Mohammed Manan

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SUMMARY:

** ***** ** **-***** SAP FI/CO experience with 2 full life cycle Implementations.

Design, Configuration, Customization, Implementation of FICO in Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Industrial Products.

SAP Financials: Proficient in General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Account Payable, Fixed Assets, and Bank accounting.

SAP Controlling: CCA, CEA, PC, PCA, IO, CO-PA and Material Ledger.

Worked in environments adhering to US GAAP & SOX compliance.

Strength in gathering and analyzing Business Requirements, Flow Chart maintenance, and mapping

Strong problem solving, analytical skills and ability to make balanced & independent decisions

Expertise in ASAP methodology and Business Process Reengineering.

Integration FI- MM, FI-SD, FI-PP, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash cycles.

Cost Estimate in Product Costing (COPC) and Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV).

Development of drill down reports using Report Painter and ABAP Query.

Impeccable understanding of business processes with experience in pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and retail industries.

EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration, Pune University, India

Professional Experience.

International Paper, Memphis, TN June 2016 –June 2017

FICO Consultant

Global Settings: Configuration of organizational structures, tax codes, chart of accounts, G/L master data, Field status groups' Fiscal year Variants, posting periods, document number ranges.

General Ledger: Creating G/L accounts, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts. receivables and accounts payables, cross-company transaction. The Setting of various type of accounting posting like Negative posting.

Accounts receivables and payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor account groups, master data in FI, Number ranges, Posting keys, and document types for posting. Terms of payment, Creation of dunning program for the reminder to customers with different dunning levels, correspondence, automatic payment configurations. Integration with S & D and MM modules, Foreign exchange, various types of automatic postings, Configuration of automatic payment program.

Asset Accounting: Defining Assets class, Account determination, integration with G/l, the creation of an asset, Retirement of an assets, Asset acquisition. Depreciation runs.

Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.

Enterprise Structure in Controlling, setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating the standard hierarchy, creating CO version.

Cost Element Accounting: Cost element individual processing, collectively processing (Create, display and delete).

Cost Center Accounting: Creation of cost center groups under the standard hierarchy, creation of cost centers including collection cost centers and allocation cost centers, creation of secondary cost element, Creating activity types & statistical key figures, Cost allocation using Assessments, Distributions.

Profit center accounting: Basic setting and master data setting, Assignment in profit center accounting, Actual posting maintenance.

Internal orders: Settings/configurations for Master data, planning, actual posting, budgeting, period end closing, year-end closing.

Worked on Period end & Yearend closing activities for FI & CO and created reports using Report Writer & Report Painter.

Configured settings period end activities including settlements, allocation, distribution, etc.

Configured settings of automatic postings in FICO from SD, MM, and PP.

REXAM, CHICAGO, IL Jan 2015 - May 2016

Senior FICO Analyst SAP (ECC 6.0)

Provided support for SAP ECC 6.0 FICO module globally.

Configured for the business requirement, the GL accounts, vendor, customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases, tax accounts. Configured for partial, full, residual payments of line items and in holding and parking of documents.

Created and tested vendor/customer groups, number ranges, assigned, tolerance groups, to vendors and customers, document types.

Configured automatic payment program..

Configured fiscal year variants, posting period variants. Configured electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, post processing of bank statements.

Configured for tolerance groups and employee tolerances. Configured for terms of payment and tax code on purchase and sales.

Successfully tested critical business transactions in the finance module, including vendor and customer invoices and payments

Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables.

Created cost centers and created assessment cycles to allocate overhead costs.

Designed and created cost center hierarchy.

Released break-fixes to production after configuring the requirement in Dev and coordinating UAT.

Worked with Concur interface for employee travel expenses.

Resolved error in CJ88 not possible to post down payment exist. Change the Error message to Warning.

Defined overhead groups and assign to valuation area and overhead key.

Resolved IDOC’s issue for travel expenses posted through third party interface to SAP.

Configured tolerances for lock box incoming payment.

Resolved Automatic payment run issues. Resolved Billing invoices to release to FI, Resolved issues for vendors with payment block, Resolved issues with budget exceeded while posting the invoice,

Maintained Controlling Area.

Maintained Costing Variant, Cost Component Structure, Run Cost estimate, mark and release the price.

Maintain Costing Based Operating Concern,

Define characteristics derivation, The Flow of actual value.

Maintain PA transfer structure for direct posting. Automatic account assignment.

Assign SD condition types to FI to move data to COPA.

Activate Profitability analysis.

Activate Material Ledger. Resolved Issues with single level and multiple level price determination.

Sloan Valve. Chicago, IL Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

FICO Analyst SAP (ECC )

Generated IDOC’s for EDI 810 Invoices and tested successfully.

Resolved Billing document issues relating to posting in FI.

Resolved Automatic Payment program issues.

