SUVANKAR SAHA Phone: +1-647-***-****
Email: ********.****@*******.***
Experience Summary
Over all 9 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in Oracle EPM and DWH / BI Products in various phases of the SDLC, presently associated with a role of Hyperion Consultant, Mainly concentrating on Essbase, Planning, FDMEE and reporting suites in the latest version – Hyperion 11.1.2.3.50x.
Have good exposure on HFM, Oracle Hyperion Tax Provisioning version 11.1..2.3.700
Excellent knowledge in system and process design, requirement analysis methodology and documentation.
Excellent problem solving skill, and good understanding of ITIL methodologies with hands-on experience on incident management, problem management, change management and system deployment methodologies.
Good team player with experience working with on-site and off-shore teams, and be able to work independently with minimal supervision from management.
Provides best solutions to clients, that includes, Project scoping, sizing, Requirement gathering, Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Test, Migrate, Troubleshoot, Backup/Restore, Security, Automation, Upgrade, Maintenance and support.
Experience with training and mentoring stakeholders to understand the Hyperion EPM system and used of the product of system to support business processes.
I believe in precise and effective communication and strict adherence to business process guidelines and aspiring for a role of Solution Architect in Business Intelligence domain.
Techno Functional expertise
Oracle Hypérion Enterprise Performance Management suite (EPM):
oHyperion Essbase (Version 9.3 to 11.1.2.3)
oHyperion Planning Classic and EPMA (Ver. 9.3 to 11.1.2.3),
oEnterprise Performance Management Architect (EPMA)
oFinancial data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE 11.1.2.3.530),
oHyperion Financial Management (HFM),
oOracle Hyperion Tax Provisioning (OHTP)
oData Relationship Management (DRM)
oFinancial data Quality Management (FDMEE)
oShared services roles and Responsibility, handling AD and ND users groups assigning access
oCalculation Scripts, Dimension build and Data Load Rules, Web Forms, Smart Lists, Menus.
oAd- hoc reporting using Excel Add-in and financial reporting studio.
Oracle EPM System Design, Migrations & Upgrades: Experience in Hyperion Planning (Classic and EPMA, Calculation Manager, Business Rules, Web Forms, Smart Lists, Menus.
Expertise in RDBMS (Oracle PL/SQ, MSSQL)
Best Practices in BI ETL and Data Warehouse technologies
Process Automation Unix shell and Windows batch scripting, Automation of Backup/recovery, Automation of ETL and Hyperion Processes in Windows / Unix environments
Data Warehousing and Data Integration ETL (Tools like SSIS, OWB)
Specialties: Certifications:
Oracle Hyperion Certified Essbase Consultant
Oracle Hyperion Certified Planning Consultant
Oracle Certified PL/SQL Developer
Sectors Served:
Banking
Financial
Insurance
Telecom
Project 9: Oracle Tax provisioning implementation
Customer: TD Bank (Canada March 2015 – Till date)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: This was the Hyperion Tax provisioning module implementation for TD business to automate the enterprise tax calculation. Worked as a technical lead with different vendor.
Project Responsibilities:
Designed the Hyperion application architecture selected tools as per the project requirement.
Project design and data flow planning
Validating Hyperion environment after the installation and configuration.
Install and upgrade patch (11.1.2.3.700) in various related product of Tax
Created data load rule to load data load files to FDMEE
Created automated data load scripts for FDMEE
Created security for Tax and FDMEE
Created some FR and Smart view ad-hoc reports
Created the test scripts test cases for SIT testing.
Migrating TAX application from lower environment to higher through LCM.
Copy data using the Application Copy utility
Project 8: Hyperion Upgrade Project (11.1.1.3 to 11.1.2.3.500)
Customer: TD Bank (Canada Jun 2014 – March 2015)
Role: Hyperion Consultant (Technical Lead)
Project Description: Hyperion Version 11.1.1.3 is getting de supported by oracle soon. So TD bank decided to upgrade EMRS environment to the latest Hyperion version 11.1.2.3.50x and migrate all the application to this environment.
Project Responsibilities:
Project Planning - selecting proper version of the product, hardware sizing
Involved in validating Hyperion environment after the Product installation and configuration
Migrating Essbase and planning application from old environment to new.
Validated and changed set up related files as and when required as per business needs.
Changes maxl data load script in order to incorporate the Essbase error login changes.
Migrated the Business rules into Calculation Manager.
