FICO Consultant
Mustafa Sultan Enterprises
(Consumer goods and retail, 250-500 employees)
Keywords
Skills
- 14 years of experience in Finance and Accounts, Budgeting, Audit and Taxation, Cash & Fund Management, and Risk Management and Control of which around 5 years of experience as a FICO Consultant in implementation, Rollout, development, and support projects.
- Expertise in designing and implementing systems to achieve financial discipline and improve the overall efficiency of the organization.
- Finance and Accounting Operations
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Audit & Internal Control
- MIS Management
- Cash & Fund Management
- Accounts Payable & Receivable
- Taxation.
- General Ledger (FI-GL), VAT
- Accounts Payable (FI-AP) & Receivable (FI-AR)
- Asset Accounting (FI-AA)
- FICO – Integrations (MM, SD, HCM, PS)
- Cost center, profit center, internal order
- Distribution cycles, order settlements.
- Well-versed with the HCM module.
- PS Module, POC Method.
Project history
01/2017
-
Present
Company Website: https://www.mustafasultan.com
Project details: MSE group's businesses and interests are diversified in areas such as Information
Technology, Infrastructure, Medical, Telecommunications, Security, electronics, and appliances with
hybrid distribution channels, wholesale retail, and contracting. SAP project was implemented in
three stages across 3 years to cover 12 company codes and business units.
Role: FICO Support.
Duration: Mar 2018 till Now.
SAP roles and responsibilities
* Have worked in the preparation of blueprint, As is & to-be documents, and prepared the GAP
analysis document.
* Worked on configuring GL, AP, AR, AA, and Master data Management.
* Assisted in the testing process to discover errors and issues in business processes.
* Understand business process requirements and help provide appropriate system
solutions.
* Involved in Integration with other modules.
* Performing data integrity checks and testing of operational scenarios to identify gaps in
implementation.
* Preparation of functional specifications for ABAPers to develop reports/forms etc. as per user's
requirements.
* Providing support to critical users in the testing environment.
* Preparation of financial statements, and profit and loss analysis.
* Prepared a global chart of accounts concept across 12 Company codes in MSE.
* Prepared a global customer/vendor master concept across 12 company codes in MSE.
* Have worked with validation & substitution rules.
* Preparation of the legacy data for migration (Master data/open items).
* Have designed the revenue structure across 12 company codes with a global concept
* Introduced and implemented the 2 steps billing process in MSE to meet the requirements of the
accounting matching principle.
* Introduced a complete HCM solution in MSE to cover all the hybrid processes of the group.
* Assisted in implementing SAP VAT transformation in MSE.
* Assisted in designing and testing aging reports (AR/AP/Inventory/Unbilled Delivers).
Non-SAP roles and responsibilities
* Preparing and consolidating group Mgmt. report with complete analysis and supporting schedules.
* Preparing a complete package of operational and financial budget files and submitting every month
variance reports to the concerned business unit head and the top management.
* Assigned to continually improve the process within the finance department by increasing the
quality of our reports, speeding up the process without losing control.
* Developing and formulating HO Allocations between companies and segments.
Project details: MSE group's businesses and interests are diversified in areas such as Information
Technology, Infrastructure, Medical, Telecommunications, Security, electronics, and appliances with
hybrid distribution channels, wholesale retail, and contracting. SAP project was implemented in
three stages across 3 years to cover 12 company codes and business units.
Role: FICO Support.
Duration: Mar 2018 till Now.
SAP roles and responsibilities
* Have worked in the preparation of blueprint, As is & to-be documents, and prepared the GAP
analysis document.
* Worked on configuring GL, AP, AR, AA, and Master data Management.
* Assisted in the testing process to discover errors and issues in business processes.
* Understand business process requirements and help provide appropriate system
solutions.
* Involved in Integration with other modules.
* Performing data integrity checks and testing of operational scenarios to identify gaps in
implementation.
* Preparation of functional specifications for ABAPers to develop reports/forms etc. as per user's
requirements.
* Providing support to critical users in the testing environment.
* Preparation of financial statements, and profit and loss analysis.
* Prepared a global chart of accounts concept across 12 Company codes in MSE.
* Prepared a global customer/vendor master concept across 12 company codes in MSE.
* Have worked with validation & substitution rules.
* Preparation of the legacy data for migration (Master data/open items).
