Senior Business & System Analyst, Project Lead, Product Manager, Project Manager, System Architect, Senior Oracle Functional Lead / Consultant (Oracle Financials & Supply Chain Management) Integration expert, EBS (Oracle Applications), Fusion with 13+ years of Relevant Experience
Name: Ghouse Azam Khan
Address: Al Qusais, Dubai
Email Address: [email protected] , [email protected]
Contact No: 00971-555678672 (m)
Career Objectives
Customer is King. That is my Mantra for past 13 years working as Senior Business & System Analyst, Project Lead, Product Manager, Project Manager, Senior Oracle Functional Lead / Consultant. Because a satisfied customer is the only advertisement everybody believes in. Hence, have successfully managed, designed, deployed/implemented and supported Oracle ERP Applications Financials & SCM using AIM (Application Implementation Methodology) and I’m also a Certified SAFe Scaled Agile Framework (Product Owner / Product Manager)
Seeking Stake holding position to lead a Team, Senior Functional Lead, System Architect, Senior Business / System Analyst, Product Owner/Manager, Project Manager role to deliver time bound quality adhering product and it’s Service. I carry extensive work experience into IT Consulting, Insurance, Oil and Gas, public and private sectors in capacity of a Project Manager/Project Lead/Business Analyst/Senior Functional Lead/Product Owner on Oracle ERP Systems Implementations, Integrations, Support, Rollouts, Consulting and Upgrade projects. Expertise: Oracle Financials, Supply Chain Management, Advanced Procurement, Oracle EBTAX, Integrations & Fusion Cloud Financials
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Strong communication skills |
Strive for continued excellence |
Eager to learn new things |
Process Design/Mapping |
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Project Management |
Resource and Stakeholder Management |
Activity Scheduling / Milestone Tracking |
Project Planning /Resource Planning |
Reporting/ Change Control |
Manage Deliveries |
Oracle Systems / Modules |
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Profile Overview
Handling prospective client’s engagements and understanding client’s requirements/issues. Presenting company services and Solutions which is value added to client with improved business processes
Extensive experience in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) – Oracle Financials, Supply chain Applications, Advanced Procurement modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Fixed Assets & Cash management, Inventory, Cost Management, Purchasing, Approval Management engine (AME), Project Costing & Accounting, iExpenses, Subledger accounting (SLA), iProcurement, Advanced collections, Enterprise Asset Management, Landed Cost Management, Sourcing, Contracts, iSupplier, Service Procurement, Core HRMS, EBTax, Property Manager etc.
AS IS Processes – Gathering, identifying and documenting business requirements, explaining technical jargon to non-technical/commercial teams, Business process modeling, Identifying costs and business savings. Implementing, testing and deploying solutions to business problems. Supporting business transition and helping to establish change. Creating functional specifications for new systems and processes. Acting as an advisor to senior managers and executive teams.
TO BE Processes – Documenting future business processes with flows/roadmaps and driving the team throughout development lifecycle
Handled projects in capacity of Sr Functional Consultant, Solution Lead/Architect, Project Manager, Project Planning, Cost Estimation, Resource Planning, Status Reporting, Project Objective and Scoping.
Worked on over 7+ implementation Projects, 9+ full live Support Projects on Financials, Supply Chain Management and Upgrade projects in the Public and Private sectors
Trained Oracle Fusion Cloud (R13) Specialist
Working knowledge on Oracle Hyperion and integration with Oracle Financials (E-Business suite)
Extensive Functional experience in Designing/Integration/Planning/Architecture of Various Data Systems integrated with Oracle Applications.
Follow operational policies and processes that are compliant with Company standards
Participate in change control, change management activities and Strategic Projects
Have completed assignments onsite UAE, OMAN, INDIA and UK
Presales and Oracle Consulting experience
In-depth knowledge on End to end Knowledge of business process flows of Finance, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Proven Project management and management of time effectively
Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably and securely
Build quality assurance and data protection process
Identify areas of technology opportunities and create plans to implement
Executed Finance and SCM Automation projects
VAT Implementation & Support in UAE
Strong experience in the Insurance Industry / domain
Worked extensively on the management financial reporting and budgeting
Certified SAFe Scaled Agile Framework Scrum, Product Owner / Manager
Responsible for the story content, acceptance criteria definition, and end story ‘sign off’ across team backlogs, ensuring prepared on time for future PI’s, refined frequently with the entire team, and prioritised accordingly in alignment with other team backlogs
Ensuring Technical Debt and NFR’s are captured, refined, and prioritised across all sprints
Captures additional BAU, Ceremony, and Spike activities, and incorporates into team backlogs
Preparation and contribution to PI Demo
Maintaining the quality and integrity of features within the technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies back to the Product Portfolio backlog
Defining metrics to measure the success and performance of prioritised work, ensuring any further BAU iterations can be proposed and prioritised accordingly within the boundaries of available capacity
Contribute to the Portfolio Product Management Playbook and its continual evolution to help drive efficient practices and empowered teams.
