Rim - Chef de projet SAP

Mutualization of all BUs (France, Germany, Italy, UK) in the new SAP platform (finance and supply).
FICO Team Lead & Delivery Lead, BW Expert
Role: Consultant acting as a manager leading the deliveries for France and leading the FICO Team. This role consisted in:

• Delivery Management : SD deliveries management (planning, open points follow-up and solving, status follow-up), FITs perimeter definition and follow-up, QC updates, planning management, requirements follow-up,...

• Team management : sizing, team follow-up, estimated workload, planned tasks and allocated resources, designed FICO good practices...
Client relation management: client support in weekly meetings (Finance ICT and operational meetings, presentation slides preparation, to-do follow-up).

• BW expertise: business and technical analysis, Audited existing BW architectures and processes to propose performance enhancements and had them adopted, SD writing, delivery follow-up.

• SAP consulting : SD writing, tests description, FIT writing and execution, UAT support, Tested workbooks and reports, respecting the requirement that no functionality and data shall be altered, detailed knowledge of Airbus financial policies and systems.

Migration and New Ledger implementation (4.6C to ECC6 Migration)

• Managed a tight planning from gap analysis to post-go-live for FICO team, and the others France’s SAP Teams, Key Users (KU), taking the following constraints into account: high data volume, complex process, end-of-month/end-of-year closings, systems unavailability for upgrades, actions from SAP India and Germany,...
• Demonstrated financial management expertise
• Applied the prerequisites for the finance module, and deployed the New Ledger.
• Animated workshops with Key Users.
• Acted as liaison between the CDC team (Core Competencies Center), SAP India, SAP France, SAP Germany, France IT Department, KU (Chief accountant of all divisions, Credit managers, etc...) by coordinating tasks with impact on FICO.
• Organized user clubs to inform all users, and to remind them IT and FICO procedures.
• Tested workbooks and reports, respecting the requirement that no functionality and data shall be altered.
• Detailed knowledge of L’Oreal financial policies and systems.

Consultant Accenture

Profitability improvement of the New Promotional Tools.
• Audited existing CO architectures and processes to propose
“quick wins” and had them adopted.
• Demonstrated strong business acumen and negotiating skills
• Analyzed impacts on Supply Chain, Sales, Finance,...
• Replaced the existing model of reporting for controllers, with a more efficient adaptation of the core model.
• Created analysis reports for performance management.
• Installed Web Cycle for validation workflow.
• Managed the creation of new reports on BW and the Intranet.
• Defined projects scope, analysed business needs and functional gaps, estimated workload, planned tasks and allocated resources accordingly, designed projects good practices, produced deliverables, carried out training sessions.
• Achieved better relationship with KU (CFO’s and controllers) and end-users in a very complex context.

Mutualization & organization of the customer service

(Merged one customer service for the division instead of three).
• Audited existing FICO architectures and processes to propose performance enhancements and had them adopted.
• Defined projects scope, analysed business needs and functional gaps, estimated workload, planned tasks and allocated resources accordingly, designed projects good practices, produced deliverables, carried out training sessions.
• Organization consulting.
• Achieved better relationship with end-users in a complex context.

• Demonstrated ability to organize, delegate and leverage resources to accomplish objectives.
• Managed a tight planning in a complex context taking the following constraints into account: a complex process, limited budget, SRM migration, consultants, and our IT provider’s availability.
• Audited existing FICO vendor‘s process, and SRM process.
• Demonstrated first class commercial awareness.
• Deployed the solution and configured the Read Soft Cockpit.
• Animated User Clubs.
• Acted as liaison between L’Oreal France IT Department and our IT provider.
• Tested workbooks.
• Wrote new procedures.
• Trained users.
• Defined project best practices.
• Performed automation and go live of data flows.

SAP FI CO SRM Project Manager -

5 Divisions: around 1200 users:
• Luxury Products (Yves Saint Laurent, Armani, Lancôme, Diesel, Cacharel, …)
• Active Cosmetics (Inneov, La Roche Posay …),
• Consumer Products - DPGPF (L’Oreal Paris, Gemey-Maybelline, Garnier, Lascad)
• Professional Products division (Kerastase, Matrix, L’oréal professionnel, …)
• « Club des Créateurs de Beauté ».

Deployment of the Microsoft model for reporting on Cost & Incentives
• Deployed the new model without impacting the existing model.

IT Project Manager - Information systems Department

Optimization of the consolidation for the external financial reporting (Microsoft solution for reporting)
• Analysed business needs.
• Defined projects scope.
• Redacted general and detailed specifications for P&L, BS and CFS.
• Tested workbooks and reports, respecting the requirement that no functionality shall be altered.
• Helped to the Configuration of the Microsoft solution (SSAS, SSIS, SQL)
• Assisted with the realization of the WEB interface (.net, php).
• Trained users, defined project best practices for the project.
• Performed automation and go live of data flows.
• Managed training sessions.