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Xavier Castillo Martín

FI CO SAP Consultant - SAP Project Manager
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1 project
  • Suggested rate
    €656 / day
  • Experience15+ years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Xavier in a few words
A commercially astute SAP integration specialist and Finance Manager with 25 years of
experience spanning Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Utilities, Oil and Gas
Service organizations. Global configuration and implementation of SAP across multiple offices for blue chip and Fortune 500 organizations.

SAP Project Manager: Successfully lead SAP ECC teams of several members to implement SAP in global companies worldwide.

SAP FICO Consultant: Successfully implemented SAP ECC in global companies including Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UK, USA, Canada, Indonesia, PNG, Australia, South Africa, Angola as well as in some of the EU countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany,,,).

Project Management: Involved in business process engineering and system re-engineering
projects including scope, schedule and budget.

Change Management: Mastered the change management strategy including the definition and execution under project framework. Stakeholder engagement, management and
communications.

Financial analysis: End of month consolidation reporting and results analysis in Financial
Controller and Chief Accounting Shared Services. Management of budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.

Leadership and management: Leadership of a team of 10 direct reports and 20 consultants in various projects.

Business Acumen: Corporate business consulting and senior advisor in finance including
investment strategy and funding, acquisitions and company valuations.

Communication: Exceptional communication skills and multi-lingual capabilities across English, Spanish, Italian and Catalan.

Teaching: teacher in several courses and Masters in prestigious Business Schools, all related to Finance, Business Processes and/or Information System subjects.
Experience
  • VESUVIUS
    Interim Chief Accountant
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    December 2022 - June 2023 (6 months)
    Muggiò, MB, Italy
    As Interim Chief Accountant, support the Italian Financial Controller (role of local CFO) in
    the accounting daily and month end closing tasks.
    • Analysis of non-PO vendor invoices to redefine the approving flow, in coordination with
    the financial SSC in Poland and the Local Purchasing Team.
    • Development of EXCEL files to calculate closing postings: accruals, prepayments.
    • Development of EXCEL templates to automatize the posting of recurrent non-PO
    invoices with Controlling dimension breakdown (Utilities, T&E, Renting, Toll cards, etc).
    • Analysis of MD and Balance Sheet accounts to clean up for the future migration.
    Microsoft Excel Administrative and Financial Director Corporate Finance SAP Migration ERP
  • Dupont
    SAP EMEA Localization manager
    RAW MATERIALS INDUSTRY
    February 2022 - November 2022 (9 months)
    Responsibilities:
    • As EMEA Localization Lead for the Carve Out project, ensure that all localization needs
    for all EMEA companies are met in the new SAP system.
    • High level discussion with EMEA e-invoicing system responsible to analyze and support
    to maintain integration in the new SAP system.
    • Analyze and solve issues in the process of Carve Out of the SAP system into the new SAP
    system, regarding the EMEA companies.
    • Continuous discussions with SAP project technical team to ensure correct configuration
    in the areas of my competences.

    Achievements:
    • The Carve Out of the specialty products SAP configurations went live on date, as
    expected with no major issues in the EMEA companies.
    • Prepared weekly follow-up meetings with issues and task performed in my anrea of
    competence.
  • MediaPro
    SAP Project Manager SAP FI CO Senior Consultant
    ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE
    June 2019 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
    Barcelona, CT, Spain
    Leader of a team of 7 SAP Consultants (3 FICO, 2 Logistics & 2 HR) to integrate new
    stablished or acquired companies to SAP environment.
    • As a Member of the Weekly Integration Operative Committee, I had interaction with top
    level management to decide on prioritization of companies to be integrated.
    • Plan and follow up on SAP roll-outs, ensuring timely and smooth implementations.
    • Plan, follow up and functional design on a SAP integration with OneStream for the
    Budget process with information from different systems (SAP, XRT, etc.)
    • Plan and follow up on SAP migration to NewGL Document Splitting project executed by
    SAP AG consultants.
    • Create methodology for future company implementations: defining project plan and
    deliverables, deliverable templates, work processes, committees and approval
    processes, etc.
    • Performing tasks of SAP FI CO configuration for some of the smallest project
    • Performing tasks of SAP FI CO including FI configuration and ABAP debugging to solve
    present system maintenance issues reported by users on a ticketing tool.
    SAP Project Management Microsoft Excel Abap
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Fraser-4100 - Coty Int. BV - UK - €

9/30/2024

Xavier was a great member of our project team. He took on large data analysis tasks, dealing with global users; managed significant amounts of data validation and helped with a number of SAP FICO issues where he has massive knowledge. He was friendly, professional, available and supportive, I would happily work with him again

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Education
  • Master of Business Administration
    Esade
    1995
    Master in Business Administration
  • Bachelor of Economics
    Esade
    1995
    Bachelor of Economics & Business Administration
Certifications
  • SAP Financial
    SAP
    1997