SAP Analyst

Syed Ahsan

Mobile # 707-***-****

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

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• SAP R/3 FI/CO CONSULTANT with Over 13+ years of total Business and IT experience in the Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation of business/software application systems for Manufacturing, Retail and Pharmaceutical Sectors.

• Over 8+ years of experience in SAP FICO and PS Business Analyst includes analyzing business requirements, implementing, customizing, configuring, integrating, upgrading, testing, documentation, end user training, and production support for SAP R/3 Systems.

• Sound Proficiency in configuration and testing of FI/CO modules - General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Asset accounting (FI-AA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA), Profit center accounting (EC-PCA) and Internal Order Accounting (CO-IOA).

• Involved in 3 Full Life Cycle of SAP ERP implementations and Post Launch Production Activities in versions ECC 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0.

• Extensive experience with New G/L - Parallel Accounting, Document splitting, ledger configuration, Real time integration of controlling with FI, Parallel Currencies, periodic processing and Segment Reporting

• Experience in Integration/Interfacing of SAP with partner and legacy systems; inbound and outbound and also inter-module integration like SD and MM with FI/CO.

• Extensive knowledge in full Software Development Life Cycle which include Legacy Systems study "as-is", GAP analysis "to-be", design, development, configuration, customization, testing, documentation and end user training.

• Expertise in SAP ASAP roadmap; writing Business Blue Prints, Functional and Technical design documents using SAP ASAP methodology.

• Sound Proficiency in analyzing and creating Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Business Process Flow diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data Flow diagrams and Sequence diagrams using MS Visio.

• Strong configuring and testing experience in A/R, A/P, ASSET Accounting, Automatic payment process cycles.

• Over 6 years of strong IT & BA experience in Mainframe & JAVA Technologies using DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, SQL server, Oracle.

• Strong team player with good leadership, administration, problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills.

• Experience and excellent analytical skill gives me the confidence to handle complex projects often exceeding client’s expectations.

• Provided Functional Specs for wide range of ABAP objects including User Exits, BDCs, complex Interactive Reports using ALEs and SAP Scripts and also Interfaces using Outbound and Inbound IDOC and BAPIs (RICEF)

Technical Skill:

ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C – ECC 6.0, FICO Functional

ERP Tools: Report Painter, Report writer, LSMW, RWD Info Pak, Remedy

Programming Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, and COBOL

Office Productivity: Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Visio, and SharePoint, MS Project

Testing Tools: Test Director 7.01, Mercury Quality Center

Professional Experience:

Client: Ally Financial, Detroit, MI Oct’ 09 - Present

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Description: MAC is a global financial services company that was founded in 1919. Initially formed to provide automotive finance products and services to General Motor’s dealers and clients, GMAC has since expanded its business to include mortgage operations, insurance, commercial finance and online banking

FI – General L edger and CO-FI Integration project:

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, defined, and assisted in documentation of financial reporting requirements.

• Involved in Functional, implementation, designing, business process re-engineering, customizing, configuring, integrating, training, go-live and supporting using ASAP methodologies and industry best practices.

• Defined company code, credit control area, chart of accounts, business area

• Configured and customized GL master records, posting keys, tolerance group, posting period variants, reversal of documents, documents types, field status variant, field status group

• Utilized SAP new GL functionality to support different segment reporting and reconciliation purposes

• Used New GL Functionality Document Split such as Classify GL Accounts for Document splitting, activation of New GL Accounting, activation of the Profit Center accounting for segment reporting, and activation of Parallel ledgers with leading Ledger

• Classified GL Accounts, and document types for document split activation for inventory postings such as GR/IR

FI – MM Integration (Accounts Payable) Project:

• Provided consulting and configuration expertise in creating vendor master data, vendor groups, vendor field status and assignment of number ranges to vendor account groups.

• Configured tolerance groups, tolerance for employees, customers and vendors and maintained initial settings for recurring entries of payments.

• Responsible for designing screen layouts for customers and vendors as well as maintaining recurring entries, parking a document and posting of the same.

