Project Financial
Resume:
James O. Madafu
Austell, GA, 30106
Mobile 770-***-****
ac142d@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Safaricom – Vodafone Project (Contract)
Senior Consultant –Project Manager (EPM/ERP) April 2016 – Current
Functional duties
Led Project in all aspects of system implementations including strategic roadmap development, upgrades, change management, re-engineering, training, requirements definition, design, development, documentation, testing, quality assurance, and post implementation support.
Managed project contractual arrangements, financial feasibility, project plans to Implement Financial Systems.
Problem solved and offered ideas to solve client issues and create efficient processes
Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and created reports.
Identify efficiencies and innovative approaches to solve complex business processes
Maintain responsibility for completion and accuracy of work products.
Participate and lead in proposal development while mentoring team members.
Collaborate with financial and IT staff to ensure financial models are meeting organizational need.
Lead development of financial close and improved Consolidations with best practices.
Financial systems architecture and full scale finance transformation.
Optimized all elements of the finance organization, including operating model design, sustainable cost reduction, financial planning and analysis, management reporting
Extensive abilities and a proven record of success, managing efforts with identifying and addressing client needs
Technical duties/skills
Created Dashboard reporting using various reporting solutions. Hyperion Reporting Studio, OBIEE and Smartview. Expert level reporting Developer and trainer.
Lead maintenance and enhancement of Oracle Hyperion Essbase and Planning applications.
Lead in development of new application to facilitate reporting needs.
Exposure to FDM / FDMEE and utilized in data transfer within Hyperion suite.
Expert data reconciliation and Report development skills.
Maintained applications utilizing EPMA
Accenture LLP. (State of California Project, Federal Services)
Consultant –Strategy Digital Finance (EPM) September 2014 – February 2016
Functional Duties
Met and presented Project proposals with potential clients or client groups, associations, industry sectors, regions, and/or target market organizations.
Established and maintained business relationships with Clients and build successful project relationships.
Managed project contractual arrangements, financial feasibility, regulatory issues, legal issues and project plans to Implement Financial System for State of California.
Partnered with cross-functional departments to manage rollout schedules and technology releases ensuring business needs are supported in all phases throughout the process.
Communicated and Presented program summary and updates to Executives (C- Level) management, business owners, customers, and technology professionals.
Accountable for performance goal creation, documented reviews, as well as successful completion of all team goals.
Lead, coach, mentor and develop all reporting resources utilizing development plans, performance notes, or any other approved HR tools.
Evaluated change processes, anticipates problems, and makes suggestions to optimize effectiveness and efficiency.
Seizes every opportunity to exceed customer expectations with the goal of building business through long-term, loyal relationships.
Builds and draws upon internal and external networks to drive business initiatives forward and implement leading industry best practices.
Managed and created a requirements traceability matrix (RTM), Audited requirements, project expenses and Budget.
Managed team resources appropriately by effectively utilizing the strengths and
Individual work styles of team members.
Managed and implemented EPM/ERP-enabled business transformation programs, as a PM lead, a delivery and account executive.
Managed the change management process.
Extensive knowledge in the management of consulting engagements pertaining to organizational design and operational metrics.
Technical Duties
Developed budgeting/reporting solutions based on architecture design.
Developed PBCS, Hyperion Essbase and/or Hyperion Planning environments, including outlines, load rules, calculation scripts, partitions, web forms and security.
Developed and optimized PBCS/Essbase/Planning applications– Ensure quality assurance throughout the build, test, and rollout phases on an implementation
– Proactively and frequently communicated with customers to build and maintain a solid working relationship.
Hands on development and configuration of Hyperion Planning and Essbase (ASO and BSO) applications.
Configured HP/Essbase application components, including optimal dimension configuration, business rule / Calc script customization, web forms / task list definition, Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio reports, Smart View templates in line with business, functional and performance requirements.
Led the Hyperion Planning design and implementation efforts at client sites.
Coordinated activities to support clients through full life cycle Hyperion Planning implementations including contributing to design effort through development, training, documentation and go-live deployment.
Advising on technical designs and development best practices as the lead for the application and reporting components of the project.
Employ financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and management reporting knowledge and past experiences to architect and develop optimal planning solutions incorporating leading practices in areas that include: business and finance strategy, target setting, profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow forecasting, key performance metrics, driver-based planning, and rolling forecast.
Recommended ways to enhance financial analytic reporting for the end user.
Assisted with data conversion and interfacing activities, including user support to load and reconcile data.
Development of dashboards utilizing various reporting tools including Oracle OBIEE that included training consultants and analysts on reports.
Maintained and implemented EPMA applications
Maintained and created Decision Packages within Hyperion Public Sector Planning (Hyperion PSPB 11.1.2.3)
Utilized LCM for Migration of applications
Maintained and utilized Hyperion DRM for applications
Trained on Cognos TM1
JAS Forwarding Worldwide
Financial Systems Administrator/Analyst August 2011 – June 2014
In-depth analysis of Financial Systems project contractual arrangements, financial feasibility, regulatory issues and any potential legal issues
Creation of Financial Systems Road Map that included implementation of financial systems multi- server architecture/environment (Cognos) (Hyperion).
