Candidates About

 

 

Parvathi Atluri

Senior Oracle EBS Finance Functional Consultant      

 

·         Over 10+ years of experience in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) including requirement gathering & analysis, testing, implementation and maintenance using Oracle Applications

·         Extensively worked on business flows of  Procure to Pay (P2P) and Order to Cash (O2C) cycles

·         Experienced  as  Oracle Apps Finance-Functional Consultant primarily working on Finance modules like GL, AP,AR, E-Business-Tax, i-Expenses, Cash Management, SLA, FA, Oracle Payments(IBY),TCA

·         Experienced in Implementation, Upgrade, Customization and Production Application support activities of Oracle Apps R12 Financial modules (GL, AP, AR,SLA,CE,E-Business-Tax, I-Expenses, FA, Oracle Payments(IBY),TCA) 

·         Actively involved in resolving critical Finance Functional Issues during  Month End Closures(MEC) and Year End Closures(YEC)

·         Experienced on new features  of R12 Finance Functionality

·         Exposure to Oracle-Fusion Apps functionality of  Accounts Payables module

·         Good understanding of  integration between Oracle EBS application and Vertex Tax

·         Extensively worked on Security Administration which includes creating users, Menus, Request groups, value sets, exclusion, inclusion of functions to responsibilities, enabling profile options depending on the requirements. 

·         Adhering to the SOX Compliance as per the business requirements      

·         Excellent delivery in all my work products. Achieved higher customer satisfaction and received appreciation mails from clients.

·         Good at designing functional specification documents using AIM methodology

·         Played extensive role is  setting up EBiz Tax for Canada basing on provinces

·         Extensively worked on Customer exemptions of EBiz Tax with Vertex Integration

·         Extensive experience in  working with Clients and solving the issues as per Client Service Level Agreement (SLA)

·         Good team oriented attitude. A fast learner, who worked diligently and systematically to  complete assignments

·         Good communication  and interpersonal skills

·         Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

·         Ability to Cope with new concepts of  R12 finance functionality as well as Fusion 

·         Possess  very strong analytical and problem solving skills

·         Involved in project bidding phase  for COA Change

·         Actively  provided inputs from functional perspective  in development of internal Tool CIAT(COA Impact Analyzer Tool)

·         Extensively used MS Word, Visio for documentations and diagrams, and Excel spread sheets for reporting

 

 

·         Offshore-Onsite Co-ordination/Communication Planning & status reporting

 

 

·         Involved in Functional  Design specifications

·         Programming Languages:  SQL

·         Database: Oracle 9i,10,11g

·         Tools:  Toad, SQL Developer, Data Loader, HP QC

 

 

·         Oracle E-Business Suite Essentials R12 Certified Consultant

 

 

Client               :  Hyatt Corporation, Chicago IL

Role                  :  Senior EBS Business Analyst

Environment  :  EBS R12.1.3

Duration         :   March-2016 to till date

 

Project Description:

 

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is an American multinational owner, operator, franchiser of hotels, resorts and vacation properties

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

·         Working on Finance modules-GL ,AP,AR, IExpenses, FA, iReceivables

·         Successfully delivered multiple RFEs (Request for enhancements) in due deadlines without defects which requires good amount of understanding of the functionality

·         Involved in  gathering new business requirements

·         Preparing the Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Reports 

·         Converted User Requirements into formal Functional specifications

·         Involved in Functional specification design documents (MD50) using AIM

·         Moving critical fixes, patches with appropriate approvals from business

·         Maintaining  document repository  in wincvs

·         Assist the technical team in developing enhancement/customized objects by providing functional inputs

·         Interacting with users for resolving issues as well as for new business process enhancements

·         Doing root cause analysis(RCA) for the issues reported and working with Oracle for fixing issues/bugs thru patches, data fixes

·         Mapping the enhancements with R12 new features like MPA etc.

·         Involved in Bill Presentment Architecture(BPA) setup of AR module

·         Actively involved in resolving Month-End Closure(MEC) activities

 

 

Client               :  Department of Environment &Primary Industries, Australia

Role                  :  Solution Architect

Environment  :  Implementation of R12.1.3

Duration         :   June-2014 to Feb-2016

 

Project Description:

          

DEPI is a state government department responsible for protecting the environment, boosting productivity in Victoria's food and fiber sector, management of natural resources and managing water resources in the state of Victoria, Australia.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

·         Involved in Business Requirement gatherings, achieved in a more pragmatic way.