* Have designed the revenue structure across 12 company codes with a global concept
* Introduced and implemented the 2 steps billing process in MSE to meet the requirements of the
accounting matching principle.
* Introduced a complete HCM solution in MSE to cover all the hybrid processes of the group.
* Assisted in implementing SAP VAT transformation in MSE.
* Assisted in designing and testing aging reports (AR/AP/Inventory/Unbilled Delivers).
Non-SAP roles and responsibilities
* Preparing and consolidating group Mgmt. report with complete analysis and supporting schedules.
* Preparing a complete package of operational and financial budget files and submitting every month
variance reports to the concerned business unit head and the top management.
* Assigned to continually improve the process within the finance department by increasing the
quality of our reports, speeding up the process without losing control.
* Developing and formulating HO Allocations between companies and segments.
12/2012
-
11/2016
FICO Consultant
Al Nasser Group
(Consumer goods and retail, 50-250 employees)
Company Website: https://www.alnassergroup.com
Project details: Al Nasser Group was specialized in lighting products and lighting smart solutions,
their product channels are diversified between retail, wholesale & projects. Decided to implement
SAP project across 3 companies.
Role: FICO Support.
Duration: Mar 2014 till 2016.
SAP roles and responsibilities
* Worked on AS IS document and TO BE and helped in the GAP analysis.
* Worked on the configuration of GL, AP, AR, and AA.
* Involved in Integration with other modules.
* Involved in Cutover Activities.
* Post-Go-Live support and preparation of configuration.
* Preparation of training manuals/end-user documents.
Non-SAP roles and responsibilities
* Prepare and review the daily cash flow and monthly cash forecasts for Treasurer and Executive
managers, ensuring that proper liquidity is maintained by developing a cash flow reporting system
focusing on LCs, Refinancing, CAPEX, Coming up debt payments, and Free Cash Flow.
* Manage financial month-end closing and ensure that they are accurate and clearly understood,
Prepare Monthly Mgmt. Reporting pack, Ensuring timely submission with all detailed variance
analysis.
Project details: Al Nasser Group was specialized in lighting products and lighting smart solutions,
their product channels are diversified between retail, wholesale & projects. Decided to implement
SAP project across 3 companies.
Role: FICO Support.
Duration: Mar 2014 till 2016.
SAP roles and responsibilities
* Worked on AS IS document and TO BE and helped in the GAP analysis.
* Worked on the configuration of GL, AP, AR, and AA.
* Involved in Integration with other modules.
* Involved in Cutover Activities.
* Post-Go-Live support and preparation of configuration.
* Preparation of training manuals/end-user documents.
Non-SAP roles and responsibilities
* Prepare and review the daily cash flow and monthly cash forecasts for Treasurer and Executive
managers, ensuring that proper liquidity is maintained by developing a cash flow reporting system
focusing on LCs, Refinancing, CAPEX, Coming up debt payments, and Free Cash Flow.
* Manage financial month-end closing and ensure that they are accurate and clearly understood,
Prepare Monthly Mgmt. Reporting pack, Ensuring timely submission with all detailed variance
analysis.
Certifications
Certified SAP S4HANA FICO Associate
SAP
2022
IFRS
ACCA
2016
Certified Manager
ICPM
2016
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
Oman
Other
NOTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
- Successfully Implemented ERP SAP ECC6 - End to End ERP Finance Business Process Implementation core team member
- (Regional Gold Winner of the SAP Quality Awards - EMEA Region)
- SAP HCM wage types mapping handling and controlling any related financial impacts.
- Intensive experience with Microsoft Dynamics Great plans 2010 with the ability to solve lots of functional problems and find flexible ways to manage the work through the system. (Smash Trading Company)
- Intensive experience with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System 2010 with the ability to manage lots of worksheets inside the system to manage and control the transaction all over the branches. (Smash Trading Company)
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Udemy course by Instructing.com, LLC #4082 (35 PDUs).
- SAP FICO ECC7 training program with live project End to End (1 Year Training Program), provided by V-Tap It in Ameerpet, Hyderabad, INDIA.
- An MNC company operates in more than one country with different currencies & different accounting standards, all are reporting to one headquarters, the project includes multiple ledgers and parallel accounting with all required integrations.
- The project includes a manufacturing process covering all CO module aspects.
