Peter Smidt

Background

About Peter Smidt

S/4HANA expert in Finance and Logistics. S/4HANA, Finance, Accounting and SOX Compliance expert. Full-time on S/4HANA projects since 2019. E2E S/4HANA Finance project at multinational company, from Finance Blueprint Lead, via Business Process Design to Lead for Group Consolidation and Reconciliations at Deployment of the Pilot country. Workstream lead roles at 4 different S/4HANA Finance implementations. Twenty years of Finance Consultancy at Deloitte Consulting (1998-2019) ERP implementations Cost modeling Corporate Governance/Public Governance/SOX compliance Internal Control, Accounting and Reporting 30 years of teaching experience at the post-master level. PhD in Accounting 10 years full-time faculty member of the Accounting department of the Vrije Universiteit (1988-1998) 7 years part-time faculty member of Nyenrode University 20 year part-time faculty member of the US Certified Management Accounting courses of the IMA, Designing and Facilitating Many courses and workshops for staff and clients of Deloitte and Accenture. Worked as SME and Workstream lead for a.o. Shell, Equinor, Signify, LeasePlan, TenneT, Enexis, Dutch Railways, Connexxion, Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Ministry of Education, University of Amsterdam, Unilever, Vion and many other organizations. Experienced Consultant, Expert in S/4Hana projects and in Costing and in Transformation processes of the Finance Function, of Costing for products, services and business units, of SOX Compliance and Governance and of Finance Analytics and BI. Past 4 years full-time on S/4Hana projects, in logistics, finance, group consolidation (SOX) Compliance and in reconciliation and internal controls. Expert in costing and finance technique with a PhD in international cost management. Eye for the human factor as workstream lead, as a former associate professor, as coach for junior onboarders and as former department head. However, before all else, Subject Matter Expert with deep knowledge of Finance, Accounting, SOX Compliance and S/4HANA design.