Over 25 years of progressive experience in Oracle EBS Financials, spanning strategic planning through to hands-on execution across the application lifecycle—from build to run—including significant involvement in data conversion and upgrade projects. Proven ability to help organizations shape application strategies, and optimize data usage to enhance user experience and system effectiveness.
Matrix-managed and mentored cross-functional teams, including IT and business resources.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
ERP Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
05.2022 - 10.2024
Acted as liaison between business users, technical teams, and security to document and standardize Oracle EBS Financial data for PwC auditors, streamlining the annual audit process by delivering concise, audit-ready summaries aligned with compliance requirements.
Environment: Oracle EBS Financials R12.x.
ERP Business Leader, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay
Energy Management Collaborative
06.2019 - 04.2022
Optimized cost and performance metrics by implementing sustainable, secure Oracle EBS Financials, Procurement, Cash Management, and Project modules. Implemented Centralized Project auto-accounting, redefined the Chart of Account segments from 8 to 5 segments, reduced maintenance costs by 3 times with dynamic project driven EbTax rules.
Cut down the financial month end closing cycle from 7 days to 5 days by introducing proactive measures.
Utilized Oracle AIM methodology to document key project deliverables, including BR100 (Application Setup) and MD50 (Functional Design); led and executed end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure functional alignment and system integrity.
Environment: Oracle Cloud and EBS Financials
Senior Oracle EBS Product Lead
Cambria
05.2018 - 05.2019
Helped businesses understand out-of-box features, gap and impact analysis and allowed technical teams to gain a clear understanding of the end-to-end business workflows.
Documented the Business Requirement and implemented scalable and flexible solutions for Bank Integration, Auto-Reconciliation of ACH transactions in Cash Management, Project Accounting, Sub-Ledger Accounting(SLA) rules using Agile Methodology. Implementation helped cut down IT costs by 30% while rolling out 4 new organization units in one year.
Led a team of 8 off-shore team members and expanded the evolution of best practices, transformation of SDLC methodology as well as roadmap definition and execution on several initiatives related to these platforms.
Collaborated with technical teams to validate customizations, interfaces (CEMLIs), and extensions through comprehensive end-to-end testing, ensuring functionality, data accuracy, and process compliance.
Environment: Global Oracle Financials R12.2.5, Cash Management, Cost Management
Senior Oracle EBS Financials Consultant
Bluestem Brands Inc.
03.2015 - 04.2018
Aligned project deliverables with business goals and expectations, changed control processes and IT audit procedures while ensuring close collaboration with implementation partners.
Led critical build-to-run and support efforts across ERP and platforms including Oracle E-Business Suite, Infinium, Great Plains EDI, MS SQL Server, and ancillary systems.
Mentored business analysts on production issues thus helping them independently handle day to day production issues allowing the technical team to focus on innovation projects.
Designed complex technology PCI compliance solutions to business requirements leveraging the full ecosystem and technology innovation.
Identified legacy batch jobs and converted them to event driven real time solutions (using out-of-box Integrated SOA Gateway and Business Events solutions).
Implemented a variety of stress tests, purging strategies and error handling so the retail environment could handle cyclical business cycles.
Shared and demonstrated the opportunity and benefit of implementing hybrid models.
Built and defined the ongoing maintenance strategy for Oracle Applications.
Led a Techno-Functional role from planning to efficient execution of global multi-Org, multi-Currency Oracle applications and Oracle related interfaces leveraging Open APIs and reporting projects.
Solutioned dynamic multi-org processes were used across different modules.
Implemented EBS AR, payables, ACH/Credit Card payment solutions, and EbTax.
Created and maintained BR100 documents to capture detailed configuration setups, ensuring traceability and audit compliance.
Acted as a key liaison between project super users and the technical offshore teams. Completed the impact analysis on customization and the existing setup in different modules.
Led the R11 to R12.1.3 upgrade.
Defined and documented action plans for data cleansing in the legacy system, identified, and mapped key data between legacy and Oracle. Redefined the Chart of Accounts, defined the security profile, and implemented a virtual private database to secure the data at both the database and application levels.
Environment: Oracle EBS Financials, Projects, Human Capital Management R12.x, OBIEE
Lead Consultant
ALCOA
06.1998 - 04.2006
Successfully implemented the conversion routine for one of the biggest Accounts Receivable Shared Services Organization in North America. (Converted 94,744 items totaling $862,503,500)
Environment: Global Oracle Financials R11i
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Mumbai University
Mumbai, India
Skills
Oracle EBS Financials
Subledger Accounting(SLA)
EbTax
Oracle AIM methodology
Oracle Project Costing and Billing
SQL
MS Office
SDLC
System Integration
Timeline
ERP Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
05.2022 - 10.2024
ERP Business Leader, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay