Michael Long, Cpa, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Ashburn, VA, US

Northern Virginia

Provide Accounting and Financial Systems consulting services to large Government and Commercial Customers.

• Support Intelligence Community Customer with financial improvement and business transformation effort involving a financial system migration to an Application Service Provider environment.
• Participate in the functional and technical work sessions.
• Review business process and technical specification documents.
• Develop strategies, plans and schedules for the core financial management implementation for an Intelligence Community Agency.
• Provide project management and implementation best practice oversight to the PMO for the core financial implementation project.
• Provide thought leadership on key business transformation activities including governance, strategies and milestones.

• Managed client relationships and expectations at all levels, gathering requirements in preparation for constructing and delivering demonstrations and briefings.
• Was assigned to provide on-site technical and functional expertise to the company’s largest implementation of PeopleSoft at a critical stage in the implementation phase. Was tasked with, and successfully accomplished a.
• Reduced resolution cycle for on-site engagement for customer’s service requests from multi-month to multi-week.
• Improved relationship between Oracle and the customer by providing value added consulting services. This directly resulted in an additional $3 million dollar software order.
• Quickly learn new financial and technical software products and tools and determine how to integrate them with already existing financial applications, then build compelling briefings to appeal to the stakeholders and.
• Provided on-site expertise on several software products to customers who require technical capabilities. Consultations range from configuration review to business process re-engineering to fit gap analysis & bug/fix.

• Directed team of 6 professionals responsible for the development and support of the PeopleSoft General Ledger, Hyperion Planning & Forecasting and PeopleSoft and Hyperion Security Administration.
• Led team responsible for the full life cycle implementation of the Oracle Business Intelligence product against the PeopleSoft and Hyperion data sources.
• Led a large multi-disciplinary team responsible for the full life cycle implementation of the PeopleSoft Treasury module, including managing the vendor relationship and corporate deliverables expectations.
• Managed report development for the entire corporation utilizing the PeopleSoft and Hyperion toolsets.
• Oversaw enterprise implementation of Hyperion Planning from requirements to deployment. This effort involved resources from multiple internal sources as well as external consultants. This resulted in a greater than 30.
• Successfully guided the integration of multiple acquired entities into existing PeopleSoft and Hyperion applications.

• Managed a team of professionals responsible for the support and development of the PeopleSoft General Ledger.
• Responsible for the creation of the support framework, to include creation of a help desk, which supports over 4,000 PeopleSoft users.
• Planned and oversaw upgrade from PeopleSoft version 8.0 to 8.4.
• Jointly responsible for developing and deploying custom account reconciliation tool within PeopleSoft. This saved countless hours of manual compilation and consolidation for Accounting in preparation for compliance.
• Managed the full life cycle implementation of the PeopleSoft Asset Management module.
• Authored and delivered training for over 200 PeopleSoft General Ledger users.

• Led a full life cycle development engagement for this client, from needs analysis through implementation of version 8 of the PeopleSoft General Ledger, which included conversion from a Walker Mainframe system.
• Led a project staff responsible for creating an integrated project plan and managed efforts of multiple client personnel on numerous simultaneous project tasks.
• Successfully led a client team responsible for creating a consolidated chart of accounts from 12 separate source documents.
• Served as managing lead of a client team tasked with converting two years of general ledger history from three different legacy systems.

• Created tools and templates to accelerate the design, development, and deployment of clients’ ERP systems.
• Designed and deployed system related accounting policies and procedures based on understanding of clients’ current business structure and future business needs.
• Created project work plans and managed the efforts of project team members on multiple, simultaneous assignments in order to complete system design, development, and implementation.

• Accountable for all phases of the PeopleSoft production environment, to include production security.
• Developed and manipulated data feeder applications in PeopleSoft resulting in a 50% time improvement to complete task.
• Managed the utilization of all external information technology consulting services, including budgeting and resource allocation.
• Responsible for systems development and maintenance on the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Management & Project Costing PeopleSoft modules.
• Coordinated and conducted end-user training in conjunction with upgrades, enhancements and addition of new users.

• Appointed as liaison from Accounting Department for implementation of PeopleSoft.
• Produced custom queries and PeopleSoft nVision reports for other Accounting users.

Worked as an Internal Auditor to ensure that Bank had adequate internal controls to properly present it financial statements