VENUDHAR KETHIREDDY

MOBILE: 954 444 8991

VREDDY_ORAPPS@YAHOO.COM
US CITIZENSHIP

SUMMARY:
• Extensive experience in Information Technology and Financial Services that include
10 years of experience Oracle ERP Financial Application implementations and
support. Complete project life cycle experience, from initial analysis, design, build,
test, and post production support.
• Facilitate and actively participate in streamlining and reengineering the business
process across various business units in order to implement various oracle
application modules. Align the client's business processes, capabilities, and functions,
with ERP Applications, Design and configure programs to integrate ERP applications
with the third party applications and extensions.
• Fit-Gap analysis, risk assessment, functional point analysis, financial package
evaluation and selection, request for information, request for proposal, package
implementation plans, software upgrade plans, system testing, integration testing,
test scripts, test plans, user training, strong financial management background for
business analysis, project management, financial package implementation and
customization, experience in Oracle Financials.

EDUCATION:
• Alabama A&M University, 1992
○ Masters in Business Administration
○ Before venturing into the world of Oracle implementations, I spent 5 years in
Financial Management doing Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis for
Fraser Maritime Services in Miami, Florida.

TRAINING:
• Oracle modules AR, AP, GL, FA, OM, PO, PA (Oracle Projects), INV, CM, BOM, WIP,
ODP, ASCP, Pricing from Oracle University. Tech. training – SQL, PLSQL ,6i and
Discoverer from Oracle University
• Cash Flow analysis, Financial Planning and Reporting from AMA (American
Management Association)
• Logical Apps

EXPERIENCE:

02/08 – 12/09
MASCOBCG, Adrian, Michigan
IS Oracle Apps Implementation and Oracle Financials Process Lead (Oracle R12)
• Oracle apps release12.4 implementation. Responsible for implementing Oracle
Financial Modules (GL, FA, AP, PO, CM, AR, OM, INV, EBTAX and Costing). Support
accounting and finance teams for the implemented releases (Financial accounting
and Cost accounting).
• Work with project team members to review the customer requirements and design
the alignment strategy (Design and enable, Financial reporting, both process and
system automation for customers. Provide functional and technical assistance in
identifying, evaluating, creating specifications to deploy / implement solutions that
are effective and meet client requirements).
• Create and Review the AIM documentation BR100, MD50, CV40. Work with the QA
teams and review the QA documents (TE Documentation). Configure the application
modules per the business requirement.
• Mange BA team, Coach Business analysts in gathering requirements, gap analysis,
process development, FSG reports and customer support.
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• Create SOX documents for conversions – Making sure all the legacy conversions are
tied to the Production Oracle R12 application. Coordinate and help users to achieve
the reconciliations between legacy and Oracle R12.
• Review and Approve the User Roles and Responsibilities. Coached Sys-Admin team
to plan, define and manage the user roles and responsibilities. Registering the
objects, defining the menus and responsibilities, request groups.
• CAB Lead, Mange the RFC’s for production. Present RFC documents (Request for
change) to the CAB committee; explain the change requests and their impacts to
seek approvals and mange the deployment schedule.
• Coordinate with all organizations involved to ascertain system requirements for
Oracle Modules GL, FA, AP, AR, PO, OM, INV, EBTAX, Pricing and CM. BOM. WIP and
Costing

06/05 – 01/08
MOTOROLA
Principal Consultant Oracle Apps Functional Lead / PM
• Oracle Modules: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed
Assets, Cash Management, Order Management, Pricing / Advance Pricing, Shipping,
Inventory, Costing, Bill Of Materials, Purchase Order, Approval Enterprise Manager
and Logical Apps.
• Projects: Implementation of Oracle Apps 11.5.9 / 10., Conversions for new
acquisitions, Daily Business Close, Off Invoice Discounts, Global APS, PDM and
Maintenance Releases (Enhancements). Open to discuss the details and
achievements.
• Re-engineering the business processes and automating manual processes. Conduct
process meetings with business users to understand the existing process and assist
them in utilization of the application seeded features. Configured Oracle Applications
to the business requirements (Setups for Oracle Modules).
• Align business strategy with technical strategies to provide effective solutions across
Motorola. Document, review and approve the business requirements documents,
design documents and system test plans.
• Design and enable both process and system automation for customers. Provides
technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and creating specifications for
deploying/implementing solutions that are cost effective and meet client
requirements.
• Coordinates with all business units involved in writing system requirements (e.g.,
program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, data validation,
retention, archiving and system techniques and controls) for Oracle Modules GL, AP,
AR, PO, OM , INV, Pricing and BOM.
• Create IT roadmaps for Business Operations and Finance departments. Work with
other IT team members to understand strategic drivers and best-in-class solutions
from a technology standpoint.
• Work with the support team, third level user support. Coach support team in
resolving complex and critical issues in production. Opening TAR at Oracle Metalink
and follow up until the TAR is resolved.
• Worked with the offshore teams (Infosys, L&T and others).

