Mohammed Raheez Baba

SAP BPC BW SAC Hana Lead Consultant

adc8fn@r.postjobfree.com Mobile No.+91 – 950-***-****

Objective:

Challenging position in Technical/Functional/Consulting/Management areas that would best utilize expertise in the business environment, business reengineering & business solution areas, dedicated individual with leadership abilities, to advance and with high team spirits.

Professional Summary:

A pragmatic, clear thinking and outcomes focused Project Consulting who has extensive experience of successfully implementing projects; BPC, BW & SAC implementation,Migration and support projects.

Over all 10 plus years of IT experience in BPC, BW & Analytics Cloud - ECC functional (FI/CO,PO,SD,MM and HR) managing and leading SAP development teams. Managed all aspects of SAP solution design through technical implementation. He has a proven track record in the delivery of multiple, full-life-cycle projects, and is a charismatic leader who can successfully deliver to tight timescales and within demanding environments.

A part from possessing a strong desire to expand his SAP knowledge and to share with all team members and business users. Technical design expertise includes product development, testing, implementation and support. Strength lies in implementing integrated solutions and knowledge of varied functional areas of experience in managing Complete life cycle Implementation of SAP BW-BI & BPC projects and functional areas includes FI/CO,PO, SD, MM and HR.

. BPC 11 on S4 Hana

. BPC 11 on BW 4 Hana upgradation project

. BW 4 Hana upgradation projects

. SAP Analytics Cloud

. POC – Group reporting

Expertise in BPC Optimized for S/4Hana (Embedded 10.1, NW), Real-time Consolidation with deep understanding of Integrated Planning, HANA Modeling.

Expertise in configuration of SAP Analytics cloud Stories, models, Dashboards, connections, digital board room, planning and allocations.

Experience working with HANA modeling and Eclipse based BW Modeling and BW/4HANA.

Experience in working with Hana modeling in S4 embedded BW.

Experience in working with Hana modeling – design and develop Hana Views.

Expertise in creating Management Reports and dashboards using Bex, Analysis for Office, SAC etc.

Good understanding of ERP-HANA-BW--FIORI Integration, knowledge of Finance, Accounting.

Hands on SAP Analytics Cloud Dashboards, models, connections, stories, Geo maps,smart discovery and smart insights

Hands on SAC Allocations in planning

Involved in feasibility study of evolving SAP digital technologies like SAP Predictive Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud, Digital boardroom, Integrated Business Planning for Group Reporting etc.

Hands-on experience in collecting requirements, design, development, testing, User training, Performance Management and Post Implementation Support.

Incident Management, Enhancements, CHRs and Problem management

Participate in client demos on SAP BPC as part of pre-sales.

Experience in implementing and supporting various Planning, Forecasting, Managerial and Legal Consolidation applications.

Experience implementing, developing and supporting BI applications in modeling, extraction and Reporting.

Worked on different modules like FI,PO, HCM, MM, SD etc., their business processes and knowledge of integration.

Experience working on various versions of SAP BPC NW (7.5, Standard 10.0 & 10.1, Embedded, BPC 11) and SAP BW across Implementation, Development, Upgrade and Support projects.

Provided SAP Best Practices solution on Technical, Functional and Project Management aspects for various clients.

Formulate and track work plans and delivery milestones in line with client expectations and reporting to top management

Involved in Pre-Sales by creating Request for Proposals (RFPs), estimating project efforts, identifying resources, assumptions and risks for projects.

Experience in Requirements Gathering, Designing, Development, Administration, Implementation, Testing, Defect Management, Data Archiving, Data Auditing, Performance Optimization etc.

Integrated Financial Planning - P&L, Balance Sheet, CTB and Cash Flow reports

Excellent configuration experience with Environment, Functional Dimensions, Securities, Business Rules, Script Logics and Data Manager Packages and EPM Functions.

Excellent configuration with Data source enhancements, BW Objects, Transformations, DSO, Cubes, Multi providers and Queries and workbooks.

Good at ABAP routines Start, end and field level.

Good Understanding of BW for BPC functional process and trained junior resources in SAP BW & BPC to develop competency.

Hands-on experience in FI - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Asset Accounting.

Interact with business users and the stakeholders of the project to get the functional and project requirements.

Hands on experience on AS IS business documents and TO BE documents for new implementation.

Excellent time management, prioritizing, multi-tasking, learning and decision making capacity. Skilled in conflict resolution, performance evaluation, facilitating diverse learning, and building productive relationships with clients and staff.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving abilities and effectiveness in working independently and exceptional team player.

