Candidates About

 

Abdul Mirza                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                  

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 

• Around 12 Years of total Professional Experience in which 10 Years as a SAP FICO, MM and SD Business Processes with 4 Global Full life cycle End to End Implementations, 5 production support project and Roll Out.
• Have worked across several industry verticals like Automobile, Oil and Gas, Chemical, Manufacturing, Is-Retail, Financial and Commercial Institutions.
• ASAP Methodology: - All Basic Phases of SAP Implementation Expertise in implementing ASAP methodology on all stages of projects including Business Process Analysis, As-Is and To-Be designing, Business Blueprint Mapping, BPP (Business Process Procedure), GAP analysis to customization, Cut-Over, Deliver, Go-live, post live production support, and User training documentation.
• LSMW and BDC Program: - Data Migration of FI/CO Cut over Activities like Open Item Balances of customer, vendor, GL, Asset Balances from Legacy to SAP using LSMW and BDC. Used LSMW for mapping the data from legacy system according to the structures as in the recorded file for uploading data - data migration.
• Extensive FI configuration experience – General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Bank Reconciliation (EBS), New GL and Document Splitting.

·           TAX: Input tax, output tax, Withholding tax.

·         Extensive CO configuration experience – Cost Centre Accounting, Overhead Cost Controlling, Profit centre Accounting, Internal Order, Budgeting, and Assessment & Distribution Cycle.

·         Strong Experienced on Product Costing for Make to Stock & Make to Order Scenario with Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing.

·         Extensive work experience in Material Ledger for Actual Costing with multiple Currencies.

·         Experienced in on Special Scenarios like: Additive Cost, Base Object Planning, and Subcontracting Process with Special Procurement Key, SP Type, and Stock Transfer Order (STO) Plant to Plant Costing, BY Product & CO Product with apportionment of cost.

·         Extensive experience Implemented Profitability Analysis- CO-PA Costing Based and Accounts Based CO-PA.

·         Excellent Experience of various SAP modules –SD, MM, PP and Project system(PS) etc including integration of these modules with FI & CO module.

·         Extensive experience in developing specifications for Interfaces and Custom Reports.

• Excellent analytical and communications skills, Strong task and project management skills.
• Expert skills in designing Test Strategy, developing test cases, dashboard reports involving Unit, integration, Regression and UAT testing phases.
• Expert skills in DMEE, EDI & IDOCS.
• Good understanding of ABAP Code, guiding technical consultants in developing the reports/programs and using OSS notes in fixing the issues.

 

ProfEsSIONAL Experience

 

Microsoft Corporation                                                                                                                                 December 2017 - Present

Redmond, Washington.

Role: SAP FICO Service Engineer/ Roll Out Implementation and Production Support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP8

Responsibilities

 

• Design, configure, test and deploy requirement in SAP Entitlement Management Systems (EMS) as per the requirements provided by Business
• Provide service requirements to improvise the existing solution based on observation, performance issues, problems identified and occurred during monitoring the system
• Coordinate SAP functional requirement with Offshore Team to ensure the requirements are clear
• Configure the business processes in Solution Manager to monitor and take proactive measures to ensure smooth business operations
• Future Price uploaded for Exchange Materials by using program ZSELT
• Inventory Movement Types tested based on The 1st table is ZPFAMIO, where the cost center/IO is maintained for relevant product family + plant combinations. The 2nd table ZIODEFAULT is on the next higher level where the cost center/IO is maintained on valuation class + co. code combinations. . Once the prerequisites defined in OBBH substitution routine is met, the program substitutes the cost center based on the entries in ZPFAMIO or ZIODEFAULT table in the same order. If the entry is not found, it follows the OKB9 standard rule of substitution.
• Uploaded purchasing Info Records by using Z program ZPIR only for Software Materials in Master plants.
• Performed Product Cost Estimates for Software, Hardware and Surface Hub materials in master plants.
• Configured new Special Procurement Keys for new plants.
• All Materials costing fields have been validated and uploaded mass update like Special Procurement keys, Price Unit and costing Lot size by using Z program ZPROD_COST_MAIN
• Performed costing in regional plants with SPK’s and compare costing prices with source plants.
• Review all the Transports pertaining to the changes made and release them to UAT system for Business Testing and validation
• Deploy the solution in SAP Production, Pre-Production and UAT system for quarterly and monthly releases
• Provide support during Quarter Closures to ensure all transactions are successfully processed and Revenue is reported
• Extend support for production issues and bug fixes in the area of Finance, Product Costing, Profitability Analysis, Warranty Sales process and Order to cash cycle
• Provide support to Service Operations Team and Business users as required
• Ensure efficient and expected functionality is launched for every Business Launch and the Deployment is successful, and incorporation of new functionality has no impact on business continuity
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Schlumberger                                                                                                                                                    Feb 2017 – November2017

Houston, Texas.

