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•Over twenty five years of financial and management accounting experience with Fortune 500 companies. •Fifteen years experience in managing global SAP Financial implementations, which includes 5 full life-cycle implementations.•Certified Public Accountant for fifteen years in the State of Texas.•Business Controller experience in Sales and Operations.•Industry experience in Steel, Computers and Telecommunications. •Controller experience in managing financial transformation, shared services initiatives and corporate functions.•Extensive financial management experience in procurement, supply chain management, manufacturing and sales.•Significant project management experience on a global scale in all areas of financial and integrated logistic processes. •Significant experience leading large project teams to deliver solutions with cost, quality and schedule as a critical path to success.•Facilitates discussion with senior leadership by collecting and analyzing relevant financial data used to make better decisions around operations, cost savings initiatives and profitability. •Manages analysis through the use of factual data, which mitigates risk factors and improves business decisions.Specialties: ACCOUNTING, CPA, CONTROLLER, Shared Services, Business Process Reengineering, SAP FICO, Project Management and ERP implementation, Build and Manage efficient teams, Continuous Improvement, Product Costing, Business Controller, Shared Service & FInancial Transformation projects, SAP Financial implementations, Project Manager, Financial management experience in procurement, supply chain management, manufacturing and sales. US Sales Tax : Sabrix, Vertex; SAP VAT Tax.

Listed skills include Sap, Erp, Accounting, Business Process Improvement, and 46 others.