Project Manager Sap

Rashid Riaz

SAP Consultant

Email: abno29@r.postjobfree.com, PH: 713-***-****

SUMMARY

Experience managing global teams consisting of both on-shore and off-shore resources.

Worked effectively in virtual, geographic dispersed, cross-cultural environments.

Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, enforcing project management

methodology, prioritizing tasks, crisis management and providing guidance to cross-functional

teams.

Ability to multitask as a Project Manager, Team Lead, Business Analyst, functional area SME,

and Hands-on SAP configuration expert as needed.

Seven years of Functional experience in SAP FI/CO with cross-module knowledge of SD,

MM, PP and PS modules. In-depth knowledge of BW/BI, and ABAP (pseudo-coding and debugging).

Experienced in implementing User-Exits and developing technical specifications.

Involved in Two Full Life-cycle implementations using ASAP methodology including

Business Process Reengineering, System Design, Feasibility Analysis, Configuration and Testing.

Worked on different phases of implementation from business requirement collection, project

analysis, process design, blue print, configuration, unit testing, user training, go live support and

production support.

Excellent Demonstration & Presentation Skills of Software Products, Documentation of

Training materials & manuals and conducting training sessions.

Ability to communicate clearly with staff and high level management and executives,

including ability to re-state key points of meetings to ensure that communications were correctly

understood by all parties.

A result oriented self-motivated team player with excellent communication and time-

management skills.

SAP EXPERTISE

SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger FI-GL New GL, Accounts

Receivable FI-AR, Account Payable FI-AP, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Dunning Procedure.

Controlling: Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost Element Accounting CO-

CEL, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Profitability Analysis CO-PA, Internal Orders,

Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Distribution and Assessment Cycles, Planning.

Cash Management: House Banks, Bills of Exchange, Manual Bank Statement,

Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Exchange Rates, and Translation Ratios

In depth knowledge of Order To Cash process. Extensive experience configuring

Customer master, Credit Management, Customer consignments, Pricing procedures, SD

Copy routines, and Revenue Account Determination etc.

In depth knowledge of Procure To Pay process. Extensive experience configuring

Vendor/Material master, Logistics Invoice Verification, Evaluated Receipt Settlements,

Vendor consignments, Vendor Down Payments, Calculation Schemas, Batch Valuation,

Inventory Movements, Stock Transfers, and various Inventory/Stock transfer reports etc.

Extensive knowledge of Integration between FI/CO and other SAP modules. Also

experienced in managing 3rd party interface development using both middleware and

bespoke development.

Proficient in ALE, EDI and IDoc concepts including IDoc types, Ports and Partner

Profile configuration, and Migration/Conversion tools like LSMW, CATT etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0

SAP/R3 Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, LSMW

Testing and Training: Mercury QTP, uPerform, Info pak

EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS) Computer Information System

University of Houston Clear lake

NBCU (Project Juice). New York, New Jersey.

FI/ CO Functional Consultant.

Full Life-cycle Implementation Jun' 06 – Mar,09

General Electric is a parent company of NBCU. NBCU is a leading media company, which

includes NBC network, Tele mundo network, and cable channels like USA, BRAVO and Sci-

fi. NBCU also own Universal studios. The project replaced the people soft system with an

integrated financial solution. As a FI/CO team member, I was involved in full life cycle

implementation.

Responsibilities:

Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and documented as-Is process, did a

profound GAP analysis and successfully designed and mapped the To-Be system. Played an

Worked with Business Owners and ABAP Programmers in the design & Development of

reports, forms, interfaces, conversions and custom solutions.

Configured and customized New GL and Account Receivable and Account Payable module

and House Banks.

Defined ledger groups. Define and activated non leading Ledger. Assigned scenarios and

customer fields to ledger. Defined parallel currencies for ledgers.

Worked on document splitting, defined segments for segment reporting, classified GL

accounts for document splitting and FI document types for document splitting.

