KEY CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
• Since 1995 in the SAP arena, since 1997 self employed
• Business Process Areas: RtR, OtC, PtP, PiC, P&B
• ISO20022 .xml payments - SEPA credit & debit transfers, CGI vs3 CTs
• Worked at 5 Pharmaceuticals
• SAP Industry Solution experiences: AFS retail and EMS
• Delivered 4 full life cycle implementations
• Delivered >5 local rollout projects (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain)
• Performed 2 manager, 6 lead and >10 functional roles
• Initiated Regional Support Centre, transitioning local accounting services.
PERSONAL PROFILE
Since 1995 I built continuous, comprehensive SAP project experience, starting consulting for Deloitte & Touche/ICS in the United States (Mid West region).
In 1997 I moved my home base to Spain and started working freelance in Europe. I have performed all of the following functions during my career: project manager, team leader, technical analyst, designer, configurer, migrater, programmer, tester and trainer. I am truly a pragmatic team player with excellent technical, communication and leadership skills.
I am fluent in Dutch, Spanish, German and English and have a good knowledge of French.
KEY SKILLS
EXCELLENT
SAP R/3 ECC 6.0:
Credit Management/Risk Management/export insurance
FI - NGL, AR, AP
Indirect Tax - VAT
GOOD
SAP R/3
FI-AM; FI - MM (LIV, Valuation and Account Assignment); FI - SD (Billing, Account
Determination, Tax); CO - CCA, PCA, PS; HR (Personnel Management); ABAP/4; BW
Netweaver BI 78.0; Solution Manager
USGAAP
ARIS
Quality Center
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
EDUCATION
1993 Master of Science Business Economics, University of Amsterdam (NL)
1995 SAP academy - Finance, Siemens at Zoetermeer (NL)
SAP FSCM Consultant @ Treasury Retail From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Munich Area, GermanySAP AFS FICO Consultant @ Treasury - Cash Pooling - Payment Factory - inHouse Bank:
• ISO 20022 message standard, Customer Credit Transfer Initiation
• SAP payments, like SEPA Direct Debit and Credit Transfers CGI vs3
• Banks: HSBC, Standard Chartered, Citi, Deutsche Bank, UniCredit
• SAP Financial Supply Chain Management
- Cash Management
- In-House Cash
- Bank Communication management
• SAP Accounting (AC), Controlling (CO), Finance (FI), Financials (FIN) From May 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 8 months) GermanySAP FI/SD consultant COMET, OtC B&AR. @ Billing & AR deployment EMEA
Human Health rollout to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal & EU Export countries. Enhancements and implementations, like
• SD SmartForms for 3rd party/ Pro Forma / IC / Export Invoicing
• AR SmartForms for dunning, account statements, interest letter
• SEPA Debit Transfers
• Archiving solution - Outgoing IDocs into LENS system
• Indirect Tax / VAT - SAP build on tax system Sabrix
• Technical Specifications for BI reports
• Customer master data migration From July 2011 to March 2013 (1 year 9 months) Haarlem, Netherlands; Lucerne, ZwitserlandSAP FI consultant, PTP @ ERP Invoice Broker, AP technical platform
Production Suppport and Enhancements, like
﹒EDI invoicing, like Nota Fiscal Electronica for Brasil or ELEMICA for - NAFTA
﹒AP tax determination - EMEA
﹒US Tax – Vertex System
﹒OCR and WF improvements
SEPA (Single European Payments Area) programme. Implementation.
