VARUN BHAT

To be successful as a Hyperion Consultant and contribute to the success of the organization that values Professionalism. Want to be part of an environment that demands the fullest use of my abilities and experience in the field relevant to my specialization and my inter-personal skills. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: 9 Years of total experience in IT, around 5+ years of experience in Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM), Consolidation and Planning, Enterprise Performance Management, Architecture, EPMA, Data Warehousing, ETL & OLAP with focus on Hyperion Suite of Technology. Extensive experience in application designing and development using Oracle EPM system 11.1, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Essbase Reports, Calculation Manager, Rules Editor, Hyperion Financial Reporting (HFR) V9.3/11.1, Excel Add-In, Smart View and Hyperion web Analyzer, Financial Data Management (FDM) V9.3/11.1, ERPi. Experience in integrating the development and implementation of HFM with FDM for organizational financial consolidation, multi currency translations, strategic budgeting and planning, and advanced forecasting abilities Expert Knowledge on Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM) V9.3/11.1 Application Creation (Classic & EPMA) Hyperion financial management Data Grids, Data Forms, Security Class, Metadata Maintenance, Task List, Member Lists, Data Loads, inter-company eliminations, Plug Accounts, Journal Adjustments & running Consolidations, Calculation Manager/ Rules Editor for managing. Expertise in Hyperion Financial Report 9.3/11.1, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Analyzer/Web Analysis, and Excel Add-In on Windows. Hands on experience in performing Essbase Reporting, Financial Reporting, Statement Analysis, Trend Analysis, Variance Analysis. Good Knowledge of Budgeting and Forecasting Process within Hyperion Planning. Experienced in all stages of SDLC that includes duties like providing documentation on design, testing and migration from development to production. Adept in preparing Hyperion reports to measure financial performance, analyze profitability, and facilitate effective business decision making. Experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, Financial Planning & Analysis with focus on domains like Investment Banking, Customer Relationship Management, and Insurance in financial services sector. Expertise in full project life cycle development, for implementation and integration. A proactive planner with expertise in handling Projects, Business Analysis, Business Development, Internal Audit and Leading the growth of profitability by increasing team revenues, expanding services and products to existing clients. Proficient in managing & leading teams for running successful projects & experience of developing procedures, service standards for business excellence, excellent team building, communication, relationship management and analytical skills. Good team player with excellent analytical, presentation and interpersonal skills with an aptitude to learn new technologies. AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Hyperion Financial Management

Extensive experience in design, analysis, development and administration of various applications in Client/ Server OLAP environment using Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management ( HFM), Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM), Financial Reporting, Interactive Reporting, Excel Add in and Smart View. Hands on experience with Hyperion EPM applications, OBIEE. Extensive experience in installation, configuration, server settings, backups, client and server installation of all Hyperion products in both Windows and UNIX environment. Extensive experience in HFM 11.1, 9.3.1 systems implementations including Infrastructure, Rules, Metadata, Journals, FDM, System Reports, Intercompany, Data Grids, Data Forms, Financial Reports, SmartView Excel Reports, Currency, Cash Flows, Shared Services Security. Hyperion Planning

 Hands-on experience with current/recent versions of the Hyperion Planning and Forecasting tool (version 9.x and 11) Maintain FDM, the financial application tool to import external data into Hyperion Planning. Supported and administered the Hyperion Planning applications. Created new users, maintain security, create calc scripts, data load rules, and report scripts. Worked with internal customers to consistently improve and refine process and procedures as it relates to Planning and Operational Analysis. Experience in building complex Hyperion Planning applications with efficiency, quality, and high standards. Experience with other Hyperion products as needed such as Hyperion reporting, FDM, Analyzer, Development Tool Kits. Financial Planning & Analysis Expert in business process engineering and software development life cycle, including schedule, cost & risk analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of financial software applications. Devising strategies when a corporation is facing financial difficulty, such as a large budget deficit or failing operations, an investment banker is called in to study the situation and find a remedy. Providing advisory services regarding the processes, procedures and strategies for securities investment as well as positional trading ideas in stocks, ensuring high ROI. Exposure with Oracle GL, AR, AP modules. TECHNICAL SKILLS: OLAP Tools Hyperion System 11.x/9.3.1 BI+(Financial reporting, Interactive reporting And SQR), EPM, OBIEE, Essbase, Hyperion Planning 11.x/9.3.1.x, SAS, EAS, EIS, HAL, Essbase studio 11.x, FDM 11.x/9.3.1.x, HFM 11.x/9.3.1.x, DRM 11.x/9.3.1, Hyperion Data Integration Management (DIM) Informatica 7.1, ODI SQL, PL/SQL , VB Oracle 11g/10g/9i, MS SQL Server 2005, MS Access Hyperion Financial Reports, Hyperion Interactive Reports, Web Analysis, Dashboard, Smart View, Essbase Excel Add-in EAS, FDM Workbench, HFM Client, HFM Rules Editor, FR Studio Windows NT/2000/XP/2007, Linux SOX, IFRS, BASEL II, ISO, CMM

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Accenture, Atlanta, GA

Oct 11 - Present

Client, Fannie Mae: Fannie Mae exists to serve Americas families and the housing market and done so for more than 70 years. Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress to keep money flowing to mortgage lenders, to help strengthen the U.S. housing and mortgage markets, and to support affordable homeownership. Project Summary: The project was to upgrade Planning, HFM & FDM applications from version 9.3.1 to 11.1.2.1 & perform enhancements. The project kicked off initially with Development environment & later moved in Test, Acceptance & Production. Role: Hyperion Developer Responsibilities: Involved in Hyperion HFM Development, Migration & Upgrade of four applications from Version 9.3.1 to Version 11.1.2.1. Prepared the design document and taken the client approval. Involved in migration of four FDM applications from Version 9.3.3 to 11.1.2.1. Involved in modifying and maintaining business rules for Essbase and HFM applications. Scanning of Metadata and correcting the errors before extracting in to HFM applications. Involved extensively in creating web forms for Hyperion Planning applications.