Migrating of Security, FR reports from old version 11.1.1.3 to new 11.1.2.3
Smart View 11.1.2.5.210 packaging for business roll out.
Worked on the Hyperion performance issues and tuning application settings.
Testing of all the application functionality and validation
Creating the Planning workflow for Planning entity process management and approval cycle
Project 7: EMRS Consolidated Cube
Customer: TD Bank (Canada January 2014 – May 2014)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: In addition to its current reporting obligations, TD has new external reporting requirements which require data from across the all segments to provide Total Bank reporting. No current cube contains all required data. A centralized solution was required within Employee Management Reporting System to provide a consolidated total bank reporting cube.
Project Responsibilities:
Analyse business requirements and document them.
Create hierarchies metadata in Essbase cubes
Created rules files for metadata and data load to essbase cubes
Created custom metrics for the data mapping.
Created automated extraction of metadata (hierarchy, Alias) and fact by custom SSIS package and load them to Essbase cubes through rule files, create rules file, account formulae, Create MDX scripts for custom calculations
Created maintain users and groups security, assign security and added users to groups
Create and modify Financial Reports in HFR and Smart View as per end users’ reporting need
Automated data load from source to target system and created control reports to maintain the synchronization between Source and target system.
Project 6: Delaware Life Transition (DLT) system implementation
Customer: SunLife Financial (Jun 2013 – December 2013)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: The Delaware Life Transition (DLT) Project incorporates the pending sale of Sun Life US block of Business to Delaware Life Holdings. As part of the deal Sun Life Financial need to provide a managed service for the applications and infrastructure that currently support the sold block of business for a period of 18 months; thereby, allowing the new company time to incorporate this block of business into their own infrastructure. So a separate financial reporting system is being built for Delaware Set of Books reporting.
Project Responsibilities:
Hardware sizing and as per the requirement of business.
Installation of Hyperion essbase suite in a separate server (RDBMS, Foundation services, shared service, workspace, Essbase, Financial reporting, smart view)
Create 2 Essbase ASO applications.
Extraction of metadata (hierarchy, Alias) and fact by custom PL/SQL queries and load them to Essbase cubes through rule files, create rules file, account formulae, Create MDX scripts for custom calculations
Create users and groups security, assign security and added users to groups
Create Financial Reports in HFR and Smart View as per end users’ reporting need
Created and maintained automated data load from source to target system and created control reports to maintain the synchronization between Source and target system
Project 5b: Management Information Reporting (MIR)
Customer: SunLife Financial (October 2012 – May 2013)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: This was a full blown project after the POC. This application is to measure quarterly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) which is an important and significant internal management document that summarizes the financial performance of the overall organization along with its strategic business units. The information contains general ledger information along with key financial measures not captured in the general ledger (Sales, VNB, Staffing, Source of Earnings, etc.). The principle KPI report users include the Board of Directors, Senior Management, Financial Management, and External Auditors.
Project Responsibilities:
Analyse the business requirements and map them in the new product accordingly
Create data source and Classic planning application.
Created Planning data forms, Business rules, Smart Lists, assign security.
Load metadata (hierarchy, Alias), fact, create rules file, account formulae, Create calculation scripts to clear and aggregate data, report scripts to extract data files. Developed ETL process for fact data loading from GL to Essbase applications.
Historical data migration from old OFA system to new Hyperion essbase.
Create users and groups security filters, assign security filter to groups and added users to groups
Create Financial Reports in HFR and Smart View as per end users’ reporting need
Created and maintained automated data load from source to target system and created control reports to maintain the synchronization between Source and target system
Migration of the application through LCM and security to higher environment through the standard utility.
Created custom process of historical data restatement through ODI
Create custom Security in shared services.
Created custom ETL process for historical data restatement with slowly changing hierarchy.
Project 5a: POC for Management Information Reporting (MIR) through Hyperion Planning
Customer: SunLife Financial (August 2012 – Sep 2012)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: Client was using excel spreadsheet to complete their quarterly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to present to the higher management. To perform this activity they were capturing the GL actuals, round them in millions and input the non-GL data (Sales, VNB, Staffing, Source of Earnings, etc.). As this was a very pain full process of accumulating these data manually finds out the KPI and storing them, this POC was initiated to show then the automated way to capture this process.
Project Responsibilities:
Gather and analyse the business requirements.
Created Hyperion Planning application
Load hierarchy, fact into the application
Created customized rules calculating KPIs.