Role: SAP FICO Senior Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP8 S4 HANA

Responsibilities

 

• SAP Functional Consultant part of SAP HANA implementation team responsible for delivering design for interfaces with legacy system & design for Tableau dashboards based on S4 HANA.
  Conducted workshops for requirement gathering with business, design documentation, design walk through with HANA team for HANA model design, Test script preparation, FUT execution & result documentation in HP ALM.
• Creating custom WEBI Reports on FICO and Cross Functional modules by giving functional specifications and technical Specification to the BI team for development.

 

•     Assist users and fulfill requirements of client as per business process change. 
•     Redefine the business processes as per client requirements and prepare test scenarios. 

 

 

Kellogg’s                                                                                                                                                                     Oct 2015 – February 2017

Chicago, Illinois

Role: SAP FICO/COPA Lead Consultant/ Full Life Cycle Implementation (Finance, Controlling, Project Systems, Procurement & Logistics)

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 EHP7

Responsibilities

• Study of Business Processes and phasing out an entire business solution for process mapping in Financials, Controlling, Logistics and Materials Management.
• Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes and prepared business Blueprint document and functional design document.
• Conducted GAP analysis, documented the findings, provided inputs during the analysis of the "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions.
• Configuration of Payment Runs, expert skills with EDI and IDOC mapping.
• Configured End to End Electronic Bank Statement for automation of bank postings (Both Outbound IDOCS & Inbound)
• Worked as a business analyst in terms of understanding a client business requirement.
• Configuration - CO Module: Cost Centre Accounting (CO-CCA) - Configuration Cost center wise planning, Configuration of Activity types and Statistical key figures with through discussion and interaction with both technical and finance departments of the client.

·         Overhead cost controlling   period end activities like- Assessment & Distribution cycle.

• Profit Centre Accounting (CO-PCA) – Configuration of profit centers, assignment of Profit centers in Material Masters and assignment of revenue elements, Balance sheet data to Profit centers.

·         Worked on Product Costing/Inventory Valuation, Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, and assemble-to-order product costing, as well as “third-party-order-processing”. Configured Actual Costing/Material ledger.

·         Subcontracting Process with Special Procurement Key, SP Type, Stock Transfer Order (STO) Plant to Plant Costing, Configured BY Product & CO Product with apportionment of cost.

• Involved in CO-PC (Cost Object Controlling) configured period ending activities such as Result Analysis Key, Versions, WIP Calculations, Variance Calculations and Production Order Settlements.
• Created new cost elements with category 31, assignment lines for WIP Production order settlement.
• CO-PS  to help with the project systems mapping the scenarios with WBS element integration to CO.

·         Generated Operating Concern and PA settlement rules, regenerated and defined characteristics derivation rules, CO-PA Actual and Plan Assessments Collected the business requirements for reporting and accordingly designed data structure of Operating Concern, mapped the SD condition types to value fields for F record types.

·         Used the PA transfer structure for order settlements and FI/MM direct postings.

·Assigned the product costing keys and costing variants for material valuation. Used the U01 user exits for material valuation. We used this user exit to account for freight and duty costs.

·         Designed and developed analysis reports of products profitability by configuring Profitability Analysis. Utilized COPA (COPA tables) to report profitability by customer, product, market, created Drilldown Reports, and designed reports using Report Painter and Report Writer using GRRx transaction.

·         Activated and regenerated CO-PA segment with cost controlling after upgrade.

·         Defined and Designed user exits for Derivation rules, Valuation Strategy, Actual data, consolidated costs, COGS, material cost estimates, COPA costing sheets and result analysis.

• Configuration and testing of entire End to End Business Cycle for Procure to Pay and Order to cash.

·         Involved in various SAP modules –SD, MM, PP and Project system(PS) etc including integration of these modules with FI & CO module.

 

• LSMW and BDC upload for entire master data including cost centers, cost elements, Profit Centers, Material Master.
• Leading all the testing phases including the design of testing strategy, test cases in unit phase, integration, and UAT and post regression activities.

 

 

 

BP - Oil & Gas Services                                                                                                                                                      Feb2014 – Sept2015

