Bennard Boon
ERP Consultant/ Project Management
Summary
Seasoned Regional IT Finance SME with 10+ years of experience in auditing, finance and digital transformation in manufacturing and supply chain domain. Proven track record in process alignment and optimization, ERP implementation (SAP, Epicor and AX/D365 F&O), and project management. Currently pursuing PMP certification.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Subject Matter Expert, IT Finance
Beckers Group
5 2023 - Current
- Participated in workstream ERP maturity analysis, implemented AX/D365 for AME region with core focus in finance/ procurement (scope ratio 7:3); and advisory role in other workstreams
- IT business partner for finance and procurement - master data governance, SOPs and cross-functional alignment with changing business environments
- Co-work with GPO team to hold finance workshops for planning, requirements, alignments for operations and business reporting
- Set up, configure and implement financial and costing modules in AX/D365; whilst ensuring cross modular alignment
- Gap analysis, FDDs and blueprinting (interface, process logics and reports) based on fit/gap analysis and constraints
- Proposes best practices for process areas such as Requisitions, Prepayments, CAPEX and Indirects, work orders costing and COGS
- Work with users and tech team to coordinate/ monitor solution testing and deployment
- Discrepancies check, recommend actions to other workstreams to correct process and accounting variances
- Provide requirements on BI reports for global savings initiative projects
- Manage other local market projects: Malaysia E-invoicing (ongoing); RAK VAT FAF reporting
- Manage finance cutover and migration preparation, go live and hyper care support
- Manage users' requests for error fix, process query and customization requirements
- Completed 2 parallel rollouts in Beckers Malaysia and RAK
- 1 ongoing rollout for Beckers France
- Managed to harmonize regional costing model/ methodology taking into global financial alignment and local manufacturing resources/ processes
- Collaborated with cross-functional team to redesign and configure consignment process for improved accuracy of accrued purchases, reporting and budgeting
- Configured new ledger schema to effectively handle consignment transactions (accounts, dimensions, and other parameter controls)
- Implemented custom dimensions for Partners (customers and suppliers) to improve visibility and insights from partner-related transactions, also keep this dimension to simplify GL to subledger reconciliation
- Successfully deployed detailed COGS BI reports to provide further insights on entity revenues and cost performance
Functional Consultant
Finsoft Consulting Sdn Bhd
03.2021 - 03.2023
- Performs as-is studies for client's existing business processes; mapping of business requirements, finalize gaps and to-be processes in blueprint
- Write-up functional specifications, coordinate and monitor development progress
- Versed in Sales, Material and Purchasing, MES and MRP Job Management
- Designed and configure WMS module map based on material/ FG criteria such as storage requirements, types of commodities/ usage and product compliance
- Performs data migration and monitor progress, risks, and issues
- Performs proof of concept and test case to validate developed solutions
- Designed and executed training workshops, presented project status to senior management
- Lead UAT workshops, bugfix and client acceptance
- Assist to evaluate and manage scope change, also provides support in cutover, go-live and project administration
- Epicor modules exposure: Financials, Sales, Purchasing Management and SCM
- 3 implementations for Precision engineering, Project Services and F&B companies
- Enhancement/ Integration projects - incentive management, BarTender solutions, product costing dashboard and SwissLog ASRS integration
- Working knowledge of project scoping, estimation, and DeVops
- Provide support in project administration, meeting updates, issue logs
- Collaborated with engineers and client experts to design automated vertical solutions for quality control and inventory consumption process (plastic and rubber products companies) - improved process efficiency and reduced manual input errors
- Top performer for client interface and relationship management
Business Controls Specialist - O2C
MSD Malaysia
08.2020 - 03.2021
- Provide assurance (CSA) in shared service environment: internal control over reporting activities (ICFR) for SAP ECC Order-to-Cash workstreams
- Provide training workshops to operations as necessary to close existing key and secondary control gaps
