SUMMARY

• I am an accomplished Senior Techno - Functional / PMO Professional with progressive experience in managing global enterprise transformation projects with focus on ERP /EPM, Data Science Analytics in Banking, Insurance, Financial services and Internet retail sectors over a decade.
• Well experienced in SDLC with Agile/Scrum (JIRA), waterfall methodologies. Specialized in synthesizing requirements (BRD, FSD, Technical specifications) into cohesive execution plan / roadmap through design, build, test, deploy and support. Evangelized the benefits of Agile/Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.
• Key contributor in finance systems product selection, prioritization, discovery, design, architecture, roadmap, goal setting, task review, implementation, rollouts, benchmarks on milestones and operational support over a decade.
• Influencer with executive leadership, business and technology teams in evaluation and support of process improvements, future technology initiatives (SaaS/PaaS, cloud centric ERP / BI/ CRM implementations).
• Championed financial systems integration, consolidation of subsidiaries - 10 acquisitions in 12 years.
• Steered projects related to dashboards, data marts, with finance, data science, ETL/BI, DW & cross functional teams.
• Managed onshore/offshore dev and support teams, vendor management, contract negotiations with RFPs, SoW / SLAs.
• Led the Master data management integration initiatives for HRIS workday implementations for Payroll. Specialized expertise across multiple ERP / CRM suite of products including 6 ERP systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Reporting/Regulatory Standards: SEC - GAAP, IFRS, FASB, IASB, NAIC, FATCA.

PM tools: Microsoft Projects, Confluence5.6, JIRA 6.1.3 and JIRA Agile 6.3.5

Consolidation apps: Hyperion Financial Management 11.x, 9.x and FDM / DRM 11.x, 9.x, BPC 10.x, TM1

Reporting: Hyperion FR Studio 9.x, Smart view, FRx Reporting 6.x, MS Mosaic

Oracle EPM /BI tools: OBIEE- EPM -Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11.1, HYPS 8.3, Tableau Hyperion Planning 11.x, Anaplan, EPMA, EIS, SAP MDG 8.0 SAP S4/HANA

ERP/ Systems: SAP ECC (6.x), SAP MDG (8.x), BPC (10.0),Oracle Financials 11i, R12.x, GEAC, Great Plains, Sage ERP X3, MS Dynamics AX, Workday, NetSuite, Salesforce.

Payables Management: Pay base 6.x, 8.x

Audit & Compliance: ACL, CAAT Systems

MS Office: MS office 97/2003, 2007, 2010 - Excel, Word, Office 365, MS Projects

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, 9i, 8.x, MS SQL Server 2000, 7.0, Sybase 12.x and 15.x

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris 2.8/2.7, HPUX, Windows NT, Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 2003

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, ACL

ETL Tools: Informatica Repo Manager, Designer, Power Mart, Power Center

Modeling Tools: ErWin 4.0, Designer 2000

BI Reporting: Hyperion EPM, Microstrategy, Cognos EP 7.0 Series

Additional Tools: Basic maintenance UNIX Scripts, Service NowSAP GRC, SAP Solman, ChaRM, SharePoint, HP-ALM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Steered PMO global development, delivery and support by effectively leading multiple scrum teams with adoption and enforcement of scrum rules with agile principles, tasking, retrospectives, estimation, and story based development, iteration / sprint planning (JIRA) in a fast phased environment.
• Directly managed onshore/offshore team(s) for change management workflows, maintenance, resolutions focused on IT service delivery, process re-engineering, regulatory governance and compliance.
• Managed a 7digit budget for PMO’s special projects for Global EFT implementation and IT service delivery needs. Reduced 20% cost of IT SLA with 24/7 'follow-the-sun' model across NA, EMEA, LATAM, APAC regions.
• Steered PMO’s lean process implementation for unified enterprise Master Data as part of process re-engineering effort. Identified 550 tasks rolled up to 80 processes across 75 plus legacy applications marked for sunset programs.
• Led PMO matrix teams for enterprise SAP MDG implementation including GRC, SOX, PCI and data governance.
• Act as a Master Data Steward to identify critical data elements, and partner with teams to analyze, define, and capture master data, rules and transformation logic ensuring data profiling, improvement, accuracy, data integrity, data stewardship, governance, risk and compliance regulations.
• Facilitated teams for design, development of workflows, reports and implementation of incident, change management.
• Led management presentation for cloud platform (SaaaS, PaaS), data analytics product selection with functionality matrix, process enhancements, integration, deployment (on premise vs hosted vs hybrid), support and SLA needs.
• Mentored ETL, Data Science teams in defining data elements, transformation logic and operational metrics with KPIs.
• Point of contact to lead cross-functional teams and process owners for Sales force CRM integration (e.g., Shared Services, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Business Applications, Finance, Internal Audit, Legal) processalignment.
• Led global HRIS implementation with configuration, business process and data maintenance of Workday for payroll.
• Implemented web based global user training. Led root-cause analysis (RCA) for key outages, identified process improvements and automation opportunities.

