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Skill Profile
Self-assessment of Functional Expertise
and Personal Strengths
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SELF RATING
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HARD-SKILLS
FI – General Ledger/New GL, Accounts
Receivable / Payable, Assets & Taxes
FI – Special Purpose Ledger
CO - Cost Element, Cost Centre, Internal
Orders & Profit Centres
CO - Product cost controlling &
Profitability Analysis
PM – Maintenance order & Internal
orders, budgeting & settlement (integration with FICO modules)
PS – WBS, Network, Project controlling
& Settlement of project (integration with FICO modules)
Integration – Cross-functional integration
with other modules (MM, SD)
Technical – ABAP dictionary, Reports,
Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancement & Forms, BAPIs, CATT, LSMW, mapping
of roles and authorization
Utilities – testing tools such as
Winrunner®
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SOFT-SKILLS
Project Management - hands on experience
on project management; capable of independently managing a project from
planning to delivery
Hands-on approach to work with good
analytical & problem solving skills
Team player, listening & communication
skill with demonstration ability to act assertively
Experienced in working on projects with
people from multiple countries & culture
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Professional Consultancy Experience (Freelance
Contractor)
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August 2007 –
Present
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Electrabel S.A.
– Under CAPGEMINI – Schelle/Brussels (BE)
(Release ECC6)
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FI-CO
Senior Consultant – FI-CO Modules and Integration Expert
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- Patricia integrated the Euro-Star project as FI-CO senior consultant
during the Build phase of the project.
- Her main focus has been the implementation of CO-OM module (Cost
Elements Structures, Internal Orders, and Allocation Structures etc.) for
both actual and planning aspects.
- She has also been responsible for the coordination and
supervision of less experienced team members in charge of CO-PA
implementation. Her CO-PA extensive knowledge allowed her to highlight
limitation of the module to meet business requirements, helping the
business to make the decision to de-scope the module and requested her
to make a complete impact analysis (functionality and budget) cross
modules to present clear picture of pros and cons.
- She has also been
ensuring that core model was meeting business requirements of activity
‘Energy Management’, by analyzing business requirements and ensuring
that core model was covering business requirements. She specifically
covered both FI and CO as well as integration aspects: New GL functionality,
AA, AR/AP, PS, SD, MM.
- She has been highly involved in the month-end process by
looking at specific processes such as currency re-valuation, FI-CO
reconciliation etc. and as such has been coordinating closing process
flow by collecting information, organizing meeting as to deliver closing
road map currently under integration testing.
- During her assignment she also had high exposure on more
technical tasks such as layout definition for upload interface using
BAPI functionality, creation of validation and substitution rules based
on an EBL In-House concept involving lot’s of local developments &
programs. Involvement in data migration effort for Purchase Order, SES,
GR/IR as well as pure Financial data for which she used her extensive
knowledge in logistic integration processes with Finance as to make
completion of tasks she had in charge as smooth as possible.
- After Go-live, she is currently performing post support
Go-live, business support as to ensure that defined rules and standard
are correctly followed, defect solving as well as preparation of
handover session to EBL team who will take over maintenance of STAR
system.
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April 2006 –
July 2007
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Shell
International Exploration and Production
BV – Rijswijk
(NL) & Bangalore
(IN)
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Finance
Business Process Advisor – FICO
modules & Integration Expert (Release 4.6C)
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- Patricia integrated the Business Process Advisor (BPA) Team
as an FI expert in order to help rollout the live core model to a newly
created Shell company located in India.
- As such Patricia had to gather business requirements, conduct
a Fit-Gap Analysis and provide recommendations in each one of the
following areas: Organizational structure definition/modification, Chart
of account, Tax (input, output, custom/duty, and vendor withholding
tax), Asset, Group and Statutory Reporting, Month-end / Year-end Close,
Data migration.
- Since the system configuration was outsourced to a team
located in Malaysia,
Patricia used her extensive SAP knowledge to write functional (Vanilla
SAP) and technical (Report & ABAP Program) specification accordingly
and handed them over. Budget, feasibility and time constraints were
always taken into consideration to ensure that business requirements
were met and delivered in a timely manner.
- In each one of the area she had under her responsibility,
Patricia also had to define, write, run/coordinate unit and integrated
test scenarios.
- She used her broad integration knowledge to ensure that any
other implemented functionality impacting the Finance area was well
integrated (Payroll, Order to Cash, Requisition to Pay etc.)
- After data migration and Go-live which took place in India,
(Nov 2006) Patricia accepted to provide on-site post-support Go-live.
She collected issues and forwarded them to relevant BPA if she wasn’t
able to solve them by herself.
