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Walldorf, Bw, De

Executive Advisory and Architecture, Customer Innovation Office

Walldorf, Bw, De

· Sales Support: Solution captaining deals consisting of SaaS, ERP, Business Technology Platform, and solution extensions for customers across 25 industries earning $64.7 million in bookings, with $32.3 million of deals in process. · Trusted Advisor: Collaborating with customers, breaking down business requirements and technical constraints to understand their short and long-term needs. Designing solutions and deployment strategies and collaborating on designing business processes to use the software solution effectively.· Technical Expertise: Global business experience across complex solutions for Cloud, PaaS, SaaS, enterprise software, database and data management, analytics, intelligent technologies, application development and integration.

Walldorf, Bw, De

· Center of Excellence: I led the largest North American SAP S/4HANA data migration project to date. Develop and maintain best practices. Mentoring and training SAP and Partner consultants. Technical product development and field testing. Typical customer projects include de-escalation service team leader, ramp-up coach, design thinking workshops, architecture and innovative POC’s.· Implementation Consultant: Collaborating with the customer and service team to discuss configuration options, and develop a statement of work, timelines, deliverables, and resourcing.· Data Migration Lead: Lead data architect responsible for coordinating/managing migration project workstream deliverables. Typical workstreams involved cross functional teams of SAP, Customer and SI Partners working together to perform business requirements analysis, functional/technical design, configuration, customization, implementation, performance optimization, control design and business process design/reengineering/change management. · Polished Presenter: Instructional skills and personable demeanor coupled with extensive product knowledge and a broad range of practical experience to deliver highly effective knowledge transfer. · Data Management Expert: Extensive experience creating end to end solutions to deliver data governance based on best practices covering data quality, data management, data policies, business process controls and management, and data risk management.· Data Integration Expert: Designing and implementing solutions integrate customer systems.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed SOX (Sarbanes Oxley 404) IT control strategy across McDermott Incorporated, JRay McDermott and The Babcock and Wilcox Company, carried out by three teams of six people.• Managed control rationalization efforts to align IT controls company wide to justify and negotiate with external auditors for a 35% reduction in control count.• Provided a service as Protiviti Governance Portal knowledge expert / application administrator. Managed all aspects of development, configuration, customization, integration, reporting, resolved all end user performance issues, researched and delivered new tool functionality.• Performed special projects upon managements request (HR, IT, SAP Security, AP, Materials Engineering, Accounting, etc.). Developed a methodology to data mine and catalog anomalies, collaborate with management on adverse condition definition, develop business logic to detect adverse conditions, data extraction and transformation requirements, reporting and analytics for remediation and tracking (examples include SAP vendor master cleanup project, duplicate payments analysis, vendors with a high frequency of sequential invoice numbers, vendor-employee relationships, HCM HR records management)• Automated manual internal control processes by implementing SAP GRC (Governance Compliance and Risk) implementation team configuring Process Controls versions 2.5 and 3.0.• Consulted with control owners and members of the internal controls team to identify their reporting needs to perform controls, identified SAP delivered control solutions to accomplish their objectives where possible, developed data structures in SAP to aggregate data required for reporting, and wrote ABAP queries to provide extended functionality beyond the scope delivered by SAP GRC. Ultimately, my co-innovation work with the SAP GRC Product Team is why SAP hired me.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Partnered with business and senior management to properly assess key risk factors or operational processes requiring review.• Managed audit planning, fieldwork, findings, recommendations and reporting of internal IT audit activities for worldwide BMC activity. • Managed an eight member IT audit team through SOX testing, internal audits and special projects.• Recruited, hired, developed and retained a highly competent audit staff comprised of business professionals with public accounting, internal audit, information systems, operations and specialty backgrounds.• Created opportunities for professional growth and career opportunity within the company. • Coordinated all aspects of IT SOX testing efforts with external auditors.• Designed and implemented SOX benchmark standards for custom reports testing.• Developed and delivered training on SOX documentation standards.• Assessed UAT on revenue accounting enhancement for Oracle 11i.• Collaborated with IT, revenue accounting and finance on long term strategy for Oracle upgrade to 12i vs. revenue accounting and order entry bolt-on in Oracle 11i (project phase 2).• Partnered with IT on concur (travel and entertainment expense reimbursement) application upgrade, implementation strategy, and deployment schedule.• Designed and implemented the approach to integrated audits currently used by BMC.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed, led, and performed IT, forensic, and integrated audits.• Partnered with management to identify and address process and control issues.• Managed, led, and performed all phases of the audit process (conducted discovery meetings, developed business profile documents, performed risk assessments, wrote audit programs, created flowcharts and narrative process documentation for work papers, performed control test procedures, reviewed and approved senior and staff auditor workpapers for adequacy and completeness, wrote draft and final reports, provided performance evaluations for staff and senior auditors, closed out audit work papers, coordinated and held audit closing meetings with key management and executives).• Provided guidance to auditees in the identification or design of preventive, detective or corrective controls to ensure accountability is appropriately assigned and accepted for all open issues, and to ensure action plans adequately mitigate or resolve the issues in a timely manner. • Scheduled, led and performed follow-up audits to confirm action plans have been completed, and to assess deviations from the originally agreed upon action plan to ensure an acceptable level of reasonable assurance is maintained.• Communicated audit and special project results to all levels of management in the company (wrote annual plan status reports (forensic projects), held interim audit meetings, coordinated and delivered special project gate reviews, wrote draft and final audit reports, and planed and held closing meetings.• Maintained collaborative relationships with key members of management from various process areas to maintain my awareness of initiatives, new technology being evaluated/implemented, and any pertinent change in the business processes.• Collaborated on and developed portions of the annual plans for IT audit and forensic audit.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Served as a liaison between IT audit and operational audit.• Served as a subject matter expert for the audit department on all aspects of SAP (security, researching useful reports for operational audit testing, and ad hoc tool development), project management, forensic procedures (data extraction, data manipulation, analysis, CAAT tool development, continuous auditing tools development, and CSA).• Created a platform and departmental standards for the development of all the CAAT tools and continuous auditing tools.• Created Halliburton’s first SAP security segregation of duty matrix.• Created numerous ABAP queries, infoset queries, and quick viewer queries in SAP. Examples include: tools for customer consignment stock tracking/reconciliation, automated judgmental inventory sampling tool, blocked invoice display with history, after the fact PO sampling tool, Vendor W-9 TIN export for IRS bulk matching, same person post & park report, duplicate vendor analysis report, etc.• Developed forensic audit testset for the following: corporate procurement cards, accounts payable (duplicate payments, sequentially numbered vendor invoice analyzer, summarization of activity by operator, vendor T&C analyzer, period matching cutoff testset, etc.).• Configured SAP’s audit information systems tool.• Constructed several audit specific report trees in SAP.• Wrote numerous SAP selection and display variants to facilitate standard operational audit testing.• Co wrote a CSA secrecy-voting application using SSL to facilitate CSA workshops.• Created tools to perform statistical analysis: Benford's Law, Zipf’s Law, round number testing, numerical and attributes frequency testing, chi2 independence testing, forensic red flag score calculator, etc.• Wrote an automated database application to extract network problem tickets from a customized outlook form, run a series of test routines, and then generate management reports.