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.