SUMMARY:

Hyperion professional with eighteen years of corporate experience and expertise in business process, consolidation, planning, and reporting applications, strategic and operational planning, Financial product marketing and launching, contract negotiations, forecasting, budgeting, cost controls and financial reporting. Proven experience in managing, developing and implementing, documenting, maintaining and supporting the technical environment of the Hyperion EPM Suite (PBCS, EPBCS, Essbase, Planning, Workforce, HFM, HCCS, DRM, FDM, FDMEE, Reporting and Shared Services)

COMPUTER EXPERTISE:

Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Page Maker, Budget System, Viso, SAP, Toad for Oracle, Sybase, SmartStream, Enterprise Management Console and Data Relationship Client

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Proven experience in providing system support and direct contact with users to solve issues with BI and Reporting applications.
• Strong knowledge of outlines, dimensions, measures, members and metadata administration.
• Proficient in PBCS, EPBCS, Essbase, Planning, HFM, HCCS, DRM, FDM, FDMEE, SmartView and Reporting.
• Knowledge of full software development life cycle.
• Responsible for maintenance of Hyperion software tools and able to perform routine, non - routine tasks independently and may be asked to coach others.
• Provide functional and development knowledge in designing PBCS, EPBCS, Hyperion Planning, HFM, HCCS and Essbase to meet business requirements.
• Strong understanding of business processes and how the application supports the business processes and applies this knowledge to best solve problems.
• Assists in user requirements gathering and conduct documentation designs.
• Develop functional specifications and work with technical resources to complete development and testing.
• Analytical abilities, strong judgment and management skills, ability to work effectively with business unit, and IT Leaders.
• Ensure proper architectural design is in place to support current & future business requirements.
• Collaborate and establish necessary working relationship with various business partners/departments.
• Ensure proper system protocols & procedures are implemented for IT controls & best practice.
• Perform necessary technical hands-on tasks such as design, upgrades, installation, development, configuration & trouble shooting of Hyperion environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills and can effectively work with a variety of individuals and departments.
• Analytical and judgment skills necessary to evaluate, interpret and reconcile data according to company and departmental procedures and policies.
• Ability to multitask and be flexible to handle change in meeting requirements and deadlines.
• Serve as Center-of-Competence in report development and provide guidance to functional areas to assist in achieving their analysis and reporting objectives.
• Implement Hyperion utilities and features that increase efficiency of job functions.
• Proactively improve processes, accuracy, and efficiency through means of automation of processes.
• Perform self-review to identify problems and formulate solutions.
• Work with the Enterprise Business Intelligence and Financial Teams in support of development or enhancement of information systems solutions as needed.

Hyperion Applications : PBCS, EPBCS, HCCS, Cloud & Hyperion System 11.1… Essbase, Planning, HFM, Workforce, Smart View, Shared Services, FDM, FDMEE, DRM and Reporting Studio

