Financial Management

Tarun Koshy Waukegan, IL ***** Phone: 224-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***

Financial Systems Professional

Hardworking, detail-oriented, dedicated, and reliable Professional with over 5 years of progressive knowledge and experience related to the financial systems development and the IT industry. Hands on experience has afforded the opportunity to build expert analytical, and quantitative skills, as well as an understanding of the financial industry and its requirements. Possess expert organizational and written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills which help to ensure the successful integration with varied personalities. Recognized for the ability to identify problems, analyze the causes and address issues by offering logical and convincing solutions. Robust research, analytical and problem-solving skills; enabling the ability to identify customer’s needs and provide tailored solutions. A fast learner, and able to prioritize multiple tasks, excel at working independently and possess excellent time management skills and discipline to meet stringent deadlines while ensuring the highest quality, accuracy and efficiency.

Transferrable Knowledge and Experience

Possess an understanding of financial systems and regulations, as well as IT requirements within different environments.

Strong understanding of financial systems.

Currently pursuing further education related to Accounting.

Skilled in identifying new ways and / or improving existing ways to streamline processes and make things easier for those I work with as well as myself without compromising quality.

Strong ability to communicate with individuals at all levels of an organization and build / maintain client and stakeholder relationships.

Extraordinarily detailed oriented in multi-tasking environments.

Emerging Solution/Emtec Inc., Chicago, IL Feb 2012 – Present

Infrastructure Consultant

Work with Major Clients in analyzing, building and maintaining Hyperion within development, production, and testing environments for company financial systems. Have completed many installations and upgrades for Hyperion applications including a combination of simple and complex deployments. This mix included different Operating Systems (Windows, Unix, Linux), different web servers (IIS, OHS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Load Balancing, Single Sign-On (SSO), etc.

Work closely with all team members on both the IT and financial side to build Planning, HFM, Essbase, Planning and Budgeting Cloud Services and Financial Consolidation Cloud Services (PBCS and FCCs), and Financial Data Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE) applications that best meet the company’s financial needs. Provide assistance to the team in editing Financial Reports and building Reporting books.

Design a System Architecture that incorporates enterprise performance management of the company’s financial and related IT systems; creating a seamless transition between all applications.

Perform a Products Requirements assessment (Hardware resources, OS features, third party software) to identify the best product solutions at the best possible price.

Install and Configure Hyperion and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Implement system security integration and test the performance of new systems using tools like LoadRunner and Grinder.

Migrate Schemas from old oracle database to the latest version of Database, as well as Planning and HFM applications to the Cloud PBCs and FCCs.

Setup and create an automation script for backup and restart processes for database. Assist in the migration of the Hyperion Planning application from on-Prem to Cloud and create an automation batch script for data export and load using EPMAutomation.

Work on ODI to setup metadata load process, as well as Hyperion Lifecycle management, to ensure all activities were completed accurately and identify / rectify any potential issues quickly.

Use tools like VM Sphere and VM workstation to create, delete and maintain Virtual Machine.

Provide hands on training for new users and create step-by-step instructional document for client for training and archiving purpose including any and all steps involved in installing, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Act as Administrator for Planning and Budgeting Cloud services (PBCS), Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud services (ePBCS) and Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud services (FCCs).

Conduct regular meetings for environment sizing discussions and recommendations, as well as pre-installation discussions according to the client’s needs before starting the engagement. Work with all team members to ensure that projects are being completed in adherence to client requests and identify any areas that could be modified.

Troubleshoot end user issues and assist helpdesk with any client installations including applying Oracle’s patches on application servers and client machines.

Develop, create, and implement a training server in AWS for the KSCOPE conference (2015 and 2016).

Motorola, Libertyville, IL Apr 2011 – Feb 2012

Product Test Engineer

Position details are available upon request.

DePaul University Chicago, IL Bachelor of Science (specialization: Management Information Systems)

DePaul University Chicago, IL Masters in Accounting (Expected Graduation Summer 2019)

Languages: SQL, HTML, Batch scripts

Reporting, Oracle Business Intelligence, HP LoadRunner, Grinder, VM Sphere, Oracle Data Integrator, RedWoodHQ

Platform: Windows 2000/XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 10, Server 2008 r2, Server 2012, Oracle Linux, Amazon Wed Services

Tools: MS office applications including Visio and MS project, RedwoodHQ – Open Source Test Automation Framework

Database Platform: SQL server 2005, MS SQL server 2012, Oracle database 11g, Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Hyperion EPM, Server Architecture, Server Management

Certification: Oracle Linux

Hyperion Products: Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Financial Reporting, Smart view, Excel Add-In.

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