peter oliver

head of apea finance systems and change

About

- CA qualified with over 15+ years of experience in finance and commercial roles, including Finance Transformation - Industry exposure – Financial Services, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Consulting (services), IT, Chartered Accounting, Energy, Health - A number of years consulting experience in the ERP space (primarily SAP, PeopleSoft), including program management - Strong process improvement, planning experience - Senior stakeholder driving the business forward through strategy, change management, business partnering - Extensive team leadership experience and skills - International experience including Australia, Middle East, and Asia so I am well used to dealing with multiple cultures (and challenging environments)

Country

singapore

City

singapore

Industry

financial services

Skill

financial services, start ups, internal controls, governance, change management, business transformation, strategy, business process re engineering, managerial finance, mergers, business process improvement, offshoring, sap, sarbanes oxley act, business process, business strategy, management consulting, it strategy, outsourcing, project management, management, business analysis, finance, risk management, consulting, banking, enterprise resource planning, program management, stakeholder management, financial analysis, leadership, accounting, sap products, financial risk, forecasting, divestitures, regulatory reporting

Experience

senior consultant

pwc

1999-9 - 2001-8 · 2 yrs

* FICO consulting * Training and documentation * Performance improvement / shared services - Developing business process flowcharts documenting the SAP system and the relationships to a Shared Services Centre; conducting workshops with key stakeholders to advise on and validate these business process flowcharts

accountant

spearman stoddard

1987-1 - 1991-8 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Business advisory, Tax and Audit Services for SME clients

global continuous improvement manager - senior vice president

credit suisse

2007-10 - 2012-10 · 5 yrs 1 mo

* Manage team to deliver global GL projects in PeopleSoft area covering all CS divisions – IB, PB, and AM. The team handles projects that involve the general ledger including receiving feeds from upstream and passing to downstream systems. This also includes the global book management system, journal processing front end and fixed assets. * Manage global book of work and prioritization process * Involved in a number of projects across multiple locations * Part of financial strategy initiative to improve global systems * Project lead for IFRS on the GL work stream * Change lead for OneGL program * Project lead for strategic reporting project * Acting COO for Financial Accounting APAC

independent consultant

wickliffe

2007-5 - 2007-9 · 5 mos

* Contracting in preparation for relocation to Asia * Project manager to implement a print procurement model. This included managing the various components of model from front to back * Process mapping initiative for printing organization using a tool called xSol. This was for all AS IS processes in preparation for gap analysis to move to new ERP system (Axapta)

finance and controlling manager

siemens

2004-8 - 2007-4 · 2 yrs 9 mos

* Proven team leadership * Finance & Controlling (FICO) process owner for successful implementation of SAP * Business partnering for Corporate and providing commercial acumen to operational areas * Project management / process improvement - implementation of planning / forecasting tool (COGNOS); including setting up new organisational reporting structure to drive more visibility and commercial awareness at all levels of the organisation * Involvement in business turnaround program * Divestment of 1/3 of business * Revenue recognition project to adopt Siemens guidelines * Implementation of SOX and IFRS

senior consultant

atos

2001-8 - 2004-5 · 2 yrs 10 mos

* office / management included rollout of SAP training to 350 power users with a team of 12, delivering 30 courses in 8 weeks timeframe * Bid management * Change management - team lead responsible for mapping and improving company wide business processes for largest Oil and Gas Company in the Middle East * Training development and delivery for FICO, treasury, E-Banking

financial controller

hasbro

1996-8 - 1999-9 · 3 yrs 2 mos

* Managing Finance, HR, IT functions * Restructuring of company to divest all manufacturing * Implementation of SAP

accountant

starship children's health

1994-1 - 1996-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Implementation of decentralisation plan to push services back to business unit Patient data / statistics - set up models to gather and report to ensure accuracy and consistency across the organisation

franchise and finance manager

contract consulting

1993-12 - 1994-8 · 9 mos

Franchising start up role setting up systems and business relationships Tax and accounting advice to a number of SME clients

financial controller

telephone solutions

1992-1 - 1993-12 · 2 yrs

Implementation of systems and procedures for start up venture; including formulating business plans for funding Development of job descriptions, employment