Saad Siddiqi PMP ITIL, IT ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST

Saad Siddiqi PMP ITIL

IT ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST

Qatar Museums Authority

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financial Management Certified Implementation Specialist: General Ledger
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

IT ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST at Qatar Museums Authority
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since August 2013

• Managing communication and activities between internal and external stakeholders for on-going and future projects.
• Performing due diligence, costing for budget planning, managing RFP and participating in tender activities for IT projects.
• Presenting project status reports to higher management.
• In addition to project management, providing functional and technical support of Oracle E-Business Suite modules to Finance and Procurement team.
• Participated in the re-implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite providing functional and technical support to business users and implementation team including usage or Oracle AIM methodology.
• Data reconciliation between primary General Ledger with secondary ledger and different subledgers such as Account Payables.
• Data Extraction from database through SQL for analysis and adhoc reports development for Finance and Procurement team.
• Periodic Identification and segregating user roles and responsibilities in ERP system based on job nature.
• Maintenance\Enhancement of subledger modules AP/AR/CM as a super user that includes:
o Supplier Management, Customer Master Data Management
o Approval Hierarchy Management through AME for Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Invoices
o Mapping between Primary and Secondary Ledger (Reporting to Ministry of Finance)
o Form Personalization
• Creation and enhancements of custom reports in Oracle Report Builder\Oracle XML Publisher as well as FSG (Finance Statement Generator) reports for operational and management reporting.

Oracle Application Consultant at American Express Middle East
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2013 to July 2013

• Implementation of Paid Time Off (PTO) Accruals for sick leave accruals as per Bahrain Labour law.
• Loading opening balance through standard API to elements and customizing it as per the requirement.
• Enhancements in already implemented Oracle Self Service (SSHR).
• Extracting data from Oracle HRMS/Payroll and pushing it to Orgplus for Managerial HRMS view.
• Development of operational and management reports related to headcount and compensations.

Oracle Financials Consultant at Raqmiyat LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 2012 to December 2012

Client: Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulations (Sep-2012 - Dec-2012)

Project: Oracle Procure to Pay and HR Implementation and Support
Oracle Release Version: 12.1.2
Modules Worked: AP, CM, FA, GL

• Involvement in Business Requirements Analysis, Future Business Processes, UAT
• Resolved outstanding issues at client end relating unaccounted entries and reconciliation.

Oracle DBI Consultant at Raqmiyat LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2012 to December 2012

Involvement in Business Requirements Analysis, Future Business Processes, UAT & Production Migration phases.

Creation of DBI Reports for Oracle HRMS and Oracle Time and Labour.

Documentation, Training and User Acceptance Testing.

Assistant Manager - Business Systems Consulting at Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2008 to March 2012

• Involvement in Project Planning, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Requirements Mapping, CRP & Production Migration and Post-Implementation Support phases.
• Single handedly worked on data transformation\centralization of Income and Expenses accounts for 50+ balancing segments as enhancement on existing Oracle General Ledger system.
• International Accounting Standard (IAS) 1/MIS reports creation through Oracle GL Financial Statement Generator (FSG).
• Loading of Opening GL Balances from legacy system/flat file through webADI and Master data (Chart of Accounts, Assets, Suppliers etc.) through interface tables and APIs.
• Reconciling trial balance before and after change in accounting strategy.
• Forms personalization as per client’s requirements
• End user training, documentation and User Acceptance Testing.
• Deployment of seeded Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (Financials Intelligence)
• Provided post implementation support.

Education

Diploma, Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financial Management Certified Implementation Specialist: General Ledger
  • at Oracle University
  • October 2011
Diploma,
  • at Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
  • February 2009

Certificate in Business Accounting

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology
  • January 2008

Specialties & Skills

System Analysis
Project Management
Oracle DBI
Oracle Financials
Oracle Hyperion Planning
Oracle EBS
Oracle ERP
Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)