- She also helped solving day-to-day business issues and was
contributing to the on-boarding of Finance team members by providing
Business process and SAP trainings.
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Professional Consultancy Experience (Permanent Employee
at Deloitte UK & FR)
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April 2005 –
Feb 2006
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Smiths
Aerospace (Aerospace & Defence) – Cheltenham (UK)
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SAP
Senior Consultant – FICO modules & Integration Expert (Release 4.7)
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- Patricia integrated the Account to Report team as an FI-CO
and integration expert and had to validate, develop, and test a solution
able to incorporate, upload financial trial balances and management
information from the Asia Pacific systems into the SAP core design. She
organized, facilitated and lead the SAP financial workshops which took
place in Australia and was able to define/validate the required SAP
structure, master data creation and data mapping necessary to support
the solution (company codes, GL accounts, Cost elements, Cost Centre,
Profit Centre, Customer master data, currency, financial statement
version etc.).
- Due to her extensive knowledge of Finance business practice
and SAP technical knowledge she was able in various areas, such as
Project Accounting, FI, CO, SD-MM to investigate, provide
recommendations on what caused an issue and how to solve it. (Result
analysis, Inter-company process etc.).
- She was also asked to develop a business case in which she
had to highlight whether or not the ‘Asia Pacific’ light solution could
be extended to small sites which system couldn’t support the SAP core
design. She developed an implementation plan and defined the resource
profile and man month to perform the task.
- She helped developing the closing schedule and was part of
the financial month-end closing go-live support.
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April 2003 –
March 2005
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Bayer Corporate
(HealthCare) – Pittsburgh (USA)
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SAP
Senior Consultant – CO module (CO-PA) & Integration Expert (Release 4.6C)
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- Patricia integrated the Business Controlling team as the
CO-PA and integration expert between CO (CO-OM, CO-PCA & CO-PA) and
the various SAP modules such as FI,
CO-PC, SD, MM, PS and PM.
She organized, facilitated and lead number of cross SAP functionalities’
workshops which result in designing the best solution to implement basic
(direct sale, third party drop-shipment, refurbishment orders etc) and
complex business processes (inter-company, inter company consignment,
SWAPS, import etc.). All her design recommendations were always
considering budget, resources and timeline constraints.
- Due to her knowledge of the Bayer culture, business practice
and guidelines, she was able to check or help checking that all the
business processes designed across modules were compliant with the Bayer
global guidelines and the local Client requirements. In that respect she
coordinated early integration steps, while running the unit test phase,
and checked each result from a logistic and financial stand point before
the Sales and Distribution team actually started their integration phase
of the project. This early check helped highlighting in each SAP area
any design issues and solution that would lead to design the best
integrated solution.
- Patricia was also a key player in the definition,
implementation and deployment of the service design for the Bayer
Corporate and Business Service Company (BCBS) which was then extended to
the other Bayer companies selling services. Her project experience,
expertise and knowledge of the SAP Dynamic Item Processor (DIP)
functionality and integration with other SAP modules (SD, PS, PM and
FICO) allowed her to guide and educate other team members and business
people during each phase: blueprint, implementation, unit / integration
testing and post-support go-live. In order to meet legal standards such
as the IAS 11 or US GAAP rule related to Revenue Recognition for big projects,
she designed and implemented various result analysis key to be assigned
to PS and SD objects.
- She helped developing the closing schedule and was part of
the financial month-end closing go-live support.
- Four company code, 3 SAP environments configured and deployed
in parallel along with a tied schedule.
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Jul 2002 – Oct
2002
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Wrigley
(Consumer Business) – Munich (Germany)
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SAP
Senior Consultant – CO module (COPA) (Release 4.6C)
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- Patricia integrated the CO team as the CO-PA specialist in
order to support the core team while doing deployment of the Global
Reference model in other Wrigley’s sites. She supported the live sites’
by resolving day to day issues and coordinated the financial revision
done in 4 countries.
- Patricia was also in charge of defining with the Business
what the CO-PA budget layout and process will be. She then implemented
the technical solution and conducted the unit and integration testing
phases before releasing to the production environment. The CO-PA budget
business main requirement was to retrieve the sales volume from the SOP
tool (Sales & Operations Planning) which implied the Patricia
understood both functional and technical aspects of this SAP
functionality. She developed a complete documentation on this subject
and organized various transfer knowledge sessions.
- From a management stand point, Patricia contributed in
developing the different tools that were used by management in order to
track the progress of the project (issue log, weekly status report…).
