Senior SAP FICO Consultant (Available 2nd week of May 2012)
OBJECTIVE
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To execute and lead ERP implementations to successful completion.
To provide customers with the best IT professional support services particularly SAP in accordance
with service level agreements, using to the fullest my extensive experience and understanding of
clients' business processes.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
SAP R/3 Certified consultant doing my 15th year of SAP. ITIL certified on Foundation Certificate in IT Service
Management. Has done implementations in telecommunications, retail and airline industries with three full cycle
implementations covering GL, AR, AP, TR-CM, COPA and CCA. Assigned as Project Manager in Singapore for
the Caltex, a Chevron company, upgrade of its SAP instance from 3.1h to 4.6b. Supported the SAP FICO
modules of Chevron as Teal Leader from 2000-2008, specializing in COPA. Assigned as an expatriate in
Chevron’s head offices at San Ramon, CA as team leader of its Financial Team. Currently an independent SAP
FICO Consultant.
Extensive professional experience as a Certified Public Accountant--five years in middle management and four
years in top management as Financial Controller. Designed, coded and implemented various accounting
applications. Advanced professional skills include setting up companies, registration with government
agencies, organizing, logistics, business flow and forms design and implementation, and recruitment. Well
versed in all functions of accounting and finance including budgeting, controlling, and reporting.
PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS AFFILIATIONS:
ITIL Certified – Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
IT Project Management – Asian Institute of Management
Certified SAP R/3 Consultant - FI/CO
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with a rating of 82%
Member, Phil. Institute of Certified Public Accountants
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
IT Project Management
SAP R/3 FI/CO Modules
BAAN - Business Overview, ACP and ACR
Modules
Structured System Analysis & and Design
Cobol Programming, Programming Concepts,
Computer Concepts
Bachelor of Science in Commerce
Major-Accounting, March 1980
- Asian Institute of Management
- SAP Partner Academy, passed
certification exam
- Baan Business Systems (Phils.)
- CompuTech
- Systems Technology Inst.
- Divine Word University
Magna Cum Laude
Certified Public Account – Republic of the Phils.
Programmer in the ff. languages: - FoxBase, BASIC, DBase (MS DOS) , & basic ABAP.
Proficient in the following software: MS Excel, Project, Visio, Powerpoint and Word. Has worked in a Novell LAN
and Windows NT environments. Accounting packages used and installed - Real World G/L and Platinum (MS
DOS Version).
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Business Consultant
SAP FICO Module
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August 2008
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Neoris Consulting
Sr FICO Consultant
 Support the SAP systems of Cemex as installed in the Philippines, Bangkok, and Bangladesh.
 August 2011 to March 2012
HP – Middle East
SAP FICO Consultant
RasGas, Qatar
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Assigned to the Financial Systems Optimization Project. The project is tasked to review the current
existing SAP system at RasGas, a gas and oil upstream/downstream company, with end of
improving its utilization of SAP. I am handling the Profit Center / Cost Center Accounting and the
interface from their production/sales tracking system to SAP. Currently the solution blueprint has
been approved and functional technical design of the interfaces and reports and 75% done.
 August 2010 to July 2011
Accenture - Manila Delivery Center
Subject Matter Expert/Senior Functional Consultant for the FICO team.
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SAP support senior consultant for mining company based in Brazil for 5 countries. Modules
supported: GL, AR, AP, AM, W
BS, FM, CCA, PCA, Product Cost Controlling, and COPA.
SAP implementation project for a mining company in Indonesia. Modules implemented: Funds
Management, Bank Accounting including Electronic Bank Statement using MT940, Product Cost
Controlling, Profitability Analysis, Internal Orders, Cash Management and Forecasting, Accounts
Payable including EFT (DME) and Cash Journal. SME for other modules – GL, AR, AP, CCA and
AM., SAP Version ECC 6
 Nov 2009 to 8 May 2010 –
HCL-Axon Solutions Singapore
Offshore Deliver Lead
Project - Deutsche Bank London Phase II Project.