Houston, TX                                                                                                                         

Role: SAP FICO Lead Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, EHP 6

Responsibilities

• Study of Business Processes and phasing out an entire business solution for process mapping in Financials, Treasury, Logistics and Materials Management.
• Worked as a Business Analyst (BA) in terms of understanding a client business requirement.
• Configuration and setting up entire Financial Solution for Separation Activities including the design of blueprints and functional specification documents.
• Configuration and testing of entire End to End Business Cycle for Procure to Pay and Order to cash.
• Hands on Extensive testing with P2P Business Processes including Purchase Requisition, Release Strategy, Framework orders, RFQ, Purchase Orders.
• Configuration of Payment Runs, expert skills with EDI and IDOC mapping.
• Configured End to End Electronic Bank Statement for automation of bank postings (Both Outbound IDOCS & Inbound)
• Set up of material classification, valuation areas, valuation classes and plants for materials management
• Conducting weekly meetings and coordinating with offshore teams regarding issues.
• In New GL: Created ledgers , leading ledgers and non-leading ledgers, defining document ranges for entry view and General ledger view, Configuration of New GL ,  Segments. Activation of Document splitting, Real-time integration of FI and CO, Parallel accounting, Migration configuration process. Designed the structure and content of Master Data which included setting up GL Account Groups.
• In Accounts Payable, configured Payment Terms, Payment Methods, House Banks for Automatic Payment Program and prepared Functional Specifications for the ABAPer’s to develop Checks and Payment Advice based on the format required, Configured a new AP processed company ( ACH Payment ) Created a new ACH File Format for Payment.
• Extended Withholding Tax Configuration, Tax Calculation Procedure Configuration, Input & Output tax configuration.
• Involved in setting up entire Controlling solution including cost element accounting, Cost Center accounting, Costing sheets, Profit centers, WBS (Project system) & Internal order to monitor capital projects.
• In Cost Center Accounting, configured  Planning by defining Versions, Planner Profiles and Layouts, Budget Management by defining Budget Planning Profile, Commitments and Actual Postings besides setting up master data i.e. Cost Centers.
• In Profit Center Accounting, configured Plan Versions, Planning, Actual Postings and Sales Order Substitutions besides setting up Profit Center master data.

·         Overhead cost controlling   period end activities like- Assessment & Distribution cycle.

• Configured Operating Concern and PA settlement rules, regenerated and defined characteristics derivation rules, CO-PA Actual and Plan Assessments.
• Prepared documentation and end-user training manuals for business users.
• Participated in month end and fiscal year end closing activities – GR/IR Clearing, depreciation run, open item clearing etc.
• Customized the setting for P2P FI-MM Integration for the successful flow of financial data from MM to FI for various transaction keys.
• Training to the Core team regarding Application and functionalities of FICO module with integration aspects.

 

MWV                                                                                                                                                                                         Sept 2012 – Jan 2014

Richmond, VA                                                                                                      

Role: SAP COPA/ FICO Lead Consultant/ COPA Implementation and Production Support.

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, EHP4

Responsibilities

• Designed and implemented Clients Business Requirements for cost based COPA to enable reporting for profit segments
• Configured setting for operating concern, added several characteristics and value fields according to business requirement
• Configured to make the data flow from SD to COPA by configuring the condition types to value fields
• Created revenue and discount cost elements groups and maintained the PA transfer structure where the groups are mapped to value fields to make the revenues and discount from FI flow to COPA
• Transferred the expenses from FI Cost Centers to COPA by creating  the assessment cycle
• Configured valuation strategy, maintained the costing key at the material type level, created custom value fields and assigned the cost component line items to value fields
• Created additional quantity field to transfer  the sales order cost estimate and billing quantity to COPA
• Maintained the derivation rules for region and segment characteristics depending on the customer account assignment
• Created reports in COPA based on various customer characteristics like region of the customer, product, customer account assignment, sales area, material, tracked the open demand and operating margin
• Maintained COPA profit center hierarchy structure to support various business and reporting purposes
• Mapped the value fields appropriately to the corresponding fields in various tables for values to flow from FI/MM, SD and CO-PC to COPA
• Working closely with SD team on account determination and assignments, experience with pricing and condition technique in SD
• Responsible for solving issues generated without effecting routine daily Business Transactions in Finance and Controlling.
• Solved issues on CO module with PS Project System integration like WBS element settlement issues.
• Documentary the issue resolution and the same will be used for further salvation of the Issues.
• Attending all types of issues including S2, S3 & S4.
• Analyzing the frequently, repeated tickets and problems suggesting the Business in Implementing the Route cause Analysis.
• Understanding the new Business requirement and working with the Development Team for the implementation of New Process.
• Handling the Escalation and interacting with Escalation Management in critical Ticket Handling.

 

 

Firmenich                                                                                                                                                               Jan 2012 – Aug 2012

Princeton, NJ                                                                                                     

Role: Senior SAP FICO  Functional Consultant/ Roll Out Implementation.