Enterprise Systems Manger

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assists in the design and implementation of process improvement projects for various departments and business units.
• Lead & manage the department team, providing guidance and developing the team skills.
• Successfully guide a large organization through change, capable of successfully influencing and leading teams and leadership through the process.
• Experience leading teams of at least 9-20 resources.
• Project management experience. Experience managing large, complex projects.
• Experience supervising daily team activities, coaching/mentoring and performance management.
• Experience interacting with customers and building business relationships.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision with an honest, positive attitude, able adapt to a changing environment while maintaining customer service excellence.
• Effective oral and written communication skills including technical documentation and training materials.
• The ability to interface with a variety of stakeholders in a large institution.
• Provide ongoing support and leadership in resolving risks and issues related to the programs throughout execution.
• Work with business and IT peers to help define, develop and maintain strategic and tactical programs and plans.
• Provides leadership, training, and develops teams, by addressing staffing, recruiting, personnel issues and operational issues.
• Develops departmental policies and procedures as they relate to the information system as necessary and reviews existing policies and procedures for accuracy at least annually as measured by review of policy and procedure manual by the Director of Enterprise Systems.
• Ensures data integrity for all Business Systems by adhering to defined change management processes and policies.
• Oversee the quality of IT outcomes and deliverables.
• Establishes metrics and key performance indicators for driving team performance
• Lead the monthly forecast process by managing the compilation of financial results.
• Understanding drivers of change within the financial results, presenting to leadership, and maintaining corporate deliverables and deadlines.
• Engage in the strategic planning process evaluating current and future strategic initiatives.
• Manage project managers/technical team while evaluating, installing, configuring, and deploying new applications and/or enhancing existing new applications throughout the enterprise.
• Ensure applications meet business requirements, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Partner with business owners to understand their requirements and ensure providing the proper support & required services.
• Analyze documentation and technical specifications of any new application under deployment of consideration to determine its intended functionality.
• Ensure that any new application integration into enterprise systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
• Manage applications vendors and ensure SLAs are met through extensive review/negotiation of SLA agreements.
• Manage and provide direction for the application team in support of business operations.
• Prepare RFPs, evaluate different proposals, and prepare business cases for applications under consideration for purchase.
• Provide full support for team while they manage the outsourced team.

Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting a business unit related to budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and monthly P&L reporting.
• Development Finance’s financial planning and accounting efforts by maintaining and reconciling the group’s Hyperion Essbase database.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining SAP and Hyperion, as well as updating monthly reports as necessary.
• Other finance responsibilities such as managing purchase orders, updating contract information, re-classing expenses, reconciling accounts, as well as additional projects.
• Responsible for rolling forecasts / budget, financial impact analysis support, month-end close, analyzing associated direct costs supporting revenue streams.
• Demonstrated capacity for critical thinking, strategic positioning, and business development.
• Assists in the design and implementation of process improvement projects for various departments and business units.
• Provides input regarding changes to work procedures/systems to improve efficiencies and accurate reporting of financial data.
• Prepare and ensure the accuracy of consolidate financial reports to management, shareholders and the SEC.
• Sarbanes-Oxley and controls and compliance, and various other analyses and projects as assigned.
• Developed an acquisition analysis system to track the profitability of more than 50 acquired businesses to ensure the accurate reporting of their financial numbers.
• Enhance Auditing processes to reduce consumer and employee fraud.
• Audits of financial statements including reviews of quarterly financial information.
• Audits of internal control over financial reporting.
• Underwriter for Small Business and Consumer Finance Division.
• Assist in weekly production planning.
• Prepare budgets for respective business units.
• Develop forecasts to manage multiple business units
• Managed a profitability analysis of over 320 branches to ensure the accurate reporting.
• Created corporate business model based on consumer or business to business analysis.
• Conducted both short and long term analysis on Risk Management, Profitability, Historical and Straight Run Rate forecasting, accompanied by pricing proposals for 320 branches.
• Identify opportunities for strategic alliances and partnerships that further business goals.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement monthly sales, and marketing strategies to acquire new customers and retain existing customers.
• Maintain mini market and regional sales objectives in order to formulate plans for expansion.
• Identify opportunities for strategic alliances and partnerships that further business goals.
• Perform market studies in order to show profitability, market and real-estate share increase.
• Perform financial and market analysis for 1250 QSR locations.
• Market research in order to distinguish customer segmentation, competitive analysis, profitability, & penetration of new and existing products.
• Performed promotional evaluations of current campaigns in order to see profitability and impact.

Product Marketing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Competitive Information Database (CID) used to track competitors’ financial data, industry trends, and market information.
• Development and rollout of Consumer and Small Business Credit products.
• Launched new product lines equipped with marketing campaign and advertisements.
• Developing and analyzing Business and Marketing Models
• Created information database to track product impact issues to increase client portfolio
• Created new marketing concepts & strategies to fit the needs of consumer products or services
• Developed a system to monitor the balances and pricing of bank products