• IDOC Inbound and IDOC Outbound file transfer EDI define IDOC structure configuration segments third party software Accounts payable and accounts receivable: vendor master records, vendor account groups, customer master records, customer account groups, IDOC EDI Inbound IDOC outbound IDOC EDI T-Tcode –WE30 error checking code 51 failure correction correct master data , vendor invoice, outgoing payment, outgoing invoice, income payments, bank accounts, check lot, void reasons, document types, document number range, aging, customer statement form, workflow for vendor invoice and payment, integration testing of workflow

• Streamlined client’s terms of payment and payment block reasons. Configuration included, set up of payment company codes, payment methods, bank determination and payment forms for payment transactions per company code. Defined number ranges for checks as well as void reasons. Defined accounts for exchange rate differences and for bank charges.

FI – AA (Asset Accounting):

• Implemented Fixed Assets module as it relates to the Capital Projects configuration up to the allocation of assets under construction into actual assets for depreciation and sample depreciation run for accounting purposes with the depreciation entry into the General Ledger

• Responsible for FICO period & closing activities.

• Preparation of daily and weekly report of tickets

• Communicate the problem resolution to the user

• Integration: material management (MM), sales and project system (PS)

• Team work: ABAP consultants – debugging of programs, and functional specification for reports, workflows, basis consultants, business users, project steering committees

• Testing and Training: unit testing, integration and regression testing, user acceptance testing, business user training, test scripts development, business process procedure documentation

• Assigned cost center to the standard hierarchy, configured cost center categories with appropriate block indicators for plan and actual data

• Interacted with the accounting department to identify the scenarios for assessments and distributions

• Configured the assessment and distribution cycle as per requirements

• In PCA, designed and configured the hierarchy for various responsibility units by means of Profit center Accounting. Created Profit Centers and assigned cost centers. Assigned Balance Sheet items to respective profit centers

• Integrated AP and with MM and respectively with respect to Account determination for various Clearing and Adjustment Accounts and Automatic Postings

Client: APPLE Inc, Cupertino, CA Jan’09 – Sep’ 09

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0

Apple Inc established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California, and incorporated January 3, 1977, to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. and had worldwide annual sales of $65.23 billion.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in ASIS- TOBE business study process and use ASAP methodology in SAP implementation.

• Analyzed the existing system for AS-IS study, gathered Functional Requirements through user workshops, GAP Analysis and participated in process improvement teams.

• Configuration of New G/L: Configured company code, defined chart of accounts, account groups, assigned Chart of accounts to company codes.

• Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variants assigned document number ranges, defined tolerance groups for employees etc.

• Configured and Customized General Ledger accounting, Creation of G/L Accounts, Screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, validation and substitutions

• Activation of New GL Accounting and Profit Center Accounting for segment reporting.

• Worked on New GL functionality for document Split and defined splitting chars Profit Center and Segment

• SAP new G/L functionality was utilized to support different segment reporting and reconciliation purposes. Activation of Parallel ledgers with Leading Ledger.

• Configured VAT process, condition type set-up, billing type, assigning tax type for customers

• In Accounts Payable: Configured Automatic Payment Processing for Outgoing Payments, Vendor and Inter-company Payment using In-House Cash, Payment using Direct Debit, Check, ACH and Wire payments, Interface with bank through EDI, Employee Down Payments, Vendor Down Payments, Partial Payments

• Designing the system for calculating VAT in local currency for a few European entities to comply with European tax laws.

• Defining payment method supplements, defining sort variants for line items & payment media.

• Helping in releasing blocked invoices, defining new payment terms.

• Writing functional specifications for VAT reporting & testing the same

• Treasury: lockbox processing, manual and automatic bank statement, defining lockbox parameters and testing the lockbox functionality, posting rules, mapping bank accounts to GL accounts, processing incoming checks, electronic and manual check deposit, payment advices and check management facility

• Account Receivables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations.

• Worked on creating a centralized treasury operation, improving operational efficiencies through a new global cash pool and In-house Cash (IHC) banking structure, and integrating them both with SC’s shared service centers. Adapted SAP Lockbox functionality to process AR payments for automatic cash application against customer invoices.

