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I'm Workday Certified in Procure to Pay, Expenses, Contracts to Cash, and Record to Report. I have led teams at an insurance company, large educational institution in the Big-10, a health-care staffing company, and a large County in California. I have led teams in implementing Procurement, Suppliers, Customer Accounts, Business Assets and Expenses.,

Paris, Fr

Advance Auto Parts: PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade, General Ledger, Asset Management, Project Costing, nVision, and multicurrency. Allegis Auto Parts: PeopleSof 9.2 Upgrade Business Analysis, product support.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Team Lead for a multiphase upgrade and consolidation project. Upgraded main financial instance from PeopleSoft v8.9 to v9.1, consolidated separate AR/BI instance to v9.1, then upgraded both to a consolidated v9.2 instance.• Defined and documented business requirements for Asset Management, General Ledger, and Project Costing modules.• Defined and implemented a multicurrency solution for the Canadian operations. Setup revaluation, translation, and reporting processes.• Implemented new v9.2 functionality for Data Migration Workbench and WorkCenters.• Performed and tracked functional upgrade steps for all FSCM modules.• Production support for AM, GL, PC, and nVision issues.

Austin, Tx, Us

Successfully designed, configured, and implemented a security model that was Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliant, easy to maintain, and readily auditable. The security model uses a naming and numbering convention across applications to maintain SOX compliance.• Led workshops with users to determine the requirements for page access and page authorizations.• Created design documentation and participated in approval sessions with senior managers to approve the new security model design.• Assisted users with SOX rules and requirements and assisted with decision making of company policies and procedures.• Configured and unit tested new security model for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Cash Management, and Information Technology.• Participated in User Acceptance Testing by providing guidance on test scripts and resolving conflicts.• Managed the cutover process for go-live and provided production support

Katy, Texas, Us

Lead upgrade specialist, from 8.4 to 9.1, for the following PeopleSoft modules: Asset Management, General Ledger and Project Costing including nVision development and Security Development.Successfully led the upgrade of customized GL, AM, and PC applications including Security Roles and Permission Lists from PeopleSoft 8.4 to 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.49 to 8.51. Also, provided ongoing application enhancement design and development and provided support post go-live.• Provided business process expertise in the effective utilization of PeopleSoft.• Created project plan and led the project teams for the upgrade of AM, PC, GL, nVision, and Security.• Managed, designed, and tested the process to delete 60,000 assets in five books using the delivered mass change functionality and then to reload the assets using the delivered and customized asset component interface.• Led the upgrade of security for remaining users. Post-Upgrade redesigned and implemented Security Roles and Permission Lists for all Accounting users. • Created new Trees and revised all existing nVision financial reports. Able to remove two extra account trees and consolidating to one tree to make the financial reports consistent.• Reviewed and documented all existing accounting business processes and designed new processes for Chart of Accounts Design, Combo Edit Setup, Tree Design, nVision Reporting, and Security.

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Assisted users with their PeopleSoft questions in General Ledger, Asset Management, Project Costing, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and nVision Reporting.Created project documentation including requirements, design documents, and testing plans.Responsible for configuration for business units, projects, asset profiles, and other miscellaneous tables.Responsible for working with business unit controllers and accounting managers at prioritization of projects and ongoing projects.Implemented customized solutions for FASB 133 Asset Revaluations and to automate the workflow approval process for manual checks.

Mentored and coached a team of four support personnel in providing support to over six hundred PeopleSoft Users in General Ledger, Asset Management, nVision, Security, Accounts Payable, and Purchasing.Managed the implementation of General Ledger, Asset Management, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and Accounts Receivable for a newly purchased entity. Led the weekly status meetings with all project personnel including consultants, support personnel, and client subject matter experts.Managed the work effort and direction of five consultants working on the implementation. Developed the PeopleSoft Functional Support team to provide professional, capable support to users for the installed applications. Developed and implemented best practice processes for allocations, combo edits, and security.Provided leadership and functional expertise for annual Sarbanes-Oxley Security Audits. Responsible for making sure security access did not violate defined separation of duties.

Amsterdam, Nl

Team lead and functional expert for Asset Management and General Ledger implementation including documentation, configuration, testing, and go-live.Analyzed and documented existing processes and prepared recommendations for new processes to take advantage of PeopleSoft funtionality.Developed the mapping from the Lawson Software Financial Tables to the required PeopleSoft Tables.Setup the necessary PeopleSoft Tables and prepared test scripts to validate the setup.Assisted with defining security and setting up roles and permission lists.Assisted with Accounts Payable and Project Costing implementation issues.Provided end user training for journal entries, inquiries, allocations, and interunit accounting.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Supported JD Edwards OneWorld Xe implementation for a multi-phase, multi-year, complex implementation.Worked with users, developers, and consultants to develop custom reports using Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft Access, and Arcplan.Developed testing methodology to thoroughly test and debug newly developed reports.Started as a contractor and converted to an employee

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Hired, mentored and coached 10 employees in SEC reporting, general ledger, payroll, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. Retained all employees while department experienced challenges of hyper-growth and rapidly falling sales and profits.Guided finance team in Peoplesoft implementation responsible for software selection, requirements gathering and documentation, project management, and implementation of general ledger, report writing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and billing.Implemented from scratch a new comprehensive reporting package using PeopleSoft nVision.Created and implemented major accounting policies and procedures in a fast changing, high-growth environment for time and labor reporting, revenue recognition, billing, and month-end close processes.Participated in financial and strategic planning as member of management team.