Management Accounts Payable

Ali

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SUMMARY

• Nearly 8 years of strong functional experience in SAP R/3 FICO module in versions from 4.6 to 6.0 and

which includes four full life cycle implementations in manufacturing, banking and finance,

pharmaceuticals and retail industries.

• Full life cycle implementations using ASAP methodology, good understanding of AS-IS business

processes, Blue Print, Realization-Configuration, Final Preparation-Unit & Integration Testing, User

Acceptance Testing, End Users Training Pre & Post Go Live support.

• Skilled in Project Evaluation, Information Gathering, Business Blue Print, Documentation, Customization

and Configuration with an in depth understanding of Business Processes relating to SAP Finance,

Controlling and Integration with SD and MM Modules

• Proficient in Configuration and Integration of SD, MM and PP with FI.

• Extensive experience in configuration of Financial Accounting (SAP-FI) including FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR,

FI-AA, and Credit Management

• Have basic knowledge in the configuration of New G/L and Document Splitting.

• Worked closely with SD and MM module teams for FI-MM and FI-SD integration in most of the

implementations.

• Extensive experience in Lockbox configuration and processing, Automatic payment program and

dunning process.

• Worked on processes such as Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (OTC), and Record to Report.

• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, and Reporting tools(Report painter

and Report writer)

• Special emphasis on Data Migration specifications with Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW)

for data uploads for various SAP Projects

• Define required customizing in Accounts Payable. Configured for Payment terms, Vendor Groups,

Number Ranges, and Automatic Payment Program.

• Created & Maintained Customer Master Data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting,

Dunning, Down Payment, Discount, Over and Under Payment.

• Worked for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required

configuration for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules.

• Involved in configuring the settings for CO-CCA, CO-PCA, internal orders, CO-PC( make to order

scenario) and COPA

• Maintained settings for controlling area, operating concern and maintained versions

• Exposure to US GAAP, Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic

Payment Program, Lockbox, Treasury Management, LSMW, ECATT, EDI and IDOCS

• Excellent communication skills, exceptional ability to perform individually, good interpersonal relations,

motivated and hardworking personal.

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and abilities to make balanced & independent decisions

Skill Set:

ERP Applications: SAP R/3 Versions – 4.6, 4.6C, 4.7 and ECC 6.0

Programming Languages: SQL/PLSQL and Java

Databases: Oracle, MS-Access and MySQL

Tools: MS Office, Excel & PowerPoint presentation, Toad

Integration: FI & CO integration with MM, SD

Operating Systems: Windows (2003/XP/Vista/win7/Unix/Linux).

SAP Tools: Report Painter, Report Writer, Solution Manager, LSMW and IDOCs

Professional Experience:

Academy Goods + Outdoor, Austin, TX Jan‘13 - Present

Project Scope: Implementation Project

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a premier sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer with a broad assortment of

quality hunting, fishing, and camping equipment and gear along with sports and leisure products,

footwear, apparel and much more.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, participated in the system design, configured and tested the

existing system.

• Performed functional gap analysis, interface requirements definition, and specifications.

• Coordinated meetings with the users to understand existing business processes and documented

business process flow charts, identified the requirements and modeled the ‘ To-Be’ process.

• Good understanding of Product Costing methodology

• Responsible for requirements gathering, prototyping, and configuration of GL, AR, AP modules.

Responsible for standardizing and organizing the reporting structure which included development of

reports using report writer and report painter.

• Provided production support in the areas of FI and CO modules.

• Completed Final Preparation, for FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR, including testing, end user training,

system management and cutover activities.

• Designed the process of payment proposal approvals for different payment methods like ACH, Wire,

Check and P-cards in A/P.

• Worked on both Order to Cash process in association with SD team and Procure to Pay process

with MM and Manufacturing team.

Worked on Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV or GR-IR verification) in FI-MM (Procure

to Pay) integration and configured account determination for FI-SD (Order to Cash)

cycles.

