Candidates About

Balaraj Anachal Rajamma

 

§ Seasoned Oracle Cloud, EBS R12 professional with several full-lifecycle, multi-million dollar implementation experiences over 18 years, including 3 years at Strategic Accounts division in Oracle Consulting.

§ Functional Consultant/Techno-Functional Consultant/Project Lead/Technical Consultant/Onsite-Offshore Coordinator for multiple Oracle Cloud/EBS implementation at PepsiCo, Panasonic, State Street, Marsh & McLennan,  JC Penney, Michaels, Ionics, Arbonne International and many other clients.

§ Experience in EBS Implementation, Upgrades, Cloud Implementations and Support.

§ Proven success in influencing adaption to global standard processes; aligning process with technology, business goals with IT strategies; communicating effectively with people at different levels of hierarchy and expertise

§ Solution-focused, business-value-driven, self-motivated and quick-learning team player excellent at skills of requirements engineering, presentation, documentation, organization, interpersonal and time management

§ Experience in business flow accelerators, global blended delivery, project management, analysis, design, development, testing, and post go-live support.

§ Experience in process flows: Fusion Financials, FAH (Financial Accounting Hub), Oracle Revenue Management & Billing, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Advanced Pricing, iProcurement, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Asset Management, Warehouse Management, Manufacturing & HRMS

§ Extensive on hand experience in Custom Interfaces, EDI and B2B solutions across modules.

§ Extensive on hand experience in development using Oracle Technologies including SQL, PL/SQL, Forms, Reports, Workflow ,BI Publisher, XML DB, XML Gateway, Oracle Express (APEX) , ADF, UNIX Scripting, OBIEE

§ Management of People, Processes and Performance to drive excellence; problem-solver and change-catalyst with exceptional skills in strategic action, implementation, scalability and sustainability

Applications       :               Oracle E-Business Suite 11 / 11i / R12 / Cloud /Fusion

Modules              :               GL, AP, AR, FA, PA, Advanced Collections, HRMS, INV, BOM, OM, Advanced Pricing,

                                                Purchasing, Warehouse Management, Shipping, Enterprise Asset Management, Purchasing,

                                                Process Manufacturing, Cash Management, Bill Presentment, FAH - Oracle Fusion Financial

                                                Accounting Hub, Oracle Revenue Management & Billing

Databases           :               Oracle 7/ 8i / 9i / 10g / 11g /12c

GUI                        :               Oracle Forms 3.0/Developer 2000 /6i / 9i / 10g, J Developer, OAF, ADF

Languages           :               SQL, PL / SQL, Pro*C, UNIX Scripting

Tools                     :               SQL Plus, Oracle Workflow, SQL Loader, TOAD, BI Publisher, XML DB, Oracle XML

                                                Gateway, APEX(Oracle Express),Oracle Forms/Reports, Oracle e – Commerce

                                                Gateway, OBIEE, Data Loader

Methodologies :               Oracle Application Implementation Methodology, IBM Ascendant Oracle ERP Method

                                                (RICEW)

Productivity        :               Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Microsoft Projects and Access

 

·         Oracle Corporation - Bravo Award for best employee (2003 – 2004)

·         Oracle Corporation - QOOL - Oracle Most Consistent performer Award (2004 – 2005)

 

 

Oracle Financials (FAH) Functional Lead at Marsh & McLennan (Contractor) from June 2017 to Present

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services and I am placed there as a contracting Oracle Financials Functional Lead for a Oracle FAH & RMB (Revenue Management & Billing) implementation project.

 

Responsibilities

·         Requirement Gathering

·         Leading CRP Sessions on Financial Accounting Hub (FAH)

·         Financial Accounting Hub (FAH) implementation & support

·         Oracle Revenue Management & Billing implementation

·         Analyse and  Resolve post production issues as per the SLAs

·         AIM Documentation – BR100, TE40 & MD50

 

Accomplishments

·          Designed interfaces to port data from Oracle RMB (Revenue Management Billing) to Oracle FAH

·          Configuring Oracle RMB

§   Customer

·          Defining Sub ledger Accounting setups using Accounting Method Builder :

§   Event Model, JLT’s, JED’s, Sources, Application Accounting Definition, Mapping Sets, Sub ledger Lookups based on Business Requirements

·          Defining Complex Accounting rules via Account Derivation Rules

·          Configured

§   Legal Entities, Ledgers, Value Sets, Data Access Set, Sequence, Journal Source, Journal Category, Currency, Rates and Ledger Sets

