Project Manager Sap

Emdad Alitaj

Education

Qualification Bachelor of Engineering in

s Computer Science

V.T.U, India, 2002

Language English

skills Fluent

Professional experience

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Emdad is a professional consultant with 8 years of

experience in SAP R/3, ECC FI CO Functional

Blueprinting,Configuration integration testing and

post production support. He has served such

industries as Automotive, Manufacturing, High-tech,

Logistics, Consumer Products, and Healthcare.

As an SAP FICO Consultant, Emdad has good

configuration skills in General Ledger, new general

ledger Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset

Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center

Analysis, Internal orders and Product Costing.

Emdad has 3 full lifecycle implementations of SAP R/3

with ASAP methodology, has been a team lead for 1

full life cycle implementation and has experience in

Information Gathering, Business Blue Print,

Documentation, Customization and Configuration with

an in depth understanding of business processes

relating to SAP Finance, Controlling and integration

with HR, PP, and MM modules. Emdad holds a Bachelors

of Engineering in Computer Science (India).

Mr. Taj has good communication skills (both written

and verbal) to effectively interact with all levels

of organization, and prepare required documentation.

He also has strong Problem Solving and Analytical

skills with a high aptitude to adopt new tools and

technologies with ease and seamlessly integrate

skills set into the project implementation lifecycle.

Key skills Product Costing: Setup the costing variants and

costing run for materials with quantity structure,

Setup parameters in valuation variants for costing

sheets for overheads. calculation of WIP,Variance

calculation,product cost collectors, material

ledger, cost object cotrolling involving BOM

,Routings.

Cost Center Accounting: Configuring and Customizing

the cost elements, reconciliation ledgers, standard

hierarchy, cost center master data groups,

assessments, distributions and reposting.

Profit Center Accounting: New PCA in New general

ledger FAGLFLEXT

Internal Order management

General Ledger:

New General Ledger: Real time co-fi integration,

Parallel ledgers configuration . Configuration for

balance sheet by profit centre and segment. Creation

of custom fields in new general ledger activation of

custom fields, and document number ranges in new

general ledger view, document splitting for balanced

sheet by profit center and segment

Accounts Payable: Purchase to Pay Cycle, Vendor

groups, vendor master data, house banks, bank

accounts, automatic payments, invoices, credit memos,

AP information system, integration with MM.

Accounts Receivable: Order to cash,Customer groups,

customer master data, billing, payment terms,

incoming payments, .

Asset Management: Configuring and Customizing

organizational structure, country specific settings,

asset classes, account determination.

Vistex and hyperion

Work 05/2009 -

Experience current

IBM CORPORATION, United States of America

Senior FI Consultant

Working as an new GL ECC 6.0 Design Consultant and

Module lead( Responsible for NEW gl Implementation in

sap ECC)

- Understanding Client business process requirement

relating for consolidated financial reporting.

- Key deliverables include Blueprint deliverables,

realization and integration est deliverables.

- Led a team of 3 consultants with direct reporting

to Project manager

-Blueprint design phase involved refining the

blueprint deliverables basically PDD Functional

specification document and process flows ARIS for New

GL and Controlling modules

- Heavy integration with PTP AND OTC Processes.

Complex inventory movements required to be applied to

GL and multiple pricing conditions needed to meet

profitability and revenue recognition.Complex pricing

condition were required to meet clients buy side

profitability. client had scenarios of price

appreciation, price depreciation, contract

management, PPV and AP cash discounts . these

basically formed the clients buy side revenue

recognition. All of these had to be recognized at

time of sell through which is not a standard SAP

process . Hence complex ricefs required to achieve

the same . Worked heavily with OTC and PTP for the

same.

- Guided and assisted the consultants to Complete and

deliver all blueprint design deliverables, including

baseline configuration deliverables

- Vistex a new SAP ECC component was implemented at

client site which involves heavy NEW GL integration

and AP integration worked . Vistex was primarily

deployed by client to manage revenue charge back to

suppliers. Clients financial transactional model was

based on buy side revenue recognition . Documented

all design decision documents relating to Vistex

process for charge back management

- Hyperion was used for consolidated reporting-

designed all relevant new gl interfaces as per

Hyperion cube structure to facilitate consolidated

financial reporting

- Facilitated workshops to design methodology to

transfer data from SAP to Hyperion cubes based on KPI

design. Assisted consultants to derive data source

for these Statistical KPi data ex P.O lines sales

order lines, invoice lines received and sent daily

etc. These required navigating through multiple SAP

tables in areas of SD and MM purchasing to facilitate

financial reporting Hyperion. Conducted team meetings

with SD AND MM functional leads to capture and report

data.

- Conducted and led the financial review postings

from Vistex, MM and SD subledgers to FI. assigned

relevant scripts to consultants for review and led

cross team meetings to help pass or fail HPQC cross

functional scripts.

- Led performance testing cycle at client site as

requested by client. Directly identified all critical

inbound and outbound interfaces relevant for

performance testing and guided fellow consultants to

work with SAP MAX attention team to rectify code and

improve performance.

