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Professional Summary:

• IT professional with a Master’s degree in Finance and Post Grad. Diploma in Systems

Management.

• Twelve years of experience in IT, of Financial Systems Administration, Reporting, MIS,

Business Intelligence, Analytics and Databases.

• Integration of financial system of Subsidiaries - 9 acquisitions in the past 10 years.

• Hyperion Financial system implementation with emphasis on global consolidation of

subsidiaries.

• Six years of Hyperion Application Administration HFM, FDM, Shared Services, Financial

Reporting.

• Full life cycle implementation – Hyperion / ERP systems, configuration, Migration,

Upgrades, maintenance

• Eight years of Application Administration of multiple ERP systems - Financial and

Management reporting

• Disaster recovery implementation, Continuity of Business, failover testing and

documentation.

• In-depth understanding of business processes and process compliance procedures.

• Quality experience with Stakeholders Management across Finance, IT and project teams.

• Implemented ACL systems corporate wide and automation of Internal Audit Controls and

compliance requirements using ACL (Audit Command Language).

• Five years of projects in internal controls, compliance, risk evaluation analysis and

testing.

• Worked with multiple IT departments for licensing, capacity planning, server, database,

application upgrades, migration.

• Extensively worked on Integration of Enterprise Wide Financial Applications

Industry experience: Finance, Travel, Telecom, Manufacturing.

Expertise in

• Financial systems Application Administration

• Implementation of Internal Audit Controls and compliance using ACL and other CAATTs.

• Full Project Lifecycle implementation of Hyperion Financial Management and FDM.

• Phased migration of legacy system.

• Requirement gathering, Gap-Impact Analysis.

• Reporting configuration - SEC, GAAP, ProForma, Forecast, Budgeting, Taxes, MIS reporting

• Business, Functional, Process and Technical specifications.

• Disaster Recovery planning, risk analysis, failover testing and documentation.

• Data Modeling. Change Management.

• Operational Analytics for BI and operational reporting.

EXPERIENCE:

Financial Systems Technical Specialist: Priceline.com 2003 - Present

Ten years of quality experience with this leading S&P 500 company with a market cap over 42

Billion - a Revenue stream of over 6 billion and a workforce of 8000 plus.

Proudly contributed in many milestones over a decade ever since the market cap was less than

100 million through the journey up to the current market cap of 42 Billion

The Company is a global leader in internet retail industry with online services in 70 languages

in 125 plus countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Key Milestones in the current profile:

• Hyperion Financial system implementation with emphasis on global consolidation of

subsidiaries.

• Involved from Discovery phase, though Design, development, production rollout of HFM

and FDM.

• Phased migration of legacy system into HFM and FDM.

• Integration of financial system of Subsidiaries - 9 acquisitions in the past 10 years in

North America, EMEA, APEC region

• Contributed to Chart of Account structuring during ERP implementations.

• Configured ERP systems - AP, AR, FA, GL modules for over 40 different product lines and

over 30 departments and 4 different parent currencies.

• Key contributor of ERP system migration to Oracle Financials.

• Key contributor of legacy system migration - FRx Financial Reporting to Hyperion

Financial Management. Subsidiaries Consolidation with 75 plus entities with multiple

currencies across NA, Europe, UK, Asia.

• System administration of receivables processing of over 12 million a day into the ERP

system for over 6 years. Administered system related issues of Transactional Processing

of over 80k a day related to U.S transactions for over 6 years.

• Single point of contact for ERP application related issue over 6 years.

• Implementation of Corporate wide Internal Audit Control and Compliance system using

ACL and other Computer Aided Audit Techniques and Tools.

Awards - Winner of corporate wide CEO achievement award in 2008.

Others:

• Hyperion Financial system administration with emphasis on global consolidation of

subsidiaries.

• Managing Shared Services for application security and access management and

provisioning.

• Managing rules, Meta Data, Process Mgmt, Consolidation Task flows, Data Forms, Data

Grids and JEs.

• Application rebuilds with extracts and loads of Data, Security, Rules, Metadata, Journals,

• Clearing and Copying data for various scenarios like Actual, ProForma, Forecast and

Guidance.

• Involved in redesigning of Chart of Accounts facilitating reporting at key consolidation

points across complex hierarchy of multiple currencies and counties.

• Configuration of financial reporting for GAAP, ProForma, Tax and various MIS internal

reporting using Hyperion FR studio and Smartview.

• Module management for AP, AR, GL, FA, Revenue Accounting, Budget, Planning and

forecasting. Maintaining and enhancing the ERP - IT Accounting System

• Handling Configuration and Customization issues of ERP Applications administration

including Maintaining Chart of Accounts Mapping and upgrades and migration.

• Extensively involved in Oracle R12 implementation w.r.to GL, FA and migration of legacy

system and production rollout.