Experience in DWH – ETL -Informatica tool.

Triage coordinator post release and ticket tracking & assigning it to appropriate team

Team member as internal auditor to follow company certification programs, Risk and Information system control, Governance of Enterprise IT, Information system auditor.

Audit - SOX

Did extensive internal audit to avoid non-compliance in process and procedure management with in internal and other teams of company.

Support Financial month end close activities

Change Management:

Creating of RFC’s for Quarterly release, Minor BAU’s, Housekeeping and Bubble support

Take part in the CAB meetings and present the changes

Co-ordinate the CAB meeting for Bubble support Changes

Taking part in the Change Forum meetings with the design architect

Maintaining of Bubble support Tracker.

Ownership of Production environments

Identify the different stake holders

Take inputs and suggest

Approvals of Transports and sequence in Transport Express

Maintenance of the Availability calendar on a weekly basis.

Updating of Release Feedback and Issue log.

Taking part in Audit for the application.

Taking part in Triage Meetings with the business and the project team

Working on P1/P2 and critical issues

In charge of incident management within the team

Perform Ageing Analysis.

Maintain Ticket metrics, backlog metrics

Perform Daily ticket analysis based on the functional area.

Prepare release note and release scope for the application.

Constantly update the release calendar based on the activities planned

Coordinating with Release team & SAP basis team during monthly & quarterly releases.

Coordinating with SAP Security team on Roles and Authorization creations for Developers, testers and business users during project progress in respective Systems like SAP ECC, SAP BI, SAP BO and SAP BPC in environments like Development ;Quality;UAT & Production.

Get the team work on the HLD, Build, IT, UAT and IT script execution according to the release schedule.

Finalizing the scope and timelines for the deliverables.

Raise exemption if required to align with Release schedule.

Plan for outages and take approvals if necessary.

Prepare the cutover / implementation plan and get it reviewed with all the stakeholders.

Planning of Pre-cutover activities / Post-cutover activities and system refreshes.

Applying for SLA exemption if any of the activities deviating from Release Schedule.

Ensure the deliverables as per the schedule.

Ensure all requirements are fulfilled going into the release ( Tests / Stage Gates / Security )

Generation and execution of cutover plan in the production stack.

Co-ordination with the Change Management to discuss the changes and get the RFC approved

Taking part in the Change Forum meetings with the design architect

Worked on S1/S2 and critical issues

Work on Early Watch Alerts reports and maintain the overall health of the system

Involved in SAP BPC 10.0 development stage by evaluate of Business Blueprint and Designing documents of the client from offshore.

Created embedded type environment in SAP BPC 10.0 for General Planning as per the client requirement.

Configured Master Data – Chart of Accounts, Assets, Employee, Cost Center and others.

Design Data upload structure with transformation & conversion logic for appropriate master data loads and transaction data loads from BI to BPC.

Created Financial Planning, Revenue Planning,,G&A Planning, Cost Center Budgeting, G& A Budgeting input schedules

Created Sales and revenue planning process, sales and sales quantity planning.

Created Budgeting plans, Head Count Allocation Inputs.

Configured P&L, Balance sheet, Cash Flow and Income Statements.

Extra responsibilities: -

1.Member of Interview Panel (Technical)

2.Member of Company social responsibilities

3.Member of grievance cell

4.Member of conducting NTT/Client’s all hands meet.

Education Summary:

Bachelor of Commerce – 2003

Master of Computer Applications – 2009 -2012

Master of Business Administration – 2012 - 2014

Technical Skills:

SAP BPC 10, BPC 10.1, BPC 11 and Analytics Cloud

SAP Bex,EPM and Analysis for office

SAP BW 3.5, SAP BI 7.x,BW on Hana & BW4Hana

SAP 4.7, ECC.6 & S4Hana

HPQC

SAP SOLMON 7.1

BMC Remedy

MS-Office

Experience Summary:

Working as Principal consultant for NTTDATA (Jan 2014 to till date).

Freelancer -(Feb 2008 to Jan 2014) – during pursuing masters

Worked as Assistant Systems Engineer at TCS (July 2007 to Jan 2008).

Worked as SME for Knoah Solutions (Feb 2004 to July 2007).