·         As a Team Lead responsible for assigning the work on daily basis and single point of contact(POC) for all the functional issues

·         Worked on finance modules  of GL, AP, AR, CE, SLA, Ebiz-Tax, FA

·         Preparing the Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Report  by initiating internal calls

·         Converted User Requirements into formal Functional specifications

·         Extended discussions with client during Gap Fit Analysis

·         Involved in Functional specification design documents (MD50)

·         Involved in setting up Multi-period Accounting(MPA) in SLA for Payables and also various features of Payables module

·         Actively involved in customization related to FA-Asset Transfers

·         Done mandatory setups in AR module like Transaction Types, Sources, Receipt Classes etc.

·         Creation of  Banks, Bank Branches, Bank Accounts in test instances

·         Creation of  Payment Process Request Templates in Payments and also Payment Process Requests(PPR)

·         Good at Multi-Org concepts, Creation of Ledgers in  test environments for General  Ledger Module

·         Interacting with Technical teams for various issues and  customizations where functional  inputs are needed

·         Designed Business Process Modeling Notation(BPMN)using Microsoft Visio and prepared TE40 documents                                                                                                 

·         Configuring and Testing in various CRP instances

·         Involved in Configuration of  major setups for E-business Tax  module

·         Co-ordination between Onsite, Offshore for requirements gathering

·         Responsible for  training  users

·         Conducted various Brain Storming sessions at team level to decide upon the solution approach for new requirements

·         Led multiple initiatives to improve various phases  and met the deadlines timely

·         Preparing documentation(BR100) for the  configuration setups designed

·         Maintained  document repository through WinCVS

·         Working with Oracle Support Team  thru Metalink for  Service Requests

·         Critical fixes  applied with retrospective approvals

 

 

Client               :   SMART Technologies Inc, USA, Canada

Role                 :    Senior Business Analyst-Finance(Onsite)

Environment  :   R12.0.6 Production Support

Duration         :    December-2011 to June-2014

 

Project Description:

 

SMART Technologies Inc., is the world's first interactive whiteboard provider. SMART is defined by their customers like -Students, teachers, business people, Governments, by television broad casters, prominent Universities, Sports teams. SMART board Comes thru software-SMART Notebook which is a powerful software tool.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·         Providing Production Support for Finance Modules of –AP, AR ,GL, CE, SLA,IBY,FA,E-Business Tax for R12.0.6 Version

·         Production Support includes interacting with various teams of Oracle Product Support teams for getting Data Fixes, Patches and getting them deployed by On-Demand team on need by basis.

·         Actively involved in troubleshooting/resolving Month-End Closure(MEC) and Year End Closure (YEC) issues for supported Financial modules.

·         Involved in Client Weekly Meetings to Update the Status of the issues     

·         Supported production environment issues through tickets logged by  users on a daily basis and also by responding to emergency requests.

·         Tasks included the management of the complete TAR life cycle, troubleshooting end user problems and working closely with clients till the issue resolution

·         Actively involved in debugging issues related to Integration of E-Business- Tax with Third Party Partner-Vertex

·         Involved in Customizations for SLA  in AR and Preparation of BR100 documents for the Customizations

·         Work with technical team in developing a Program to Insert / Upload Data into RA tables to simplify mass upload of manual transactions in AR

·         Helping the functional  team in encapsulating business scenarios applicable for testing specific to enhancement requests

·         Configured  Electronic Funds Transfer(EFT),EFT Remittance Advice

·         Diagnosing the root cause analysis of the  issues observed to avoid reoccurrence of such issues in the future

·         Prepare  Extensions(MD50) and guide Technical team for development of Customization Objects

·         Maintained knowledge repository for  all documents like MD50’s,BR100’s etc. by creating Project relevant Workspaces  in Oracle files Online.

·         Creating Request For Change(RFC) for moving the Patches/Data fixes to relevant instances. Interactions with Customer on daily basis for clarification on Customizations and issues related to MEC.

·         Getting RFC’s approved from business during regular interactions.