- Identified all production cut over activities and

guided consultants on impacted FI and CO processes on

the same.

07/2008 - 04/2009

IBM corporation, United States of America

Senior Consultant SAP FI/CO

Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant.

-Responsible for General ledger Full life cycle

implementation as well as Specific areas in

Controlling( Cost centre and profit centre) and AP

Complete Blueprint.

-All Aspects of master data maintainence and data

conversion Deployed with maintainenece strategies and

conversion strategies with Back office-

- Baseline configuration thru final configuration as

well as Integration Testing-

- Coordinated a Successful General Ledger

Implementation from Blueprint thru End user Training

-

G/L,CCA,PCA

. Responsible for conducting business process

workshops, generating process flow diagrams dand

delivering final output of blueprint Process

definition document for new general ledger module and

profit centre accounting in new GL.

. Responsible for Baseline configuration thru Final

confguration and developing Business process

procedures and configuration design documents for new

general ledger module and cost centre accounting in

Realization.

- Responsible for assisting client in creating

intergration test scripts and unit test scripts for

general ledger and cost centre accounting in Testing

phase

- Responsible for gatjering end user training

material and assisting the client thru cut over

activitires till go live.

. Primarily led and conducted business process

workshops in new G/L and Controlling Module based on

a 3 step process Decomposition based on Solution

Manager Methodology

. Identified GAPS for which out of box SAP

Customizing required.

. Designed and Mapped high level business process

flow to SAP transaction codes and identified SAP

Specific transaction codes for business requirement

and initiated Documenting business process procedures

before Realization.

. Mapped Business process hierarchy in Solution

Manager for GL and Controlling related Business

processes.

. Completed the process definition documents,

business process flows,business process Hierarchy

with successful sign off

. Initiated the Design Process workshops for GL and

Controlling with smaller groups and completed design

decisions

. Walked the client through baseline configuration

based on design Workshops initiating a complete end

to end business flow for Single legal Entity.

. Completed Business Process procedures and final

Configuration along with Integration test scripts and

end user Training before go live.

. Initiated and completed the new gl configuration

for setup of parallel ledgers, scenario updates and

additional document types for statutory postings.

. Designed and mapped all relevant accounts for

document splitting to initiate a complete balance

sheet by profit centre.

. Designed the rules to clear open GL items by

automatic clearing program by proposing the usage of

sort keys.

. Identified the required substitutions in GL.

Trained Business owners on difference between entry

view and general ledger view.

. Proposed concept of parallel ledgers and data flow

to it driven by company code assignment to these

ledgers and also simulated ledger comparison for the

differences.

07/2007 - 09/2007

IBM CORPORATION, United States of America

SAP FICO Consultant

G/L,AR,AP,CCA,PCA,COPA,CO-PC

. Primarily responsible to review Global blueprint

design document and identify GAPS.

Analysis of critical gaps for the new rollouts based

on business process workshops.

Documented and formulated high level business process

flows for FICO module, with mapping .

Suggested GAP documentation strategies and

requirement analysis to addess effective solution for

GAPS.

Walked through the AS-is configuration for global

roll out and provided recommendation for U.S entity

roillouts for chanegs in configuration.

01/2007 - 06/2007

SAP AMERICA A.G, United States of America

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Emdad worked as a Lead SAP FICO consultant with

primarily responsibilities in the deployment of

additional plants and maintaining fico consistency.

He worked in a repetitive manufacturing environment

with make to order processes and make to stock

scenarios from production planning view.

Achievments:

CCA/Product Costing

. Activated Commitment Management in controlling area

based on requirement\

. Walked through the as-is product cost controlling

functional specification, and proposed changes for

make to order scenarios.

. Customized existing Cost Centre standard hierarchy

for end user extended reporting.

. Created additional Cost centers and Profit centers

for the new deployment.

. Setup additional activity types and trained end

users on secondary cost element categories for

internal activity allocation.

. Verified the existing costing sheet and made

changes to secondary cost elements for certain

overheads.

. Documented and trained super users on WIP

calculation and settlement.

. Proposed concept of inter-company costing based on

costing variant

. Worked with PP consultants to Setup mandatory

activity types in routing operation

. Customized additional settlement cost elements.

G/L /AR/AP

. Walked thru the as is blueprint of the fico module,

Configuration Identified GAPS, with documentation.

. Primary focus on revenue recognition from service

contracts.

. Walked thru the v.p's on the entire organization

structure in the as is blueprint

. Made configuration changes on incoming EDI 820

process, developed functional specification for

matching payments with invoice

. Mapped all relevant plant assignments to company

codes based on new deployment and requirements.

. Configured the fbzp payment program for cutting

automated checks.

. Trained end users on complete existing procurement

to pay cycle documenting all accounting entries.

. Trained super users on concept of vendor

consignment and settlement.

. Documented and trained end users on regular month

end close activities based on current system

configuration.

