SAP Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect

Lead presales engagements and architect tailored S/4HANA rollout solutions for digital transformation initiatives

Serve as Program Manager and Enterprise Architect, leading numerous client workshops throughout S/4HANA transformation initiatives

Design and staff large-scale template and worldwide rollouts for S/4HANA transformation in large multinational organizations

Lead customer workshops with C-Level executives

Serve as the primary project liaison with senior executives, leading the executive steering committee

Act as the bridge between project and customer leadership, reporting project status during executive steering committees

Maintain leadership and commitment throughout the program lifecycle

Advocate program imperatives and coach client sponsors

Drive program ownership and oversee business teams across all streams

Assume full accountability for program success and benefit realization

Contribute to project management plans, defining organization, governance structure, escalation process, tools and methods, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement

Manage interdependence with other projects, addressing risks, staffing conflicts, and scope management

Act as enterprise architect providing end-to-end solutions with focus on financials

Lead customer workshops for exploring solutions in financials and integrate the solution within S/4HANA and with external application

Lead realize sprints in financial FICO scope, leading the testing, overseeing the data migration and the cutover

Successfully led digitalization initiatives reducing significantly TCO

Hired and developed outstanding project managers, increasing efficiency

Achieved high client satisfaction and exceeded business expectations

Develop project management plans, define governance structure, establish project escalation processes, methods, tools, communication procedures, reporting standards, and stakeholder engagement

Own the consulting partner project plan for customer projects

Manage project governance, scope, costs, resources, and communication; ensure day-to-day delivery of program scope, deliverables, timeline, and quality

Oversee RACI, escalation of risks and issues, staffing conflicts, and scope management

Work with clients to establish change control procedures

Ensure successful overall delivery of SAP projects with customer IT project managers and business captains

Involve intensively in acquisition, management, and coordination of projects within large European companies in BI, process harmonization, and SAP implementations

Lead client transitions to offshoring, establishing 24/7 AMS support with meaningful reporting and SLAs

Build and lead globally distributed and culturally diverse project teams

Coach clients towards successful offshoring transitions

Optimize program quality, significantly reducing TCO

Develop strategic and operational dashboards with global quality KPIs, massively optimize purchasing with SAP BI technology

Increase efficiency through standardization and implementation of innovative technologies

Achieve a substantial increase in client satisfaction with IT services

Establish a reputation as a one-stop-shop supplier in BI for a major customer

Successfully transition IT services offshore and arrange and monitor SLAs for a large pharmaceutical company

Complete large-scale transformation with SAP rollout and process optimization for a leading European publishing house, optimizing and harmonizing business processes across Europe

Focus on SAP ERP financials and business process optimization

Take responsibility for the overall solution and integration of the financials for the entire program solution

Govern integration meetings within project governance

Lead the design of the SAP application landscape and the SAP organizational structure

Provide solution expertise across all application lifecycle stages: design, implementation, configuration, quality assurance, application support, and enhancement

Translate business requirements into specifications for R/3 implementation

Support smooth collaboration between IT partners and business stakeholders, leveraging knowledge of existing IT solutions and business requirements

Understand current and future processes, review business processes and map into IT architecture

Lead and oversee the business design of end-to-end processes in the financial business stream

Lead and drive a team of process leads, acting as business process owners for subsets of end-to-end processes and capabilities in finance

Take responsibility for end-to-end process optimization of a set of processes

Oversee Europe-wide integration of management information systems and processes

Successfully manage project teams of approximately 40 people in 17 countries, achieving exceptional results

Optimize consolidating financial reporting

Reduce TCO in IS significantly and increase customer confidence

Increase efficiency through harmonization and standardization