Murali Mohan

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SUMMARY

-Expertise in Enterprise Performance Management Advisory with in-depth experience in Planning and budgeting with technology enablement and documented accomplishments.

-Significant international exposure in almost all areas of CFOs organization including exposure to different work cultures. Extensive participation in corporate strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting

-Demonstrated ability to manage people and large teams in both traditional and virtual environments.

-6 + years in SAP BPC – Revenue, Expense and Headcount planning

-Gather business requirements and translated into technical specifications

-Managed the data model design, Dimensions and custom properties

-Create Data Manager Packages with transformation, conversion and transfer of Multi Client Business Warehouse Data from the Multi Provider Info cube

-Define & Develop process chains to load the transaction data from the BW Data sources.

-Creating Dimensions and Custom properties and configuring applications for HCM and Capital expenses

-Developed allocation logic scripts

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA

Associate member of chartered Accountants (ACA)

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND AFFILIATIONS

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India

Accelerated Management Program (AMP)

EXPERIENCE

ERNST & YOUNG August 2011 – May2015

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services

Director – Enterprise Performance Management

Manage various consulting assignments in the Enterprise Performance Management to support the successful implementations of SAP BPC with in depth knowledge in the solution development and Implementations.

Managed a BPC implementation project in a commercial bank providing end to end support in requirement gathering, designing and developing and running the CRP, implementation support and testing for financial consolidation initiative for both legal and management reporting purposes

Worked on a large finance transformation project of a major hospital to support the implementation of the business planning and driver based budget model and to support the implementation of the SAP

Worked on a large finance transformation project of a major hospital to support the implementation of the business planning and driver based budget model and to support the implementation of the SAP BPC

Worked as Interim Head of Business Intelligence in the Commercial Bank for 4 months

Developed the Balanced Scorecard for one of the banks developing strategy maps, identifying KPIs for all the departments and support in the system selection and lead the quality assurance team during the SAP BPC NW for one of the major real estate company

Led the SAP BPC implementation including the process architecture, business requirement analysis and design for Aramco in KSA in a major driver based budgeting implementation initiative

Developed the product costing and profitability framework for one of the banks in Qatar using the activity based costing techniques

Developed supervision solution for one of the Central Banks in middle east as part of ‘ in the box solution’ for SAP partnering with SAP middle east

Implementation of SAP BPC 10.0 NW for large utility company: Project manager for leading utility company to implement consolidation and management reporting

Implemented the strategy management framework for one of the banks by developing the strategy linkage model and to develop the strategy maps for four different dimensions for all the corporate wide strategic objectives, developing the critical success factors and derive the KPIs cascading those to individual departments

ACCENTURE August 2008 – August 2011

Global Consulting firm with competencies in Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing

Manager – Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Lead and manage teams on various consulting assignments in EPM practice in the areas of formulating solution, testing and implementation support.

Led the planning and budgeting optimization project – client side support for SAP BPC 7.5 NW implementation initiative for a major oil services company in USA.

Lead the user acceptance testing (UAT) to support the SAP BPC implementation for one of the major client in USA

Managed the UAT to support the HFM implementation for Best Buy in USA

Worked as SEM-BCS Functional Architect responsible for Implementation and Data Migration for BHPB BCS for one of the clients in Singapore

Accelerations through Methodology, Framework, Tools and Reference Architecture

Thought leadership on Finance, Business Analytics, Risk Performance, and Information Management

Sales, pre-sales support and sales enablement

Attended numerous training in project management, SAP FICO, Business objects.

AMERICA ONLINE (AOL) (June 2005 – July 2008)

World leader in Web services, online media and Online Ad. Services

Sr. Manager – Financial Planning and Analysis

Perform Financial Analytics of CFO group includes Corporate Finance, Financial consolidation thru BCS and HFM and Finance Analytics, Budgeting, Management reporting, Investment Analysis and pre merger analysis like scenario analysis, sensitivity Analysis and Finance operations. Effectively manage and lead the team of professionals of high standards.

Monthly management reporting packs including the Inventory analysis, yield analysis, revenue analysis and commentaries which gave insights to the business leaders enabling them to make effective decision making.

