Project Management

GANESH GURUMURTHI

Finance Professional / Oracle Financials Expert

Mobile: +1-630-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF • He is a Chartered Accountant having 14 yrs of total experience. 8 yrs of consulting

EXPERIENCE experience in delivering Oracle e Business solutions, 3 yrs of consulting in accounting,

taxation and audit services and 3 yrs of domain functional experience in finance,

accounting, taxation. Working in Global Implementations for the past 6+ yrs.

• He has experience in Management Consulting / Financial Management / Project

Management Life Cycle experience. Specializing in delivery of projects involving

Financial Process, Supply Chain, Asset Management, Inventory Management,

Manufacturing Process, Costing, Business Intelligence, Integrations and Compliance

Reporting.

• He has work experience in varied roles as Trainee, Analyst, Lead Analyst, Production

Support Specialist, Business Analyst, Functional Consultant, Lead Solution Architect,

Project Lead, and Project Manager.

• He is R12 Oracle Certified Expert in Financials having extensive functional and technical

hands on experience in delivering several full cycle implementations, roll outs, system

upgrades, pre assessment studies, system integrations, process re engineering,

requirements, fit and gap analysis, system setups, data conversion, interfaces, data

extracts, post implementation support, customization, analyzing internal controls,

training, designing, compliance reporting etc.

• His other duties include assisting in pre sales activities, directly working with sales team

on client calls, assist in responding to RFQ, client presentations, assist in preparing

SOW, and assist in preparing cost benefit analysis. Managed some projects from RFQ

proposal to final delivery (Initiation, planning, execution, control and closing).

• He has Diversified experience in terms of geography, industry type, project scale and

working in several global projects.

SUMMARY OF Oracle R12 (1+ Year)/ 11i (7+) functional implementation experience.

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CAREER • Principle Consultant / Consulting Manager at Protege Software Solutions.

HISTORY • Senior Consultant / Project Lead at BearingPoint / KPMG.

• Consultant / Senior Consultant at GE Power Controls, Sonata Software.

• Trainee / Associate at Praturi & Sriram, Chartered Accountants.

EDUCATION Chartered Accountant from “The Institute of Chartered Accountants

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of India”.

Bachelor of Commerce from “Osmania University”, India.

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CERTIFICATIONS Oracle Certified Expert in R12 – Financials.

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Several Champion Certifications from Oracle University on E Biz

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Financials & Supply Chain.

PROFESSIONAL Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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MEMBERSHIPS

ON GOING • Project Management Professional (PMP)

CERTIFICATION • International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

CLIENTS Xerox, Cisco, GE, Flowserve, TUI, Avis Buget Group, Hatsun Agro,

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Malwa, Hindalco etc.

INDUSTRY Car Rental, Equipment Manufacturing, Industrial Oil Pump Heavy

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TYPES Engineering, Food Processing Industry, Textile Manufacturing, Information

Technology, Outsourcing, Services, Transport etc.

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Summary of Technology Skills:

Primary Skills

ERP • Oracle e Business Suite (10.7SC, 11.0.3, 11.5.x up to R12)

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Account to Report Supply Chain

Core

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Procure to Pay Asset Management

Specialization

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Order to Cash Inventory Management

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General Ledger (GCS, GIS, AGIS & MRC) XML Publisher (BI Publisher)

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Payables (AP) Multi Org Architecture, MOAC

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Fixed Assets (FA) Extensive experience in India

Subject

Localization.

• Receivables (AR) (with custom Revenue

Matter Expert

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Recognition model) Oracle Discoverer

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Cash Management (CM) EDI Gateway

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Oracle Purchasing (PO) Discrete Inventory

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iSupplier Shared & Full HRMS

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iProcurement System Administrator

Proficient

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iExpense Application Developer

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iAsset Alerts

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Advanced Collections Business Intelligence

Configurator

• Approvals Management Engine (AME)

Familiar &

• OPM MAC, OPM Costing, OPM Inventory,

Working

• Trading Community Architecture (TCA)

Knowledge

• OPM Product Development, OPM Formulator, OPM System Admin

• Project Costing & Billing (PA)

Secondary Skills • Subledger Accounting & Financial Accounting Hub

Database • Oracle, SQL Server, Ms Access

Platform • Windows NT/2000/2003, Unix (Linux), Sun (Solaris), Hewlett Packard (HP/UX)

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Oracle Discoverer Client ADI / Web ADI

Development • •

XML Publisher (BI Publisher) Toad, SQL Plus

Tools • •

Workflow Builder 2.6 Data Load

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Forms & Reports 6i SQL Loader etc

GUI • MS Office Applications (PPT, DOC, XLS, MDB), MS Projects, MS VSS & MS Visio.

Languages • SQL, PLSQL, Visual Basic 6.0, Ms Office Macros.

Project Tools • SharePoint, Kintana, Mercury

Methodology • Oracle AIM, Fast Forward, KIMs, R2i, Proven Course, SDLC etc

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Professional Highlights:

• Strong working knowledge in compliance regulatory reporting including Sarbanes Oxley (SOX),

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

• Subject Matter Expert in process like Account to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Asset

Management, Inventory Management and Supply Chain in versions covering 10.7SC, 11.0.3, 11i to R12.

• Successfully implemented five full life cycle projects end to end in the lead architect role in most of

them. Have hands on experience in process like Account to Report (ATR), Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to

Pay (P2P), Asset Management, Inventory Management, Manufacturing (Discrete, Process, Project), India

Localization, compliance reporting, integration, support etc. and involved in Proposal to Delivery in some of

them.

• Actively worked on several other pre assessment studies conducted either as part of response to

proposal, RFQ or as project assignments.

• Implemented few other projects that either involved one or more phase within the project, or one

module, one enhancement taken up or of short duration etc.

