SUMMARY

• Confidential has strong background and experience as an Enterprise Finance Data Architect, and Cloud ERP Finance Lead working on large global finance transformation projects wif specialization in the areas of Finance, Tax, Treasury, P2P, Order to Cash, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting.
• He also excels as a Finance Transformation Lead, Finance Functional Lead, Cloud Finance Lead, Finance Solutions Architect, Business Process Automation Expert, Projects Manager, and as Tax & Reporting Transformation Architect.
• He has been a key member of large finance transformation programs on a global scale dat has been successful, delivering projects on time and under budget.
• Venkat was formerly a Partner, Global Practice Leader and ERP Finance Lead wif global consulting firms - KPMG, EY, IBM and Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Enterprise Finance Data Architect: Was responsible for building Industry solutions & competency around Industry oriented Business Process Architecture, Library of Leading Practices, Data Transformation best practices, Analytics & Core Platforms Modernization solutions for Insurance, Healthcare & Banking verticals of major global consulting firms.Finance Transformation Led large global design and delivery teams - ERP, EPM,ERM driven Enterprise Transformation & Risk and Compliance Transformation for fortune 500 NA Corporations

Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Reporting: Led Regulatory Reporting Solutions and engagements using OFSAA platform ( CCAR, DFA, Basel II, AML, Op risk, FATCA) and other software platforms, Program Management and Large-Scale Systems Implementation - 15 full-life-cycle ERP engagements delivered successfully, Business Process Architecture, Re-Design & Process Optimization and Controls Automation, FP&A, Budgeting, Allocation, Rev Recognition, Consolidation, Close, External Reporting and STAT/GAAP Report

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Finance Data Architect - Workday Financials Management Implementation for $4 Billion Global HR Services Company; responsible for data architecture, migration, quality supporting full set of finance data for GL, AR, AP, Revenue, Invoicing, Suppliers, Customers, Expenses, GL Allocations, Account Balances and GL consolidation.
• Lead Architect - Tax Compliance Software for Banks & Financial Services Firms: Led product development, architected regulatory reporting and global tax compliance software (‘factor’) for Banks and FS firms, successfully sold and implemented the software in large banks in SE Asia.

Global Practice Leader

Responsibilities:

• AIG - Enterprise Finance Transformation - Finance Process Architect: Led Close Acceleration program, for process transformation of Tax, Treasury, Investments Functions to compress/advance close duration(Fed Mandated) and helped accelerate program go-live by 8 weeks.
• Cigna Insurance - Finance Transformation, Lead Finance Data Architect: led an enterprise wide effort to re-design CoA solution, master data management strategy, rationalizing chart field values, meta data, mapping, and 5-year Roadmap; program roadmap was expected to accelerate close by 2 weeks, save 20% of efforts in maintenance of CoA, and cut down MIS reporting time by a week from close. Global platform included Oracle ERP, Hyperion BI, Reporting and FDW.
• Axa Insurance- Enterprise Finance Data Architect: key architect in North American Enterprise Finance Reporting Strategy & Roadmap engagement. Worked closely wif Controllership, External Reporting, Internal MIS, Audit & Internal Control Teams, Actuarial, Investments, ALM Modeling teams to review full enterprise data flow, quality, mapping target state, defining and prioritizing enterprise Data Remediation programs, tools review, program planning and strategic road mapping.
• Hartford Insurance - Finance Transformation, Finance Architect: Led strategic solutions design/review, tools selection, architecture design/review for PSoft 9.2 Financials, Fusion Accounting Hub, Sub Ledgers transformation; delivered successfully $2.4M program on time and under budget, saving 15%.
• Walgreens, Chicago: Finance Transformation Lead Architect- Responsible for leading Requirements and Gap Analysis, Global Solution Design, Reporting Strategy, Finance data migration strategy, and Deployment Planning of R12 single global instance - a $30M program to go live in ;
• Tax Transformation - Entegris - Lead Architect (KPMG-TCS Engagement)- Co Led Inter Company Pricing (IPS) pre-sales and solution involving Transfer Pricing - design, process optimization, analytics and reporting design and automation across tax process, data and reporting, along wif KPMG Tax advisory team; $1.5M program and design estimated to simplify and rationalize pricing and improve profitability by 15%.
• Wyndham Worldwide - Lead Finance Architect: R11 ERP Implementation Finance & Order to Cash - Led requirements analysis, solution design, gap analysis, configuration and solution review thru multiple CRP, technical components design (RICEw), testing and training users for the major hospitality chain; $8.5M program delivered on time wif a projected savings of 15% in efforts to maintain and close multiple books.
• Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Reporting - Multiple Insurance & Banking Clients - Led selling and delivering data management, reporting, stress testing and validation engagements under CCAR, DFAST, Op Risk, FATCA, AML., using Oracle Platform(OFSAA) to several banks including Citi, JP Morgan.

Confidential

Delivery Leader

Responsibilities:

• Standard & Poor's - Global ERP Transformation Lead
• McGraw-Hill Corporate- Global Program Manager & Finance Transformation Lead: Managed 30+ country roll out of R12 Financials, Procure to Pay, order to Cash, Assets, Finance Reporting, Global CoA, Tax, Consolidation and TM1
• Pfizer- Global Finance Transformation Leader: Managed global finance, costing ERP solutions implementation as part of $130 million Manufacturing, SCM, Logistics and R12 Finance Roll out.
• KCI- Global Finance Transformation Leader-EBS Worldwide Roll out: Led global finance, order to cash, contract to cash, procure to pay, tax, treasury, manufacturing costing transformation as part of 45 million-dollar global R12 implementation.
• Ricoh Europe, UK- Test Director – Finance Transformation Program - delivered on time and under budget, a GBP17M program for European F&A, Reporting, consolidation, SCM, Logistics transformation programs testing and delivery.
• BMC Software- Treasury Integration wif Oracle ERP – Program Lead & Architect: Delivered an optimized Treasury solution and integration.
• MGM Mirage – Major Acquisition Integration – Post Merger Integration program lead, wif responsibility for Strategy, designing M&A integration play book for consolidation of F&A systems, financial reporting, consolidation, budgets, Forecasting and Planning.

Director

Responsibilities:

• EY LLP - Global Financial Information System implementation- Financials Lead for European Roll-out
• GE Health Care-Global P2P Transformation Lead
• M A & D Separation- Travel Port – Private Equity acquisition – Separation and Platform consolidation.