PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Project Management with overall 10+ years of national and international experience in IT, Banking and Insurance with strong expertise in Requirements Gathering, Process Re - engineering, Change Management, Technical Documentation and Web Application Services. 4+ years of IT industry experience with diversified experience in data retrieval and reporting using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Financial Data Quality Management (FDM)
• Proven track record of leading strategic projects combined with the ability to execute at tactical project-level activities and tasks. Strong gap analysis, functional specs doc creation, design review, creating functional test cases and performing functional testing.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Excellent project management skills: planning, resource management, scheduling, expectation management, communications, issue resolution, change management, risk management.
• Deep understanding of the various disciplines of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the functions and processes.
• Capable of training the end users in HFM, FDM, Smart View, HFR, and Workspace.
• Recognized at work for being an enthusiastic and hard working individual and contributing to the team, outside work initiatives and going above and beyond.
• Great inter-personal abilities, a self-starter with great communication skills, presentation skills, problem solving skills, analytical skills and leadership qualities.
• Strong persuasive, facilitation, problem solving, business & interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted in the capacity of a PM and helped maintain relationships with the client partners. Participated in steering committees, helped manage project budget, issue escalation, change requests, QA reviews.
• Assisted with the production of presentations, project plans, compilation of data, and typical day-today activities to support their projects.
• Documented and monitored risks to project or key deliverables. Asses project requirements, process improvement and process management by gaining functional application knowledge and investigating functional areas of concern.
• Worked closely with IT, Business, Legal, Operations and other team members in collecting and routing information and assisting in managing project timelines and escalating issues.
• Provided support in scheduling meetings, attending meetings, taking meeting minutes and producing high-quality technical documentation.
• Oversaw preparation of financial package, presentations and narratives. Managed global system implementation (e.g. HE,HFM,FDM, and Smartview) and process improvement successfully on time and within budget
• Identified data formats required for application connectivity to FDM dedicated server
• Prepared the Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirement Document, Requirement Traceability Matrix, User Acceptance Test (UAT) documents, Data Flow Diagrams and Test Cases and Design Document and taken the client sign off. Worked eextensively in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

Environment: Hyperion Financial Management(HFM), HFR, FDQM, Windows 2007, MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), MS Project, MS SharePoint, HP Quality Centre, Rally.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Recognized opportunities for process improvement, designed business processes to solve business process and productivity issues. Analyzed, prioritized and documented business requirements.
• Analyzedexisting systems and created As-Is and To-Be process models. Work closely with other team members in collecting and routing information and assist in managing project timelines and escalating as appropriate.
• Analyzed the impact of data load on target HFM application in
• Conducted access clinics for new users. Educated and provided continuous support to all the stakeholders, responsible for operational readiness.
• Used HFM to deliver global collection, financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis to business executives and analysts.
• Managed regular meetings among cross functional teams, generated status reports, interacted with the project ops team on project status, risks and risk mitigation decisions. Constant interaction with the senior management and executive teams to understand the product/service offerings.
• Maintaining a repository of all project-related documents for use throughout the project, for historical reference and for audits.

Environment: HFM, FDM, UML, MS Visio, Windows 7, MS Project, MS Office, Requisite Pro, Quality Centre, Load Runner.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified the key stake holders, tracked project issues/ risks and recommend solutions to resolve these issues in a prudent and most efficient manner.
• Gathered detailed requirements for the comprehensive requirements management plan by facilitating the detailed meetings with requirement team.
• Worked on reconciliation and loading on operational financial data using FDM and HFM
• Analyzed, Evaluated and assessed gaps in the current processes.
• Worked in a cross-functional capacity across multiple work streams in the project.

Environment: SharePoint, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Project.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in creating and maintaining procedural documentation of workflow and systems to support the rollout of system enhancements.
• Documented business requirements into BRD’s, written Technical Design Document partnering with IT and the business.
• Trained end users in Workspace, FDM Web and Financial Reports
• Involved in standard maintenance activities for supporting the HFM Applications.
• Assisted inConfiguration Change Management and Change Request handlingby tracking and maintaining requirements in the Traceability Matrix.
• Advised on Hyperion best practice, assist with technical design and implement changes.
• Initiated to perform thorough Unit Test of the migrated applications before moving to actual Test environment.

Environment: Hyperion Financial Management(HFM), Financial Data Management(FDM), Share point, Rational Suite, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Project.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identify project risks to define risk strategies and develop the risk management plan.
• Gathered requirements during inception phase, documented and delivered functional specification documents and assisted architecture analysis and design using UML and Rational tools.
• Strong Client management skills in managing dynamic business demands, adding value to client business and exploring new business opportunities.
• Monitoring the overall functioning of processes, identifying areas of development and implementing adequate measures to maximize Customer Satisfaction / Employee Satisfaction.
• Provided situational leadership to motivate individuals.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Windows XP.

Confidential

Manager - Finance

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing various investment related matters of the company & advising the right investment areas for the organization with a team of 10 members.
• Performing internal audit and reconciliation’s between sub ledger & general ledger on a weekly basis.
• Handling close interaction with the relationship management team to understand the core investments interests of our clients & advise them to invest right.
• Conducting cost analysis & budget forecasting.
• Assessing operational risk in the business.

Environment: MS Office, Windows 2000/NT.

Confidential

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Budget Sensitivity, Expense, Ratio, Headcount and Scorecard Analysis.
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
• Reported critical metrics like Quality, Productivity & Compliance and prepared Dashboard for Senior Management as well as on-shore partners to mitigate any risk.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Windows XP.

Confidential

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Manage proactively the resource allocation by ensuring that appropriate resources are assigned to the tasks according to the project plan. Plan and manage cost analysis.
• Assessing operational risk in the business & process high- risks checks.
• Responsible for the right resource level mix for the team to ensure quality and profitability.
• Maintaining a repository of all project-related documents for use throughout the project, for historical reference, and for audits.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Primavera, Oracle 9i.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Steering initiatives for operations management and inter-branch coordination.
• Delivering superior service to branch heads within designated authority levels & develop centre of influence groups to enable smooth operations between all reporting branches.
• Conducting analysis and accounting of monthly profitability statements.
• Conducting weekly consolidation, tallying and closure of the DDs transaction with that of the figure shown by the Head Office.
• Verifying correctness of asset classification, nature & value of security, date of NPAs and year of doubtful furnished in the returns.

Environment: MS Office, Requirement Analysis, SQL, Windows 2003.