SAP Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect

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

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

Bridge 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 to explore financial solutions and integrate them within S/4HANA and with external applications

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

Successfully led digitalization initiatives reducing 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 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

Acquire, manage, and coordinate 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

Optimized program quality, significantly reducing TCO

Developed strategic and operational dashboards with global quality KPIs, massively optimizing purchasing with SAP BI technology

Increased efficiency through standardization and innovative technologies

Achieved substantial increase in client satisfaction with IT services

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

Successfully transitioned IT services offshore and arranged and monitored SLAs for a large pharmaceutical company

Completed a large-scale transformation with SAP rollout and process optimization for a leading European publishing house

Focus on SAP ERP financials and business process optimization

Own overall solution and integration of financials for entire program

Govern integration meetings within project governance

Lead design of SAP application landscape and organizational structure

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

Translate business requirements into specifications for R/3 implementation

Support collaboration between IT partners and business stakeholders

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

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

Drive team of process leads acting as business process owners

Optimize end-to-end processes and integrate management information systems across Europe

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

Optimized consolidating financial reporting

Reduced TCO in IS and increased customer confidence

Increased efficiency through harmonization and standardization