Gary Allen
Glen Mills,PA
Summary
Accomplished Oracle EBS professional with experience implementing, customizing, managing and supporting financial applications. Attentive to detail coordinating projects, process improvements and system enhancements.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Systems Manager
Aramark Corporation
01.2002 - Current
- Manage day-to-day activities for Oracle EBS General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Aramark custom Calculation Billing modules
- Coordinate and monitor month-end financial close processing
- Lead and conduct Oracle EBS testing and implementation for enhancements and defects
- Coordinate Oracle Critical Patch (CPU) testing and migration to production
- Work closely with internal and external audit teams on Sarbanes-Oxley requirements such as providing documentation, user access recertification and completing data extract requests
- Coordinate annual activities such as year-end General Ledger close processing, interfacing annual budgets into Oracle GL and managing organizational hierarchy update processing
Education
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration / Management Information Systems -
Drexel University
Skills
- Extensive functional and technical knowledge of Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and System Administration
- Extensive knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence tool (Discoverer)
- Experienced trainer in Oracle General Ledger and Discoverer functions and concepts
- Experience using HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) to manage application testing and defect management
- Experience using HP Project Management Portfolio (PPM) to manage code migrations
- Experience using EBX5 (tool used for master data management)
Projects
- Project Manager for Oracle EBS General Ledger integration from / to Microsoft Dynamics for an acquisition
- Project Manager for Oracle EBS integration from Microsoft Dynamics for an acquisition (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and a custom Billing solution)
- Oracle EBS AR and GL Lead for upgrade from Oracle version 12.1.3 to 12.2.9
- Managed integration of a new master data management tool's (EBX5) data (organizational hierarchy information) into Oracle EBS
- Oracle EBS lead for GL interface processing from new payroll system (Ultimate Software - UltiPro)
- Project Manager for Oracle EBS implementation for Aramark Canada
- Oracle EBS lead for interface processing from / to new account reconciliation tool (BlackLine)
- Project Lead for upgrade from Oracle 11i to Oracle R12 (12.1.3)
- Project Manager for Oracle EBS implementation for Aramark Spain
- Project Manager for major conversion to integrate an acquisition (ServiceMaster) into Oracle EBS
Timeline
Financial Systems Manager
Aramark Corporation
01.2002 - Current
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration / Management Information Systems -
Drexel University
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