• Worked as a senior production support analyst and met SLAs and established process that

substantially reduced production tickets.

• Successfully implemented, 3 global rollout projects in USA, Germany & China covering process like

Account to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, NLS (Simplified Chinese), Asset Management, compliance

reporting etc.

• Worked on 1 upgrade project that involved migration, setups, intensive regression testing, and

development of few additional reports & extensions for two units.

• Successfully designed and implemented many projects as a lead architect that involved Multi

Reporting Currency (MRC), Multi Org setup & Access Control (MOAC), Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA),

Consolidations (Including Global Consolidation Systems), Intercompany Accounting (Including Global

Intercompany Systems & Advanced GIS), complex Allocations, custom Revenue Recognition model, Pricing &

Costing (Including Product Costing, Manufacturing, Configurator etc using Standard Costing), Transfer Pricing

functionality etc.

• Led Patch Management, Tar Management (TAR), Change Control Management (CR), Risk

management processes.

• Implementation experience using Project Management processes (Initiating, Planning, Execution,

Monitoring and Controlling and Closure), and Knowledge Areas including Requirements, Fit/Gap Analysis,

Design/Develop Project Charter, Project Management Plan, Integrated Change Control, Scope, Time, Cost,

Quality, HR, Communications, Risk, and procurement aspects of the project using industry specific best

practices, and methodologies such as KIMs, R2i, Proven Course, Fast Forward and Oracle AIM.

• Excellent communication & presentation skills with proven ability to adopt in cross cultural, cross

functional arenas.

• Positive mental attitude with utmost integrity and self motivation.

• Good Interpersonal skills with good team spirit with ability to lead by example.

• Extensive continual education in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, Taxation, Software Development,

Project Management.

• Knowledgeable in Project Management and Software Quality Process as per CMM & 6 Sigma, Green

Belt Trained.

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Project Summary:

• Requirements, Define Future State, Fit & Gap until POC for Xerox Corporation, Webster NY

(Equipment Inventory Accounting) 11.5.9, 11.5.10, Integrations with several legacy systems. GL, FA, PO, OM,

INV (Discrete), WIP, BOM, Configurator, iSupplier, iProcurement, AP, Compliance reporting, BI Publisher etc

(Current Assignment)

• Full Cycle Implementation for Starent Networks, Tewksbury MA (Division of CISCO Systems) in

11.5.10 with India Localization. GL, AP, AR, PO, OM, INV (Discrete), iProcurement, CM, FA, compliance

reporting etc. With Custom Revenue Recognition model.

• Full Cycle Implementation for Xerox Corporation, Rochester, NY (NAF Convergence Project) in

11.5.10 with GL, FA, Bi Publisher, compliance reporting etc

• Implementation from Build phase to Go Live for Prot égé Software Services in 12.0.1. GL, AP, AR, FA,

CM, PO, OM, Projects iExpense, HRMS, Payroll, OTL, Bi Publisher, Compliance Reporting etc.

• Full Cycle Implementation for Avis Budget Group, New Jersey (Project Phoenix) in 11.5.10 with GL,

AP, AR, FA, PA, CM, Compliance reporting etc. System Integrations with Essbase, Hyperion, GEAC etc.

Discoverer Reporting.

• Requirements, Define Future State, Fit & Gap analysis for Flowserve, The Netherlands in Oracle

11.5.10.

• Full Cycle implementation for Hatsun Agro Products, Chennai, India in 11.5.8 with GL, AR, AP, OM,

PO, INV (Discrete & Process), OPM Product Development, OPM Formulator, OPM System Admin, OPM

MAC, OPM Costing, OPM Inventory, Business Intelligence, compliance reporting etc.

• Pre Assessment study for consolidation & reporting for Hindalco Industries Ltd, India.

• Pre Assessment to build for implementation of iExpense at GE IBC, India.

• Implementation of Fixed Assets Consolidation across the operating units of GE Consumer & Industrial

Systems Units, USA based on a merger/demerger of few units.

• Completed upgrade from 11.5.7 to 11.5.9 for two of the Units of GE Consumer & Industrial Systems

Units, USA.

• Implementation Rollout for GE Consumer Products Ltd., Bangalore India in 11.5.7 with GL, AR, AP,

FA, PO and reporting.

• Implementation Rollout for TUI Travel Co, Germany & China in 11.5.9 with GL, AP, AR, compliance

reporting, NLS (Simplified Chinese) etc

• Full Cycle Implementation for Malwa Industries Ltd, Ludhiana, India in 11.5.8 with GL, AP, AR and

reporting. Pre Assessment study for Integration with Intex (a legacy ERP system).

• Development and Testing phase of Implementation for Environment Agency, UK. A federal

government project that involved building business components as part of customization, extensions and

Interface in 11.5.8 with PO, AP, FA, HRMS, Alerts, CRM etc.

• Pre assessment study for development of Oracle data migration tool for Solix Technologies Inc, Santa

Clara CA. To find an intelligent, cost effective and seamless approach to data migration across different

database and enterprise applications. A product they later launched as “MigrateJinni”.

• Experience working as a Finance Executive responsible for book keeping including factory

accounting, Pricing, Costing, working capital management, customer relationships, vendor management,

financial management, Liaison with Tax authorities, banks, auditors, excise authorities, customs authorities,

etc.

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• Experience working with a Professional firm of practicing Chartered Accountants conducting Statutory

Audits, Internal Audits, Tax Audits, Management Consultancy, Corporate & Individual Taxation, Accounting,

Certifications, Advice etc

Personal Details:

Visa Status: Working in USA since 2005 on H1 visa and valid until 2013

References: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ganeshgca

Contact: +1-630-***-**** (Mobile)

Email: *********@*****.***

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent

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