Craig E. Hopkins
Verified Expert in Engineering
SAP Concur Expert and Developer
Craig has extensive experience managing the implementation of Concur Expense and Invoice projects, directly impacting the growth and success of clients' organizations. He has solid coordinating abilities for merging business and technical requirements and consistently demonstrates practical yet imaginative approaches to service delivery. Craig excels at building relationships—quickly gaining and maintaining the trust and respect of C-level management, system owners, and business leaders.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Microsoft Office
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is deliver projects and engagements on time and budget—expertly envisioning the solution, developing strategies, and estimating resources.
Work Experience
Concur Project Manager
Independent
- Handled project coordination and consultative engagements for over 15 business engagements to identify business goals, develop strategy, estimate resources, and deliver on time and within budget for Concur Expense and Invoice implementations.
- Set up the Concur Expense and Invoice modules based on clients' documented business requirements.
- Executed the Concur credit card configuration based on credit card type, number of credit card feeds, and the agreed payment rules for the card vendor and user.
- Configured and updated the Concur financial systems integration based on the client's financial system.
- Applied strong coordinating abilities for merging business and technical requirements based on the client's industry.
- Implemented the Concur Travel module based on the client's documented business agreements with airlines, hotels, and rental car vendors.
- Completed the Concur Expense, Invoice, and Travel modules' integration to function as multi-level information reporting for management.
Project Manager
SAP Concur
- Provided lifecycle project planning and oversight for this developer of travel expense solutions with domestic and international clients.
- Oversaw scope statements, statement of work (SOW) contracts, gap analyses, and Concur resource selection.
- Managed fully matrixed teams of 5-10 consultants, developers, report writers, testers, and trainers, implementing 3 to 9-month projects.
- Headed data warehousing initiatives for a large volume travel expense history, maximizing utilization of current or archived information for KPI and BM reporting.
Experience
SAP Concur Configuration for Multiple Clients
I oversaw scope statements, SOW contracts, and gap analyses. I also managed Concur resource selection and utilization, workshop facilitation, user acceptance and training plans, and P&L performance.
Skills
Languages
IBM RPG, COBOL
Tools
Microsoft Project, SAP Concur
Other
Microsoft Office, IT Project Management, Concur Expense, Concur Travel, Concur Invoice, Financial Systems, System Integration, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Facebook, Networking, Profit & Loss (P&L), Statement of Work, GAP Analysis, Project Scoping
Education
Bachelor's Degree in History
University of New Orleans - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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