Responsible for handling the most complex and sensitive business development, corporate marketing and business outreach efforts
Led Project in evaluating and upgrading Cognos from 8.4 to 10.1.1.
Migrated Financial system servers from Offsite data center to In-house data center.
Manage Annual Budget, Monthly Forecasting, and Consolidation of Global Data process. Development, implementation, and maintenance of Financial Consolidation software.
Resolving complex configuration or reconciliation issues which may include researching automatic journals, analysis of configuration.
Implement system configuration based on changes in GAAP pertaining to global consolidation and current accounting methodologies. .
Build and update Budget and Forecasting cubes models to reflect business needs.
Recommend and implement technical infrastructure and software solutions. The technical interface between customer requests, vendors, data integration team, service providers and service management.
Proof of concept and Development Testing of Hyperion 11 environment for proposed Implementation.
Cognos Controller, Planning, Analyst, Connection Administration, maintenance and upgrade including TM1 FAP.
HCC Life Insurance Company (Contract)
PeopleSoft / Hyperion Consultant May 2011 – July 2011
Supported Major conversion and transition from Legacy system to new PeopleSoft ERP.
Managed Design, build, test and support of the business intelligence applications.
Participated in analysis and re-design of ERP architecture to support segment reporting.
Managed project requests and prioritizes request for report creation and data extraction.
Directed creation of reports utilizing advanced Hyperion Reports, PeopleSoft report writer and/or excel skills to meet data requirements of internal management reporting.
Implemented guidelines to achieve report standardization, adequate documentation and efficient workflow.
Formulated maintenance, modifications, support, and training processes and systems.
Turner Broadcasting System, INC (CNN, TNT, TCM, TRU TV)
Financial Reporting System Analyst / Administrator April 2008 – May 2011
Led Projects to Upgrade to Hyperion System 9 and PeopleSoft 9.1. .
Develop innovative process improvements, analyze business needs that leverage technology and maximize overall efficiency within cross-divisional teams.
Coordinate and Liaison with IT on all Financial systems issues, as well as test and implement any new systems or enhancements following standard SDLC practices.
Ensure data integrity, Sox monitoring, and compliance of reporting.
Maintenance & Automation of the Essbase outline. Knowledge of MAXL batch processes, BSO and ASO applications.
Loading and verifying data from ERP databases to Planning and Essbase cubes.
Partner with Accounting and Finance management to identify errors and re-class journals.
Design, create and support Hyperion Planning Financials objects, and Essbase add-in reports as well as PeopleSoft 8.8 NVision reports, queries and hierarchy trees.
Mirant Corporation (Contract)
Settlement Analyst / Sr. Accountant February 2008 – April 2008
Performed all aspects of trade processing, including trade entry, verification of pricing, and position reconciliation.
Run and create various monthly, daily and weekly reports and schedules for AP and AR.
Created an Access database to assist with tracking transactions with counterparties.
Preferred Guest Services LLC (Contract)
Assistant Controller / Sr. Accountant December 2007 – February 2008
Managed a team of 4 Accounting Assistants.
Managed day-to-day accounting activities of three subsidiary companies.
Performed profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow analysis and reporting.
Analyzed accounting process and made recommendations for improvement.
NCDR LLC (Feb 07 – December 07) (Contract)
Purchasing Financial Systems Administrator July 2007 – December 2007
Participated in Implementation of Hyperion.
Assisted with administration of Hyperion Financial Planning.
Created Essbase reports and developed Planning web forms.
Managed Purchasing department and had 3 Direct reports.
Database management, wrote queries and generated reports using Crystal Reports.
Financial Analyst / Project Accounting (Contract) February 2007 – July 2007
Formulated purchasing policies and procedures by analyzing business needs, and evaluating current business policies.
Implemented and Administered the purchasing system including creating user permissions, designing workflow processes and educating all users.
Created monthly, quarterly, and annual project and purchasing reports that showed current spending, opportunities for cost reduction and variances.
Tracked and Analyzed of departmental budgets and maintenance of Project database.
Performed budget analysis and forecasting for capital and operational IT project expenditures including Variance analysis.
Performed cost analysis and reduction by analyzing current expenditures and providing opportunities to reduce expenditures and alternative sourcing for products.
Analyzed aging reports and researched purchasing trends and purchase orders.
Project management by coordinating human resources, equipment and all logistics.
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Verizon Wireless (November 02 – September 06)
Coordinator National Accounts October 2004 - September 2006
Essbase and Hyperion system super user.
Created new reports, improved and automated existing reports within Essbase.
Tracked sales information and provided reporting on effective and ineffective sales opportunities through analyzing new additions targets and churn rate.
Developed queries and maintained departmental financial reports.
Analyzed, verified and reconciled consolidated compensation billing.
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EDUCATION
Kennesaw State University: Bachelor of Science – Information Systems (2012).
Mercer University: Bachelor of Business Administration – Finance Modeling (2006).
Union County College : Associate in Business – Accounting (2003)
Kennesaw State University: Master of Information Technology (2016-Ongoing)
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