Stuart Frearson

Experienced Project Manager and IT Consultant, specialising in IT / Financial Programme and Project Management, ERP and Business Critical Systems, notably SAP. Implementations, Process Automation, Infrastructure Upgrade, Change Management, Business Analysis, MIS Reporting and Datawarehousing, Project Management Office setup, Microsoft products and Networks, Europewide & International experience, fluent French.

• Al Arrab Construction Company, Riyadh, KSA, SAP Financial Project Manager. After the previous IT team, for economy reasons, had thrown SAP over the wall to the main company, my task was to rescue the implementation in the reluctant manufacturing subsidiaries. All done eventually and we put in place accounting, budgeting, monthly performance reporting, procurement, credit control and other basic procedures to modern standards. SAP FI/CO, SD/MM, PP, MS Office 2007, MS Project, usual networking and office tools.

Noviacom built the better part of the mobile telephony infrastructure in the Kingdom. Initially a forensic and consultancy assignment, heading up the accounts department I modernised their accounting processes, brought the books back into shape, collected in our outstanding invoices, negotiated with banks and produced annual accounts to IFRS audited by Ernst & Young. MS Office 2007, MS Dynamics GP and other bespoke accounting systems.

Upgraded accounting and reporting systems and replaced extensive Excel-based reporting with Business Objects following the purchase of this (U.K.) company by the (French) bank. Business Objects (XI) for reporting, some Cognos 8.2 (for HR), Cartesis Magnitude for statutory reporting and consolidation, MS Dynamics GP v10 Financial and Accounting System, Norkom AML/KYC software.

1. Introduced SAP automated transaction accounting and control system for new MENA-wide corporate travel card. 2. Upgraded Spend Analysis modelling tools, extraction from SAP and other purchase systems, creation of a Dashboard with slice-‘n-dice and drill-down. SAP FI (ECC5.0) and Travel Management sub-module, reporting in SAP BW, interfacing with proprietary bank systems. Automated feeds via Mercator and bizTalk. MS Project, MS Visio, usual office tools and networks.

Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors

Technical assistance for IT SOX Compliance and Financial Services IT Audit in a SAP environment. SAP / IBM / Notes, essbase, MS Office, GMAC and KPMG methodologies

IT SOX compliance, documentation and remediation and 1. Reviewed, rationalised and re-developed extensive spreadsheet use for reporting and rolled out new processes required. 2. Documented and analysed Oracle 11i in-house automated manufacturing system interface to new ERP package. Development in Excel / VBA, Cognos, Hyperion. ERP systems: PeopleSoft 8.4 and BPCS 4.0, Oracle 11I dbms. MS Project and usual Office tools.

Trained and handheld users for roll-out to new public sector clients. Good practice in SAP FI/CO and other modules.

Finance Director EMEA. set up their offices in Dubai from scratch - Accounting systems, hiring, training, procedures, best practices, IT infrastructure support and staffing, group restructuring to serve Middle-East sites, investment appraisal, financing plan with banks, financial statements inc. consols. to IAS / IFRS for audit by KPMG, Internal control and regulatory compliance, everything you can think of. A very enjoyable hard-working few years. Usual networks and tools, MS Office, Tally Gold