Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Chief Data Management Expert with proven leadership skills and business acumen - Internal Business Data Consultant and Finance Data Object Owner at SAP facilitating data management processes and enabling data quality frameworks - Broad experience related to leading and managing projects, teams and functions on a global level across business areas
- lead the teams responsible for the evaluation, approval and the processing of Master Data changes across Accenture’s SAP and SAP-related systems and for safeguarding the integration of this data between dependent applications - develop and execute workplans to manage large scale and complex projects that integrate the use of business data across Accenture’s processes and functions, i.e. the system implementation of operating model and other re-organization changes, semi-annual compensation and rate updates etc. - serve as the single-point-of-contact on behalf of the business with respect to the Accenture SAP Master Data model, enterprise-wide issues and major design changes - work with the SAP Information Security Architect to identify and implement security requirements for Master Data maintenance work with the SAP Learning & Knowledge Management Lead to identify and implement content changes for communications, reference and training materials - work with the business owners/leads and legacy application owners in defining the business requirements for the use of SAP Master Data and to understand and analyze the impact of changes to this data or its attributes - work with the CIO Product Management teams to design and develop the implementation approach for changes to SAP Master Data - assign and balance workload of Service Center resources - develop and supervise the Business Data Architecture team resources (10 direct reports)
- responsible for the global end-to-end process of collecting, validating and processing time & expense data of all Accenture employees (approximately 170,000), this entailed: interfacing data from decentralized reporting tool, processing in SAP and transfer to controlling (CO) and reporting modules - managed bi-weekly global processing cycles and provided metrics to internal clients - managed a Super User network to ensure local support to employees - coordinated issue resolution (troubleshooting) in collaboration with application support teams in compliance with service level agreements - responsible to prioritize, plan, implement and test functional enhancements / error resolutions in SAP - supervised a global team of 5 direct reports in 4 different locations (United States, Ireland, China and Argentina)
- developed an integrated plan (design, build, test, deploy) to implement a SAP SEM-BCS solution at a german commodity group - analyzed, designed and implemented intercompany processes as part of a SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation project, served as sub-team lead
- coordinated and directed monthly financial and management reporting and consolidation processes entailing 400 legal entities, 6 divisions, 60 business units - coordinated monthly management reporting to the Board of Directors - responsible for the reporting and consolidation system (SAP SEM-BCS) - stabilized and improved reporting processes and funcionalities of the application in collaboration with business and CIO teams - served as project sub-team lead and responsible for the system related implementation of IFRS accounting principles (replacing US-GAAP) - managed re-organization project and adjusted historical segment reporting due to new division structure - supervised 3 direct reports
- responsible for monthly, quarterly and annual processing and evaluation of the consolidated group management reporting (Key Performance Indicator (KPI) based) - responsible for the Management Information System (SAP EIS) and web-based online reporting tool - managed 6 direct reports (5 specialists, 1 assistant) including performance management process, hiring - served as Reporting and Go-Live sub-team lead within global project to implement an integrated reporting, corporate accounting and consolidation system (SAP SEM-BCS)
- handled monthly processing and evaluation of KPIs within the management reporting process - maintained the Management Information System (SAP EIS), implemented organization structure changes in EIS, migrated KPIs as part of an M&A integratiion project