Nicolas - Consultant SAP BFC

PRIME REPORTING GROUP, Belgium – Founder and Partner

Managing Partner & Senior Expert Consultant Business Analytics, 10/2015 to present

As Senior Expert consultant, I participated in all aspects of the implementation of financial reporting. These solutions include components of consolidations, reporting, analysis and project management.
Main Customers
Arla ,Dexia , Banque Internationale à luxembourg, (BIL) Cargill, Royal Bank of Canada ( RBC) , Recticel, SAP education , LeasePlan ,
Main Deliverables
– SAP Teacher SAP FC, BPC, DM
– Blueprint of Solution & Budget Estimation
– BFC V10.1 functional migration
– Actual/ Budget/ Forecast/ FINREP Phase
– Design & Build of the project
– Business & Customization documentation
– Historical Data Recovery Assistance
– Consolidation Assistance
- IFRS9, IFRS16 BFC Design & Build
DNYSS SERVICES, Belgium – Managing Partner

Managing Partner & Senior Expert Consultant, 03/2014 to present

As Freelance Senior Expert consultant, I participated in all aspects of the implementation of financial reporting, or FINREP at banking customers (FINREP is a European regulation which applies to ‘credit institutions’ (e.g. banking organizations) that will significantly increase the level of reporting of financial information to the regulator. These solutions include components of consolidations, reporting, analysis and project management.
Main Customers
Dexia, Belfius , Banque Degroof , Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
Main Deliverables
–Blueprint of Solution & Budget Estimation
–Actual FINREP Phase
–Design & Build of the project
–Customer management reporting specifics design as Business Unit
–Historical Data Recovery Assistance
SAP, Belgium – Software Company

Senior Consultant, 7/2008 to 03/2014

As a Senior Consultant, I participated in all aspects of the implementation of BFC, BPC and DM to deliver Enterprise Performance Management solutions to clients. These solutions included components of financial consolidation, budgeting, planning, reporting, and analysis.
Selected Accomplishments for BFC:
Designed and implemented consolidation processes and solutions based on SAP BFC for our clients.
Worked closely with Business Analyst to assist in the analysis of requirements and the design of solutions to meet the stakeholders’ needs.
Assisted in the in-house development of SAP BFC for demo and training purposes
Was active on the business development side of our practice by participating in client proposals and delivering state-of-the-art sales demos
Researched and resolved different database issues as assigned. .
Updated and maintained dimensions of BFC databases
Communicate and effectively present ideas and solutions to customers, team members, and partners
Provided support for end users of BFC to include management of end user access, monitoring/resolving system performance issues, and uploading data.
Assisted with the development of training materials for consolidation module implementation
Planned and accomplished goals assigned as part of often diverse and distributed teams in a collaborative manner regardless of assigned role or reporting structure

Selected Accomplishments for BPC:
Worked closely with Business Analyst to assist in the analysis of requirements and the design of solutions to meet the stakeholders’ needs.
Assisted in collecting requirements, analyzing business and technical situations and design .
Updated and maintained dimensions of BPC databases
Created BPC Business Process Flows.
Created BPC Reports, Web Reports and Input Forms.
Building budget models and maintaining calculations with the budget models
Configured Data Manager Packages for uploading flat files, using Conversion file and transformation files
Communicated and effectively present ideas and solutions to customers, team members, and partners .
Selected Accomplishments for Disclosure Management
Designed and implemented Dashboarding and solutions based on SAP DM for our clients.
Worked closely with Business Analyst to assist in the analysis of requirements and the design of solutions to meet the stakeholders’ needs.
Assisted in the development of SAP DM for demo and training purposes
Was active on the business development side of our practice by participating in client proposals and delivering state-of-the-art sales demos.
Coach and develop others, and at the same time be coached and developed by seniors
Main Customers
Bekaert, Delhaize, Puratos, Recticel, Belfius Arcelor –Mittal, Orco property group, Bertelsmann , Shell, Bertelsmann, Minister of finance of Lithuania , Eco Bank
CARTESIS / BUSINESS OBJECT –Software Company

Consultant, 7/2004 to 6/2008

As Consultant, I participated in some aspects of the implementation of BFC and intercompany to deliver Enterprise Performance Management solutions to clients. These solutions include components of consolidation, reporting, and analysis
Selected Accomplishments for intercompany:
Designed and built intercompany to meet the stakeholders’ expectations
Prepared and defined the administration guide and the User guide.
Assisted the clients during the consolidation processes
Selected Accomplishments for BFC
analyzed, configured and tested the system
Reviewed quality of deliverables.
Worked closely with key users and provided training and ensured knowledge transfer
SOCIETE GENERALE, Paris – Banking Company

Consultant, 1/2003 to 5/2004

As Consultant, I participated in some aspects of the migration of banking and accounting software.
Selected Accomplishments:
Tested the system in the new environment.
Worked closely with key users.
Prepared the user guide
Technology
Software: SAP Products :Business Financial Consolidation ( BFC), Intercompany ,Extended Analytics, Business Planning & Consolidation ( BPC), Disclosure Management , Financial information Management ( FIM) , BW
Tagetik: Tagetik 5 Consolidation and reporting
Other products: MS Project , MS Office (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint)