SHOEB H.

KANPURWALA
Cell: (630) 202-5152 ♦♦♦9331 Waterfall Glen Blvd, Darien, IL 60561 ♦♦♦
Email: Shoaib.Kanpurwala@Gmail.com

Professional Summary
 Seeking a Challenging position as a SAP FICO Business Analyst, where my knowledge
of Finance and Accounting experience allows me to make an immediate contribution with
continued personal and professional growth. Over 5 years of experience in implementing
SAP
with an emphasis on Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Cost
Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), General Ledger and Internal
Orders, understanding of Profitability Analysis (COPA) and Product Costing (PC) those
includes 2 Full life cycles Implementation. Excellent Communication and interpersonal skills
with problem solving abilities, effective in working independently and an exceptional team
player.

Assignments
SAP FI-CO Business Analyst
Industry: World Kitchen LLC., IL
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0
Duration: April 2008 – May 2009

 Resolve Service Request tickets in accordance with agreed upon SLAs helpdesk cases
involving assigned SAP modules through Clarify-Front Office software.
 Creating program specifications for new reports or system capabilities that will be used by
the development Team for ABAP programming
 Analyze, refine and document requirements as part of defined projects and initiatives
 FI- GL: Account Groups, GL Master Records, Sample Accounts, Field Status Groups, Posting Keys,
Automatic Account Determination, Inter-Company Automatic Account Posting, Assignment, Number
Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups and Business Area Accounting, GR/IR accounts
 FI-AR: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Payment Terms and Interest Calculation, Incoming
Payments, Dunning, AR information System, Lockbox Process and Closing operations
 FI-AP: Vendor Groups, Vendor Master Data, Automatic payments, Recurring Entries, Invoices, Credit
Memos, Closing Procedures, Creation of Special G/L and linking with reconciliation accounts
 FI-Asset Accounting: Asset Class, Asset Master Record, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Keys.
 Financial Statements: Financial Closing of G/L, Assignment of G/L accounts in FSV, Financial
Statement Creation
 Bank Accounting: House Banks, Bank Accounts, Manual Bank Statement, Electronic Bank
Statement, Lockbox Processing, Payment Media and Automatic Payment Program
 CO Configuration Skills: Configuring Controlling Areas, Cost Centre Hierarchy, Currency and
Valuation Profile, Cost Centre Accounting (CCA): Creating Cost Centre and Cost Centre Groups.
Activity Types and Statistical Keys, Reposting, Distribution, Assessment and Overheads
 Testing new reports or system changes produced by the Development Team using Test
Director 7.6
 Responsible for Unit, String, Integration, Regression and UAT testing - Includes
performing the test, making changes in configuration based on results and error resolution
 Develop and document use Case Scenarios and Test Cases
 Participate in relevant User Community Meetings to ensure alignment between processes
& technology and identify potential areas of opportunity
 Lead threads of projects and initiatives to deploy New Functionality and/or enhance
Existing Functionality
 Initiate and Implement Process improvements in Finance Processes, such as:
Automation of Manual posting during Closing Period

1
  Develop training materials in collaboration with the Business and assist in the Training
Delivery

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Ryerson Steel, Lisle, IL
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0
Duration: Sept 2007 – Feb. 2008

 Configure Cost Center Accounting - Creation of Cost Center Hierarchy and cost center
groups, link cost and profit centers, attach work centers to cost centers, Distribution cycle
set up – Planned as well as actual, Assessment cycles – Planned as well as actual,
configuration of activity types and plan 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. Create Profit Centers, with Profit Hierarchy
including Dummy profit center. Prepare plans for cost structure i.e. Cost element planning.
 Assist the team in preparing the documentation and provide Go-Live, Post implementation
support. Perform Unit Testing on the system using different test scenarios and test cases
and documentation and end-user training manuals for business users.
 Configure CO-PA - build the operating concern, develop value fields & characteristics,
configure summarization levels for reports and assessments, Cost Center Assessments to
Segments, CO-PA Reports, forms, planning, Derivation Rules and Structures, product
and customer hierarchy, PA Settlement.
 Configured Order Settlement job run on daily, weekly and month end basis with creating a
variants for each job.
 Defined Costing sheet by defining percentage overhead, bases and costing variant (Costing
type, Valuation Variant, Date Control).
 Resolved SAP technical and business process issues in the areas of CO-CEA, CO-CCA,
CO-PCA. For example, configuring new cost element relationships for inter-company
accounting, adding profit centers & cost centers for new business units.
 Involved and support in unit and regression testing in a project for Average Cost, Clear
sales Manufacturing Variance and Archiving job.

