SUMMARY:

• An experienced SAP R/3 FICO consultant focused in Financial Accounting and Controlling with overall of 7+ years of SAP R/3 FICO functional, implementation, designing, business process re-engineering, customizing, configuring, integrating, training, go-live and supporting using ASAP methodologies and industry best practices.
• Strong understanding of developing application and functional design solutions that tie to business requirement. Development of detailed business process designs and associated documentation. Development of detailed configuration rationales and designs as well as system configuration build, assist as needed. Design and documentation of RICEF objects, test models and scripts. Manage reporting and escalation of sub-team issues.
• Data Management: Team member for design and conversion from the client’s legacy system to SAP. Participated in workshops with users to gather requirements and to understand the flow of the AS-IS legacy system and the TO-BE SAP system. Responsible for refining the legacy system and data cleansing the accounts for SAP. Responsible for data cleansing the Customer master and upload into SAP through LSMW and BDC.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in Configuring & Testing General Ledger Accounting FI-G/L, Accounts Payable FI-A/P, Accounts Receivable FI-A/R, Asset Accounting FI-AA, Banking, Payment Method Workbench and Treasury functions.
• Enterprise Controlling expertise includes Cost Center Accounting CO-CCA, Cost Element Accounting, Profit Center Accounting CO-PCA, Profitable analysis CO-PA, Internal Order, Managerial Accounting reports testing. Exposure to Product costing CO-PC, CO-Material Ledger, WIP, WBS element, Multiple Currency, Recurring entries.
• Testing: Contributed as SAP FI/CO subject matter expert in providing assistance to the business testers and verified that the solution delivered meets client expectation and business requirements. Developed and aligned test scenarios, test conditions, test scripts and incorporate them in Requirements Traceability Matrix. Created and managed Test Cycle Control Sheet for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Also assisted team members in test execution, defect escalation and resolution.
• Worked in multiple full life cycles, Upgrade projects and rollout projects.
• Worked closely with development team for customized enhancement such as BAPI, User Exits, Z Reports, Automation programs, T-codes and applications of OSS notes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with Management, staff and customers all levels.
• Excellent Accounting and Finance background with demonstrated competencies in Financial Analysis and Business Analysis.
• Superlative organizational skills and project management attributes
• Developed and delivers application training to customers.
• Ability to support a multi-site, multi-country customer base.
• Partners with peers when integrating functionalities across applications and/or modules such as FI-MM, FI-SD, CO-PM, CO/FI-PS, and CO-PP integrations.
• Working knowledge on cross-company code transactions and multi currencies.
• Effective communicator with excellent skills in making Business Presentations, Documentation, writing and developing Business Reports and Technical Specifications.
• Performed Cutovers and post Go-Live Support Activities.

SAP SKILLS

• SAP-ECC (ERP Core Component)
• SAP-FI-Accounts Payable
• SAP-FI-Accounts Receivable
• SAP-FI-General Ledger
• SAP-FI Asset Accounting
• SAP-OCM (overhead Cost Management): CCA- Cost Center Accounting and Internal Orders.
• SAP-CO Profit Center Accounting
• Integration: FI/CO integration with SD, MM, PS, HR, PP and LE.
• SAP-CO- ECCS Consolidation
• SAP-Data Conversion
• SAP-Implementation
• SAP-Integration Testing
• HP Quality Center (Test Director)
• Defect Management
• Reporting Skills: SAP Query, Report Writer & Report Painter
• Work closely with ABAP (user exist, BAPI, BDC, reports, IDOC, OSS Notes) and EP/WF Teams.
• Period End accounting
• Tax accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Doha, Qatar March 2011- Present
Role: Senior SAP R/3 FI/CO Consultant

• Aligned SAP FI/CO solutions with business requirements in order to draw on existing applications and / or set effective and cost efficient alternative routes.
• Responsible to prepare, conduct and perform the following activities for current and upcoming SAP financial projects:
  - Collect the business requirements
  - Create Master Process List
  - Process design
  - Prepare and conduct conference room pilot
  - RICEF Inventory
• Involved heavily in integration with other SAP modules as well as non-SAP such as BI, documentum, and ECM.
• Defined systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.
• Responsible for Configuration and detailed development of all aspects of assigned business sub-processes and/or activities, minding integration between activities and sub-teams to ensure efficiency, integrity and best practice
• Provide input during the procurement of SAP FICO resources from a technical aspect whilst adhering to the Client’s policies to ensure an uninterrupted delivery of quality goods and / or services in a cost effective manner.
• Involved heavily in integration with other SAP modules as well as non-SAP such as BI, documentum, and ECM.
• Worked closely with ABAP team, providing functional specifications ,test case and test data for code remediation
• Analyzed release notes and check/fix the relevant processes in the system.
• Contributed to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices.
• Prepared detailed training files and performed power user training and knowledge Transfer to 1st line off shore support.

