SAP Project Manager

Muna Siddiqui

Permanent Resident

SAP FICO CONSULTANT

Cell: 630-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

Summary:

• Strong Information Technology background with 5+ years of SAP FI/CO functional experience with multiple full life-cycle implementation including (FI- GL, AR, AP, AA, CO-CEL, CCA, PCA, CO-PA,)

• Strong functional experience in implementing, testing, user training, Production support, and Upgrade projects.

• Extensive experience of Financial Accounting (FI) Customization, Configuration and Testing in Classic General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L and New G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, and Asset Accounting FI-AA in highly Complex Business Environment.

• Extensive implementation experience in Controlling (CCA, PCA, COPA and Internal Orders) areas. Post implementation support in FI/CO with emphasis on FI-AP, FI-AR, FI-AA, CO-CCA, CO-PCA.

• Ensured smooth integration between SAP FI-CO and other modules such as SAP-MM, SAP– SD.

Education:

• Bachelors in commerce from India

FI Configuration Skills

• FI Enterprise Structure: Chart of Accounts, Fiscal Year, Posting period, Company code, Business areas, Field status groups, functional areas, sales and purchase tax, Group Currency and Hard Currency Account.

• FI-GL: Account groups, GL Master Records, sample accounts, field status groups, posting keys, automatic account determination, inter-company automatic account posting sales/purchase tax assignment, number ranges, document types, tolerance groups and Business Area accounting.

• FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, payment terms and interest calculation, incoming payments, dunning, AR information system, Lockbox Process and Closing operations.

• FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, recurring entries, invoices, credit memos, closing procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts.

• FI-Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys, Multilevel methods, Acquisition, Work in Progress, Retirement, Multiple Depreciation area, Parallel Currencies.

• Financial Statements: Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, GR/IR accounts, financial statement creation.

• Bank Accounting: House Banks, bank accounts, Manual Bank statement, Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox Processing, Free form of payment, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program.

• Treasury: Cash Concentration, Cash forecasting, planning level and planning groups. Data flow from logistics modules.

CO Configuration Skills

• CO: Configuring controlling areas, cost centre hierarchy, currency and valuation profile.

• Cost Centre Accounting (CCA): Creating Cost centre and cost centre groups. Activity types and statistical keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads.

• Defined settlement rules and settlement parameters for settlement of orders to cost objects.

• Profit Centre Accounting (PCA): Profit Centre, Revenue elements.

• Product Costing (CO-PC): basic setting required for Product Cost estimates with quantity structure for different products, Product Cost Controlling in MTS and MTO scenarios.

• Defining origin groups, costing sheet with calculation bases, percentage overhead, and quantity based overhead and credits, cost component structure.

• Configured cost components and costing variants.

Professional Experience:

Client: Dr Pepper, Plano, Tx Feb 2009 – Sep 2010

SAP FICO Consultant

• Created G/L accounts in the company code, defined global parameters, account groups and reconciliation accounts.

• Configuring master data like cost element (primary and secondary) cost center, and

activity types.

• Responsible for development and execution of testing scenarios for product costing.

• Maintaining number range groups, versions for planning, cost center standard hierarchies and profit center hierarchies

• Reconciled dummy profit centers before period end closings in Profit Center Accounting

• Configured the settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line item layouts, sample accounts, field status groups and posting keys.

• Configured and customized Asset accounting module copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined asset classes, account determinations, screen layout key and allocate number ranges to assets classes and postings for various transactions of Assets.

• Configured settings for Controlling Area, assigned new company codes to controlling area and maintained Versions.

• Cost Element Analysis configuration involving Primary and Secondary cost elements activation and clearing account creation.

• Assisted issues related to Purchasing and Invoice verification / credit memos, Automatic Payment program, Account determinations, credit management, liquidity forecast, foreign currency valuation – vendor open items.

