Wahida Raheem

Email: adbqzk@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 847-***-****

SUMMARY

SAP FI CO Consultant with more than 8 years of experience in designing, building and implementing SAP business solutions. Responsibilities that include team management, functional design, gap analysis, mapping, custom interfaces, training and support. Highly accomplished in fields of SAP Financial with New GL, S/4 Finance, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Application, FSCM (dispute management & collection management), Asset Accounting, Cost center accounting, Profit Center accounting, COPA, SAP BW for finance reporting. Experience integrating SAP MM and SD modules with FI and supporting financial close. A good team player/lead with sound interpersonal skills, effectively communicate with people at all levels within any organization, superior problem-solving skills and a proven track record of delivering on time.

TCHNICAL SKILLS

SAP Functional: FI/CO – New GL, S/4 Finance, AA, AP, AR, FSCM, CCA, PCA, IO, FA, COPA, MM, SD, Taxes, SAP Solution Manager.

Other Tools: MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, HP (QC, PPM, Service Desk), Test Director, IBM Lotus notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KeenStrategies Inc

SAP FI CO Lead/Architect September 14 – Current

Cresco Labs

SAP FI/CO Process Architect

Working as lead business analyst for SAP greenfield implementation.

Responsibilities include fit gap analysis for to be process design in FICO areas

Working extensively with the business in design chart of accounts, defining legal entity structure.

Designing process for intercompany, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Assets Accounting and Taxes.

Conducted business meeting to get the business requirements and translated into process documents.

Reviewed functional design and user requirement document provided approvals based on the business needs.

Reyes Holdings (Great Lakes Coca Cola)

SAP FI/CO Lead

Managing projects and ongoing demand for enhancing the systems for areas of responsibility within FI & SD.

Finance lead accountable for overall demand management in areas of FI and integration with SD.

Designing and developing functional specs for reports and interfaces.

Worked on business process improvement in area for AR, Taxes (Vertex), Dispute Management, Pricing.

Trained users in areas of pricing, SRM Purchasing, FSCM dispute management, AR.

Responsible SRM integration with Accounts Payable.

Redefined and supported finance department for month end process.

Automated repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and accelerate month end closing.

Responsible for AP business process reengineering for US SAP consolidation.

Analyzing AP process for existing landscape and to be landscape.

Review FIT GAP document and creating harmonize process flows for accounts payable.

Analyzed configuration and developed the configuration list.

Created functional specs for Accounts payable interfaces.

Configured the system for AP Process and executed unit testing.

Configured automatic payment program for payment processing.

Configured payment program using DMEE in Europe, US and Asia for ACH, SEPA & GIRO.

Worked on developing payment files in different formats like MT103, GIRO, GDFF format.

Implemented Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) for EU & US companies.

Designed and configured Taxes for Sales and Use tax for US.

Configured electronic bank statement for reconciliation.

Developed functional and integration testing scripts and executed and documented test.

Responsibilities include training users, go live and support activities.

Ringspann Corporation

SAP FI/CO Support Consultant

Process Improvement, enhancement and support post Go Live issues in SAP finance.

Resolved issues revolving around SD & MM areas, which integrate with finance.

Worked on improving FICO reporting, AR Cash Applications (Lock Box).

Working with business users and process owners in understanding and improving existing process.

Configuring Asset Accounting and migration of Legacy Asset.

Developed functional spec custom development.

Kraft Foods, IL

SAP FI-AR Lead September 07 - March 10

Lead business requirement gathering and designing for RTR and OTC for Catalyst Project.

Project was implemented in new GL with document splitting functionality activated.

Conducted workshops and with users in understanding the as-is process and defining to-be process.

Worked extensively with SD team in integrating and defining the Order to Cash Process.

Designed functional spec for AR Cash application for Lockbox and remittance advice using EDI 820 and custom program for managing customer deductions.

Worked configuring and testing FSCM dispute management & collection management.

Configured all AR related objects like payment terms, reason codes, tolerance, credit management.

Designed COPA reports in BI for revenue planning and analysis.

Developed user training manuals using uPerform and technical documents using solution manager.

Managed onshore and offshore resources and to meet and deliver the business need on time.

Reviewed and approved configuration and testing documentation.

Managed the cutover activities and data (master & transactional) migration with Data team.

Conducted training to business users and provided on the job support to bring them up to speed.

Conducted one-on-one training to business users

Strong communication, inter-personal, mentoring & consulting skills

Weyerhaeuser, WA

SAP FI-CO Consultant February 06 - August 07

Analyzing business requirements for the implementation of Accounts Receivable and customization of GL.

Co-ordinate with Business Leads and analyzed the business requirements documents in finalizing the requirement and providing suitable solutions.

Developing blueprint and functional specification for Accounts Receivable and General Ledger.

Configuring and customizing journal entries, customer invoices, credit memos, account determinations, payment terms, tolerance groups, dunning,

Creation of customer master record, account groups, document types, number ranges and related G/L accounts.

Tested the interfaces by running the interface programs created using custom ABAP codes.

Created unit test scenarios, scripts and executed unit tests and recorded in results in Test Director.

Developed scenarios based on the Business Process for integration and user acceptance testing

Developed documents for end user training.

Autodesk, CA

SAP FI-CO consultant March 05 - January 06

Worked in implementing CO module, designing cost elements, CCA, PCA and Internal Orders as per business needs.

Involved in designing and building of Cost center and Profit center standard hierarchy, cost center and profit center planning profiles and versions.

Customized CO using validations and substitutions and derivation rules for Balance sheet and P&L accounts.

Setup Internal orders types for real and statistical orders. Developed report painter reports for CCA and PCA.

Build the system according to the design document, created unit test and integration test scripts and executed.

Co-ordinate with Business Liaisons and analyzed the business requirements documents to finalize the tests.

Worked on enhancements and production support related with controlling module.

Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and stored in Test Director.

AMSCO, UAE September 02 - December 02

Role: Involved in maintenance of customer/vendor database. Developed and tested Databases, and Software.

Education:

Bachelors in Engineering.

Certification in Accounting:

Visa Status: US Citizen.

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