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TAMAS SZEIER

Seattle Area,WA

Summary

GROWTH CATALYST AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION EVANGELIST PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND POWERFUL STRATEGY Accomplished and business savvy professional with robust experience acquired over the years in delivering optimal results and business value in high-growth environments and establishing key relationships with business teams. SKILL AREAS Strategic and Operations Planning Change and Transformation Agent Budgeting and Cost Controlling Financial Planning Project and Program Management Security and Disaster Recovery Process Improvement Problem Solving and Analytical Skills Collaborative Partnering Strong Communications and Interpersonal Skills Team Management Time Management Vendor Management Critical Thinking Attention to Detail Dynamic, versatile, and detailed-oriented leader with comprehensive experience in building and strengthening relationships across functions to drive cohesive collaboration. Skilled in aligning with business goals and building solutions that support the successful execution of business strategy. Helped companies to achieve faster go-to-market time by automating Solutions, Dashboards and Scorecards for work management and field operations. Multi-lingual with the ability to mentor and motivate globally distributed teams. Adept at transforming technology, improving quality, productivity and efficiency through analyzing business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs. Enhanced IT to Business communications throughout the enterprise by fostering cross-department collaboration with news feeds via the portal and email newsletters. Devised and established IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies set by upper management. Demonstrated ability in change management and use of formal project management methodologies. Exceptional communication, presentation & interpersonal skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly and utilizing the same in a productive manner. Through Digital Transformation, optimized, simplified and standardized ERP and analytics solutions that resulted in savings of Millions of dollars Marketing campaigns based on improved analytical and CRM solutions increased revenue by $100M+/year. By optimizing BI solutions, achieved a reduction of inventory levels by as much as 30%, resulting in over $10M in savings, and eliminated more than $5M of slow moving/obsolete inventory Achieved significant savings and cashflow improvement by streamlining finance business processes around A/P, A/R and month-end close Improved Sales forecasting and Trend analysis (IoT and Google Analytics), leading to an increase in revenue of $10M+ quarterly Converted report writing factory to advanced analytics practice, which significantly improved efficiency and reduced turnover time to access to information by implementing self-service model and advanced analytics framework Helped organizations move to the Cloud to save on operational cost and CAPEX

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr.Director

ACCENTURE
04.2019 - Current
  • Business and Digital Strategy – CFO / CIO / Enterprise Value / Analytics / ERP
  • Fortune 100 client advisory in the areas of Digital Transformation, Cloud, ERP, Big-Data and Analytics
  • Developed and executed business strategies to achieve short and long-term goals of clients
  • Reviewed client companies' business operations, financial performance, investments, and provided strategic guidance to improve performance, increase revenue, reduce costs, and promote growth
  • Managed functions pertaining to architecting and delivering high-end SAP ERP/HANA/Analyitics, digital transformation, e-Commerce, CRM, Big-Data, Cloud and Hybrid infrastructure solutions
  • Clients and projects:
  • Cisco – Customer Experience (CX) transformation (Looker, Tableau, Snowflake)
  • Puget Sound Energy – Meter Analytics Solution based on AI and Machine Learning (SAP HANA, SAP BW, AWS, Power BI)
  • Zwift – Analytics transformation and expansion to AI and Data Science roadmap (Tableau, Power BI, AWS, Redshift)
  • Trinseo – S/4 and BW/4 digital transformation (SAP S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Power BI)
  • The Walt Disney Company – Enterprise Decision Platform, Rapid Discovery Platform, S/4 SAP Transformation
  • Digital Transformation of Analytics and ERP landscape: on-prem to Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS)

Principal Strategy Consultant

INDEPENDENT
10.2015 - 03.2019
  • Analytics and Data Architecture
  • Responsible for conducting market research and studying market trends
  • Analyzed existing company processes and workflows, and provided re-designed solutions to improve performance
  • Evaluated practices and market behavior of industry competitors
  • Devised strategies to increase revenue, reduce costs, and promote growth
  • Oversaw implementation of updated business strategies, and reviewed efficacy of revised business strategies
  • Clients and projects:
  • Puget Sound Energy – IS-Utilities Analyitics Transformation (SAP BW on HANA)
  • K2 Sports – acting Finance Director: G/L, A/P, A/R (SAP ECC)
  • Zain / SAP EMEA – Global Analytics Competency Center (SAP ECC, SAP BW, BOBJ, Tableau, Power BI)
  • Harman International – CFO Dashboard (SAP ECC, SAP BW, Qlik Sense)
  • Microsoft – International Revenue Recognition Transformation (SAP)