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Jul 2001 – June
2002
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Bayer Diagnostics
(HealthCare) – Düsseldorf (Germany)
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SAP Senior Consultant – CO module
(CCA-OPA-PCA-COPA) (Release 4.6B)
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- Patricia was the lead CO consultant in the Bayer Diagnostics
implementation. She was responsible for all aspects of the CO implementation.
On this project there was a vast amount of non – standard SAP
functionality required to meet the Client’s complex reporting
requirements. It was particularly challenging and rewarding to learn and
integrate Service Orders with EC-PCA and CO-PA (Profitability analysis –
Accounting based and costing based). Close and effective communication
with other project teams was essential to ensure that the Diagnostics
System was compliant with the groups’ guidelines and global template.
Patricia proved to be a strong and key team member in this area because
she took it upon herself to learn the end to end processes rather than
just her own module.
- She was involved in the Contract (SD-Contract module) design,
Service (Plant maintenance module), Asset (AA module) and Plants abroad
design that took place.
- She was also involved in all the different phases of the
project life cycle including Blueprinting, Design, Unit Testing and
Integration Testing plus post Go-Live support. In the integration test
phase she ensured that the integration to the COPA module was in
accordance with Client Requirements. She ensured that the SIEBEL
interface to SAP created a Service Order with the correct Master Data to
allow correct Functional Area determination for Cost of Sales Accounting.
The process used at Diagnostics was a non standard SAP process and a
solution was not possible using Standard SAP. Consequently SAP wrote a
bespoke enhancement to solve the problem.
- She also designed and implemented most of the CO month-end
closing activities. Especially she was challenging the reconciliation
between CO-PA Account-based and CO-PA Costing based.
- As all Financial reporting was BW driven there was
substantial data extraction of CO-PA data. Patricia extended herself to
great lengths to ensure that the reporting requirements were fulfilled
to the requirements of both the BW team and the client with minimal
impact on the BW Team.
- Patricia was instrumental in the first deployment of the
single billing entity solution and also in the SAP support Go-live for
the 2 first countries ‘rolled out’ (Belgium
and the Netherlands).
Simultaneously she was also working on the next two rollouts - Spain and Portugal. She also performed
Go-live support for these 2 countries.
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Apr 2001 – Jun
2001
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Eurotunnel (Utility) – Calais (France)
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SAP Consultant – CO module – PM module
(Release 4.0B)
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- After having carried out the CO implementation at Eurotunnel,
she was involved in delivering a “Proof of Concept for the Plant
maintenance implementation”. She was responsible for both the FI and CO
modules during this prototype.
- For the Finance part she had to define all the stock
accounting schemas to be used while implementing the material storage
material MM sub-module.
- For the CO part, she was in charge of doing the CO-PM
integration by setting up the outgoing flow from PM to FI and CO-OM
(service order creation, cost allocation)
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Jun 2000 – Feb
2001
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Eurotunnel
(Utility) – Calais (France)
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SAP Consultant – CO module (Release 4.0B)
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- Patricia was the SAP CO (Controlling) leader Consultant in
the SAP implementation at Eurotunnel. She worked closely with her
counter parts in the client side and animated various workshop session.
She helped in the determination of the planning and scooping part of the
project, especially in the Controlling area. The methodology used was
the ASAP methodology through the one she determined, in collaboration
with client, which SAP-CO modules had to be implemented. She was also
the main consultant who made the configuration of the solution. Then she
was in charge of identifying the different interfaces, specifics needed.
She also wrote the entire current document allowing technical people to
realize those specifics. She developed the unit and integration tests
scenarios and wrote down the results. During this project she was
involved in the ASAP review part of the ASAP methodology followed during
the project. The system went live with the following sub-modules in CO:
CCA, OPA & PCA. The project took place either in France than in the UK (major location was France).
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Oct 1999 – May
2000
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Rhone Poulenc – Rorer (Aventis Corp.) (Pharmaceutical) – Antony
(France)
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SAP Consultant – FI/SL / CO modules (Release 4.0C)
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FI/SL modification according to the
merger of Hoescht Marion Roussel and RP-R (Location – Paris / FRANCE):
- Detailed Fit and Gap’s analysis between RP-R and AVENTIS
reporting rules for management area (workshops). She designed the target
architecture definition for FI-GL and FI-SL modifications. She made some
detailed analysis and customising of FI-GL and FI-SL. She was also
responsible for the Unit test – Integration test running and attends the
post-go live users’ assistance. The system went live in February 2000.
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Other Professional Experience
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Apr 1997 – Mar 1998
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Fort James France (Formerly Kaysersberg S.A)
Financial
controller – member of the SAP – CO (controlling) Project team member.
Upgrade 2.2 to 3.0C, CO-PA implementation
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