Created document number ranges in Production for new company code.

Tested posting transaction in the new company code.

Move internal order group 6OBU attached to library 602 from client 000 to production for Budget/Actual/Committed report.

Configured functionalities like alternate payee.

Written test scripts for EDI Incoming Invoices.

Goods receipt matches invoice receipt.

Remit vendor different than on the purchase order

Two invoices for one goods receipt, One invoice for two goods receipt.

OTC cycle Created Sales order, Goods issue, Created Billing document, Released Billing document to Accounting.

Process subsequent credit for price difference.

EDI error processing.

Periodic Report Processing to identify exceptions and missing shipments.

Created General Ledger Accounts, Cost elements, and Cost Center Master data.

Product Costing Maintained costing variant, Cost components Structure as per the business requirement, Run and Schedule Cost estimate, mark and release the price,

Generated Inbound bound Test IDOC’s using transaction t code we19.

Monitor, Display and Reprocess the failed IDOC’s Via BD87.

LL BEAN, Maine Freeport Oct 2013 – Aug 2014

FICO Consultant, Design, Configuration, Customizing (ECC 6.0)

Prepared Functional Design Document for Incoming invoices from vendors through EDI

Prepared Functional Design Document for Outbound Payment to Bank.

Configured Payment Terms, Payment methods/Check management, Automatic Payment Program, Payment run display, Payment method/Bank Selection, Payment Proposal. Down payment request.

Settled invoices within SAP through F110.

Configured functionalities Permitted Payee, Bank Partner Type.

Configured Bank Chain to use intermediary bank information for the payee.

Configured automatic payment program to pay international vendors.

Configured partner profiles and EDI compatible payment methods.

Configured down payment request for vendors and clear down payment via F110.

Configured taxes on sales and purchases.

Outsource Check printing to 3rd party sent information along with payment file.

Generated Inbound bound Test IDOCS using transaction code we19.

Configured Logistic Invoice, upper and lower, limit Tolerances for Quantity and Price Variance.

Created Material, Purchase order to test different scenarios in PTP Cycle.

The Configuration of Bank Accounting, setting up house banks, EBS.

Designed and Configured Cost Center and Profit Center Hierarchies.

Mondelez, Kraft Foods, Northfield IL Apr 2012 - May 2013

Lead FICO Consultant (RTR Finance Transformation Business Workflow) (ECC 6.0)

Held meetings with subject matter experts, Business Analysts in Kraft Foods to gather current scenario of the company’s existing Intercompany Service business processes and provided an easy alternative to BPM using SAP best practices.

Created BPM Workflow forms for Intercompany service Transactions for A/R, A/P, JE

Developed Functional Design, Process Design, Workflow Design documents for A/R, A/P and JE Intercompany Service Transaction.

Prepared FDD, PDD, and WDD

Instrumental in driving the FI/CO module emphasis on A/R, A/P, and JE Intercompany service transaction. Through the study of field analysis like Document type, Exchange Rate, Vat Registration Number, Trading Partner, Currency Type, Withholding Tax, G/L accounts, Profit Center, Cost Center, Internal orders, WBS Elements.

Analyzed “AS-IS” Intercompany service transaction business processes and how transactions were posted into ECC and developed TO-BE process according to the requirements for ECC.

Helped in Developing Technical Document for A/R, A/P, and JE.

Created Functional specification for DAT tool to find out duplicate invoices.

Extracted required data from ECC to map with BPM workflow.

Developed outsourcing check printing to a 3rd party, created the Functional specification for check printing.

Transmission of payment file for check payments between the legal entity and its house bank.

Configured Automatic payment program,

Bank Name and House Bank, SAP GL Main Account, Outgoing Account, Incoming Account for the legal entity.

Configured House Bank. Two Bank Accounts one to pay CAD and another to pay USD. Changed EDI Partner Profile to create IDOCs for respective Bank Accounts.

Bank Determination, ranking order is maintained in Bank determination.

Standard program used to generate the IDOC from Settlement. PAYEXT used as IDOC type for generating the payment information.

Passed the IDOC to SAP XI interface which converts the IDOC to XML format.

IDOCs appended in an XML format pushed to B2B where the XML is translated to EDI 820.

Payment file in EDI format is pushed from B2B to House Bank.

EDI 824 in response to EDI 820 transmission from House Bank is received by B2B.

Used Custom table to update the transmission information.

DOW Chemical, Midland, MI Sept 2011 – Mar 2012

FICO Consultant (Production Support ECC 6.0)

SAP FI/CO Consultant (Production Support)

Knowledge Transfer from China.

Production support for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing.

Created PPT for all financial applications and controlling applications.

Credit Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts payables, Cost center accounting,

Conducted 14 FI and Controlling user training sessions with China, India, US, Europe.