• Created Bank Master data, House banks, EDI, ERS, G/L accounts for each bank account and

Reconciliation accounts for vendors, customers and assets.

• Provided functional assistance in the development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces,

Conversions, Enhancements and Forms).

• Configured company code, chart of accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants

and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and

tested the configuration in various scenarios.

• Experienced in Inter-company vendor/customer open Items, AR-customer transactions, credit

management, and payment terms configurations.

• Configured Dunning Program, Interest Calculation and Down Payments in Accounts Receivable.

• Configured Automatic Payment Program and Down payment and Interest Calculation in

Accounts Payable.

• Recommended additional servers for load balancing for night batch jobs

• Worked in PTP (Procure-To-Pay) business process

Citi Group Inc, Washington DC March‘12-Dec’12

Project Scope: Implementation Project

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Citi is the leading global bank. Citi strives to create the best outcomes for our clients and customers with

financial solutions that are simple and creative .

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements through client meetings and designed the Financial Accounting

business processes and provided post go live production support for enhancements.

• Interacted with business users to understand the As-Is process and identified the requirements for

To-Be process.

• Supported existing applications within the FICO module as and when required.

• Configured G/L master records, document number ranges, posting period variants,

tolerance groups, financial statement versions (FSV)

• Configured period end process like reversal of documents, opening and closing of posting

periods, field status groups, document types, posting keys, etc.

• Customized automatic invoice verification and configured accounts payable, automatic

payment program, and check lot

• Configured and customized customer master records, account groups, company code specific

payment methods, automatic incoming payment program for the better control of receivables

• Customized and configured cash management including bank statements, payment program,

payment advises and bills of exchange

• Handled Electronic Bank Statements, Lockbox BAI2, Dunning Procedures, Credit Management

(dealing with setting up Credit Control Area, Risk Categories, and Credit Limits for customers) on

FI-AR

• Worked on the automatic payment program and lock box setup for the accounts payables and

accounts receivables

• Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable (A/R),

Accounts Payable (A/P) and General Ledger Accounts

• Maintained Lockbox Configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management

• Analyzed and validated material ledger requirements and product costing (make-to-order and

make-to-stock) configuration, procedures and reports. Also worked on cross company costing and

costing versions.

• Cost Object Controlling by period (repetitive manufacturing), cost object controlling by order

and configuration settings for CO-Product Costing.

• Extensively worked on Controlling Area and Operating Concern Configuration as per

Business Scenarios and Processes.

• Coordinated with the team for post go live support until first month end close in SAP system.

Bayer, Pittsburgh PA Jan ‘11-‘March’12

Project Scope: Implementation Project

Role: SAP FICO Consultant

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals' goal is to discover products that will improve human health

worldwide by diagnosing, preventing and treating diseases. As a specialty pharmaceutical company, we

focus our efforts where we can have the most impact

Responsibilities:

• Meetings arranged with SME’s to obtain a snap shot of the company’s existing business processes

and provide an easy alternative to their legacy system using SAP best practices.

• Documented all changes, revised the Business Process Procedures to facilitate the changes from the

clients legacy system.

• Performed an AS-IS study and came up with a TO-BE analysis, to have a complete GAP analysis.

• Created a Detailed Description of the configuration that needs to be done in the SAP system.

• Finalization of chart of Accounts and LSMW for upload of Accounts Group, Field status Group

that existed previously in the company.

• Configured various components in the SAP FI/CO like Accounts Receivable (A/R),

Accounts Payable (A/P) and General Ledger Accounts.

• Configured Adjustment Accounts for reconciliation postings and document number range for

reconciliation ledger and worked on reconciliation accounts for A/R and A/P.

• Worked on Credit Limits for customers, configured system for Partial/Residual/Dispute payments for

A/R and A/P, defined ERS number ranges & criteria’s and performed Dunning.

