Summary

• Applicant is a seasoned functional Oracle Financials consultant and has worked in various industries, such as Oil and Gas, Energy Trading, Financial Services, Light Manufacturing, Electronics, Software, Trading, Bio-medical Equipment, Automotive Remarketing, Electronic Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Professional Services, Telecommunications, Government and Non-Profit organizations. He has managed and led implementations of General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and Cash Management modules using Oracle’s AIM Project Methodology. He has experience with migration from legacy systems to Oracle. He has a professional accounting qualification and work experience in the auditing field. He is self-motivated and organized and possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Skills

• Project Management Tools

MS Project, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Oracle AIM

• Training Material Development Tools

UPK

• Querying and Data Extraction Tools

TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQL Developer

• 170 MarkView for Oracle Payables
• Oracle Financials 11i (11.5.10.2)
• General Ledger
• Receivables
• Payables
• Cash Management
• System Administration
• Fixed Assets
• Multiple Organizations (Multi-Org)
• iExpense
• Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC)
• Budgets
• Global Intercompany System
• Global Consolidation System
• Oracle Financials R12 (12.0.6 and 12.1.2)
• General Ledger
• System Administration
• Accounting Setup Manager
• Subledger Accounting
• Multiple Organizations (Multi-Org)
• Receivables
• Payables
• Budgets
• Advanced Global Intercompany System
• Global Consolidation System

Summary of Work Experience

• On most of Applicant’s projects, he has served either as the Financials Lead or the Module Lead for one or several of the Oracle financial applications (GL, AP, AR, FA). His responsibilities include gathering and documenting business requirements, performing gap analysis and devising workaround solutions to completely or partially mitigate the effects of any gaps, defining and documenting future state scenarios, configuring applications, working with Oracle Support to resolve issues, conducting Conference Room Pilots (CRP), planning, conducting and supervising unit, integration and acceptance testing, planning cutover strategies, conducting user training and providing post-production support. In addition, on most projects, he has coordinated with the technical team to document and test custom reports, interfaces, conversions and extensions. Several of the clients he has worked for have international operations in various part of the world, including in North and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. This has given him a general understanding of legal and accounting requirements in various countries.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Economics)

Detailed Work Experience

Oracle Accounts Receivable Lead, Confidential, West Palm Beach, FL

January 2011 to the August 2012

Responsibilities include:

• Planning and performing the configuration, testing and documentation of the Oracle Accounts Receivable application version 12.0.6 after the reorganization of the company.
• Testing and verifying data conversions.
• Developing training material in UPK, Word and PowerPoint
• Delivering training to key and end users
• Providing post-production support and enhancements

Senior Oracle Business Analyst, Confidential, Atlanta, GA

February 2010 to the January 2011

Responsibilities included:

• Unit and Integration testing of Receivables, Payables, General Ledger, Cash Management and Assets
• Analyzing and understanding new features of 12.1.2 Receivables, Payables, General Ledger, Cash Management and Assets to see new features that can be utilized by Manheim
• Working with external offshore production support team to resolve issues.
• Working with the business to prioritize enhancements to AS/400 system.
• Working with external vendors and internal technology staff to manage the AS/400 enhancements through Manheim’s software development process.
• Reviewing and approving enhancements to Manheim’s Oracle applications requested by the business.
• Ensuring Oracle-related enhancements do not exceed hours contractually agreed upon with external offshore production support team.
• Performing unit and integration testing when required.

Independent Consultant at Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

August 2009 to November 2009

• Finance Lead on a project for ADT to migrate their Puerto Rico operations to Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2.

Responsibilities included gathering and documenting the conversion requirements to convert General ledger balances and detail, supplier master information and fixed asset data from the legacy system to Oracle General Ledger, Payables and Assets, respectively, coordinating with business users, both in Puerto Rico and at the corporate office, to gather and prepare the supplier and fixed asset data for conversion, configuring Oracle General Ledger, Payables and Assets so as to integrate the Puerto Rico operations, identifying test plans to be used for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performing SIT testing, coordinating the UAT testing with UAT testers, some of them off-site.

Independent Consultant at Confidential, Princeton, NJ

January 2009 to April 2009

• GL Lead on a project for Tyco International implementing R12 Oracle General Ledger.

Responsibilities included participating in discussions with the client to re-design the Legal Entity, Ledger and Operating Unit structure initially agreed upon, understanding the requirements around budgeting and forecasting and designing an appropriate solution using Oracle General Ledger’s budgeting feature, developing the conversion approach and strategy for both actual and budget historical data, configuring GL for a CRP session, debugging the application with help from Oracle Support, delivering training to users and preparing AIM documentations, such as BR100s, MD050s, RD050s and TE040s.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

June 2005 to November 2008

• Finance Lead on a project for Hercules Offshore, a company providing lift boats and drilling rigs to oil and gas majors. The project involved the rollout of the Oracle General Ledger, Payables and Receivables design used for the US to the international subsidiaries in Mexico, Nigeria, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, Angola, Qatar, India and Malaysia. Local statutory and reporting requirements for each country were built into the design to comply with local regulations.

