Valerie - Chef de projet SAP CO

Financial Information System Manager – Finance Team: France

Supported and managed over 50 financial controllers and competence center members, by optimizing:
• SAP FI/CO (integration with MM, SD, PP modules)
• SAP BW, analyzing business requirements and working with the BW competence center
• Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), for providing global reporting to the US

Supervised budgeting and closing processes for all divisions and across European countries:
• Improved the closing and budgeting cycles, by defining business rules, best practices and procedures
• Analyzed business requirements, designed reports and supervised full solutions implementation

Managed the European budgeting and consolidation project as business project director:
• Developed the implementation strategy and business case for a new tool, meeting business and IT requirements
• Drafted a request for proposal, designed a proof of concept, coordinated demos sessions for the tool selection
• Led the project team (8 FTEs) and the set up of the Project Management Office

Coordinated corporate requirements and local business needs for the European HFM roll-out

Manager - Financial Operations Team

France, U.S.
For a major German chemical company (Celanese/Hoechst spin-off, U.S.)
• Managed and designed profitability and cost management reporting (CO-PA, Report Painter/Writer)
• Managed key users team during the testing phase

For a major French building trading company (Weber Building Solutions/Group Saint Gobain, France):
• Managed the whole controlling process in a European SAP implementation project
• Redefined the Europe business controlling scheme, and supervised the accounting/logistic modules integration
• Designed, configured and tested all controlling modules of SAP CO, and the interfaces with SD/MM/PP modules
• Managed consultants, key users, and trained the French controlling department; Animated international seminars to discuss the new business rules and helped on the European controlling scheme merger

For a major French wireless telecommunication operator (Bouygues Telecom, France):
• Managed a project of purchasing process reengineering for the telecommunication network
• Designed the business purchasing and accounting scheme and a purchasing process management procedure
• Found SAP system solutions and adaptations to meet the requirements, optimized use of MM and FI modules
• Trained purchasing, controlling and accounting teams to new organizational processes and SAP functionalities

Senior consultant - Technology Solutions Practice

For a leading French luxury company (Chanel, France):
• Implemented SAP FI and CO modules in a logistic project (interface with SD/MM)
• Supervised cross modules integration during configuration, going live and support phase
• Developed a product costing solution, implemented SAP multi level costing functionality and trained controlling team to the new functionality; Participated in the going live preparation and supported first month end closing

For a Major Italian Cement Company (Italcementi Group, France):
• Managed the Controlling processes design and the SAP implementation from the general design phase to the post implementation phase, including the going-live phase and the first month-end closing
• Designed, configured and tested SAP CO following ASAP methodology, supervised a cross-module integrated testing, verifying all accounting and logistics processes; Designed reporting sets on Report Painter / Writer
• Supervised key-users team and gave user training for CO modules

For a leading French Electronic Consumer Goods Company (Thomson Multimedia, France):
• Redefined the business accounting scheme in a context of BPR (Business Process Reengineering)
• Contributed to the merger and harmonization of business rules across several European countries

Worked as a Controlling and Accounting manager: responsible of planning, budgeting, financial reporting, month closing
Played key role in a new information system implementation and coordinated accounting software acquisition (Sage)

Universal Pictures International (Film Distribution)
SAP Finance applications Manager –IT Department March 2007 – Now
U.K.
Managed as the business lead the development and the implementation of a planning and forecasting solution for the international theatrical business (across 10 operational companies and countries)
• Performed a full planning & reporting process analysis including IT architecture review
• Defined the implementation strategy for a BW-BPS solution, completed AS-IS TO-BE analysis, led business requirements workshops, developed functional and technical specifications, coordinated the technical developments and managed the work of a BPS external contractor.

Delivered as the Finance project lead a full SAP solution, release 4.6C, FI-CO, SD, MM and BW modules, for 16 newly acquired TV companies:
• Management of a full cycle implementation project including design, configuration, UAT, training and post implementation support
• Team lead of 3 SAP consultants in charge of the configuration and 10 business partners

Coordinated the SAP Finance solution roll-out across 8 operational theatrical companies
• Gathered business requirements, configured FI-CO-PS-MM modules (includes IS Media), coordinated ABAP developments, managed UAT and provided user support
• Developed, documented and provided a training program (around 40 SAP end users)
• Coordinated the configuration of a BW platform, designed reports and queries and trained end users

Delivered application solutions for the Finance teams of all businesses (Theatrical, Video, TV channels) as a key member of the Business Change team
• Identified, analysed and rationalised business requirements
• Coordinated and follow up on technical changes developed by the off-shore team
• Participated in the production release process