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Sønderborg, Dk

Denmark, Brande/Vejle

Primary responsibilities include.- Forecasting HR costs- Controlling of payroll liabilities- Training business controllers in forecasting salary related cost- Alignment between HR and controlling & accounting departments- Responsible for audits of payroll liabilities- Calculating budget input for salary related cost for all cost centersSkills learned:- Vastly expanded my payroll knowledge- Vastly expanded my HR SAP knowledgeAchievements:- Greatly reduced cost related to unused vacation penalties- Implementation and knowledge sharing of the new Holiday Act 2020- Clean-up of large backlogs on balance accounts- Created a calculation for the yearly long service accrual, which was previously outsourced

Denmark - Nordborg

Primary responsibilities include.- Monthly reporting for management- Monthly spend reporting for projects- Capitalization of projects- Controlling of total cost for IT- Finance training for project or delivery managers- Process alignment with business controller in the USSkills learned:- Vastly expanded my BI knowledge- Good knowledge of structure and connections in Cloudcoach- Limited use of HFMAchievements:- Setup capitalization of projects after changing project management systems.- Getting IT project assets and their capitalization under control.- Increased transparency and validity of forecasting, by training the organization in required finance tools.- Increased transparency of global costs by ensuring a uniform mapping in BI for all IT entities.- Became the go-to controller for non-Danish speaking project managers and delivery managers.

Denmark - Nordborg

Primary responsibilities include.- Calculations and analysis of delivery capacity.- Analysis of forecast deviations.- Finding solutions to merger related financial issues.- Describing and explaining financial terms.- Invoicing of IT projects and summarizing assets under construction (AUC). - Deliver input for management reports of project finances and KPI's.- Controlling for senior director's project cost center.Skills learned- Better at spotting problems and warning signs in processes.Achievements- Managing invoicing of project related IT cost for two merging companies.

Denmark - Nordborg

Primary responsibilities include- Invoicing of IT projects and summarizing assets under construction (AUC). - Deliver input for management reports of project finances and KPI's.- Controlling for senior director's project cost center. - Remote and on-site training of a Chinese PMO Assistant.Skills learned- Expanded my knowledge of SAP transactions used for controlling.- A better understanding of Chinese culture.Achievements- Optimizing Invoicing procedure and reducing time used by 80%- Managing project development assets.- Summarizing KPI's

Denmark - Sonderborg

Primary responsibilities include- Maintaining master data and creating projects in MS project server.- Creating internal orders (IO) in SAP for cost collection- Categorization of projects for management reporting.Skills learned- MS Project Professional. How project and portfolio management is linked.Achievements:- Setup data in a report to ensure invoicing and follow up methods. (The SAP system which used to handle invoicing, was shut down).- Automating unnecessary steps in time reporting.- Automatic updating of project data in reports.

Denmark - Sonderborg

Primary responsibilities include- Maintaining user data in SAP- Transforming database exports into presentable overviews- Assisting with minor PMO tasks, general ad hoc tasks.Skills learned- Working with database data in spreadsheets.

Denmark - Sonderborg

Primary responsibilities include- Develop a pilot database for handling IT service contracts, based on the knowledge I gained as a trainee in the department.Skills learnedMS Access as well as knowledge of how databases work.

Denmark - Nordborg

Primary responsibilities include - Basic tasks in 4 different departments (6 months each). AP, Payroll, Pay office (mainly handling travel expenses), and IT Account Management.Skills learnedSAP HR, SAP FI, Invoice flow E&H, Excel expert (presenting database data as readable report)AchievementsAutomation of travel expense transfers to paymentsAutomation of sending IT service contracts

United States - Baltimore

Primary responsibilities include.- Accounts payableSkills learned- SAP-FI, Invoice flow E&H- A better understanding of American culture.