Abrar Jameel
Palm Beach,FL
Summary
I bring over fifteen plus years of robust experience as an SAP FICO Consultant and Senior System Analyst. My expertise spans gathering information, drafting business blueprints, implementing, customizing, and ensuring seamless cross-module integration with Material Management, Sales & Distribution, and PP. My testing proficiency covers unit, functional, integration, and UAT.
I have successfully achieved certifications in SAP ECC 6.0 Financial Accounting (In 2010) and S/4 Hana Finance! (Version: 1909 - In 2020) . These certifications mark a significant milestone in my career journey, and I am eager to leverage the advanced knowledge gained to contribute even more effectively.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP Package Specialist FI and CO
Florida Power & Light (FPL/NEXTERA) / IBM US
2019.07 - Current
- Apply strong knowledge of the business processes for designing, developing and testing SAP Functions
- Customize SAP FI/CO system to meet client’s business requirements, including connection points with SD, MM and PP Module
- Analyze business requirements to develop the right client solution and Configure SAP FI-AP Module to meet client business requirements
- Worked on S4 Hana finance Migration activities relating to Accounts Payable and Receivables area, configured master data related to Automatic Payment Program
- Worked on enhancing RICEFW objects and Webdynpro programs in order to meet S4 Hana requirements
- Worked with SAP Security team, to enhance and provide authorization to Webdynpro applications developed based on new S4 roles
- S4 Enhancement Project: Worked on cleaning up (deleting) closed bank accounts causing issues in following Pay on behalf, Intercompany and local check printing (US and CAD) scenarios
- S4 Enhancement Project: Worked on building new program that would help Netting Credit memos against Invoices
- S4 Enhancement Project: Worked on Team Connect Interface
- Configured new doc type for Team Connect interface
- Worked with developer to ensure Workflows for New doc type works similar to the existing Non-PO Invoice workflow
- S4 Enhancement Project: Worked on modifying validation related to Tax Invoices (Posted in US, CAD and Euros) in order to allow multiple payment methods (other than restricted Payment methods ‘O’ and ‘L’) & blank payment method and also allow Intercompany Postings under existing doc type for Tax, thereby eliminating the usage of other non-po doc type for Intercompany postings with allowed payment methods
- Analyze business requirement on the Readsoft and provide solution
- Design multiple customized portal transactions such as Non-PO Purchase Request, Utility Bill Pay Assist Application and Invoice & Payment Status Application for Accounts payable processes as per the client’s requirement
- Wrote requirements to validate various custom tables used by Non-PO Purchase Request Application and Utility Bill Pay Assist Applications
- Worked on different Interface Project such as Excalibur, Phoenix and Gulf Fleet
- Wrote specific requirements for basis to create FTP scripts to retrieve Invoice file from Excalibur system and send back Payment file back to their inbound system
- Wrote specific requirements for basis to create FTP scripts to retrieve Vendor information file from the Phoenix Interface system and send Payment file back to their inbound directory
- Carried out detailed analysis of various security roles used by Account Payable team and worked with Information security team to get the security roles added to LDAP mapping table, so that users who have been provided with required roles can easily get access to portal transactions that were custom built
- Configured Solution for Seabrook and Point beach Company codes in order to Update NEER Costing Sheets
- Wrote specification with regards to Scotia Bank Wire Validation on Vendor maintenance Portal and on the ECC System Wrote specification to develop custom Transaction Register Report involving Non-PO Invoices that are posted through WF batch and below 1K
- Analyzed security roles required by fixed assets module for Company codes that are part of FPL Energy and Services
- Performed functional unit and integration testing for Escheatment Process
- Currently working on with the developer to build custom Web dynpro Application to help business in Closing down Co
- Code and/or Transferring To be Closed Co's data (master & transactional) into another Co
- Code
- Currently working on to build a custom batch validation program for ERS Vendors, in order to extend remit vendor (i.e., default PI Partner) to all the Co
- Codes that the trade Vendor is setup in and create Error report displaying different reasons for not extending Remit vendor to trade Vendors Co
- Codes and the second error report shows missing defaulted PI Partners and missing Banking Information on a default PI Partner
- Support UAT team to make sure User acceptance Testing is carried out successfully as expected and thereby get Signoff to move data to Production System.