The project objective – to enhance 12 interfaces to SAP to be compliant with global DB interfaces
standards. I led the offshore team based in Manila (6 IT business analyst, 2 reporting analyst, 1 R/3
analyst, and 1 team lead). Responsible for coordinating the activities in Manila with the business process
owners which were located in Manila and in London, as well as the development team based in India.
Responsible for evaluating the quality and building of solutions, testing, and documentation. I report to
the project manager based in London. Project was put on hold due to change in the global data standard
of DB. This was timely as my 6 month contract was also finished.
 Oct 2008 – Oct 2009,
HP Middle East Solutions
Senior FICO Consultant
Project - Saudia Airlines SAP and MRO Project, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. SAP Version ECC 6
Member of the team that implemented GL (New GL), AR, AP, AM, CCA and PCA. Specifically handled
the implementation of EC-CS at Saudi Airlines. I handled General Controlling Module, EC-CS, Bank
Accounting including bank statement upload and reconciliation, and general FICO Support. Responsible
for setting up of the offshore support based in India.
Team Leader - FI/CO
Chevron Holdings Asia Ltd.
35 Flr. RCBC Plaza
Ayala Avenue,
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Makati City, Philppines
26 June 2000 to 20 July 2008
Team Leader of the SAP FI/CO team which provides global support to all Chevron’s offices in the US and Asia
(Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Greater China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Pakistan, Indonesia and
Philippines) with 40 team members based in Manila, Concord, CA, USA and India. I also actively do support role
troubleshooting issues mostly concerning COPA, CCA, PCA, FI-LC and SPL.
Career highlights at Chevron:
 March 2007 to July 2008 – Assigned as SAP FICO team leader for the Enterprise Business Solutions Finance Team. This is a global team of 40 team members based in Concord, California, India and Manila.
 Responsible for meeting SLA and managing stakeholders expectations
 Continuously seek process improvements, seek the customer buy in and implement said improvements
 Finance SOX compliance officer
 Transformed the 4 groups from individual regional support teams to a single global support team.
 August 2006 to Feb 2007 – Assigned as Project Team Lead for the FICO team of Project Olympic based in
Manila, Philippines. This was the build phase of my designs from the previous role as design architect.
 October 2005 – August 2006 - Assigned to Project Olympic as FICO Design Architect based in Concord,
USA. Project Olympic is Chevron’s in house project with the objective of consolidating and standardizing all
ERP systems worldwide into one SAP System. Main role was to gather the global financial processes from
representatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, North/South America and come up with acceptable solutions and
designs that fit, if not all, at least majority of the countries’ processes. The challenge was meeting all their
requirements to fit in a single SAP instance and that the designs are in accordance with Chevron's global
SAP standards.
 April 2004- Oct 2005 Team Leader - Assigned as an expatriate to Chevron’s head office at San Ramon,
California for the ERP COE - Financials team supporting A/R, A/P, COPA, Treasury modules.
 Member of the ERP COE management team
 Responsible to continuous service improvement and in meeting SLA.
 Responsible for facing the customers in gathering system and process changes requirements and
converting said requirement into system changes be it configuration or modifications.
As a leader, I lead my team to the following accomplishments –
 Set up the Global Community of Practice for its SAP ERP
 Bring down the average days incident tickets from a high of 120 days to 32 days.
 June 2000 – March 2004 - SAP FICO Team leader Caltex East Asia covering the countries – Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Cambodia and New Zealand.
 Responsible for meeting the SLA with regards to the SAP support
 As an SAP professional, aside from leading the team, I also handled the SAP trouble shooting,
configuration and realization of changes orders.
 Customer facing role.
 Managed and executed the Archiving Project.
 Assigned as Project Manager for the Caltex South East Asia SAP Upgrade from 3.1h to 4.6b in Singapore
from Oct 2000 to Sept 2001. The upgrade covered all of Caltex operations in Malaysia, Singapore,
Philippines, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Cambodia with a total of 35 consultants.
Senior Consultant - FI/CO
Magnus (Philippines) Consulting, Inc.