• Created Vendor transactions, Master data, Check management, House banks, Payment Terms,

Deduction management, Clearing Inter–company Vendor/Customer open items, Logistic

invoice verification, Evaluated settlement.

Significantly worked on AR-customer transactions, Master data, Payment terms, Cash

application, Lockbox processing, Mapping Bank Lockbox format with Sap lockbox format,

customizing payment advice notes.

• In Fixed Asset Management, Copied Reference Chart of Depreciation, Assigned Chart of

Depreciation, Specify Number Assignment across Company Codes & Account Determination.

• Four Depreciation Areas are created to take care of Book Depreciation, Tax Depreciation, and Cost

Depreciation, Management Depreciation.

• Created a Chart of Depreciation and carried out settings for asset company code. Made settings for

GL accounts for AUC, loss/gain on asset disposal/retirement, for posting depreciation under different

Depreciation Areas.

• Maintained Lockbox Configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management,

Planning levels in Treasury and EDI & Month End Closings.

• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records

and incoming payments, banking & Intercompany transactions.

• Responsible for Configuring the Dunning Program and defined the layout and the functional

specifications for creating dunning letters which will have the ability to be both mailed and emailed.

Alcatel-Lucent, New Jersey Aug’09-Dec‘10

Project Scope: Production Support

Role: FICO Consultant

Alcatel-Lucent provides products and innovations in IP and cloud networking, as well as ultra-broadband

fixed and wireless access.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in blueprinting and workshops, requirement analysis for streamlining the various

processes in corporate and treasury management projects in AES.Conducted requirements gathering

workshops and documented the business processes.

• Configured outgoing payments for ACH, Checks, and Wire payments.

• Configured global settings and enterprise structure.

• In configuring Master records for A/P: Defined Vendor Account Groups and screen layouts per

activity & company code; defined number ranges for vendor accounts and assigned these number

ranges to vendor account groups.

• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts

Payable.

• Customized Electronic Bank Statement Reconciliation Accounts. Also completed several Reports,

Interfaces, and functional specifications and worked closely with the technical team in developing the

functional objects.

• Asset Accounting - Defined chart of depreciation, various depreciation areas and depreciation keys

required, asset classes, number ranges, revaluation settings etc.

• Cost Center Accounting: Created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center

Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, maintained default account assignments and automatic

account assignments.

• Cost Element Accounting: Created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element

Groups.

• In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status

management, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile,

availability control etc.

• Profit Center Accounting: Created Profit centers, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master

Data, maintained Default Account Assignments and Automatic Account Assignments, Validations and

Substitutions, Distribution and Assessments.

• Configured PCA by creating profit centers, standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements, to profit

center, planning profile and planning layouts.

• Configured AP - Payment runs, Automatic payments, Manual payments, Check management, GR/IR

clearing account maintenance (MIGO, MIRO & LIV) and Account maintenance documents.

• Configured material cost estimate with Quantity structure, costing variant, cost Component structure,

and BOM and Routing settings required for costing the product.

• Good Knowledge of integration between SD, MM, PP with FI/CO with in depth understanding on

Order to Cash, and Procure to Pay cycles.

• Created characteristics, Value fields and generated Operating concern for Costing Based COPA by

selecting required characteristics and value fields from field catalogue.

• Created new planning layout using Report painter and generated reports using Report Writer.

• Configured Vertex software to calculate sales and use tax.

• Used LSMW & CATTs to upload Master data.

• Prepared scenarios for unit, functional and integrations testing.

• Extended production support for critical business issues and trained end users, prepared user

documentation and necessary training material.

Kenneth Cole Productions, New York City Aug ‘08-Aug ‘09

Project Scope: Production Support

Role: FICO Consultant

Kenneth Cole Productions is a retailer and wholesaler of men's and women's footwear, apparel, and

accessories.

Responsibilities:

• Defined and Assigned Document Number Ranges.

• Defined Account Groups and Tolerance Groups for Vendors and Customers and Documents types.