Professional Experiences:

Project Handled :

Client : Lumileds

Designation : SAP BI Anlytics Lead

Project Type : Implementation and support

Environment : Analytics CloudSAP BPC 11, S4 Hana & BW4Hana

Roles & Responsibilities:

Extensively worked on SAP Analytics Cloud by creating Data connectivity and modelling from different type of data sources like SAP HANA, SAP BW,SAP BPC, SQL Server, Google Sheet, Excel, CSV.

Developed Stories / Dashboards, Geo Maps, Hierarchies, Smart Discovery, Smart Insights, Linked Analysis.

Developed several KPIs, forecast, threshold and Color-coded scorecards.

Worked on Currency Conversion, Value Driver Tree and Planning functionalities Allocation, Spreading and distribution.

Good Knowledge on Live and import data model’s functionality.

Interacted with stakeholders to understand their data visualization requirements, analyzed the existing data sources to determine the data integrity, proposed data visualizations that provide useful insights to the stakeholders.

Extensively worked on SAP Analytics Cloud features like Page / Story Filters, Hierarchies, Background images, Groups, Calculated Columns, etc. Used various visualizations like Numeric Points, Bar charts, Combination Stacked Column & Line Chart, Time Series, Heat Map and Histogram donut charts, etc.

Performed Administration tasks such as creating users and allocating different roles to them with different privileges.

Shared stories to users and teams with different access.

Experienced in creating smart discoveries and machine learning scenarios.

Ability to lead customer workshops and educational sessions around SAP Analytics cloud and data integrity concepts and tool functionality.

Created linked dimensions with same or different data sources.

Involved in SAP BPC 11development stage by evaluate of Business Blueprint and Designing documents of the client from offshore.

Created environment in SAP BPC 11 for General Planning as per the client requirement.

Worked on gathering the requirements at client location, suggested client the solution and prepare the business blue print.

Independently worked on designing, implementation and realization of the planning application.

Setup Integrated Business Planning for Finance, perform Business content installation for embedded scenario in S/4 Hana

Created Real Time Cube, Virtual Provider, MultiProvider, Aggregation Levels, Filters, Planning Functions, Planning Sequences.

Worked on providing features like Clear, Copy, prompts through developer buttons in workbooks using VBA.

Worked on Revenue Planning, Capex Planning, Opex Planning custom scenarios.

Worked on Forecasting scenarios and developed custom flows including input ready queries on Aggregation Levels.

Worked designing on Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Financial Position, Consolidated Analysis, Plan vs Actual variance analysis workbooks with dashboards.

Worked on Auditing feature to track the planning data.

Extensively worked on developing reports in Analysis for office reports and worked on various features like filters, conditional formatting, sorting, locks etc.

Extensively worked on Query Designer in creating Input Ready Planning queries with selections, restrictions and formulas.

Worked on defining work status and debugging the BADI.

Created Business Process Flow for the periodic planning cycle driven by Cost Center.

Worked on various security aspects like Authorization at object level, work status, Users, Teams and Data Access Profiles.

Worked role maintenance administration like creating new roles, authorization objects in BW.

Worked on management of authorizations like providing change/display access.

Worked on providing the BPC workbooks

Generate Web dynpro App URLs and configure to host/launch the BPC workbooks through Fiori.

these collected objects into their target Systems like Test and Production Boxes.

Involved in creation of OSS message to SAP for any critical issues, which requires the solution from SAP.

Role testing and validation

Developer : Dev & Quality, UAT & Production Environment

Support : Production Environment

Users : Production Environment

Project Handled

Client : Sunbulah

Designation : SAP BI Anlytics Lead

Project Type : Implementation and support

Environment : SAP BPC 10.1, ECC 6 & -BW 7.5

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as an architect and lead for BPC/ BW.

Responsible for creating RFP, calculating efforts and finalizing of resources.

Working on baseline configuration for Real-time Consolidation on S/4HANA 1709.

Responsible for delivering the L1/L2 training.

Responsible for gathering the requirements, designing the solution and business blue print.

Responsible for submitting the weekly status report and plan to top management.

Configuring Master data and other properties required for RTC.

Setting up RTC Model, customizing the Hana mappings, Creating BPC Model, Mapping dimensions & properties etc.

Creating the Virtual provider, composite provider, Ownership and Rates Model, Activating the RTC model.

Configured Currency Translation, Eliminations & Adjustments, Account Based Calculation Business Rules.

Preparing Mock-ups and Functional Specifications for the workbooks.

Managing BPC, BW and ABAP team and directing them in creating Queries, AO Workbooks and programs.

Preparing FS for each query and workbook and assign the tasks to BW Consultants.