32F Citibank Tower, Paseo de Roxas
Makati City,
Sept 20, 1999 to June 2000
 Implemented SAP at CEBU PACIFIC AIR, an airline company in the Philippines. Team leader of the FI/CO
modules implementation (GL, AR, AP, CCA, CO PA, AM) and providing the subsequent “go live support”.
Full e2e implementation from pre-sales, scoping, designing, blue printing, building, testing, training, cut
over and go live. Acted as project manager from March to June 2000. The project covers FI/CO, MM and
PM in SAP R/3 Ver 4.5. Project Phase I – FI/CO has gone live last Feb 7, 2000. Phase II went live on 15
May 2000.
 Did basic ABAP reports (Withholding Tax, VAT, etc) and Sapscript for journal entry report at CEBU
PACIFIC.
 Did the Financial Statements and Cost Center Reports in Report Writer and Report Painter of CEBU
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PACIFIC.
Implemented Cash Management (TR-CM) and assisted in the implementation Profit Center Accounting
(CO-PCA) at Ramcar Philippines, a manufacturer of car batteries.
Involved in the presales activities.
Prepared implementation plans.
Applications Consultant - FI/CO
SAP Practice
The Online Advanced Systems Corporation
2/F Electra House, 115 Esteban Street
Makati City, Philippines
Nov. 1997 to Sept 19, 1999
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Implemented FI/CO (GL, AR, AP, BANK ACCOUNTING, CO-CCA, AM) R/3 4.0b at Golden ABC. Golden
ABC is the designer, distributor and brand owner of Penshoppe and Oxygen apparels with over 300
concesionnaire outlets and 80 boutiques throughout the Philippines. Full e2e implementation from
pre-sales, scoping, designing, blue printing, building, testing, training, cut over and go live Implementation
also includes TR-CM. The project went live two weeks ahead of schedule. I have two SAP consultants
under me who were assigned to CM and AM. I also take charge of the ABAP team of programmers. Other
modules - Authorizations, Report Writer/ Painter.
Devised the implementation plan and Go Live plans of Golden ABC Inc.
Member of the team that implemented LC in Saztec Phils. Inc, a publicly listed company which is into
database conversion.
Member of the team that configured the SAP demo system to conform with the total requirements of Globe
Telecoms, a telephone company partly owned by SingTel of Singapore. The configuration of the system
was based on the complete business processes manual provided by the client.
Subcontracted to implement FI module of Isla Communications, Inc., a Deutsch Telekom subsidiary in
the Philippines  Conducted Business Process Review
 Designed and finalized with the users the basic configuration parameters for General Ledger,
AP/AR and made initial configuration of the same in the SAP system.
 Implemented Fixed Asset Module.
 Conducted initial training of users on the basic configuration steps for the basic parameters and
business processes in the General Ledger
 Was called after R/3 implementation to fix CO-Internal Order module, FI Closing and various
functionalities not properly configured.
Performs functions related to the sales and marketing of SAP R/3 System and Implementation Services
Assists in the requirements analysis for Financials and Controlling for various prospective clients
Completed the 5-week Partner Academy Training course for SAP R/3 FI-CO module and passed the
certification exam.
Managing Director
Pastrana Vilar Holdings, Inc.
March 1996 to March 1997
Set up the representative offices of two international stock brokerage firms, Mendes Prior Hall and First
Federal Capital, Inc. (FFCI) For FFCI I incorporated it in the republic of Palau in June 1996. I set up the head
office, which is a shell company. I single handedly set up the whole Philippine operations which covers
financial systems, internal controls, MIS, administrative policies, hiring, registration with government entities
and logistics. I was responsible for the accounting, IT, Personnel and Administration departments. I have to
leave the company because I believe the operations were not morally right.
