SAP FI-CO & SAP S4 Hana Finance

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ABRAR JAMEEL

Certified SAP FI Consultant

Nine plus years of strong experience as a SAP FICO Consultant & as Business Analyst with expertise in gathering information, developing business blue print, implementing, customizing, Cross module Integration with Material Management, Sales & Distribution, PP & testing (Unit, functional, Integration & UAT) and Migration of GL, AA & CO to S4 Simple finance. Overall experience includes 4 End-to-End implementations and 3 production support projects.

OPERATOINAL SKILLS

Full Life Cycle Implementations

ASAP Methodology

FI Business process

Fixed Assets

Banking process

Automatic Payment & Dunning

FI-SD & FI-MM Integration

Controlling Module

OI Management

Bonus Depreciation over Fixed Asset

Tax codes & Accounts Configuration

CO-PP Integration

Designing Costing Strategies

Payment & Settlement process Configuration

FI and CO-PA Reports

Unit/ Integration/ UA Testing

Revenue Management & Contract Acct

Migration of New GL & Asset Account and CO to S4 Simple Finance

Agile Methodology

Mapping Interfaces (WinShuttle, Vertex and Concur)

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS

TOOLS &TECHNOLOGIES

Strong knowledge of Business Processes and ASAP methodology, with solid foundation in Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting.

Experience in Integration of FI/CO with Material Management, Sales & Distribution.

Experience in pre-and post-implementation activities including Business Blueprinting, Design, Development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, UAT, Training Documentation and end user training.

SAP Revenue Management: Customized the following accounts [e.g. revenue, receivables (customers), deferred revenue and Unbilled receivables account] which are needed for the representation of the revenue recognition process.

Configured data for setting up of revenue management process - FI accounts; SD Item Categories; Revenue management category on item category level and Account determination.

S/4 Simple Finance: Performing Pre-Migration and Post Migration activities for New GL accounting, New Asset accounting and Controlling, CO-PA (Account based CO-PA)

Knowledge and sound understanding of Fiori Application within SAP S/4 Hana.

Experience in cutover activities, data conversion and validation of master data.

Strong Implementation and configuration experience in SAP Financials; General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA).

Expertise in SAP Controlling module include; Configuring of Cost Element Accounting (CO-CEA), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Internal Orders.

Experience in preparing various Financial and Management reports using report painter.

Mapping of multiple interfaces like WinShuttle, Vertex and Concur.

Experience in Creation and Maintenance of Environment, Dimensions and Models in BPC 10.0

Expertise in Creation and Maintenance of Input and report Template in BPC 10.0

Developed and Maintained Member access profile & task profile for new user in BPC 10.0

Configuring standard Tax codes to support day to day MM & SD related business transactions.

Configuring tax codes related to Excise duty, VAT and Withholding tax types.

Creating tax condition types, clearing accounts and account determination for tax related business transactions.

Experience in the following tool SAP Workforce Performance Builder 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4 Ver.

LSMW: Checking of Legacy data accuracy, data cleaning and preparation of Legacy data into SAP format and uploading of Legacy data into SAP system.

ERP Systems:

SAP ERP ECC 6.0 EHP4 / EHP 5 EHP 6, SAP S4 Hana Simple Finance (1511 Q4-2015)

Tools:

SAP Report Writer, Report Painter, LSMW, EDI, IDOC, WinShuttle, Cherwell Service Management tool (Ticket handling), Content Development tool (Work Performance Builder) 9.2, 9.3 & 9.4

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Komatsu America Corp, IL May 2017 – Current

Title: SAP Business Process Engineer Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Lead. Project Type: Implementation Support and Enhancements

Komatsu America Corp. is a U.S.subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd., the world’s second largest manufacturer and supplier of earth-moving equipment, consisting of construction, mining and compact construction equipment.

Configuring standard tax codes to support day to day MM & SD related business transactions.

Configuring tax codes related to Withholding tax types.

Creating tax condition types, clearing accounts and account determination for tax related business transactions.