. Creation of payment forms according the Credit Transfer Scheme Rulebook V3.2. 33 countries and 5 SAP systems. From July 2009 to June 2011 (2 years) Cologne/Berlin, Germany; Barcelona, SpainSAP FI/SD consultant for the Global Sourcing Office (GSO) programme. SCM @ Supply Chain Transformation (SCT) programme
• Implement SAP Company structure and Financials for Global Sourcing Office (GSO) for SCT
• Develop and implement IC transactional processes for SCT
• Develop Key Performance Indicators
• Develop Track & Trace Vendor portal From November 2008 to December 2008 (2 months) Oudenaerde, Belgium.FICO ERP member AP & AR. RtR @ Migration 4.6C to ECC 6.0
• Migration, configuration, testing of the AP and AR functionalities
Examples:
• New GL: Migration with document splitting based on Profit Centre and Segment
• In- & Outgoing payment methods using both PMWB From June 2008 to October 2008 (5 months) Kundl, Austria.FICO SD MM Functional Consultant. OtC, RtR @ European rollout SAP R/3, ECC 5.0 Apparel and Footwear
•Being an one person-team responsible for the entire local rollout
•Supporting the central migration team
•Developing and executing the training of all Spanish End users
•Organising and processing of the local tests (Migration, Unit and User Acceptance)
•After Go Live support of all FICO, MM, SD in Spanish processes From May 2007 to May 2008 (1 year 1 month) Madrid, Spain; Oudenaarde, BelgiumFICO Consultant @ Business Requirement Workshop Finance
•Mapping the Industrial Machinery & Components model
•Evaluation of Financial processes using Brown paper or SAP Business maps (Solution Composer). From April 2007 to April 2007 (1 month) Kelkheim, Germany.FICO Deployment Lead, RtR @ Spanish rollout of global template. FICO teamlead. ECC5.0
•Rollout of FI (new GL, AP, AR, AA) and CO (CCA, PCA, COPA)
•Fit/Gap to Core Model. Realisation. Development. Migration. User Training. Testing (Unit, Integration, User Acceptance). From July 2006 to April 2007 (10 months) Madrid & Barcelona, SpainSAP FICO Functional Consultant, RtR @ European rollout R/3, 4.6C Apparel and Footwear
•Responsible for training and testing of FICO in Spain
•Localisation Global Template
•Configuration local requirements From May 2006 to July 2006 (3 months) Madrid, SpainFICO Team Lead Consultant, RtR @ IBM US project; Global Enterprise Resource Planning Program with SAP ERP Central Component 5.0
•Responsible for coordinating the roll-out of SAP FICO in Europe
•Localisation Global Template
•Provide design solutions due to their Principal – Commissionaire structure (especially EU Tax, plants abroad) From January 2006 to May 2006 (5 months) Breda, Netherlands; Thousand Oaks CA, USAFICO Teamlead, RtR @ i3S consulting project. Local redeployment of local AS400 financial systems with SAP R/3 4.5 solution
•Localisation of French template
•Business Process Areas: GL, AR, AP, AM, CO (CCs and PCs)
•Interfacing to legacy front office (sales and logistics)
•Key- and end-user training
•Conversion of financial objects From September 2005 to January 2006 (5 months) Madrid, Spain; Lille, FranceFinancial Systems Analyst @ IT Due Diligence
•Analysis of Financial Systems and integration through the business lines in the Telecommunications Industry. From June 2005 to June 2005 (1 month) Madrid, SpainTerritory Lead, P&B, RtR, PiC, PtP. @ IBM US consulting project. Global redeployment financial systems to SAP R/3 4.7 - Enterprise Media Solutions.
•Localisation of global template
•Provide detailed specifications for local reports, hierarchy elements and processes
•Conduct Testing on Conversion, Integration and Interfaces
•Business Process Areas include Planning and Budgeting (SEM - BW); Record to Report (FI – CO - MPM); Project Initiate to Close (PS – SD - AR); Purchase to Payment (MM) From September 2004 to April 2005 (8 months) Spain, Portugal, Belgium, NetherlandsEuropean Transition Manager, OtC, PtP @ Regional Support Centre Transition
•Manage transition of all French accounting activities to the RSC Madrid
•Establish European Financial Procedures (like for example legal reporting for Belgium, France, Spain and Germany)
•Develop KPI Reporting on RSC performance
•Develop and train on AP Invoice authorisation workflow solution – Basware (Belgium, France, England, Germany)
•Train on Purchase Order Entry and Invoice Verification
•Establish and coordinate European SAP Security Roles From September 2003 to March 2004 (7 months) Madrid, Spain; Paris, FranceFunctional FI Consultant, RtR @ Local audit FI R/3, 4.6C
•Improve global standardization for Europe
•Modify alternative Charts of Accounts
•Check/modify mapping SAP FI to Hyperion Consolidation Tool
•Test and train local legal reports
•Modify/convert live asset master data for Belgium, Spain and France
•Test conversion AA From April 2003 to July 2003 (4 months) Madrid, Spain; Köln, Germany; Bornem, BelgiumFI Team leader, RtR @ European Rollout R/3, 4.6C
•Identifying local business and legal requirements
•Training the power users in the modules GL, AP, AR, Creditmanagement, Bankmanagement
•Develop Business Procedures
•FI Customizing
•Coordinate User Acceptance Testing
•Develop Specs for interfaces, output documents, reports
•Write Queries and CATTs
•Conversion Master Data and Transactional Data
•After Go Live Support From July 2001 to April 2003 (1 year 10 months) Castellon, Spain; Rotterdam, NetherlandsFunctional FI Consultant, RtR @ KPMG Deutschland project. Migration R/2, 5.0D - R/3, 4.6C
•Establishing to-be concept with AcceleratedSAP.
