SAP ANALYST
GHASSAN ABOUD GROUP
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :13 years, 1 أشهر
• Responsible for all day-to-day issues related to FI, SD and MM.
• Actively involved in data migration project and involved in interactions with third party vendor.
• Resolving issues related to VAT, Automatic payment program, Asset accounting, General ledger, AP & AR, Cash journal and Bank accounting.
• House banks creation, configurations of new cash journals, and creation of additional business transactions for existing cash journals.
• Resolving of period end closing related issues and providing support to business users which are located in UAE & Belgium.
• Master data maintenance for FI-AP & AR, responsible for creation and changes of vendor and customer accounts in SAP. Providing support for cost center, profit center, internal orders creation and assignment of cost elements to GL accounts.
• Resolved issues related to sales quotation, sales order, delivery, billing, and condition types.
• Configuration of Condition Types, resolving of schedule lines issue.
• Creating new customers, maintaining of company code and sales area data and extending customers to other company code and divisions.
• Configured and assigned division, distribution channels to sales area
• Good knowledge in P2P Process and providing support for MM issues related to material master, purchase order, MIGO and MIRO, serial number master and status.
• Experience in creating material groups, brand, exterior and interior colors for material master.
• Serial number master maintenance in PM module, assignment of serial number profile for materials, creation of object types for serial master, serial number assignment for material and in sales order, serial number status update.
• Providing day to day operational and process support to users. Attended KT sessions & have updated knowledge with new issues.
• Interacting with the users for their report requirements and develop new reports or modify the existing one. Interacting with end users through Net meetings / Phones.
• Experience in resolving the authorization issues like providing authorization for specific sales document types, t-codes and plants.
• Experience in creating new user, assigning roles and specific t-codes to user.
• Importing Transportation requests (TR) from one server to another.
• Lock/ unlock the user.
• Daily monitoring of SAP system like RAM, disk space and jobs monitoring.
• Providing training for new users.
Contribution: (Finance related activities)
• Rollouts for six subsidiaries of Souq.com (GL, AP, AR, AA, Cash & Bank accounting and controlling modules)
• Successfully completed the third-party integration project with HSBC for vendor payments.
• Implemented withholding tax for a company code in Egypt.
• Configured the automatic payment program for multiple company codes and training provided for business users.
• Maintained vendors bank details in vendor master for 8 company codes using LSMW.
• Configuration of multiple cash journals.
• Configuration of house banks, automatic payment program and bank reconciliation accounts.
• Configuration changes in country specific bank field check.
• Department wise auto GL account set created for PO creation (FI - MM integration).
• Country specific settings for VAT and Withholding tax.
• Issues resolving related to VAT, Automatic payment program, Asset accounting, General ledger, AP & AR, Cash journal and Bank accounting.
• Created SHDB recording for developing IBAN upload program with the help of ABAP consultant.
• Extensively involved and exposed to integration issues of FI with SD, MM & HR.
• Coordinating with users for giving acceptable solutions to problems, queries raised by them within predefined time limits based on the priority of the issue.
• Created multiple Z reports by coordination with ABAP consultants. (vendor and customer masters, asset register, VAT printout in local currency, general invoice printout in other than local currency, vendor swift upload program, master data program, assignment change program, intercompany invoice, vendor and customer balance programs, Input vat register etc.).
• Resolving of period end closing related issues and support providing to business users which are located in multiple countries.
• Master data upload for new company codes using LSMW.
• Location code creation based on plant for asset master record. Resolving errors related to FI-MM integration.
• House banks creation, configurations of new cash journals, and creation of additional business transactions for existing cash journals.
• Configured intercompany accounts, helping users in retirement and scrapping of assets.
• Blocking of Mass GL accounts, maintaining of open item management for GL accounts.
• Resolved issues in automatic clearing.
• Participated in Streamline project. (Souq to Amazon)
• Created and maintained new number ranges, cost centers, profit centers and internal orders as part of streamline project.
• Extracting data from multiple tables for providing periodic reports to Auditors and tax consultants and business managers.
• Transporting of configuration changes from Dev server to QAS server using STMS.
• Resolving and updating of issues through Fresh desk & Amazon simple issue manager in the stipulated timeline.
• Provided training to end-users, whenever required.
CONTRIBUTION - BI Reporting
• Involved in BO projects spanning full life cycle, responsible for requirement gathering, technical design, development and testing.
• Collecting the database reporting needs and turning them to powerful SQL queries which will extract the data and compile it into meaningful reports.
• Established the relational connection with the databases. (SAP, MY SQL & ORACLE systems)
• Used SQL script, tables joining, filters for extracting data from different sources like SAP and Back office (My SQL) systems.
• Created Attribute view, Analytical and calculated view.
• Created data foundation, business layer and universes on the connection established and published the universe to the repository.
• Created Webi reports on the universe and Queries in Query Designer, using various activities such as Variables, Restricted Key figures, Calculated Key figures, Filters, Exceptions, based on the business requirement.
• Dashboards are based on the data extracted from different databases like SAP and Back office ERP (Non-SAP) systems.
Project
Support
•Part of in-house team and provided support to more than two hundred end users.
