1. Guru Prasad
Phone: India:+919845248806
E-Mail: guru_prasaad@rediffmail.com
Oracle Apps Finance solution Architect with total 17 years of experience.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
 A dynamic Professional with 17 years of rich overseas and indigenous experience in large scale financial
projects encompassing domain and Oracle financials consulting with onsite & offsite, planning, system
study, proposal, implementation as well as support of large Oracle Apps 11i / R12 projects.
 Proficiency in solutions design / procedures for change management in Oracle Apps projects, entailing
mapping business processes and studying the business requirements to design solutions, ensuring
business functionality adherence & enhancing competitive advantage.
 Deft at managing wide spectrum of Finance & Accounts activities encompassing finalization of accounts,
cash flow management, debtors, creditor’s management, credit control, auditing & bank reconciliation
statements.
 Insightful knowledge of business process analysis and design, application based process re-engineering,
process optimization, cost control and revenue maximization from the Oracle apps projects.
 Hands on experience in end-to-end implementation and supports projects for Government, Trading and
Manufacturing Company’s.
 Major client handled includes ASG Australia, AMRI US and UK, Ministry of Finance and Industries, UAE,
Dubai Multi Commodity Center, UAE, Harvest Foods-Egypt, Vanco UK Ltd., United Kingdom, Hugh
Symons Group, United Kingdom, Building Adhesives Ltd., United Kingdom, Tata Power-India, etc.
 An effective leader with distinguished abilities in end-to-end Oracle Apps 11i/R12 implementation /
program management, custom designing IT solutions, training & motivating team members to maintain
deliverables as per the business requirement.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2014 – Till date with Birla soft, as Solution Architect
Accountabilities:
 People management
 Complete responsibility of the delivery of the project
 Support Oracle Finance competence activity – Pre sales activity like proposals, Prof of concept,
Recruitment.
 Solution Design
 Client management
 Oracle Financials End to End Implementation
 Design of CEMLI Objects
 Testing of CEMLI and standard flows of Oracle to meet the clients requirements.
 Go live support
Mar-2014 – May 2014 with L&T InfoTech Bangalore, as Consultant
Accountabilities:
 Production support for all the finance modules – GL/AP/AR/FA/CM
 Co-ordination with the users to understanding the issues, working on the solution and closure of the
issue
 Status report on the issues raised by the users with status
 If required taking help of Oracle by raising service Request and closely working with Oracle for resolving
the issue.

2. June 2010-Dec-2014 with Hitachi Consulting Bangalore, as Sr.Consultant
Accountabilities:
 Studying the requirements from client and documenting (BP.80).
 Building the instance and documenting the configuration done (BR.100)
 Preparing test cases for the flows of the client and giving demo to the client in comparison with the
requirements (BP.80).
 Preparing training material for end users based on the business flow of the client.
 Providing demo support for the client during UAT and resolving any issues raised and getting the UAT
sign off.
 Gathering data in oracle format from the legacy system, which would be loaded in the production
instance.
 Managing production instance configuration and data loading as well as providing post production
support.
May 2007- May 2010 with INATECH Info solutions Pvt. Ltd., A Calsoft Company, Bangalore as
Functional Consultant Oracle Applications
Accountabilities:
 Handling the planning, scooping, estimation, tracking of the projects.
 Ensuring the implementation of project plan with in the planned budget and deadline.
 Handling the planning, and scheduling (onsite / offshore) of delivery management.
 Taking care of activities like defining escalation / responds / resolution time on issues based on the
criticality.
 Monitoring team members and assigning tasks as per requirement.
 Studying the requirements from client and documenting (BP.80).
 Building the instance and documenting the configuration done (BR.100)
 Preparing test cases for the flows of the client and giving demo to the client in comparison with the
requirements (BP.80).
 Preparing training material for end users based on the business flow of the client.
 Providing demo support for the client during UAT and resolving any issues raised and getting the UAT
sign off.