SAP FICO Consultant (1709 Version – Simple Finance)
JR Simplot / Capgemini, NA
2019.01 - 2019.07
- Created Functional specification document for the AP and AR Aging reports
- Worked closely with ABAP team to help them in delivering Aging Reports
- This solution help to display reports in three different currencies (local, transaction & group currency)
- Created Functional Specification documentation for the CO-PA report to display in Local currency
- Manually maintained config changes under the following transactions KEA5, KEA0, KEDR, KE35 & KE32
- Worked closely with technical team on the enhancement side to delivery CO-PA requirement
- Created Configuration and functional unit testing documentation for each of change requests received from the business users
- Implemented OSS notes relating to the jump in the document number ranges on the OTC side
- This solution helped in resolving the issue of buffering in number ranges which was causing un-sync between OTC and Accounting document number ranges
- This solution was implemented to meet the Mexico legal government norms and help users in reconciling both the documents manually
- Helped in resolving P1 ticket relating to automatic creation of PO’s by users, within half an hour time of Incident creation
- Helped Users in performing month end activity relating to Foreign Currency Valuation run
- Helped them to reverse the incorrect FCV postings
- Maintained reverse accounting document type for reverse postings
- Maintained revaluation accounts required for the post FCV runs for the APAC countries
- Helped users from North America region on their month end closing activity relating to the logistic invoicing
- Resolved the Inconsistent temporary document number issue which was causing issues for the users in performing month end activity on the STP side
- Maintained Exchange rate types for the leading ledger valuation areas and valuation method
- Also, maintained reference currency key for the exchange rate types which will let system not just revaluate local currency to foreign currency, foreign to local currency but will also revaluate cross currency exchange rates
- Maintained Exchange rate types for the Non leading ledger valuation area and method
- Also worked towards removing reference currency key, thereby letting users manually feed exchange rates for local currency to foreign currency, foreign currency to local currency and also cross currency exchange rates
- Maintained configuration to support EBS Process for NA region
- Handled issues relating to the Title transfer during the creation of billing document in OTC/STP side
- Maintained CO-PA allocations such as Product Division, SMR & DMR to display it on the COPA report
- Provided User training & shared training documents on the New Asset Accounting to the Users responsible for Asset Accounting
- Maintained account determination for the Order reason & certain condition types relating to Sales Return Credit Memo
- This Solution helped NA region users to book Sales return values into the Sales Return and Allowance account
- Extracted data from various Accounting and OTC tables upon request from business users
- Participated in meetings related to CFDI interface between EDICOM and SAP System
- Shared various analysis documents related to OTC Billing type and associated NR, STP Document type & its associated NR’s.
SAP Support Specialist – FICO/X-flow
MDI Group / CSM Bakery Solutions, GA
2018.09 - 2018.12
- Handled issues relating to payment runs – Payment methods, Currency, House Bank, Vendor master data, Payment proposal and Printout media
- Handled issues relating to Xflow tool – Invoice verification, Invoice Approvals and rejections, Maintaining Substitutes for Approvers, Redirecting Invoices to immediate Approver (in absence of actual approver), Maintaining X-flow Web user account and assigning roles for approvers
- Worked on Scanning and Imaging of Invoices as part of Open Text Vendor Invoice Management (VIM)
- Handled issue relating to Price difference on PO – Removing status of technical completion from the Internal order which was linked to PO, which caused problems in changing the pricing for material
- Worked closely with End users to help their issues get resolved on time and ensured a smooth flow in their tasks
- Handled issues relating to Electronic Bank Statements – Upload of BAI file format, and extract reports on Bank Statements
- Worked on multiple clients to handle users across globe with their issues
- Supported L2 and L3 level tickets within given SLA and also followed up on age old tickets with the users to see if there were issues resolved or not
- Closed most of the age-old tickets based on user’s response and frequent follow ups with them.
SAP Business Process Engineer | Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant.
