Arshad Razak

SAP FSCM Consultant

Chicago, IL - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Arshad-Razak/355c7abc6941202c

• Around 8 years of experience in implementing SAP with an emphasis on FI/CO modules this includes 2 full
life cycle implementations with hands on experience in support and up-gradation projects.
• Excellent Financial Accounting expertise in configuring General Ledger Accounting (FI-G/L), Accounts
Payable (FI-AP), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR) and Asset Accounting (FI-AA), New General Ledger
especially in highly complex business environment.
• Experience in SAP Treasury - TR: Cash Management, Treasury Management, CML Loans and Market
Risk Management, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Securities.
• Used Collection Management functionality in FSCM for creating a collection work list, preparing and
documenting customer contacts. Improved customer relationships through customer-specific receivables
management and reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
• Expertise in different aspects of a business relating to FI-GL Transactions, Inter Company Transactions,
House Banks, DME, Payment Terms, Cash Discounts, Automatic Payment Programs, Incoming payments,
Partial and Residual payments, Defined check Lots and Void reason codes, Clearing Inter-company Vendor/
Customer Open Items, Reconciliation Accounts, Document Split, Lock Box (BAI2), Dunning, and
Assessment & Distribution Cycles.
• Hands on experience in up gradation from 4.7 to ECC 6.0. Expert in data migration from Classic GL to New GL
• Configured and customized Treasury and investment modules including cash management, bank
statements, payment programming, and payment advises, liquidity forecasts and cash budgeting.
• Possess extensive knowledge in configuring sample document, Recurring entries, Automatic Account
Determinations, Customer and Vendor down payment, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation,
Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, Interest calculation, Automatic clearing (Customer, vendor, GL),
Company code global parameters..
• In Tax accounting, creation of Input and output tax General Ledger accounts, setting up different tax codes in
various countries and assigning them to GL accounts. Resolving user queries in Tax posting journal entries.
• Extensive experience with SAP interfaces in the FI and CO areas that include bolt-on products such as
Vertex/ Taxware tax and Payware for credit card managements.
• Experience in working with DART implementation and extract data from online R/3 applications.
• Finance integration expert in the area of Vendor Invoice Management, Travel Expenses and project
controlling.
• Controlling expertise includes Cost element accounting (CO-CEA), Cost center accounting (CO-CCA),
Statistical key figures (SKF), Profit center accounting (CO-PCA), Internal orders (I/O) and Budgeting,
Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), Product Costing (CO-PC)
• Excellent product costing knowledge which includes Overhead calculation using costing sheet, WIP,
variance calculation, Month end settlements.
• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test
coordination activities.
• Worked with the process owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend
solutions and improvements, and conduct unit testing and validation of process.
• Can lead others by enabling them to achieve and develop while successfully delivering within the project
environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed
organizational skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills with problem solving ability.
• Work with Business partners to understand new business strategies, provide recommendations for
automated solutions.
• Accountable for end to end resolution of incidents; track and monitor incidents throughout the lifecycle.
• Ability to take on challenges and strong determination towards meeting deadlines.

Technical & Software skills

ERP SAP R/3 Version 4.7, ECC 6.0

SAP
Financial: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Lockbox, Sales
and Distribution, Material Management, Automatic payment program, Customer and vendor down payment,
Dunning, Revenue Recognition, Foreign Currencies valuation, Input/output Tax and Withholding Tax, and
Month End Close.
Controlling: Cost Element/Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, and Internal order, Profitability
Analysis, Product Costing.
Integration: FI/CO integration with SD & MM module, HR & AP integration.
Technical: LSMW, ECATTS, Report Writer, Implementation: ASAP Methodology.

Application MS Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, Excel

Platforms Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98, 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7.0/8.0
Testing HPQC, QTP

WORK EXPERIENCE

SAP FSCM Consultant

Charles River Laboratories Inc - October 2014 to January 2015
SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation and Support

