1. Kannan Gopalan, B.Sc. (Mathematics), CPA, CGA
4241, Goldenrod Cres, Mississauga, ON • Phone: (416) 522-9660 • Email: kannan.gopalan@gmail.com
EXPERTISE
 Strong accounting background with consolidating multi-divisions Profit &Loss and Balance Sheet
 Experienced lead Oracle Financial Functional in multiple 11i implementation and R12 upgrade
 Certified Oracle professional in Procurement and Order Fulfillment
 Proven skills in following CMMI process using tools HP Service Center and Application Life Cycle
Management Experienced in requirement gathering and implementing
 Concur – Employee Expense Reimbursement tool interfacing with Workday, Siebel and General
Ledger
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Member in good standing:
 Chartered Professional Accountants Ontario (CPA)
 Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
WORK EXPERIENCE
KG Consultancy May 2015 to Till Date
CONSULTANT
 Lead Consultant for Oracle Channel Revenue Management(OCRM) for 3 Operating units in 3
Continents R12.1.3
 Hands on handling complex 3
rd
Party Accrual
Sun Life Financial Canada Nov 2011 to April 2015
BUSINESS SYSTEM CONSULTANT
 Lead R12 Upgrade study project, elicit, gather requirements meet goal and timelines
 Functional lead in separating complex feed to GL after sell-off, if a Division and continued support.
 Strong skill in elucidating issues, root causes and solutions through parallels to business.
 Adhering to CMMI process gathered requirements for six interfaces with Concur.
 Supporting Frontier - a leading edge reconciliation tool and the interface from GL.
ACCO Brands Canada Inc. Oct 2006 to Jul 2011
SENIOR ORACLE FUNCTIONAL ANALYST
 Strong Functional Expertise in GL, AP, AR, FA, PO, CE, iPayment and iExpense.
 Lead the analysis, troubleshoot and research business opportunities and develop solutions and
recommendations.
 Lead the business integration moving from legacy system to new org in Oracle.
 Implemented AME (Approval management hierarchy) and HR Self-service for absence details.
 Supported- Project costing, Capital projects, Trade Management and Order Management.
MTS Allstream Professional Services (Now PWC) June 2000 – Sep. 2006
FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT
Lead and involved in projects with the following clients:
MyTravel Canada Oracle E-Business Suite 11i –11.5.10
FUNCTIONAL LEAD
o Conducted CRP (Conference Room Piolt), implement, train and support AR, FA and PN.
o Conducted interviews with users for detailed requirements and documentation.
o Documented requirements to fit to Oracle Applications out of the box functionality and
identified gaps for resolution.
o Implemented Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Property Manager Modules.

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Tax Revenue Authority Alberta Oracle E-Business Suite 11i –11.5.10
FUNCTIONAL LEAD
o Designed solution demo and configured for Tax Payers self-service functionality using
iReceivables.
o Conducted interviews with users for detailed requirements documentation.
o Personalised iReceivables to suit tax payers smooth experience.
o Enhanced tax payer’s self-service look and feel pages by extensive use of Bill
presentment architecture.
o Demonstrated using iReceivables, to meet self service requirements.
NATO
FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT
o Supported functionally for upgrade from 11.0.3 to 11.5.10.
o Filled in the functional requirements of different categories of upgrade steps.
o Facilitated demo in the upgraded instance.
Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) Oracle E-Business Suite 11i –11.5.9
FUNCTIONAL LEAD IMPLEMENT, TRAIN AND SUPPORT
o Enabled capital budget in Projects with budgetary control.
o Gathered requirements and documented.
o Configured prototypes involving encumbrance accounting, Capital Projects and FA.
o Implemented iExpense with imaging solutions.
Insurance Bureau of Canada
o Configured iSetup based on clients requirements to facilitate rapid prototype building and
subsequent production configuration.
o Lead member for training clients and custom development on several projects using the
Financial Statement Generator (FSG) tool and the Applications Desktop Integrator (ADI)
tools.
Munich Reinsurance Canada Branch
AP, GL and CE Lead
o Lead for developing business process design, configuration, testing and training for AP,
CE and GL modules.
o Used iSetup to speed the initial prototype and subsequent.
o Developed customized training for users on Oracle financial statement generator.
o Technical architect for custom interface from single client feed to logically create AR, AP
or GL transactions.
o Provided training and end–user support.
Munich Reinsurance Canada Branch
Role: Functional lead
o Studied and configured the Bank Statement automatic import from the client’s bank and
reconciliation.
o Mapped the BAI2 bank statement format.
o Facilitated statement import from Bank, Auto-reconcile and manual reconciliation.
o Trained the user and documented the process flow.
McGraw Hill Ltd, Whitby, Ontario
Consultant
o Supported Post Go-Live issues.

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o Key member of a task force charged with addressing over 100 critical post-production
issues.
o Analyzed, diagnosed and design / development of the solutions to address the situation
in a very short time frame.
Alpine Electronics Ltd., California
Functional iSupport implementation
o Gathered requirements for system configuration and tested of the iSupport/
Knowledgebase modules.
o Prepared and demonstrated CRP instance to fulfill business and functional requirements
of iSupport and Knowledge Base.
ADP Canada Ltd, Toronto Ontario
Consultant
o Assisted in the design of business processes for cash Auto-Reconciliation of multiple
banks with multiple accounts with extremely high transaction volumes.
o Worked with client to assess value of using Oracle Case Forecasting capability in their
operations to replace current in-house process and reports.
o Designed specifications for a new AR aging report, worked with developers to create and
test with users.
OPSEU Pension Trust
Consultant
o Reviewed existing Setup and process including the system configuration.
o Identified suitable new release functionality to suit client requirement.
o Identified functionalities not used in the older version and scoped them in the newer
release.
o Studied functionality of interfaces from other systems.
o Configured the Set up required for new subsidiaries and consolidation of subsidiaries.
o Facilitated and analyzed the alternate options for consolidating the new subsidiaries
involving setup of new Set of Books (SOB).
Maritz Canada Inc.
Functional Lead
o Implemented Oracle Fixed Assets.
o Conducted user (work group) meeting to orient them with the full potentials of FA.
o Developed prototype setup for in depth understanding and trained users for setup and
routine functions.
o Customized responsibilities and flexbuilder as per the client requirement.
o Used extensively Alias functionality to have multiple key flexfield segments populated
automatically.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna
Support Consultant
o Reconciled AP with GL.
o OSCE books are complicated due to the number of Missions in various parts of Europe
continuing to use Oracle applications with their Legacy systems. Among the modules,
AP is extensively used, using all currencies in Europe.
o In order to relay on their books of accounts, the organization felt the need to reconcile
their liability.
o Balanced AP liability and documented the requisite procedure for the client for balancing
AP and reconciling with GL.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Oracle Financials
Procurement Order Fulfillment