SYED NASIR RIZVI

Email: acfhah@r.postjobfree.com

Contact:-1-201-***-****

Woodbridge, New Jersey

Experience Summary:

Extensive experience in end to end SAP implementations in Finance and Controlling (FICO)

module, FI-GL BA, AP, AR, AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, COPA, IO, Product Costing along with its

integration with SD, MM, FI and PP, modules.

Involve in Business process and planning, design functional areas and information gathering.

Cross-functional knowledge in MM Purchasing, Goods Movements, Invoice Verification

and SD Billing and Pricing and Integration to Special Purpose Ledger and Report Painter

Tool.

Experienced in Three full life cycle implementations dealing with strong functional experience in

implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, testing, user training and support in SAP R/3

FI/CO.

Good Knowledge of SAP interfaces including BAPI, EDI, ALE and IDOCs

Excellent Configuration and Customization skills in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts

Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Asset Accounting, Profitability

Analysis, Treasury, Product Costing.

Advance level user skills in Excel including macros and template creation.

Hands on experience in Vertex and integration with SD and MM. Configuration setup and

integration with third party Vertex Software, production and daily support with PI and RFC almost 3

years’ experience.

Experienced in Vistex Configuration and integration with SD and FI.

Capable of converting business requirements into functional specifications for developing RICEF

objects.

Experienced in New GL Migration Cockpit/Process Tree.

Experienced in production support jobs and resolving complex issue. Break fix, small and large

enhancement.

GAP analysis and proposed solutions and reconciliation reports.

Experienced in Paymetric Credit Card Solution.

Experienced in Company Mergers and company code clearing.

Experienced in Procure-to-Pay process, Credit Management, Lock Box Processing.

Experienced in analyzing and providing solution to the day to day issues on production system.

Experienced in data transfer from legacy system using LSMW.

Experienced in working in a global environment.

Experienced working in highly customized environment

Have configured automated solutions for the business process like automatic payment program.

Involved in Business requirements Gathering and Business Blue Printing, Documentation,

Customization and Configuration with an in depth understanding of business processes relating to

SAP Finance and Controlling

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Broad base of experience with international exposure with excellent analytical, technical and

strategic skills with strong customer orientation.

Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines. Highly

energetic personality with structured work habits and good personal time management.

Collaborated work independently or in a team and worked effectively across teams to ensure

communication and co-ordination of the solution and its delivery.

SAP SKILLS

FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year, posting period, company code, business

areas, functional areas, and sales and use tax.

General Ledger: Account groups, GL master records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting

keys, automatic account determination, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges,

document types, tolerance groups. New GL configuration, Document Splitting, sample accounts,

Local and Parallel Currency settings, inter-company automatic account posting, sales/use tax

assignment, account display, number ranges, document types financial statement versions,

validations and substitutions, query reports. Month end, quarter end and year end activities.

Accounts Payable: Vendor groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank accounts, check lots,

reason codes, check runs, automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing

procedures, automatic clearing processing, AP information system, integration with MM.

Accounts Receivable: Customer groups, customer master data, billing, payment terms and interest

calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, account systems, credit

management, closing operations, sales order, and integration with SD, Aging reports.

Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting: Planning, cost centers, cost center hierarchy, cost elements,

statistical key Figures, activity type, assessment, distribution, Defined Automatic Account

Assignment and Planning Layouts for Cost Center Planning, Cost allocation and settlements.

Internal Order: Created true and statistical overhead orders to collect costs for a company’s

particular items in the cost centers. Further assigned these orders to specific business areas, profit

centers, and responsible cost centers, performed status management for overhead orders, settlement

of overhead cost orders.

Profitability Analysis: Configuring and customizing the operating concern, characteristics, value

fields, maintaining the derivation rules and valuation, creating Drilldown Reports and Planning,

COPA summarization reports.

Profit Center Accounting: Configuring and customizing the basic settings, maintaining profit

center hierarchy, assignments, CO-objects to profit centers, distribution and assessment of costs,

planning and development of reports.

Product Costing: Configuring controlling areas, planning of costs as standard costs, Product costing

by sales order. MAP, Make to Stock, order to stock, Bill of Material, costing sheeting.

Asset Accounting: Depreciation areas, chart of depreciation, fixed assets, setting up of master data,

asset transactions, Integration with GL, Valuations, master data, Transaction types, data transfer,

Settlement of Asset under construction, validations and Substitutions.