Assisted in data migration efforts from the legacy system to SAP’s A/R system. Worked with

the Business users to develop the conversion maps and with the Technical team to develop

LSMW based conversion programs.

Configured posting period and fiscal year variants, field status groups, customer Dunning and

Account statements etc. Also configured Customer master data including tolerance groups,

Decentralized processing options, Customer Bank data, and Selection rules etc.

Uploaded customer Master Records, Created account groups to differentiate customer

types, Extend customers across 200 company codes, customer number ranges, screen

variants, report variants. Developed a custom combo customer to take care of GE

monetization requirements.

Participated in the design, development, implementation, and testing of a complex Lockbox

process that involved a Cash Preprocessor to match remittances with Lockbox. It also involved

enhancing Lockbox auto cash application logic using a user-exit. Also worked on various Cash

application algorithms for Lockbox processing based on payment habits of different customers.

Designed strategy for handling Deductions using Deduction Management Component.

Configured and customized dunning process which can be run on demand. Configured and

customized program for collection, so work load can be distributed between collectors and

each transaction can be assigned a collector to collect.

Created a custom Affiliate netting program so all Affiliate type customers can be net at end of

each quarter. Created custom reports for Affiliate netting.

Configured Lockbox and IDoc processing, Tolerance groups, Reason codes, House bank and

Bank accounts corresponding to various Lockboxes.

Configured payment methods and payment program for various countries. Also involved in

design of DME files send to the banks and various forms printed as a result of payment run.

Developed Functional Design specifications for various business requirements including

various Cash Preprocessor reports, Invoice matching logic for Lockboxes, Manual Cash receipts,

Document Netting, Mass Reversal and Customer Realignments/transfers etc.

Facilitated the test design and participated in the design and execution of the Integration test

scenarios making sure that all the custom objects and transaction codes are thoroughly tested.

Lead the effort to standardize and develop BPPs using OnDemand tool where emphasis was

on Task based scenarios. Assisted the training team in developing a training box and finance

course materials. Conducted hands-on training sessions.

Post Go-Live Support; analyzed various GL/AR/AP posting issues, investigated Production

Breaks, and providing on-site/hand-on support to a large business community.

Advent Global Solutions. Houston, Texas.

FI/ CO Functional Consultant.

Enterprise 4.7,ECC 5.0 Nov' 05 – May 06

Advent Global Solutions is a premier SAP Enterprise Solutions and IT Services company.

Today, Advent Global Solutions, Inc. (AGS) has regional offices in Houston, Chicago, and

San Jose in the U.S., and Hyderabad in India. Advent Global has 250+ full-time SAP

consultants on projects in the U.S.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for silent running of global SAP instance and daily SAP application support

management ensuring timely response and resolution to support requests (Client NBCU).

Responsible for managing changes to existing foot print. Approved configuration/RICEFW

objects, test documentation, user training manuals, and SOPs. Member of Change Advisory

Board (CAB).

Analyzed development effort for all configuration and custom development requests.

Regularly tracked and reported progress for various custom objects during Demand/Supply

meetings.

Responsible for on-time financial month-end close in SAP.

Contributed to the review of application controls on a regular basis to ensure compliance with

Internal Audit/SOX provisions.

Facilitated discussions between business requesters and outsourced vendors as needed.

Worked with other functional/technical team leads on process improvements, simplification of

support processes, and designing SAP landscape and code review standards etc.

Responsible for coordinating 24x7 support to client businesses around the globe.

Involved/supervised regression testing (system validation) after major changes such as client copies,

system outages, mock disaster recovery exercises, and transport path split etc.

Involved in automation and enhancement of key business processes such as Inventory

provision, Internal Order settlements, Cost center and Activity type planning, PCA reporting,

Legal/Group cost reporting using COPA, Batch Valuation, Purchase Price Variance, Local/Statutory

reporting using Non-Leading ledgers, Withholding tax, Customer statements, Credit management, Pre-

rebates, and Collective billing etc.