• Month-end FI closing, Period closing and opening in FI., Adding/Deleting/Modifying Financial Statement versions in GL, Running Clearing procedures for GR/IR, Handling Issues related to Parallel Currencies, Foreign currency translation, Maintaining new exchange rate types.

• Configured new payment method for different company code based on the region in FBZP

• Support daily and period close production processes for FI/CO (GL, AP, CO-CCA, CO-PA) including creation and maintenance of PA assessment cycles, PA reports, PA realignments.

• Through knowledge of integration points between FI/CO and MM, SD

• Configured basic settings for the company - fiscal year variant, posting period variant. General Ledger (GL), number ranges and field status groups.

• Defined tolerance limit and assigned budget profile to tolerance limit to activate the availability control for the project on the purchase requisition and purchasing order

• Worked on New GL to perform Parallel Accounting, document splitting, Allocation, Distribution and planning and also used enhanced reporting functionality of New GL

• Defined customer/vendor account groups, configured vendor/customer master data settings, defined payment methods for vendor / customer and configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments in FI-AP.

• Developed functional specification to support new activity. For example, developed a field for purchase order in FBL1N (vendor line item display).

• Configured House banks and clearing inter-company vendor/customer open items.

Client: Cooper Industries , Houston, TX Sept 2007- Dec 2008

SAP FICO Consultant

• As a member of the SAP (FI-CO) team, responsibilities included design, configuration, testing and re-engineering of various functionalities in FI and CO modules.

• Configured and tested General Ledger Accounts (GL), AP, AR and assigned different processing keys as required.

• Interacted with client to define General Ledger (GL) account groups and assigned number ranges to these account groups. Supported user community for all finance related modules.

• Maintained Master Data for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable modules.

• Configured Accounts Receivable (AR). Defined tolerance groups, tolerance limits for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings and recurring entries. Defined customer account groups and created customer master data.

• Configured automatic payment program for outgoing payments.

• Performed Lockbox configuration.

• Configuration of FI-banking with House banks with manual statement entry and lock boxes and defining posting rules and clearing with algorithms.

• Defined bank areas, payment orders, setting format for payment notes, business transaction events, partner product, customer product, information systems, controls for directly created payment orders, central incoming payments, dual currency phase, product definition, authorizations, treasury and risk management, parallel processing, Transaction manager, collection case processing.

• Responsible for cash management, liquidity analysis, cash concentration, payment orders for banks, Check deposits, outgoing invoices, Manual bank statements.

Client: Albemarle Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA Oct 2006-Sept 2007

SAP FICO Consultant

• Created G/L accounts in the company code, defined global parameters, account groups and reconciliation accounts.

• Configured the settings for creation of G/L master records, retained earnings, line item layouts, sample accounts, field status groups and posting keys.

• Configured and customized Asset accounting module copied country specific chart of Depreciation and configured depreciation areas, defined asset classes, account determinations, screen layout key and allocate number ranges to assets classes and postings for various transactions of Assets.

• Configured settings for Controlling Area, assigned new company codes to controlling area and maintained Versions.

• Cost Element Analysis configuration involving Primary and Secondary cost elements activation and clearing account creation.

• Created new cost center hierarchy nodes and cost centers, changed cost center categories, maintained existing cost center master data, created new analysis periods, activity types, statistical key figures and automatic account assignments.

• Configured profit center accounting including maintaining standard hierarchy, dummy profit centers, time based fields, material master assignment and sales order substitution and maintained default account assignments.

• Defined distribution and assessment Cycles for cost and profit centers as part of period-end closing.

• Configured order types and settlement.

• Configured Special G/L transactions – Bills of Exchange and Downpayment per user requirements

• Configured Chart of Accounts, Account Groups, Retained Earnings A/c and Tolerance Groups in GL

• Created General Ledger (G/L) accounts, screen layout rules & financial statement version

• Customized the screens for document entry, document reversals, invoices, and payments

• Defined reference accounts, sample accounts and account assignment models

• Defined asset class, asset numbers and grouped them into asset groups in Asset Accounting

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