Creating and maintaining roadmaps for the team, ensuring the teams have a visualization on the same
Professional Work Experience
Organization: Emirates Post group Designation: Senior Database Manager / Product Manager Duration: Nov 2020 – Till Date Location: Dubai |
Roles and Responsibilities:
Working with Database, Application and Infrastructure teams to upgrade and migrate the Oracle Database to 19C
Currently we are at the initial stage of the project
Organization: Tech Mahindra Client: Dubai Commercity LLC (DCC) Designation: Project Manager & Oracle Functional Lead Duration: Mar 2020 – Sep 2020 Location: Dubai |
Roles and Responsibilities:
Working as Functional Lead & Project Manager in implementing new business unit – Dubai Commence City LLC (DCC)
As Functional lead & Project Manager – primary responsibilities are, Project Initiation & Planning, Current business study, business processes reengineering, gathering business requirement, mapping the requirement, bringing in automated processes, system configurations, reports development, programs, enhancements, conducting SIT, CRP, Training and UAT, Go live planning, stakeholder management, handling integrations & provide solutions to complex problems etc
Modules handling are General Ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Property Manager, CRM Integration, Oracle Purchasing & Inventory
Successfully planned and coordinated meeting agenda, schedules for requirement sessions, existing custom components discussion, discussion of the solutions/complex issues
Documented Future business processes, functional specifications, migration strategy, testing strategy, Go live strategy, etc
Complete coordination / managing my team (technical and functional) during implementation
Daily standup meetings with the team on the progress, follow-up, task assignment and status
Status reporting to the client stakeholders, executive committee. Regular update of the project plan and share project status across the teams (client and TechM)
Created detailed work-breakdown structure, conducting daily standup status meeting with team, effectively utilized allocated time and accomplished the tasks during successful implementation and support
Organization: Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company (ADNIC) Designation: Manager Applications (Senior Oracle Functional Lead) Duration: Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 Location: Abu Dhabi |
Roles and Responsibilities:
Manager Applications with roles and responsibilities to manage entire Oracle Applications Financials (GL, AR, AP, CM, FA) and Integrations
Coordinating with major stake holders of ADNIC, to accomplish the projects and change requests
Handling the BAU (full live support) and Enhancements
Primary role – Senior Oracle Functional Consultant / Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner, Business Process Architecture, Business Requirement definition (As Is), Business Requirement Mapping, Application and Technical Architecture, Module Designs and Build, Data Conversions, Documentations (To Be – future business processes, roadmaps), User Training and Migrations
Working with various front-end applications teams and their integrations with Oracle Application
Involvement in end to end system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing
Code migrations, backup strategies, planning of test instances with various Front-end applications, production deployment plans, data migration strategy etc.
Worked with Oracle extensively during implementation, support and enhancements
Involved in Integration between Oracle Hyperion and Oracle Financials. Development of complex dimensional financials report which is cost effective, complaint and accurate financial numbers
Involved in closing activities, front to back reconciliation, Subledger to GL reconciliation etc.
Extensively worked on the design and execution of automation projects
Extensively worked on the financial reports’ development, process design, application configurations, customizations etc.
Creation and execution of test scripts to support the validation process.
Status reporting, Project Management, Projects objective and Scoping etc.
Organization: Oman Insurance Company Designation: Senior Product Manager (Senior Oracle Functional Consultant) Duration: Jul 2013 – Sept 2018 Location: Dubai |
Roles and Responsibilities:
Senior Functional Consultant (Financials and SCM), Managed team with portfolio up to 15 persons during Implementation, Full live support, various strategic projects, rollouts etc
Interaction with major stakeholders of the company, CIO, CFO, CEO, Operations head to bring in the best process, quick & permanent solutions
Involved in Multiple Automation projects
Primary Role – Business Process Architecture, Business Requirement definition, Business Requirement Mapping, GAP Analysis. Application and Technical Architecture, Module Designs and Build, Data Conversions, Documentations, Business system testing, User Training, Migrations and full live Support
Extensive role working with legacy systems and integrating with Oracle Applications. Efficiently Create Accounting for front end Systems into Oracle E Business Suite, Update of the Accounting rules as per client requirement and controlled structure for Successful Audit
Handled Projects and CR’s
Creation and execution of test scripts to support the validation process.
Handled the QA team in terms of end to end process testing, coordination’s with the users for UAT
Code migrations, backup strategies, planning of test instances with various Front end applications, production deployment plans, data migration strategy etc.
