Michael Lopes Email & Phone Number

United States

Dublin, Ie

Promoted to Oversee all IT Applications Globally. Responsible for Departmental budgets and staffing levels across multiple global locationsWork with Leadership Team on cloud strategyOversee Cloud as well as On Prem projects in Weatherford's Hybrid environmentOversee IT audits relating to Weatherford's SOX systems

Dublin, Ie

• Role expanded to provide oversight for All Weatherford ERP applications globally to include JD Edwards (Financials/Procurement/Sales/Manufacturing), Peoplesoft (HR), Infinium (Payroll)• Responsible for oversight of all New Projects/enhancements and Support escalations within the applications landscape• Took over budget responsibility for Cost Center overseeing applications • Work in close coordination with IT leader to decide on staffing levels based on current and planned initiatives • Work with external vendors as needed when augmenting staff for Project Specific Work• Review Statement of Work with other leadership members of IT team to ensure it meets objectives

Dublin, Ie

• Recruited back by IT to provide oversight for Critical cross functional projects within JD Edwards that go across multiple modules and work with Financial Reporting team on projects• Role expanded to take over Finance tower including having team reporting to me and provide guidance and direction to team• Role expanded further to include oversight of Peoplesoft team (HR applications) in addition to finance team• Responsible for setting overall team goals, mentoring team members, hiring new project resources, providing governance to both Finance and HR projects and working on budgets with application director for both teams• This role entails co-ordination with senior stake holders within Accounting, Treasury, HR and Audit functions to work with them to understand their vision for Projects and then work with the team to execute the projects using internal and external resources• Peoplesoft projects have included working with an external vendor for running Weatherford’s 2018 merit pay cycle. Other major projects have included building an interface between an external tool tracking Contractors and Peoplesoft. Also, worked with various teams to fix Onboarding processes for employees and Contractors.• JD Edwards projects have included leadership on various Divestiture Projects, Chart of Accounts restructure as well as Inflationary currency reporting changes for Argentina • Led the Annual Security Role Reviews within the company to ensure that roles with elevated access for any identified SOX systems are ran through certification process using SailPoint tool.• Also responsible for working with Support teams for Peoplesoft as well as JDE team based both onshore as well as offshore to ensure that day to day critical issues are escalated and fixed where needed

Dublin, Ie

This role was on the business side working to collaborate with IT to improve and automate accounting tasks. Worked with users in the Accounting group both at Corporate and at various locations to look at opportunities for using IT to standardize processes. Was part of team also responsible for offshore relationship with outsourcing partner and worked with the partner’s resources to identify areas within areas offshored to them that we could also standardize. • Automated Weatherford’s Inter Company Accounting to reduce one of the key bottlenecks to efficient closing at Weatherford. • Responsible for creating streamlined recon processes between subsystems and GL • Worked with offshore partner to move tasks from various region offices to offshore location thus reducing costs and headcount

Dublin, Ie

Responsible for Global oversight for Weatherford’s ERP applications including JD Edwards and SAP. I led a team of approx 24 analysts in 5 global locations (Houston, London, Dubai, Mumbai and Buenos Aires) including responsibility for budget, hiring decisions, providing leadership and oversight to the teams• Streamlined support organization, delegated authority and responsibilities enhancing ability of support organization to meet business challenges timely.• Provided stability to group at a time of significant change within IT organization. • Provided leadership to fix complex issues that could have negatively impacted reporting timelines.• Involved in multiple aspects relating to acquisitions and divestitures including researching options for the transaction during confidentiality phase, data extractions, validations, security discussions and end user support post transaction closing

Dublin, Ie

• Escalation resource for all major JD Edwards System issues.• Lead small software enhancement projects through full project life cycle to include analyze requirements, design software enhancements, work with developers through coding cycles, perform beta testing and provide support post production release.• Led, trained, and mentored finance support personnel regarding their professional development and in-depth understanding of software applications/modules.• Led and supported special projects especially relating to finance and tax departments

Dublin, Ie

Acted as primary source for all Operational Finance escalations including cross module integrations. Led corporate led finance projects including special projects related to Divestitures and Audit Remediation• Defined automated withholding process for Inter Company billings which was key to allowing Weatherford to get through its material weakness remediation. Supported the global PCard program in areas such as auto-upload to JDE and multi-currency Out of Pocket Expense reimbursement process and designed custom interface programs used for AP payments. • Served as Finance resource for automating commission payments using Sales commission files and JDE Accounts Payable voucher ‘Z’ files.• Mapped JDE finance files to other tools used for data analysis by various departments. • Completed special Finance projects, included creating an Intercompany billing process for recurring corporate items such as Interest, Management Fees, and Royalties. • Designed and implemented Electronic Payment Processes including primary resource for mapping electronic payment interfaces for numerous countries, including USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Germany

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• Project Manager for Phase I (Finance and Distribution) while also handling Finance duties. Responsible for overall project implementation including resource scheduling, overall data conversion from legacy to production, finance system setup and all DMAAI’s for distribution modules, created CRP scrips for testing finance systems, trained users, and provided live support while completing project at F. Korbel & Bros private champagne and wine producer in Napa Valley, CA. • Completed finance troubleshooting and fixed integrity issues related to Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable for Diamond of California nut processing company based in Central Valley, CA.• Acted as Finance Lead for finance module, analyzed finance module requirements and suggested configuration, and set up DMAAI’s for Aristasoft application service provider based in California

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• Performed business analysis and design for financial module, trained for super users and end users and completed conversion of data from legacy system for Bhandari Industries, a packaging provider company in Pune, India.• Completed troubleshooting of data integrity issues related to finance module for JB Chemicals, a pharma company based in Mumbai, India.

Chartered Accountant, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General