·         Extensively played a major role in setting up new tax rules for many provinces of Canada which are Location based taxes, changing provinces to new regimes as per Customer update. This is major activity for Year End Closure

 

·         Implemented  latest features of R12 like Late Charges in AR, AP/AR Netting, DeferredInvoice etc

·         Actively involved in resolving Bill Presentment Architecture(BPA) issues

·         Managed Production Support (24 X 7) during the month ends and Quarter ends and Financial Year closures

 

Client              :    Manheim Technologies, USA

Role                 :    Senior EBS Consultant -Finance

Environment  :  R12.0.6 Production Support

Duration         :    January-2011 to November-2011

 

 Project Description:

 

Manheim was  a wholesale vehicle auction operation. A subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, Manheim is transforming the wholesale vehicle buying and selling experience through investments in technology and innovative products and services. It has set the industry standard for buying and selling used vehicles at live auctions and online

 

 Roles & Responsibilities:

 

·         Providing Production Support for Finance modules of –AP, GL, CM,IBY for R12.0.6 Version

·         Actively involved in troubleshooting/resolving Month-End Closure issues.

·         Effective Customer, End-user interactions on daily basis for clarification on critical issues.

·         Coordinating with Onsite team for prioritization of work.

·         Review and signoff Test documents and managing Defects in HP QC.

·         Replicating the case in the Test instance and performing virtual tests to find the Cause for the problem and fixing the issue.

·         Experienced in tracking and resolving application bugs via the Oracle Tar process using  Metalink    

 

Client               :   Oracle Internal

Role                  :  Senior Functional Analyst

Environment  :  Oracle Fusion-Accounts Payable

Duration         :   August-2010 to December-2010

 

Project Description:

 

 The objective of this project is to facilitate effective testing on Fusion functionality of Payables .Fusion is latest emerging Oracle product which is integration of several other Oracle products.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

 

·         Played Team Lead role, responsible for  status reporting calls and coordinating with different teams

·         Actively involved in testing Accounts Payable module of Fusion.

·         Involved in end to end testing of P2P Cycle.

·         Verifying the functionality of  various features of AP  in different environments as per the builds

·         Logging bugs if any deviations/flaws occur in functional flow.

·         Effective   bug testing with status-80(Development to Q/A)and leading to closure of bugs

·         Developing test cases for Build Validation Tests(BVT)

 

Client               :  Oracle-Internal

Role                  :  Senior Functional Analyst

Environment  :  Oracle EBS R12.1.3

Duration         :    April-2010 to July-2010

 

Project Description:

 

The objective of this project is to facilitate effective testing on new release R12.1.3 functionality of Payables with relevant to specific features.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

·         Worked as Team Lead and responsible for  co-ordination of day to day activities

·         Involved in end to end testing of  P2P Cycle

·         Unit testing  of scenarios as per the builds

·         Logging bugs if R12.1.3 functionality is not working properly as per the design. Tracking and following up bugs.

·         Participate in Test Scenario reviews for other Team Members to ensure adherence to standards and ensure Test Scenario completeness

·         Actively involved in functional testing of bugs after data fixes or patch applications.

·         Updating efforts in “My Ideas” which is a internal test management tool for maintaining all  flows  as per builds.

·         Interacting with Oracle Product Development team with respect to above bug areas.

·          Doing Root Cause Analysis(RCA) for bugs.

·         Co-ordination and status reporting to Program Manager.

 

Client               :  Electronic Arts, California

Role                  :  Senior Business Analyst- Finance

Environment  :  R12.0.6 Production Support

Duration          :   August-2009 to April-2010

 

Project Description:

 

 Electronic Arts is  a gaming company located in Redwood shores, California.  Client has widely extended with 39 operating units over Asia, Europe, North America regions.  It has upgraded from 11.5.10 to R12.0.6. Scope of this project includes modules like General Ledger, i-Expenses, Payables, Purchasing

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·         Providing trouble shooting solutions  and production support for modules-GL,AP, i-Expenses,IBY

·         Interacted with end-users for clarifications on issues logged by them.

·         Identified majority of problems related to credit cards in i-Expenses module and informed Business for further decisions.

·         Unit testing in non-production instance till the issue is replicated for the issue that has been reported by users.

·         Identified major implementation mishandled data related to Korea, Japan credit cards where the decimal places vary in the amount while paying to Amex.

·         Identified few code bugs in credit cards as many of the employee records associated with credit cards were stuck in R12 Staging tables.

·         Extensively handled scenarios by developing data fix when billed currency is not equal to posted currency code  and  billed currency equals to posted currency.

·         Handled scenarios where credit cards were assigned to wrong operating units.

·         Interacted with IT Manager from Business end for modifying and updating few design aspects of credit cards.

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