Prepared the function specs for financial reports like statement of financial position, statement of profit or loss, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flow, summary of currency translation, summary of fixed assets etc.

Reviewing the Queries and Workbooks, testing the business rules and consolidation functionality.

Preparing Test Scenarios, carrying out testing and validations etc.

Delivered user training, carry out cut-over activities, UAT and Go-Live.

Requirements gathering for Change Request for COI, IC Elims and Currency Translation.

Prepared TDS for the CR and working on CR.

Project Handled

Client : Treehouse Foods Inc

Designation : SAP BW BPC Lead

Project Type : Migration and Support

Environment : SAP BPC 10.0

ECC 6 & BW 7.5

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in Migration Project roadmap

Scheduled meetings with SAP Basis and SAP Security to list down tasks

Define perquisites and manual actions

Backup and Restore

Perform post steps

Define Versions of EPM and Analysis tools on Excel and Office 365

Developed reports on EPM

EPM Addins installations on user machines

Co-ordinate with Help desk team to Install EPM and Analysis on user machines

Provided steps on resolving EPM and Analysis on excel to Help desk team

Guided Help desk to maintain correct versions of EPM and Analysis

Created DM packages to load data from BW to BPC

Maintained Standard DM packages

Maintained Transformation files and conversion files

Worked on BW and BPC transports to move objects across the Dev, QA and Production systems

BPC House keeping and Archiving.

BPC processs chain triggering from front end(BPC) & back end(BW)

BW & BPC Load Monitoring.

BW & BPC Optimization.

Created Audit documents for internal and external auditors

Project Handled

Client : McKesson Corporation

Role : SAP BW BPC Consultant

Project Type : Migration and Implementation

Environment : SAP BPC 10.0, ECC 6 & BW 3.5 -BI 7.1

Roles & Responsibilities:

BW Sandbox, Dev and QA systems testing after refresh and Data center migration

Involved in Migration Activities

Backup and Restore

Maintain Global parameters in SPRO

Worked with users and functional teams to gather requirements

Creation of ADSO, Cubes and Multi providers

Creation of transformations and DTPs

Creation DM Packages to load data from ECC to BW

Creation of DM Packages to load data from BW to BPC models

Creation of Transformation and conversion files

Define Versions of EPM and Analysis tools

Developed reports on EPM

EPM Addins installations on user machines

BPC House keeping and Archiving.

BPC processs chain triggering from front end(BPC) & back end(BW)

BW & BPC Load Monitoring.

BW & BPC Optimization

Worked on BW and BPC transports to move objects across the Dev, QA and Production systems

Project Handled

Client : Estee Lauder, Melville, NY

Role : SAP BW BPC Consultant

Project Type : Implementation and Support

Environment : SAP BPC 10.0, ECC 6 & BW 7.1

About Client: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.is an American manufacturer and marketer of high-end skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company owns a diverse portfolio of labels, distributed internationally in up-market department stores, and has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Responsibilities:

Consolidation:

Activities performed:

Created Environments and models

Created Dimensions and maintained the master data.

Worked on BW – BPC integration.

Worked on master data and transaction data loading from BW to BPC

Business rules setup like Intercompany eliminations and Ownership

Created legal reports and management reports.

Worked on complex logic scripts to achieve the business requirements

Created DM packages

BW Implementation and Support:

Enhancement of standard Data Sources

Creation of Generic Data Sources from table, view, Function Module

Loading data into data targets from source system

Transportations

Created routines in transformation layers

Performance Optimization (Aggregation, Compression of info cube, PSA Deletion)

Developed simple user interface to load data from flat-file (Special Requirement)

Creation of New Reports and modification in existing reports

Data Load Monitor and Fix of loads

Data reconciliation

Unit and System Testing of own work and as required within the team.

Review of technical specifications within the Team

Involved in the design of new change requests (New development requests)

Work on the production issues

Documentation of the work done, Unit test cases etc.

Worked on Collecting Transport requests of the objects like Infocubes,ODS,InfoObjects,InfoPackages,Process Chains and its variants,Bex Queries,Web Templates and Web Items and transporting these collected objects into their target Systems like Test and Production Boxes.

Involved in creation of OSS message to SAP for any critical issues, which requires the solution from SAP.

Well experienced in automation of broadcasting the Bex queries using Information Broadcasting.

Involved in creation of Process chains and also involved in transportation of created process chains and its variants.

Checking for the missing indexes for Infocube and as well as for Aggregates and recreating the missing indexes, once the data is loaded successfully.