 Gathering data in oracle format from the legacy system, which would be loaded in the production
instance.
 Managing production instance configuration and data loading as well as providing post production
support.
Jan 2005 to April 2007 with Landmark Group Qatar Accountant / Oracle Apps implementation
team member:
Accountabilities:
 Responsibly for handling MIS reports
 Ratio Analysis
 Sales reports for events in comparison with the previous year
 Monitoring the Inventory holding age wise company wise on monthly basis
 Monitoring the cost of sales on monthly basis
 Preparation of Financial Budgeting on a yearly basis
 Preparation of Profit and loss account and balance sheet in comparison with the Budget
 Preparation of cash flow and arranging for remittance of excess funds to our corporate office.
 Reporting the amount of remittance in comparison with budgeted remittance
 Complete responsibility of Insurance policies Renewal and revision of the insurance cover based on the
requirement
 Complete responsibility of banking relationship.
Oct 2001 to Dec 2004 with GYMA Enterprises FZE, Dubai as an Accountant
Accountabilities:
 Handling the accounting of purchase and cost of manufacturing.
 Managing sales returns in wards and outwards.
 Taking care of reconciliation of accounts receivable and accounts payable as well as bank reconcililiation.
 Overseeing the overall responsibility of imports documentations like processing of LC documents, follow
up with the bank and the imports department on the status of the imports.
 Generating trial balance, profit / loss account and balance sheet.
 Coordinating with the bank.

3. Oct 1997 to Sep 2001 with Chamundi Electrical Stampings, Mysore as Finance Executive
Accountabilities:
 Handling overall responsibility of finance department including preparation of journal entries.
 Keeping a record of accounting purchase, sales and others expenses.
 Generating pay roll, payments for vendors and following up for reconciliation as well as handling bank
reconciliation
 Managing reconciliation of accounts receivables and accounts payables.
 Taking care of profit and loss account and other banking relationships, and finalization of accounts.
INTERNSHIP PROJECT / TRAINING
Title: Treasury Management at UB Group Bangalore.
Description: The project was based on managing of cash flows into the company and out of the company,
cash flows with in the company, cash balance held by the company at a point of time. ‘Cash management’
assumes more importance than any other current assets held by the company because cash is the least
productive asset that a company holds.
 Training attended on production, personnel, finance and marketing for acquiring knowledge about the
inter departmental relationships of the organisation.
ACADEMICS
 MBA in Finance from University of Bangalore, Bangalore in 1997.
 BBM in Finance from University of Mysore, Mysore in 1995.
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE PURVIEW
 Oracle Apps 11i, R12 – GL, AP, AR, FA, CM
 SAP R / 3 4.6C,Tally 5.4, Sage, Brio
Project Management and Issue Management Purview
 Project Management Tool: MS Project, Digite
 Issue Management Tool: Bugzilla, Digite, Sharepoint
 CMMi level 3 internal and external assessment
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : May 1st, 1974
Permanent Address : 101 Encorn Srilakshmi, 4th Main Road, Jayalakshmipuram, Mysore-570012
Marital Status : Married
Passport No. : G5380084 valid upto 2017
Visa : US B1 Visa Valid upto 2020
Refer Annexure for Projects

4. PROJECTS
AMRI – US & UK Roll Out
AMRI
Client : AMRI
Duration: Mar 2015– Till Date
Role : Project Manager
Paltform : Oracle apps 11i
Accountabilities:
• Project Manager for the project to Implementation of Oracle Financials – US and UK
• Project planning , team management
• Single point of contact for the off shore team.
• Hands on End to End Implementation of Modules – GL/AP/AR/FA/CM for US and UK Ledger
• Implementation of UK Localization
• Requirement gathering and design of CEMLI Objects (Configuration, Extension, Modification, Localization,
and Integration).