Director

ASICS AMERICA
06.2013 - 10.2015
  • ERP and Analytics
  • Pioneered efforts across handling the entire gamut of functions pertaining to focusing on enterprise-wide initiatives, cross-functional department communication, governance, SDLC, and quality assurance
  • Responsible for budgeting and financial management
  • Managed BI and ERP programs and projects for BI, Finance and Planning strategy, IT Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery
  • Collaborated with internal audit team to implement IT governance and set up internal controls to manage risk and security
  • Defined companywide performance indicator metrics, KPIs, and financial models for performance and cost analysis
  • Managed all IT vendors (direct and indirect sourcing) focusing on cost-effectiveness and vendor performance
  • Maintained vendor scorecards
  • Mentored and coached individuals to build strong relationships

Director

PROMORPHICS
10.2012 - 04.2013
  • Excellence
  • Simplified and aligned BI solution, and leveraged synergies through standardization, integration, automation, and simplification
  • Managed all IT vendors (direct and indirect sourcing) focusing on cost-effectiveness and vendor performance
  • Delivered several full life-cycle SAP analytics implementations including Discovery, Requirement gathering, Blueprint, Design, Built, Test, Cut-over, Go-live phases

Senior Manager

REI
09.2011 - 09.2012
  • SAP Center of Excellence and BI Competency, Developed business roadmap for the integration of SAP COE and BICC which included the creation and execution of BI roadmap and strategy to define the future of SAP COE and BICC teams within REI
  • Spearheaded a diverse team through system integration that covered all aspects of the creation and implementation of SAP COE and BICC teams and ensured that the execution of the rollout was successful
  • Partnered with Basis, Infrastructure, and DB teams to ensure business continuity and proper disaster recovery
  • Managed vendor relationships, communication, and performance measurement
  • Delivered several full life-cycle SAP ERP and analytics implementations including Discovery, Requirement gathering, Blueprint, Design, Built, Test, Cut-over, Go-live phases

Senior Delivery Manager - BI

Center of, BICC
01.2010 - 01.2011

Senior Manager

NEWPORT CORPORATION
01.2007 - 01.2010

Business Intelligence, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

SAP
01.1996 - 01.2007

Education

MBA - Business Administration

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University
Buckinghamshire, UK

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Budapest, Hungary

Bachelor’s - Finance And Economics

Budapest

SAP ABAP; SAP Business Warehouse (BW); SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOBJ) - undefined

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • SAP - HANA, ERP, CRM, HCM, BI, BW, COE, BPC, ECC, PLM, Hybris, BusinessObjects, Business Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Hyperion/Essbase, QlikView, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PowerPivot, Netezza, Concur, Snowflake, SQL Server
  • ERP – SAP, MS AX, IFS, Oracle
  • BI – SAP BW, BOBJ, HANA, Netezza, Cognos, Tableau, MSBI, Power BI, Looker
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point) MS Project, MS SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, SourceSafe, SharePoint
  • Object Oriented Programming and Architecture - Java, C, C, Visual Basic, Pascal, RPG, Fortran, Cobol, HTML, Net, R, SQL
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Certification

  • [Area of certification] Training - [Timeframe]
  • [Area of certification], [Company Name] - [Timeframe]

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Hungarian
Native or Bilingual
German
Professional Working

Timeline

Sr.Director

ACCENTURE
04.2019 - Current

Principal Strategy Consultant

INDEPENDENT
10.2015 - 03.2019

Director

ASICS AMERICA
06.2013 - 10.2015

Director

PROMORPHICS
10.2012 - 04.2013

Senior Manager

REI
09.2011 - 09.2012

Senior Delivery Manager - BI

Center of, BICC
01.2010 - 01.2011

Senior Manager

NEWPORT CORPORATION
01.2007 - 01.2010

Business Intelligence, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

SAP
01.1996 - 01.2007

MBA - Business Administration

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Bachelor’s - Finance And Economics

SAP ABAP; SAP Business Warehouse (BW); SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BOBJ) - undefined

TAMAS SZEIER