SAP Certified Consultant (S0007177174) | Techno functional Consultant SAP IS-U FICA

Gulrez Alam
Mobile: +91-845 181 4567 | Email: alam.gulrez@gmail.com
Professional Synopsis

A dynamic professional having 9 years of experience in IT industry with 8+ years of technical/functional

experience in SAP IS-Utilities with functional knowledge on SAP ISU-FICA module.
Experience in business requirements gathering, designing process configuration, gap analysis, design
implementation, testing and deployment, production support, user manual documentation and end user
training in SAP IS-U FICA (Contract accounts receivable and payable)
Currently working with Capgemini India as a Sr. Consultant (P5 level).
Worked with Accenture IDC as a Team Lead since March 2010 till Oct 2013 as ISU-FICA Techno
functional Consultant.
SAP Certified associate (S0007177174).
Worked on Dunning by procedure & dunning by collection strategy with BRF (Business Rule Framework).
Worked on Dunning by collection strategy with BRF+ (Business Rule Framework Plus).
Worked on the configuration of Main and Sub transactions, G/L accounts, Collection agencies and
collection items etc.
Good knowledge about FQ Events.
Worked with business (FBAs) in designing external collection agency for managing receivables of a
customer involved in a legal dunning procedure to prevent loosing the receivable and also worked in
generating dunning correspondence letters.
Worked on Security Deposit, Security Deposit Interest, Late payment charges (LPC) / Late payment Interest
(LPI), Write-off, Instalment Plan etc.
Recognized for reliability and getting the job done through persistence and a strong work ethics.
All sort of Reporting like classical Report, Interactive Report and ALV Report especially handling huge
data volume.
Worked with Modularization techniques like Sub-Routines and function modules, RFCs, BAPI, Print
Workbench Forms (PWB) for various correspondences, Enhancement, User Exits.
Having good working knowledge in Module Pool Programming & Smart Forms.
Preparing Test Scenarios, Unit Testing and Integration Testing in Quality Server.
Efficient in end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study,
designing, coding, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation.
Skilled in analyzing the customers business requirements, needs and objectives and mapping them to the
processes, solutions and products that are being implemented.

SPECIALIZATION
Configuration of FICA processes like account assignment, payment processing, security deposits, dunning,
instalment plan, returns processing, automatic clearing and submission to collection agencies.
Designed and worked extensively in implementing Collection Strategy using Business Rules Framework (BRF+)
for the collections management process.
Configuration of processes to integrate FICA with Invoicing module such as posting interest during invoicing,
deferring items, posting of statistical to actual items and account maintenance.

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Academics
Degree
Bachelor of Technology
(B.Tech)

Institute
U.P Technical University
Lucknow

Major and Specialization

Year of Passing
Computer Science & Engineering
2005
(CSE)

Work Profile

Currently working with Capgemini as a Senior Consultant since December 2013 till date.
Worked with Accenture as a Team Lead since March 2010 as SAP ISU-FICA Techno functional Consultant
till October 2013.
Worked with CMC Limited (A TATA Enterprise) from March 2006 to March 2010 as Sr. SAP ABAP
Consultant in various modules like IS-Utilities (ISU), MM, PP, SD, FI, IS-U, HR-ABAP, PWB, Smart
Forms etc.

Professional Experience
Current Organization
I am currently working with Capgemini India as a Senior Consultant (SAP ISU).
Project # 8: Gas Natural, OH, USA (SAP IS-U Implementation)

Clients
Environment
Duration
Role

: Gas Natural, OH
: SAP ECC 6.0
: Since July 2014 till date
: Senior Consultant SAP ISU (Techno functional SAP ISU
FICA)
Responsibilities : Gas Natural has 15 company codes spread across 7 states in United States of America. I
am responsible for all the activities related to dunning and collection management which includes attending
workshop, interaction with client for requirement gathering, writing Business Process Document (BPD),
Functional Specification Document (FSD), interaction with offshore team (developer) for the walkthrough
and UAT for the same.

Project # 7: Hydro one Canada (SAP Support)

Clients
Environment
Duration
Role

: Hydro one Canada

: SAP ECC 6.0
: Since May 2014 till June 2014
: Senior Consultant SAP ISU (Techno functional SAP ISU
FICA)
Responsibilities : I am responsible for the team co-ordination (Mumbai, Kolkata & Bangalore team) and
to ensure proper KT is given to offshore team(s) by the onshore team (Canada) to deliver the assigned
objects (defects) with quality works.