Senior Manager

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Championed Hyperion suite and financial systems integration efforts of Heinz - Kraft post M&A consolidation.
• Managed multiple subsidiaries, currencies, accounting rules and tax requirements with oracle based instances.
• Steered discovery, design, development efforts on CFO's global KPIs/analytics dashboard with ETL/BI and Data Science teams. Streamlined web based documentation, online training sessions for global user community.
• Led PMO operations for corporate finance systems prioritization, design, implementation, rollouts operational support and IT service delivery across global locations with Agile principles, tasking, retrospectives, estimation, story based development, iteration / sprint planning (JIRA) in a fast phased environment.
• Reported status and escalation issues with visibility on burn rate and benefit metrics to management team.
• Managed contracts with vendor framework for SLAs / SoWs, program governance and controls with schedule, scope, resources, risks and dependencies with periodical updates to senior management and stakeholders.

Financial Systems/Data Analyst

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Member of Private Banking /Global Wealth Management group (PB/GWM) data management team.
• Lead the ETL code walkthrough with E&Y for Information Risk Assessment, SCRA and data lineage projects.
• Delivered FATCA/HIRE Act requirements with the traceability matrix, functional / technical design, and data feed solutions for indicia tracking and remediation efforts.
• Worked with Tax team on Enterprise wide application enhancement for yearly 1099 tax compliance, benefiting more than 20 million accounts.
• Facilitated remediation process, training materials for due diligence team for AML/KYC applications for PB/GWM systems. Facilitated eliminating backlog of AML/KYC issues with due diligence team.

Financial Systems Technical Specialist

Confidential - Norwalk, CT

Responsibilities:

• Championed the integration of financial systems of subsidiaries through 10 acquisitions in 11 years across NA, EMEA, LATAM and APAC region. Primary point of contact for ERP/EPM applications over six years.
• Led the evaluation, selection process for new ERP/EPM systems with team leadership, functionality matrix, process enhancements, integration, and deployment with delivery of business value, risk mitigation and cost optimization.
• Focus on team leadership, delivery of business value, risk mitigation, cost optimization and return on investment.
• Managed onshore, offshore teams for systems related to billing, vendor management, procurement, expense management, revenue recognition, chargebacks, payroll, related SLAs and IT service delivery. Work directly with outside vendors to negotiate services and product agreements.
• Steered finance applications for configurations, customizing accounting rules, tax requirement, Intercompany transactions, translation, elimination and consolidation efforts for EMEA subsidiaries.
• Key contributor in implementing Oracle Financials R12, EPM, Hyperion HFM, FDQM / DRM consolidation of subsidiaries and managed sun-set programs of legacy systems.
• Maintained metadata structures for HFM dimensionality and improved process flow, governance and data lineage across inter related systems.
• Oversaw subsidiaries consolidation with 170+ entities - multi currencies across global locations. Automated daily currency feed from Bloomberg via ETL process into enterprise consolidation applications.
• Configured financial reporting for 10Q, 10K - GAAP and MIS reporting using Hyperion suite of products.
• Successfully led enterprise wide migration of Hyperion 9.x systems to 11.x - application, browser, MS office, excel, server, operating system upgrades.
• Led implementing S-OX solutions with ACL across IT landscape from scratch including security, roles and segregation of duties across global users.
• Recipient of the CEO Achievement Award in 2008 for stellar performance.