Heath Niekamp Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Houston, Texas Area

• Led full life cycle financial system integrations for multi-national acquisitions and divestitures, from planning and budgeting through training and support
• Managed IT transformation projects for implementing system and process enhancements, in order to drive operational efficiencies and reduce overhead costs
• Managed teams that design, develop, and support financial systems, including Oracle EBS R12 (Projects, GL, AP, AR, FA), Hyperion Financial Management, and Concur
• Worked with finance executives and regional controllers to identify process transformation initiatives, and prioritize based on financial value and strategic alignment
• Drove global adoption of new processes and technologies through customized change management and training programs
• Simplified the month-end financial reporting process by designing standardized global reports and data extracts

Houston, Texas Area

• Led the implementation of Oracle EBS R12 General Ledger module for a restaurant and food manufacturing company, including design, integration, testing, and training
• Designed a detailed month-end process and timeline, incorporating new and existing financials and HR applications, to standardize and streamline the month-end close
• Designed and implemented a custom solution for allocating expenses to restaurant properties, to better analyze the complete financials for individual units

Houston, Texas Area

• Led the design and configuration of the Oracle General Ledger module during a R12.2.3 re-implementation for an international company with 200+ Legal Entities expanding across 25 different countries
• Led the design and configuration of the Subledger Accounting in order to develop subledger accounting methods to meet international statutory requirements
• Led interviews and global design workshops in order to gather requirements and decisions from key domestic and international users
• Developed functional specification documents and worked with offshore resources to implement custom objects such as data conversion programs, workflows, and an accounting flexfield mapping
• Worked directly with key client stakeholders to design a solution that best met their business requirements, and documented this solution using setup documents, key design documents, and requirements matrices.

Irving, TX

• Helped establish and design a new process within Verizon Enterprise Solutions to dynamically prioritize projects using a weighted scoring model
• Analyzed product data to define a lifecycle stage and determine priorities to pursue existing products in different countries within the APAC region
• Assisted in designing and maintaining a SharePoint site to collect 2013 capital planning data for all business cases within Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Irving, TX

• Designed and created a SharePoint dashboard, which integrates with Excel to capture and report the progress of all server builds to senior management
• Coordinated with resource managers to collect project hour estimates and open new projects in Planview
• Managed resource hour tracking for the infrastructure team within the Retail Banking line of business

Irving, TX

• Analyzed monthly resource data and performance metrics for the lines of business within Global Consumer Technology organization
• Created comprehensive Monthly Operations Performance Reviews in PowerPoint to be presented to the senior executives of each line of business

Ms, Finance, 3.91

Energy Risk Management Certificate Energy Investment Analysis Certificate Energy Finance Certificate

Bs, Computer Science, 3.93

Summa Cum Laude