Project Accounts Payable

SAP FICO CERTIFIED

Sehar Khan

SAP FICO

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PROFILE

Ms. Sehar Khan is SAP Certified FICO consultant (SAP AG, Germany). She has over eight years of experience in SAP and has hands on expertise in Business process, Re-engineering, Blueprinting, Configuration, Unit & Integration Testing and Documentation & Production Support. She has experience working in diversified environments in different manufacturing and consumer industries. She has a thorough understanding of applications such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, One Time Vendor, Asset Management, Fixed Assets, Controlling, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), and Internal Orders. She is multifaceted with a combination of strong technical, communication and analytical skills and is easily adaptable to any work environment.

SAP FICO Expertise:

•New General Ledger: Created allocation types and allocation cycles in NGL including segment header and sender receiver detail information

•General Ledger: Grouping G/L accounts into various account groups, Creation of reconciliation accounts for accounts receivables and accounts payables, cross company transaction.

•Accounts Receivables and Payables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, Number ranges, Posting keys, and document types for posting /validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels. Integration with S&D and MM modules.

•Asset Management: Configuring the chart of depreciation, account determination, number range interval, defining asset classes, G/L accounts, posting keys, document types, field status variant.

•Asset Accounting / Fixed Assets: Specifying the depreciation areas for ordinary depreciation, unplanned depreciation and assignment of accounts. Defining base methods, declining balance method, depreciation keys, period control, asset master data, asset depreciation area, acquisitions and retirements of assets.

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

•Setting up of document types and posting keys for business transactions.

•Closing: Defining financial statement version, reports using financial information system.

•Enterprise Structure in Controlling: Setting up of controlling area, assigning company codes and creating standard hierarchy.

•CCA: Configuration of primary and secondary cost elements, creating and maintaining cost centre master data, activity types, statistical key figures, standard hierarchy for cost centre and reports for CCA.

•PCA: Configuring profit centre, maintaining controlling area setting, creating standard hierarchy for profit centre and profit centre planning.

•Internal Orders: Creating overhead cost orders, real and statistical orders, defining order types and assignment to the cost order and maintaining settlement rules for order.

•OTV: One time vendor setup.

•Identified Master data changes and consolidation. Created test scripts. Provided training support, documentation and testing. Developed and updated all validation documentation.

Work Experience:

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MRC Global Inc.

Senior SAP FICO Analyst Feb 2013- Oct 2014 Houston TX.

Project: SAP FICO Project Team Member:

•Worked as a team member in designing and solving issues in General ledger, Accounts receivables and Accounts payable.

•Involved in preparation of technical and functional specs for new custom developments.

•Configured and executed Automatic payment program. Document and train the users on payment program.

•Completed test script creation in HPQC and defect resolution during the test cycle I, II and UAT.

•Involved in integration issues in SAP from SD and MM into FI module.

•In Accounts receivables, worked on support issues like investigating blocked billing documents from SD and identifying the root cause of it.

•Created new correspondence types for payment advice, customer account statement and rebate document which enables business to communicate with customers efficiently.

•Created master data for general ledger, customer and vendor accounts. Defined account groups, document types, number ranges for document types.

•Provided support for functional troubleshooting of Go-Live issues and Post Production issues.

•Served as liaison between users and other application consultants for non-FI/CO issues.

•Provided weekly status of tickets, attended team meetings, and ensured that the managers and business lead were in loop for all changes and updates to the production system.

•Worked on solving Post Go Live production tickets. Level I, II and III.

•Trouble shoot period end close reports via the tickets.

•Helped users with month end close procedure and issues.

•Migrated bug fixes through the test environment to the production system.

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Hewlett-Packard

Senior SAP FICO Configurator Dec 2010- Apr 2012 Houston TX.

Project: LH Migration (Light House Migration) Consolidating AP and AR into one platform ECC 6.0.

I worked as a senior account payable team member in FAIT (Finance, Admin and IT) team on LH migration project.

•Complete assigned tasks for the Tax configuration:

•Created several hundred sales/purchasing tax codes for wave 1 countries. Validated through testing that each tax code was setup properly.

•Set up tax discount accounts for AP and AR for each country.

•Complete unit testing in the testing SAP environment. This included building of customer and vendor tax files and execution of each test script. Identified all the errors/defects and results.

•Completed GAP analysis for all the tax on sale/purchase and withholding for second phase (2B) countries. This included comparison of the legacy and the to-be system with detailed identification of the differences and similarities.

•Configured over 20 tax procedures as per the requirement given by business (GBS-Global Business Users). Each tax procedure had several condition types and accounting keys.

•Configured over 50 accounting keys and condition types for wave 2B countries.

•Defined tax accounts for withholding tax codes. Activate the extended withholding tax codes. Completed withholding tax configuration which included several withholding tax codes and types for invoice and payment for wave 2a (4 countries) and 2b (8 countries) countries.

•Completed Tax reports analysis for wave 1 countries.