Financial planning and analysis for the Access business unit. Monthly P&L reporting including service revenue, cost of revenue, marketing and SG&A. Access unit was comprised of AOL Access, Low Cost Access (CompuServe and other low cost brands), Voice Services, AOL Canada and AOL Europe.

Financial modeling support for corporate finance group including scenario analysis for the M&A group and also for the possible combination of broadband and dialup access business.

Supported the Access business leads on AOL transition from Paid to free model in terms of creating the financial models and appropriate analytical commentary in order to enable them to make the decisions.

Driven process improvement projects leveraging technology to transform those processes more effective and eliminating inefficiencies.

Setup the yield management team and pricing team in London bringing the best practices from the US markets.

Coordinated Weekly/Monthly Key Metric and Financial Reporting (headcount, SG&A spend and capital spending) for Company executives. Eventually created a web based dashboard to publish these reports to company executives.

Created weekly and monthly membership analyses including trending on billed versus unbilled members and revenue per member

Supported in implementing brand reporting to facilitate reporting on brands versus functional cost/profit centers.

Part of the core team in HFM deployment to oversee the business requirement gatherings and managed the testing phase of the project.

Worked on the AOL Europe transformation project with McKinsey team in London for one year. The objectives of the project are to standardize and unify Sales, operations and finance processes, management reporting and finance analytics, technology and rationalize the headcount including the organization restructuring.

ORACLE CORPORATION November 2003 – June 2005

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company

FINANCE LEAD

Core team member of transition team mandated to create global shared service center in India

Transition Management of North American Accounts payable supporting global functional experts in gap analysis, knowledge transfer and stabilized the process in a short period of time eliminating dependencies and created matured team before the deadline mandated.

Coordinating Sarbanes Oxley control reviews for Accounts Payable, Cash Management, Partner Settlement and Fixed Assets

Worked on the electronic invoices project which has a great accomplishment of having 25% of total invoices as electronic invoices.

Worked as a core team member in the post merger integration of finance processes in People Soft and Retek acquisitions.

Supported on the UAT to release oracle application in the market.

FAURECIA AUTOMOTIVE INDIA, Bangalore, India January 2001 – October 2003

Faurecia Automotive Seating India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Faurecia, France, a first tier partner to the automotive industry for supplying seats, which the Company designs and manufactures

Deputy Manager - Finance

Business Planning, Pricing, Costing and Inventory Control, Project Monitoring, Investment Analysis, Make or Buy Analysis, Project analysis and Business plans, Finance and Accounts, Internal and External Audit support.

Conceptualized and developed monthly project monitoring dashboard including the product wise profitability Created comprehensive budget model with inbuilt sensitivity analysis which has reduced significant time in building the model and provided more time in analyzing the numbers which was adopted in various units in the Faurecia Group

Created a JIT inventory model to reduce the carrying costs to extent of $ 1.5 M

Readjusted the capacity utilizations by each product to reduce in house and outsource costs which has given 2% positive impact on the gross profit level

Lead the Implementation of Hyperion Enterprise 5.1 in India

MEDREICH STERILAB LTD, Bangalore, India May 1997 – Jan 2001

Medreich Sterilab Ltd. is a Subsidiary of Medreich Plc., UK (Marketing division of Smithkline Beecham UK for African generics)

Deputy Manager - Finance

Finance & Accounts, Financial Forecasting & Planning, Treasury, Marketing performance management reporting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, Valuations

Developed feasibility study of ‘Domestic Marketing’, on which the decision was made by the Management to close down the Marketing division, to eliminate the negative contributor of $ 900 K to the bottom line of the entire company

Devised a Cost Benefit Model to swap high-cost debt to low-cost debt, with respect to ROI, factoring in the transaction cost, thereby bringing down the annual finance cost and creating value for the shareholders

Core member of the M&A project team to successfully complete two mergers

Worked on ORACLE R12, SAP, Coda, Oracle Discoverer, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Enterprise 5.1& Hyperion Financial Management implementation support, Oracle financial Analyzer etc

Worked in USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and worked in 19 countries for various projects

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