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Neutrogena Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7
Duration: Jan 2007 – July 2007

Created Account Groups, Number Ranges, Tolerances and G/L Master in New G/L
 Configured PCA Master Data for New G/L in SAP 6.0
 Created Activity types, Primary Cost elements, secondary cost elements, cost centers,
maintained statistical key figures
 Defined Alternative hierarchies for Assessment and Distribution Cycles.
Accounting Principles to the Ledger Groups
 Developed Various Reports in Reports Painter and Generated reports using ABAB
Query
 Configured Fixed Assets Module- configured all the key elements like chart of
Depreciation, Depreciation areas, various Asset Classes, Account determinations,
Depreciation keys, etc
 Defined accounts for Realized/Unrealized loss/gain due to foreign currency valuation
 Period end closing activities, Assessment, Distribution Cycles, Accruals/Deferral
Postings
 Supported the client in Post Go-Live Session and sustained continuous

2
 improvements
 User Training during final preparation transition

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Cooper Industries, Ltd, Houston, TX
Environment: SAP 4.7
Duration: April 2006- Dec 2006

 Configured Company Codes, General Ledgers, Fiscal Year Variant, Chart of

Accounts, Account Groups, Posting Periods, Parallel Currencies, GL account
Master records and assigned field status groups to the account groups
 Created Customers, Vendors, Account Groups for Vendors and Customers
 Configured Customer Account Groups, Vendor Account Groups, defined payment
terms and tolerance groups. Worked on credit management for the customers
 Defined Tolerances for Customers and Vendors, Payment Terms
 Configured processing of incoming payments, check lots, Credit control area
 Maintained recurring entries and performed automatic payment program extensively
 Define inter-company Clearing accounts Defined Tolerance groups for Employees
 Configured House Banks and Bank Accounts and created GL accounts for
each bank account. Defined check number ranges and check lots
 Groups and linked the Cost Centers to the appropriate Profit Centers
 Performed configuration for Depreciation run at period end close
 Worked on Asset capitalization, Asset retirement as Scrap, Asset Retirement
with Revenue
 Configured Controlling Area, assign number ranges to Controlling area, assign
Company Code to Controlling area, maintained Cost Centre standard hierarchy
 Created Secondary Cost Elements, Assessment and Distribution Cycles
 Cost Allocation structures and Accrual Objects

SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Energen Corporation, Birmingham, AL
Environment: SAP 4.6
Duration: Sept 2005 – April 2006

 Set up employee tolerance groups, field status groups, and automatic account
assignment for the G/L
 Configure G/L Accounts, define different account groups like reconciliation, bank
accounts etc
 Create different G/L accounts centrally and at company code level like Expenses,
Revenue, Cash, Asset and Liability. Work on Account clearing ,Incoming posting
,Outgoing posting, Automatic payment Program, Account Clearing, Interest Calculation
configuration, Payment terms, Business areas, FI Validation and Substitutions
 Customize and configure Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Tax Calculation
Settings, and Asset Accounting, Financial Statement formats as per the US GAAP and the
company group format.
 Create Credit limit for costumers, country/company code specific payment methods,
Manual incoming/outgoing payments, Automatic payment programs for outgoing payments,
Credit memos, Partial payments, Installment payments, Residual payments, claims and
disputed payments.
 Create Number Ranges and assign them to Account Groups for customer/vendor
master, configure and define screen layout for them. Configure vendor/customer who is
also Customer/Vendor as a Trading partner.

