Sap Finance Master Data

Arshad Hussain

Tel # 425-***-****, email: ********@*****.***, City: Seattle, WA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

** ***** ** ********** ** SAP Finance Consultant

S4/HANA BUSINESS INTEGRATION CONSULTANT SAP Finance

Results oriented IT professional with SAP, data migration and global implementations experience. Ability to work well with cross functional teams and ensure successful delivery of IT project initiatives.

Have 2 full life cycle implementations of SAP R3/ECC 6.0 AND ECC 6.0/S4HANA using the ASAP methodology with Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, and Final Preparation.

Extensive configuration experience in FI (GL/FA/AP/AR) & CO (Controlling) and integration experience between SD/MM Modules.

Worked on all new functionalities in SAP S/4HANA Finance & Management – New GL, New Asset Accounting, Period-End closing improvements, Universal Ledger, Cash and Bank Management activities.

Expertise in Revenue and Cost Accounting: Overhead Cost Accounting, Allocations, Standard Cost Calculation, Actual Cost Calculations (Client), Profitability and Cost Analysis, Transfer Price, Plant period end closing and Accounting Master Data.

Extensive experience in integration with RTR (Record to Report), OTC (Order to Cash) and PTP (Procure to Pay).

Extensive experience in Controlling Module (Cost Element Accounting/Cost Center-CCA/Profit Center-PCA/IO/Product Costing-PC/ Material Ledger).

Good Communication and problem-solving Skills.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

HCL AMERICA INC., USA Jun. 2023 – current

SAP S/4Hana Finance Consultant

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Prepared Financial Accounting Master Data.

Configured General Controlling, Cost Center Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.

Created Allocation cycles and created Reports using Report Painter.

Configured New GL, AR, AP and Cash Management.

Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, posting keys, and assigned these variants to company codes, created GL master records, reconciliation accounts for sub-ledgers, document types, number ranges, invoices and payments, tolerance groups, automatic account assignments and financial statement version.

Configured settings for Outgoing Payments including Automatic Payment Program, Open item clearing, Validations and Substitutions rules.

Configuration the EDI settings for generation of IDOC for outgoing payment details.

Configured Cash Management Module for Cash Position, Liquidity Forecast and Cash Concentration.

Configured the Accounting Principles, Valuation methods for Foreign Currency Valuation as per the US GAAP.

Configured and customized Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) modules including terms of payments, dunning, interest calculations.

Configured Customer Master Data and master groups.

Configured Dunning procedure for overdue customers.

Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms.

Configured House Banks, automatic payment program, automatic payment methods, and alternate bank selections for Payments, check management.

Configured Electronic Bank statement (EBS), ACH payments and wire transfer.

Made necessary settings for the account assignment model for recurring and periodic entries.

NESTLE, AUSTRALIA Feb 2015 – Apr. 2023

SAP S/4Hana Finance Consultant

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Strong development and support experience in SAP General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and Asset Accounting.

Brownfield end-to-end implantation for S/4 HANA entailing project scoping, technical documentation, resource & task scheduling, change management, and team meetings for reviewing progress of the project.

An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation and relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.

Assisting internal business partners and IT counterparts to define and refine business strategy and supporting operational processes; spearheading the process up-gradation initiatives.

Point of contact for all end users’ support needs and follow-up for most of the on-going activities

Controlling experience includes Cost Centre Accounting (CCA), Cost Element Accounting, Profit Centre Accounting (PCA), and Internal Orders.

Experience in configuration of Automatic Payment Program (APP) & Electronic Bank Statement.

Good working knowledge on FI-MM (P2P) and FI-SD (O2C) Integration

Experience in substitutions and validations

Experience in Reports, Forms & IDOCS

Configured Chart of Accounts and General Ledger accounts.

Configured New General ledger, Accounts Receivable, Account payable, New Asset Accounting.

Configured New GL including Accounting principle, activating leading and parallel Ledgers, defining new currency types to report different valuation methods.

Configured Business Partner configuration and BP roles.

Carried out Special GL transactions including down payments.

Maintained AR accounts (Creation of Customer Master Data, Invoices, down-payment, Dunning procedure,

Incoming payments, and Partial payments).

Maintained AP accounts (Creation of Vendor Master Data, Invoices, down-payment, Outgoing Payments,

Partial payments), creation of House Bank, Automatic Payment program.

Configured House Banks, Manual and Electronic bank statements (EBS).

Worked on period end closing in FI, CO, MM and SD tasks (Costing run: settlement of IO, Distribution and assessment cycle, actual cost splitting, Actual price calculation, WIP calculation, Variance Calculation, periodic settlement, and price release).

Involved in life cycle implementation process

Configured New Asset management including mapping depreciation area with accounting principle and Ledger groups with currency types for legal and Group valuation. Experience in carrying out E2E Business process

Asset acquisition to retirement.

Configured Closing cockpit, created Task list templates, assigned tasks to the templates, defined dependencies.

Configured Profit center, created Profit center Standard hierarchy, Groups sand Profit center master data, Activated the document splitting for Profit center and segment reporting, Defined constant assignment for default PC.

