Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

mardi 12 juillet 2011

Re: [sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

Posted by Roy B (SAP Financials Expert)
on Jul 12 at 3:25 AM

Kate,

I do not know why the other guy criticized you for spending 10 years doing what you have been doing. You now have a very good grounding and should be able to make it big as a consultant. I happen to think "the more experience the better". I had been an accountant for many years (29) before getting into SAP, with the result that I knew accounting and finance backwards, forwards, sideways and upside down, which meant that I could understand FI-CO without any problems and picked up SAP very quickly.

I still keep my accountancy qualification up to date and have learned for example IFRS in the last few years, because my accountancy background is important to understanding clients and their challenges. It means I can talk to an accounts clerk or a finance director at their level, in their language (be that English, French or German) and clients appreciate that.

So, Kate, do not be put off.

If you want any help in future please let me know.

Best Regards, Roy

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---------------Original Message---------------
From: Kate_
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: From SAP to Oracle?

Hi Typewriter,
I am not working as consultant - yet.
And I have 10 years experience for numerous reasons.
1) I have spent 5 yrs with SAP in Hungary (part of it while still on the university) and by the time I was thinking of upgrading I decided to move to Ireland instead.
2) I never knew that becoming a consultant "only" required that you applied for a junior consultant position and if you were accepted and worked hard and learned a lot than you could be a "real" consultant within a few years / after a few installations. (of course you have to keep on learning, but that is not the issue here).
3) I was actually surprised to learn, that people with other than IT degrees can do it!

4) 10 years mostly in FICO, but I am really useful with MM SD and PM too at this stage. (ie let me have a desk, a working pc and a user ID and I will do 80 % of any daily admin job within 2-3 days with minimal input from team-mates: tried and tested many times as I was temping for 2 years!)
So, the conclusion for now:
Someone senior in your line of work can supply invaluable advice regarding your career - and the earlier the better.
Word of caution though - trust no-one, especially if they say you are not good enough for some position ever. They might be right or they might be not. They are just people, they might simply not know or they might have interests on their own - and they might not have your best interests on their hearts on top of these (no problem with that, managers are not supposed to be saints - just keep that in mind) so make sure to double-check whatever you are told preferably from an independent source.
I could not get this advice at my current place, but i have figured it out bit by bit during the last year or two. Big thanks to It.Toolbox and good guys here!

Now,

is it clear now?

Cheers,

Kate_

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