David Steffel Email & Phone Number

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

David Steffel is a Data Strategy and Solutions Manager with 12+ years of business experience, including 8+ years of product owner and enablement experience. Focusing on end-to-end data solutions, user testing, and partnering between IT and business stakeholders. • Represent the data management and strategy team on the Data Strategy and Governance Council.• Lead and/or support cross-functional teams responsible for defining, building, testing and deploying enterprise digital business solutions. • Contributing to the S/4 implementation by represent the PM&DS domain coordinating over forty individuals over key areas including Contract to Cash, Acquire to Retire, Product Planning• Lead digital projects across Bayer Crop Science as business product owner in the data enablment function. • Lead data complexity assessments to build strong business cases for future projects or feature enhancements. Create effective short term and long-term project plans to ensure measures of effectiveness and suitability. Drive adoption and business value creation through liasing with business partners and SMEs. • Present status and results of data complexity assessments to leadership teams. Drive data strategies and guardrails throughout the organization. Promote the idea of data holism across the organization to oppose siloed system activities.• Lead data health surveys to collect, aggregate, analyze, and communicate user feedback. Results drive resources allocation to fixes and enhancements of data products. • Responsible for project management and status with senior management to ensure they remain informed on project status and relevant project issues. Present monthly, weekly, and daily updates to senior management regarding project status.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Assisted the Disney’s Business Security Profiles team in SAP to create adhoc reporting to facilitate better change impact and understanding of downstream impact. Worked with team to drive creation of multiple Tableau dashboards and Alteryx workflows to assist team in digital transformation away from excel reporting.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

David Steffel is an ERP Data Solutions Manager with 10+ years of business experience, including 6+ years of data modeling, end to end data solutions creation, implementing user testing, and serving as a liaison between IT, business owners and Finance stakeholders. Advanced knowledge of report solutions and BI tools including Business Objects Web Intelligence, Tableau, MicroStrategies, SQL Server Management Studios, SSIS, and SAP HANA. In depth understanding of data warehouse concepts.• Subject matter expert in internal client's business needs and requirements. Served as key solution decision-maker and advisor to management in multiple organizations including Procurement and Treasury.• Lead several projects and initiatives among the company, managing project team members and talent development.• Perform requirements analysis to derive functional and non-functional requirements.• Perform requirements management to ensure all stakeholders are aligned with overall requirements set.• Experience in SAP BOBJ Reporting and Analytics (IDT, WEBI, HANA Studio), SQL Server, Share point and Flat files.• Utilize Tableau and WEBI to create Interactive Dashboards (KPI’s) and reporting.• Draft detailed specification documents, construct workflow diagrams that accurately reflect customer systems and processes.• Derive and clarify pain-points/gaps between customer business processes and system capabilities.• Communicate with senior management regarding project progress in writing and daily meetings.• Present monthly, weekly, and daily updates to senior management regarding project status.• Report on key insights, findings, technical issues and make solution recommendations to management.• Develop audit procedures to help identify business and technical issues and facilitate both long-term and interim solution recommendations. • Experienced in collaborating and leading cross-functional teams in support of timely product releases.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Analyzed, organized, and pulled data from databases using SSMS. Projects included Risk Management Claims, Financial Management Reporting, Mobile Phones, and Income Tax.• Designed and implemented a data application for tax depreciation that saved months of time each year by eliminating the use of excel and leveraging the strengths of a relational database and MicroStrategy.• Corresponded with teams across Charter to gather requirements and created data-flow diagrams to outline new and/or evolving projects. Quantified potential risks to the data from end to end of a process. • Participated in sessions as a facilitator or modeler via in-person, WebEx, and conference calls. Key steps include identifying project objectives, limitations, deliverables and documentation requirements, timeframes, and participants. Utilized Use Cases to help capture detailed requirements. • Created process flows, mock-ups, and project breakdown – detailing the flow of information between our different processes and goes into what each process is doing so that we can achieve the project’s objectives. • Served as the liaison for our Risk Management group and Mobile group to our ERP team. This puts me in contact with business users, technical teams, and even contractors in certain instances. • Charter’s methodology can best be described as a modified waterfall model usually with parallel adoption or big bang adoption. • Supported management decisions on day-to-day operations and strategic planning with analysis and precise use of judgment and initiative to accomplish job duties.• Developed strategies to approach further trending on work comp, general liability, and auto claims throughout Risk Management, and overcoming doubt and resistance by communicating complex ideas in plain language.• Managed large projects at the direction of management and had quick success including the return of over two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of overpaid premium on Charter’s property insurance.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Assisted leadership with process improvement that drove consistency, automation, and standardization throughout the department. Several improvements led to substantial time savings including the book-to-tax reconciliation process being cut in half.• Analyzed financial data to create the maximum tax savings possible for the company while maintaining all mandatory SOX requirements.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Leadership role which involved answering employee and customer questions of a complex and/or escalated nature pertaining to customer escalations and damage claims.• Assisted in the development of a system which allowed for data to be recorded in electronic interdepartmental forms and reported to Management Areas to show trends and characteristics of damage claims.• Subject matter expert in all three lines of business: telephone, internet, and video. Worked as a liaison between the customer and upper management to resolve complex issues in a timely and efficient manner.