Skills

Testing Tools HP Load Runner, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Professional

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(QTP), Test Director), Remedy Tool, Work soft.

Languages VISUAL BASIC, J2EE, HTML, SAP ABAP/4, JAVA,

Database MS SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle10g, 11g, 9i, MS Access

Microsoft Tools MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Visio, Microsoft Lync,

Microsoft Outlook express

Reporting Tools Report Painter, Report Writer, ABAP Query, Crystal Report

ERP SAP R/3 - 4.7 -4.6, ECC 5.0, 6.0, 6.5

EXPERIENCE

VSP Global

Long Island, New York

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Full Life cycle (ECC 6.5) May 2013 – Present

Company Overview:

Responsibilities:

End to end SAP implementations in Finance New General Ledger involved in Business requirements

Gathering and Business Blue Printing, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in

depth understanding of business processes.

Creation and setup of new company codes and global rollout for different countries like, India and

Singapore. End to End implementation of FI/CO and FSCM –Credit Management

New GL configuration, Local and Parallel Currency settings, inter-company automatic account

posting, sales/use tax assignment, sales on purchase tax and withholding tax, account display,

number ranges.

Worked on Migration Cockpit/Migration process tree for New GL.

Provide daily support and resolve the business issues.

Implement new business process and reconciliation reports to get the accurate information for

business.

Project for Companies mergers and acquisitions.

GTI (Golden Tax Interface) implementation with JinShui Tax System with Government of China.

Merging company code and clearing activities of company.

New company code setup and Vertex integration with SD and MM, Production support.

Vistex sale on commission and discount configuration with SAP & Vistex.

Pay metric Credit Card Solution implementation across the US for 5 line of business.

COPA implementation, FI summarization, Derivation Strategies, characteristic and values fields for

drill down reporting.

Design and implement the new business process strategies in order to maximize the benefit of SAP.

Integrations with main frame system and jobs managements.

EBS setups for new companies. Setup of auto clearing process.

E-payable process implementation.

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Implementation of lockbox processing for VSP companies.

Buildup new interstate reports for Italy and customer charge back reports.

Perform year end activities, setup new variants.

Update notes to Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements.

Configuring of query reports, Business Areas setups, setup of sets with validation and substitutions.

Work on New GL, treasury, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cost

Accounting and cost allocations and COPA.

Prepared new aging and charge back reports to AR.

Accounts Payable setup for email notification to vendor’s payments. Creation of Bank, Bank Key,

Check and Assigning Check lot to Bank Account.

Integration with SD, MM, PP and WM.

Nielsen Media

New York, New York

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Full Life cycle (ECC 6.0) March 2011 – April 2013

Responsibilities:

End to end SAP implementations in Finance NGL and FI-BA, involved in Business requirements

Gathering and Business Blue Printing, Documentation, Customization and Configuration with an in

depth understanding of business processes.

Creation of G/L Master Data, Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year and Posting Period.

New GL configuration, Document Splitting, Local and Parallel Currency settings, inter-company

automatic account posting, sales/use tax assignment, account display, number ranges.

Configuring Organizational Units and Basic Settings, Taxes, Documents.

Configuration of Cost & Sales Accounting New G/L Account Master Records and Account

Balances, Posting Business Transactions in General Ledger and Line Items.

Assigning of GL accounts to Financial Statement Versions.

Setting up of user-defined Special G/L for reporting purposes.

Configuration of Clearing and Reversal Accounts, Manual Accruals, Internal Correspondence.

Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, and Notes on

Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists.

Configuration of Fiscal Year, Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements,

Planning and Documenting Posting Data.

Configuring Business Areas in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable,

Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting and Material Management.

Designing Screen Layout, Preference Methods for Posting, Posting Documents in Foreign Currency,

Cross-Company Code Transactions.

Hands on experience on Vertex and production daily support to resolving issues and data

transferring. Sales invoices and Purchase order invoices.

Creation of Bank, Bank Key, Check and Assigning Check lot to Bank Account.

Configured traditional cash management (inbound and outbound process, investments and debts,

currency mgmt.), and credit management and dunning programs.

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Worked on AP-customer transactions, Master data, Data conversion, order management processes,

split payment for employee expenses, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/Customer Open Items,

Procure to Pay Process.