Responsibilities included traveling to the various locations, demonstrating the US design, determining local reporting and statutory requirements and building these into the design. Delivered user training for one overseas location and provided on-site post-production and first month-end close support for some locations.

• Lead on a project to implement Oracle General Ledger (GL) version 11.5.10 for 23 countries, for Fidelity National Information Services, a leading real estate title services company.

Responsibilities included understanding current business processes, configuring GL, training key business users, writing functional specifications for a custom interface from the legacy system to Oracle GL and an extension that created journal entries across sets of books, assisting with unit and integration testing with key users, debugging the applications, managing service requests with Oracle Support and providing post-production support

• Financials lead on a project to implement Oracle GL, Accounts Payable (AP), and Fixed Assets (FA) version 11.5.10 for Ames True Temper, a leading manufacturer of lawn and gardening equipment. Was responsible for GL and AP and oversaw the work of a junior consultant who handled FA.

Responsibilities included understanding current business processes, configuring GL and AP, training users, writing functional specifications for custom reports, interfaces and extensions, conducting unit and end to end testing with key users, debugging the applications, managing service requests with Oracle Support and providing post-production support.

• GL and AP lead on a project to quickly rollout these applications to the European locations of Kemet Electronics, a manufacturer of ceramic and tantalum capacitors.

Responsibilities included conducting current business process analysis interview sessions, providing input for the development of a new organization structure, developing a consolidation strategy, explaining Oracle GL’s revaluation and translation features to users, configuring GL and AP, debugging the applications and coordinating with Oracle Support and the DBA, delivering training to key users, conducting proof of concept workshops with key users.

Confidential

April 2004 to April 2005

• Financials lead on a project to upgrade Aromat (now Panasonic), a Japanese manufacturer of electrical relays and switches and a part of Panasonic, from Oracle General Ledger, Payables, Receivables and Assets version 10.7 SC to 11.5.9.

Responsibilities included understanding current business processes, preparing documentation detailing current business processes, training users on the new features of 11.5.9, performing the pre- and post-upgrade tasks necessary for a successful upgrade, documenting changes in setups necessitated by the upgrade, testing 10.7 custom reports upgraded to work on 11.5.9, conducting unit and end to end testing with key users, debugging the applications, managing service requests with Oracle Support and providing post-production support.

Independent Consultant

August 2003 to April 2004

• Provided production support to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a Hyannis, MA-based non-profit organization. The modules supported were 11.5.9 Oracle General Ledger and Payables. Also, gathered reporting requirements and prepared FSG reports based on those requirements
• Financials lead on a project to upgrade ATG, a Cambridge, MA-based software company from Oracle General Ledger, Payables, Receivables and Assets version 11.0.3 to 11.5.9. The company has subsidiaries in several European countries.

Responsibilities included conducting current business process analysis interview sessions, preparing documentation detailing current business processes, providing input for the design of a new chart of accounts, providing input for the development of a new organization structure, developing a consolidation strategy, developing a deferred revenue invoicing strategy, configuring Oracle Multi-org architecture, GL, AP, AR and FA based on to-be business processes, debugging the applications and coordinating with Oracle Support and the DBA, delivering training to key users, conducting proof of concept workshops with key users.

Confidential, Boston, MA

July 2002 to August 2003

• Part of a two-person Accounts Receivable team implementing Oracle Federal Receivables at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The implementation was for the three initial pilot sites that would serve as the basis for the roll out to all agency sites in the US. Responsibilities included configuration and setup and preparation of training documents.
• Prepared training materials for Oracle General Ledger and delivered training to users in the US, UK and Switzerland, as part of a global training rollout initiative for the Oracle Financials Release 11i implementation of JP Morgan Chase.

Confidential, Boston, MA

September 2000 to June 2002.

• Lead consultant for implementing Release 11i Oracle General Ledger, Receivables and Assets at the US subsidiary of Dai Nippon Printing, a major Japanese corporation involved in printing and manufacture of specialty paper and surfaces. Managed the client through the entire implementation cycle, from business requirements analysis to production support.
• Lead consultant for implementing Release 11i Oracle Payables and Assets at Packard Biosciences (now PerkinElmer), a major US bio-medical equipment company. Managed the client through the design, build and implementation of the Payables and Assets modules for the US and UK operating units. Served as the CRP coordinator, ensuring that preliminary set-ups are done in sequence and on time.
• Lead consultant for implementing Release 11i Oracle General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Assets and Cash Management for e-STEEL (now Newview Technologies), a leading US B2B steel exchange company. Managed the client through the full implementation cycle, from business requirements analysis to production support.
• Lead consultant for implementing Release 11 Oracle Purchasing and iProcurement at Sirius Satellite Radio (now SiriusXM). Managed the client through the design and build phases.