Performance tuning at Query level and as well as at the Data Target level.

Worked in performance aspects like Secondary index creations, Aggregates, Rollups and BW Statistics.

Worked both on Global and Local Structures, Conditions, Exceptions, Free characteristics, Filters in Reporting.

Worked extensively on all the monitoring and production support activities and also involved in all data load and data maintenance activities and also involved in analysis of short dumps and job logs etc.

Worked in Reconciliation of data between SAP BW and with its source systems using the excel features.

Worked extensively on system refresh activity (FHOP) and Data Disaster Recovery.

Freelance

Free lancer – 2008 to 2014 – BW Consultant

Clients : Madura Garments, Big Bazaar, Vishal Megamart, Parle, Haldiram and Ambuja cement, Hindware and Sudarshan chemicals

Implementation Activities:

Configured Data Sources in R/3 by using LO Cockpit (LBWE) deleted and initialized setup tables. Scheduled and implemented delta mechanism

Maintained info packages, Transformations, DTPs and loaded data into the target objects

Activated the Business Content Objects for SD and MM Modules

Optimization of Performance using Aggregates, Compression and Roll-up activities

Customized cubes and DSO as per Business Requirements

Loaded Master and Transaction data from R/3

Process chains Creations & Modifications of the existing Process chains

Performed Unit Testing and documented the same

Support Activities:

Perform Consistent and periodic monitoring of BW jobs in the system, resolve issues which might impact the SLA for availability and performance of the system

Process chain monitoring and scheduling

Updating the status in share point and sending status mail

Providing solution to the end user tickets

Working on Enhancement activity

Involved in Transport Release

Performed Pre and Post Cut over activities

Object validation

Applied SAP notes to fix issues

Enhancement of standard Data Sources

Creation of Generic Data Sources from table, view, Function Module

ABAP Routines (Start Routine, End Routine and Field Routine)

Performance Optimization (Aggregation, Compression of info cube, PSA Deletion)

Creation of New Reports and modification in existing reports

Unit and System Testing of own work and as required within the team.

Review of technical specifications within the Team

Involved in the design of new change requests (New development requests)

Work on the production issues

Involved in creation of OSS message to SAP for any critical issues, which requires the solution from SAP.

Well experienced in automation of broadcasting the Bex queries using Information Broadcasting.

Involved in creation of Process chains and also involved in transportation of created process chains and its variants.

Performance tuning at Query level and as well as at the Data Target level.

Worked in performance aspects like Secondary index creations, Aggregates, Rollups and BW Statistics.

Worked extensively on all the monitoring and production support activities and also involved in all data load and data maintenance activities and also involved in analysis of short dumps and job logs etc.

Worked extensively on system refresh activity (FHOP) and Data Disaster Recovery.

Project Handled

Client : Australian Gas Light Company (July 2007 to Jan 2008)

Role : SAP Consultant

Environment : SAP BW 3.5, BI .7 &ECC 6.

Project Type : Migration and Support project

About Client:AGL is one of Australia's leading integrated energy companies and largest ASX listed owner, operator and developer of renewable energy generation in the country. AGL has a diverse power generation portfolio including base, peaking and intermediate generation plants, spread across traditional thermal generation as well as renewable sources including hydro, wind, landfill gas, solar and biomass.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Process chain monitoring

Jobs monitoring

Handling tickets

Trouble shooting process chain failures

Involved in Activation of Data Sources

Migration of Datasources, transfer rules and update rules.

Created Transports and moved BW Objects from DEV to Quality, UAT & Production

Project Handled

Client : Earthlink Incorporation (Feb 2004 to July 2007)

Designation : Process Specialist - SME

Project Type : Business Analysis

Domain : Telecom / ISP

Roles & Responsibilities :

Activated business Content in BW

Replication of Data source extractors to pull data from SAP R/3.

Worked extensively on standard LO extractors.

Created Info Packages for Full, Initial, and Delta Loads for both Master and Transaction data

Developed Transfer Rules and Update rules

Populated the InfoObjects, ODS Objects and InfoCubes with Master data and Transactional data from SAP R/3.

Involved in extracting data from flat file through transformations, DTP and wrote routines

Created process chains to load data into data targets

Worked on administration workbench. Customized infoobjects, infosources and infocubes.

Extensively used BEx analyzer, created queries with variables, filters. Used RRI feature to jump between the queries to analyze the data.

Data validation with BW and R/3

Process chain monitoring

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