Configured product Costing including Costing variant with quantity structure, Cost component structure, defining Costing sheet, maintenance of overhead cost elements, and overhead groups, cost centers, Activity types and costing run etc., (CO-PC).

Configured controlling area, assigned number ranges to controlling area, assigned company code to controlling area, maintained cost center hierarchy.

Configured activity type planning, Statistical Key Figures planning, Primary cost planning, cost accrual calculations, periodic repostings, planned assessment and distribution cycles, indirect activity allocations.

Configured calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, and quantity based overhead rates for costing sheets in product cost controlling (CO-PC).

Configured Cost Center splitting structure, slitting rules and calculation of labor rates

Defined costing types, valuation variants, date control, quantity structure control, and transfer control and reference variants to define the costing variants.

Defined parameters for price update in standard cost estimate and inventory cost estimate and defined settings for reference and simulation costing.

Defined variance keys, valuation variants for WIP and scrap, target cost versions for variance calculation and result analysis keys, results analysis version, valuation methods, line ids and assignment for work in process (WIP).

Configured and customized Product Cost Planning (material costing with Quantity structure) and Cost Object controlling including product cost by order, by period, and by sales order.

Customized costing variants, valuation variants, cost component structures, cost component splits, additive costing, costing sheets, work in process, variances, co-products, scrap, results analysis, and settlement profiles.

ALS TANKS, AUSTRALIA Sept. 2013 – May. 2014

Project Engineer

PROJECT: Design and Manufacture of Industrial Water Tanks

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Coordinated the drafting, engineering, purchasing, scheduling, and manufacturing of industrial water tanks and ensured that all procedures from the point of order through engineering, manufacturing, and delivery were smoothly integrated with the existing production infrastructure.

Configured and maintained the material management system

Established Quality Control and Assurance practices in preparation of meeting ISO:9000 guidelines

RELIANCE, India Sept. 2011 – March 2012

FICO Consultant ECC 6.0

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Reviewed FI blueprint for Assets master records and transactional data with cumulative value, Asset GL balance, AUC with settlement rules, FI Customer and Vendor data and GL Master Data.

Reviewed CO blueprint for Cost Center master data with transactional Data, Profit center Master data with transactional data, cost Centers and Profit Centers, Internal order of AUC, Cost Center activity type and Cost Estimate

Configured Cost Center splitting structure, splitting rules and calculation of labor rates

Configured Settlement profile, allocation structure, source structure, WIP and Result analysis for production order period end process

Configured FI-SD & FI-MM

Setup Company Code, Defied Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Tolerance Groups, and created Financial Statement Version (FSV).

Configured the FI modules Including New GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting

Configured House Banks, Manual and Electronic bank statements (EBS).

Resolved open defects in FI, CO, SD and MM areas.

Configured Asset Accounting, defined asset classes, copied chart of depreciation, defined dep area types, dep methods and keys, assigned ledger groups and accounting principles, asset account determination, define technical clearing accounts, valuating fixed assets followed by deprecation run etc.

ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2010

FICO Consultant: ECC 6.0

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Configured SAP FI/CO module as per the blueprint design

Defined functions, processes, mappings, implementation, and extensive configuration in SAP General Ledger, AR, AP, and Asset Accounting

Configured settings for Company code, fiscal year variant, chart of accounts, posting period variant, field status variant, field status groups, Account groups, document number ranges, and tolerance groups for employees.

Customized Fast Entry Screens Layouts for G/L account items, park documents, individual or mass reversal of documents, and valuate foreign currency.

Configured Exchange Rate Types, currency factors for currency conversion, and entered exchange rates in global settings.

Configured settings for automatic account determination for Inter-Company Transactions.

Created new GL accounts for accounting to permit timely reporting and creating new profit centers and cost centers to enhance financial analysis.

Configured basic settings in Asset Management including Asset classes, Screen Layout, Depreciation Key, Depreciation methods, Depreciation posting rules & Accounts Determination.

Configured Controlling Area, versions, number ranges for controlling area, the standard hierarchy for the controlling area.

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

Configured Account Payables, Accounts Receivables. Created and defined Customer master data and Vendor master data.

Configured FI SD MM inter modular integration.

Configured vendor down payment, check management, open item clearing, and down payments.

Configured correspondence settings for payment notices, account statements, individual correspondence, credit memo, open item list, etc., for customers and vendors.

Configured the automatic interest calculations on the account balances/line items, payment terms for dunning, for over-due interest calculations for down payments, and automatic clearing of line items. Created Cost Center and cost Center groups.

Created Cost element and cost element groups.

Created Activity types and activity type groups.

Performed Closing operations including year-end closing.

NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, U.S.A Feb. 2007 – Apr. 2008

Project Engineer

PROJECT: New Product Development of a Down-hole penetrometer (for oil and gas)

Functional Skills and Technical Achievements:

Coordinated or carried out the drafting, engineering, purchasing, scheduling, manufacturing, quality control, and testing of the product line and ensured that all procedures from the point of order through engineering, manufacturing, and delivery were smoothly integrated with the existing production infrastructure.

EDUCATION:

M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Texas Jan. 2004 – Dec. 2006

B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Aug. 2000 – Dec. 2003

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