ARIF KHAN MOHAMMED

SAP FICO Consultant

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CAREER PROFILE

SAP FICO Consultant with 10 years of experience and full lifecycle implementations across various SAP environments and a diverse range of industries – Automobile, IT Outsourcing, Service, and Manufacturing

Excellent knowledge of ASAP methodology: Project Preparation, Business Blueprinting, Realization, Testing, and Go Live / Post-Go Live Support

Led or participated in SAP FICO brownfield implementation projects, working with cross-functional teams to successfully migrate legacy systems to SAP FICO

Worked in the areas of FI-GL transactions and configuring accounts for General Ledger (G/L), Accounts Payable (A/P), Accounts Receivable (A/R), Asset Accounting (A/A) and Controlling (CO).

SAP Controlling experience in Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting and COPA

Expertise in configuration/customization of SAP FI / CO: Classic / New General Ledger (FI-GL), Master Data, Bank Accounting, Accounts Payables (FI-AP) & Receivables (FI-AR), and cash applications – Lockbox & Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), and Product Costing (CO-PC)

Expertise in configuring and implementing Vertex Tax solution for SAP FI module to ensure accurate tax calculation and reporting in compliance with relevant regulations.

Strong sales experience for technical and functional upgrades: SAP system assessment, issue determination, prioritization of short and long-term fixes, recommendations

Experience supporting Open Text VIM, and 'Accounts Payable for SAP' by Open Text solution.

Expertise in Order to Cash (OTC) and Procurement to Pay process (PTP), Automatic Payment Program, Lockbox, LSMW, eCATT, EDI and IDOCS.

Electronic Bank Statement (BAI & BAI2) & Lockbox (BAI, BAI2, IDOC): Automatic Payment Process customization, processing, and post-processing

Worked on implementation of SAP S/4HANA version 1709.

Lead an implementation of CFIN on S/4 HANA 1809.

Solid knowledge of PTP and OTC processes, including integration points across MM, SD, and FI

Experienced in using LSMW to perform mass data migration from legacy systems to SAP, uploads of journal entries with third-party software such as Win shuttle and Z-Options

Successfully led onshore and offshore teams through the full project lifecycle to ensure the timely implementation of promised deliverables.

Experienced at combining expertise in Project Planning and Design with strong technical qualifications.

Motivated achiever, analytical and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to create value in pressure-driven environments and work independently as well as in a collaborative environment and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP System

ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA

Reporting tools

Report Writer, Report Painter, Solution Manager, eCATT, LSMW

Other Tools

Autosys, MS Office, MS Access, Tally 9.2

Methodologies

Accelerated SAP (ASAP), SAP Best Practices Professional

Technical

ABAP Query, ASAP Methodology, IDOCs, Basic ABAP, and excel Skills

Professional Experience

Role: Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Dec 2022- Present

Client: TBC Corporation - Remote, Florida

Responsibilities:

As a S4 HANA Architect following are the activities that are handled as part of Green Field Implementation

Reviewed and Analyzed Business Requirements and Business Processes and mapped them with SAP.

Regular interacted with users to ensure proper understanding of the Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.

Involved in designed SAP Simple Finance solution for client on SAP HANA Platform and implementation the S4Hana 1809.

Configured chart of accounts, account groups, field status groups, and posting keys, 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, GL display (line item layouts, special fields, sort variants, totals variants) and financial statement version.

Working S/4 HANA like General Ledger, Business Partner, Account Receivable, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting.

Extensively worked on Controlling Module like CCA, PCA, Product Cost Accounting and Profitability Analysis.

Design and configured Company Code for USA, Cost Center Hierarchy, Profit Center Hierarchy.

Hosted multiple workshops to make End users understand S4 HANA Concepts.

Lead system support workshops with Client Business & IT stakeholders and finalize Central Finance S/4 Hana solution support framework for digital transformation of existing regional ECC and Non ECC source systems into CFIN SAP S/4 Hana

Worked with project teams to design landscape architecture for integration of ECC/Non ECC systems with S/4 Hana, SLT, Data Services and MDG and provide guidance on 1909 upgrade benefits.

Lock box configuration, define lockbox, control parameters, define posting data, import the lockbox file, post processing.

Lead cross-functional support teams to enable replication and harmonization of financial data from ECC and Non-SAP systems to S/4

Automatic Payment Program for outgoing payments for company codes in A/P with check printing and ageing analysis. Maintained exchange rate gain/loss accounts for the respective keys. Worked on integration between MM and FI.

Configured automatic account assignments for GR/IR clearing accounts. Expertise in Logistics Invoice Verification.

Configured Asset Accounting module, including mainly Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.

Developed custom reports and enhancements in heatmap areas like Accounts payable, GL, Fixed assets to help expedite the month end close process like AP aging, cash clearing, multi-currency trial balance, depreciation reporting

Developed custom reports and enhancements in heatmap areas like Accounts payable, GL, Fixed assets to help expedite the month end close process like AP aging, cash clearing, multi-currency trial balance, depreciation reporting.

Master data includes Cost center, Bank Master, Business Partner and Fixed Assets.

Open Invoices, GL opening balances and historical balances, opening balances of Fixed Assets are the transactional data elements that were migrated from the legacy systems.

Created Reports to meet the Business Requirement of US GAAP Reporting and Country Specific Statutory Reporting using Report Painter and Created Functional Specification and worked with Development team to create a Report through Report Writer, R2R

Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.

Involved in configuring and demonstrating SAP capabilities to client team by prototyping business scenarios based on business requirements of the client.

