Project Manager

GIRIJA KANTA DASH

**** ***#**** ******* ******, Burlington, ON L7S 1Y1 H: 289-***-**** C: 289-***-**** ******@*****.***

Summary

High achieving management professional possessing 9+ years of IT experience with excellent

communication, organizational and analytical capabilities. Devises innovative solutions to

resolve business and technology challenges. Experience in various domains i.e. Health Care,

Technology, Consulting, Financial and Internet.

Involved in full life cycle of the projects which includes: Requirement Analysis, system

analysis, High level Design, Detail level design, Impact analysis, Development, Defect

tracking, Defect analysis, Troubleshooting, Performance tuning, Project documentation,

Release & Change Management.

Hold an MBA with major in Finance, Master and Bachelor in Commerce. PMP, CSM and Six

Sigma Green Belt certified.

Highlights

Hyperion Essbase, Planning & Smart Project Management

view Vendor Management

Essbase BSO & ASO Project Controlling & Costing

Hyperion Budgeting & Forecasting Business Planning & Analysis

Applications MS Office, MS Projects, Visio

Hyperion performance tuning using Waterfall, Agile Scrum & Lean Six

'Hourglass on a stick' Sigma model.

Hyperion Closing Calendar & Data Load

Accomplishments

Awarded Star of the Month, Star of the Quarter and Best Team for successful

execution and streamlining BI projects.

Received Best Performance Award for the Quarter (Q106) from the GFS Olympics

Committee for “Smoothening and Standardization of Trade Royalty Process &

Operation”. The idea resulted in a saving of time and Trouble shooting.

Recognized and awarded the ‘AIM idea' for the month of August 2006 for implemented

a robust trade royalty payment tracking sheet.

Experience

Assistant Consultant/Project Manager Apr 2012 to Dec 2014

Tata Consultancy Services Bengaluru, India

Played a major role in undertaking activities on both large and small projects and work

initiatives to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within established

time frame and budget parameters.

Managed >$1M critical Development and Maintenance & Support contract for GE

Healthcare & Covance.

Played Scrum Master to facilitate Sprint planning, Daily stand up, communicated

product owner to manage product backlog and documented sprint retrospective.

Lead BI COE Hyperion Planning Projects with a team size of 15.

Act as SME for Hyperion EPMA internally to provide training and solution for various

projects.

Analyze customer requirements and define the solution sets accordingly

Hyperion Planning Development, optimization & Tuning.

Functional design and documentation of MD50.

Managed project Issues/risks/impact and reviewed project plan with Customer on

regular basis.

Helped for conflict resolution/ escalation/ project interdependencies.

Created template to communicate project status, schedule and milestones on an

weekly basis with all stakeholders.

Involved in process improvements & managing SLA/WLA for production support

system.

Associate Feb 2010 to Dec 2011

Akamai Technologies India Pvt Ltd Bengaluru, India

Gathered requirements and identify dimensions for the Hyperion planning application.

Designed and development of Revenue cubes.

Developed the outlines in “Hourglass on a stick” design to optimize the essbase

application performance.

Created load Rules and Rule files for Data Loading in to Revenue and Expense cubes.

Written Essbase formulas as per the requirements and create substitution variables for

the ease of maintenance of application.

Developed Hyperion planning dimensions by using the functional specifications

document for the forecasting application.

Developed web forms using Hyperion Planning web client for the users to input

Forecast, Budget, Actual, Accounting changes and other variance explanations data.

Updated substitution variables, actual exchange rates each month and exported data

files for both databases.

Set up users and groups according to the department and maintained security to users

and groups from Hyperion shared services and assigned security to web forms.

Worked extensively on the optimization of the Revenue cubes.

Worked on Hyperion Smart view and Essbase Excel Add In formatted reports and

Develop reports based on the requirement.

Revenue Analyst Sep 2009 to Nov 2009

VMware, Inc. Bengaluru, India

Transitioned and Managed requirements for 'Order to cash'

Managed Rebates and MDF programs (Contra Accounting)

Royalty Revenue Staff Accountant Apr 2008 to Aug 2009

Adobe Systems, Inc. Noida, India

Report design, development and distribution; including working with customers to

define requirements and translate into specifications, manipulation of raw data into

presentation quality graphs/tables using Hyperion Smartview.

Managed TCS team as Vendor Manager from Adobe Perspective for Legacy &

Hyperion Systems.

Managed Legal Agreements and provided Guidance for Revenue Recognition

ASC985 605 (f.k.a SOP 97 2), Contract Accounting, US GAAP & Compliance to SOX

Involved in Audit and worked with External Auditors, Legal, Finance Operations, Sales

& Marketing & FP&A

Executive Business Analyst Sep 2006 to Oct 2007

Keane India Ltd. Gurgaon, India

•Analysis of Revenue, Cost and Gross Margin for Keane business verticals.

•Preparation of AOP (Annual Operating Plan), Quarterly forecast of Revenue and Gross

Margin.

•Preparing and Analyzing Quarterly Run rate and Outlook.

•Preparation and updation of SOP's (Standard Operating Procedure)

•Involved with ERP implementation

Royalty Expert Oct 2005 to Sep 2006

Agilent Technologies Inc. Gurgaon, India

Managed royalty legal agreements and processed royalty payments for Agilent

worldwide.

Used Hyperion BRIO tool for shipment tracking

Nov 2004 to

Executive Finance & Accounts

American Express FES India Ltd New Delhi, India

Single handed maintained and processed all the finance and accounts work for AMEX FES

Airport Branch.

Education & Certifications

2014

CSM, Agile Scrum

Scrum Alliance USA

License# 000349615 valid till 2019

2013

PMP, Project Management

PMI USA

License# 2768905 valid till 2019

2012

Six Sigma Green Belt

2011

R12 Project Costing

Oracle University

2005

MBA, Finance & Systems

IMM/Preston University India

2005

Master of Commerce

M.S University India

2002

Bachelor of Commerce

Utkal University India

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