Extraction of master and transaction data from multiple tables to service to the needs of New Parts system project.

Running weekly and periodic jobs on timely basis and managing payment and settlement files.

Designing costing strategy for process-based industry with repetitive/discrete scenarios

In New GL, defined parallel ledgers and multiple currencies and fiscal year variant.

Extraction of GL/ Customer/Vendor reports on regular intervals to cater needs from various business users and heads.

Created new document type for Payment returned from vendor as part of enhancement.

Worked and handled issues on OI management

Worked on process/production orders CO related configuration

Experience in CO/PP and FICO/SD/MM integration

S4 Simple Finance Pre-Migration activities: Preparing activities before Simple finance add-on Installation, performing due diligence to ensure all reports match 100%, removing periodic and planned jobs schedule for future runs and ensuring that no postings are made after installation of simple finance add-on till migration is fully completed.

Provided solution on reversal of goods movement with 291 types in transaction MB1A.

Experience in Company profitability analysis (Costing based)

Created customized forms and reports for CO-PA.

Configuring production relevant accounts in OBYC

Enhancement: Maintained multiple customizing settings for Calculation of Bonus Depreciation on existing assets.

Performed Production Order Settlement for Remanufactured production orders.

SAP Material Ledger Accounting: Activate Valuation Areas for Material Ledger, Assign Currency Types to Material Ledger Type, Assign Material Ledger Types to Valuation Area, Configure Dynamic Price Changes.

Mapped various tables from Controlling module and provided solutions in understanding the capacity cost reports.

Client: Ellucian, FL Role: Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Duration: Aug 2015 – April 2017

Project Type: Full Life Cycle Implementation & Support project

Customizing GL accounts, AR, AP, Fixed Assets and Banking business processes.

Customized and configured parallel ledgers and currencies.

In New GL, configured special general ledgers.

Configuration of the business processes for CO area and documenting it, Module – CO-CCA; CO-PCA; CO-IO; CO- PA

Contract Accounting: Configuring Contract accounts, Business partners, Security deposits, payments, dunning, revenue distribution, correspondences, foreign currency valuation, check management, Billing and invoicing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, Processing outgoing and incoming payments, and settlement processes, Taxes on Sales and Purchases.

Configuring standard tax codes to support day to day MM & SD related business transactions.

S4 Simple Finance Pre-activities: Preparing activities before Simple finance add-on Installation, Performing due diligence to ensure all reports match 100%, removing periodic and planned jobs schedule for future runs and ensuring that no postings are made after installation of simple finance add-on till migration is fully completed.

S4 Simple Finance Customizing: Customizing of GL accounting (New), New Asset Accounting (AA) and Controlling (CO) functionalities.

S4 Simple Finance Migration: Performing cutover activities including technical and load testing, Partitioning of Universal Journal entry line items table (ACDOCA), Migrating Cost Elements, Migration of line Items into New data structure, Migrating balances and Complete migration activities, Performing technical checks of transactional data (Analyze & reconciling transactional data) & enriching transactional data (checking migrated docs and displaying status of migrated docs) and Performing the Post migration activities.

SAP Material Ledger Accounting: Activate Valuation Areas for Material Ledger, Assign Currency Types to Material Ledger Type, Assign Material Ledger Types to Valuation Area, Configure Dynamic Price Changes, Define and Assign Movement Type Groups of Material Ledger, Activate Actual Costing, Define productive start (CKMSTART – Set Valuation Areas as Productive) and Account determination for Material Ledger posting (OBYC)

Revenue Management: Customizing and configuring the following accounts [e.g. revenue, receivables (customers), deferred revenue and unbilled receivables account] which are needed for the representation of the revenue management process.

Developed End User training documents through content development tool (WPB 9.4)

Client: Warner Music Group, NY Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant Duration: Aug 2013 - July 2015

Project Type: Full Life Cycle Implementation

Designed and implemented fixed asset processes.

Creating tax condition types, clearing accounts and account determination for tax related business transactions.