Developed a process to make direct payment, through Automatic payment program, to major credit

card companies, for employee expenses and site purchases, spent on various project locations

through Visa, Master and Amex cards. Configuring Document Reconciliation, Financial Information

System and Check Management

Reviewed Organizational structure, Integration with GL, Valuations, master data, Transaction types,

data transfer.

Mapping Business Process to Blue prints.

Created detailed Cutover plan for FICO implementation

Helped troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets from users for SAP Applications, in the module areas

of FI-CO, Finance (GL, AP, AR), and integration points between FI and MM/SD.

Exxon Mobil

Irving, Texas

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Version: ECC 6.0 November 2009 – February 2011

Responsibilities:

Gather business process requirement and Map business blueprint and configure as par client

requirement.

Create Chart of Depreciation to Company Code. Configure account determination, assign

number ranger, and configure Assets Class, Configure interval and posting rules. Activate

accounts assignment objects.

Asset Management (AM): Handled Fixed structured and Valuated Assets.

Design FSV for Assets.

Integration COD with GL.

Create Assets allocation structures as per client requirement.

Create Depreciation key and Depreciation area, by using multi-level depreciation method.

Created and settled asset under construction (AUC).

Configured and customized asset master as per the user requirement.

Tracked assets through asset number, asset class, cost center, location and plant.

Captured Purchase Order (PO) number in asset master from Material Management (MM) and

Sales Order number from Sales and Distribution (SD).

Acquired assets through Purchase Order (PO) and with Vendor

Performed planned, unplanned, restart and repeat depreciation runs.

Worked on Intra-company asset Transfers.

Sales and tax on assets sale and purchase.

Provided retirement of assets With Customer, Without Customer and by Scrapping.

Worked on parent child relation scenarios.

Performed the Fiscal year change and Year end closing.

Developed systems requirements and worked effectively with technical developers to translate

systems requirements into technical specifications

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Configured appropriate project profile for project and WBS element master data, field status of

master data, budget profile and planning profile for budget availability control in Project

Systems (PS).

Conducted training programs for end users. Also developed training concept decks, end user

documentation and process narratives.

Standardized and organized the report structure, developed the reports as per the user

requirement.

Designed and developed Business Process Procedure’s (BPP’s) and Test Script’s for user

training.

Conducted User Testing after the implementation and supported the client in post launch session.

Performed Integration testing, Unit testing.

Merck

Linden, New Jersey

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Version: ECC 6.0 January 2009 – October 2009

Responsibilities:

Involved in Business requirements Gathering and Business Blue Printing, Documentation,

Customization and Configuration with an in depth understanding of business processes relating to

SAP Finance and Controlling

Configure the basic settings for the profit center accounting

Design dummy profit center

Maintain Plan Version

Standard Hierarchy for profit center accounting.

Configure the prices for basic settings (MAV/SAP)

Define Account Determination for GR/IR.

Configure screen layout, number ranges, and statistical key figure.

Configure the distribution and assessment for product costing.

Configure segments for the profit center accounting with COPA.

Maintain the operating concern and define the characteristic in COPA.

Configure the integration with COPCA, FI, MM and SD.

Activate transfer of Incoming sales order and transfer the billing documents.

Automatic Account Assignment for direct posting for FI/MM and define the transfer structure for

variance settlement.

Activate the profitability analysis as per the cost of sales accounting method.

Customize and generate drill down reporting as per client requirement.

Define overhead cost Element and Calculation Base.

PC configuration, result analysis key, costing sheet, costing component and activate material

ledger.

Define percentage Overhead rates which are actual and over- head plan rates.

Configure the Internal order as par client requirement to track cost for special order.

Configured Quantity based overhead and credit the cost center

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Maintain overhead group to define conditions in the costing sheet for the calculation of overhead

that apply only to certain finished and or Semi-finished products

Created cost component structure to break down the raw materials such as packaging materials,

salaries and assign element to these cost component

Material cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, where I define various components within it like

costing type, valuation variant, date control, quantity structure control, transfer strategy etc.

In the costing type, define and configure material master record.

Define valuation variants that contain parameters required for valuation of a cost estimate

In PC, I Configure the Date Control, which controls the dates on which the quantity structure and

the value structure are created

Customized settings for controlling areas, activating the components indicators, assigning the

company codes to controlling areas, assigning number ranges.

Cost Elements Analysis involving both primary and secondary cost elements.

In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules.

Define Master Data, cost element, activity type, statistical key figure, internal order.