Four smart View reports developed for presenting to business
Project 4: Financial Reporting System (FRS) implementation - Phase 2 FRS Rounded Planning application
Customer: SunLife Financial (January 2012 – July 2012)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: This is a rounded actual application for SunLife Financial, which contains a high level actual financial data (in rounded millions). This is a measure of overall company performance in a very high level to the senior management. It summarizes the financial performance of the overall organization along with its strategic business units. The information contains general ledger information along with key financial measures not captured in the general ledger. These reports are used by higher management as well as external auditors
Project Responsibilities:
Analyse the business requirements and map them in the new product accordingly
Created Classic planning application.
Created Planning data forms, Business rules assign custom security
Load metadata (hierarchy, Alias), fact, create rules file, account formulae, Create calculation scripts to clear and aggregate data, report scripts to extract data files. Developed customize codes for fact data loading from GL to Essbase applications.
Converted custom business rules to calculation scripts and automated process to run them once the data load is done.
Historical data extraction and migration from old OFA system to the new planning application
Created users and groups security filters, assign security filter to groups and added users to groups
Created Financial Reports in HFR and Smart View as per end users’ reporting need
Created and maintained automated data load from source to target system and created control reports to maintain the synchronization between Source and target system.
Involved in critical defect resolutions and change requests during the project life cycle
Project 3: Financial Reporting System (FRS) implementation - Phase 1 FRS GL Actual application(s)
Customer: SunLife Financial (January 2011 – Dec 2011)
Role: Hyperion Consultant
Project description: This is a Financial Reporting System implementation project for Canada based client Sun Life Financial. As OFA is de supported by Oracle Corporation Sun Life has decided to implement Hyperion as their new reporting tool. This migration is done in different phases. First the Un Rounded Actual data migration, then Rounded and KPI process, and the last one will be Budget and Expense. This part was building an application for reporting on unrounded actual data that comes from general ledger entry, through Oracle GL this actual data comes into Hyperion Essbase and end user's reports in a formatted way
Project Responsibilities:
Analyse the business requirements and map them in the new product accordingly
Developed 3 Essbase ASO applications and 1 classic planning application
Loaded metadata and fact, created custom formulae for accounts and comparatives
Create users and groups security filters, assign security filter to groups and added users to groups
Historical data migration from old system to essbase
Create Financial Reports in HFR and Smart View as per the business requirement
Developed customize codes for metadata and fact data loading from GL to Essbase applications.
Created and maintained the control reports to maintain the synchronization between OFA and Hyperion.
Involved in critical defect resolutions and change requests during the project life cycle
Project 2: SunLife SIRIS Support & Maintenance
Customer: SunLife Financial (Jun 2007 – December 2010)
Role: Developer
Project description: This was an Oracle GL maintenance and reporting project, through Oracle Apps with the creation of a financial data repository in the form of a data warehouse to be used for reporting purpose, OFA which is a graphical tool used as a front end to present formatted data in form of a report from a multidimensional database to the end users for the Canada based insurance client Sun life Financials. The application is designed to capture the GL Actual data 4 times a day for 15 different Set Of Books, analysis of data, planning budgeting and forecasting
Project Responsibilities:
Managing metadata and hierarchies in Oracle GL as a central metadata repository and control its flow towards the downstream systems.
Create and Maintain books in General Ledger.
Maintain metadata and data load from relational database EPM reporting cubes
Resolve defects and work on change Requests related to any data synchronization issues in GL and reporting system and maintain control reports
Create reports, Financial data items, Models etc for Defects and Change Requests
Performance tuning. Testing and improvement of data load and aggregation to all the cubes in order to meet the SLA time as per contract with client.
Provide production support and defect resolution on any client issues
Project 1: OBI_241_OPENREACH_OFF
Customer: British Telecom (Feb-2007 to May-2007)
Role: Developer
Project description: Data warehousing for the customer business data repository to be used for performance management and reporting purpose
Project Responsibilities:
Providing the production support for the client
Involved in critical defect resolutions
Career Profile
Dates
Organization
Designation
30-10-2006 to Till date
TATA Consultancy Services
Assistant Consultant
Qualification
Degree and Date
University
Major and Specialization
Bachelor in Engineering, (2002 – 2006)
West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India
Electrical Engineering (includes Programming languages C, Data Structure, Operating Systems, RDBMS and Microprocessors)
Status in Canada: Permanent Resident