical leadership for SAP Projects on behalf of the company. Discuss critical items and project weekly reports with key stakeholders for our clients. Managing numerous Chinese consultants on projects, providing technical advice and providing solutions regarding SAP and BPP for our clients. Below is a list of projects and dates:
- JIT Solutions / AIKI (Honda Automobile) Project: Provide support and business improvements in PP and CO modules for the client in Guangzhou, China. Initially resolved numerous gaps between the business process and SAP and implemented controls for changing SAP (master data and configuration
- Review CRM 2004 for possible new client, focus on campaigns and opportunity / lead management and then prepare comparison against current Java development project.
Sony and Panasonic Support Project: Review current problems that had arisen using SAP and provide solutions for our consultants. Present these solutions to upper management. Review new requirements raised by internal management of the companies with Change Control Board.
-Iriso Global Project: responsible for key CO-PC, CO-ML, CO-
Regional Leader for China Operations: Handling business requirements, management of a support team of 11 staff and supervise the development process. Configuration in (SD/MM/FI/CO/HR), business process management improvements for divisions (metals, chemicals, food & textiles), enhancements, resource allocation, costing and trading business scenarios.
Items:
BReal Enhancement Project - Analyse AS-IS and find best fit in SAP, identify costs and benefits.
Implement special purpose ledger for fiscal year subproject.
Implement complex payment functions / banking
China Government reporting guidelines and FX
Management.
Contract Management and FX Management
JIT delivery, scheduling agreements with MRP with Sony China.
Improve the usage of profitability analysis and reporting
Personal Administration (HR)
Manage monthly EC-CS functions and maintain the
configuration and master data.
SD (combined billing, credit management, copy control
with routine development, ABAP developments - status
reports)
CO-Material Ledger
spoken English to children between the ages of 11 and 15 in Hubei province. This was temporary until I felt settled to life in China after departing Australia.
Managing the Lands Tenure Ledger (value $6.8 billion dollars). Tasks include, Unix administration, SQL scripting, testing new functions, month end processing, and understanding Tuxedo and Ingres tools.
Analysing and developing an interface into SAP for billing and refunds.
Explaining to students the use of information systems in an organisation. Benefits realisation of implementing an enterprise system. Project phases, implementation process and using the modules in SAP.
Items:
Sales process (order to cash)
Procurement process (RFQ to payment)
Production process (BOM, MRP, order, warehouse)
Financial process (balance sheet, income statement, recurring entries)
HRM (personnel administration, timesheets and payroll
Building queries in Oracle Data Browser, administering and assessing the exploration industry in Queensland and managing the Management Information System for exploration activities.
Identifying improvement in the Organisations ERP called the Mines Tenure Database (MTDB), through user specifications and enhancements.
Test the functionality proposed in the tutorials and assignments in SAP Business Warehouse (BW) for subject ITB267 and ensure that students do not have any problems in conducting the tutorials and assignments. Covered the whole spectrum of BW functions including data mining.
Implement the MM module in the organisation as well as expanding into other areas of SAP as the implementation was conducted quicker than expected.
Items:
Analyse AS-IS process and TO-BE process and identify best solution. Present to BOM on my findings and then conduct small project for each issue and solution.
SAPscript development (purchase order, RFQ and FI-AR invoice)
Maintaining training documentation
Training new employees (reporting in SAP)
Configuration (MM-RFQ/PR/PO, release strategy, validations, and substitutions)
Improve the configuration of assets (especially based on revaluations) and internal orders (AUC)
Developing SAP queries / infosets, CATT’s
System administration (users, security and CCMS)
Group Financial Reporting through TR-FM
Building queries in Oracle Data Browser, administering and regulating the exploration industry in Queensland and managing the Management Information System for exploration activities.
Items:-
Native Title impacts (legislation and processes)
Environmental Act impacts
Writing queries for reporting purposes
Configuration of the IMG and testing new functions added into SAP. Maintaining the integrity of SAP financial modules, including Controlling and Materials Management modules. Assistance to other officers concerning general ledger movements, bank reconciliation and interfaces to SAP. When required administering Security and CCMS.
Items
Developing reports in report painter / report writer
Workflow (FI-AP and MM processes)
EBS Bank Statement
Basis (security) / Security Administration
MM release strategy / RFQ and PR
Treasury Funds Management(TR-FM)
AP F110 EFT, cheque management and AR BPP
End of month and year activities in SAP with Accountants
HR Aurion interface to SAP
Conduct upgrade from 3.1H to 3.1I
Business improvement project for MM and FI modules
Develop adhoc queries and simple ABAP development reports for audit review
Assets Management configuration and consider influence from the AAS Board.
The identification of current business processes within the Department of Mines and Energy. Configuring and testing the SAP Financial System, these include the following:
FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-GL & FM (cash management and budget control).
FI-AA - (asset classes and account determination)
Controlling (budgets, activity types and reports)
Interfaces to SAP (Aurion Payroll and MERLIN Receipting
Tenure Management System)
Bank Reconciliation (SAP System) using EBS
SAPscript Enhancements (e.g. invoices, receipts, statements)
MM Release Strategy for Purchase Orders
ABAP enhancements (e.g. cheque extraction, payroll tax, BSB / bank account reconciliation, vendor auditor reports)
Treasury FM improvement (SAP bugs)
Segregation of duties matrix analysis with BASIS consultant
Reconciling officer’s data entry, cheque management, clearing payments, vendor analysis, and the supervision of (2) two staff.
Also included in budget management processes, especially in collection of data and identifying holes in the budget forecast. Manage special projects for financial management (taxi vouchers, usage of fuel cards, phone costs management).
Attend meetings to discuss financial management issues and assisting with end of year financial reporting.
Indexing and classifying of mail, attaching mail to files, file movement within the department and system administration. Setup procedures on how to use the records management system
Implement records management for another organisation and setup controls for controlling how information is used and recorded in the organisation.
Designing and implementing an archiving strategy for the organisation (paper and digital records).
File census runs, action ministerial mail and archiving projects. Assisting senior management in understanding information management and setting up controls for data and information in the organisation. Conducted multiple special projects in improving the control and management of information within the organisation.
for China Operations: Handling business requirements, management of a support team of 11 staff and supervise the development process. Configuration in (SD/MM/FI/CO/HR), business process management improvements for divisions (metals, chemicals, food & textiles), enhancements, resource allocation, costing and trading business scenarios.
Items:
Analyse AS-IS and find best fit in SAP, identify costs and benefits as part of the BReal Enhancement Project.
Implement special purpose ledger for fiscal year sub-project.
Implement complex payment functions / banking
Configure and test Dunning
China Government reporting guidelines and FX Management.
Contract Management and FX Management
JIT delivery, scheduling agreements with MRP with Sony China.
Improve the usage of profitability analysis and reporting
Personal Administration (HR)
Manage monthly EC-CS functions and maintain the configuration and master data.
SD (combined billing, credit, management, copy control with routine development, ABAP developments - status reports)
Prepare business case for usage of the Material Ledger
PCA BS / PL reporting and CO-PA configuration.
Output Form Overview and Enhancements
Also focusing on SAP, eg workflow, basis, and business cases