Komatsu America Corp / Randstad US
2017.05 - 2018.09
- Conducting workshops and gathering requirements from Stakeholders and business users
- Drafting business blueprint document based on the gap analysis from AS-IS and TO-BE documents
- S4 Hana Finance - New General Ledger Accounting: Customized New General Ledger; Adopted Fiscal Year Variants; Defined Settings for the Journal Entry Ledger; Assigned Ledger to Company Code; Assigned Accounting Principle to Ledger and Company Code; Configuring Tax codes, tax types & Accounts Configuration; Checked the Consistency of General Ledger Accounts and Activated Necessary Business Functions
- S4 Hana Finance - Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable: Define Account groups with screen layouts (Customer & Vendor); Defined screen layout per Company code and Activity (Customer & Vendor); Define Business Partner roles; Define BP role for direction Customer/Vendor to BP; Define Number assignment for direction BP to Customer/Vendor; Handled issues relating to Procure to pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) cycle process; Maintaining Incoming and outgoing Payment settings; Maintaining Manual outgoing payments; Configuring settings for Down payment received and Made; Maintaining APP and Dunning procedures
- S4 Hana Finance - New Asset Accounting: Checked prerequisites and activated New Asset Accounting (new FI-AA); Activated business functions such as Parallel Valuation; Enterprise Extension (EA-FIN); Activated New Depreciation Calculation; Executed Month & Year-End Closing; and Maintaining Asset Fiscal Year change; Migrated Charts of Depreciation; Defined Technical Clearing Account for Integrated Asset Acquisition; Assigned Charts of Depreciation to Company Code and Configured for Depreciation Posting
- S4 Hana Finance - Controlling: Defined Ledger for CO Version; Defined Document Types for Posting in CO; Defined Document type Mapping Variants for CO Transactions to Document Types; Checked the Default Values for Postings in CO; Defined Ledger Group; Configured the Migration of Cost Elements; Checked the Consistency of Cost Elements; Migrated Secondary Cost Elements to the Chart of Accounts; Conducted Technical Check and migrated transaction data and Checked the Migration of Balances; Customized and Configured CO-PC and CO-PA business process; Configured COPA characteristics & value fields; Designing Costing Strategies for Repetitive/Discrete scenarios; Monitored the configuration of Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Internal orders, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, and Master Data Groups
- Integration: Worked and Provided Integration between cross modules (FI-SD, FI-MM, FI-PP and CO-PP)
- Testing: Extensively worked on SAP testing process like Unit testing, System integration testing and User acceptance testing, as part of full life cycle implementations and support.
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Ellucian, FL
2013.08 - 2017.04
- Conducting workshops and gathering requirements from stakeholders and business users; Designing and Customizing FI (GL, AP, AR & AA) and CO (CCA, PCA, CO-PC, CO-IO and CO-PA) business process; Customizing ang Configuring FI process (as per business blue print document); Configured Procure to pay and Order to Cash cycle business process; Customized CO business process; FI Cutover activities (LSMW); Configuring Automatic Payment Process; Designed Procure to Pay process; Configuring EBS and Lockbox process ; Performed Validation and Substitution of master and transaction data; Designed Order to Cash cycle process; Performed FI/CO Month and Year end closing activities; Managing Payment & Settlement process Configuration; Mapping Interfaces with Concur and Vertex; Unit, functional, Integration and User Acceptance Testing and Worked on SAP ERP ECC 6.0 and Developing training material; Analyze the Incidents, Problems, Request, and Changes escalated at first and 2nd level support.
SAP FI/CO Lead
Warner Music Group, NY
2013.03 - 2015.07
- Designed and Customized FI-GL, FI-AP, FI-AR & FI-AA business processes; Worked and followed ASAP Methodology; Configuring Parallel ledgers and currencies; Designed Procure to pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) cycle business process; Project Settlement process (both CAPEX and OPEX); Customizing Automatic Payment & Dunning process; Configuring Tax codes & Accounts Configuration; Verifying Invoices; Customizing CO-PC and CO-PA business process; Mapping Interface with WinShuttle and Concur; Designing and supporting Banking processes (EBS and Positive pay); Performed FI cutover activities (WinShuttle Tool); Configuring Lockbox process ; Worked on reporting tools (i.e., Report Painter and writer); Managing Post go-live support (Onsite & Offsite); Worked on SAP ERP ECC 6.0 and Generated End User content; Led Hypercare team during post go-live; Led production support team (Both onsite and offshore); Worked on ticket logging tool ‘Remedy’
- Worked on Open Text ICC OCR to extract invoice data during invoice capture stage of Accounts Payable (AP) processing
- Worked on configuration of Invoice processing - Open Text VIM, Check Handling, Manual Non-PO Invoice processing using VIM & payment processing in Account Payables (FI-AP).
