Simon Johnson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, Australia

• SAPConnect - Program Director (Shared Services Systems- GOVConnect) 3 YearsGroup Financial Controller 2 yearsFinance Project Director 3 yearsResponsibilities (Current)
• Investigate major issues and problems and seek solutions to improve, enhance and simplify BAU operations with technical solutions which are cost effective and supportable. Develop a business case and a fully scoped.
• Planning, governance and overseeing the successful delivery of all SAPConnect Programs including Phoenix in line with DCS’ organisational objectives and processes. Achievements other
• Successfully reviewed and implement analytics and reporting for the Service NSW (SNSW) grants payments scheme which identified a large number of duplicates, manual transitions and data anomalies totalling in the many.
• Successfully reengineered the SNSW payment receiving gateway and removed duplicates which were processed and identified transactions which had not been processed totalling in the millions each year.
• Implemented KRONOS across 130+ SNSW service centres reducing manual effort and improving compliance with a direct integration to SAP Payroll.

• Responsibilities
• Project Sponsor of SAP ERP Implementation for Fairfax Group.
• Vendor Management and contract negotiation
• Business Analysis, Strategy Development, Project management and implementation methodology.
• Cost and budget control of all finance system related capital projects.
• Cost, budget and management of HRMS/Payroll systems, Peoplesoft Systems and SAP Project teams

• Responsibilities
• Group Credit and Accounts Receivable, Group Payables, Corporate Payroll, Group Advertising Systems, Peoplesoft systems and HRMS systems. ( Financial Services/ Shared Services)
• Assisting the business in indentifying, formulating and executing revenue growth and cost reduction strategies.
• Ensuring accuracy and transparency of all financial data and processes and operational effectiveness of all Financial Services systems, procedures and processes
• Run all finance capital projects and engage in problem resolution on a corporate level
• Develop and implement corporate policies and processes for financial transaction services.