SAP CO Experts in Switzerland

(Project Assignment via consulting company HighPerfPeople)

• Lead the Workday Optimization Board, defining and presenting the Workday enhancement roadmap; drive prioritization based on stakeholder input, system analysis, and identified capability gaps.
• Challenge business requirements and proposed solutions to ensure alignment with long-term architecture principles, platform strategy and operational sustainability.
• Own the complete lifecycle of Workday enhancements from business discovery and solution design through implementation governance, testing strategy, deployment and stabilization.
• Act as functional/technical lead for key product areas including Peakon, Workday Learning, and Talent/Performance processes (e.g., year-end cycle, goal setting).
• Define and implement Workday branding and communication standards (templates, notification design, messaging structure) to improve consistency and employee experience.
• Build and enhance manager- and HR-facing tools (reports, dashboards, guidance/Journeys, process support assets) to reduce manual effort and improve decision-making.
• Translate complex system behavior, security/privacy constraints, and process implications into clear options for business stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with HR process owners, IT/security, and vendors to resolve issues and enable scalable solutions.
• Strong focus on adoption: ensure changes are usable, understandable, and actionable for employees, managers, and HR teams.

• Project Management Office: analysis and setup, master plan, standardized project planning (generic work breakdown structure according to HERMES), earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Finance management at portfolio, program and project level.

• Resource management and single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Process management.

• Implementation of a program management tool for unified program and project management.

• Program controlling: finance management, earned value management, milestone trend analysis, consolidation of project budgets, actual costs and forecasts at the program level.

• Variance analyses at program level.

• Transition from total cost view to commitment credit view (federal administration terminology).

• Calculation of available reserves (rolling), forecasts and scenarios.

• Monthly, quarterly, half-year and annual reports, preparation of annual planning at program level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Project controlling: support for project managers in project planning, earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Review of projects for budget compliance, adherence to phases and schedules, deliverables, resource planning and deployment.

• Variance analyses at project level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Resource management: resource planning based on program and project plans, review of timesheets.

• Supply chain (until April 2022): single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Change management: involvement in change management for cost-relevant changes (change requests), tracking of service contract price for contract-related changes, participation in change control boards / decision boards at management level.

• Establishment of controlling structures in a new Swiss federal agency (becoming a federal office as of January 1, 2024) since April 2022.

• Credit monitoring with validation of actual costs and commitment values.

• Resource management: cross-project resource planning (HRP).

• Earned value analysis and milestone trend analysis for key ICT projects of the federal government.

• Participation in the introduction of the JIRA Tempo module.

• Tools & methods: HERMES 5.1 / Agile HERMES, Sciforma 7, JIRA, Confluence, Tempo, Signavio, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Prof., Excel-VBA.

• Development, industrialization and production of helicopter seats (military)
• Responsible for an innovative seating system: weight < 15 kg, 100% crash safety according to EASA, side-facing, from concept to SOP
• Complete recovery of a project two years overdue: concept approval and prototype testing in 4 weeks, certification testing in 8 weeks, 100% EASA certification
• Management of global BCC development resources (> 60% share) and optimization of development cycles including FEM
• Streamlining the supply chain, on-time EASA and series approval, compliance with the NRE budget, timely delivery including FAI

• Project management: Implementation of SAP & EBX integration for master and reference data management and led development of AI supported services for data management and privacy-oriented solutions
• Business analysis: Executed in-depth requirement gathering and data analyzes for MDM implementation, supported service integration using REST APIs to enhance service interoperability, led the requirement gathering, analysis, and implementation of agent-based AI services
• Technologies: SAP BP & FICO & MM, Tibco EBX, n8n, custom AI development in Java, Python, RDBMS, cloud

• Project lead for a global organization improvement project impacting tax model, global organization, Order 2 Cash (O2C), Procure 2 Pay (P2) processes, supply chain, finance, tax, assets, HR and IT systems including ERP
• Implemented new way of working, including process changes, documentation of work instructions and updates to IT systems including ERP and HR systems
• Success: new operating model implemented and delivering expected benefits

• Compliance with IFRS 16 for all group companies
• Achieve efficiency gains through a centralized and standardized process and save time thanks to a single source of information
• Automatic calculation and posting of IFRS 16 and other relevant journals
• Simulations / planning of positions regarding rent/leasing (vehicles, equipment, real estate, etc.)
• Coordination of service fees, benchmarking, scheduling, etc.