• Go live support
ASG Australia
Client : ASG
Duration: Jun 2014– Nov 2014
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps R12
Accountabilities:
• Functional Lead for all the customization
• Team management – Assigning the working within the off shore team
• Communication with on the status of the components developed
• Understanding the requirement from the requirement document sent by the onsite team
• Co – ordinate with the on site team for any clarifications
• Help the technical team for any functional issue
• Testing the component
• Coordinate with the on site team during testing
• Issues and resolutions
Flow Serve upgrade and production Support
Client : Flow Serve, India
Duration: Mar 2014– June 2014
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps R12 / 11i
Accountabilities:
• Functional lead for upgrade and production support
• Team management
• Solution design for new change request
• Configuration of new requirement of the client
• Testing and documentation
Darling International
Client : Darling International, USA
Duration: Jan 2013– Dec -2013
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps R12
Accountabilities:

5. • Functional lead for Development of CEMLI (Configurations, Extensions, Modifications, Localizations
and Integrations)
• Coordination with on site functional consultants and off shore technical resource in development of
object
• Documentations – Test Cases, UPK test documents,
• Testing and preparing test results for CEMLI objects
• UAT support.
Hydratight
Client : Hydratight
Duration: Jan 2012– Dec 2012
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps 11i
Accountabilities:
• Roll out for new operating units
• Issues and resolution in financials module
• Preparation of MD.50 for custom components
• Testing and UAT support
• Production rollout.
• Environment: Oracle Applications 11i
• Functional Modules: GL, AP, AR, FA, Custom module
SPTS
Client : SPP Process Technology Systems UK Limited
Duration: July 2011– Dec 2012
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps 11i
Accountabilities:
• Requirement gathering and solution design for data loading for a new operating unit
• Preparation for MD.50 – function design document.
• Testing the data once loading into the instance.
• Support for UAT.
• Production rolls out.
• Post production support.
Environment: Oracle Applications 11i
Functional Modules: GL,AP,AR,
CHP-Support
Client : Continnum Health Partners, New York US
Duration: Oct 2010 – Jun 2011
Role : Project Lead
Paltform : Oracle apps 11i
Accountabilities:
• Requirements gathering and solution design – custom module supplemental pay, Cash Receipts and
reports.
• Configuration of asset lease and design of reports.
• Preparation of MD.50
• Coordination with off shore development team
• Testing of the custom components developed.
• Support during UAT
• Production role out.
Suracle-UK-First Rand-Financials
Client: First Rand Bank, United Kingdom
Duration: Oct 2009 – May 2010
Role: Senior Consultant
Platform: Oracle Apps R12 GL, AP, AR, FA, iExpense
Accountabilities:

6. • Configuration of financial modules – GL, AP, AR, FA iExpenses.
• Documentation of configuration done in the system – BR.100
• Off shore support during the UAT.
• Production role out.
CNS-ME-Apps Tech Consulting Services- MOFI
Client: MOFI, Abu Dhabi
Duration: Aug 2009 – Sept 2009
Role: Senior Consultant
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i GL, AP, AR, FA.
Accountabilities:
• Providing resolutions to all the financial modules including GL, AP, AR and FA.
DMCC-ME-Financial Functional Consulting
Client: DMCC, Dubai
Duration: Jan 2009 – July 2009
Role: Senior Consultant
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i GL, AP, AR, FA.
Accountabilities:
• Managing the requirement gathering for new operating units-DCAM / DSAM / GIS / DGS.
• Preparing RD.050 and sign off from the financial controller.
• Developing BR.100 module wise – CA / GL / AP / AR / FA.
• Coordinating for configuration of SIT, UAT and production instance.
• Conducting the testing of each instance-SIT, UAT and production instance and get a sign of for the
each instance from users.
• Handling the issues and resolutions on financial modules across the DMCC operating units.
Harvest Foods R12 Implementation
Client: Harvest Foods Egypt
Duration: May 2008-Dec 2008
Role: Project Manager
Platform: Oracle Applications R12 GL, AR, AP, Asset and Cash Management.
