SUMMARY:

• 11 Years of experience in Oracle applications implementation as Project Manager / Project Lead / Functional Lead in Oracle Applications R12 & 11i E - Business Suite Projects and Financials Modules
• Proficiency in Order to Cash and Procure to Pay Cycles.
• Experience in a global delivery model working with onsite/ offshore core team as a Project Manager / Team player with great interpersonal and communication skills.
• Worked on various Oracle Applications Instances (more than 30 Instances) and has extensive experience to the Confidential Process & Environment.
• Ability to lead and deliver complex projects on tight schedules.
• Expertise in Functional Requirement Analysis, Solution Design, Fit-Gap Analysis, Configuring Applications, Business Users, Testing, and Documentation.
• Great learning skills to adapt the rapid changing technologies and implementing the same at work.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks works independently and quickly adapt to new technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, team management skills, People management and result oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP Packages: Oracle Apps 11i, R12 ( General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Manufacturing, Project Management, Purchasing)

Applications: MS Office

Operating Systems/Platforms: Win 9x/NT/2000, MS-DOS

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

Test Management Tools: Quality Center 9.0

Project Management Tools: KINTANA

Tools: TOAD, Data Loader, HPSD, SQL, PLSQL

Version Control: VSS, CVS, Documentum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager & Finance Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for primary deliverables for the projects including Project Definition Documents, Project Schedule, Organization Charts, Project Budgets, Cut-over Plan, Resource allocations and management
• Responsible for issue mitigation arising in the projects
• Designing cut over strategies for deployment into development, test and production environments
• Monitoring and controlling the Project deliverables and deliver as per project plan.
• Attending the status meetings and circulating status reports to all the stakeholders.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of the detailed project plans
• Responsible for resource allocation strategy involving in the project teams
• Responsible for detailed reporting and presentation decks for leadership management and stakeholder of the project.
• Responsible for detailed budget maintenance and establishing controls to minimize variances
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues.
• Solution design of integrating oracle applications with legacy systems
• Code review and documentation efforts
• Analyze user requirements and develop/enhance/maintain the Oracle application systems
• Analyze existing RICEW objects in R12 (Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Enhancements and Workflows)
• Provide subject matter expertise on functionality and capabilities of the Oracle AP, FA and GL
• Participate in architectural and design reviews
• Perform the CRP/Proof of concept for Financial modules
• Review and Prepare BR100 documentation and user material

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating with the Team from Onsite and Offshore, Working closely with the Client, Team and other supporting teams, working on all Project Accounting modules (Project Contracts, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Management)
• User Requirements and Analysis for new reports and functionalities
• Providing User on Oracle Applications and accounting process flows (Projects to Cash)
• Assisted Users in System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Responsible for the functional system testing including performance, reliability, regression and other operational aspects.
• Addressing areas for changing their processes and procedures in how they use the module to make these more consistent.
• Refining project views identify project classification; configure the data fields and structures to support the classifications.
• Configure expense types to support the cost reporting for appropriate classification and Coordinate retention of key supporting documents within the Oracle Collaborative Suite.
• Documented their approach recommendation of all Oracle Projects, financial module to current version/patch set level.
• Assisted users in closing sub-ledger and GL books.
• Managed the end to end Accounting validation process for the Projects and finance modules and other related business processes.
• Define escalation / SLA’s / response / resolution time for related problems on the basis of criticality.
• Monitoring and controlling the Project deliverables and deliver as per project plan.
• Attending the status meetings and circulating status reports to all the stakeholders.
• Prepared CF250 documents, review MD200 documents.
• Review BR100 documents
• Team Coordination and Client Interactions on a day-to-day basis.
• Supporting Technical Team members & Users with the issues.
• Working closely with Quality, Metrics and Operations Team for the smooth flow of the Projects.
• Requirement Gathering/Analysis - Eliciting requirements from the clients spread across the Globe.
• Documentation - Creating & maintaining various documents like - Statement of work, Functional Specification, Use Cases, User guides, screen mock-ups, Report Specification, change tracking document.
• Liaising - Point of contact among the client, development & testing teams.
• QA - Assist the Independent system testing team in understanding the functional aspects of the application, Test management using HP’s ‘Quality Center’. Assist the End users to perform the UAT & get sign-off.

