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Senior Manager responsible for thought leadership and successful delivery of financial consolidation and planning systems on the SAP platform. Recent Go Lives BPC10.0 - Feb 2020Real time Consolidation S41709 -Feb 2020

Manager responsible for successful delivery of financial consolidation and planning systems on the SAP platform. Recent Go Lives Real time Consolidation S41709 -Feb 2019BPC 10.1 Standard Consolidation + Planning and BW Cost Center Accounting Reporting S41610 -March 2018BPC 10,1 Standard Consolidation upgrade to BW7.5 on HANA. March 2017

BPC Application Technical ArchitectSpecializing in SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC)Responsible for evaluating current systems, designing new processes, building, testing, deployment and support of the new processes. Additionally, I develop custom end user training courses for BPC and deliver this training in both classroom style and one on one formats. Interconnected objects developed include but are not limited to: Script Logic (BPC), Standard and Custom Data Manager Packages(BPC),Business Rules (BPC), Controls (BW and BPC),Validations(BW and BPC),Reports (BPC),Forms (BPC),Data Loads including Flat-files (BPC),Security(BPC and BW related to BPC),Dimensions (BPC),Models (BPC),Business Process Flows (BPC),Robust supporting documentationAnd more..Additional Skills:Rational Quality ManagerRational Team ConcertDesigned and Built a custom testing solution on the above tools. System was scalable and was used in 3+ testing phases of our project as well as an entire other project.

The Sun Products Corporation is a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of fabric care and household products with annual sales of more than $2 billion. SAP FI, CO, SD, BPC Consolidation modules were implemented.Duties Include:Assisted in all aspects of implementing the 7.5MS BPC module, Designed and delivered user reference manuals for use with the consolidation, planning, and compmodel applications Assisted in implementation of cost center Planning and CompModel applicationsReplaced complex spreadsheet-based reporting packages with business rules logic and property-driven calculations.Assisted in post go-live data collection, and validationCurrently:Building a proof of concept consolidation application in NW7.5 development environment to test for any migration issues

Tomlinson and Company is a BPC consulting firm. We have done contract work with Ernst and Young, IDS Scheer, and Deloitte Consulting.Duties Include:Assisting in implementation of the BPC modules, with various companies and systems using BPC 7.0MS and BPC 7.5MSCreated training manuals with step by step instructions and screenshots of 7.5MS system. Materials covered include Admin tasks (Creating App sets, Security, etc.), User tasks (Report building, Journals, Input templates, use of functions, etc), and Advanced User tasks(creating distribution lists and running the offline distributor/collector, using the EvHot function, etc)Proficient at report and input schedule creationCreated of Transformation and conversion files for data imports, Data Validation, Foreign currency translationUsed Script logic to push data between cubesCreated Custom menus, with links to reports, input schedules.Setup up security, member access profiles, teams, and task regulations.Used BPC for powerpoint, web and word.Currently:Attending BPC10.0 Mega Elite training on Nov. 14,2011