Sharikh Naeem Uddin

Consultant

Profile

a Certified Consultant in the BackOffice Data Migration Methodology and Tools with several years of SAP FICO Functional Consultant experience. 6 years of experience including years of experience in designing, documenting, configuring and implementing Finance and Controlling Functions in several Expertise in configuring and customizing General Ledger (GL), New General Ledger (New GL), Accounts Payables/Receivables (AP–AR), Asset Accounting (AA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal orders (IO) and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), including Extensive Full life cycle large implementations in SAP Configuration. d Post Implementation support, excellent communication and skillsand ability to work independently and team environments.

emonstrated capacity to ensure that companies are some more efficient and more profited by using a wide array of advanced business and accounting solutions that include budget analysis, internal audits, financial and investment planning, and integrated information management systems. Iood knowledge of Accounting systems, US GAAP

Relevant Experience

Worked in Full life cycle implementations, Rollouts, Support and Upgrade projects.

Extensive experience in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules -GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Internal Orders and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). Product costing (CO-PC)

Integration of FI with MM and SD with Procure to Pay and (OTC) Order to cash Cycles

Reporting tools like Report Painter, Report Writer

Through understanding of a customized SAP system

Through understanding of SAP system from business process, cross functional and integration view points

In-depth knowledge in configuration, implementation, ASAP methodology, system design and development and gathering user requirements

Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Stress, Volume, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support.

Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with BDC, Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects

Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports

Active member in conducting the team meetings, Customer feedback meetings & self-assimilation programs.

Knowledge in identifying, testing and documenting of SAP application controls in compliance

Languages - SQL, PL/SQL, HTML & Visual Basic

Databases - Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i, SQL Server & MS-Access

Professional Experience and Certifications

Certified Consultant in BackOffice Associates Data Migration Toolset™ and Methodology

Certified Consultant in BackOffice Associates Migration Methodology™ and SQL Techniques

SAP Project Experience

Customer Role

MARS, Petcare Data Migration Team

Responsibilities

Responsible for migrating Vendor Master Data, Vendor Contacts, Characteristics, Purchase Orders, Costing BOM’s, Costing Recipes, Costing Production Versions, Affiliate Pricing, Activity Types and Additive Costs.

Used Data Staging Warehouse™ (DSW), Web Applications for data collecting, cleansing and validating purposes.

Loaded data into SAP using Integrate®, BDC, LSMW and custom programs.

Created Web Application, Vendor Hub, for single stage data collection activities related to Vendors.

Created reports to capture all the costing errors to ensure costing success.

Trained users on ® web applications for data collection activities.

Assisted users to remediate legacy data issues and for data validation.

Company Role

Pacific Gas and Electric Company SAP FI/CO Consultant

Responsibilities

Resolved issues relating to Payment program

Substitutions for Profit center derivations

Building up the program for reconciliation of business

Intercompany reconciliation

Month end closing activities

GR/IR clearing, Automatic clearing Issues

Issues related Invoice verification (MIRO)

Issues related to ERS (MRRL), for the intercompany invoices

Failed idocs Processing

Issues related to taxes with respect to VERTEX

Developed complex business design for all FI /CO process incorporating gaps, interfaces, reports, enhancements and data conversions from the legacy system

Physical Inventory postings in IM

Solving Integration issues

Changes to conditions type and pricing procedure for the additional posting for the intercompany transactions

End user training

Creation of BPP and other user manuals

Business Signoff for the development changes

Company Role

Brown Forman Corporation SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

Responsibilities

Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document

Designing business processes to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP – Finance (FI)) and controlling (CO) modules

Optimized integration of business process within FI, CO, MM, SD, modules.

Developed complex business design for all FI /CO process incorporating gaps, interfaces, reports, enhancements and data conversions from the legacy system

Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts for each company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files

Customized screen layouts for document entry at account/document levels. Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variant, customized field status variant, customized line layout, sort variant, and total variant

Defining the Tax procedures and integrating it with the accounting system,

Configured interest calculation on account balances and line items

Customized bank related accounting, bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic Bank Statement(EBS)

Configured and Customized Cash Management including Bank statements, Payment Programming, Payment Advises, Liquidity Forecasts, Bills of Exchanges

Configured and Customized Cash Budget Management including commitment management

Configured and Customized Asset Accounting Module – Copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout, allocate number ranges to assets classes.

Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using the report writer and report painter in CO-PA

Helped in month end and year closing activities

Accounts Payable / Receivable

Configured for vendor’s subject to withholding tax, interest calculations on item \ balance interest calculation, number ranges for forms, interest on arrears, account balance calculation on account balances / line items

Defined expense accounts, revenue accounts for realized exchange rate difference, differentiated the accounts by currency, exchange rate gains, exchange rate losses and then posted to separate accounts for the individual currencies and foreign currency valuations

Created and defined credit control areas to company code including pre-defined credit limits for customers

Configured dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms for each company at company code level. Configured payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations.

Involved in the basic implementation and development of Blue Prints for the entire project lifecycle related to MM module covering the full “Procure to Pay” business process.

Transaction Data Configuration & Processing Invoice Verification (MIRO – LIV): Maintained Invoice Receipt Tolerance Limits, Reductions in invoice, credit memos and Evaluated receipt settlements (ERS).

Configured and customized integration links between FI/CO/SD/MM/PP to optimize transaction processing

Developed a training plan and communicated with the client team on a regular basis to ensure successful execution of the plan

Controlling

Configuring and Customizing Primary and Secondary Cost Element in Cost Element Accounting, Creation Cost Centers in Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profitability Analysis and Profit Center Accounting sub-modules

Maintained Controlling area settings and made hierarchy and other assignments

Created Cost Element Groups, Configured the reconciliation ledgers

In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers and maintained the Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures

Configured settlements, cost splits for Activity Price. Setup internal orders and cost collector configuration

Customized order classification establishing a sophisticated system of order settlements and cost center assessment cycles.

In Internal Orders configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.

Company Role

Chevron Aviation Accountant

Responsibilities

Prepared jet fuel bid proposal to contract for U.S. Commercial Airlines customers for the Regional Marketing Manager.

Entered the Airport Jet Fuel Product, current price of the fuel product in the system, Volume measurement and Invoice output in the tender master.

Ran a monthly report for expired condition pricing for jet fuel and avgas product in SAP system and imported to excel spreadsheet.

Prepared IRS 1099 reporting for Land Bonus for submission to Chevron central tax department.

Lead a restructuring of the organization by strength the organizational hierarchy allowing volunteers a greater role in determining the direction of the organization which improved volunteer retention and satisfaction with the organization.

Company Role

ChevronTexaco AP Representative & Customer Support

Responsibilities

Processed Texaco customer invoice for payment (FI).

Matched MM customer invoices to the Purchase Orders.

Set up new customers and updated existing vendor accounts data.

Researched vendor accounts.

Assisted supervisor for any special projects.

Processed the Chevron Texaco manual payback for claims form.

Set up Chevron Texaco customers’ accounts in SAP, also cleared the customer sales order error

Entered a new airport into-plane and flowage fees, also airport prices and wholesale prices on the website.

Prepared weekly Charter Fuel Domestic rates for the customers, and monthly International Charter Fuel rates for the whole regions.

Notified the Tax Dept. for the new Alliance customer accounts.

Created and maintained billing and accounts receivable in QuickBooks.

Education

University of Houston Bachelor of Business in Accounting & Finance

Houston, TX

General Information

Language Written and spoken English, Hindi, Urdu

Citizenship United States

Clearances None

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