Confidential

Finance Functional Track Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating with the Team from Offshore, Working closely with the Client, Team and other supporting teams, working on all Finance track project Management Activities.
• Participated in the financial accounting Month-end close process to ensure financial sub-ledgers, Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) close successfully and resolved problems relating to the process of reconciliation of GL with AP and AR.
• Responsible for gathering Gap analysis, to-be process flows, test scripts and scenarios for test cycles, & functional specifications for RICE components.
• Personalized various menus and functionalities to support cross module query need for customers.
• Preparation of Setup Document (BR 100)
• Preparation of Requirements Document.
• Preparation of Mapping Document.
• Developing test cases and testing the application

Confidential

Finance Functional Track Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating with the Team from Offshore, Working closely with the Client and supporting teams, working on all Finance track project Management Activities.
• Scoping study of the business process in the financial modules.
• Mapping the business requirements with the Oracle application modules.
• Reviewing the functional documents CF250, assisting technical team in preparing MD200 documents, preparing BR100 document.
• Team Coordination and Client Interactions on a day-to-day basis.
• Supporting Technical Team members & Users with the issues.
• Analyzed and provided solutions to various production issues in the areas of Intercompany, Financials and Payables.
• Involved in Enhancement and maintenance of the application.
• Month end reconciliation of financial period closing activities.
• Migrated corrective setups, fixes arrived as part of problem solutions to production with the change management process.
• Performed functional requirement gathering in customization of reports. Performed functional testing on the customized reports.
• Monitoring and controlling the finance track deliverables and deliver as per project plan.
• Attending the status meetings and circulating status reports to all the stakeholders.
• User problem resolution and query handling.

Confidential

Functional Lead (Financials & Project Accounting)

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering/process mapping.
• Preparation of Requirements Document.
• Preparation of Mapping Document.
• Developing test cases and testing the application in the development Instance.
• Application Setups and CRP by which the To Be Analysis and the Mappings phase and my role was to do the setups in GL, AP, AR, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Manufacturing, Project Management modules along with CRP testing with the various Super Users
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot (CRP)
• Preparing Functional Design Documents, Coordinating with business on understanding the existing process related to Projects.
• User problem resolution and query handling.
• Ensuring timely completion of the project phases.
• User Requirements and Analysis for new reports and functionalities
• Providing User on Oracle Applications and accounting process flows
• Assisted Users in Preparing Master Files.
• Re-engineered the Burdening methodology to cater to unique USAID requirements, to streamline and simplify Fringe/Overhead/ G&A Audits
• Lead the Functional team responsible for Gap Analysis, Requirements gathering and solution design, and customizations in Oracle Projects module (Costing and Billing).
• Handled conversions data.
• Conducting on the Functional Design and delivering it in right time to the client.
• Project Roles: Employees must be listed to view and update project information. Controls, which employees can view, detail labor cost information. Analyzed Project Role List & defined project roles for project expenditure organizations
• Analyzed and defined PA Security Profiles.
• Analyzed the requirement for Task Definitions: Task Statues, Task Types, Task Priorities.
• Analyzed the requirements for Project Classifications, Class Categories, class codes that are used to group projects according to defined categories.
• Defined project customer relationships, customer contacts, customer contact types that are used to manage multiple customers involved with a single project.
• Analyzed Resource lists: A set of similar resources (labor, services, materials, equipment). Used for budgeting and summarization of actual and commitments for project status tracking in a two level hierarchy
• Analyzed and defined Project Templates as all projects are either created from templates or existing projects.
• Implemented the Project Workflow and designed the extension to change project statuses.
• Analyzed the requirements of Expenditure Categories: that describe the source of organization costs. Expenditure categories used to group expenditure types for budgeting, reporting, Autoaccounting rules and transaction control purposes.
• Strong results in leading cross-functional value enhancement teams.
• Analyzed the requirements of Revenue categories that are a source of organization revenue. Revenue categories are used to group expenditure types for budgeting, reporting, auto accounting rules and transaction control purposes.
• Expenditure Types that is a classification of cost that is assigned to the expenditure item.
• Gathered requirements for a custom form that maintained McDonalds Project Cost Split information between McDonalds and Franchisees.
• Analyzed the requirements for Autoaccounting for Cost; Expense Report cost, Labor Cost, Usage Cost.
• Autoaccounting rules for Miscellaneous Cost: Miscellaneous Transactions generally represent the project version of a journal entry. For this reason, various transaction types were defined that control both the debit and credit side of the entry.
• Autoaccounting rules for Supplier invoice adjustment costs: Project related invoices entered in Accounts Payable, or requisition/purchase order activity derive accounting information from the setup of the appropriate PO Account Generator, Requisition Account Generator or Project Supplier Invoice configuration in Work Flow. This setup in Autoaccounting allows the adjustment of Supplier Invoice transactions between or within projects.
• Effectively utilized Oracle Isetups module for migrating the data during Mexico roll out, worked as lead in coordinating with all the functional leads and performing the migration of setups data
• Managed the end to end Accounting validation process for the project and other related business processes.