Confidential,Atlanta, GA Oct 2010 – March 2011
Project: Bank Of America
Role: SAP R/3 FI/CO Consultant

Participated as a team member of Deloitte team, assigned to Bank of America (Charlotte, NC) project, responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Configured assigned business sub-processes and/or activities.
• Developed of the functional solution and application design.
• Involved in the development of detailed business process designs, associated documentation, development of detailed configuration rationales, and system configuration.
• Responsible for detailed configuration development of all aspects of assigned business sub-processes and/or activities, minding integration between activities and sub-teams to ensure efficiency, integrity and best practice
• Participated in data conversion, dress rehearsal and cut over activities.
• Contributed as SAP FI/CO subject matter expert in providing assistance to the business testers and verified that the solution delivered meets client expectation and business requirements.
• Coordinated technical string test for new enhancements/interfaces in Finance Team, as well as defect/issue resolution in Financial Accounting & Controlling modules.

Confidential,Saudi Arabia / TX, USA Jan 2008 – Sept 2010
Role: SAP R/3 FI/CO Consultant

A member of the work stream of the FICO team, major responsibilities including but not limited to the following:

• Conducted and Pilot workshops for gathering business requirements, and presenting To-Be business process design, and identifying all RICEFW inventory.
• Responsible for 3 weaves of detailed development of all aspects of assigned business sub-processes and/or activities, minding integration between activities and sub-teams to ensure efficiency, integrity and best practice
• Development of Account Payable and general ledger functional solution and application design, build, and test
• Development of Cost Center Accounting functional solution and application design, build, and test Development of detailed business process designs and associated documentation
• Development of detailed configuration rationales and designs as well as system configuration build, assist as needed
• Design and documentation of RICE objects, test models and scripts.
• Served as FI/CO team focal point during production support phase and reduced backlog tickets (at once, backlog at single digit figures).
• Delivered package of enhancements and initiatives in FI and CO sub-modules.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Configured and customized Chart of accounts, Company code Global Parameters, Fiscal year Variants, Posting Period Variants, Account Groups, Field Status Groups, and Tolerance Groups.
• Accrual Engine – General Ledge Accruals, Manual Accrual, Month End Accruals and Reversals.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Receivable – Customer Master Data, Account Groups, Number ranges and Screen Layout Rules.
• Handled Terms of payments, Installment Payments, Cash Discounts, Rounding offs, Foreign Exchange Variations, and Valuation Differences.
• Configured and Tested Accounts Payable – Creation of Vendor Master, Account Groups with number ranges and Assign them to Account Groups with Screen Layouts.
• Contributed in automation of exchange rate upload
• Implementation of authorization group concept with regards to Finance/Controlling.
• Participated in adjustment of netback (intercompany calculation program) to the daily exchange rate upload.
• Resolution of Partner Profit Center issue for inter-affiliate procurement scenarios (PO order Type ZIAS)
• Planning & Controlling of budget expenses at employee level for SSO operations
• Activity price splitting to maintain different activity prices for maintenance cost centers
• Outgoing payment settings for cash, Cheques, Direct Debit, Automatic payments.
• Maintained Lockbox Configuration, Electronic Bank Statement (EBS), cash management in treasury.
• Automatic Account Determination, GR/IR, Down Payments.
• Extensively exposed to integration issues of FI with MM and SD
• Involved in the creation and execution of Recurring Journals, Batch Jobs.
• Configured Controlling Area Settings, Number ranges, and Maintained Versions.
• Providing a demo/feasibility study on new functionalities such as automation (scheduling) of payment run in the background.
• Coordinating with SABIC’s External Auditors for finalizing and developing a report on extracting Financial data for carrying out Journal Entry Audit for affiliates: (YANPET, IBN RUSHD, KEMYA and IBN SINA.
• Supporting on Treasury (Loans and FD’s) related issues.
• Working on Joint Signature Enhancements along with the Work flow team.
• Revamping of total Saudi KAYAN (affiliate) House Bank and Bank determination based on their new Business requirement.
• Created primary and secondary cost elements, Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
• Resolution of Over/Under absorption pending for the years for the affiliate (SADAF)
• Fixing the Correct Calculation of WIP and Settlement of Production orders for affiliate (HADEED.)
• Provision of Guidelines to improve the performance of CO transaction with respect to month end closing.
• Automatic update of Trading Partner in Settlement of WBS element.
• Worked in payment medium workbench to Reformat DME File for IBAN & transition to 1SABIC issues.
• Product Costing (make- to- order and make- to-stock) configuration, –ML Configuration, Planning, Cost object controlling, custom setting in OBYC and Material Ledger.
• Thoroughly involved in creation of Test Scenarios, Unit and Integration Testing and Documented the Results.
• Generated reports in Report Painter and Provided Summarized data.
• Analyze end-user needs and propose viable solutions for report improvement, QA and user training in CO.
• Created new profit centers and cost centers to enhance financial analysis.
• Defined Internal Orders, Order Types, Planning Profile, Budget Profile and Settlement Profile.
• Configured activity types and planning them on different cost centers, assessments, distributions, allocations using cycle-segment method for periodic reposting, planned and actual activity price calculations.
• Analyzed and reduced number of costing run messages prior to go live.
• Carried out, analyzed and released go live costing run, price change and initial inventory load.
• Analysis of WIP and production variances for product costing at period end, and also marking and releasing of standard cost estimates at month end.
• Performed month and year end closing activities and documentation.
• Wrote specifications for different finance and costing reports to facilitate analysis of production variance and cost center under/over absorption.

