Sébastien - Consultant SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Current position: freelance SAP Financials consultant.

Activities carried out:

Tr-TM (Treasury / Corporate Finance Management) implementation.
IAS/IFRS conversion (mainly based on Asset Accounting and Profit Center Accounting).
Maintenance and customizing of new functionalities in FI, AA, Tr-CM (Cash Management), and EC-CS (legal consolidation).
EC-CS upgrade to SAP 4.7 Enterprise.
Users training: Treasury, CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), Report Painter (reporting).
Financial Reporting using mainly Report Painter/Writer.

Organisations:

Eurogentec (biotechnology).
Ministère Régional de Bruxelles-Capitale (Belgian public sector).
SRWT-TEC (Belgian public transport company).
Siemens.
SONACA (aeronautic industry).

2. Additionally to SAP consulting, I am also an occasional freelance associate of a mid-size Belgian chartered- and tax accountants firm.

3. Eli Lilly, October 2000 to October 2002, European SAP competence centre (Basingstoke, UK): SAP Financials Expert.

Eli Lilly is a global pharmaceutical company that ranks among the top10 worldwide.

Functional highlights:

SAP Financials configuration (ongoing improvement of Eli Lilly’s SAP processes).
Project leader of EDI implementation in the Spanish affiliate (Madrid). EDI is a functionality that allows business partners to electronically exchange sales documents.
Participation in the English and German affiliates implementations, advising on Financial Accounting (FI) configuration, taking part in testing and providing go-live support.
French affiliate (Paris): Cash Management (Tr-CM: Banks) implementation. This involved business processes analysis, solution design, customizing and users training.
Users training (including design of training material) in Financial Reporting (SAP Queries, Report Painter).
Participation in global testing of SAP 4.6 upgrade at Eli Lilly’s worldwide HQ in Indianapolis, USA.
Use of specialized software such as Documentum (documentation), Remedy (support activities) and Test Director (testing processes).

Areas covered:

SAP Financial Accounting (Account Receivables, General Accounting, Account Payables, Asset Accounting, Cash Management / Banks);
SAP Sales & Distribution (mainly Pricing and EDI);
SAP Controlling (mainly Cost Centres and Profit Centres Accounting);
SAP Queries, SAPscript, ABAP (user-exits…), Report Painter.

4. Siemens Business Services, September 1998 to September 2000, Brussels: SAP Financials consultant.

SBS is the consulting arm of the Siemens group.

Project assignments at SBS:

SRWT-TEC (Belgian public transport company): full life cycle implementation of Financial Accounting (GL, AR, AP, AA), Cash Management (Tr-CM: Banks) and Legal Consolidation (EC-CS). This involved business processes analysis, solution design, customizing, users training and go-live.

O.N.E. (Belgian public sector organisation in charge of childhood policy): full life cycle implementation of Financial Accounting (GL, AR, AP), Cash Management (Tr-CM: Banks, Cash Position, Liquidity Forecast) and Fund Management (FI-FM). This involved business processes analysis, solution design, customizing, users training and go-live.

Sodexho (French catering company, Belgian affiliate): upgrade to SAP 4.6 (Financial Accounting) + coordination of ABAP developments.

Siemens: design and configuration of a Treasury Management (Tr-TM) prototype + pre-sales activities (presentations / demos).

Cinta (cigarettes and cigars manufacturer/importer/distributor): Cash Management (Tr-CM: Banks) implementation. This involved business processes analysis, solution design, configuration and users training.

Wincor-Nixdorf (engineering company, French affiliate): users training in SAP Financial Accounting.

O.N.P. (Belgian public sector organisation in charge of pensions management): participation in the implementation of Financial Accounting (FI), Cash Management (Tr-CM) and Fund Management (FI-FM).

5. Banque Paribas Luxembourg, January to July 1998: funds accountant.

6. Internships:

McKinsey & Co, November/December 1997, Brussels: financial analyst;
Belgian Ministry of Finance, February to May 1997, Brussels: researcher (thesis).

7. ETAM-Belgium, July 96 and 97, Brussels: accounting assistant in the Finance department.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

September 2003: International Accounting Standards (IAS/IFRS), SAP Training Centre, Brussels.

June 2002 (1): SAP Pricing, SAP (UK) Training Centre, London.

June 2002 (2): ‘Managing by Project’, Project Management Institute, London.

March 2001: SAP Asset Accounting, SAP (UK) Training Centre, Manchester.

November / December 1999: SAP Treasury Management (now CFM), SAP International Training Centre, Walldorf (Germany). This training covered the following components: Cash Management, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Securities.

September 1998 to November 1998: SAP consultant certification jointly awarded by SAP and Siemens Business Services, Siemens Nixdorf Training Centre, Brussels. This program covered the main SAP R/3 applications (FI - CO - MM - SD - HR, ABAP) and their integration within a company’s business processes.

EDUCATION

2002 - 04: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Business School: Master’s in Tax Management (evening and w-e classes). Grade: Distinction.

September/October 2000: Universidad de La Habana (Cuba): certificate of Spanish language.

1995 - 97: University of Nottingham, School of Management and Finance (United Kingdom) and Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (Belgium): MA in Business Administration (“licence” in Belgium equivalent to “maîtrise” in France). Grade: Grande Distinction (top 10%).

1993-95: Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (Belgium): BA (“candidatures”) in Applied Economics. Grade: Grande Distinction (top 10%).

LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS

English: excellent knowledge.
French: native language.
Dutch: fair.
Spanish: fair.
Software: MS Office (Excel, Word, MS Project, Powerpoint), Remedy, Test Director, Documentum.