Confidential

Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Handling all Support related issues of Financial & Project Accounting Modules.
• Resolved issues related to OTC, PTP Cycle.
• Coordinated with users on enhancements and changes related to the existing RICE components related to projects
• Discussed the issues week-wise with the client on weekly status review.
• Understanding the new requirements, documented the same.
• Reconciled trial balance.
• Assisted users in closing sub-ledger and GL books.
• Knowledge Acquisition and transfer.
• Documented new change request and configured the setups accordingly on Test-Instance, conducted on the same and done setups in PROD.
• Assisted users in closing month end books
• Resolving errors & assisting users in transferring transactions to GL from sub-ledger modules.
• Involved in resolving new report issues along with technical consultant.
• Consolidating Set of books of different locations in India.
• Identifying issues by testing in multiple instances and thereafter tracking and logging the issues into Quality center as Defects.
• Provided user sessions for GL, AP, AR, CM, Project Costing, Project Billing, Project Management, Project Resource Management, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay cycles
• Setting up Auto Accounting Rules for Intercompany Invoice and Intercompany Revenue Functions and Borrowed and Lent Accounting Functions, Changes to various Auto Accounting Functions to ensure Proper accounting for Cross Charged / Intercompany Transactions.
• Managed the end to end Accounting validation process for the project and other related business processes.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering/process mapping.
• Preparation of Requirements Document.
• Preparation of Mapping Document.
• Developing test cases and testing the application in the development Instance.
• Application Setups and CRP by which the To Be Analysis and the Mappings phase and my role was to do the setups in GL, AP, AR, INV, PO and OM modules along with CRP testing with the various Super Users.
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot (CRP)
• User problem resolution and query handling.
• Handled EUT (End User ) and UAT (user acceptance testing) of business process flows.
• User Requirements and Analysis for new reports and functionalities
• Providing User on Oracle Applications and accounting process flows (OTC and PTP)
• Assisted Users in Preparing Master Files.
• Explained the newer features and concepts to the users and trained them accordingly.
• Assisted users while performing Mock Closing in Test Instance during UAT Program. Identified Gaps during Mock Closing resolved issues accordingly.
• Handling all support issues before GO- Live of Migration.
• Timely response to the client in resolving the support issues.
• Handling all kind of support issues.
• Month-End closing issues.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering/process mapping / new development initiatives.
• Functional design / Functional testing.
• Preparation of Setup Document (BR 100)
• Preparation of Requirements Document.
• Preparation of Mapping Document.
• Developing test cases and testing the application.
• Conducting Conference Room Pilot (CRP)
• User problem resolution and query handling
• User Requirements and Analysis for new reports and functionalities
• Providing User on Oracle Applications Project Accounting Modules.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in End-to-End Implementation. Handled OTC and PTP Cycle flows.
• Getting the requirements from the end user before implementing.
• System Study, Fit Gap Analysis and defining specifications for implementation.
• Set up was completed on Vision, Development and Production environments
• Documentation was prepared using MS Word and MS Excel.
• Interacting with the user and explaining the process and accounting implications.
• Interaction with the client for the new requirement.
• Modification of existing tests document according to new change request from client.