About Company:
VPS Healthcare, an integrated Healthcare provider with network of hospitals, chain of medical centers, pharmaceutical manufacturing and pharmacy retail across the global healthcare arena. They are also into ERP software development.
Worked as
As a team member of FICO implementation, performed tasks as per team lead requirements.
• Interacted with client for requirements gathering and analysis, Reviewed and updated the functional design documents for FI/CO developments
• Meet regularly with client to evaluate and suggest changes in process that will enhance the use of SAP.
• Conducted AS - IS study of the business processes and finalized the To - BE process. Configuring and testing of the TO -BE process.
• Configured Company code, business area, controlling area, chart of accounts, chart of depreciation, fiscal year, posting periods, tolerance groups for employees, customer and vendors.
• Configured integration aspects of other modules like material management, sales and distribution and human resource modules.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program and payment terms for vendors.
• Configured customer master data and master groups, configured automatic Dunning program for overdue customers by setting up dunning, Defined cash discounts based upon payment terms, Configuration of terms of payments and interest calculation on open items/ balance outstanding.
• Configured tax on sales & purchases.
• Configured asset master groups, chart of depreciation, assignment of GL accounts for asset classes and creation of depreciation key.
• Configured house banks, bank reconciliation and cash journals.
• Configured and maintenance of Foreign currency exchange rates.
• Configured withholding tax.
• Creation/ upload of master data of GL, vendor, customer, assets, cost center, profit center and internal orders.
• Interacted with ABAP team for converting transaction data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 via ABAP programs.
• Used LSMW tool for data conversion and transfer and upload data.
• Worked with ABAP consultants to develop and test custom programs and reports.
• Participated as a team member to integrate FI/CO with other modules like SD, MM & HR.
• Participated in unit testing and integrated testing
• Prepared end user manuals.
• Provided support after go live on routine and month end activities.
• Successfully completed the roll out project for two sister companies.
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustments accounts for GL, AP & AR.
About Company:
It is a trading company, which is into buying & selling of all kinds of steel and steel raw materials like scrap, billets, deformed steel bars etc.
It is a tourism company, which is a Part of Al Ghurair Group.
About Company:
Beaver gulf group is a
About Company:
Blue Marine International is located in Dubai, Emirates. Company is working in
IRO in Accounts dept.
About Company:
Karvy’s financial services business is ranked among the top-5 in the country across its business segments. The Group offers stock broking, depository participant, distribution of financial products (including mutual funds, bonds and fixed deposits), commodities broking, personal finance advisory services, merchant banking & corporate finance, wealth management, NBFC (loans to individuals, micro and small businesses), Data management, Forex & currencies, Registrar & Transfer agents, Data Analytics, Market Research among others.
Experience in Core Accounting
•Finalization of quarterly, half yearly and yearly financial statements including income statement, statement of financial position, cash flow statement, receivables / payable aging analysis.
•Preparation of daily revenue report and forwarding to senior management.
•Monthly preparation of variance analysis.
•Coordinating with the external auditor in concluding yearly audits.
•Monthly preparation of reconciliation statements (Inter-Companies, bank reconciliation, debtors, creditors and security deposit accounts).
•Monitoring all bank transactions, ensuring proper entries and records are maintained,
• Supervision in preparation of daily and monthly bank position statements
•Monitoring compliance with internal control policies, procedures and responsible to address the queries, implementation of recommendation of internal auditors.
•Daily preparation of bank position and cheques in hand reports.
•Ensure general ledger entries are accurate and are in line with company procedures, posting if any corrections required.
•Regular payments to Local and Foreign agents by cheque/online or manual bank transfer.
•Posting suppliers invoices & checking all supporting documents like purchase order & delivery note before posting invoices.
•New customer creation, invoices, down payment posting, incoming payments & clearing.
•Processing Payroll, calculating annual leave encashment & preparation of full and final settlement as per policy.
•End of the service benefits calculation
•Payroll entries posting and employee account clearing.
•Monthly reconciliation of intercompany accounts
•Maintenance of main petty cash, issuing salary advances to employees.
•Tracking, reconciliation and bills collection, posting in the system against issued advances.
•Preparing monthly Bank Reconciliation Statements of all bank accounts, resolving if any differences in a timely manner.
•Dealing with banks for WPS transfers, payment queries and general financial queries.
•Knowledge & experience in preparing Bank Guaranties & Letter of Credits (LC).
•Periodic reconciliation of vendors, customers, bank and intercompany
•Cost Accounting - cost centres creaton and assigning to GL accounts and cost centres maintenance.
courses: FICO Certification •PMP Certified Professional •Certified in Advanced Excel & Data Analytics from IMA (USA) •SQL •Tableau •Hana Studio, Information Design tool & Web Intelligence •Oracle R12 Financials (GL, AP & AR) Certification. •Pursuing CMA (USA) •S4 Hana 1709 Finance & Controlling and SD •Certified in VAT implementation & Procedures (UAE LAWS) Experience in SAP Modules •FICO (Finance Certified) •SD •MM •BASIS •BI (BASIC KNOWLEDGE IN MM & BASIS FOR RESOLVING ISSUES)