• Preparing annual financial statements for several animal clinics in Switzerland (MARS Group)
• Leading the audit of the Swiss entities with PwC
• Supporting and enhancing the ongoing accounting

• Participating in a strategic enterprise project to introduce a centralized customer data platform ("Single Source of Truth") to eliminate redundant data storage and accelerate digital services

• Analyzing and documenting business and system requirements for migrating large, heterogeneous data sets (ETL) and for continuous data synchronization between core systems and the new platform

• Close collaboration with business units, data engineers and architects to gather and validate requirements, and to ensure data quality, consistency and regulatory compliance

• Defining the migration strategy, specifying ETL processes and synchronization mechanisms, and documenting technical interfaces

• Developing and executing test cases for migration and synchronization processes, and performing defect analysis to ensure data integrity and system stability

• Technologies: SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Confluence, UML, RESTful Services, Swagger, Postman

• Cover the role of Global Process Owner of the Business Intelligence area and contribute to designing the Data Strategy
• Responsible for the global BI platform based on SAP BW4/HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere, Analysis for Office and Power BI
• Collaborate with the FICO team due to acquired skills in this area
• Work closely with the business worldwide to build dashboards, data models and reports to provide useful insights
• Coordinate international analytics teams as project manager and report project progress to the Board
• Participated in the two-year S/4 implementation project with SAP Switzerland, coordinating the SAP implementation team in Portugal and ensuring go-live with all dashboards and reports working and data matched S/4
• Managed BI projects in Sales, Finance, Global KPIs, Manufacturing and Purchasing as project manager; developed and coded when necessary
• Led the migration of reports from BusinessObjects and Lumira to Analysis for Office and BW4/HANA
• Developed Spend Analytics data models and dashboards to analyze purchasing across 30+ entities, achieving 8% savings on purchasing volume and increased group profitability
• Defined data strategy for the group
• Created the global Business Intelligence site on Viva Engage, published stories and built the BI website containing links to training, BI directive list of reports and dashboards
• Created success stories as business use cases, published on Viva Engage
• Led the Business Intelligence function globally, coordinating BI development teams in Switzerland and abroad
• Personally developed data models, reports and dashboards
• Involved in privacy and security topics to guarantee correct compliance of data management
• Coded using different programming languages
• Managed more than 15 BI projects over 5 years using agile methodology, delivered on time, on budget and on quality
• Wrote the BI directive on correct usage of BI tools in the company

• Recruited for hard-to-fill roles at Implenia with 9000 employees at its Opfikon headquarters. Managed all stakeholders (hiring managers, candidates, coordinators, agencies, talent sourcing, contract drafting, onboarding)
• Optimized the TA process by conducting talent sourcing kick-offs with hiring managers for hard-to-fill positions in corporate functions (IT, Legal, MarCom, Finance, etc.)

• Acquisition, closing, and execution of consulting projects
• Treasury, business controlling, corporate finance, accounting, M&A, corporate sustainability, ESG, turnaround management

• Designed and implemented AI-enhanced macro-factor models improving asset allocation decisions across multi-asset portfolios
• Developed machine learning-based FX trading strategies, integrating macroeconomic and sentiment data to identify profit opportunities
• Models adopted by the investment committee to guide equity and currency exposure
• Collaborated with portfolio managers to translate analytical output into actionable investment insights

• Creation of interfaces for transferring SD orders and customer master data (including various protocols and the ability to handle erroneous data)
• Analysis and adjustment of existing programs due to infrastructure change
• SOAP and REST API for creating customer master data from SugarCRM
• REST APIs in JSON (SD orders, invoices, payments, PDF forms)
• Log program for REST APIs
• Creation of various invoice forms in 8 languages including document links, email delivery, PDF generation
• Provision of data for the data warehouse
• Various user exits and enhancements in SD and FI
• Intercompany sales order creation, program for creating credit memos (uploads from Excel and from the server)
• Reports (VAT, sales orders, invoices)
• Correction program for CO data
• Support for various interfaces, notes, etc.
• Enhancement for IDoc INVOIC02
• Upload program for XML files (Rydoo) to post cash receipts into FI (FB01)
• Creation of dunning forms in various languages (Smartforms and Adobe including email delivery)
• Account statement program (ALV displaying postings, sending to debtors via email using Smartform as PDF)

• DWH development (backend) for SRG (2022)

• Media: redesign of the HR data model to prepare migration to BW/4HANA

• Support and training for HR and controlling reporting solutions

• Technologies: SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW on HANA 7.5, SAP HCM, SAP CO, SAP FI, IBCS, SAP Lumira Design Studio, Graphomate, SAP Fiori Launchpad

• DWH development (frontend) for Constellium (2017)

• Redesigned reporting according to IFRS 17 standard

• Conceptualized and implemented improvements and automated migration programs

• Project "Market & Audience Research": blueprint and implementation of BW on HANA data models and reporting based on SAP ERP and third-party data (extraction using CDS views)

• Proof of concept reporting with SAC, Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

• Proof of concept replacement of Broadcaster with BO Scheduling

• Project "Adamant – Profitability Analysis": blueprint and implementation of BW on HANA data models and reporting with Design Studio using data from SAP CO-PA

• Technologies: SAP BW 7.5, SAP BEX Analyzer, SAP BEx Broadcaster, SAP ABAP, SAP BCS, SAP HANA native, Mediapulse, R, REST-API, Confluence, MS Power BI, SAP SAC, SAP BO Design Studio, SAP BO Scheduling and Publications XI 3.0, SAP Lumira Design Studio