• Application Setups and CRP by which the To Be Analysis and the Mappings phase and my role was to do the setups in GL, AP, AR, INV, PO, OM and BOM modules along with CRP testing with the various Super User
• Assisted users while performing Mock Closing in Test Instance. Identified Gaps during Mock Closing resolved issues accordingly and modified setups in Production Instance accordingly.
• Interacted with Citibank in extracting Payment Data from Oracle Apps to Citidirect.
• Design and Define Organization structure, Flex fields, Currency, Calendar and Chart of Accounts.
• Setting up multi org for enhanced functional control over the data.
• Defined Financial Options, Payables Options, Purchasing Options, Receiving Options, Setup Supplier Master Data, Defined Bank Master, Payable Documents, Paygroups, Supplier Bank Master. RFQ’s, Sourcing Rules, Approved Supplier List, Assign Sourcing Rules. Setup Buyers
• Defined Suppliers, Identified Common Suppliers Across all Operating Units and modified accordingly with the existing Applications.
• Defined Tax codes, Withholding taxes, Special Calendar, Payment Formats.
• Defined Item Templates, Kit Items, Setup Master Item, Defined Inventory Organization parameters, Attribute Controls, Lot controls and expiry items.
• Defined FIFO, Average Costing Methods
• Setting up Organization Access, Profile Options.
• Setup Shipping Parameters, Defined Drop Shipment Orders and Sales orders, Price List, Order Types. Defined Pick Release Documents.
• Defined Modifiers, Adjustment Reasons.
• Defined Document Types, Document Sequences, Security Rules.
• Setting up Profile Options
• Defined System Options, Auto accounting, Receipt Classes, Receivable Activities, setting up approval limits
• Defined Customers, Transaction Types, Payment Terms, Remit To Address, Dunning Letters.
• Defined Bank Charges.
• Created DFF’s to capture additional information
• Designed Views using Oracle Discoverer.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in PQE activities of Project Management
• Maintenance and enhancements in the product for release of Family Packages.
• Identifying Bugs by testing in multiple instances and thereafter tracking and logging the bug into Bug Database.
• Executing the QA on both Self-Service web enabled and in Forms.
• Executing various test plans on different environments or versions of Family pack-L, Family Pack-M (11i & 12.0 versions).
• Various Test Plans covering the following area of Oracle Projects
• All setups of Projects.
• Project Billing, Project Costing, Organization Forecasting.
• APL, Document Management, Gantt Charts.
• Inter-company Billing flow
• Project Portfolio Planning.
• Project Work Plan, Project Reporting, related test plans etc.
• Discoverer Work Books.
• QA of Production (Internal) and Customer Bugs.
• Raising of Bugs during execution of test plans.
• Modifying Test Plans and Test Cases according to the High Level Design Document (HLD) in different instances.
• Sanity Testing, Final Testing of Environments.
• Testing the UI, ADA Compliance, Back Button Mode related Issues and raising bugs.
• Integration of the Projects module with the other modules like GL, AR, AP, Purchasing, Inventory and Order Management.
• Configured Page Layouts (Project Home, Project Overview, Team Member, Task Overview& Project status reports) related project setups, which are useful for decision making for concerned stakeholdersby providing additional sections.
• Trained the users on Financial Modules.
• Knowledge Acquisition and transfer.
• Documented new change request and configured the setups accordingly on Test-Instance, conducted on the same and done setups in PROD.
• Assisted users in closing month end books
• Defined new document sequence numbers for AR Invoices.
• Resolved issues related to Auto Accounting errors in AR.
• Conducted QA and UT(User ) for all the new/enhancements to the current functionalities.
• Preparation of new tests document according to client’s requirement.
• Participating in weekly review of ongoing maintenance tasks
• Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Unit Testing.
• Reconciled all TDS Issues
• Defined new Tax codes as per the new tax rules of Indian tax government.