Howard A. La Kier
Howard A. La Kier assists clients in their digital transformations enabled by SAP ecosystem solutions as the financial transformation go-to-market and delivery leader for TruQua, an IBM Company. He is the co-author of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) and has more than 30 years experience focusing on finance and upstream processes from source to pay, lead to cash, plan to fulfill, acquire to decommission, idea to market, and hire to retire and the solutions that enable them. Howard has worked with some of TruQua and IBM’s largest clients and implementation programs globally in roles such as project executive, program manager, advisor, global integration lead, and global finance lead with SAP ERP products ranging from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA, Central Finance, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, group reporting, SAP Concur, and close automation, include SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing. His deep business process and technology expertise affords him a strategic view to uncover business requirements, translate technical topics in business language, simplify complex situations to drive clarity, and facilitate decision-making to yield desired business outcomes. His clients consider him a trusted business partner and coach who enables their professional and business success.
