ANNA VLADI

Senior SAP BI/HANA Consultant

901-568-7017

Anna_vladi@hotmail.com

 

SAP EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 

·                        A Senior Consultant with over 15 years in SAP arena focusing on Financial planning and Reporting utilizing SAP HANA, BI, BOBJ and BPC Tools

·                        Capable problem solver with strategic approach to business modeling. Team player with excellent project management skills.

·                        Functional lead at multiple Global Scale SAP implementations for large Fortune 500 companies.

·                        Experience in the following industries: Federal Government, Media, High Tech, Mill Products, AFS, Banking, Pharmaceutical, and Public Sector

·                        Speaker at the SAP NetWeaver Conferences

·                        Functional R/3 experience includes: FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, PCA, CCA, COPA, MM, APO, SD, PM, PP.

·                        Speaker at SAP Financial Conferences

·                        Interim Instructor for SAP America as well as SAP Canada

 

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

 

 

Dates: 7/2014- present

Client: Actavis

Project: Gross to NET on HANA 6.0

Lead Architect for the CIM (Corporate Information Model) project on HANA Enterprise 6.0.  Building various financial reports on HANA for the Corporate Finance group.  Actavis acquired multiple companies and CIM was integrated model for financial reporting.  Strategic project with visibility to the C level executives.

 

Dates: 7/2011- 7/2014

Client: AIG

Project:  2 HANA Implementations

AIG implemented 2 HANA instances one for Chartis and one for SunAmerica business unit.  I served as a Technical Project Manager and a HANA Architect to build Profit & Loss real time statements, Gross to NET, and other financial reports for the controller groups.

 

Dates: 11/08-7/20011                                                                                       New York

Client: NYPA

Project: Financial Reporting

Lead the project of migration 3.5 Financial application as well as Budget to BI 7.0. Functional areas GL, AP, AR and Assets. Responsible for overall design and strategy for NYPA.  Managed team of 4 consultants.  Building complex workbooks with VB script and SQL.

Project: HR Build Out

Responsible for the overall design for HCM reporting: Headcount & Actions, Benchmarks, Benefits, Training & Event Management. 

Project: Lead for Budget Implementation

Working with the NYPA Budget Department to assess the current budget process.  Developed an Assessment Document for CIO together with budgeting department and assisted in properly documenting the existing budgeting process.  Facilitated design workshops with budget process re-engineering with the Budget department, Guided Design of the new BPC solution.  Coordinated project activities, deliverables as well as provided quality data and process checks.  Worked through the blueprint phase and realization, lead the effort alongside SAP America consultants.  Developed support structure for after Go-LIVE, coordinated and provided training.  Lead for design phase in BPC, go live in May 2010.

Project: BO Implementation

Working side by side with SAP Basis technical people to facilitate the implementation of BO, Crystal Reports, Configuration of Universes using Universe Builder, Desktop intelligence, Crystal Reports to roll out HR project.

 

 

Dates: 1/08-11/2008                                                                                         New Jersey

Client: Sealed Air Corp

Project: Global BI 7.0 Rollout (10 countries)

Reporting to CFO of the Company & Board of Directors

Sealed Air is a leading global manufacturer of materials and systems for protective packaging.

Lead for Global Template for FICO, COPA, PCA & CCA architecture for North & South America, Asia Pacific and Europe.  Responsible for requirement gathering, gap fit analysis, functional specifications and blueprint phase.  Developed corresponding extraction structure for custom totals G/L table, regeneration of extract structure and the Data Source for New G/L.  Customer Hierarchies for CCA and PCA.  Managed team of 6 consultants.  Developed balanced queries and financial statement reports that later were bundled into Financial Package for CFO and corporate controllers. Custom workbooks in Excel with VB and ActiveX scripting. Unicode conversion for company in Moscow, Russia company with Russian Add on. Working with OutlookSoft to solve planning function errors.  Responsible for leading a build of budgeting model and reporting dashboard for executives.

 

 

Dates: 2/07-12/2007                                                                                         New Jersey

Client: NBC Universal

Project: Global Financial Reporting

NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience.

 

Responsible for building a working prototype of AC/PS cubes.  Demonstrated to Business Finance team planning functionality of AC/PS model along with SEM.  Build queries and global templates for global roll out. Provided overall design guidance as well as strategy for BI going forward. Provided extensive functional and technical analysis for the upcoming BI 7.0 upgrade.  Guided functional specifications from business leads total of 12 people.  Conducted workshops for functional requirements confirmations with the financial business team.  Guided conversion of functional requirements into technical specifications for BW technical team. 

Lead development of the blueprint as well as gap/fit analysis comparing to existing Business content including revenue recognition between Media Series Sales & Distribution and contract Accounts Receivable. 

 

Dates: 09/06 – 2/07

Client: Warner Chilcott                                                                                       New Jersey                                         

Project: BW support

Reported to CIO

Warner Chilcott is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing and selling branded prescription pharmaceutical products.

 

Responsible for support.

 

 

 

Dates 04/06- 09/06

Client: Smith & Nephew                                                          Memphis, TN                            Project: Global Implementation “Manufacturing”

Reported to Steering Committee and “C” level executives at SAP & Smith & Nephew

Smith and Nephew is a leader in research, development, manufacturing and marketing of devices and products for the fields of orthopedics, wound management and endoscopy.