• Asset management: chart of depreciation, master data, asset classes, depreciation keys, depreciation areas, account determination, asset acquisition, capitalization, scrapping and inter- company asset transfer, purchase order and postings, issues of goods for fixed assets, depreciation adjustment and write-ups

• Cost center accounting: cost elements/groups, cost centers/groups, cost center hierarchy, cost elements, and statistical key figures, automatic account determination, activity types, assessments, cycles, segments and distributions, CCA budgeting and planning

• Internal orders: order types, settlement rules, internal order planning, distribution cycles, cost collector configuration and cost element planning

• Profit center accounting: configuration of the basic settings, profit center hierarchy, profit centers/ groups, assignments, PCA validation and substitutions, co-objects to profit centers, reports

• Reporting and analysis: drill down reporting with use of report painter/ writer, consolidation reports, analytical reports, ABAP query based reports

• Testing: test scripts creation, planning, execution, unit and integration testing, testing team owner

• Training: training course owner, classroom training, personal training, train the trainer

• ABAP: troubleshooting and debugging, customization of codes, functional specification for ABAP reports

• Interaction: business users, managers, project manager, controllers, executive officers

Client: Home Depot, Atlanta, GA July’08 - Dec 08

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 4.7

This was a full life cycle Order to Cash implementation. The project involved roll-outs in US and Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business process, gathering business requirements for documentation, conducted workshops to identify requirements, understanding the scope, configuration, researching interface techniques and examining best practices.

• Working with the SAP-SD team members to design processes from Sale Order creation, Billing, Invoice, Credit Management Processing and Payment.

• Configuration of SD-Sales order management, Order to Cash and Payment process.

• Designed inbound interfaces for Credit Card Payment.

• Designed outbound interface to send file to bank.

• Draft Functional Specifications – Logical and Functional design, Solution design, Testing and Implementation of interfaces.

• Involved in the preparation of the Cut-over task list.

• Integration and account determination for FI / SD Module.

• Provided functional assistance in design & development of RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms) objects

• Daily monitoring and processing of failed interfaces Idocs, supporting month end close processes

• Responsible for end user training in transactional level and execution including documentation and training classes providing a walkthrough to the end users

Client: DHL, Scottsdale, AZ Jan’08 – June ‘08

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 5.0

This was a full life-cycle SAP implementation project for Asia-Pacific regional operations.

Responsibilities:

• Covered the entire cycle understanding of business processes of the organization and reorganizing the existing structure, processes and implementing the same in the R/3 System by way of configuration and customization.

New General Ledger , Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable:

• Configured company code, defined chart of accounts, account groups, assigned Chart of accounts to company codes.

• Defined fiscal year variant, posting period variants assigned document number ranges, defined tolerance groups for employees etc.

• Configured and Customized General Ledger accounting, Creation of G/L Accounts, Screen layout rules, automatic account assignments, validation and substitutions

• Activation of New GL Accounting and Profit Center Accounting for segment reporting.

• Worked on New GL functionality for document Split and defined splitting chars Profit Center and Segment

• SAP new G/L functionality was utilized to support different segment reporting and reconciliation purposes. Activation of Parallel ledgers with Leading Ledger.

• Create Business process documents (BPD) for Allocation structure and also for Document splitting in New G/L.

• Wrote the functional specifications for Vendor Master conversion and Customer Master conversion

• Interacted with Client to Configure Vendor/Customer Groups, Set up Vendor/Customer Master Records and Assign Reconciliation Accounts in G/L

• Automatic Payment Processing: Company Code Data, Paying Company Code, Country Payment Methods, Creating proposal to Check Printing, Wire Transfer settings and ACH payments etc.

• Configured the new house bank and bank determination order in Accounts Payable.

• In Logistic Invoice Verification, Two Way Match - Three Way Match Invoice Verification, Automatic Account determination for MM and FI, Set tolerance limit for Invoices, Set Check for Duplicate Invoices, GRIR clearing and Account Maintenance, EDI Invoice Postings. Worked on Integration of FI with MM and Project Systems.

• Created JP Morgan Chase as a Bank in the SAP House Bank Master Records.

