Laith Solagh     

SUMMARY:

·         7 plus years of functional experience in implementing, configuring, integrating, customizing, SAP Library and support on SAP R/3 Financial Accounting and Controlling with 6 years of IT industry experience

·         Three full cycles of SAP R/3 implementation with ASAP Methodology and project experiences.

·         SAP Project System (PS) experience

·         Team lead and Project manager experiences for many projects (leading team members, assign work, evaluating vendor product, developing test procedures, configuring SAP, creating project plan and training).

·         Configuring & building up organizational structures which include sales organization distribution channel, division, sales offices and sales groups.

·         SAP Telecommunications on Interfaces in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

·         SAP Utilities working with Master Data, Device Management, Billing, and Invoicing.

·         Extensive experience in configuration of SAP FI/CO modules- General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable, Cost Center Accounting , Profit Center Accounting , and Asset Accounting

·         Managed the configuration and implementation of controlling module including Profitability Analysis, Product Costing with multiple valuations, budgeting, Cost center and Profit Center Accounting in North America.

·         Experienced manager of SAP HRMS rollout and maintenance team.

·         Hands on experience in New GL Accounting

·         SAP ECC versions. Like ECC 6.0

·         Worked on full life cycle implementations which involve Process Study, Configuration, Blueprint and Gap Analysis during the project

·         Supported daily operations of SAP R/3 modules of SEM, BW and CRM.

·         Strengths include strong understanding of the business processes and conversion of business requirements into SAP solutions in the most cost effective manner.

·         Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines, motivated to develop successful solutions.

·         Extensive experience in integrating FI with CO, MM, and SD modules.

·         Experienced in documenting functional specifications, configuration, and training.

SKILLS:

·         Finance: General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, and Cash Management.

·         Controlling: Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis.

·         Integration: Material Management and Finance (MM/FI), Sales & Distribution and Finance (SD/FI), Controlling and Finance (FI/CO).

·         Configuring Material Management MM & Sales & Distribution SD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dow Chemical, Midland, MI                                                                                           Oct 08 to Aug 10

SAP FI/CO Team Lead Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Involved in the customizing and configuration SAP R3 modules: FI (GL, AR, AP, Treasury and AA), CO- Product Costing, CO-PA, Cost Center, Profit Center, and Internal Order.

·         Worked closely with HR to understand business processes and requirements.

·         GL, New GL, AP, AR and cost center, Product Costing, CO-PA, Profit Center, and Internal Order.

·         Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).

·         Working on Project System (PS) by using External finance projects & internal finance projects also using Currencies and multiple financial approaches.

·         Configuration of various Account Groups as per customer classification, and defined partner functions, Maintaining Partner Determination Procedures in various objects such as Customer Masters, Sales Document Header & Item, delivery, billing docs etc.

·         Configured sales documents, billing, shipping, credit management, consignments etc.

·         Worked on some of SAP Telecommunications on Interfaces in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable.

·         Configured Customer master, material master, contract management and pricing

·         COPA (profitability analysis) User documentation, assistance with security testing and go-live cut-over documentation

·         Managed the development of FICO module with design for product costing using sales order costing functionality, profitability analysis, cost center planning and internal orders etc.

·         Worked on some of SAP Utilities working with Master Data, Device Management, Billing, and Invoicing.

·         Managed a team of 10 consultants to conduct Inventory, MRP, Purchasing, Quality, Production and Logistics process improvement workshops, document technical requirements, establish data governance organization, cleanse data and implement BI.

·          Responsible for the business development activities of project planning, budget estimation and statement of work creation.

·         Performed project planning, estimating, resource loading, scope and risk management.

·         Led system design to analyze profits by individual plants to facilitate top management during plant closures and product line divestures.

·         Working as a team lead to monitor and manage the team members and solve their issues if needed.

·         Responsible for special projects in controlling that involves high visibility,

·         Technical complexity and repeated interactions with user community.

·         Implementation of System tools and training that allowed easier month end financial reporting.

·         Led workshops in several cross functional (Supply Chain and Finance) areas that became the core of the global template. Profitability analysis and back flush process.