Role: Sr. SAP FICO Consultant Oct 2020- Dec 2022

Client: Energy Transfer

Responsibilities:

Configured and customized the business areas, fiscal year variant, posting periods, document types, document number ranges, posting keys, field status variants.

Worked on Integration with Procurement and Sales, Order to Cash Process (OTC) on sap S/4 HANA, Procure to Pay Process (P2P) on sap S/4 HANA

Lead cross-functional support teams to enable replication and harmonization of financial data from ECC and Non-SAP systems to S/4

Worked with project teams to design landscape architecture for integration of ECC/Non ECC systems with S/4 Hana, SLT, Data Services and MDG and provide guidance on 1909 upgrade benefits.

Configured for Vendor/Customer data in (FI-AR/AP) which included payment terms, R2R, dunning, and Special GL Account transaction.

Prepared the Documents for the processes like Month end, Payment Proposal run etc.

Configured Lockbox processing taking BAI2 format into account based on the requirement of the client.

Creation and assignment of cost elements. creation of cost centers, standard hierarchy and groups, Activity types, Assessments and Distributions

Created Internal Orders, assigned the costs related to that internal order from different cost centers.

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant Oct 2017 – Oct 2020

Client: HYUNDAI, FOUNTAIN VALLEY, California

Responsibilities:

Interacted with Client business users for requirements gathering and analysis.

Experience with ASAP methodology and experienced in migration to S4HANA 1709from ECC 6.0 using Activate methodology.

Preparing required documents user training providing the design alternatives, created prototypes of the business individuals of the business process in SAP.

Performed configuration of FI enterprise structure that included creating few company codes.

Worked on configuration of A/P and A/R module: credit management, Tolerance groups, Open item clearing, account group creation, terms of payment, configuring accounts for outgoing payments/incoming payments and open item clearing, reason codes configuration.

Worked on definition of risk categories for customers and configured credit management for the customer data, configured accounts payable (AP), Defined vendor account groups and created master data.

Configured Asset Accounting module, including Fixed Asset classes based on client requirements. Configured Chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas, Asset Classes, asset class account determination, calculation keys, depreciation keys, transaction types, acquisitions, and retirement. Settings for G/L accounts for Assets under construction.

Interacted with Client to Update and Group Customer and Vendor Master Data to define Credit Control Areas and Dunning Areas.

Designed and Configured the Vendor Master Data, Vendor Group, Vendor Field Status, Vendor and Customer Master Data and Risk Categories.

Redefined and Configured Payment Methods, Payments Terms, House Bank, Bank Accounts for AP, AR - Dunning process, Interest calculation, and Credit Management.

Clearing Inter-Company Vendor/Customer open items, Manually Processing Incoming Payments, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, Reconciliation Accounts in the GL and Create functional specifications for Custom Interfaces.

Configured Outgoing Payments, Open Item Clearing in Accounts Payable, and Cost Center Accounting Master data, Planning and Cost allocations in Cost Center Accounting.

Configured the Automatic Payment Program for AP including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.

Configured One-time Vendors/Customers with Separate Screen Layouts.

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

Customer credit control areas and pre-defined credit limits for customers, maintained Risk categories and credit monitoring groups, discount overviews.

Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant June 2012 – Nov 2015

Client: Cognizant Technology & Solutions, Hyderabad, India.

Responsibilities:

•Involved with all phases of implementation from conducting workshops, GAP Analysis, business blueprinting, and configured the system for implementation of Cost center Accounting, Profit center Accounting, Profitability Analysis.

•Integrating Vertex Tax solution with SAP FI modules including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger, as well as other SAP modules such as Sales and Distribution and Materials Management

•Designed the document for the new Rollouts and implemented them in the system which includes creation of new company codes and the configuration related. Also mapped the GL accounts for the MM and SD postings.

•Worked under RTR (Record to Report) Team and worked closely with other Integration teams OTC, PTP and LEX

•Responsible for SAP FI, CO, ECC 6.0, accounting policies with Business System Analyst for designing, configuring, and testing.

•Independently worked on configuring FI sub-areas GL, AP, AR, Asset accounting including Creation of G/L master Records, Vendor/Customer Master Records, account groups, tolerance groups, account determination and dunning.

•Created new Asset class for AUC, included complete process from creation of internal order, settlement of periodic charges to Asset under Construction (AUC) to settlement to final fixed asset.

•Design and configuration of Automatic Payment Program including Partial Payment Configuration, Check Management and Check Printing.

•In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) and Internal Order Accounting, worked on the master data, automatic account assignments, validation and substitutions and forecasting functionalities.

•In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) configured operating concern for costing-based Profitability analysis, maintained CO version, defined characteristics, value fields and attributes, Assignment of relevant value fields to SD condition types for online transfer of billing document data to CO-PA, configured the derivation structure and rule for characteristics and created reports as per client requirements.

•Worked with Development Team to complete Functional Specs.

•Extensively worked on testing tool Work soft Certify testing Tool, Testing different integration scenarios and test scripts.

•Development of test plans, test cases and acceptance criteria.

•Involved in data conversion from excel data sheet using LSMW functionality.

•Worked with inbound orders IDOC, mapped from existing outbound invoice.

•Experience in cutover activities, data conversion and validation of master data.

•Did unit testing and integration testing. Provided user training on processes and assistance in developing user documents. Created authorization profiles for end-user.

EDUCATION

MSBAN, Trine University, Michigan (2017)

MBA (Finance), JNTUH, Hyderabad, India (2011)

B. Tech, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India (2009)

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