Charles River Laboratories, Inc. is an American corporation specializing in a variety of pre-clinical and
clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for configuration setup to Integration In-House cash Management with Procure to Pay,
Payroll, general ledger &Transaction Management.
• Used Biller Direct in FSCM for electronic invoicing and payment collection. Defined distribution for cash
position and liquidity forecast, cash collection strategy. Managed electronic customer billing disputes,
receivables, collections and customer credit risk using FSCM.
• Identified technical improvements in FSCM and the related interfaces focusing on application sharing and
business process optimization.
• Used FSCM to employ tools to analyze credit worthiness and establish policies. Enabled customer access
to invoices, account status and payment information over the internet.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines
during sales order creation for credit checks for different customer risk categories and pricing conditions.
• Maintained Lockbox configuration for automatic incoming payments, Cash Management, Planning levels in
Treasury and EDI & Month End Closings.
• Provided support for Configuration, Implementation and Testing of the customer master records and
incoming payments, Banking & Intercompany transactions.
• Controlled company's accounts receivable processes and ensure cash flows through online billing, more
streamlined handling of billing disputes and collections using FSCM.
• Used Collection in FSCM to ensure faster collection of delinquent payments. Resolved accounts receivable
disputes faster and more systematically through prioritized collection management.
• Provided End -User training and prepared Documentation for the end-users.

SAP FSCM Consultant

W.W. Grainger - April 2013 to August 2014
SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation and Support

W.W.Grainger Inc 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927 in Chicago. Grainger's catalog includes
such offerings as motors, lighting, material handling, fasteners, plumbing, tools, and safety supplies. .

Responsibilities:

• Involved and responsible for sequential phases of ASAP methodology like business Blue printing, gap
analysis, prototype, design, configuration for In-house Cash Management and Cash Management Modules.
• Responsible for configuration setup to Integration In-House cash Management with Procure to Pay,
Payroll, general ledger &Transaction Management.
• Worked with Customer Logistics Team and gathered requirements for applying Routines and Sub-routines
during sales order creation for Credit checks for different customer risk categories and Pricing Conditions.
• Customization for the Global cash position reporting, liquidity forecasting and Planning calculation of the
cash flow, planning and actual versus plan comparison.
• Configuration setting for sale tax, withholding and tax calculation for USA.
• Presented Order to Cash/Procure to Pay business scenario in highlighting FI integration with SD and MM
• Coordinate and document global and regional SAP Cutover requirements and cross-team dependencies
across.
• Designed, configured, and tested Cash Management and Transaction Mgr (FX, Money Market, Securities
and Derivatives Instruments), Cash Position/ Liquidity Forecast, AP and Treasury payments, Electronic Bank
Statement, Lockbox.
• Experience in creating business transaction type and an item type to handle VAT.
• Configuration for Withholding Taxes 1099 Federal and State Tax reporting and 1042 Foreign Vendor/ Non-
Employee Reporting.
• Worked closely with MM consultants for integration of FI-MM using MIRO (invoice verification) and MIGO
(goods receipt)

SAP FICO Consultant

Xcel Energy - Minneapolis, MN - May 2011 to February 2013
SAP - ECC 6.0
Full Life Cycle Implementation
Xcel Energy Inc. is a utility holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving more than 3.3 million
electric customers and 1.8 million natural gas and oil customers.