·          Configured Complete COA Structure, Primary and Secondary and Statutory Ledgers, Legal Entities

·          Supporting Revaluation, and Translations activities

·          Supporting Period End activities

·          Resolving Staging & Accounting errors

·          Defined Request Set and Interfaced the data to oracle via FAH from Oracle RMB by scheduling Interface Jobs

·          Interfacing setup data like mapping sets and currency rates using Data Loader

·          Configured Complete Setups in Accounts Payables

·          Configured Banks Accounts, LookUps, Aging Periods, Payment Methods, XML Publisher Format Template, Formats, Payment Documents, Payment process profile, Payment Systems & System security Options

 

Oracle EBS Consultant at State Street (Contractor) from April 2016 to Present

State Street is a leading American worldwide financial holding company and I am placed there as a contracting Oracle EBS Consultant.

 

Responsibilities

·         Custom Billing Application implementation & Integration with Oracle Receivables.

·         Transforming business and stakeholder needs into practical requirements

·         AIM Documentation - MD50 & MD70

 

Accomplishments

·    Successful Implementation of a Custom Application (Fund Connect Billing & Institutional Billing) in Oracle R12 to process data from State Street online trading portals.

·    Interface Data from global on line trading Portals to Oracle EBS

·    Forms & BI Publisher reports to review interfaced data

·    Processes to apply cash & calculate revenue

·    Interface pricing data from external system to EBS

·    Generate Invoices & Statements for customers

·    Create Invoices & Cash Receipts in Oracle Receivables and apply cash and post to GL

·    AIM Documentation - MD50

 

ABeam Consulting from April 2007 to 2016

ABeam Consulting is the leading Japanese consulting firm with world HQ in Tokyo and US division out of Irving, Texas.

 

Responsibilities

·         Project Manager

·         Functional consultant

·         Technical Consultant

·         Oracle R12 / Could Implementation

·         Transforming business and stakeholder needs into practical requirements

·         11i to R12 upgrade 

·         AIM Documentation - BR100,MD50, MD70 & MD120,CV40,CV60

 

Accomplishments

·    Participated in implementation of Oracle 11i GL, AR & Advanced Collection modules for Canada and US at PepsiCo

·    Successful Implementation of Oracle R12 GL,AP,FA & PA modules for Canada and US at PepsiCo

·    Participated in implementation of Fusion Financials.

·    Configuration of GL & AR modules including Cart of Accounts in R12 & Fusion

·          Sub ledger Accounting setups using :

§   Mapping Sets , Event Model, JLT’s, JED’s, Sources, Application Accounting Definition, Sub ledger Lookups based on Business Requirements

·    Upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12 (GL, AR & Advanced Collection) at PepsiCo

·    Configuring Payment Methods, XML Publisher Format Template, Formats, Payment Documents, Payment process profile

·    Developing & Modifying OTBI reports in Oracle Fusion.

·    Customer & Supplier Data interface using FBDI (File Based Data Import) in Fusion

·    Participated in Upgrade of EBS to Could infrastructure.

·    Implemented a fully automated custom solution for generating, distributing & archiving statements for PepsiCo’s 50000+ customers

·    Provided solution to capture and maintain PepsiCo’s customers with complex hierarchical structure which can have up to 5 levels of parent child relationship between those 50000 + customer accounts

·    Led a team to successful upgrade from 11i to R12 for Panasonic Electrical Works America

·    Designed and implemented a fully automated B2B process to interact with Panasonic’s trading partner (Kintetsu World Express) to interface PO, Receipts, Shipping Requests & Advices between them using XML  Gateway

·    Successful integration of Oracle R12 with a 3^rd party software - IBM AR Collect a workflow driven collection tool as part of PepsiCo’s global rollout

·    Worked on setting up and interfacing Price Lists, Modifiers, Qualifiers, Formulas and Pricing Attributes

·    Designed a custom solution to eliminate the financial overheads & risks involved in PepsiCo drivers collecting money on delivery at stores which helped PepsiCo to save millions of dollars

·    Implemented automated scheduling process to run nightly batch

·    Defining Process Manufacturing Organizations, Item & Formula conversion from legacy system

·    Provided a solution to interface 1 Million lines of AR invoice lines worth 45 Million dollars with excellent performance on a daily basis which is highly critical for PepsiCo’s cash flow.

·    Designed and developed Inbound and Outbound EDI – 810, 812, 850,860 using Oracle Edi Gateway

·    Designed and developed a custom solution to generate Late Fee’s for overdue AR transactions which allows PepsiCo to generate revenue worth couple of millions of dollars annually. Where the late fee can be calculated & posted at Top Account or Child Account level.