- Provides first-hand support to external auditors on statutory and SOX audit attestation
- SAP ECC module exposure: SD as end user - auditor
- Engage with local market counterparts to stand-up financial processes and controls for MSD spinoff entity (Organon)
- Scope includes:
- Advisory for control designs and revision of work instructions with GPO team
- Update entity control scoping, changes in SAP workflows and key reports testing
- Align process controls for below key risk areas: Managerial approvals for MJE posting outside system controls/constraints, Escalation model for overdue customer accounts, BI reporting results signoff
Senior Analyst, Risk Advisory
Solis Consultants S/B
08.2019 - 08.2020
- Led a co-sourced, cross-cultural (Thailand and Laotian) team of 8 auditors in conducting annual operational and financial audit assignment
- Review of client's RCSA and financials to plan for audit programs on key business and risks areas
- Assist consulting manager to translate client requirements into SLAs for client signoff
- Review datasets, preparation of flowcharts, data analysis and working papers as team lead
- Successfully shared and negotiated audit findings to client upper management, 70% of audit recommendation were actionable and impactful
- Mentor team members with COSO ERM framework, sampling and testing, and audit documentation
- Audit scope: Branch operation (Card operations, cash management/handling), Trade - FOREX, SWIFT and National Payment System (Thailand Vietnam and Laos), Credit management
Business Process Analyst
Samling Group of Companies
04.2018 - 05.2019
- Seasonal analyst to work with vendor consultants to analyze and model existing business processes
- Perform gap analysis between business process and system functionality to identify opportunities for improvement
- Provides support in project status and timeline throughout project life cycle
- Conduct superuser/ end User validation and training to improve user tech adoption
- AX2012 modular exposure: All financial modules, Costing, Procurement and Sourcing, Sales and Marketing, Inventory Management
- 1 implementation - Superuser for finance modules during ERP implementation from Microsoft Navision to AX2012
- Provided inputs to enhance procurement business processes and purchasing module
- Perform UAT to validate deployment of purchase price variance analysis report
- Designed simulation costing process - so sales can refer to latest updated purchase price for quotation purposes
- Analyzed and highlighted inconsistent FIFO stock movements and abnormal write-offs
- Monitor remediation for physical FIFO nonconformance and stockholding
Group Internal Auditor
Samling Group of Companies
09.2014 - 03.2018
- Strong organizational management skills: Conduct risk-based operational/ financial audit based on annual plan
- Assist to compile audit program in consideration of risk assessment and variance analysis
- Review and perform control testing on invoicing, payments, cash receipts, fixed assets movement, and work orders against approved requests
- IT General Controls (ITGC) covering privileged access right matrix and data requests
- Validate accuracy and timeliness of ME reconciliation and close based on Group Instruction for AX2012 and MR
- Prepare audit reports on control failures and deficiencies for client sign-off
- Perform follow-up documentations to ensure remediation of issues
- Liaise with external auditors to clear statutory and SOX audit queries
Education
MSc IT Project Management -
Curtin University
01.2018 - 2019.06
Bach. of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Curtin University
07.2011 - 2014.07
Skills
Business Process Modelling/ Management
Communication
AX/ D365 FO, Epicor and SAP (SD)
Business Finance/ KPIs
Client Relations
Auditing
Training and mentoring
Team Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Project Management
Creative solutions
Time Management
Timeline
Functional Consultant
Finsoft Consulting Sdn Bhd
03.2021 - 03.2023
Business Controls Specialist - O2C
MSD Malaysia
08.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Analyst, Risk Advisory
Solis Consultants S/B
08.2019 - 08.2020
Business Process Analyst
Samling Group of Companies
04.2018 - 05.2019
MSc IT Project Management -
Curtin University
01.2018 - 2019.06
Group Internal Auditor
Samling Group of Companies
09.2014 - 03.2018
Bach. of Commerce - Finance & Accounting
Curtin University
07.2011 - 2014.07
Subject Matter Expert, IT Finance
Beckers Group
5 2023 - Current
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