02/00 – 06/05
WORLD FUEL SERVICES, Miami, FL
Manager Oracle Financials Application
• WFS is a multi-national company with 43 offices in 23 countries around the world.
WFS is structured as a Multi-Org, Multiple Currency and Multiple set of Books.
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• Oracle Modules worked on: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts
Payable.
• Business process analysis and re-engineering the existing business process to
integrate legacy process with Oracle Applications functionality. Worked closely with
Accounting and Finance department heads to understand legacy business process
and reporting requirements of three individual business segments
• Worked closely with Accounting and Finance departments to assist them in
developing custom reconciliation procedures to semi-automate and expedite period
end closing and sub-ledgers to GL reconciliations. Automated sub ledger open items
reconciliation process with GL.
• Worked closely with development team to coach, monitor and help them to
understand the technical architecture of Oracle Applications (Base Tables) for
sourcing the data to customize the reports per user requirements.
• Oracle apps Functional Admin (Sysadmin) managing Security, Profiles, Concurrent
Managers and registering the new objects in Oracle Applications.
• Configured the production system and supervised data conversion.
• Provided functional design to integrate external applications with Oracle Apps.
• Oracle Financials Application Functional Administrator. Implemented and supported
SOX 404 controls.
• Developed work plans for data conversions, unit and integration testing. Planned the
application configurations for defining the setups for GL, AP, and AR. Tracked the
progress of project plan with assigned deliverables. Designed customizations when
the situation is inevitable.
• Mapped the legacy system reports to the Oracle Reports and submitted functional
and technical specs for customizations to accommodate business reporting
requirements and third party interfaces.
• Parallel testing, Go Live and post-implementation support.
• Continued internal implementations as they acquire new ventures and supported new
and existing implementations.

1997 - 2000
TALENT POINT INC
Principal Consultant – Oracle Applications

Webster Industries, Wouburn, MA

• Documented high level business requirements, collect/analyze business process flows
and reporting needs, documented legacy systems and interface requirements with
detail activity plan based on the gaps and customization requirements.
• Team Member tasked with implementing Oracle Apps 11.0.3 General Ledger, Fixed
Assets, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Order Management, Inventory and
Purchase Order at Webster Dictionaries in Peabody, MA, a major supplier of branded
and privately labeled trash bags and food contact products. Participated as a team
member and assisted the team lead in tracking the project plan and organizing user
meetings and presentations.
• Set up Oracle Modules and QA testing environment with test data. Generated test
plans to make sure the business process is in compliance with client specifications
(preparing conference room pilot).
• Set up test instance and organized the meetings with users to educate them on new
and changed application navigation, new features and new business processes.
Highlighted reasons for changing the process and advantages over the legacy
processes.
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• Developed FSG reports and coached users on developing their own custom FSG
reports, as well as how to load journal entries and budgets with ADI.
• Actively participated in production system Configurations (setups), parallel testing
and troubleshooting phase while going "Live."
• Supported post-implementation transition activities until the system is stabilized.
• Developed user training manuals for custom defined responsibilities.

Signal Global Communications, Boston, MA

• Documented legacy system setups, re-defined the Chart of Accounts and Accounting
Flex Field. Setting up the Oracle Modules GL, AP (configuration), created FSG reports
for financial reporting.
• Team Member tasked with implementing Project Accounting, Oracle General Ledger
and Accounts Payable. Signal Global is a multinational company. Upgraded 10.7 to
11.0.3. In 11.0 3 user enabled Multi-Org, Multi Currency and multiple Set of Books to
accommodate the enterprise business needs
• Identified new reporting requirements and mapped them to the oracle seeded
reports and designed the specs for customizations.
• Actively participated in production system Configurations (setups), parallel testing
and troubleshooting phase while go "Live".
• Created reconciliation Excel spread sheets using oracle ODBC drivers for accounting
users to expedite their reconciliation processes.
• Post implementation support for all transition activities until system stabilization.

Allied Group, Boston, MA

• Documenting business requirements, Analyze business processes flows and reporting
needs, Documenting legacy systems and interface requirements with Detail activity
plan based on the gaps and customization requirements.
• Developed work plans for data conversions, unit and Integration testing. Planned the
application configurations for defining the setups for GL, AP, OE and PA. Tracked the
progress of project plan with assigned deliverables.
• Created FSG reports for financial reporting, Helped development team in customizing
the oracle seeded reports to the business needs.