ERP Finance Manager at Faurecia
Paris Area, France
ERP Finance Manager at Faurecia
Paris Area, France
Jean-Noël Bahar has a 7 year experience as a Consultant Manager specialized in:
• Finance Accounting(Account Payables & Receivables, General Ledger, Asset Management) and “procure to pay” (Purchasing, Supplier Maintenance)
• Finance Controlling (Cost Accounting, Budgeting, Engineering)
• Information Systems (Oracle e-business Suite full implementation, Archiving & purging Oracle Data-bases, IS audits, SAP ECC6.0 FI/CO Modules )
• Public Sector Financial (Encumbrance, Approval workflows)
• Change Management (Organization, business flows and processes), training …
He joined one of his former main customers 2 years ago, Faurecia Sièges d’automobile; he is in charge of the design & the Modelization of the Group ERP Finance & controlling target for R&D Centers & Plants.
The target solution is based on SAP, and concern the full entire life of a vehicule (Design & Development activities, Manufacturing in serial life, Quality, Purchasing, Sales, Product Cost Control & Program profitability control).
The project has started with Accenture, the integrator partner in charge of the solution design, the first pilot sites went live together on early July 2008 for both R&D and serial life activities.
*Implementation of financial Shared Services Center
*Product Cost Control & Standard cost Accounting
*Implementation of centralized IT support
*ERP implementation (Oracle Applications, SAP)
*Automotive Industry knowledge (Michelin, Faurecia,..)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; EO; Automotive industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
* Definition of the organizations & the target processes for the Company Product Groups
-> Profit center organization
-> Workcenter / Cost Centers structures
* Standard cost & Product cost control
* Investments Management
* Turnover Analysis & Profitability Control
* Budget & Price Control
* Manager of 3 Business Analysts
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)
FAURECIA
• 01/05–11/06
• Conception of a Core Model solution for Purchasing, Account Payables, Account Receivables, Fixed Asset and General Ledger (Oracle 11i)
• Implementation Methodology
• Shared Services Organization (Instructions / Responsabilities)
• Project Manager for implementation of the core model in Slovakia & in UK
• Reviewer of the implementation in Portugal
• Proof of concept for the Polish implementation of the core model
STAPLES JPG, Cosmos project
• Solution audit on the Finance project scope for the Oracle solution
• Support of the Finance team in terms of solution design especially for the Customer processes (from Demand integration into OM module until payment processing into AR ).
BRANDT APPLIANCES
• 04/05–07/05 Definition, project management & Go Live of an Account Receivables Business Solution (Oracle)
AFD (Agence française de développement)
• 01/05–04/05 Definition of the Purging & Archiving strategy for the whole implemented Oracle Solution
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 10 months)
IS audits & Consulting in Oraganization, Finance & IT around ERPs
*Processus Analysis (General & subledgers, Cost Accounting & Inventory Mgt)
*Recommendations and optimization plan,
*SSC implementation and organization
*New Process implementation plan,
*Trainer
*Enhancements impacts analysis & costing
ERP implementation & Roll-outs :
*Current Process & current setup,
*Solution adequation local need versus solution core need,
*Solution design & customization on Oracle Applications
*Prototyping, Migration activities
Customers:
*Michelin Reifenwerke KgaA, Karlsruhe, Germany
*M.F.PM (Manufacture Française des pneumatiques Michelin), Clermont-Ferrand
*Salomon SA et Mavic SA, Annecy,
*HCL (Hospices Civiles de Lyon), Lyon
*DCN (Direction des constructions navales), Brest
Références client :
*OGF (ex-PFG), Paris
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Accounting industry)
March 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Solutions Integration
*Process Analysis in Costs Control, Budget Follow-up & MRP Management
*Needs matching with solutions Oracle Applications & SAP
*Customization & Prototyping,
*Migration Plan.
Customers:
*Commissariat de la Marine, Toulon, (French Navy)
*Aventis Pharma, Frankfurt/Main.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)
September 1999 — April 2000 (8 months)
Internship Mission : Management of the Customer Service stock Room move
Missions :
*Process analysis,
*Stock Room facilities choice,
*ROI presentation,
*Process Alignment
*Planning
*Go Live
MBA , Stock Market, Supply Chain Management, IS Management , 1997 — 2000
Fluent in English & German
Working Spanish
French native
Preparation Classes (HEC) , Mathematics , 1995 — 1997
General Certification , Mathematics , 1993 — 1995
Production Planner for Dime & Toblerone (6 months in 1999)