·         Configured & maintained CO Product Costing,

·         Study of existing chart of accounts and various business processes & customization.

·         Configured global settings, Chart of Accounts, and field status per company code, general ledger posting, display GL reports, open and close posting periods, and year end closing GL, worked on month-end and year-end processes (balance sheet and profit & loss statements).

·         System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account.

·          Established the use of SAP HR for all recruitment, training, career development,   compensation, benefits, and employee self service.

·         In AP, created vendor list, maintained master data and affected changes to master data as needed

·         Worked on vendor invoices and credit memos, used recurring entry program to generate documents for recurring transactions.

·         In AR, created customer account groups, posted manual and automatic payments, used dunning procedures.

·         Created cost elements group, cost center, cost center group, cycle, profit center, and profit center hierarchy.

·         Internal Orders comprised of maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control, etc.

·         Configuring MM (Consumption- based planning, Purchasing, Supplier Workplace, External service management, GR/IR).

·         Configuring SD (Basic Functions, Sales, Shipping, Billing, pricing and Conditions, Sales Support, Credit and risk management, Material Sorting, Transportation).

·         Working on some of the configuration of the following modules SEM, BW, CRM. To come up with different design idea and solutions.

American Airline (AA) project work for EDS, Troy, Michigan                           April 07 to July 08

SAP FI/CO Team Lead Consultant
RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Involved in configuration & Upgrading FI/CO, MM, SD project from 4.5B to ECC6.0, End user training and support as team player

·         Working as a team lead to monitor and manage the team members and solve their issues if needed.

·         Configuration and Modifications to SAP AR, AP, AA, GL and CO modules.

·         Involved in Unit Testing,, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Integration Testing, Volume Testing and Performance Testing

·         Created Chart of Accounts, asset classes, Master Data, Valuation, Asset types, allocations of number ranges and transfers of legacy data in Asset Management Module. Defined depreciation areas, depreciation terms, and periodic processing. I have also configured tax depreciation books.

·         Gathered business requirements, prototyped, and architected the SAP-FICO solution for the master data, contract management, service order processing, middleware, and pricing/billing.

·         Managed delivery of SAP development objects. Coordinated communication with off-shore delivery centers, provided guidance to functional designers, and reported metrics to senior leadership.

·         Configured FI global settings, account groups, tolerance groups, field status groups, fiscal year variants, posting period variants.

·         Provided users with training and tools needed to meet 2 day closing deadline after conversion to SAP; with complete reconciliation of FI & CO.

·         Hands on experience in configuring Account Based profitability analysis and extensive use of user exits in COPA to derive characteristics values in data structure for COPA reporting.

·         Defined chart of accounts, global parameters for different company codes, dunning procedure, automatic payment program and tax procedures.

·         Defined foreign currency valuations, currency factors for currency conversion and entered exchange rates in global settings to enable foreign currency transactions.

·         Created GL master records, customized automatic account assignment settings for posting keys, defined document types and number ranges, configured GL transactions.

·         In Accounts payable, created vendor list, tolerance groups, number ranges, maintained vendor master data and executed the changes as needed as processed open items.

·         Configured and maintained House Banks with multiple Bank Accounts, Alternate Bank Selections for Payments, assigned check lots, automatic payment program and structured G/L bank accounts and check lots.

·         Executed automatic postings and conducted payment programs and outgoings payments and carried out execution.

·         Defined cash discounts based on the payment terms.

·         Implemented and assisted with multiple Reporting Issues.

·         Responsibilities included creation of roles, user profiles and authorizations and maintaining the same.

Hallmark, Inc   KS                                                                                                             Sep 06 to Mar 07

SAP FI/CO Team Lead Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Performed assessment of business requirements, documented the findings, assessed scope of studies & suggested solutions through SAP for implementation and customizations.

·         System configuration and testing in the areas of GL, AR, AP, CCA, CO-PC, and AA

·         Configured Company codes, Posting Period variants, Fiscal year variants, Field status groups, Number ranges, Tolerance groups, assigning the variants to company code.