 

Responsible for analysis where it was determined that the scope is not accurate and the blueprinting needed to be redone.  Managed team of consultants and internal resources.  Scope covered Purchasing, PPV, WIP and Inventory Reports.  A Custom model wad developed for Demand Planning Cube with data originally coming from Manugistics and then loaded into S811 in R/3.  Directed a team to prepare and gather Functional Specifications from 10 Business Leads from the MFG Project.  Build an Executive Dashboard via WAD for all Profit Center Accounting reports. 

 

Dates 01/06- 4/6

Client: Kimberly Clark                                                          Appleton, WI                            Project: SAP NetWeaver BI 2004s ramp up

Kimberly-Clark is a leader in production of paper products and cleaning solutions for industry and the consumer.

 

Scope of work FI/CO from flat files using new functionality of Transformation and DTP (Data Transfer Process) using real time data acquisition.  Created custom attributes for customer master data for BCS, set up tasks sequence hierarchy in Consolidation Monitor. 

 

Dates 9/05-1/06

Client: Intel                                                          Folsom, CA                           Project: SAP NetWeaver BI 2004s ramp up

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC; SEHK: 4335) is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors.

 

Functional lead for a BI 7.0 ramp up.  Lead for functional design and architectural decision for Profitability Analysis including but not limited to operating profit as well as product costing such as material consumption as well as actual and target costs with volume of orders.  In charge of training boot camp for all mySAP Business Suite pieces including CRM and BW.  Delivered training to the end users. In charge of Profit Center Accounting reporting such as plan vs. actual for profit and loss accounts, profits after capital loss as well as PPV (Purchase Price Variance) reporting.  PCA data coming via UD from the Great Plains.  Run forecasting for integrated planning of SEM which provided statistical forecast procedures to calculate forecasts on the basis of historical data of COPA. Created real time InfoCube for BPS.  Build an executive dashboard for forecasting via WAD.

 

 

 

Dates 3/5-9/5  

Client: Janus Funds through SAP America                                                             Colorado                           Project: GL Configuration for IFRS.

 

Configuration of New GL for IFRS reporting. Developing ActiveX, and VB code for BEx Analyzer Excel based applications to do Data Broadcasting.

 

 

Dates: 12/04-3/05

Client: KodakConnecticut

Project: SAP BW Reporting Training

Kodak is the world leader in the art of photography.

 

Suggested to CFO of the company on how to fix their current reporting problem by building a Global Portal to feed CRM and SEM data.  Developed custom training manual equivalent to BW305 Reporting and Analysis with custom screen shots of the client’s system.  Developed custom Power Point presentation that was used during training along with exercises.

 

 

 

Dates: 8/04-12/04

Client: U.S. NavyTennessee

Project: BW305 Training Boot camp

Navy of the United States of America.

 

Developed and delivered training for BW reporting for 225 people.  Custom exercises and case studies were developed using customer’s data.

 

Dates: 3/04- 8/04

Client: Nike Oregon

Project: Global Implementation of BW 3.5

Nike Inc. is a world leader in design, production, development and marketing of high quality sports and fitness footwear, apparel and equipment.

 

Lead for functional/technical performance issues. Worked within COE (Center of Excellence) performing functional and technical design reviews and approvals of various specs.  Responsible for overall BW strategy going forward.  Utilized BW statistics to determine the system performance and improve it.  Delivered  A/P and A/R cubes with transactional data.  Supported daily loads from R/3 via custom extractors, sales data via UD connect from Great Plans.  Performance tuning for extracts and multiproviders.  Restructured Asia Pacific Data Models into logical and physical ones.  Unicode conversion activity steps for Europe, Asia Pacific & Russia.  Build new aggregates to increase query performance, troubleshot daily loads and process chain requests.  Conducted and facilitated team meetings consisting of team members and managers.  Supported an executive dashboard via WAD for Global Sales.

 

Dates: 11/03- 3/04

Client: Lockheed MartinTexas

Project: Prototype for Demand Planning

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company is recognized as the leader in the design, development and production of jet fighters

 

Developed a working prototype for Status of Manufacturing Orders out of Production Planning. 

 

 

Dates: 03/03-11/2003

Client: Kodak (Creo)Canada

Project: Thermo Consumables Rollout

Creo is now part of Eastman Kodak, is a Burnaby, British Columbia-based Company involved in imaging and software technology for Computer to plate and digital photography.

 

Lead on gathering business requirements and converting them into effective Data Models.  Oversaw development of custom objects as well as filling in the gaps in existing ones.  Oversaw customer extractors build and developed process chains for master and transaction data for rebates and contracts.  Delivered Rebates and Contracts Cube with underplaying layer of ODS for data staging.  Build CRM dashboard for external customers for all CRM reports. Assisted the customer with overall design and strategy going forward.

 

Dates: 9/01- 3/03 Georgia Pacific

SD/MM Configuration

Dates: 7/00 – 9/01 Brother International

FICO Configuration                            Tennessee

Dates: 7/98 – 7/00 LukOil  

Implementation FICO                                                                                         

 

 

EDUCATION

BBA – UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

Memphis, TN Major: MIS – Spring 2002