My Differentiator/Brand COMBINES:1) Oracle ERP consultant - Cost Mgmt + Cost Acctg (including TAD & SLA) and Core Financials (27 yrs, hands-on-keyboard in the details)2) Business process SME - Counsel on Finance process & strategic ERP, Leading Practices, transformation3) 16 years hands-on industry Finance jobs - Accounting/Analysis/FP&A, Oracle ERP roles, plant controller4) Undergrad - Top-tier US Accounting programDetailed experience:- R2R whiteboard+detail skills- Oracle Fins ERP: Cloud & EBS - Strong in comparing/contrasting- 23 yrs hands-on Oracle EBS proficiency: Cost Mgmt (incl. COGS strategy) / OPM Financials / Oracle Fin modules- 7 yrs hands-on Oracle Cloud proficiency: GL AP AR Collections FA CM Tax, Cost Accounting- Yrs-long industry acctg and finance experience (“in the belly of the beast”) & Yrs-long consultant- Finance bus. process advisory (e.g. COA design, work analysis, org restructure), ERP engagements, and combined- Cloud GL-2019 Certif Implem Specialist- Translates Oracle-speak into CFO-friendly terminology- ERP engagements: Pursuits, remediation, optimization, health checks, upgrades, net-new- CPA, Acctg & Finance degrees- Agile ERP implementations- Visionary - “CFO’s Team of the Future”Best fit: When CFO seeks consultative, hands-on approach to employing ERPM to gain improvements in financial processes/reporting/analysis, employing Leading Practices around people/process/technology/data to attain this objective“The glue” between business and the ERP technologyStudent of Frontier TechnologiesHelping clients optimize financial processes: The “How” (how you would best do the task in ERP) AND the “Why” (why you would you do it that way). Extensive experience in the client’s shoes has provided me with this business-focused insightOverall Background:- Public acctg, industry accounting/analysis, ERP consulting- Domestic & intl, including Big 4- Counseling client Finance groups in leveraging of ERP- ERP R2R background, expert knowledge of subledger transactions driving JEs & fin reporting- S-Ox complianceOracle ERP Functional Skills:- Finance modules - Cloud & EBS- Cloud & EBS-Discrete (Std / Avg / Actual) & OPM Costing- Project Mfg- Process design- Continuous Closing- Subl Acctg (SLA) mapping:AP AR FA Receipt OPM Discr. Cost, Cloud CostNon-ERP Skills and Industry Positions:- GL accountant & FA- Plant controller- FP&A analyst, ABC costing- Margin analyst Cost acctant- Operations fin analyst- 150+ month-end fin closes in industry- Process automation - Led test script automation initiative