•Consulting Financial Accounting functionality (GL, AP, AR, Credit management, Banking, TR-CM, Asset Accounting).
•Visualizing business processes with ARIS tool set.
•Migrating Financial Documents, Customer and Vendor Master Data.
•Implementing Credit Insurance Management (KV-Sprint). From September 1999 to May 2001 (1 year 9 months) Darmstadt, GermanyCO team lead @ PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting project. Local implementation.
•Establishing conceptual analysis.
•Designing and presenting the to-be solution (CO, PS, PCA). From May 1999 to July 1999 (3 months) Madrid, SpainProjectmanager @ Andersen Consulting UK project. European Rollout
•Detailed work and resource planning (tasks, checkpoints, deliverables, work & resource estimates, resource gap analysis, holiday plans).
•Local support with daily rollout management (status reporting, KPI calculations, ETC/EAC calculations, progress updates, execution management of rollout activities).
•Local FI (GL, AP, AR)/CO/AM rollout (As-Is analysis, build activities, user acceptance testing, user procedures, conversion, end-user training).
•After go-live support (month-end closing, ad-hoc reporting).
•Working on FI/CO related configuration issues (tax reporting, automatic payment programs). From February 1998 to April 1999 (1 year 3 months) Madrid, Spain; Brussel, BelgiumFunctional FI consultant @ Andersen Consulting UK project. European Rollout.
•Identifying business requirements and produce Fit-Gap analysis.
•Configuring Accounts Receivable, General Ledger and Sales & Distribution.
•Automatic and manual incoming payments, Dunning, Credit Management, Taxes, Sales Information Structures, Pricing Procedures and Account Assignments.
•Developing and processing Business Simulation Tests and Regression Tests.
•Writing functional specifications for ABAP/4 developments on system interfaces, reports and SAPscripts.
•Training client.
•Conversion of Accounts Receivable data From August 1997 to January 1998 (6 months) Willstätt, GermanyFunctional FI consultant @ Andersen Consulting UK project. European Rollout.
•Configuring Accounts Receivable and General Ledger.
•Automatic and manual incoming payments, Taxes, Credit Reporting.
•Training client.
•Conversion of Accounts Receivable data. From May 1997 to August 1997 (4 months) Madrid, SpainFunctional FICO Consultant @ SAP projects at:
•Amoco (Oil), Chicago, IL.
•Corn Products (Consumer Intensive Products), Chicago, IL.
•Tellabs (Telecommunications), Bolingbrook, IL.
•Michael Foods (Consumer Intensive Business), Minneapolis, MN. From May 1995 to May 1997 (2 years 1 month) Midwest, USA
Robert Beumer is skilled in: US GAAP, VAT, SAP, SAP R/3, SAP BW, ERP, SAP Implementation, SAP ERP, SD, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ABAP, SAP FI, CO-PA, IDOC, SAP FICO, General Ledger, SAP Netweaver, Data Migration, SAP Configuration, Integration, Master Data, Business Process, SAP MM, SAPScript, Business Intelligence, Legacy Systems, SAP PS, SAP SD, Materials Management, Smartforms, ECC, Master Data Management, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP BI, SAP Portal