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Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Solutions architect focusing on new business line enablement within the Financial Systems and Payouts domain.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

- Engineering Manager of two Financial System's teams:-- Operations team responsible for keeping the lights on for a suite of Financial SAAS tools centered around enabling the areas of Financial MEC, traditional procurement, and travel+expense.-- Functional Analyst team responsible for identifying, refining, and configuring solutions to enable new business lines, achieve new compliance requirements, and scale business operational efficiency.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

- Engineering Manager of Financial Systems team of 8 full time engineers supporting multiple Financial Systems including NetSuite, Coupa, Concur, Blackline, Strongpoint, Fastpath, and Xcelero.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

- NetSuite Product Owner for Record to Report (RTR) and Consolidation.- Managed product roadmap for RTR, and coordinated triage of high impact support issues and incidents.- Management of NetSuite Key/Technical Account Management, and NetSuite Support teams to make progress on immediate and long-term defects/enhancements.- Coordination with NetSuite Product Leadership to identify and resolve multiple high level Foreign Currency defects within a structure that minimized impact to Spotify’s resourcing and Financial Close periods.- Solution architecture for high impact projects pertaining to Financial Reporting, Batch Approvals, Financial Segmentation Allocation, and Datawarehouse integrations.- Business case creation, vendor selection, and project scoping for project to automate regression testing in order to drastically reduce testing headcount and minimize risk of error in a highly complex ERP environment.- Preparation for Public Listing which included ITGC/SOD framework, agile operational framework, financial reporting preparation, and system stabilization.

Austin, Texas, Us

- Project Manager for a team of over 10 consultants, as Spotify was preparing to be a public company. Groomed weekly workload, managed project timelines, and actively worked on issue resolution/project planning with various stakeholders across the organization.- Facilitated consulting team knowledge transfer and training to internal organization.- NetSuite Solution Architect on projects/enhancements pertaining to Public Company readiness.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Pre IPO Implementation at Spotify. Requirements to Go-live occurred in 6 months, culminating in a successful on-time release globally acrosss 30+ subsidiaries.- Led Financial (Record to Report) workstream on a highly accelerated implementation schedule to support regulations necessary with a Public offering.- Scope of architecture included full Financial reporting (IFRS and GAAP reporting), Audit and IT Control Compliance (roles, data integrity, transaction approvals, and user access), Foreign Currency Handling /Analysis (in depth work with FX revaluation and reporting level Currency Translation Adjustment across 30+ subsidiaries)- Large scale customizations developed for Foreign Exchange handling, and Financial Planning allocations. - Exposure to integrations with Concur, Coupa, Data Warehouse tool, Sales Force, Workday, and Microsoft Navision.- Project management of multiple resources across several time zones around the globe.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Led multiple workstreams on an ERP implementation for American Express, Global Business Travel, in conjunction with Deloitte partners.- Implemented accelerated data compliance and security protocol across 21 countries in tandem with senior executives.- Managed offshore technical team and functional resources in creation of a streamlined and compliant transaction approval process. Developed, tested, and trained users on associated business process to ensure proper approval of General Ledger impact.- Worked with implementation partners, on a sub work-stream focusing on the client's meeting and event planning division. Served as NetSuite expert to the team, in addition to leading multiple phases of the implementation including revenue recognition, intercompany transfer pricing, technical development, custom CRM, and training.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Analyst on ERP implementation for HP, Autonomy- Developed source code for dynamic global Invoicing solution. The development greatly increased user efficiency due to back-end logic which displayed data per local legal requirements across all international subsidiaries. NetSuite expert in Freemarker, Advanced PDF development.- Supported inter-subsidiary transaction solution enabling unique global software clearinghouse strategy in order to optimize international taxation.