Simon Ho, Mba, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Companies come to BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) because their traditional manual accounting processes are NOT sustainable. BlackLine’s cloud-based solutions and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, matching, journaling, accounts receivable and intercompany accounting processes, helping large enterprises and midsize companies across all industries do accounting work better, faster and with more control.• Utilizes BlackLine advanced product knowledge, superior consulting skills, and major ERP functional / technical knowledge to help strategic / enterprise clients achieve Finance Transformation in their organizations.• Leads and manages a diverse portfolio of large-scale, multi-products implementation projects (including partnership with Big 4 firms) with minimal supervision.• Drives and manages all implementation milestones to completion within budget, scope, schedule, and customer satisfaction.• Provide and review BlackLine best practices, use case scenarios and prospective client stories both internally and externally (including community) to assist prospective clients with expanded use of application functionality• Leads, mentors, trains and coaches less tenured implementation consultants on product knowledge, project management, as well as consulting skills.• Contributes product enhancement ideas and functionalities in multiple product expert teams.

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

• Utilizes business acumen, Accounting/Finance Industry knowledge, and product knowledge (Matching, Compliance, Journal, etc.) to serve as a trusted advisor and become an application expert to address client use cases and business challenges.• Builds strong and positive relationships with client contacts, including executive sponsors and management for the duration of the project and post-delivery transition.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Performed information analysis utilizing business thinking, analytical skills and technical expertise. Contributed and participated in finance department’s multi-year initiatives to enhance its capabilities to enable enterprise-wide strategic business decisions. • Designed, co-developed and tested brand new BOBI financial reports by gathering complex data and reporting requirements from accounting users to replace legacy reports.• Influenced management and project team to adopt direction to strengthen report design, testing and documentation standards.• Provided thought leadership on functional design of SAP workflow to support financial data governance process. Designed master data request forms and successfully performed user testing within tight timeline. • Proposed and identified business / system requirements for IT and outside consultants to implement technology enhancing financial planning and forecasting processes.• Led cross-departments project to re-define staffing (associates and non-associates) categories and data requirements to enable accurate reporting of contingent worker expenses, consulting, professional services and managed business services. • Designed and maintained GL Accounts Hierarchies in SAP to enable proper management reporting of operating expenses.• Analyzed and coordinated review of business use and rationalization of existing BEx queries in preparation for SAP HAHA upgrade. • Performed peer review on and implemented SAP maintenance requests from business users, including creation / update of GL accounts, cost centers, allocation rules, materials in MM, cost center hierarchies and BW hierarchies.• Reviewed and provided recommendations on master data governance process flows and procedures on various dimensions in SAP, including but not limited to new entity creation, cost center maintenance, escalation process, general ledger account maintenance, market segment maintenance, etc.

Chicago, Il, Us

Provided IT/Accounting consulting services to clients, particularly in ERP environment, including SAP and Peoplesoft. Involved in many aspects of the practice including managing relationship with clients and staff, providing thought leadership in projects, delivering high-quality outputs, and fulfilling internal commitments.

• Gathered business reporting requirements, identified gaps between canned reports and user reports requirements, drafted report specifications and obtained approval from senior management. • Developed customized reports using SAP query tools (SQ01) and report painter based on functional specifications. • Provided functional support to end users and researched on questions related to SAP reporting and functionalities.• Identified 140+ canned reports in purchased SAP modules. Documented their T-codes, description, instructions to run, input parameters and expected output for end-user training.

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Provided Accounting and Finance consulting services to Fortune 500 companies over 10+ years. Also acted as liaison / business analyst between Accounting / Finance and IT department.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Prepared monthly expense accrual and provided variance explanation for IT organization.• Updated and enhanced planning and forecasting models for various expenses (hardware, software, training, compensation, voice, data) incurred by IT departments, including creation of a new forecast model for capital expenditure to significantly increase accuracy of financial projection. • Created new schedules and models to track and analyze internal and external staffing hours and dollars for multi-year, multi-million dollars IT initiatives, to improve projection of future expenditure and monitoring of current burn rate.• Created centralized accrual database for consulting expenses to consolidate multiple accrual files. Built formula to automatically calculate month-end accrual amount and create journal upload template.• Analyzed system allocation journal entries during monthly variance analysis, leading to redesigning and updating allocation inventory to match with SAP.

Dublin, Coolock, Ie

• Performed month-end closing process in SAP by verifying inventory, intercompany & other schedules for worldwide companies to minimize any top level adjustments during consolidation after general ledger close.• Performed intercompany receivable / payable reconciliation during closing. Performed accounting reconciliations and financial statement reconciliations between SAP and Hyperion.• Solely responsible for managing and overseeing the accounting transactions for $200MM inventory by product line, profit centers, and location using SAP.• Handled accounting for intercompany transfer profit (TPA) on inventory, inventory re-pricing, purchase price variance, standard cost issues, and reserve determination.• Determined month-end inventory-in-transit using billing and receiving reports from the appropriate SAP company codes.• Solely responsible for handling all fixed asset functions in SAP, including opening and closing internal orders, creating new assets, running internal order settlement process, determining appropriate asset classes, depreciation methods, and asset lives.• Provided help desk function to worldwide users in using BPC and other system-related issues in SAP to ensure timely month end closing.• Worked with IT to address and test various SAP issues and improvements such as AR/AP Splitter program, currency revaluation, profit center requirements for accounts, profit center substitution rules, etc.• Performed pre-migration data testing and validation of accounting transactions related to inventory and fixed assets movement from an existing company code to a new company code.

Us

• Supervised fixed asset accountant on daily and month end accounting for fixed assets in PeopleSoft. Performed full cycle SOX work for compliance. Solely handled various one-time or ad-hoc projects.• Implemented new process to account for CIP assets and cut down 30% of the workload of FA accountant. • Streamlined accounting and reconciliation of marketing expenses, which averaged over $1.5M a month, resulting in zero variance between marketing budgeted expense in MS Excel and PeopleSoft GL.

Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, Jp

• Fully in charge of a one-year research project and led 3 contractors and 3 employees of Company in researching and cleaning up financial transactions of a $100 million division for the past 7 years.• Identified understatement of sales of $30M (net income of $18M) due to obsolete programming in legacy systems.• Prepared proper month-end accrual to ensure that all expenses were recorded timely.• Prepared monthly variance analysis and presented explanations to senior management and department managers.

Worldwide, Oo

• Led and performed information systems audit for nationwide clients, with emphasis on PeopleSoft security.• Performed information security, computer operations, systems development, and information systems support reviews for numerous clients in a variety of industries. • Developed and provided national training sessions around PeopleSoft security. • Designed specific audit procedures to review PeopleSoft security (AR, GL, HR/Payroll) and surrounding controls for a large hotel chain and a $9 billion managed care organization.

Mentor, Ohio, Us

• Solely represented Corporate Accounting in the Company’s PeopleSoft General Ledger / Accounts Payable conversion project; • Involved in developing the common chart of accounts for all domestic and international operating units during PeopleSoft implementation.• Proficient in nVision (GL reporting tool in PeopleSoft) and solely responsible for creating financial / general ledger reports for the corporate office and other operating units.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), It Management

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