Preparation for the planning and implement the planning in distribution and assessment.

Define the basic setting for cost splitting as per the actual cost by cost element and activity type

based on the target cost and quantities.

Analyze the costs online and trace them right back to the original document.

Comprehensive, flexible, information system to analyze cost flows.

Provide the end user training.

Tested scenarios: overhead cost, salaries, traveling cost, product costing, internal order, Actual

posting, reporting.

Provide post go-live support.

Vodafone Group

London, England

SAP FI/CO Consultant

Version: - ECC 6.0 January 2008-December 2008

Responsibilities:

Gathered Business requirement from higher management and BPO (business process owner) with in

sub-modules and map Business Blue Print in Implementation.

Configured settings in the GL, GR/IR clearing account and automatic clearing to suit client

organization parameters.

Prepared configuration setting for cross company code transactions, line item display, and open item

processing for G/L.

Customized company codes, chart of account, posting variants, fiscal year variants, intercompany

transactions.

Configuration setup for Tax on sale on purchase and withholding tax setup. Tax calculation, define

countries for tax calculation, design and define tax code with GL integration.

Configured for partial, full, residual payments of line items and in holding and parking of

documents. Configured for tolerance groups and employee tolerances.

Configured bank master data, house banks for payment program, credit management, Periodic

processing.

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Setup for special G/L transactions like Down payments and Bills of exchange.

Configuration of Clearing and Reversal Accounts, Manual Accruals, Internal Correspondence,

Balance Interest Calculation and Information System.

Reports configuration in Day-End Closing, Month-End Closing, Year-End Closing, and Notes on

Programs, Starting Programs and Printing Lists.

Configuration of Fiscal Year, Financial Statement Versions, Preparing Financial Statements,

Planning and Documenting Posting Data.

Configuring Business Areas in General Ledger Accounting, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable,

Accounts Payable, Cost Accounting and Material Management.

Provide support for dunning letters for customers and also automatic payment programs.

Setup reason codes for overpayment or underpayment along with customer tolerances.

Configured incoming and outgoing invoice, incoming and outgoing payment to meet the need of the

organization.

Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module including vendor and

customer invoices and payments, document fast entry, G/L posting, and recurring entry programs.

Handled SAP scripts for generating dunning documents and

Involved in training to the end users and also support work during the post implementation. Handled

Infopak for preparing training and end user documentation.

Barclays PLC

London, England

SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Full life Cycle Implementation

Version: - (ECC 5.0) July 2006 – December 2007

Responsibilities:

Business requirements Gathered information to make Business Blueprint, Documentation,

Customization and Configuration with an in depth understanding of business processes relating to

SAP Finance and Controlling.

Configured and implement the New GL, accounts group, integration with SD, MM, PP, BW,BA,

and support to FI-AA

Regrouped the AP/AR accounts.

Configured automatic payment program in FBZP – Sending Co. code, payment Co. code, and

payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order and account amount level.

Configuring Customers Master Data, Vendors Master Data, Business Partners, Accounts Balances

and Line Items Posting Business Transactions in Accounts Receivable, Posting Reversals, Posting

Payments, Paying by Payment Card, Clearing Accounts and Payment Advice Note.

to various account groups.

Creation of reconciliation accounts for account receivables and accounts payables.

Configured AP/AR, document postings, payment methods in AP/AR and also configured the

system for short and over payments.

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Accounts Receivable (FI-AR): Configured Master data groups, Terms of Payment, Incoming

Payments, Dunning, Interest Calculation, Open item clearing, Cash Discounts, Under / Over

Payments, write-offs, Reason Codes and Credit Management in Accounts Receivable.

Configure dunning levels for customer as par business blue requirements.

Accounts Payable (FI-AP): Created Configuration for One-time vendors/customers with separate

screen layouts and customers/vendors who are also vendors/customers respectively and Trading

Partners. Used EDI for processing incoming invoices.

Worked on P-Card processing.

Design structure for Characteristic and value field for COPA.

Configure business segment and configure the drill down reporting, management reporting.

Maintain operating concerned.

Taxes: Configured sales tax and use taxes procedures, tax jurisdiction code structure for third

party tax system.

Identified integration points of external systems to SAP R/3.

