AMMAN U. SYED
Mountain View, CA 94043
*****@*****.***
BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST with ten years of experience in Oracle
applications including EBS Financials, Hyperion, and OBIEE.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VERISIGN Inc, Mt. View, California
July 2005 to Aug 2010
Business Systems Analyst
Provided financial application support, administration, & project
management which included Oracle GL, Assets, GRC, and Hyperion
Essbase/Planning.
. Led Oracle Record to Report track bi-weekly status meeting for service
request submitted by business stakeholders. Collected SR user
requirements by conducting collaborative workshops, translated to
offshore developers, and tested for monthly release cycle.
. Essbase/Planning administration included data load, metadata outline
updates, creating load rules, updating security, and coordinating
forecast rollforward activities and report /calc script development.
. Project Manager for Hyperion enhancements that included automating and
streamlining manual business processes adhering to SDLC implementation
methodology.
. Responsible for SOX access and SOD reporting from Oracle GRC tool.
Streamlined inherited process using Access/Hyperion IR reducing review
cycle from a week to 1/2 day.
. Implemented custom cross validation rules for cost center control.
Project included custom table and program to utilize Oracle standard
functionality to eliminate creation of invalid cost centers.
. SME for centralized repository of cross functional test cases in HP
quality center created for data center move testing.
. Designed, developed, and administered Access database for centralized
compensation reporting and statement generation.
CISCO SYSTEMS Inc, San Jose, California
Business Analyst
November 2003 to May 2005
Supported customer advocacy initiatives for finance and business
operations, including product specific reporting, non-standard compensation
programs, and Siebel sales dashboard.
. Systems analyst for Siebel Analytics (OBIEE) dashboard. Gathered data
from various sources, uploaded and modified tables in SQL Server, mapped
tables in repository (relational data mart), and created charts and
graphs of metrics at the user interface level.
. Developed Access databases for non standard compensation initiatives for
more timely and accurate credit submission.
. Researched, designed, and implemented attainment spreading process for
multiyear service agreement initiative.
QA Analyst
June 2003 to November 2003
Performed QA testing for Quote to Cash accounting tools and customizations
for Oracle 11i implementation.
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS, Santa Clara, California
April 1998 to October 2001
Business Analyst
Lead of order to cash team and responsible for booking and revenue
recognition of each hardware/software transaction.
. Group super user of custom Global Deal Accounting tool which included
new user training and first line support.
. Business lead for billing automation project of high volume customer
account which included defining req. and UAT.
NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Mt. View, CA
July 1997 to March 1998
Revenue Analyst
Responsible for POS royalty revenue accounting for Internet Service
Provider contracts and weekly revenue reconciliation.
EDUCATION
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
Full time student 2002-2003
Leavey School of Business, Master of Business Administration, March 2003
University Of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 1997 - Finance
concentration
CERTIFICATIONS/TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Excel Expert Certified, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Business
Objects, Hyperion Essbase/ Planning, Toad, Siebel Analytics (OBIEE), SQL,
SQL Server, Oracle EBS 11i (GL,FA,AR,OM,AP,PO,CE,HRMS), Oracle Governance,
Risk, and Compliance (GRC).