Accountabilities:
• Preparation of project plan, Configuration plan, risk plan and mitigation plan
• Analysis of project status on periodic basis for corrective action.
• Coordination with all the stake holders with conducting meeting and preparation of MOM.
• Assessed by internal audit and addressing all the Non compliance raised.
• Assessed by external audit (KPMG) as project manager for CMMi level 3 assessments.
• Coordinating with key business owners for business analysis–Preparation of BP 80.
• Handling the configuration of CRP instance-GL, AR, AP, Asset, and Cash Management.
• Preparation of BR100.
• Preparing the user training material.
• Conducting user training on GL, AR, AP, Asset, and Cash Management.
• Providing UAT supports and issue resolutions.
• Managing the configuration of production instance including GL, AR, AP, Asset, and Cash
Management.
• Loading the master data and opening balance using data loaders and handling go live support.
Vanco Netdirect Ltd.
Client: Vanco UK Ltd.
Duration: Jan 2008-Apr 2008
Role: Project Lead
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO, AP,AR, Inventory, and Order Management
Accountabilities:
• Developing the operating unit of Vanco Netdirect Ltd.
• Conducting the testing of all the standard functions and customised programs.
• Handling UAT support, creation of production instance and go live-production.
Financial Year Extension
Client: Hugh Symons Group, United Kingdom
Duration: Dec 2007-Dec 2007
Role: Project Lead
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO, AP, AR, Inventory, and Order Management

7. Accountabilities:
• Handling the proposal of the solution for financial year extension.
• Providing application of the solution in a test environment and testing the solution.
• Managing the documentation of the test cases.
• Providing solution on approval by the client application.
BAL
Client: Building Adhesives Ltd., United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 2007-Dec 2007
Role: Project Manager
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO, AP, AR, FA. Manufacturing and DBA
Accountabilities:
• Handling the modification of sales acknowledgement report.
• Issue allocation and resourcing. Based on the requirements.
• Managing the modification of flex field under customer site.
• Creating discoverer report to generate sale and cost based on the customer location.
• Interaction with the client, preparation of MOM, and status report.
Advance Services-Period Closure
Client: Tata Power India
Duration: Aug 2007-Nov 2007
Role: Project Manager
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO,AP, AR, FA , PA and Inventory
Accountabilities:
• Estimation and proposal for the project.
• Resourcing and client coordination
• Conduction project meeting, Preparation of status report and MOM for meetings
• Overseeing the matching of opening and closing balance in March 07 to April 07.
• Handling the validation of fixed asset addition and retirement as well as deprecation calculation.
• Managing inventory-project-gl-accounting flow validation.
• Taking care of Bank Book-Balance Validation.
• Maintaining India Localization Tax Reports.
• Ensuring period closure of all the modules.
Vanco Migration
Client: Vanco UK Ltd., United Kingdom
Duration: May 2007-Aug 2007
Role: Project Lead
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO, AP, AR, FA, PA
Accountabilities:
• Developing documents and test plan.
• Coordinating with the users for the approval of testing process.
• Conducting user acceptance test.
Client: Landmark Group, Qatar
Duration: Jan 2005 – April 2007
Role: Accountant / Oracle Apps Implementation Team Member
Platform: Oracle Apps 11i PO, AP, AR, FA
Accountabilities:
• Generating MIS reports and sales reports for events in comparison with the previous year.
• Monitoring the sales report inventory holding age wise and company wise on monthly basis and
conducting ratio analysis.
• Administering the cost of sales on monthly basis.
• Presenting Financial Budgeting, profit / loss account and balance sheet in comparison to the budget
on a yearly basis.
• Managing cash flow and arranging for remittance of excess funds to our corporate office.
• Reporting the amount of remittance in comparison with budgeted remittance
• Handling overall responsibility of insurance policies renewal and revision of the insurance cover
based on the requirement as well as taking care of complete banking relationship.