Environment:  SAP R/3 ECC 6.0

Responsibilities

• Involved for Roll out for thirteen new company codes.
• Configuration - FI Module: Configuration and creation of Enterprise Structure, Chart of Accounts which includes number range assignment, fiscal year variant, field status variant, fields configuration,  Company code creation, Cross company accounting settings, enabling parallel currencies.
• GL accounts: Creation of New Chart of Accounts & GL Accounts, and Setting up account types. GL account code convention, Copying of GL accounts, creation of masters, creation of Financial statement version (FSV), assigning of GL accounts to FSV, Special GL creation and extension.
• Accounts Payable including Banks: Vendor master group creation and vendor masters creations, enabling Special GL accounting, enabling Automatic Payment Program (APP), enabling Electronic Bank Reconciliation setting and House Bank & Id.
• Configured a new AP processed company (ACH Payment) Created a new ACH File Format for Payment.
• Accounts Receivables: Debtors master group creation and debtor masters creations, enabling Special GL accounting, Customization for advance payments, down payments. New GL and Document Splitting.
• Assets Module: Configuration and Copy of Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas Asset masters & Depreciation Key assigning as per company profiles.
• Configured SAP FI, MM and SD modules functionality including Tax Codes creation, IMG Tax configurations - VAT, Excise Duty and other taxes.
• Cutover activities including uploading all Master, Assets Master and transaction data.
• Participated in month end and fiscal year end closing activities – GR/IR Clearing, depreciation run, open item clearing etc.
• Training for CTM for cutover activities for other Company codes.
• Carried on Customized Developments for Reporting for FI/CO & FI - SD, MM Integration.
• Post implementation support to resolve the Issue on day to day activities

 

AVI Worldwide Private Limited                                                                                                                      March 2011 – Dec2011

Mumbai, India                                                                                                  

Role:  SAP CO  Lead Functional Consultant/ Full Life Cycle Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, EHP 3

Responsibilities

 

• Performed an AS-IS study and came up with a TO-BE analysis, to have a complete GAP analysis
• Part of the team responsible for Product Costing module configuration. Lead the project teams through requirements gathering, design, and lead the team to meet the delivery dates and project milestones
• Set up costing jobs for calculation of Material standard cost
• Set up variant of the costing jobs for the existing and newly deployed plans
• Involved in configuration of Cost Component structure, Costing Overheads and Overhead Costing Sheets
• Configured the strategies of the valuation variants and material valuation including material and activity type strategy.
• Defined result analysis key, cost elements, result analysis versions and valuation methods to calculate WIP and its settlements.
• Worked on Make to Order scenario with process order settlement, defined calculation bases, percentage overhead rates and credits
• Configured on CO module with PS Project System integration like WBS element settlement rules.
• Designed and implemented Clients Business Requirements for cost based COPA to enable reporting for profit segments
• Configured setting for operating concern, added several characteristics and value fields according to business requirement
• Configured to make the data flow from SD to COPA by configuring the condition types to value fields
• Created revenue and discount cost elements groups and maintained the PA transfer structure where the groups are mapped to value fields to make the revenues and discount from FI flow to COPA
• Customized the setting for P2P FI-MM Integration for the successful flow of financial data from MM to FI for various transaction keys
• Responsible For Configuration & Implementation of the NEW GL with Document Splitting Functionality for other Company Codes.

 

 

AG Industries Pvt Ltd                                                                                                                                       Aug 2010 – March 2011

Gurgoan, India                                                                                                   

Role: Senior SAP FICO  Functional Consultant/ Full Life Cycle Implementation

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, EHP 1

Responsibilities

• Translated Business Requirements into SAP Functional and Configuration requirements.  
• Prepared Business Process Documents in analysis phase.
• Configuration of the organization structure for FI-company code, Chart of accounts, GL master data, AR, AP and Asset Accounting.
• Configuration of the Controlling Area, Cost Centre Accounting, Overhead Cost Accounting.
• Worked on Product Costing With Quantity Structure (MTS).
• Generated Operating Concern Costing Based Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

 

 

 

 

Saint Gobain (Innovative Material)                                                                                                     December 2009 – June2010

Paris, France.                                                                                              

Role: SAP FI Consultant/ Production Support

Responsibilities

• Solved the tickets raised in General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
• Supporting users for their tickets/issues.
• Preparation of User Manual Procedures.
• Worked on Roles and Authorization Matrix by coordinating with Basis Team.

 

 

ProfEsSIONAL Non SAP Experience

 

AK SARDA & Co, Chartered Accountant                                                                                                   Jan2007 –November 2009

Role: Article Clerk

Responsibilities

• Compilation of Profit & Loss A/c, Balance Sheet, Reconciliation of Bank accounts and assisting, maintaining ledger, day book of various clients.
• As a part of auditing verified books of accounts and stocks of various sole traders.
• Extensive experience in Auditing, Taxation, Accounts and Finance.
• Preparation and presentation of financial statements of different Companies
• Worked on different audits like Bank audit, internal audit, Statutory audit, Sales tax audit etc.

 

EDUCATION

 

·         Master of Business Administration in Finance from Osmania University, India.

·         Bachelor of Commerce in Cost and Management Accountancy from Osmania University, India.