Chief Finance Officer
Eurotech Hair Systems, Inc./ Modular Hair Techno Systems, Inc., a corporation wholly-owned by Bergmann
GmbH of Germany
Feb. 21 1994 to Feb. 1996
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Handled the liquidation of Modular Hair Techno Systems, Inc. as this was experiencing heavy and
irreversible financial losses. Two of our biggest customers together with the owners of Modular Hair
requested me then to set up for them Eurotech Hair Systems. I handled the initial set up of the accounting
and personnel departments, applications government agencies. I manage all aspects of the financial,
accounting and personnel functions such as budget, cost control, payroll, financial reporting, policy
formulations, purchasing, export sales processing, and EDP. I designed and implemented a new
computerized payroll system. The labor force has joined a radical labor group. The situation put my
personal safety in danger that I have to leave the company.
Chief Accountant
Tihama Al Mona International, Saudi Arabia
19 January to 31 Oct. 1993
Responsible for the total operation of the Accounting Dept. The primary task for me was to revise and install
an efficient accounting system which conforms to the generally accepted accounting principles. The
secondary task was to completely computerize the bookkeeping system in cooperation with a hired
programmer. The system was still under testing when I left the company.
Accounting Supervisor (Acting Finance Controller)
GAMA Services Limited, Saudi Arabia
July 1986 to Nov. 1992
I started as payroll and benefits accountant. During my stay, I set up the accounting department of three
hospitals, two of which were turn key projects. These are large hospitals with 1,800 employees each and an
average of 420 beds each. . I designed, coded and implemented various accounting applications using
Foxpro, most notably payroll and accounts payable systems. The setting up includes bidding, costing and
budget, personnel organization and mobilization, developing and implementing the business flow and
internal controls, manpower requirements, and logistics. I was the acting Finance Controller when I left the
company. (I could have been the Finance Controller but being a Filipino, my nationality stops me from being
so.)
Cost Analyst
Integrated Microelectronics Inc.
Sept 1985 to 8 July 1986
Responsible for the analysis of all manufacturing costs, preparation of reports regarding production cost
variances and profitability studies on new product lines. Prepares monthly journal entries for production
costs. As mentioned below, applicant has computerized the production costing system of this company. I left
this company to work abroad.
Faculty Member and CPA Reviewer
Wesleyan University-Phils.
April 1983 to Summer Class (May) 1985
Taught higher accounting, taxation, lower management, and economics subjects. Reviewer in auditing practice
and theory.
Staff Auditor
November 1980-Feb 1983
Price Waterhouse -Phils.
Audited various clients of the firm alone or as a member of a team depending on the size of the client.
Conducted extensive evaluation of clients' system of internal control and drafts internal control memo. Prepared
financial statements and notes thereto. Prepared income tax returns of clients.
SYSTEMS & PROGRAMS DESIGNED, CODED AND IMPLEMENTED
1. PAYROLL SYSTEM of General Arabian Medical & Allied ( GAMA )
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2. PATIENT BILLING SYSTEM-North West Area Armed Forces Hospitals & Clinics, a 400-bed hospital
excluding out of town clinics. A complete computerized system of patient billing from admission then to
discharge then collections and refunds.
3. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE SYSTEM for various projects of GAMA
4. ENGINEERING STORES MATERIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM of Prince Abdul Aziz Hospital, Saudi
Arabia.
SEMINARS & TRAINING ATTENDED
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IT Project Management, Asian Institute of Management, 24-28 June 2002, Manila, Philippines.
Baan (Business Overview, ACP and ACR modules) - Baan Business Systems (Philippines) Jan 14-28,
1999, Far East Bank Center, Makati City
ABAP 4 Programming – March 1998, Inhouse training – Online Advanced Systems Corp.
SAP Partner Academy, Nov 18 to Dec. 19, 1997, University of Asia Pacific
Expanded VAT, December 1995, New World Hotel
Continuing Education - Level I and II -Price Waterhouse-Phils
a. New tax laws and regulations
b. Audit planning and program preparation
c. Business approach to audit.
d. Evaluation of internal controls and audit procedures with emphasis on cash, receivables,
inventory, payroll, payables, and computer auditing.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Name
Date of Birth
Phone
Email
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Rufo C. Tamondong
27 August 1959
Age : 51 yrs. old
Manila No. 63 2 824 1627 (office) 63 928 5056365(cell)
rtamondong@yahoo.com
I hereby declare that the above information are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.