. Made changes to copy controls from delivery

document to billing to allow delivery number under

assignment field in fbl5n for matching payments

. Trained end users on foreign currency valuations

and exchange rate differences.

. Setup additional foreign currency with 3-4 decimal

places for EUR. maintained translation ratios as well

. Trained end users on different accounting entries

on procurement cycle based on standard cost and

moving average price in material master.

10/2005 - 12/2006

Hollingsworth Logistics management, United States of

America

SAP FICO Consultant

Emdad worked as a SAP FICO consultant with primarily

responsibilities in Providing Post Production go-live

support, and assisting business users in running

integration test scripts. He worked in a Automotive

environment with heavy focus on support, business

users training and Documentation.

Achievments:

CCA /PCA /Product Costing /Internal Orders/Production

Planning

. Customized every cost and profit centre to be

assigned to all cost elements in chart of accounts

sharing same controlling area.

. Trained users on creating cost centre hierarchies

and profit centre hierarchies at plant level,

assignment of cost elements to cost centers.

. Setup cross company code costing for controlling

area.

. Maintained controlling area currency.

. Set up new activity types and associated variable

costs for staff time, machine setup and machine time,

Trained users in assignment of activity types to cost

centers using kp26, carry forward of activity types

at year end close.

. Created Settlement Rules and Profiles in Internal

Orders. Performed Results Analysis.

. Prepared procedures and configured for releasing

Production Orders, Confirming Operations,

Simultaneous Costing, Final Costing, Price Transfer /

Update, and Period-end closing.

G/L /AR/AP/SD/MM

. Involved extensively with identifying which g/l

accounts are affected by MM movement types

711,712,261,101,561,562,601,602.

. Required changes in field status groups for g/l

accounts to enable vendor goods movement in certain

accounts.

. Mapped system defined existing posting keys to G/L.

. Setup a new company code from scratch, assigned

common chart of accounts and controlling area.

. Extreme analysis of cost of goods sold and revenue

accounts at line item level periodically, requiring

journal postings if applicable on consigned flow

thru.

. Trained users for year end carry forward of G/l AR

and AP.

. Configured inter-company clearing (receivables and

payables) account

. End user training on inter-company process for

offsetting invoice receipts during miro and knowledge

transfer for payable clearing accounts for

inter-company.

. Critical issue In CASH APPLICATION PROCESS for

incoming 820's, Scenario involved customer making

payments with reference to reference in SAP which

involved customer purchase order no and assignment in

SAP which involved either the shipment no or billing

doc .

. Based on further testing, came up with a 2 way

match functionality which matched payments at 2

levels incorporating (MATERIAL NO+ REMIT INVOICE

NO).which involved changes from EDI

. Sort program to enable 2 ways match, Change SD copy

controls the way billing document released to

accounting, extensive testing on mismatch report to

see elimination of mismatch which has at least 20,000

lines of payments.

. Trained users extensively for a month on only the

process for applying cash based on the new program

designed, showing them the match criteria and finally

posting off any quantity or price differences

yielding at the end after f-28.

. Trained users on running automated payment program

. Trained users on creating open payable resulting

from the consignment process using consignment

settlement ie posting payable by offsetting the

liability.

. Setup payment terms at 30 days for APP to pick open

payable as soon as customer payment is received after

30 days.

. Trained users on manual check application based on

matching criteria which included the delivery or

Advanced shipment notification.

03/2004 - 08/2005

Consulting Firm, United States of America

SAP CO CONSULTANT

Emdad worked as a SAP FICO consultant with primarily

responsibilities in Providing Post Production go-live

support, and assisting business users in running

integration test scripts. He worked in a Automotive

environment with heavy focus on support, business

users training and Documentation.

Achievments:

General Ledger

. Defined and configured chart of accounts, account

groups.

. Assigned Chart of accounts to company codes.

. Configured functional areas and business areas

based on organizational structure.

. Defined templates for configuring recurring entries

in GL postings.

. Defined tolerance groups, number ranges, posting

keys, document types, fiscal year variants, field

status groups.

. Customized the screens for document entry, document

reversals, invoices, and payments.

Accounts Receivable/Payable

. Configured Accounts Receivable (AR) and sample

ledger accounts.

. Defined house banks, bank accounts, reason codes,

check lots.

. Defined customer/vendor account groups and created

customer /vendor master data.

. Configured automatic payment program for outgoing

payments for company codes in Accounts Payable (AP).

. Configured incoming payments, billing, credit

management and dunning programs.

. Handled mainly incoming customer payments partial

payments, residual payments and monitored the

overpayment/underpayment customer account against the

reconciliation account at month end with users.

. Configured payment terms and cash discount account

for customers under FI team lead specifications.

. Worked with optimization function under house banks

for optimization by bank and postal code for several

vendors.

. Configured down payment recon accounts for vendors

09/2002 - 10/2003

Major hardware client, India

SAP Junior fi accountant

Create & maintain master data for GL, AR & AP, and

Controlling. Perform day to day support on FI/CO

related issues.Heavy focus of post production tickets

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