• Account Receivables: Configuration of customer master and vendor master data in FI, number ranges, posting keys and document types for posting and validation of business transactions. Creation of dunning program for reminder to customers with different dunning levels Automatic payment configurations.

• In access sequence Acct Key, assigned the condition type (KOFI) to account key ERB (Rebate sales deduct) and assigned to GL for final postings

• Create new account keys like ZRB for special sales rebate deductions based on customer credit ratings.

• Created Business Process Procedures to document the core business Transactions like Invoice Parking, Credit Memo’s, Posting Incoming Payments and Outgoing Payments with clearing, Do

Asset Management and Project Systems:

• Configured the Chart of Depreciation and settings up the various depreciation areas like Book Depreciation, Taxation, and Investment Support etc

• Configured the Period Controls key’s, Depreciation key’s, Calculation key’s etc

• Created Asset classes and configured screen layouts for Asset master records

• Configured the required settings for acquisition through Lease, Posting Investment subsidies, Revaluation of assets, Posting Depreciation etc

• Configured necessary settings for Assets under construction and settling the same to Fixed Assets

Responsible for Design and configuration of Project systems

Controlling:

• Created Cost Elements

• Studied client’s requirement and accordingly defined Cost Center Hierarchy for collecting costs

• Created individual cost centers (“sub-accounts” in client terminology)

• Generated cost center reports to be sent to different regions

• Controlling: cost center and cost element master record configuration, cost centers/groups, cost elements/ groups, assessments, cycles, distribution, activity types, statistical key figures, planning and budgeting

• Profit center accounting (CO-PCA): profit center setting, profit center hierarchy, dummy profit center, profit center account assignment, document type, number range, reporting

• Profitability analysis (CO-PA): costing based CO-PA, accounting based CO-PA, operating concern configuration and development, characteristics, value fields, characteristic derivation, assigning values to value fields, settlement structure, SD and MM interface, FI configuration, summarization levels, report forms, report design

• Product costing (CO-PC): overhead cost elements, calculation bases, percentage and quantity based overhead, costing types, valuation variants, valuation for manufacturing orders and order delivery, valuation method, number range, posting rules, settlement profile, PA structure

• Internal order accounting (CO-OM): configuration, controlling area maintenance, order settlement configuration, settlement structure, profile, plant maintenance, planning, reporting, order status management

Client: Visteon Corporation, Dearborn, MI Feb’07– Dec 07

Role: SAP FI/CO Consultant

Environment: ECC 4.7

Visteon is a Ford Motor Company's automotive components unit before it was spun off in 2000. Visteon is among the largest auto parts makers in the US. The scope of the project is to implement SAP R/3 ECC 4.7 replacing legacy systems.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation of the project; including blueprint preparation, configuration, testing, end-user training and go-live phases.

• Involved in all the test phases unit testing, integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Provided informative documentation to help the end users.

• Involved in developing detailed functional specifications and configuration documents

• Involved in go-live phase and provided post live support in clearing the tickets.

• Participated in end-user training and developed end-user training documents.

FI-General Ledger:

• Created chart of accounts, account groups, document number ranges, tolerance groups and GL Master

• Defined Retained Earnings Account, field status variant and field status groups analyzing the business requirements.

FI-Accounts Payable:

• Configured vendor groups, vendor master data, document number ranges, reconciliation accounts for Accounts Payable sub-ledger.

• Made configurations for entire Procure to Pay business process including – creating Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Verification and Outgoing Payment.

• Created Automatic Payment Program for vendor payments and invoice processing using checks.

FI-Accounts Receivable:

• Created Customer Master Data and corresponding reconciliation accounts for automatic posting in GL accounts

• Configured customer groups, created payment terms, created reason codes and accounts for exchange rate differences

• Complete bank configuration for incoming payment with bank transactions for multi house bank scenario.

• Implemented Lockbox processing for incoming payments.

MM-FI Integration:

• Integrated MM and FI modules for automatic posting according to movement types and valuation classes.

CO-Cost Center Accounting:

• Created cost center standard hierarchy, cost centers and assigned cost centers to cost elements.

• Created Activity types and defined Statistical Key figures to transfers costs from one cost center to the other.