•Worked as a backup for tax lead during her absence. This included working on the HPS tax code issues, resolved tax related CRs during UAT.

•Completed the setup of the variants for various company codes for worldwide accrual program ZG3RFIAPACCR.

•Hands on experience with data migration using the Winshuttle tool:

•Created the scripts and templates for business users for invoice testing.

•Uploaded the test data for UAT users.

•Helped the users with the tool usage and hosted several virtual room meetings.

•Gathered all the functional and technical requirements and completed the AP general design document V3. Completed all the necessary construction based on design document.

• Worked on APNI interface design document and gather the technical requirements from different teams.

•Validated and constructed the document types and number ranges for wave2a accounts payables design.

Project: Serbia and Montenegro compliance project implemented new country codes for Serbia and Montenegro in SAP 4.5 and provided impact analysis by the country code change in related FI systems in HP.

In this project, I worked as a lead in GRC team (Global Regulatory Compliance). As a lead, I was responsible for the successful implementation of new country codes as per compliance requirement for Serbia and Montenegro in SAP 4.5. HP Sales team uses CBN( customer base number) prefixes for their sale process based on country code set up for the country.

•Gathered requirements for Serbia and Montenegro by conducting various meetings and conference calls with business and other teams.

•Configured country code set up and updated customizable table ZIMAPDATA01 with the changes for country code mapping for Serbia and Montenegro.

•Conducted unit testing, integration testing and resolved any issues.

•Conducted user accepting testing by coordinating with other teams, business and resolved defects.

•Updated the HP quality centre testing tool with testing issues and document the results.

•Responsible for Functional Troubleshooting of Go-Live issues and Post Production issues.

Project: NGL( New General Ledger) migration of classical G/L to new G/L.

In this project, I worked as a team member in GRC IT team focusing on migration of allocations from classical general ledger to new general ledger and implementation of new allocation in new general ledger. The criteria for creating an allocation is based on business need and business cases determined by the Business/Financial analysts, Legal reporting analyst, or Process area Business support analyst.

•Held workshops to gather business requirement for current allocation types and allocation cycles to be migrated in NGL including segment header and sender receiver detail information.

•Completed blue prints based on requirements from business for new allocation cycles and segment details.

•Created allocation cycles, ledger group, segment header, sender, receiver information, sender receiver rule and tracing factors in new general ledger.

•Created custom program Z _COPY_CYCLES_SPL_TO_NGL to upload 305 cycles with segment details in new g/l in one go.

•Created test cases for unit testing.

•Conducted unit testing with business and other team members to ensure the proper functionality of allocation cycles in NGL.

•Ran allocation reports

•Responsible for UAT (user acceptance test) and resolution of defects and CRs and document the results.

•Updated the (HPQC) quality centre with test results and present the results in daily status team meeting.

•Supported AP/AR team with testing and validate the results.

Hewlett-Packard

Business Consultant II April 2008- July 2009 Houston TX

Hewlett-Packard is a global leader in a number of markets. It focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services, and IT infrastructure.

Project: EYP Global implementation and production support for EYP project. EYP Mission Critical Facilities (EYP MCF), a company of HP, is a consulting specialist dedicated to strategic technology planning, design, and operation of data intensive facilities for corporations and governments worldwide.

In this project, I worked as Business Analyst II in FAIT team ( Finance and Administration) for the implementation of SAP FICO R/3 4.7. As a team player / member, my role was to successfully execute the General Ledger and controlling application for EYP project.

•Configure settings for company codes, posting period variant, fiscal year variant, and field status group. Define company code global parameters.

•Create master data for general ledger, customer and vendor accounts. Define account groups, document types, number ranges for document types.

•Gather requirements from finance team for allocation set up. Perform business analysis for design of allocation set up based on requirements.

•Create allocation cycles for assessment, reposting and distribution for controlling and special purpose ledger.

•Configure settings for US GAAP CO/SPL segments by defining senders and receivers for assessment, reposting and distribution allocation cycles.

•Setting up the program variants for allocation types of CO and SPL.

•Create allocation job cycle run in Tidal Job Scheduler for month end processing.

•Set up exchange rates, general ledger accounts for testing.

•Configure cost centers, internal order master records, and secondary cost elements as assessment elements along with the cost centre hierarchy.

•Worked on HPSC ticket handling tool to resolve the cut over, Go-Live and Production issues.

•Collaborate with key stakeholders using net meeting to resolve issues.

•Responsible for Functional Troubleshooting of Go-Live issues and Post Production issues.

•Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for unit and regression testing and document the results with users.

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Project: EDS, an HP company, has now become HP Enterprise Services, is focused on business and government organizations of all sizes. In addition to enterprise services, its portfolio includes servers, storage, software, networking and technology services.

•Successfully provided production support for EDS ECC 6.0 general ledger and fixed assets cases.

•Maintained and changed depreciation areas.

•As a member of the EDS accounts payable team I performed the following activates in the FI Tax area:

•Configured extended withholding tax types & tax codes, and assigned them to company code.

•Activated the extended withholding tax for company codes.

•Assigned Withholding tax accounts to each company code.

•Transported all the configuration and changes to testing client, and production

•As a member of the EDS accounts payable team I performed the following activates for One Time Vendor setup for ECC 6.0:

•Conducted requirement gathering meetings with business and team members.

•Completed the required functional and technical design documents for one time vender setup.

•Completed and transported configuration for various account groups for one time vendor, permanent vendors and defined master records for vendors needed for OTV setup.

•Completed test scripts based on the AP payment flow process.

•In order to facilitate SOX requirements I configured a separate screen variant and user access security for OTV maintenance screen in SAP. This enhancement was critical for the success of the OTV setup for the client.

•Also worked on Idoc processing for permanent vendors, correct errors in segment and reprocess the Idoc’s.

Wärtsillä Inc.

SAP FICO Consultant Jan 2007- Feb 2008 Houston, TX

Wärtsilä is a manufacturing Company with business in power plant sales, ship power sales and related services. Wärtsilä produces 948 MW out of which 379 MW is installed at Independent Power Plants, 481 MW at captive power plants and 88 MW in ship power.

Project: Global implementation & Production support for SAP R/3 4.7.

•Case study the Integrated Financial system against the SAP R/3 4.7 functionality and document the expectations & requirements based on the gap analysis and set forth the goals, objectives and Scope (Functional/Technical) for the SAP R/3 4.7 implementation.

•Use ASAP methodology for implementation, use tools within the methodology to collect user requirements, map those requirements on SAP R/3 4.7 to create Conceptual design for Finance functionality and create Business process master list.

•Create log templates for functionality deficit of to-be processes, major/minor gaps to be resolved during implementation and keeping the BPML updated.

•Identify data migration policy, creation of interfaces, data upload/conversion to SAP R/3 4.7 via LSMW, reporting requirements.

•Set up FI validations/substitution for SAP transactions.

•Define Asset Management enterprise structure, Create Depreciation Area, Master record for Tangible Assets, Group Asset; Asset master record change & Mass change.

•Configure and customize the Asset Accounting. Responsible for configuration of asset classes, chart of depreciations, depreciation areas, account determination and screen layout keys.

•Processing of Asset Acquisition, Settlement, Post Capitalization, Reposting of fixed Assets.

•Involved in the creation of assets, posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company) and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).

•Interacted and coordinated with other work streams and operations to determine integration issues and worked solutions.

•Conducted unit tests, business integration test and assisted with user acceptance testing and documented the results.

•Work closely with ABAP team on debugging and smart forms.

•Co-ordinate with SAP basis team for role-based authorizations.

•Responsible for functional/integration testing and develop End User Documentation and End User Training Content.

Shell Oil

FICO Consultant June 2006- Dec 2006 Houston, TX

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies. With 104,000 employees in more than 110 countries, they play a key role in helping to meet the world’s growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.

Project: GSAP DS1 SAP R/3 4.7

•Studying the existing system for AS-IS analysis to provide project team with the required understanding of the organizational structure and current business processes through user workshops.

•Determine TO-BE using GAP analysis to determine business drivers, implement change and develop strategies for achieving organizational missions and goals.

•Maintained FI-AA module, implemented fixed assets module and configured entire reporting for FI environment that included consolidation reports.

•Provided solutions for month end closing process & balance sheet reviews.

•Created automatic payment program for vendor payments through the creation of house banks and functional specification for printing checks.

•Responsibilities include configuration of Asset Management. Performed requirements analysis and functional matching for asset accounting.

•In Asset Accounting, configured asset classes, GL integration, chart of depreciation, group assets, depreciation areas, assignment to company codes, depreciation key, calculation key, valuation, acquisitions and retirements. Configuration of Assets under Construction.

•Posting asset acquisitions, asset transfers (Intra Company and Inter Company) and asset retirements (with revenue/without revenue).

•Involved in testing issues relating to Asset Master records, Depreciation, Acquisitions, postings and reports.

•Defined screen layouts for asset master data and Asset Depreciation Areas.

•Helped define specification for account determination, number range intervals and asset classes.

•Involved in the Capitalization of asset under construction, display the asset in asset explorer and define financial statement version for asset reports.

•Created vendor master, customer master and specified number ranges.

•Configured and tested the lockbox for accounts receivable payments.

•During closing, a valuation run was done to analyze the account and documents defined in a parameter and created a valuation proposal.

•A valuation key was created in the customer master record to include the customer in the valuation program to estimate bad dept expense.

•Configured the setting for outgoing payments including automatic payment program.

•Identified Master data changes and consolidation.

•Created test scripts.

•Provided training support, documentation and testing.

•Developed and updated all validation documentation.

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Education:

FICO FICO Certification R/3 4.7 from SAP AG.

MBA MBA in Banking and Finance, Hailey College, Lahore PK

BSC Bachelors of Science, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore PK

Personal Data:

Fluent in English

Fluent in Urdu

No visa requirements to Work in US or Travel in and out of US.

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