·         Maintained customer master records, configured the system for daily accounting transactions, worked on closing procedures for post value adjustments and balance carry forward program in Account Receivable.

·         Configured the system for the creation of Account Receivable invoices and posting of manual incoming payments with difference and defined reason codes for payment differences and worked on writing of these differences to General Ledger Accounts.

·         Created vendor groups, number ranges and assigning, creation of tolerance groups, creation of vendor master and document types.

·         Configured payment program which includes creation of bank account G/L structure, company code payment methods, and payment creation of FI-AR customer groups, overall receivables and employee tolerances, terms of payment and interest calculation configuration, conducted credit management for customers, creation of master records and number ranges.

·         Set up payment run and check formatting and printing.

·         Configured and maintained House Banks, Payment Programs, Automatic Payment Methods    configuration, Alternate Bank Selections for Payments.

·         In Asset Accounting, specified maximum value for low value assets, determined depreciation areas for special depreciation, assigned GL accounts for special valuations.

·         Maintained the Master Records like Cost Elements (primary and secondary), Cost Element Groups, activating the reconciliation ledger, and maintaining accounts for automatic     reconciliation posting.

·         In Cost Center Accounting, created cost centers, activity types, statistical key figures, Cost Center Standard Hierarchy, cost center categories, document numbers, maintained default account assignments and automatic account assignments, validations and substitutions, distribution and assessment.

·         In Profit Center Accounting, Configured Profit center Master Data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit center Accounting.

·         Configured price updates, cost estimates with quantity structure and without quantity structure

·         Internal Orders comprised of maintaining order types, screen layouts, order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control, etc.

·         Implementation of Internal Orders for research and development projects including creation of Internal Order Groups, Budgeting, Corrected Entry Errors, and Reposted Transactions.

·         Processed Recurring Documents and configuration of one-time vendor screen layouts.

·         Resolved integration issues among FI, CO, MM and SD. provided configuration support in MM integration for account determination, material movement setup.

·         Involved in development of test scenarios/test cases and resolved issues at unit testing and integration, End user training.

·         Provide user training of new configuration and reporting to management and business groups.

·         Generated reports using Report Writer and Report Painter.

Scotts, Columbus, OH                                                                                                       Aug 05 to Aug 06

SAP FI/CO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Involved in the customizing and configuration SAP R3 modules: FI (GL, AR, AP, and AA), CO- PC.

·         Study of existing chart of accounts and various business processes & customization.

·         Configured global settings, Chart of Accounts, and field status per company code, general ledger posting, display GL reports, open and close posting periods, and year end closing GL, worked on month-end and year-end processes (balance sheet and profit & loss statements).

·         System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Account.

·         In AP, created vendor list, maintained master data and affected changes to master data as needed

·         Worked on vendor invoices and credit memos, used recurring entry program to generate documents for recurring transactions.

·         In AR, created customer account groups, posted manual and automatic payments, used dunning procedures.

·         Used AR information system to analyze customers based on payment history, overdue items, due date breakdown.

·         Assigned activity groups in FI-SL and created respective field movements for FI postings and Reconciliation postings.

·         Documented the critical changes, trained the team members in the client team about the new system functionality, and tested the integration of FI/CO with various modules such as SD and MM.

·         In Asset Accounting, configured chart of Depreciation, Asset class, Asset under construction, Depreciation key, scraping.

·         Designed structure for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting and Internal Orders.

·         Configured Standard Hierarchy for Cost center accounting, Created cost centers, defined Primary cost elements and assigned cost elements to their relevant cost centers, defined activity types and statistical key figures for cost centers.

·         Analysis of cost centers, assessment/distribution cycles, and cost element groups.

·         In Product Costing (CO-PC) configured the material cost estimate with and without quantity structure, configured cost object controlling, configured WIP calculations, variance calculations, maintained settlement structures, configured costing variants and valuation variants and made assignments.

·         In Internal Orders maintained order types, screen layouts, maintained order groups, status management, overhead costing sheets, maintained settlement rules, settlement profile, planning profile, budget profile, availability control.

·         Settled cost elements to GL accounts, worked on GL-COPA reconciliation.