In New GL maintained parallel ledger.

In Asset Accounting, configured organizational structure, asset class, group assets.

Maintained currencies to facilitate foreign business transactions.

Managed issues in the following area Error Clearing system (ECS), Multiple Currency accounting and Average daily balance (ADB).

Configuration and support of settlement process for projects (both CAPEX and OPEX)

Configured PA transfer structure for transferring values from FI and CO.

Customized settlement profile, allocation structure and PA transfer structures to facilitate order settlement to CO-PA.

Mapping of multiple interfaces like WinShuttle, Vertex and Concur.

Implementation and support of Banking processes (EBS, ACH, WIRE and Positive pay)

Led Hypercare team during post go-live.

Led production support team (Both onsite and offshore)

Successfully provided lead support for all external audit requirements

Developed End User training documents through content development tool (WPB 9.4)

Client: Dr Pepper, Snapple Group, TX Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant Duration: Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

Project Type: Full Life Cycle Implementation and Support

Conduct enhancement workshops to gather user requirements

Developed FI design documents and configuration based upon business requirements

In New GL, defined ledgers and maintained fiscal year variant and Posting Period Variant.

In New GL, defined Parallel currencies.

Created custom management reports using CO modules.

Master Data Loads: Bank/Customer/Vendor/Cost Center/Profit Center Master.

Configured Depreciation areas, depreciation key, master data acquisition, retirement, transfer, and integration with GL

Period-end closing procedures for CO which include overhead allocations, cost settlement of IO to cost centers, WIP and Final cost settlement

Maintained Month and Year end closing activities in Financial accounting.

Configuration and support of GL, AR, AP and AA

Have managed acquisition activities of a business concern.

Identified and managed the creation of various management report needs along with BI team

Unit/Integration and User Acceptance Test Case Creation

Preparation and Delivery of Training Material to clients in SAP FI/CO (WPB 9.4)

Client: Security Printing and Minting Corporation, IND Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant Duration: Dec 2010 - Jan 2012

Project Type: Full Life Cycle Implmentation Implementation

Effectively interacted with the clients to understand business processes for GAP analysis and proposed long term and short-term strategic solutions.

Prepared AS IS and TO BE documents and provided solutions based on gap analysis.

Performed FI cutover over activities for GL, Vendor, Customer and Asset data by uploading from legacy to SAP system by using LSMW wherever required with the help of ABAP Consultants.

Defined Credit Control area, Assigned Company Code to Credit Control Area, Assigned default credit control area for each company code.

Configured Automatic Payment Program, determination of payment methods and bank determination for payment transactions

Configured Customer Account Groups, Customer Master Records, Billing, Payment terms and interest calculation, Incoming payments, Dunning, AR Information System, Credit Management, closing operations, sales order and integration with SD.

Configured House Banks, ranking order, Bank accounts, Payment Proposal, Payment run, Check management number ranges and void reasons.

Developed End User training documents through content development tool (WPB 9.2)

OTHER POSITIONS HELD

Client

Role

Duration

GeTechnologies Pvt Ltd, IND

SAP FI/CO Consultant – Production Support

Nov 09 – Dec 10

Systel Solutions, IND

Associate Consultant - Production Support

Sep 08 – Oct 09

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor in Business Management from Bangalore University, India 2008.

Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Annamalai University, India 2010

SAP FI CERTIFICATION from SAP Germany AG in 2011

Advance Diploma in Hardware and Networking in 2003.

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“Abrar is very hard working and punctual at his work. I found him to be dedicated and pleasant, tackling all assignments with motivation and determination. He has good knowledge in SAP FICO. He is a team player and It's been pleasure working with him.” – Rakhika Pola, Senior SAP Analyst at Attunity

“Abrar is extremely talented & hardworking individual who always strives for delivering his best. He has good knowledge in SAP FICO. His understanding about finance business processes is very good and easily relates customer requirements into SAP best practices. It's been pleasure working with him - Jehangir Sheikh, Lead Business Process Engineer.

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