Worked with Oracle extensively during implementation, support and enhancements
Involved in monitoring major programs and processes
Involvement in the impact analysis of Oracle Patches
Period closing, Quarter closing and Year closing, worked closely with Finance and Business
Rejections clearance, extensive involvement with the front end application owners and business
Assessed and managed technical risk, prepared risk mitigation alternatives and recommended the appropriate alternative. Escalated significant risks and issues to Business
Involved in VAT implementation and Support
Designing and customizations using recognized best practices
Status reporting, Project Management, Projects objective and Scoping etc.
Organization: Raqmiyat LLC, Dubai, UAE Designation: Project Lead, Senior Oracle Functional Consultant Duration: Nov 2012 – Jul 2013 |
Project: Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation, Abu Dhabi
Industry: Power, Public Sector
Roles and Responsibilities:
Implementation – Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA, CM) & SCM (Purchasing, Sourcing, Service Procurement, Inventory & Contracts
Managed end to end implementation with a team of 5 people
Created AIM Documents (MD050, BR.100, TE.040, User Manuals, BP.080)
Handled the post production support, enhancements and new roll outs
Managed and Involved in Unit and User Acceptance Testing
Extensive involvement in the data analysis and formatting w.r.t OF migration
Extensively worked on understanding business needs, Mapping and Gap analysis
Interaction with Project Manager (from Client), Finance Head and Procurement Head w.r.t requirements gathering, future business process finalization etc
Organization: Macro Software Systems LLC, Muscat, Oman Designation: Project Lead, Senior Functional Consultant Duration: Feb 2007 – Jul 2010 & Nov 2010 – Sep 2012 |
Role: Extensively worked as Financials & SCM Functional consultant to Project lead. Involved in multiple Implementations, multiple roll out projects, enhancements, consulting and full live support
Project: Oman Oil Marketing Company, Muscat, Oman
Duration: Feb 2011 – Sept 2012
Industry: Oil and Gas
Role: Senior Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Implementation project – Financials, SCM and HRMS, worked as Team lead
Involved in Implementation and Support of Fixed Assets, Payables, Purchasing, Inventory, Project Costing, Landed Cost Management, General Ledger, Receivables & Integration
Active involvement in current process study, data gathering, requirement analysis and Mapping (AS IS and TO BE processes)
Exposure to the Aviation industry (Muscat International Airport) – Inventory management
Actively involved in the configurations, future business process and process reengineering etc
Preparation of process documents & user manuals for implementation according to Oracle AIM
Extensive involvement in the Unit testing and coordination with the business to complete UAT and Signoff
Complex Reports design as per the client requirement
Direct reporting to the Delivery Manager in terms of reporting, detail issue log and status
Project: Qalhat LNG, Muscat, Oman
Duration: Aug 2010 – Jan 2011
Industry: Oil and Gas
Role: Oracle Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Implementation Role – Business Process Architecture, Business Requirement definition, Business Requirement Mapping, Application and Technical Architecture, Module Designs and Build, Data Conversions, Documentations, Business system testing, User Training and Migrations
Preparation of MD 050, BR100, BP 080 and TE040 Manuals.
Finalization of Chart of Accounts Structure and its values after sessions & discussion with client
Creation of CRP (Conference Room Pilot) to demonstrate system to the client.
Assisting Technical Developers in the development of Reports, custom components, migrations etc.
Setup of UAT server as per the requirement of the client and conducting UAT sessions.
Assisting users in preparing data as per the requirement of Oracle data templates.
Project: Muscat Municipality, Muscat, Oman
Duration: Jun 2010 – Jul 2010
Industry: Public Sector
Role: Oracle Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Support role to stabilize the Application Financials and Procurement
Update the BR100
Involved with business to redesign the business processes and best business practice
Extensively worked with Oracle in terms of bug fixes and enhancements
Project: Public Authority for Electricity and Water, Muscat, Oman
Duration: Nov 2009 – May 2010
Industry: Utilities, Power
Role: Oracle Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Implementation Role – Planning, Designing & Implementation of Oracle R12 Financials & SCM
Project: Electricity Holding Company, Muscat, Oman
Duration: May 2009 – Jun 2009
Industry: Power
Role: Oracle Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Implementation of the Fixed Asset Module
Involved in Planning, Designing, analysis, mapping and data migration
Support role to stabilize the Application Financials
Update the BR100 and MD 050 for the assets module
Project: Oman Refineries and Petro Chemicals, Muscat, Oman
Duration: Feb 2007 – Apr 2009
Industry: Oil and Gas
Role: Oracle Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Full live Support role to stabilize the Oracle Application Financials
Involved with business to redesign the Business Processes and best business practice
Working with Oracle in terms of bug fixes and Enhancements
Organization: Stylo Barratts Shoes, Ilford, UK Designation: Sales Advisor Duration: Oct 2003 – Oct 2004 Industry: Fashion Role: Finance Associate |
Education
Year 2004
Master’s in Business Administrations
Stratford College London, UK
Year 2002
Bachelor’s in Business Management
Bangalore University, INDIA
References will be provided on Request