Project # 6: Saarthi SAP Implementation

Clients
Environment

: TATA Power Company Ltd. Mumbai India

: SAP ECC 6.0

SAP Certified Consultant (S0007177174) | Techno functional Consultant SAP IS-U FICA

Duration
Role

: December 2013 till April 2014

: Collection management expert (Techno functional SAP ISU
FICA)
Responsibilities : Interaction with the client team for defining and aligning business processes related to
dunning & collection management. I have designed entire solution through dunning by collection strategy
with BRF plus related to dunning and collection management and written FDs for dunning correspondences
and collection agency files.

Project # 5: EDF-Orchard Project. (SAP Implementation)

Clients
Environment
Client
Duration

: EDF-Orchard.
: SAP ECC 6.0
: EDF Energy UK
: March 2010 - till Oct 2013.
(March 2010 to June 2012 Accenture Pune,
July 2012 till January 2013 Accenture UK, Client site
EDFE UK)

Role

: Team Lead | Techno-functional consultant IS-U FICA.

Responsibilities :

Team Lead for technical build team and design team.

Worked with the Solution Architects and other team leads to explore specific solutions and define
the scope of the requirements.
Worked extensively in collection management, BRF configuration for dunning by collection
strategy.
Written FDs for collection management, decommissioning, prepayment, fall off plan, recall
collection items and close work items, configure dunning steps including creditworthiness score.
Designed SAP configuration and customization to meet the business process design and
application requirements.
Meeting with FBAs / Sr. FBAs (Functional Business Architects) to discuss designed solutions and
secure FDs sign-off after detailed discussions.
Storm POC for ISU FICA objects and interaction with agents to resolve incident requests (IRs).
Was contact between on site and off shore teams to ensure that all the processes ran smoothly and
ensured offshore team have got proper KT about the Business Processes.
Validated the design with the stakeholders to ensure that the design satisfies the requirements
Supervised process analysts, functional designers, and programmers (off-shore) in completing
designs and related build objects.

Client Description:
EDF Energy, UK is an integrated energy company in the United Kingdom, with operations spanning electricity
generation and the sale of gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom at
competitive prices. It employs over 20,000 people and handles 6 million customer accounts.
Work Descriptions:

Efficiently managing various small and large ABAP engagements.

SAP Certified Consultant (S0007177174) | Techno functional Consultant SAP IS-U FICA

Worked as a Team Lead and responsible for implementing new functionalities and providing production
support for FICA module.
Worked in the development and releases for Orchard change release with the FICA team. This includes
scope, deliverables, timelines and resources, identifying and recruiting team members, and preparing and
assisting in the preparation of individual work plans.
Working closely with Functional Consultants for reducing the time spent in understanding the critical
issues while implementation to ensure seamless delivery of services to the customer. Also inform our
organization about customer needs, trends in marketplace and alerts them of potential long-term
opportunities.
Worked with FICA team in designing the external collection agency for managing receivables of a customer
involved in a legal dunning procedure to prevent loosing the receivable and also worked in generating
dunning correspondence letters.
Prepared review check list document for Function Design, Technical Design, code build.
Reviewing Technical Designs and code before sending it to product testing, regression testing and finally to
production.
Have done BRF (Business Rule Framework) configuration for dunning by collection strategy.
Experienced in working Product Testing, Regression testing phases and supported the test team for issue fix
during the component and product test phases.
Managing technical team in the design and build effort for the RICEF components by providing functional
support in FICA.
Coordinating with on-site coordinator for expediting the issue clarification and component sign-off.
Reviewing Functional requirements and estimating the efforts and committing the deliverables.

Work Descriptions:
Previous Organizations
Worked with CMC Limited (A TATA Enterprise) as an SAP ABAP Consultant from March 2006 till March 2010.

Project # 4: TATA Power Co. Ltd. Mumbai (SAP Support)

Clients
: TATA Power Co. Ltd. Mumbai
Environment
: SAP ECC 6.0
Client
: ISU client.
Duration
: From June 08 to March 10
Role
: Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant
Responsibilities : Detail analysis of the client requirements and identifying the RICEFW Objects.
Development of Technical Design for IS-U technical objects. Worked on IS-U-FICA, HR-ABAP, MM, SD
and FI modules Code Review of the developed components. Worked extensively on Print Workbench
Forms (PWB) and smart forms.
Client Description:
Tata Power is Indias largest integrated power company with a significant international presence. Tata
Power is one of the largest renewable energy players in India and are developing the countrys first 4000
MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology.

