“Riikka is an enthusiastic and highly committed ERP project and agile practitioner with strong core process and leadership experience. The best reward for her is when her team builds strong trust and when a project reaches its milestones according to the planned timetable despite of challenges.”
SAP and Infor LN global ERP projects
Finance, printouts, logistics, HR, interfaces and integrations
Business changes – agile ERP implementation and development
Senior Scrum master with agile process leading skills
E2E core processes: technical and cross-team dependency recognition
Test management: E2E, SIT, UAT, regression testing, test automation and performance testing planning
Training co-ordination and delivery for ERP global key users and end users
Test tools: MicroFocus ALM Octane, MicroFocus HP ALM, Testrail
Excellent communication and negotiation skills, professional intercultural competence accompanied with Master’s degree in Intercultural communication
Experience working with Global financial operations (GFO) organizations
Fluent working in several languages - Finnish, English, German, Swedish
Committed and purposeful way of working
Expert in agile enablement, development, and processes
Knowledge of several ERPs, practical ERP usage skills
E2E core processes’ knowledge with business and technical dependencies
Experienced defect and test manager
Successful developments’ and rollouts’ alignment co-ordination
Finance, logistics, HR and payroll project experience
Excellent people leading, negotiation, coaching skills, intercultural competence
Analytical: understanding the big picture and details
15 + years’ experience in IT and finance. Global ERP projects with rollouts, agile implementation, release, test and defect management, and business process development in P2P, O2C, R2R and payroll areas.
Scrum Master in a global ERP project in an industrial engineering company
Global rollouts in EMEA, China, North America
Test management: E2E, SIT, UAT and regression testing, test automation planning in insurance, gaming, delivery, logistics, and industrial engineering organisations
Purchase invoice and Cash Management software implementation at OpusCapita Oy – companies in accounting, marine, industrial measurements, and logistics
SAP Finance Process Manager at Altia Oyj: acquisition project in Denmark, project with banks, credit management project
Financial operations specialist in SAP Business Shared Services in Prague with monthly reporting responsibility to SAP Nordic organisation's CFOs
Master of Arts (Intercultural Communication), University of Jyväskylä
Master of Arts (German Translation and Interpreting, Education, Communications), University of Turku
Business basic studies, Open University of Eastern Finland
Organisational psychology basic studies, Open University of Eastern Finland
Certified Scrum Master, scrum.org fundamental and advance level Professional Scrum Master (PSM I and PSM II)
Certified scrum.org Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)
Agile transformation and agile project management courses – udemy.com
SAP AC200 General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable