Accounting Accounts Payable

MOHAMED ARSHAD

SAP FI-CO Analyst

Phone: 773-***-**** Email:*****.*******@*****.***

Professional Summary

Around 4 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI/CO modules this includes Implementation and up-gradation projects.

Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), New General Ledger especially in highly complex business environment

Asset Accounting: Configuring of Asset Accounting, Structuring Fixed asset design, integration with the GL, defining asset classes, depreciation areas, Configure (Base, Balance and Multilevel) depreciation methods.

In Tax accounting, creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts, setting up different tax codes in various countries and assigning them to GL accounts. Resolving user queries in Tax posting journal entries.

Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Statistical key figures (SKF), Profit center accounting (CO-PCA), Internal orders (I/O) and Budgeting, Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC).

In depth understanding of the As-Is and To-Be business processes and experience in converting these requirements into Technical Specifications for preparing Test Plans.

Experience in conducting GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost Benefit analysis and ROI analysis.

Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities.

Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.

Work with Business partners to understand new business strategies, provide recommendations for automated solutions.

Accountable for end to end resolution of incidents; track and monitor incidents throughout the lifecycle.

Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

Technical & Software skills

ERP

ECC 6.0

SAP

Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Lockbox, Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment, Dunning, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and Month End Close.

Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal order, Profitability Analysis, Product Costing.

Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM module

Technical: LSMW, Report Writer, Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application

MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, Excel

Platforms

Dos, Microsoft Windows 98, 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0/8.0/10

Testing

HPQC, QTP

Professional Experience:

L’Oréal Berkeley Heights, NJ Feb 2015 – Sep 2016

SAP FI Business Analyst SAP ECC 6.0, Implementation and Support

For more than a century, L’Oreal has devoted itself solely to one business: beauty. It is a business rich in meaning, as it enables all individuals to express their personalities, gain self-confidence and open up to others.

Configured Ariba e-invoicing solution and integrated to Readsoft in SAP Process director.

Responsible to understand the company’s business process and gather the test requirements with the process owners.

Configured End to End Account Payable module including the Vendor Groups and Number Ranges, Manual and Automatic Payment Program.

Tested various sub modules of FI: Accounts payable (FI-AP), Accounts receivables (FI-AR), GL.

Involved in testing of overall business process of P2P & integration.

Involved in the gathering the initial requirements from the end users and coordinated with the offshore team.

Analyzed Product Requirements, Business and System Requirements and also Participated in the inspection (walk through).

Created and documented test plans and Generated test scripts and test data for functional and regression testing, Unit testing & UAT.

Charles River Laboratories Inc. Boston, MA Oct 2014 – Feb 2015

SAP FI Consultant SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

Responsible for configuration setup to Integration In-House cash Management with Procure to Pay, Payroll, general ledger &Transaction Management.

Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines during sales order creation for credit checks for different customer risk categories and pricing conditions.

Automatic payment Program, Configuration of payment terms, Creation of House Bank Setting and Checking Lots and void reason code.

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.

Created various new (fixed asset) asset master data and tested them thoroughly in the testing client and transported them into the production.

Customizing screen layouts for Asset Master Data, asset sub ledgers and asset depreciation areas. Defining transaction types and account assignments for asset acquisitions and retirements

S.T Specialty Foods, Inc. Brooklyn Park, MN July 2013 – Aug 2014

SAP FI Business Analyst SAP ECC 6.0, Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

Worked in Production Support in Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) & Asset Accounting (AA) and responsible for resolving all IT issues relating to FI, AP, AR, PCA, CCA, CO-PA and CO-PC.

Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines during sales order creation for Credit checks for different customer risk categories and Pricing Conditions.

Presented Order to Cash/Procure to Pay business scenario in highlighting FI integration with SD and MM

Interaction with user and client to understand there requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points.

Creation of Asset Classes, Asset Number Ranges, Account Determination, and related settings.

Configured new Asset Classes as per user request, resolved month end and year end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carry forward for FI- AA reconciliation, supplied transactional data from SAP tables for Asset Audit, Period Rules creation in different company codes and resolved Asset Issues.

Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, MN Sep 2012 – June 2013

SAP FICO Analyst SAP ECC 6.0, Implementation and Support

Responsibilities:

Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.

In Asset accounting, supported fixed assets team. Changes in the configuration of depreciation areas and loading of additional assets into SAP system.

Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Tolerance limits, financial statement version, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, EDI, Banking, Workflow variant and screen layouts.

Responsible for configuration & settings of ERS to reduce errors relating to Invoice Verification and to eliminate price & quantity variances.

Worked on 1099 vendors reporting, Down payment, check form and EDI outbound and inbound

Maintained various criteria’s in the Evaluated Receipt Settlement program - Transaction Criteria, Invoice Criteria & Test Mode.

Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment Program for payments to vendors and others, created check lots and online cashed checks. Configured Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.

Provided Post-Go-Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment, and reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, East-West University, Chicago, IL 2013

Working on PMP certification program at Southern New Hampshire University.

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