·         Consolidation of The Geelong Advertiser Credit & AR into News Ltd Shared Services Team

·         Managing Finance issues Post Go Live (JD Edwards)

·         Testing / Analysis

·         Change Management

·         Process Improvement

·         Process Consolidation

·         Technical Support

·         Credit Management

·         Conducted Training for JDE Finance Users.

·         Development of Finance training manuals and Service Level Agreements

Responsibilities:

·                Assigned to the Phoenix Change Program in October 2006 as a Finance Business Analyst/SME

·                Representing AGLs Finance Team on the project, the phases and tasks performed over 4 full implementations and across 12 legacy systems are the following:

Blueprint & Configuration

·                Requirements Analysis

·                Creation and signing off of blueprint, configuration design and functional design documents. I was personally responsible for more than 30 Finance blueprints.

·                Actively contribute to process improvement

·                Design and configuration of CRM, IS-U, FICA, FICO & FI(AR,AP,GL) for the Finance area

·                UAT Acceptance Testing

·                Identify initiatives and new suggestions

·                Assist business in capturing ideas

·                Facilitate workshops

·                My time at Phoenix can boast the designing and building of the majority of AGLs financial reports exposing me to the fundamental tools and understanding of the SAP reporting capabilities

Testing & Analysis

·                Preparation & Development of Test Conditions and Test Cases covering more than 30 Blueprints and Functional Design Documents.

·                Perform end to end testing of SAP solution

·                Product Testing

·                Regression Testing

·                Integration Testing

·                Review test plans and test cases

·                Raise issues, defects and risks as appropriate

·                Identify, assess, record and retest the resolution of defects discovered during testing

·                Liaise with development teams and other test teams

·                End to End Security Testing of all user profiles

·                Load runner Testing- performance, stress, volume and load of the solution

·                Business Analysis / Impact Assessments

·                Raise Change Requests where required.

Conversion

·                Conversion of 12 legacy systems over 4 releases.

·                End to End Testing of converted data

·                Data Analysis

·                Data mapping of legacy fields to relative SAP solution

·                Raise issues and risks as appropriate.

·                Reconciliation of data to source systems

Deployment

·                Preparing the business for Go-Live

·                Development, Review & Sign-off of all Finance Training documents

·                Responsible for Training the SAP Trainers

Business Support

·                Providing a second level of support to the business on all SAP issues raised post Go-Live

·                Involved either referring the technical issues to the warranty team to be rectified or providing the business with in depth analysis around the issue and the workarounds available

·                CRM & ISU training of SAP users Post Go-Live. Modules FICO, FICA, FI(AR, AP, GL)

·                Diagnosing problems, liaising with technical team to resolve issues