راماكريشنا نكاتا Katepalli

Oracle eBS Sr. Consultant and team lead in production support and enhancement projects for a leading manufacturer of gas-fueled reciprocating Engines, packaged generator sets and cogeneration units for power generation
As a finance support team lead in GE PW DP Aero Jenbacher Governance Project and Jenbacher Romeo Releases project (Jul-14 to till date) resolved business critical issues, stabilized oracle applications and streamlined month end process
- Handled all financial modules(GL, AP, AR, FA and CM), project billing and costing modules(including project contracts)
-Improved utilization of oracle standard functionalities and increased effectiveness of various custom components in GE Jenbacher

Oracle eBS Sr. Consultant and team lead in production support and enhancement projects for a leading manufacturer of gas-fueled reciprocating Engines, packaged generator sets and cogeneration units for power generation
As a finance support team lead in PW DP Aero Jenbacher Governance Project and Jenbacher Romeo Releases project (Austria Jul-12 to Jul/2014) resolved long pending issues, stabilized oracle applications and streamlined month end process
- Handled all financial modules(GL, AP, AR, FA and CM), project billing and costing modules(including project contracts)
- Provided solutions for long pending issues in GE GAAP custom components such as COGS, advanced invoice recovery and other critical objects
- Developed and implemented solutions for various critical business processes such as Intrastat reporting, SEPA payments, services revenue recognition, consolidation, credit note approval and several other custom components
- Provided necessary support to audit teams such as KPMG and Deloitte and avoided late fee penalties
Oracle eBS Sr. Consultant and team lead in implementation and support projects for a global provider of Merchant, Business and Consumer Services
As a Sr. Financial functional Consultant was responsible to seamlessly integrate iProcurement and financial modules(GL, AP and EBusiness tax) in Fexco iProcurement implementation project(Feb-11 to Aug-11)
- Configured budgetary control and amended SLAM for encumbrance accounting and ensured invoice encumbrance options enabled
- Integrated EBusiness tax engine with procurement module and amended existing tax configuration
- As a Team lead in Fexco P2P implementation team, successfully handled dual reporting to Client Finance systems manager and Genpact program manager and updated management on daily/ weekly status of AIM implementation plan.
As a support lead in Fexco Applications Maintenance and Support(AMS) project(Jul-10 to Feb-12) identified and resolved several bugs in Oracle eBS configuration
- Evaluated E-Business suite configuration for GL, AP, AR, FA and E-Business tax and performed health check of the configuration
-Enhanced oracle R12 GL functionality after Go-Live configuring GL for several features like Allocations, Recurring Journals, Reporting ledgers. Improved Period close calendar and period close process.
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Oracle eBS Sr. Consultant and team lead in production support and enhancement projects for a leading manufacturer of gas-fueled reciprocating Engines, packaged generator sets and cogeneration units for power generation
As a finance support team lead in GE Jenbacher FAST Project(India Mar-12 to Jul-12) resolved long pending issues and prepared platform for better utilization of oracle applications
- Evaluated oracle applications and Jenbacher specific business processes in less time and taken over complete ownership from previous vendor
- Provided solutions for long pending issues in GE GAAP custom components such as FCTA and Progress Collection booking objects

Oracle eBS Consultant and Team Lead in full cycle implementation projects for leading mobile and data services operator, testing and development projects for a hardware giant in hardware solutions in routing, switching and advanced technologies
- As a consultant I was accountable for projects documentation according to Oracle Application Implementation Methodology (AIM), system testing, solution implementation, system integration within Oracle eBS and with external systems, change management, trainings, user maintenance and go-live support across full scale of the financial business processes in scope as well as was responsible for ongoing system improvement
- As a team lead in ZaiN Telecom project I was responsible for projects activities, stakeholder engagement, master data management, training and testing administration, risk and issue management, as well as team members development for the telecom major
- Involved in conference room pilot (CRP) sessions and gave product demonstration to client management about the Oracle standard process and how best it can meet their multi-national financial information capturing, maintaining and reporting requirements
- Conducted workshops to gather requirements from client and documented client’s As-Is process
- Conducted Product Fitment and Gap Analysis and identified gaps and documented workarounds/customizations that might be required to fill those gaps
- Implemented complete cycles of procure to pay (P2P) and order to cash (O2C) successfully
- Designed, implemented and monitored data conversion strategy to migrate setup/open data from legacy system to Oracle
- Prepared financial project documents like BP080, BR100, TE40 and SOPs in compliance with AIM
- Designed and implemented integration between third party billing systems(Active retail and Homesco) and Oracle financial modules(AR, GL)
- Configured several FSG reports such as balance sheet, profit and loss and other MIS reports

Team Leader for 15 members tax processing team

Tax process associate (Team Leader) in US taxation services for knowledge processing company
- Managed and guided tax process teams and prepared process gap reports and corrective action plan to the management
- Improved process efficiency by removing bottlenecks in the tax return process flow
- Handled complex case resolutions on critical tax scenarios like multiple state returns
- Analyzed the scope of tax conditions plan and given suggestions to tax preparers/Reviewers in tax return preparation
- File tax returns with IRS and other state tax authorities

- Conducted the Audits and headed the audit team.
- Reviewed the work of the team members and report to the Principal and ensured that the audits were completed in budgeted time.
- Independently worked on assignments from planning (field work) to audit report.
- Conducting Project Audit, Internal Audit, stock audit and tax audits
- Conducting the Fixed Assets Physical Verification
- Reviewed internal controls and reported deficiencies in the internal control system
- Preparation of Projected Financial Statements