Responsibilities:
• Worked on all the phases of implementation from development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be
analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training (Job-Aid) and (Modified design after
feedback from users to suit their requirements) GO LIVE.
• Designed and blueprinted a specialized In-House Cash (IHC) solution for centralized payments and inter-
company settlement.
• Established repeatable detailed cutover plans and drove governance through multiple SAP implementations
including all Supply Chain, Finance/Costing, Recruit to Retire, SRM, and numerous SAP modules.
• Configured Company codes, Chart of accounts, Fiscal year variant, Tolerance limits, financial statement
version, G/L accounts for company codes, business area, functional area, currency type, AR, AP, EDI,
Banking, Workflow variant and screen layouts.
• Using DART to periodically extract and retain tax relevant data from active SAP applications.
• Responsible for configuration & settings of ERS to reduce errors relating to Invoice Verification and to
eliminate price & quantity variances.
• Worked on 1099 vendors reporting, Down payment, check form and EDI outbound and inbound
• Maintained various criteria's in the Evaluated Receipt Settlement program - Transaction Criteria, Invoice
Criteria & Test Mode.
• Provided production support for all the issues involved in AP, AR, G/L, Treasury - Liquidity Forecast & Cash
Management, Disputes, Collections, Month End Closing, Special G/L & ERS. Reported weekly on support
ticket numbers and solution turnover time.
• Created contribution margin and user defined profitability reports using reporting tools like Report Writer &
Report Painter and conducted ABAP queries as and when needed and trained users for the same. Also
worked on LSMW for data migration.
• Configured House bank, Bank determination and set tolerances limits, scheduled Automatic Payment
Program for payments to vendors and others, created check lots and online cashed checks. Configured
Lockbox settings for incoming payments as per the BAI2 format and cash management including cash
concentration, wire transfer settings and ACH payments.
• Defined Controlling areas within the company, assigned number ranges to controlling area, maintained
versions, maintained Budget Profile, Planning Profile and Planning Versions in controlling, created various
Cost center and Profit center hierarchies, CO object assignments, Substitution and Validations.
• Configured Primary & Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element Groups and Assigned Number
ranges to groups, configured Automatic and Manual cost element creation.
• Configured CCA through creation of Cost Centers, Activity Types, Cost Center Categories, Statistical Key
Figures, Assessments & Distributions cycles and Allocations for periodic reposting, Planned and Actual
activity price calculations.
• Configured EC-PCA by creating Profit centers, Standard hierarchies, assigned revenue elements, to profit
center, planning profile and planning layouts.
• Defined Internal Order for different order types, maintained Settlement profile and Settlement structure.
Configured Budgeting and Planning for internal orders. Defined settlement profile, settlement structure,
settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements.
• Defined Activity Types and Statistical Key Figures for calculation of over heads and maintained number
range for different operations being performed.
• Modified the copied template operating concern to accommodate client requirements with new
characteristics and value fields. Defined derivation structures and rules for customer characteristics.
• Configured Operating concern attributes and the COPA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to
populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Defined costing sheets for calculating Over head (percentage based over head calculation)
• Configured Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure, costing variant, cost component structure with
structures like BOM and Routing for costing the product provided by PP.
• Extensively worked on Costing run to cost, mark and release multiple materials at same times.
• Configured production order as a cost object to collect actual costs, plan costs and determine WIP at the
end of every period, variance calculation after the order technically completed.
• Customized Period end closing functions including overhead costing, interest calculation and result
analysis and settlement procedures.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM & PP,
account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.

SAP FICO Consultant

Micron - Boise, ID - January 2010 to April 2011
SAP ECC 6.0
Full Life Cycle Implementation
Micron is one of the world's leading semiconductor (DRAM, NAND and NOR Flash memory products)
companies.

Responsibilities:
• Analyzed the existing legacy system; gathered functional requirements through user meetings, gap
analysis, and participation in process improvement teams; produced the functional requirements document.
• Designing business processes and identified areas to streamline processes in multiple functional areas. The
scope of the work and responsibilities involved relating to SAP - Finance (FI) and controlling (CO) modules.
• Configured the settings of Enterprise Structure, Company code global setting Account Groups, Retained
Earnings Accounts, Field Status Variant, Tolerance Groups and Posting Period Variant and set up financial
statement variant..
• Experienced in activating of New G/L and Leading Ledger with creation of Segments and assigning
Scenarios and Customer Fields in the Parallel Ledgers, Document splitting, parallel accounting, parallel
currency, Real Time FICO integration.
• Designed and configured a foreign payments strategy executed by the parent company on behalf of its
subsidiaries using SAP In-House Cash (IHC) module.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for checks, and outgoing payments in Accounts
• Configured Lockbox setup defined control parameters for BAI2 file import, for handling incoming payments
from customers and also worked on Special GL transactions like Down Payments.
• Configured Dunning, Interest calculation, foreign currency valuation.
• Involved in yearend closing book and helped to resolved inconsistency in closing and opening book.
• Configured chart of Depreciation, depreciation areas and depreciation key.
• Preparation and presentation of extensive financial analysis for the annual planning and budgeting
exercise for the bank along with variance analysis for the same.
• Excellent in working with posting validations, substitution rules, forms, interfaces (ALE & EDI), user-exits,
and reporting tools
• Involved in the Configuration of Controlling areas, Company code assignment to Controlling Areas, creation
and assigning of number ranges for Controlling Areas, Version maintenance for controlling areas and
statistical key figure (SKF)
• In Cost Element Accounting created Primary and Secondary Cost Elements, created Cost Element
Groups, maintain Cost Element Attributes and performed unit and system testing.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CCA) maintained Cost Center Hierarchies, cost element groups, cost centers.
Developed for cycles, segments cost center distributions and assessment.
• In Profit Center Accounting (PCA) maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit centers,
Profit center master data, profit center groups etc. and extracted reports using PCA.
• In Internal Orders (CO-IO) configured various internal order types, Defined settlement profile, settlement
structure, settlement rules and cost elements for internal order settlements. Configured Budgeting and
Planning for internal orders, set up tolerances for budget cost and also Configured settlements distribution
cycles for actual cost distribution.
• Created BPP (Business process procedure) 's for end users and conducted end user training.
• Used LSMW for master data transfers, created reports using report painter.
• Provided Post-Go-Live support to users, helped users in solving their problems in live environment, and
reconfigured settings wherever desired by users.

