SUMMARY

• Results - driven Senior Functional/Solution Architect with nearly 17+ years of demonstrated expertise deploying business process automation, improved workflow concepts, and integrated technologies to drive global business transformation programs.
• Specialized expertise in Oracle, Fusion, and Workday Finance solutions and a record of leading complex technical projects and liaising with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to define cloud-based technology strategies for clients in diverse industries.
• Regarded as a thought leader with a strong vision for modern application development and the business acumen necessary to deliver scalable, highly resilient, and successful finance, supply chain, reporting, analytics, and business planning solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Workday Financial Solutions
• Workday Advanced Reporting
• Oracle ERP Finance Cloud Release 0, 11, 12,13
• Oracle Financials Applications in R12
• PL/SQL
• SQL*Plus
• Agile/Sprint Methodology
• Quality Center
• Smart View/FRS Studio
• OTBI/BI Publisher

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solution Lead

Responsibilities:

• Direct a remote team in the US and India as the Solution Lead guiding a multi-year digital transformation project for a large hospital and insurance provider through implementation of Workday Financials Accounting, FDM Design, and Supply Chain solutions.
• Work closely with the client to understand challenges, gather requirements, lead design workshops, and conduct sprints for the deployment of ERP solutions for management of business assets, customer accounts, and project accounting.
• Led the project team from ERP selection through Sprint 1, Sprint 2 with direct respsonsibility for oversight of general ledger, financials, supplier relations, business assets, banking and settlement.

Confidential

Principal Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Principal Solution Architect leading major projects for a California-based company focused on early detection of cancer based through blood testing.
• Participate in meetings with the CFO, Controller, Assistant Controller, and SVP to elicit needs, understand business challenges, and communicate project updates.
• Overseeing a two-phase global implementation using Hitachi as the system integrator for global Oracle ERP Cloud implementations in Japan and Singapore and developed income statement and balance sheet reports for the US organization.
• Additionally, implemented ASC606 through standard ship and bill method.
• Advise the client on process automation in Oracle to optimize finance practices and enable account growth through identification and deployment of automated workflow, reconciliation, auditing, and reporting.

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Directed a multi-pillar public sector project aimed at driving business transformation for a large east coast city through application consolidation, system upgrades, and cloud migration of legacy mainframe-based applications for budget planning and human capital management.
• Served as a key advisor for design decisions and prototyping and guided the organization in defining a new chart of accounts, organizational structure, and solutioning the GASB asset accounting system.
• Successfully completed prototype, CRP 1, 2, 3, UAT, and cutover.
• Drove the core design decisions with business, configuring the GL, FA, and budgetary control applications and helped businesses with conducting conversions and identifying the interfaces.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect for the project team leading the end-to-end process for Oracle Cloud implementation projects in North America.
• Work closely with the Vice President, Finance Controller, Auditor, and Accounting Manager at a Dallas-based public Oil and Gas company to design a robust, first-of-its-kind of Oracle Fusion Cloud project to be implemented for upstream oil company. Involved in designing chart of accounts, enterprise structure, and new business processes in the subledger area.
• Designed a complex Joint Venture Accounting Application which was built using PaaS extension to enable cutback process for expense offset and partner billing in a joint venture environment.
• The CRP 1 successfully completed for the project. Involved in CRP1, CRP2.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect and Functional Solutions Lead for the project team leading the end-to-end process for one of the largest Oracle Cloud implementation projects in North America.
• Worked closely with the Vice President, Finance Controller, and Accounting Manager at a New York-based $10B private media company to design a robust financial process.
• Transitioned 200 business entities from legacy finance and HCM applications to Oracle ERP Cloud and redesigned the financial structure, enterprise structure, and business processes to facilitate the multi-phase global business transformation project.
• Helped design an integrated invoice imaging solution and supported the client through their first GL period closing, which was successfully completed on time.

Confidential

Finance Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with a customer utilizing Oracle Finance Cloud and provided advisory-related support post implementation to improve understanding major functionality on GL, reporting features, GL-related issues, and period-end closing.
• Worked with end-users and the C-level executive leadership to design a long term sustainable process for effective closing.

Confidential

Finance Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client C-level executives to understand existing business processes and presented Oracle Financial Cloud capabilities.
• Conducted high level requirements gathering, performed GAP analysis, prepared roadmaps, performed POC, and provided final recommendations for Phase 1 implementation project.
• Successfully migrated the customer from Oracle 11i to Oracle Finance Cloud R11 over eight weeks.

Confidential

Lead Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported a Confidential in implementing core financial processes in Oracle Fusion Cloud. Played a role of Functional Solution Lead for implementation of ERP Cloud Finance modules.
• Pivotal in the implementation of Oracle Assets and Payables and orchestration of the new business process in Oracle Financial Cloud. Supported Go Live and post production support.

Confidential

Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped a prominent golf organization to re-engineer business processes and migrated the organization from On Premise Fusion to Oracle ERP Cloud R10.
• Assisted in performing setup for CRP and UAT instance and provided solutions to meet business needs in the new R10 release. Covered GL, AP, AR, Expenses, and Invoice Imaging.
• Played a critical role in reimplementing the Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created a roadmap for improving the core finance business areas for Oracle receivables, payables, iExpense, and GL module, which was integrated with various legacy applications.
• Enabled enhancements for business processes in Finance to reduce day-to-day operational errors and improve efficiency in Finance operations.
• Performed SOW reviews and effort estimation for upcoming transformation.

Confidential

Senior Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 30 consultants on the Asia 11i sunset project for a long cycle order-to-cash process.
• Led the global procure-to-pay separation team based in the US and India and migrated the client invoice management and long cycle order fulfillment process from an 11i-based system to the R12 application.
• Performed extensive analysis on the impact of the new legal entity, ledger, OU on business processes and all RICEW components.
• Played an integral role in architecting solutions for critical integrations alongside partner vendors and Deloitte system integrators.
• Additionally, involved in Pre-Sales and resource estimation for other ongoing account level engagement.