Eder Garella
Lafayette - CA
Summary
SAP FI Consultant - SAP Certificate ID: 0010421676
+12 years of experience in Finance / SAP consulting / IT project management across banking, consulting, pharmaceutical, agriculture, chemical and retail industries.
Led a team of IT professionals responsible for managing and optimizing finance and purchase systems to ensure efficient operation and alignment with business goals.
Delivered the first global project in Latin America, implementing SAP Central Finance for 3 companies acquired in Brazil. Conducted comprehensive training sessions for end-users, ensuring their understanding and proficiency in utilizing finance and purchase systems, resulting in increased productivity and user satisfaction.
Oversaw the implementation and maintenance of ERP systems using the best practices methodologies (SAP Activate, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
Collaborated closely with finance and procurement departments to understand technology requirements, offering strategic solutions to enhance operational effectiveness and streamline workflows.
Coordinated with vendors and external service providers to ensure seamless integration and functionality of finance and purchase platforms, effectively managing contracts and SLAs.
Provided leadership, guidance, and mentorship to the IT team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Partner Coordinator
Nutrien
03.2022 - 10.2023
- Managed strategic partnership initiatives to drive measurable outcomes and deeper relationships with cross-functional teams.
- Monitored accounts, ledgers and reporting systems to comply with regulatory requirements and corporate policy standards.
- Developed work plans, gathered and synthesized data, led analyses and implemented recommendations to define, structure and execute strategic and operational initiatives.
- Identified opportunities to use technology and automation to enhance communication between teams and achieve business success.
- Projects involved:
• CFIN - Central Finance Team Member: Implement Central Finance And BPC components within Nutrien S/4 systems with integration for SAP ECC, JDE, Protheus/TOTVS and Siagri (Global initiative)
• EFD-Reinf v. 2.1.1 - SPED - Receita Federal
• Reversal Credit ICMS
• FCI - Import Content Sheet
• ICMS Discharged ( Exemption of ICMS in NF-e )
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
Decathlon
03.2019 - 03.2022
- Partnership with key stakeholders in Finance, Accounting and Tax, maintaining high degree of visibility within company and participating in appropriate business meetings and management forums, providing central point of information for all IT related activities: Support business needs and fix bug in FI-AA, AP, AR, GL, BL, TV e CO-OM, CCA.
- Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
- Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
- Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
- Re-engineered existing computer systems to promote ease-of-use and improve system security.
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
CVS Health
03.2017 - 03.2019
- Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
- Acting as single focal point for project requests for Finance and Accounting initiatives, ensuring transparency to operational group of new or changing requirements and their impact on IT initiatives.
- Responsible for overseeing IT business analysts, as well as assigned contract resources, aiming to partner with company to form process and system solutions that are appropriate and adequate to meet business needs.
- Support business needs and fix bug (level 3) FI-AA, AP, AR, GL, BL, TV e CO-OM, CCA.
- Contributing to appropriate meetings of IT staff and development partners supporting initiatives prioritization, particularly using cost/benefit analysis to proactively manage business demand.
SAP FICO Consultant
Grupo Assa
11.2013 - 03.2017
- Mapped client business requirements, processes and objectives and developed necessary product modifications to satisfy clients' needs.
- Documented functional designs and test cases.
- Identified gaps, issues and worked around solutions.
- Facilitated implementation and support of SAP financials and performed detailed analysis of complex business process requirements.
- Expertise in support (Helpdesk / AMS) SAP FI, providing support to companies from segments, such as; pharmaceutical, engineering, retail and industry. Acting on bug fixes and some improvements in SAP.
- Developing following activities:
- Analysis, correction and maintenance of travel (FI-TV);
- Analysis, correction and maintenance of workflow (WF);
- Support and maintenance on accounts payable (FI-AP);
- Support and maintenance on accounts receivable (FI-AR);
- Updating and maintenance of tax tables (FI-TX);
- Set up banks and electronic statements of bank accounts;
- Development and application of dBT – Digital Business Transformation at Grupo Assa;
- Responsible in Brazil for Polomex Mexico Company, seeking improvement and optimization;
- Responsible for structuring Solman in EHP7 updates for Promom Logicalis company;
- Creation and structuring Workflow for FI-TV Caoa Hyundai.
System Analyst
Alpha Indústria E Comercio
02.2012 - 10.2013
- Optimized core processes to improve business performance and operational agility.
- Identified clear connections between policies and business results to eliminate or reduce confusion and help employees achieve goals.
- Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
- Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions.
- SAP: Expertise in accounts payable and receivable, identifying outstanding and receivable securities.
- Protheus: Development of activities related to ERP Microsiga Protheus, Key User of accounts payable and Treasury, carrying out the project scope survey for the responsible areas.
Finance Analyst
Corema Corretora De Seguros
08.2004 - 05.2009
- Measured actual performance against operating plan and interpreted results for all levels of management.
- Developed financial models, analytics and automated reporting and forecasting tools to increase productivity.
- Improved financial operations with careful, in-depth analysis and proactive recommendations for improvement.
- Developed complex spreadsheets and charts and tables of financial and budget information.
- Accounts Payable Analysis sector, reporting directly to Financial Board, acting in process of receiving invoices, analyzing taxes, issuing payment, posting integrated system and payments banks.
- Success in reducing payment of fines to suppliers by 90%, eliminating company's protests, as well as optimizing payment control, by inserting concessionaires into automatic debit.
Education
M.D. - Software Engineering
International Technological University
Santa Clara - California07.2025
MBA - Finance
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
São Paulo - Brazil12.2020
Associate of Science - Information Technology
Universidade Paulista
São Paulo - Brazil12.2012
Skills
- Strategic Consulting
- Lean Methodology
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Administrative Management
- Partner Relationship Management
- Strategic Partnership
- Change Management Process
- Legal Strategy Development
- Manage Operations
- Organizational Improvements
Certification
SAP Certificate ID: 0010421676
Languages
Portuguese
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Spanish
Intermediate (B1)
Timeline
Business Partner Coordinator
Nutrien
03.2022 - 10.2023
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
Decathlon
03.2019 - 03.2022
Senior SAP FICO Consultant
CVS Health
03.2017 - 03.2019
SAP FICO Consultant
Grupo Assa
11.2013 - 03.2017
System Analyst
Alpha Indústria E Comercio
02.2012 - 10.2013
Finance Analyst
Corema Corretora De Seguros
08.2004 - 05.2009
M.D. - Software Engineering
International Technological University
MBA - Finance
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Associate of Science - Information Technology
Universidade Paulista
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