Tata Power has a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz generation (thermal, hydro, solar,
wind and liquid fuel), transmission and distribution.

SAP Certified Consultant (S0007177174) | Techno functional Consultant SAP IS-U FICA

Tata Power expansion plans include the 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra in Gujarat and the
1000 MW Thermal Power Project at Maithon (in partnership with DVC).

Work Descriptions:
Major development work involves.

Review functional specifications to check the technical feasibility before baseline version prepared.

Prepare and review technical specification documents.

Review ABAP Codes.

My skill set comprises of the following:-

Reports(Classical and Interactive ALV) | Functional Module/RFC/BAPI | FQevents | User Exits/Screen

Exits | Data dictionary concepts (Tables, structure, Views, Search Helps)) | BADI(Primary Knowledge) |
BPEM/EMMA Case | Module-pool programming | Debugging | Performance Tuning | Interface
programming

Project # 3: Unnati (SAP Implementation)

Clients
Environment
Client
Duration
Role

: Sanghvi Forging & Engg. Ltd. Baroda Gujarat, India

: SAP ECC 6.0
: SAP R/3
: April 07 to May 08
: SAP ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities : Development of Technical Design for MM, FI, SD PP and QM modules for build team
Build technical objects for MM, FI, SD PP and QM modules.
Testing and review of technical objects.
Developed ALV Grid/Classical & Interactive Reports & Smart Forms for FI, SD, MM, PP & QM
Implemented BADI / BAPI and user exits.
Developed BDC(s) to upload data to SAP system.
Completed numerous RICEFW design and quality reviews

Client Description:
Sanghvi Forging & Engineering Limited (SFEL) is the manufacturer of various forging and machined components
for Process & Heavy Industrial application.
Since its commencement in 1989, SFEL has achieved several milestones and is amongst leading forging suppliers
for the Core Sector in various grades of steel. Company is recognized by reputed customers and Inspection Agencies
for its quality products.
Work Descriptions:

Handling technical team & distributing deliverables, Preparing Timesheets and Project Plan Documents.

Preparing Design Specifications and Technical Document Templates.

Working on reports (ALV, Interactive and Classical).

Worked on enhancements in FICA called FQ events,

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Function module and BAPIs / BADIs.

Creation & Maintenance of Tables, Structures & Views, and other dictionary objects.

Define Responsibilities for developers and review their developments.

Project # 2: Barcode Implementation

Client
Environment
Client
Duration
Role

Responsibilities :Associate IT Engineer

: Airports Authority of India, New Delhi India

: Microsoft.Net (C#), Oracle and HHRDT (Hand held radio data terminal devices)
: Airports Authority of India, New Delhi India
: Jan 07 to Mar 07.
: ABAP/4 Developer.

Client Description:
Airports Authority of India (AAI) manages a total of 125 Airports, which include 11 International Airports, 08
Customs Airports, 81 Domestic Airports and 25 Civil Enclaves at Defence Airfields. AAI also provides Air Traffic
Management Services (ATMS) over entire Indian Air Space and adjoining oceanic areas with ground installations at
all Airports and 25 other locations to ensure safety of Aircraft operations.
Work Descriptions:
Integration of BARCODE with ICMS (Integrated Cargo Management System) at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai &
Kolkata Cargo Terminals.
Development of technical objects.
Component testing
Integration testing
Created end user manual documents
Conducted end user training
Project# 1: Web-EDI (Web based Electronic Data Interchange)

Client
Environment
Client
Duration
Role

: Airports Authority of India, New Delhi India

: Microsoft.Net (C#), Oracle
: Airports Authority of India, New Delhi India
: Mar 06 to Dec 06
: ABAP/4 Developer.

Responsibilities :Associate IT Engineer

Responsibility:

Development of Export Module

Testing of Import module Testing of technical objects Imparted Web-Edi training in AAI HQ Delhi & AAI
Cargo Terminal, Chennai for AAI Users & Managers

Personal Details

Mobile
Passport No.

: +91 845 181 4567

: M7588831 valid till 17th Mar 2025

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US Visa (B1)
Permanent Address
Nationality
Location

: J5687647 valid till 7th Oct 2024

: Mohalla Rajdepur, Ghazipur U.P 233001

: Indian
: Mumbai