Hands on configuration within other FI/CO areas including Movement types, various

substitution and validation rules, Foreign currency valuation, Inter-company transactions, Pricing

Procedures and Revenue Account Determination, Tax codes, SD Item categories, Residuals and Partial

Discounts, COPA Derivation rules, and Alternative COAs etc.

Provide ongoing production support and system enhancements to SAP FI/CO users

worldwide for all financial accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts

receivable, general ledger, cash management and controlling.

Manage end user calls for how-to, issue resolution and new development (enhancements) for

the global business community. Outline potential solutions and business impacts to address

change requests; prototype and demonstrate new functionality. SAP OSS research for

application bugs.

Brookshire Grocery Company. Tyler, Texas.

FI/ CO Functional Consultant.

Enterprise 4.7, Full Life-cycle Implementation Feb' 04 – Aug 05

Brookshire Grocery Company is a leading, privately held regional retailer with 154 stores and

6 manufacturing facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The project replaced

the legacy system with an integrated financial, manufacturing, HR and Payroll solution.

Responsibilities:

Conducted interviews with users to gather requirements and to understand the workflow of the

As-Is system. Created flowcharts and got it approved from Key users, and created Business

Blue Print for the existing processes. Analyzed the As-Is system, did a profound GAP

analysis and successfully designed and mapped the To-Be system.

Configured company code, posting period variants, opening of posting periods, fiscal year

variants, field status groups, document ranges, tolerance groups, and assigning the

variants to company code etc.

Configured and customized General Ledger, creation of G/L accounts, screen layout rules,

automatic account assignments, financial statement version, validation and substitutions.

Maintained posting period variant, created new document types, created screen variants for

document entry. Foreign currency valuation and FI integration with MM and SD.

Configured and customized Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules including

creation of Vendor Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, account

determination, and default account assignments.

Configured House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods, and Alternate

Bank Selections for Payments. Checks Management through assigning number ranges for

check lots, checks printing and defining void reason codes. Posting Invoices with and without

Invoice Verification. Set up the pricing procedures for different transaction keys like ERS

and ERL

In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost

Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default

account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions,

distribution and assessment.

In Profit Center Accounting, configured Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy,

Configured Profit center Master Data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit

Center Accounting.

Responsible for identifying and documenting all CCA and PCA test cases. Generated reports

using Report Painter and Report Writer.

Performed Unit Testing. Prepared Documentation for business users. Performed End User

Training. Production Support after the go-live.

Reliant Energy, Houston, TX

FICO Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3, Version 4.6B Nov, 02 to – Dec, 03

Reliant Energy is one of the largest independent power Producer and marketers in the country.

The company provides a complete suite of energy products and services to approximately 1.9

million customers in Texas.

Responsibilities:

Created CO master data including Cost centers, Cost center hierarchies, Activity types and

Statistical key figures. Configured Profit center Master data and Standard Hierarchy.

Worked with finance and supply chain team for Profit center assignments in material, asset,

cost center, and order master data.

Created PCA Distributions to transfer postings from Dummy profit center at period-end.

Developed LSMW programs to post PCA only entries for initial balance load and subsequent

adjustments.

Configured Internal Order functionality including Order types, planning and budgeting

profiles, allocation structures and various reports.

Reviewed and refined various business procedures and updated global template

accordingly. These included Shipped Not Billed, Foreign currency valuation, Overhead

Costing sheet, Standard cost estimates, Process order variances, COPA assessments, and CO

planning process etc.

Involved in the design for implementing Profit center accounting. Worked with other

functional and Master data teams for adding Profit center to Material/Project/Asset/Cost center

master data and coordinating month-end tasks to populate PCA ledger for B/S reporting.

Added new characteristics to Operating Concern and configured the corresponding

Derivation rules for the migrating entities.

Lead design discussions with the Reporting team to develop Cost Center to CO-PA

assessments including assessments for SG&A, Manufacturing costs and Process order

variances etc.

Documented the configuration of the controlling module.

Provided production support after the go-live.

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