Confidential,MI, USA 01/ 2006 – 12/ 2007
Role: SAP FI/CO Functional Consultant

In release 1:
I was Part of the Financial Accounting & Management Accounting team for the Global G/L project at VW. Major responsibilities included but not limited to:

• Developed of the functional solution and application design.
• Involved in the development of detailed business process designs, associated documentation, development of detailed configuration rationales, and system configuration.
• Assisted in the review process (Peer review) of interface technical designs, BI/R3 Reports, and business process designs documentation.
• Participated in preparing documentation for unit testing, and development of system integration test scripts (SIT). Participated in coordinating and execution of SIT and UAT testing.

In release 2:

• Redesigned Intercompany transactional processing; which includes customizing R/3 reports, updating system and functional design documents. This improved business process and refining escalation path to meet audit requirement.
• Contributed as SAP FI/CO subject matter expert in providing assistance to the business testers and verified that the solution delivered meets client expectation and business requirements.
• Developed and aligned test scenarios, test conditions, test scripts and incorporate them in Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created and managed Test Cycle Control Sheet for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Also assisted team members in test execution, defect escalation and resolution.
• Performed Knowledge Transfer and prepared detailed training files using STT (Stimulation Training Tool)

Technical Responsibilities: (include but not limited to)

• Configuration/ Customization, For General Ledger
• G/L account master records
• Chart of accounts
• Field status groups
• Automatic account determination.
• Account posting
• G/L display configuration
• validations and substitutions
• Consolidation
• Account Reconciliations
• For Account Payable and Account Receivable
• House Bank and Bank Accounts
• Vendor/customer master data
• Account groups
• Payment program configuration
• ERS Procedures
• Interest calculation
• Credit management : Tolerances groups, Check management, Integration with MM and SD, and Exchange rates
• Customization of Tax procedure and creation of tax codes
• For Banking
• House Bank
• Lockbox configuration
• Foreign Exchange transactions
• Bank statement processing
• Bills of exchange
• Loans Management
• For Asset Accounting
• Chart of depreciation
• Depreciation areas
• Depreciation keys
• Asset classes: Account determination and Screen layout
• For Cost Accounting
• Cost elements/cost centers
• Costing sheet
• Reconciliation ledgers
• Standard hierarchy
• Product cost
• Standard costing
• Activity types
• Statistical key figures
• Assessments, and Distribution
• Profitability Analysis (COPA)
• Internal Orders.
• Configured and Customized CO – General Controlling, Cost and Revenue Element Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Cost Center Accounting; and Internal Orders
• In Internal Orders setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning, and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Configured settlements distribution cycles for actual cost distribution
• Defined the Cost Component Structure to use for standard cost & actual Cost Carried out Activity type planning for different (Actual and Planning) versions. Defined Costing variants and its components for standard cost estimate Created Standard Cost estimates, Marked and released to update Material Masters Configured the basic settings for the Product Costing with quantity structure Defined standard, modified, inventory cost estimates for different products
• Extensively exposed to FI-MM and FI-SD Integration in OBYC and VKOA.
• Uploaded legacy data using different file transfer methods such as LSMW.
• Reporting: Report Painter, report Writer.
• Performed Integration Testing of complete business cycles across various modules, in conjunction with the users and representative from the client side
• Listing of detailed processes, outlining the sequence of steps in a cycle across modules

Confidential, Saudi Arabia Feb 2005 – Nov 2005
Role: SAP R/3 FI/CO Functional Consultant

• Served as Team Co-Lead and represented finance end-users in client\'s side to review designs, coordinate testing, training and defect resolution.
• Coordinated technical string test for new enhancements/interfaces in Finance Team, as well as e defect/issue resolution in Financial Accounting & Controlling modules.
• Responsible to prepare, conduct and perform the following activities:
  - Collect the business requirements
  - Create Master Process List
  - Process design
  - Prepare and conduct conference room pilot
  - RICEF Inventory
• Delivered and reviewed configurations and enhancement technical specifications mainly related to module General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, and Material Ledger to make sure that the design fits business processes and is integrated to other modules.
• Reviewed training materials and conduct training the trainers.

Confidential,MI, USA August 2003 – Jan 2005
Role: System Analyst

• Assisted in the creation and evolution of the IT functions or programs.
• Conducted identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements. Analyzed the current business and IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Developed System objects to be used by the development team. Provided operational support for software and data systems running regularly in production mode

EDUCATION:

Bachelors in Information Technology
Masters in Computer Applications

OTHER SKILLS

• Self-Motivated and quick learner with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Skilled in networking and Data base management, Window server Mass storage, MS Suit, MYACCESS, Query reports, 802 files, and Flat files, various testing and training tools.
• Knowledge of crystal report, BizTalk, LIMS, SQL, BI/BW and Oracle.
• Well-Trained in Project Management and System analysis.
• Ability to learn and adapt in different environment.