SAP BW Senior Consultant

Current main Zurich It focus is to become a data-driven organization (all decisions have to be justified by data)

 

• Internal Customer Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
• Project Management & Operations Support
• Stakeholders & Team Management
• Change, Incident & Problem Management (ITIL)
• SAP BW & BW4HANA Application analysis, migration, development (full cycle) & support (SAP base modules FI-CO -GL -many ledgers including the new IFRS-, AP, AR, AA, etc.-) that allows the company to report to a great deal of legal regulators (especially governments).

 

Some of my duties

• Work in the Barcelona Technological Delivery Centre (BCN TDC-most of the Application Team) in a very diverse/multi-cultural team (more than 48 nationalities). Around 90% of my work is done in English.
• SAP Senior BW Consultant for many internal financial customers all around the world. This very personal oriented service includes travelling to Zürich offices (Switzerland) 4 times/year to review service status (Finance plan/forecast/actuals -cost of the service-, SLAs, OLAs, customized KPIs, Incident & Change Management, Projects, BAU, plans for the future, etc.).
  • That’s why I started to learn German until COVID situation changed company trip policy
• Team Lead/Project Manager/Data Architect for SAP BW & BW4Hana developments (among 2-10 people in charge).
  • Main focus on be a data driven company.
  • We started the SAP BW4Hana migration of all our Financial SAP BW Applications 2 years ago. We have a mix approach between brown and green field depending on the application characteristic.
  • We keep the old and the new development running in parallel for long time in order to check figures during at least 1-year, to cover all casuistic.
  • Considering the number of applications, we are currently in the middle of the migration path. We run the migration project and manage the posterior maintenance mode.
• Coach for my team (Subject Matter Experts -SMEs-)
  • Train/follow up/prepare them to get the level of service we provide and to be able to support the most applications they can (technical knowledge).
• Mentor for other employees outside of my department who requested me due to my references (I currently have 2 mentee)
• Reviewer of solution proposals/data modeler creator.
• Occasional trips to Bratislava (Slovak) TDC where most of the Platform Team is located.

 

Success Stories

• I led the Six Sigma/Zurich Lean Green Belt Project -1000 hs/12 people project/55 Business Units from all around the world- to get a strong reduction on SAP BWR server usability (and therefore a big increase in performance) with a deep/complete remodelling of previously Business Unit oriented (silos) data models with a semantically Partitioned Objects (SPO) + pruning techniques.
  • Results: Before -> server usability 100% / After -> 50% (avg).
  • Impact: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, around 700K/year.
• Strong reduction of Maintenance Team Costs due to Continuous Improvement Methodology implementation on Financial Hard Closes. Before 100 calls vs less than 20 calls after 1-year implementation, around 100K annually.
  • Lean Methodology + Continuous Improvement as a mindset are embed on my daily work.
• Creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for ITIL Change & Release Management to adapt old corporative procedures to new way of working (Shared Platforms)
  • Participation in the Atlassian-Jira deployment project.
  • Deliver the new tool to all my diverse customers/casuistic.

(Retail & Wholesale-Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)

* Project Management & Operations Support
* Change & Incident Management
* SAP BW Application analysis, development (full cycle) & support (ERP base modules FI, CO, SD,
MM, etc.)

Some of my duties
* Company decided to replace old ERP with SAP. Complete data modelling/reporting redefinition
with internal customers plus other stakeholder -> 2 years project, 3 people from SAP BW side.
I started as a consultant, then I became the Team Lead.
* Afterwards, keep track of maintenance mode, besides small new projects.
* Occasional trips to Hackett offices located in London (England).
* Pepe Jeans is a Retail Corporation with many trade brands.

Success Stories
* Delivering (full cycle development) the whole reporting tool without impacting the business.
* Manage expectation to change from people very used to worked with the old ERP solution and not
especially keen on new technologies (for example accessing KPI's through mobile devices).
* Communication/getting agreement with all very diverse stakeholders.

(Consultancy-Barcelona, Spain)

* Finance + Business Intelligence Application development & support.

Some of my duties
* Be part of the Oracle Business Intelligence team who did the Danone's monthly financial
closings and deliver the figures all around the world.