SAP FI/CO Consultant & System Analyst
Dr Pepper, Snapple Group, TX
2012.02 - 2013.08
- Conducted workshops to gather information from stakeholders and business users; Designing FI (GL, Accounts Payable, Account Receivable & Asset Accounting) and CO (CCA, PCA, CO-PC, CO-IO and CO-PA) business process document; Customizing ang Configuring FI process (as per business blue print document); Configured Procure to pay and Order to Cash cycle business process; Customized CO business process; FI Cutover activities (LSMW); Configuring Automatic Payment & Dunning process; Configuring Tax codes & Accounts Configuration; Verifying Invoices; Customizing CO-PC and CO-PA business process; Mapping Interface with WinShuttle and Concur; Designing and supporting Banking processes (EBS and Positive pay); Performed Validation and Substitution of master and transaction data; Configuring Revenue Management and Contract Accounting; and Developing End User documents; Analyze the Incidents, Problems, Request, and Changes escalated at first and 2nd level support.
SAP FI/CO Consultant
GeTechnologies Pvt. Ltd / Security Printing and Minting Corporation, IND
2009.11 - 2012.01
- Gathering business processes requirement; Prepared AS IS and TO BE documents; Developing Business Blueprint document; Customized and configured Procure to pay and Order to Cash cycle business process; Customizing Automatic Payment & Dunning process; Performed FI cutover over activities (Classic GL, Vendor, Customer and Asset master data); Customizing and Configuring Credit Control area process; Configuring Classic GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, internal Orders business processes and Developed End User training documents
- Worked on ticket logging tool ‘Remedy’.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management - Financial Management
Annamalai University
Bangalore, India01.2010
Bachelor in Business Management - International Business (Finance)
Bangalore University
Bangalore, India01.2008
Skills
- Full Life Cycle Implementations
- ASAP Methodology
- S4 Hana Finance Migration and Support
- FI Business Process for AP, AR, GL and Asset Accounting area
- Treasury - Banking process
- Automatic Payment & Dunning
- Integration (FI-SD and FI-MM) and CO-PP Integration
- Controlling module Business Process (CCA, PCA, CO-PC, CO-COPA)
- Revenue Management & Contract Accounting
- Agile Methodology
- Production Support & Enhancement
- SAP Report Painter and Writer
- Unit & Functional Testing
- Mapping Interfaces (Win Shuttle, Vertex and Concur)
Certification
- SAP S4 Hana Finance (Ver: 1909), 2020
- SAP FI, 2011
- Advance Diploma in Hardware and Networking, 2003
Personal Information
Title: SAP PACKAGE SPECIALIST FI & CO (Certified SAP S4 Hana Finance & ECC Consultant)
Timeline
SAP Package Specialist FI and CO
Florida Power & Light (FPL/NEXTERA) / IBM US
2019.07 - Current
SAP FICO Consultant (1709 Version – Simple Finance)
JR Simplot / Capgemini, NA
2019.01 - 2019.07
SAP Support Specialist – FICO/X-flow
MDI Group / CSM Bakery Solutions, GA
2018.09 - 2018.12
SAP Business Process Engineer | Role: Sr. SAP FI/CO Consultant.
Komatsu America Corp / Randstad US
2017.05 - 2018.09
SAP FI/CO Consultant
Ellucian, FL
2013.08 - 2017.04
SAP FI/CO Lead
Warner Music Group, NY
2013.03 - 2015.07
SAP FI/CO Consultant & System Analyst
Dr Pepper, Snapple Group, TX
2012.02 - 2013.08
SAP FI/CO Consultant
GeTechnologies Pvt. Ltd / Security Printing and Minting Corporation, IND
2009.11 - 2012.01
Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management - Financial Management
Annamalai University
Bachelor in Business Management - International Business (Finance)
Bangalore University
- SAP S4 Hana Finance (Ver: 1909), 2020
- SAP FI, 2011
- Advance Diploma in Hardware and Networking, 2003
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