3
  Accounts receivable -Sales Accounting, Invoice clearing and collections, Account
Balances, Dunning, Interest calculation.
 Accounts Payable -Purchases Accounting, Outstanding Ageing, analysis, Payment
processing, Terms of Payment
 Customize forms for Dunning Balance list and confirmation of balances or period
closing.
 Configure Controlling Area with number ranges and create cost center group, with
cost hierarchy and cost elements including secondary cost element, maintain versions
 Configure Asset Management like Asset classes, screen layout, Depreciation areas,
Depreciation Key, Depreciation posting rules and Account Determinations
 Prepared for Month End Closing and setting up relevant master data for Allocation
(Assessment and Distributions), Internal Orders, Etc

Jr. SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Arctic Cat Inc. Thief River Falls, MN
Environment: SAP 4.6
Duration: Jan 2005 – Sept 2005

 Defined and configured Chart of accounts and Account Groups

 Assigned Company Codes to Chart of accounts
 Defined and configured Controlling Area
 Defined Templates for configuring recurring entries in General ledger posting
 Made settings for automatic procedures in payment programs for interest
 Configured Incoming payments, Billing and Credit management
 Configured GR/IR clearing accounts
 Configured Down Payments for Vendors
 Automatic Payment Program – Maintaining the Payment Parameters, Scheduled the
Proposal Run, Verified the Exception Lists, Edited the Proposal Lists, Scheduled the
Payment Run, Verified the Payment Document, Spooled and Ran the check printing
program
 Worked on Customer Master Records, Client Specific Payment Terms.
 Settlement of Internal Order to other cost objects
 EC-PCA- CO Area settings, Created Dummy Profit Centers, Created Revenue
Elements, Creation of Actual Profit Centers and Assignment of the same to the
Respective Cost Centers, Generated Various Profit Reports using Report Painter for
Profit Centers
 Defined Asset Classes, depreciation areas, and determined how depreciation areas
post to general ledger, involved in the creation of the assets
Created Accrual Objects, Classifications, Access Keys and Validation Rules
 Configured Fixed Assets module- configured all the key elements like Chart of
Performed configuration for Depreciation run at period end close
 Carried out Reconciliation of Accrual Engine with Financial Accounting
Assigned controlling area to operating concern, Assign SD conditions to the value
Fields

Jr. SAP FI-CO Configuration Analyst

Industry: Lord Corporation, Cary, NC
Environment: SAP 4.5
Duration: Apr 2004 – Nov 2004

 Maintain global settings - Define and assign the enterprise structure, Define
company, areas of business

4
  Configure settings for Company Code, Fiscal year Variant, Chart of Accounts,
Posting Period Variant and Field Status Variant
 Define Account Groups, Number Ranges and Maintain Field Status Groups.
 Create Tolerance Groups for Account Postings, Ledger Account and Document Entry
Process
 Create and Test General Posting and Parked Documents
 Create Interest calculation and foreign currency postings
 Customize General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivables and Accounts payable.
 Work on A/P & A/R and configure customer and vendor master data, local and
global data, number ranges, payment types, manual and automatic payment methods,
partial payments, residual payments, discount payments and also work on issue of credit
memos, cleared dues, reclassification of vendor and costumer accounts
 Set up Credit limits for Customers and tolerance groups to the vendors
 Configure Terms of Installment Payment and assign Customer Master records.
 Set up Enterprise Structure in controlling area and assign company codes

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Major: Accounting; BSBA, May 1989

ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Masters in Business Administration; Finance
Expected Graduation – Dec, 2010

KEY COMPETENCIES
Adaptability
Critical Thinking
Customer Focus
Decision Quality
Communication
Drive for Results
Integrity and Trust
Priority Setting
Relationship Building
Analytical Skills

REFERENCES
Available upon request