SAP ECC Experts in Switzerland

Self-employed Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant

• Support services for SAP transformations
• Support services for SAP FI projects (based on ECC and S/4)

• 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.

• Project management, hustler (identifying the full financial picture including sales, pitching, financial analysis, & business models) and hound (identifying real customer needs including research & analysis) to build a project metrics system on the Internet.
• The system allows users to make informed decisions to keep projects on track according to key data or to realign them when they deviate negatively from the plan.
• Providing a forecast alongside the current status.
• Automatic calculation and display of metrics based on user-entered project key data.
• Skills: project management, project metrics.
• Problem space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), corporate innovation team setup, team profile / team canvas, design thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, market exploration, defining the problem.
• Solution space: narrowing the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, business model canvas, value proposition canvas, prototyping, refining the prototype and business model canvas, final pitch.

• Project management (SAP BN (Ariba) onboarding, support for SAP ECC and SAP TM for supplier topics)
• Standardization of global value creation processes
• Basic training as well as central contact person for suppliers and support for planners

• Provide global leadership for Comet’s enterprise applications and digital transformation agenda, acting as a strategic partner to the CIO and Executive Committee. Accountable for driving business value, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire enterprise systems landscape.
• Define and execute the global enterprise applications strategy across ERP, CRM, PLM, MES, HR systems (SuccessFactors, SAP HR), and Microsoft 365 (M365), ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with long-term business objectives.
• Partner with executive and regional business leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable digital initiatives that enhance efficiency, agility, and user experience.
• Drive Agile delivery practices across cross-functional global teams using Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead a centralized and standardized global application delivery model to ensure governance, efficiency, and consistency across all regions and business units.
• Own vendor management and sourcing strategy, establishing and monitoring KPIs, SLAs, and performance metrics for application reliability, user adoption, and business impact.
• Manage multi-million euro application budgets, optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and value creation.
• Strengthen IT governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance in line with GDPR, ISO, and IFRS requirements.
• Enable IT/OT convergence by integrating SAP, MES, PLM, and production systems with enterprise platforms, ensuring secure and interoperable manufacturing and R&D architectures.
• Act as Deputy CIO, contributing to enterprise IT strategy, cybersecurity programs, risk management, and transformation initiatives.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across global IT and business teams.
• Ensure efficient and cost-effective Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivery while maintaining required service levels across all application services.
• Oversee SAP AMS and non-SAP application support teams across internal resources and external MSPs.
• Ensure high service reliability through structured Incident, Change, and Problem Management in coordination with the IT Service Delivery organization.
• Establish and continuously monitor KPIs, SLAs, and application performance dashboards to ensure service quality and business continuity.
• Coordinate L2/L3 escalation paths across internal IT teams, MSPs, and software vendors to ensure rapid issue resolution.

• Managing the Testing services for the Global IT Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) team, which is responsible for managing and supporting the Product & Project Testing Workstreams on various Regional Projects, especially in Pharmacovigilance, Digital Supply Chain, Clinical Practice and R&D, etc.
• Managing Client relationships, escalations and continuing to grow the project services globally, while also driving the testing efforts on Takeda’s AI, DevOps, Agile, and Digital projects.
• Led the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with GCP, GMP, and Swiss and EU regulations, resulting in a huge improvement in audit readiness.
• Overseeing projects for systems including ERP, EDGE, SAP ECC, SAP Transportation Management, S/4 HANA migration etc.
• Led an AI/ML PoC for AI implementation.
• Led a cross-functional team to ensure compliance with MDR, FDA regulatory guidelines and achieved successful project deliveries.
• Led and managed change management and communication for TCoE, keeping the Takeda organisation informed of change communication and practices, including presentations to various stakeholders.
• Ensuring TCoE outsource vendor resources adhere to regulatory, compliance and quality system standards and practices for GxP & non-GxP System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including aSDLC and TCoE Global Standards.
• Translated the product vision, strategy and requirements into backlog items, which were prioritised based on potential business impact and customer value.

• Delivering smart, scalable solutions tailored to clients’ real needs with a team of 100+ highly skilled professionals.

• Embedded software solutions

• AI solution consulting & development

• Microsoft Power Automate & process optimization

• Web development & lightweight applications

• 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)