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Thomas Wallner

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Last update: 06.09.2022

SAP FI/CO Berater, COPA, Material Ledger, 25 years experience

Graduation: Diplom Informatiker (TU Muenchen)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Native or Bilingual) | French (Elementary)

Attachments

Resume Thomas Wallner Mar.doc

Skills

SAP, HANA, FI, COPA, IM, ERP, functional specifications, data migration, Regression testing, Hyperion, requirement gathering, EFI, printers, data transfer, SAP CO, ABAP, reporting tools, programming, database, material ledger, product costing

Project history

08/2020 - 08/2020
SAP consultant CO
SETAC

Clients:
HP, Apple, ATL, Varian, Merisel, SAP Australia (taught CO in Partner Academy Sydney, Australia)

I was sub-contracted to SAP of America, Western Region and worked as one of the first SAP R3
consultants in Foster City as expert for the CO module.

08/2017 - 01/2018
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
Hewlett Packard (HPI)

Hewlett Packard (HPI), Houston, TX - via SAP America
Light Military Vehicles
8/17 - 1/18
I worked as product costing/material ledger/transfer pricing lead in HP's S/4 HANA project to
consolidate several SAP systems and non-SAP systems into a new systems landscape from design through
the implementation of the first phase.

01/2017 - 06/2017
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz, Stuttgart, Germany
Light Military Vehicles
1/17 - 6/17
(Defense contract - most information withheld). I was contracted to lead a smaller project involving
optimization of results analysis, S/4 HANA (1610), currency issues, VAT, investment management,
settlements and reconciliation between account based COPA and costing based COPA.

09/2016 - 01/2017
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
GE Power

GE Power, Baden, Switzerland and Philadelphia, PA - via SAP America
Power
9/16 - 1/17
GE Power (short GE) had acquired Alstom. This required Alstom's SAP system to be first homologized
to that of GE and later to be integrated into GE's SAP system. SAP SLO services was contracted to
support this and I lead the FI and CO part of this project. This involved amongst others the
reorganization of Alstom's chart of accounts and databases by SLO reorg.

04/2016 - 09/2016
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
doTerra

doTerra (essential oils), Pleasant Grove, UT
Chemicals
4/16 - 9/16
doTerra went live in May 2016 on a new SAP system with S4 Simple Finance (HANA) system - release
1403. doTerra's CO lead (responsible for product costing, COPA, IM, custom transfer pricing and
certain FI functionality like fixed assets, sales tax, European, Canadian & other VAT) is/was
scheduled to leave doTerra in July (she leaves for work in Chile). As her temporary replacement I
took over her responsibilities and trained her permanent replacement. I also act as CO consultant
for additional projects and additional "wave" rollouts. I acted as CO test lead for a release 1511
upgrade and later for an upgrade to 1610.

02/2016 - 04/2016
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
CapGemini

Contracted to support CapGemini (working for client Kronos International) on German, Austrian,
Canadian, French and Dutch VAT and revenue recognition issues. This contract was for remote work in
an advisory capacity.

06/2014 - 07/2015
President and CEO Project Manager R3 / project auditor /principal consultant / team lead
MSA

MSA, Cranberry, PA (and partly Berlin Germany)
Security equipment manufacturer
7/15 - (see also below: 6/14 - 9/14. Second assignment at same client)
Support and smaller projects in the areas of reporting, CO-PA, product costing, PS costing, results
analysis/revenue recognition, reposting of sales documents (VF42), tax, service order costing and
CRM integration.

11/2007 - 04/2008
Pharmaceutical Products (Generics)
Barr

I have been contracted as functional lead for a major consolidation and management reporting project
and to manage validation (FDA controlled) compliance. Also, I lead an analysis of consolidation
options (EC-CS versus Hyperion) for corporate and internal (profit center) consolidation. Cooperated
with internal and external auditors.

* FDA controlled, validated environment, compliance
* EC-CS consolidation
* Successful cutover

09/2006 - 04/2007
Medical Systems
Philips Medical Systems

As part of Philips long-term strategy, the SAP system used for the North America operations is to be
merged with an existing central (Eindhoven, Netherlands) system. For this project (OneSAP) I was
contracted to lead technical team for finance [financial accounting, product (service) costing,
results analysis, transfer pricing, profitability analysis, results analysis (for service and sales
orders, and projects (installation and maintenance of medical equipment) reporting (with interface
to BW) and more] and to coordinate all integration aspects. This includes all phases from
requirements gathering to conversion, post-go-live support and implementation of additional
functionality.

