Zubin Shah

SAP FI/CO Consultant

+358-********* / +91-983*******

acagys@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified SAP FI/CO Consultant

* ***** *** ******* ********** includes 2 Full life cycle implementations and 8 rollouts

Expertise in configuration and customization of FI (GL, AP, AR, AA, Banking, SEPA, New GL)

Expertise in configuration and customization of CO (CCA, PCA, CEA, CO-PA)

Experience in integration of FI with MM and SD

Experience in working with Interfaces (idoc), forms, user exits, validations and

substitutions

Experience in Blueprint, Configuration, Unit, Regression, User Acceptance and Integration

Testing, Training, Documentation and Production support

Experience in requirement gathering and client facing role

Excellent communication and inter personal skills. Proven ability to work in team

environment

SAP SCN – Gold member and Moderator for Financials forum

Pursued Full-time MBA

CERTIFICATIONS

SAP Financial Accounting (FI – EhP4) – 2009

SAP Controlling (CO – EhP4) – 2012

EDUCATION

MBA in Finance, KJ SIMSR, Mumbai University, 2009

Bachelor in Commerce, NM College, Mumbai University, 2006

SAP FICO CONFIGURATION SKILLS

General Ledger

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

Developed business designs for FI/CO processes incorporating gaps, interfaces, reports,

enhancements and data conversions from the legacy system.

Field status groups, fiscal year variants, posting periods, document number ranges.

Setting up of document types, posting keys, foreign exchange management.

Configured General Ledger – Created GL master records, accounts groups, number ranges

and preparation to master files for data migration.

Tax Accounting and integrating it with the accounting system.

Configured validations and substitution rules for documents.

Recurring entries and exchange rate management for foreign currencies.

Designed mapping documents to post GL and AR documents from SAP PI via iDocs.

Bank Accounting

Maintained House Banks and Bank GLs, IBAN, Bank Account IDs.

Developed Check formats with ABAP team.

Designed and developed with ABAP team forms for Receipts and Vendor Payment Advices.

Manual and Electronic Bank Statements – Keys, External Transaction Types.

Created Payment files via Classic RFFO* programs and also DME (Data Medium Exchange).

Configured Automatic Payment Program – end to end.

Used Banks in Incoming and Outgoing Payments – Automatic and Manual

Defined Cash Journals – with output forms.

Check and form designs with ABAP developers.

Worked extensively on SEPA payments – which will be a single payment platform used in

EU from February 2014 onwards.

Direct interaction with four European banks for SEPA file formats and design discussions.

Asset Accounting

Creating country specific Chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas.

Defined assets classes, account determinations, screen layout key, number ranges.

Defined the classes of assets, capitalization procedures and depreciation calculations.

Month end closing activities.

Accounts Payable / Receivable

Configured end to end SD-FI integration – maintaining VKOA settings, pricing procedure

changes, condition type changes.

Configured end to end MM-FI integration – maintaining OBYC settings, creating movement

types, account modification.

Configured interest calculation 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.

Created and defined credit control areas including pre-defined credit limits for customers.

Knowledge of dunning program, dunning levels, dunning areas and dunning forms.

Configured payment terms, and payment methods.

Maintained Invoice Receipt tolerance limits, reductions in invoice, credit memos.

Controlling

In Cost Element Accounting (CEA), created primary and secondary Cost Elements, created

Cost Element Groups.

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.

In Internal Orders, configured internal order types, setup status profile for order type,

maintained settlement rules and used internal order with AUC /Capital investment projects

In Profit Center Accounting, maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit

centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types.

Profitability Analysis

Designed Profitability Analysis module (Costing-based).

Designed and defined the characteristics, value fields, derivation rules, CO-PA structures,

condition types, tables, currency settings and other procedures.

Integration between SD and COPA modules by assigning value fields to condition types

Cost allocations from cost centers and internal orders to CO-PA.

FI postings into CO-PA via OKB9 settings for profitability segment to be triggered

automatically.

CO-PA reporting via BW

SEPA (Single EURO payments Area)

Extensively worked on SEPA format changes with 4 European countries for Credit Transfer

and Direct Debit.

Single-handedly created SEPA Proof of Concept and Sales kit for Capgemini.

Created internal Sales presentation with SEPA project plan, customizing documents, test

scripts, troubleshoot documentation, SEPA process.

Worked on 2 implementation projects for SEPA and pitched 2 clients lately for SEPA

prospective projects.

Interacted with various European banks during the implementation process to make

changes in SAP formats.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Fiskars, Finland – May 2011 till date

Organization: Capgemini

Role: SAP FI/COPA Consultant, Onshore Team Lead

Responsibilities: Blueprint, Design, Implementation, Configuration, Testing, Training, Cutover, Post

Go-Live Support, Rollouts

Details:

Creating blueprint documentation along with client interaction via fit-gap workshops.

Designing business processes with SAP details for process owners’ approval.

Creating time-plan for FICO actions for offshore team for every rollout.

Customization on the basis of approved designs.

Unit and System Integration Testing and Result Analysis.

Resolving UAT issues with key and end users onshore.

Coordinate FI and integration work offshore team.

Designing and supporting new GL functionalities – Document Splitting.

Designing and supporting CO-Profitability Analysis module.

Team Lead for Sweden and Netherlands rollout.

Team lead for Germany rollout.

Team lead for longest rollout of 12 months covering five European countries.

SAP SEPA implementation in Finland, UK, Sweden, Netherlands.

Client: Provimi, Netherlands – Dec 2009 to April 2011

Organization: Capgemini

Role: SAP FI Consultant

Responsibilities: Implementation, Configuration, Testing, Cutover, Post Go-Live Support, Rollouts

Details:

Configure as per business requirement in FI – enterprise structure, GL, AR, AP, Banking.

Prepare unit and integrated test plans for configured system.

Responsible for fit-gap analysis, preparation of specifications as per requirements.

Perform testing including regression/integration/unit testing for all new changes.

Coordinate for UAT (user acceptance test) with the business key users of the application.

Coordinate FI deliverables with project team from offshore.

Create & Maintain Configuration documents as per the roll outs.

Help end-users understand the system and troubleshoot issues onshore.

Support AMS to resolve issues in live production environment.

Responsible for developing new developments – forms, enhancements, programs.

Review changes once implemented in the system.

Support during and after Go-live till system reaches stability from processes view point and

also user’s comfort.

TRAININGS ATTENDED

New GL, CO-PA, Financial Markets, DMEE, SEPA, IFRS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP applications: SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 7.0

Operating System: Win. 95/98, Win. XP, Win. Vista, Win-7, Max OS X

Tools: Source Forge, Clarity, Microsoft office applications, SharePoint

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