• Configuration of metadata structures for yearly budgets, forecasting, month end, period

end closing, and variance analysis, GAAP, ProForma, Intercompany, Consolidation and

MIS reporting.

• Developing and maintaining accounting and finance and accounting related reports.

• Design, Development and administration for FRx financial reporting for GAAP and MIS

Reporting including year-end statutory audits,

• Data management of yearly 1099 filing, 1042 filings, 5471 filings, state and federal tax

reporting.

• Development and execution of comprehensive programs for the evaluation of internal

controls to ensure compliance with Section 404 and 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

• Internal controls, checks and balances, process/change controls initial documentation,

updates, assessment, testing, production rollout phases of the project with respect to S-

OX compliance.

• Handling system issues, upgrades, migration, system configurations, meta data

management

• Maintenance ETL deploys of informatica and reconciliation issues for IT Finance.

Data Architect: Synchronoss Technologies, PA - March’03 - Sept. 03

Responsibilities:

• As data architect, data modeler in the development of large databases from feasibility,

business analysis through full life cycle implementation. Configuring Cognos 7.0

environment for reporting.

• Design, implementation of star/snowflake schema physical and logical data model using

ErWin

• Design and implementation of Infrastructure operations including performance tuning,

capacity planning, security, high availability, backup and disaster recovery.

Lead Database Administrator, Liberty Media Group, TruePosition Inc, PA July 01 – Nov

'02

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of Infrastructure operations including database structures,

metadata maintenance, capacity planning, security, high availability for OLTP as well

as OLAP environment

• Performed Installation, Configuration, Upgrade, Maintenance and Migration issues of ERP

implementation for FI/CO (SAP R/3 System) and system upgrade initiatives.

• Designed and implemented Backup and Recovery operations Performance Tuning of the

database

• Created and managed security privileges for schema and user roles for Mission critical

databases.

• User coordination activities and develop architectural design, operational procedures for

database systems.

Senior Consultant, Oracle Corporation, CA Nov 00 – July 01

• Implementation of Oracle Applications for clients. Customizing the GL, FA, AP and AR

modules. General Ledger setups and configurations, CoA, Flexfileds, Currencies,

periods, set of books, entities etc.

• Conducted user acceptance testing.

• AP: Set ups of payables, suppliers, System options, payment terms, distribution sets,

Recurring Invoices. Setup of Supplier information, payment programs.

• Conducted user-training sessions on payments (payment batches, manual payments,

stop payments).

• Production roll out and post implementation functional support.

Consultant, Kathir Infotech, India, US July 98 – Nov ‘00

SAP R/3 Implementation

• Participated in the full life cycle implementation in functional design and configuration of

FI, CO, AM, TR and IM modules with ABAP/4 programming implemented in a HP9000,

UNIX platform using Oracle 8.1.5 and SAP R/3 for a leading cable

manufacturing company. Configuration, customization of FI / GL / AR / AP / AA, TR, CO-

CCA & CO-PC modules. Migration of legacy system data to SAP system.

Senior Financial Analyst, Prudential Capital Markets Ltd., India. April 95 - June 98

• Responsible for gap impact analysis to identify various financial systems for application

integration.

• Responsibilities include account management of clients, credit appraisal, ratio analysis,

consumer finance applications. Developed Entity Relationship models, requirement

gathering for database applications. Designed and developed financial applications,

receivables management, order entry system, inventory applications, periodical

reporting requirement

Technical Skills

Level 1 Expertise:

• Financial Consolidation - Hyperion Financial Management 11.x, 9.x and FDM 11.x, 9.x

• Financial Reporting - Hyperion FR Studio 9.x, Smartview, GL reports, FRx Financial

Reporting 6.x

• OLAP BI Reporting tools - Oracle's Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11.1, HYPS 8.3., Brio

6.5

• ERP Systems - Oracle Financials 11i, R12.0.6, GEAC, GreatPlains, SAP R/3 4.6

• Payables Management - Paybase 6.x, 8.x

• Audit and compliance: - ACL and other CAAT systems.

Level 2 Expertise

• RDBMS: oracle 10g, 9i, 8.x, MS SQL Server 2000, 7.0

• Operating system: UNIX, Solaris 2.8/2.7, HPUX, Windows NT, Vista, Windows 2000,

Windows2003,

• Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Cobol, ACL

• MS office : Excel 2003, Excel 2007, 2010

Level3 Expertise

• ETL tools: Informatica Power Mart, Power center v4.x, 5.1

• Modeling tools: ErWin 4.0, Designer 2000

• Reporting: Microstrategy, Cognos EP 7.0 series

• Others - unix scripts

EDUCATION

Post Grad. Diploma in Systems Mgmt, National Institute of Information Technology, May '94

M.S. Finance and Commerce, Annamalai University, India. Sep 90

B.S. Accounting and Commerce, Madras University, India. June 87

Configuration Management in ERP Systems, July '98

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