Cardinal Health, Dublin OH Nov 2010 – Sep 2011

FICO Consultant (Upgrade from 3.1i to ECC 6.0)

Held meetings with subject matter experts, Business Analysts in Cardinal Health NPS to gather current scenario of the company’s existing business processes and provided an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices.

Created a basic Skeleton of the existing system of Cardinal Health. Revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes from the legacy system and documented all changes for TO-BE requirement.

Instrumental in driving the FI/CO module emphasis on Accounts Payables in every aspect of project management from understanding requirements to configuration, testing, training, user acceptance, change management and system audit compliance

Analyzed Cardinal Health’s “AS-IS” business processes and how transactions were posted into SAP 3.1I and developed TO-BE process according to the requirements for ECC 6.0.

Configured Accounts Payable and General Ledger Accounts.

Created a detailed description of the configuration that needs to be done in the SAP ECC 6.0

Supplier Invoice - Match Multiple Purchase Orders, Supplier invoice line items, Supplier Invoice 3-way match, Supplier Invoice Freight charges.

Document Type, differentiate between credit memo and vendor invoice.

Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments in Accounts Payable, void checks, display check information used payment methods, Checks, Wire, EFT, to make outgoing payments

Configured enterprise structure including an operational chart of accounts, Account groups document number ranges and field status groups.

Configured Vendor Account Groups, Document number ranges, Vendor Master records.

Configured Account groups for the General Ledger, Document number ranges, the General Ledger mater Records. Account assignment model, Recurring entries. Reclassify Accounts from PPV to COGS.

Defined and maintained tolerance groups for GL, AP.

FI-MM Integration, configured various transaction event keys, Including FRL transaction event key for subcontracting purchase order, for consignment orders configured KON transaction key and assign respective accounts.

Design FI-MM Integration Strategy.

ALBEMARLE CORPORATION, LA, Jan 2009 – Feb 2010

FICO Consultant (Full Life Cycle Implementation ECC 6.0)

Held meetings with subject matter experts in Polymer Activities, Catalysts and Fine Chemicals divisions to obtain a current scenario of the company’s existing business processes and provide an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices.

Created a basic Skeleton of the existing system of Albemarle. Revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes from the legacy system and documented all changes.

Analyzed Albemarle’s “AS-IS” business processes and how transactions were posted into SAP.

Design "TO BE" functionality.

Cycle 1:Enterprise Structure which includes: Define Company & Company Code, Assignment of Company Code, Maintain Fiscal Year Variant, Assign Company Code to Fiscal Year Variant, Define Variants for Open Close Posting Periods, Open and Close Posting Periods, Assign Posting Period Variants to Company Code, Document Number Ranges, Defining Document Types, Maintain Field Status Variants, Assign Field Status Variant to Company Code, Define Tolerance Groups for Employees, Edit Chart of Account, Assign Company Code to Chart of Account, Define A/C Group, Define Retained Earnings Account, Enter Global Parameters,

Cycle 2:Configured various components in the Fine Chemical Division of Albemarle like General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, which primarily comprises of:

Restructuring Chart of Accounts, Configuring new Account Groups, Document Types and Number Ranges, Defining Retained Earnings Account, Reason(s) for Reversal, Automatic Account Assignment to Materials Management and Sales and Distribution.

Define Vendor Account Group, Defining Number Ranges for Vendor, Assign Number Ranges to Account Groups, Define Tolerance Group for Vendors, Define Payment Terms, Discount payment terms, Configuration of Automatic payment program, Defining House Bank(s), Defining all Company Codes, Paying Company Codes, Defining Payment Methods for Country, Defining Payment Method for Company Code, Bank Determinations, Running Automatic payment, Defining Check Lots, Creating Print Variant, Manual Outgoing Payment,

Defining Customer Account Groups, Defining Number Ranges for Customer Account groups, Assigning Number Ranges to Account Groups, Post Incoming Payments, Define Credit control Area, And Risk Categories

Cycle3: Maintain Controlling Area, Assign Company Code to Controlling Area, Activate Components/Control Indicators, Maintain Number Ranges for Controlling Documents, Maintain Versions.

Defined Standard Hierarchy.

Phoenix Technologies, AZ Aug 2007 – Dec 2008

FICO Consultant (Production Support, Customizing, Configuration 4.7)

Conducted meetings with SME’s to obtain a snap shot of the county’s existing business processes.

Performed an “AS-IS” study and came up with a “to-be” design, to have a complete GAP analysis.

Created a detailed description of the configuration that needs to be done in the SAP system.

Configured like General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable

Configured Document Splitting to get the detail picture of Cash flow.

Created Segment reporting. Configured Leading and Non-Leading Ledgers.

Configured Automatic payment program, open item clearing and down payments.

Configured special GL transactions..

Maintained Fiscal Year and Posting Period Variants.

Defined and maintained tolerance groups for GL, AP, and AR.