* SAP systems merge
* Costing in customer service and production, results analysis, make-to-stock, make-to-order,
make-to-engineering
* Transfer pricing
* CO-PA

02/2005 - 03/2005
Platinum Consultant
PacifiCorp

PacifiCorp, Portland, OR through SAP America
Utility Company
2/05 3/05

I worked through SAP America as a Platinum Consultant at PacifiCorp after the client realized that
they faced major issues when they added a non-USD foreign subsidiary to the SAP system and modified
the group currency for existing (USD-based) companies. The changes caused some data base problems
and issues in executing the reconciliation ledger, product costing, ECCS, the depreciation run for
fixed assets, and clearing. I analyzed and documented the issues and existing configuration,
proposed and implemented changes to the configuration, provided recommendations (work-around,
procedural, systematical, and technical), and successfully helped the client resume their normal
business routines with the SAP system.
As a secondary task, I also provided support for the clients plan to utilize IM functionality and to
improve the planning and budgeting process.

* Group currency, currency conversion
* Reconciliation ledger

02/2004 - 05/2004
Aerospace
SAP Canada/Bombardier

Bombardier wanted to change their SAP systems group currency from Canadian to US dollar (CAD to
USD). SAP Canada provided support to Bombardier and coordinates technical conversion support with
SAP Germanys SLO team in Walldorf.
The currency conversion comprises currency changes in financial accounting (FI), controlling (CO),
product costing, project systems, profitability analysis (CO-PA), profit center accounting (PCA),
results analysis (on construction projects) special ledger (SL), investment management (IM) cost
element ledger, and material ledger (ML).
I have been contracted (by SAP Canada) to provide support for conversion and especially for
conversion test activities as well as to analyze the current system and provide recommendations for
optimizations and best business practices for utilizing material ledger with dual currencies after
completion of the conversion. While supporting all relevant modules and sub-modules, my main focus
has been the material ledger (ML) and product costing. Amongst others, I was responsible for
reconciling FI with ML data in local and group currencies.

11/2002 - 01/2003
Defense Contractor

SAP Management Consulting [Information omitted because of non-disclosure agreement]

07/2000 - 02/2001
High-Tech
LAM Research

Worked as LAMs consulting resource for product costing, profitability analysis, investment
management, overhead controlling and integration. The client went life shortly before my contract
started. I initiated, scoped, designed and managed several projects to optimize the functionality of
the controlling functionality and processes in production planning. I also managed a release upgrade
from 4.5b to 4.6c and a project to scope out usage of EC-CS.

10/1996 - 11/1996
Specialist
Cerdec

Cerdec, Washington, PA
Manufacturer of inorganic chemicals
10/96 - 11/96 every second week
"Specialist"

Cerdec was to implement an SAP system with modules CO, FI, MM, PP, and SD in mixed make-to order and
make-to-sales environment.
Cerdec contracted me (through RSA) to review designs and specifications for its SAP system, to audit
the project and to consult and train the internal configuration team in specific areas.

07/1996 - 10/1996
project manager
PowerComputing

PowerComputing, Austin, TX
Manufacturer of Apple McIntosh clones.
7/96 - 10/96 3 days / week


Contracted as project manager with budget responsibility for a fixed price SAP project, designed and
configured costing strategies in make-to-sales-order environment with SAP variant configuration and
pricing, product costing, and verified proposed concepts and built a prototype.

11/1991 - 01/1994
Manager for in-house R2 implementation
Lufthansa German Airlines, Headquarters

specialists)

Managed, defined, configured, and implemented technical aspects of Lufthansa's in-house R2 system.
Specified, defined, documented, coded, coordinated, and implemented more than 20 interfaces to and
from old legacy system, programmed more than 18 transactions (screen painter) and 25 reports.

01/1988 - 10/1991
Developer
Lufthansa / Amadeus

Developer (airline reservation system) / Systems analyst

Participated in selection of financial and cost accounting software (resulting in purchase of SAP
licenses). Coordinated special program (ABAP/4) development with SAP AG.

01/1987 - 12/1987
Systems Analyst Cargo Reservation Systems
Lufthansa


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Open to travel worldwide
I open to travel world wide. As dual US and German citizen I'm authorized to work in North America and Europe.
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