SAP FI Consultant
Smart Modular Technologies - AP, IN - December 2008 to December 2009
SAP ECC 6.0
Support Project
Smart Modular Technologies is a manufacturer of standard and custom computer memory modules, ATA,
Linear Flash and Compact Flash cards, DC-DC Converter products and is a producer of wireless
communications devices and wire line communication sub-systems.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Testing and troubleshooting that the live production sites encountered.
• Creation of User Scenarios for UAT, which defined what action users can take and what result are
expected and to test whether the desired results are achieved.
• Testing of functional issues before fixing them and moving to production.
• Analyzed to various business process of different functional modules like FI, SD and MM.
• Tested various sub modules of FI: Accounts payable (FI-AP), Accounts receivables (FI-AR), GL.
• In Asset accounting, supported fixed assets team. Changes in the configuration of depreciation areas and
loading of additional assets into SAP system.
• Resolved issues regarding the foreign currency valuation by configuring the conversion ratios for parallel
currencies.
• Involved in detailed testing of Invoice verification.
• Worked directly with the end users, conducted various presentations and provided solutions to meet client
specifications.
• In FI perform financial verification on inter/intra company transactions.
• Defined the process of credit management to set the credit limit for customer group.
• Automated GR/IR process of clearing the accounts which has the assignment of goods receipts to the
corresponding invoice receipts used in the purchase order number.
• Trained users at various levels for document entry with concepts like Reversal documents, hold
documents, parking documents, reference documents, editing and document entry screen.

SAP FICO Consultant

Colombo - May 2007 to December 2008
SAP ECC 6.0
Implementation and Support
MAS holding known as one of the largest retail industry in south Asia and using the best technology in both
manufacturing and information systems to set the bar in global industry standard in enterprise resource plan.

Responsibilities:
• Conducted As-Is study interacting with the core team members and developed a To-Be process to suit the
company's objectives using ASAP methodology. Involved in Business Blueprint Phase and worked on field
mapping to study the GAP Analysis.
• Configured General Ledger Accounts (GL), Vendors and Customers master records, Incoming payment,
partial and residual payment, and outgoing payment. Created vendor/customer groups.
• Configured Tax on Sales & Purchase ( Input & output tax), Additional Tax, Sales Tax, Withholding Tax, Tax
code, Tax procedure, Jurisdiction structure and Jurisdiction code.
• Configured foreign currency valuation and also set up the Exchange gain and Exchange loss accounts for
automatic posting.
• Customized Bank accounting, bank master data, house banks and GL accounts in different currencies for
each bank account and sound knowledge of Electronic Bank Statement (EBS) and manual bank statement.
• Worked extensively on the following - Master data, POS interfaces, Procurement and requirement
planning, Merchandise logistics, Assortment planning, SAP Retail store logistics.
• Configured Lockbox with BAI2 format, house banks and bank accounts for Lockbox processing.
• Integration of FI with MM and SD-Complete knowledge of the workflow from the creation of sales order to
delivery and billing in the Sales & Distribution module that involves the Order-to-Cash end to end process as
well as expertise in configuration of account determination in FI from MM and SD transactions.
• Define Dunning Program configuration, Running/Editing Dunning proposals, printing Dunning Notices,
created own correspondence and correspondence type's to meet business requirements, Interest Calculation
program configuration/running interest calculation program.
• Setup Automatic Payment Program, payment methods, ranking order for House Banks for company codes
in Accounts Payable.
• In Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA) created the cost centers, cost center group and maintained the
Standard hierarchy, assigned cost centers to cost elements. Configured Activities, Statistical Key Figures
(SKF)
•Developed cycles and segments for cost center distributions and assessment to allocate cost to cost objects.
• In Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA) maintained the basic setting, created hierarchy, dummy profit
centers, Profit center master data, profit center groups, activity types etc. and extracted reports using PCA
• Created different reports using report painter.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's in Finance
University of Colombo