Martin Scott Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Oracle Financial Functional Consultant at NZ Health Partnerships working on the National Oracle Solution (NOS) sector-approved programme to enable the delivery of procurement benefits, replacing District Health Boards’ current finance and supply chain systems with a standardised, sector-designed Oracle system for all 20 DHBs.

London, United Kingdom

Currently seeking Oracle Functional Consulting opportunities within New Zealand and Australia following relocation to New Zealand from the United Kingdom

Various United Kingdom Locations

- Worked as Oracle Financials Functional Team Lead on project to migrate multiple businesses onto an existing 11.5.10 e-Business Suite Shared Service Centre platform. Specific tasks involve integration of Oracle Payables with the following applications: Brainware (Invoice scanning / OCR), Basware (Invoice holds management application), external banking partners.- Completed project to deliver enhanced functionality to an iSupplier portal based solution to support Government Department Welfare to Work programmes (estimated to process in excess of £3 billion of claims over a 5 year period), including an Oracle eBusiness suite upgrade from release 12.0.6 to 12.1.3. Functional Solution Architect role performed. - Completed project to integrate a third party application (Basware) into an existing 11.5.10 Procure to Pay solution for the Government Department Shared Service Centre to deliver an invoice holds management tool to manage approx. 3,000 invoices holds generated daily. Integration Functional Consultant - Accounts Payable / Purchasing role performed. Tasks included the following:- Delivery of a detailed functional design based on high level functional design provided by client. - Leading client facing meetings: Requirements Meetings, Design Workshops, Conference Room Pilots, Design Walkthrough- Prepare functional specifications for Oracle extensions, unit testing of extensions, provision of support for subsequent testing cycles- Modules utilised: Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, eBusiness Tax Manager, Purchasing, iSupplier portal, iProcurement, Teleservice- Managed tasks of functional team and attendance of weekly project management checkpoint meeting for weekly progress / issues report against detailed work plan

London, United Kingdom / Prague, Czech Republic

Implemented Oracle Financials 11.5.10 on a single European instance across 13 European countries. Payables / Cash Management functional lead and business process owner for roll out of Oracle Financials to 11 countries while the client implemented a Shared Service Centre based in Prague, Czech Republic. Included extension of core solution to accommodate the local requirements in accordance with the global design and driving the integration with the document imaging / workflow approval solution and the payments solution with the pan European banking provider. Working as an independent contractor.

United Kingdom / Ireland

Genworth Financials implemented Oracle Financials 11.5.10 on a single European instance using Oracle On Demand across 17 European countries while the client implemented a Shared Service Centre based in Shannon, Ireland. I joined the team as the Accounts Payable functional lead for the roll out of Oracle Financials to 17 countries. This included involvement in all phases of the project life cycle starting with a Global Design Phase for 17 European sites. Working as an independent contractor.

London, United Kingdom

E*Trade implemented Oracle Financials 11.5.9 across 5 countries. I joined the team as the Accounts Payable / Cash Management lead for the global design phase leading to the implementation functional lead for the roll out of Oracle Financials to 5 countries. This included involvement in all phases of the project life cycle. Working as an independent contractor.

Dublin, Ireland / London, United Kingdom

Various roles:Senior Analyst – Financial Systems Support (Jan 2004 – Jan 2005)- Support, maintain and develop designated Financial Systems for the INVESCO non-US region, to coordinate with centralized technical development team in Houston on development work and technical issues and to participate in projects as required.Track Lead – Oracle 11i Implementation (May 2002 – Jan 2004)- Involvement in all phases of the project life cycle, starting with a Global Design Phase for 12 sites, - Functional Order 2 Cash Track Lead at 7 European sites (Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Brussels, Vienna and Madrid)- Modules: Oracle Receivables / Oracle Payables / Oracle Cash Management / Oracle Purchasing / Oracle Internet Expenses / Oracle Fixed Assets / Oracle General Ledger- Implemented European localizations – Belgium, France, Italy- Designed functional specifications for Oracle Receivables AutoInvoice interface- Conducted Global Design workshops and Conference Room Pilots by following BearingPoint’s methodology- Provided user training and implementation support“B” Share Project Accountant / Client Finance Accountant (May2000 –Apr 2002)- Preparation of monthly management accounts for INVESCO Global Distributors Limited. Dealing with complex interface from trading system providing transactional information in 9 settlement currencies. Undertook projects ensuring controls in place to prevent recurrence of FX reporting issues. - Involved in all aspects of the rollout of the INVESCO ‘B’ Share program including: Liaison with external auditors ensuring UK GAAP reporting requirements met; development of internal risk reporting systems; ensuring INVESCO met operational/legal requirements of external financier; rollout and due diligence of ‘B’ shares to further distributors

Wellington, New Zealand / London, United Kingdom

Period: Aug-1999 to Dec-1999Employer: ETAM PlcDesignation: Management Accountant / Retail AnalystIndustry: Retail (working as an independent contractor)Period: Aug-1998 to May-1999Employer: B&QDesignation: Management Accountant / Retail AnalystIndustry: Retail (working as an independent contractor)Period: Mar-1995 to Jun-1998Employer: KPMG Wellington, NZ and Kiev, UkraineDesignation: Audit SeniorIndustry: Professional Services Firm

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance

Post Graduate Diploma, Management And Application Of Information Technology In Accounting