Coordinated with MM team to determine the Movement types, Transaction key for the GR/IR created against the Purchasing Orders produced.

Configured the basic automatic account determination for the Material issued to Production order in 3 divisions and when initial stock uploaded. Configured the Messages for LIV and settling services

Maintained Controlling area baseline configuration.

Created Cost Centers for different in-house design centers, provisioned primary & secondary cost elements to facilitate Profitability Analysis and created Profit Centers for Profit Center Accounting.

Created Assessment Cycles, Costing Sheet, and Activity types.

Created Internal Orders for allocating costs among various cost centers.

Conducted integration test from MM to AP and SD to AR.

Hoffmann-La Roche, NJ Nov 2006 – Jul 2007

SAP FI/CO Consultant (SAP Full Life cycle implementation 4.7).

“AS-IS” documentation and resultant BPR studies documented for "TO BE" blue prints

Configured FI/CO covering Enterprise Structure which includes: Define Company & Company Code, Assignment of Company Code, Maintain Fiscal Year Variant, Assign Company Code to Fiscal Year Variant, Define Variants for Open Close Posting Periods, Open and Close Posting Periods, Assign Posting Period Variants to Company Code, Document Number Ranges, Maintain Field Status Variants, Assign Field Status Variant to Company Code, Define Tolerance Groups for Employees.

like General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable which primarily comprises of:

Restructuring Chart of Accounts, Configuring new Account Groups, Document Types and Number Ranges, Defining Retained Earnings Account, Reason(s) for Reversal, Inter-company posting Automatic Account Assignment, Inter-company Journals, Automatic Account Assignment to Materials Management and Sales and Distribution.

Define Vendor Account Group,Defining Number Ranges for Vendor, Assign Number Ranges to Account Groups, Define Tolerance Group for Vendors, Define Payment terms for vendors, Configuration of Automatic payment program.

Defining Customer Account Groups, Defining Number Ranges for Customer Account groups,

Processing partial payments and Clearing customer accounts through various transactions.

Assisted the technical team in preparing LSMW.

Technical Object testing, which tests for all (FRICE-W) Components

Role Mapping Unit Test, which ensures that all the authorizations and validations at different levels are working properly.

Conducted Unit Test, String Test, and Integration Test. Resolved configuration and business process issues resulting from testing. Develop String Test Scenarios

Coordinated and conducted end user training related to Automatic Payment Program for AP.

Demonstrated Power point presentations to explain how SAP business process work to meet the client requirements.

Documented the design process and conducted end-user training using BPPs.

Trained the client in month end and year end closing after go-live

Liaised with offshore resources to develop custom RICEF objects

Developed FI/CO reporting solutions utilizing account line displays, report painter, and developed specs for ABAP programmers.

Created unit and integration test scenarios and resolved configuration and business process issues resulting from testing.

MM/SD Team in problem identification and resolution, in manual/integration testing, with emphasis on those related to Purchase to Payment (PTP) type scenarios

Created FI/CO training documents and trained end users.

Landis + Gyr Inc., Lafayette, IN Jan 2006 – Oct 2006

FICO Consultant (Customizing, Configuration, Support 4.7)

Provided support for SAP R/3 FICO module globally.

Configured the GL accounts, vendor and customer master data, defined the tax on sales and purchases, tax accounts. Configured for full, partial, residual payments of line items.

Created and tested in QA environment vendor/customer groups, number ranges, assigned, tolerance groups, document types

Responsible for setting up rules for Master and Transaction Data Migration

Configured automatic payment program.

Configured fiscal year variants with year dependent periods and posting period variants. Configured electronic bank statements, importing of electronic bank statement, displaying bank statements, post processing of bank statements.

Configured for tolerance groups and employee tolerances. Configured for terms of payment and tax code on purchase and sales.

Configured all business transactions for accounts payable and account receivables

Designed and created cost center hierarchy.

Created cost centers and created assessment cycles to allocate overhead costs.

Created account assignment models for recurring entries.

Designed and configured the hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of profit center accounting.

Configured settings for Controlling Area.

KENNAMETAL, PA Jun 2005 – Nov 2005

FICO Consultant (Configuration, Customizing Support 4.6 C)

Configured settings for Company Code, Fiscal year variant, Chart of accounts, posting period variant, field status variant and field status groups

Configured Account groups and retained earning accounts to create GL Master

Defined chart of accounts, account group and general ledger accounts for each company code. Created Bank Master data, House banks, G/L accounts for each bank account and created reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets

Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels, settings for clearing account

Configured the vendors and customers

Configured Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments in Accounts payable.

Involved in SD and MM integration in Account Receivable and Accounts Payable modules

Configured Controlling Area, Versions and maintain number ranges for controlling area, also maintained Standard Hierarchy for a controlling area and Alternate Hierarchy to the controlling.

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