• Interacted with Client to Create and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data, Vendor Field Status,

Defined Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.

• Customized Line Layouts for GL, AP, and AR data entry and Report Displays.

• Designed and Configured Vendor Master Data: Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Creating Vendor

and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.

• Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable.

• Worked with SD Team for Design and Configuration of the Sales process and integration with

FI, Settings for Revenue Recognition & Revenue Item Category, Defined Condition Tables &

Account Keys.

• Configured for One-time Vendors/Customers with a Separate Screen Layouts and

Customers/Vendors who were Vendors/Customers respectively and Trading Partners.

• Customized Lockbox, Payment Requests and Interest Calculation on Account Balances and Line

items.

• Defined and Configured Controlling Area: Assigned Company Codes and Number Ranges, Operating

Concern.

• Analyzed and Configured Cost Element Categories and Imputed Costs; Cost Center Accounting

(Hierarchy nodes CC Categories, Time-Based Fields and Analysis Period, Statistical Key Figures and

Activity Types, Allocation Types, Assessments, Planning setups, Auto Account Assignments).

• Profit Center Accounting Controlling Area Settings, MM Assignment, Control Parameters,

Document Types, Number Ranges, Assign Revenue Elements, Planning Parameters.

• Involved in Documentation, End User Training and Post Production Support.

• Configured the organizational structure and tested the configuration in various scenarios.

• Integration between different modules - GL, AP, AR, SD and MM.

• Customized credit control area for credit management in the application components, credits limit

checks for SD processing and Risk management for receivables.

• Designed Lock Box procedure for Accounts Receivable payments with various banks.

• Created Invoice Layout and processed invoices, Customer Master Data.

• Configured house banks, Bank accounts, GL structure, posting rules for automatic Payment

Program configuration.

• Write and execute unit test and integration test scripts.

• Documentation for Training to end-users.

Karachi Electric Supply Company, Pakistan June ‘06-July ‘08

Role: Junior FICO Consultant

Karachi Electric Supply Company generates and supplies electricity to Pakistan’s largest city which

has a population of more than 17,000.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with MM team as a part of FI-MM integration . Also worked with SD Team as a part of FI-

SD integration.

• Extensively worked on Vendor/Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms, Lockbox,

Dunning and Payment Methods.

• Worked on Vendor/Customer Analysis including Days in Arrears, Payment History, Cash Discount

Overview and Credit Limit Display.

• Mapped and Defined the Chart of Accounts and Customized to the Client requirements.

• Customized the Account Groups, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys, Document Types, Posting

Periods and Creation of G/L Account Master Records.

• Worked with Purchasing and Sales consultants to Design a global Vendor / Customer Master Record

Structure.

• Defined the G/L accounts for Materials Management and set up the Integration between FI and SD

through Automatic Account Assignment.

• Configured and Tested the Lock Box program for Accounts Receivables payments

• Configured House Banks, Bank Accounts, GL structure, Posting Rules for Automatic

Assignment.

• Defined Tolerance Groups, Tolerances for Employees, Customers and Vendors and Maintained

Initial settings for Recurring Entries.

• Defined Customer/Vendor Account Groups and Created Customer/Vendor Master Data.

• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Outgoing Payments for Company Codes in Accounts

Payable.

• Payment Program Configuration: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment

Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings, ACH payments etc.

• Extensively worked for Configuring and Customizing the Credit Management.

• Configured Credit Control Area and Defined Risk Categories, Credit Representatives and Intervals

for Days in Arrears.

• Configured and customized for monthly depreciation run.

• Tested AR scenarios for Order to Cash scenario, worked on Customer master data, maintenance of

complete, partial, residual and incoming payments, invoice posting and AR reporting.

• Interacted with Client Business Users for requirements Gathering and Analysis.

• Trained Business Process Owners and End Users.

• Provided Production Support including Month-end and Year-end closing Activities.

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