EC-Profit Center Accounting:

• Configured basic settings to maintain the standard hierarchy, master data and assignments.

• Configured Assessment and Distribution cycles to settle the costs.

Client: BROWN & WILLIAMSON, Louisville, KY Nov 06 – Jan 07

Role: Business Analyst

Description: Brown & Williamson, Inc. is a tobacco producing company. The main brands of the company include Kool, Lucky Strike, GPC, Viceroy, Misty, Capri, Raleigh, Pall Mall, Carlton, Belair, Tareyton, and Barclay. The company was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Brown & Williamson Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc

Environment & Project: 4.7

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for fixing clients issues in the areas of G/L, A/P, A/R, Cost centre accounting, Internal Orders, COPA and also Asset Accounting in FI.

• Testing of solved issues and reports as per end user requirements.

• Giving day-to-day support for any FI issues.

• Done validations & substitutions for few issues.

• Maintaining Foreign exchange Valuation/loss/gain accounts for clearing accounts.

• Maintaining tolerance group for a group of vendors

• Creation of new house banks & reconciliation settings as per client’s requirements.

• Work on issues concerning GR/IR maintenance and Production orders settlements

• Changing dunning letters according to client’s requirements.

• Resolving all issues relating to internal order settlement, Asset accounting issues, and accounts Payable issues.

• Resolving issues arising out of Special ledger.

• Applying OSS notes for few issues

• Solving issues arising out of AUC settlements.

• Developed new CO-PA reports.

• Responsible for inter-company transactions and billing and flow of these documents in to CO-PA.

• Creation of few reports like ageing analysis,

• Helping in doing month end closing & yearend closing timely & orderly.

• Creation of new tax codes for the business.

• Worked on modifying ageing report.

• Provide extensive support to the users on production issues arising from all the modules of FICO and other integrated modules

• In the event of issues encountered during UAT, worked with the development team to ensure hat the issues were resolved and made available for re-testing in UAT.

• Stored, analyzed and prioritized defects using Defects module in Mercury Quality Center.

• Created Test summary reports, Defect reports, and status reports for the meetings and provided daily status reports to Program/Project Manager and higher business management.

Client: Trade key, Pakistan Jan 02– Oct 06

Role: SAP FI/CO Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the study of the existing business process of the legacy system, functional design specification of the business process to be followed to implement the same in SAP using ASAP methodology, performed fit-gap analysis and corrected the design whenever necessary after feedback from business users.

• Set up company codes, chart of account, fiscal year variants, tolerance limits, and Financial Statement variant.

• Configured and designed Automatic Account Assignment, over/under payments, interest calculation, Write-Offs, and Taxes in AR.

• Member of the data migration team responsible to move from the legacy system to SAP, mapping of General Ledger Accounts.

• Configured Special purpose ledger.

• Designing Chart of Depreciation and Depreciation Areas

• Grouped assets into manageable Asset Classes and customized screen layout for each asset class with unique number ranges.

• Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like acquisitions, retirements, transfers, write-offs and post capitalization.

• Worked with the MM team for integration of FI with the MM module

• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP.

• Assigned G/L accounts to Inventory a/c and GR/IR a/c in Led a team of 4 Mainframe developers in the later stage of the project.

• Involved with offshore development teams.

• Involved in Unit testing, Function Testing, System testing and User Acceptance testing.

Client: Raaziq International, Pakistan Oct 99– Dec 2001

Role: Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and modified database structure an Oracle backend for a large cargo container shipping and freight forwarding line. Implemented cargo tracking system and manifest/ Bill of lading invoice /billing system. Created front end user interface and scripts for account management and other system tasks.

• Migrating old system to oracle database and oracle user interface.

• Designing and structure of oracle database normalization 3 level process

• User interface and designing forum.

• Goals of the system and devise flow charts and diagrams describing logical operational steps of programs.

• Backup and recovery procedures Rman.

Technology: DB2, IMS DC/BMP, SQL,PL SQL, Oracle database,

Education & Credentials.

• Bachelor of Commerce ( University of Karachi)

• SAP FI & CO Module Certified Training from Siemens Education

• Diploma in Oracle DBA, SQL & PL SQL ERP from Orasoft

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