Extencive experience within finance, accounting and indirect taxes. Good experience within budgeting and input to strategic plan within finance. Experience as SAP FI consultant and SAP FI/CO/SD super user. Good knowledge of authorizations (maintain roles, user access) in SAP and SAP work flow for incoming invoices.
Project experience from several projects. Upgrade projects of parts of systems and also implementation of new ERP solutions (SAP, JD Edwards/Oracle), both as teamleader and as participant in teams in different processes.
Long experience as leader.
Specialties:
Indirect taxes (Excise duty, VAT) inside and outside EU.
Process owner Excise duty and VAT processes.
System owner AP (total solution for supplier accounts and scanning/work flow for supplier invoices)
SAP FI, CO, SD, MM, WF, Excise duty and VAT
JD Edwards Excise duty and VAT.
Project experience, as participant, project lead and team lead, small projects and global projects.
Indirect Tax Manager Europe @ Follow up indirect tax for the group across Europe. From October 2011 to Present (4 years 3 months) Oslo Area, NorwayAssistant Manager ITX @ Excise duties for Statoil Norge AS From April 2011 to October 2011 (7 months) Oslo Area, NorwaySuperuser SAP FI/CO/SD @ Superuser SAP FI/CO/SD at Statkraft Accounting Center in Oslo.
First line support in SAP FI/CO/SD to users in Norway and abroad. Maintenance of Masterdata FI/CO/SD. Participatet in projects. Project leader for a new solution for incoming invoices incl. authorizations and work flow. Maintenance of SAP roles and access to users in SAP. Administration of the internal trade system. SAP training to users. From October 2009 to April 2011 (1 year 7 months) Consultant SAP FI @ Worked as Superuser SAP FI/CO/SD at Statkraft AS. From December 2008 to October 2009 (11 months) Oslo Area, NorwaySenior Consultant @ SAP FI/CO consultant at Capgemini Norge AS.
Participated in three different subprojects in connection with the merger between Norsk Hydro ASA and Statoil ASA.
-Establish internal bank solution (copy of Felos)
-SOX controles
-Safe guardians From March 2007 to November 2008 (1 year 9 months) Oslo Area, NorwayHead of department Finance @ Leader for the department that handled finance and indirect taxes. The department was responsible for indirect taxes, supplier accounting, payment flow, financial deals and transactions. Main contact for the company concerning excise duties and VAT and company's representative in the Committee for indirect taxes in Norsk Petorleumsinstitutt.
System owner, administrator and super user for the SAP FI-AP solution incl workflow and hierarchy set-up in SAP for approval of invoices. Participated in several projects for partly changes of the ERP system and also new implementation of SAP, both as teamlead and as project participant.
Contact with banks regarding loans, investment of surplus, interest rates, followed up prices at financial products and in general the agreements with the banks. Daily follow-up of cash flow. Reported to the CFO. From 1998 to February 2007 (9 years) Oslo Area, NorwayFinance Consultant @ Daily follow up of liquidity, foreign currency and loan/investment. Responsibility for estimate, report and reconciliation of special duty and value added tax. Responsible for the financial budget. From July 1996 to June 1998 (2 years) Accounting Consultant @ Responsible for calculation, reporting and reconciliation of special duty and value added tax. Posting and accounting of vouchers related to finance, etimates and items of accrual and deferral. Bankreconciliation From October 1992 to June 1996 (3 years 9 months) Accounting Assistent @ Follow-up accounts receivable, transmission of debt-collection cases, calculation of interest and invoicing of interest, registration of incoming payments, manual invoicing of non-strategic materials, intercompany balance of accounting receivable, and reconciliation of finance toward accounting receivable From April 1986 to September 1992 (6 years 6 months)
SAP Education Belgium & Luxembourg From 2007 to 2007 Økonomi @ BI Norwegian Business School From 1989 to 1995 Kristin Guldas is skilled in: SAP, Accounting, Indirect Taxation, Accounts Payable, Internal Audit, ERP, Finance, SAP Implementation, Account Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable, Budgets, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, VAT, Mergers, JD Edwards, Change Management, Management