Tesco

Hertfordshire, England

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Version (4.7) (Full Life Cycle) January 2005 – June 2006

Responsibilities

Involved in the full life-cycle implementation and assisted the team lead in Business process

review, design, configuration, testing, documentation and training in the areas of General

Ledger (GL), Bank Accounts (BA).

Conducted meetings with the users to understand the AS IS business processes and documented

business process ASAP.

Determined organizational structures and classified business units as company codes, business

areas and functional areas.

Designed enterprise structure, company code and assigned company code to chart of account.

Analyzed and reviewed all processes, user procedures, and system requirements.

Refined business requirements, developed a list of interfaces, reports and data conversions.

Month end closing, recurring entries and balance carry forward.

Suggested the development of new standard policies and procedures, and developed the system

administration and operational procedures.

Configured Company code, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, field status variant, field status

groups, document number range, posting, GL postings, Sales tax/use tax, recurring entries, GL

master record, GL Accounts (FS00,) Financial statement versions, Balance sheet and P&L

reports.

Configured the month end reconciliation ledger, segment leger, posting and clearing line items.

Configured input/output tax codes - Jurisdiction based and non-jurisdiction based.

Configuration of house banks for bank accounts, G/L structure, posting rules for automatic

assignment.

I was involved in the development SAP user material, preparing Functional specs for the various

levels.

Provide user end to end training, run QA PC and HP QC testing on system to track errors.

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Configured of House banks, Automatic payment program, Interest calculation and

Customization for manual bank statement and electronic bank statement.

Bank Account Integration with FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR

Create manual/automatic payment posting from BA to FI.

In Treasury, configured and cross-trained Cash Management in electronic bank statement (EBS),

configure cash ledger for posting, liquidity forecast, foreign exchange deals, payment program

and cash concentration.

Bank accounts ranking and setup the incoming revenues accounts.

Integration Testing of FI-MM, and FI-SD, integration for all Transactions.

Mark & Spencer

London, England

SAP FI/CO Consultant

VERSION: 4.7 March 2004 - Dec 2004

Responsibilities:

Maintained standards in implementation methodology by following ASAP implementation

strategy including the documentation of case procedures, end user documents, business process

procedures etc. Tested client specific interfaces, month end and year-end closing process

Configured various value fields, mapped them to the respective characteristic values on sandbox

and transporting them in to the production client after thorough testing

Configured automatic payment program in FBZP – Sending Co. code, payment Co. code, and

payment methods at country level, house banks, ranking order and account amount level.

Tested AP Scenarios: Vendor master data maintenance, vendor invoice, credit memo posting,

parking and posting parked invoices, cancel vendor invoice posted through invoice verification,

price variance, and AP reports

Tested AR Scenarios: Customer master maintenance, tolerances, over-under payments, cash

discounts, Incoming payment (full payment/partial payment/residual payment), dunning

procedures.

Defined the accounts groups and screen layout for AR/AP and defined screen layout for company

code level and defined screen layout for activity type for AR/AP.

Create industry for AP/AR and defined accounting clerk for receivable and payable.

Cross functional knowledge for AP/AR.

Procure to Pay Process and setup automatic payment program for vendors.

Create number ranges and assigned number ranges to customer accounts group.

Defined account groups, document types, number ranges, field status groups, special GL accounts

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Worked as a consulting specialist responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of SAP for

the client and worked actively with the management and project teams of the client to implement

SAP FI/CO.

Well-versed in integration process for MM, CO and PP with COPA and FI.

Interacted with the Client Business Users for requirements gathering and business process analysis

Customization and configuration of General ledger (GL), Accounts receivable (AR), Accounts

payable (AP).

Defined the accounts and exchange rate for AP/AR, configure GL accounts setup for transactions.

Support Bank Accounting (BA) module for integration with AP/AR

Defined block payments with reason to block. Invoice verification GR/IR.

Configured, setting up the dunning procedures for one-time and regular customer accounts.

Configured & designed the payment terms for vendors and customers and assign tolerance levels for

AR/AP and assign sort keys for payments.

Configured the automatic payment program to vendors and vendor groups, and maintain warnings

and error messages.

Configured the special GL accounts for customers down payment

Defined the credit check for customers at company code level and configured the credit checks for

customers and assigned the credit limit as par company instructions.

Being involved in documentation of user manuals and gathered requirements of how documentation

can become more meaningful.

Test implementation and resolved error issues with developers.

Provide support for SAP remedy tools.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

MBA (M.A.J.U)

Reference: Available upon request.

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