·         Implemented Costing based CO-PA, created and activated operating concern environment, defined different characteristics and value fields in the operating concern data structure and also implemented characteristic derivations.

·         Provided production support as and when required.

Hollingsworth, Dearborn, Michigan                                                                             Jun 04 to Aug 05

SAP FI/CO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Configured the organizational structure from accounting view - Company Code, Chart of Accounts, defined posting keys, maintained field status variants and assign to company code, screen variants for document entry as per business specifications and tested the configuration in various scenarios.

·         Configured and Customized FI Module (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, Cash Management)  and integrated with other SAP Modules.

·         Configured General Ledger – Created Master records, accounts groups, number ranges and G/L accounts company code, accounts maintenance and preparation to master files, house banks, interest calculations etc.

·         Configuration of AR and AP modules-for vendors and customers, interest calculations on item balance interest calculation, automatic payment program, credit management etc.

·         Created account assignment models for recurring entries.

·         Defining specifications for preparing balance sheets at periodic intervals, for business area balance sheets and for GR/IR clearing accounts reconciliation

·         In Controlling, created controlling areas, assigned controlling areas to company codes, created primary cost elements by uploading the income statements g/l accounts, created secondary cost elements viz. assessment cost elements, allocation activity type cost elements, settlement cost element, cost center standard hierarchy, statistical key figures, master data groups, period ending activities like assessments, distributions, reposting, master data report, costing sheet and assigned the cost elements to various cost centers.

·         Created cost elements group, cost center, cost center group, cycle, profit center, and profit center hierarchy.

·         Integrated Asset management with General Ledger.

·         Configuration of activity types and planning them on different cost centers, configuration of the system for planned and actual activity price calculations.

·         Implementation of Internal Orders for research and development projects.

·         In Profit Center Accounting, configured Profit center structure, Standard Hierarchy, Configured Profit center Master Data, assigned different Controlling Objects to Profit center Accounting.

Maxtrol, Southfield, Michigan                                                                                       Jul 03 – May 04

SAP FI/CO Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Supported the client in FI/CO upgrade for GL, AR, AP, AA, and CCA

·         Supported in setting up company codes, chart of account, positing variants, fiscal year variants, foreign currencies, cost element accounting, cost centers accounting, internal orders, and profit centers.

·         Provided configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing.

·         Accounts Payable Vendor Masters, Incoming Invoices, Payment Program, and Check management, Down Payment, Recurring Entries, Invoice Verification, MM Automatic Account Determination and GR/IR Clearing.

·         Configured outgoing payments, including automatic payment configuration. Executed automatic     payment programs.

·         Accounts Receivable Customer Masters, Incoming Payments, Handling of Discounts & Rebates, Detailed Revenue Account Determination (SD), and revenue recognition, Credit Management, Dunning, Correspondence and Clearing Open Items.

·         Maintained Master Data and structures for Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, General Ledger, Internal Orders, Asset Accounting and the Treasury Module

·         Performed End User Training in the functional areas of A/R, A/P, G/L, A/A and CO-Internal Orders and Cost Centers.

·         Provided post production support for all Asset management issues.

·         Provide production support after Go-live.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

·         ERP                                                       : SAP R/3 4.5B, 4.6c, 4.7

·         ERP                                                       : ERP Central Component (ECC 6.0).

·         Methodologies used                          : ASAP (Accelerated SAP).

·         Operating Systems                             : MS Windows 2000/98/95/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux.

·         Programming Languages               : C, C++, Java, SQL.

·         MS Office                                             : MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Excel.

Winner of the Senior Design Competition at UMD

·         Received first place in the CIS department with four other team members.

·         Project: Exporting and Importing EDI files through an FTP Server. (HTML front end, python application, SQL database for back end).

·         My duties: Project management: which was one of our top qualities (Requirements Specification, Design planning,         Quality Assurance, Testing plan & Risk Management), and creation of front end (web page).

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Majoring in (Software Engineering) (B.SC.SE)

            University of Michigan, USA

·         Associate of Computer Science Degree

            Wayne County Community College, USA