Top Clients

·         PepsiCo – Pepsi Bottling Company

·         Panasonic Electrical Works America

 

IBM (Contractor) from June 2006 to April 2007

Employed to System Guru and was placed as a contractor for IBM Global.

 

Responsibilities

·         Techno – Functional consultant

·         Oracle R12 Implementation

·         Business Process Re-engineering

·         RICEW documentation

·         Post Production Support

 

Accomplishments

·    Successful Implementation of Oracle R11i

o   Designed and implemented a THROTTLE process where deliveries of new Orders will be grouped together with back orders for the same customers. So that Arbonne will be saving millions of dollars every year.

o   Implementation of interfaces for Item, Item On Hand, Customers, Sales Orders, Delivery, Picking & Shipping from other system to Oracle R12

o   Design & development of a custom solution for reporting & handing of daily interface error’s

 

Top Clients

·         Arbonne International – Irvine, CA

 

Oracle Consulting from June 2003 to June 2006

OC’s Strategic Account division caters to the topmost clients of Oracle Corporation.

 

Responsibilities

·         On Site – Off Shore Coordinator

·         Techno – Functional consultant

·         Senior Technical Consultant

·         Associate Technical Consultant

·         Oracle R12/11i Implementation

·         Business Process Re-engineering

·         AIM documentation – BR100, MD50, MD70, MD120, CV40, CV60, CV70

·         Post Production Support

 

Accomplishments

• Led a team to successfully migrate legacy data from General Binding Corporation which was merged with ACCO to form the new company ACCO Brands
• Identified affected processes, interfaces and related data that will exist by migrating GBC’s legacy system (BPCS) onto ACCO’s Oracle system, and both define critical gaps and high level solutions available to resolve these gaps when implementation begins
• Successfully implemented conversion/interfaces (Invoices, Purchase Orders, Receipts and Items) at Michaels handle the conversion of legacy data and also to interface data on a daily basis from the other systems to Oracle Application to handle the data in millions
• Worked as On-Site Off-Shore coordinator
• Designed and developed a single Match (2-way or 3-way) process at JCPenny for both Merchandise and Non-Merchandise items to be implemented in Oracle Application and it needs to be capable of meeting the goal of achieving close to 98% match in an automated manner.
• Successfully designed and developed conversion/interface of data across application modules for multiple clients
• Implemented Pricelist conversion and daily interface.
• As a Technical consultant I was involved directly with the client for designing, development, document and code reviews, testing, Installation, object release management and different acceptance stages

 

Top Clients

·         JCPenny                           Salt Lake City, UT

·         Michaels Stores              Irving, TX

·         ACCO Brands                   Chicago, IL

·         McCarthy Construction St. Louis, MO

·         Buzzi – Unicem                Bethlehem, PA

·         Ionics                                 Boston, MA

·         UT Star                              Alameda, CA

·         1800Flowers                    Carle Place, NY

 

Mascon Global Limited from Mar 1998 to June 2003

 Mascon Global Limited (MGL) is a global provider of IT and ITES services with offices and software development centres across USA, Mexico, Europe, and Asia

 

Responsibilities

·         Technical Consultant

·         Oracle 11i Implementation

·         Business Process Re-engineering

·         AIM documentation – BR100, MD50, MD70, MD120, CV40, CV60, CV70

·         Post Production Support

 

Accomplishments

• Successful consolidation of data from two different 10.7 instances and upgrade to 11.5.6 at Telefonica Movie Star
• Resolved severe performance issues at  Group Saltillo which was due to a memory leakage bug in Forms & fragmentation in Shared Pool. The whole application was tuned to give excellent performance
• Successfully implemented a custom ERP/MRP solution called IMAS – Integrated Manufacturing System (Owned by Mascon) for L&T and Bharath Electronics Limited
• Participated in the stream lining of AVALON (ERP product) at Wockhardt Pharmaceuticals
• Writing scripts to port data from the two different instances, consolidate, modify and port to 11.5.6
• Developed scripts to generate new Account code combinations with validation of all segment values.
• Developed Purchase Requisition Interface

 

Top Clients

·         Grupo Industrial Saltillo, Mexico

·         Telefonica Movie Star, Mexico

·         PSEG India, Chennai, India

·         L&T (Larson & Toubro), Chennai, India

·         Wockhardt Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai, India

·         Bharath Electronics Limited, Bangalore, India

§ Masters in Computer Science, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria

§ Bachelors in Mathematics, MG University, Kerala, India