 Created Hyperion Planning properties file setup of preferences, application defaults, assignment of applications to Shared Services, and specification of custom tools. Created applications, locations, import formats, mapping templates, control tables, Integration scripts and validation rules in FDM. Strong exposure to Essbase Report Writing. Coordinated with the Technical architect team in migration of ESSBASE and FDM. Checked the interaction of FDM with HFM post migration. Created Essbase Reports by leveraging current Business Object Reports. Coordinated user account setup/changes within ESSBASE & FDM. Worked very closely with the DBAs while performing Schema migration. Advised on Hyperion best practice, assist with technical design and implement changes. Initiated to prepare thorough Inventory List for the applications. Initiated to perform thorough Unit Test of the migrated applications before moving to actual Test environment. Performed thorough validation between Source & Target systems. Worked with Client and/or with functional users to identify, analyze, consolidation and reporting requirements, translate them into HFM/FDM. As part of the Development team, provided with necessary functional expertise to augment the technical expertise as required (blend of techno-functional skills). Performed proper unit/integrated test plans and tested. Highly Energetic and keen on taking technical challenges to explore new areas. Took ownership & helped Accenture to prepare step by step Technical & Functional Documentation. Environment: Hyperion System 9 Financial Management, Hyperion System 11.1.2.1 (Fusion Edition) Financial Management, FDM System 9.3.3, FDM System 11.1.2.1, Hyperion System 9 /System 11 Financial Reporting, Hyperion Planning, Smart View, Oracle Server.

Client: HSBC National Bank, Bethesda, MD.

Sep 10 Sep 11

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organization in the world. With its headquarters in London, its international network comprise around 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia- Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Role: Hyperion Consultant. Responsibilities: Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors. Gathering the requirements from the client to build the consolidation system. Creating the same application using ESSBASE with the same chart of accounts. Creating the target application with the new chart of accounts. Writing business rules to recreate and enhance the consolidation logic which existed in previous environment. Designed Intercompany Transaction (ICP) elimination for the new legal entities. Experience in Multi Foreign Currency Translations. Conduct systems maintenance including security, metadata, rules/logic, reports, data grids, Web forms, FDM, Validation roll-ups and translation tables. Load monthly data, forecasts, budgets, and long-range numbers into ESSBASE. Coordinated with the Technical architect team in migration of HFM and FDM. Coordinated user account setup/changes within ESSBASE & FDM. Designed and setup security for ESSBASE, FDM, HFR and Smart view. Troubleshooting and helping users on ESSBASE, FDM and HFR. Employ strong time management skills to produce monthly reports via Reporting Studio System 9, SmartView, Enterprise Reporting and Excel Retrieve. Reconciling the data between the applications. Writing reports in Hyperion Reports for consolidation and reporting purposes. Participating in the parallel closing process before going live. Hyperion 11.1 EPMA, ESSBASE, FDM, Calc Manager, Financial Reporting Studio, SmartView. Experience in Full life cycle management implementation: Requirements gathering, Design, Build and Test. Created Data Synchronizations for HFM and Essbase.

Created ESSBASE Metadata, Rules, and Hyperion Reports. Exposure to SAS and Oracle R12. Created FDM interfaces for 8 General Ledgers. Presented user training class to a group of twenty.

Environment: Hyperion System 9 Financial Management, Hyperion System 11.1.2.1 (Fusion Edition) Financial Management Hyperion System 9 /System 11 Financial Reporting, Hyperion Planning, SmartView, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server.

Client: JPMorgan Chase, Columbus, OH.

Mar 09 Aug 10

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments and retail. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets and market capitalization. It is a major provider of financial services, with assets of $2 trillion and is the world's largest public company. Role: Hyperion Consultant. Responsibilities: Responsible for design, installation, and validation of Oracle EPM and BI Products. Was responsible for complete Planning and HFM management of the project including security and provisioning. Was responsible for designing Hyperion Planning applications for Planning, budgeting and Forecasting (PBF), Hyperion FDM, Hyperion Financial Reports, and web forms for planning users in the role of Hyperion Architect for financial systems. Designed Essbase databases using Hyperion Planning application to meet financial requirements. Assist in the upgrade and migration of Oracle EPM and BI solutions while guiding our clients on the most effective implementation approach and providing the best solutions to ensure business continuity. Design and assist in Disaster Recovery planning and execution. Effectively document and present proposed solutions and final architecture to client. Provided ongoing problem management through identification, troubleshooting, and elimination of issues faced by our clients and delivery consultants. Monitored application performance, availability, and utilization. Worked closely with management and end-users to develop and enhance the application processes that will result in a stable productive environment. Provided user support and other ad hoc requests, monitored logs for errors, outages, etc... Troubleshoot issues with both client and server systems i.e. SmartView, Essbase Excel Addin, IR, WEB ANALYSIS, Essbase, EIS, Financial Reporting, Workspace, Studio, Web Logic etc... Monitored Foreign Currency Transactions. Monitor system usage metrics. Training and mentoring other Hyperion resources within team. Ability to identify and troubleshoot Hyperion system problems and requests in a timely manner for end users. Advised on Hyperion best practice, assist with technical design and implement changes. Support the monthly financial close, annual budget process, and quarterly forecasts. Load data and metadata from PeopleSoft to Hyperion. Environment: Hyperion System 9 Financial Management, Hyperion System 11 (Fusion Edition) Financial Management Hyperion System 9 /System 11 Financial Reporting, Hyperion Planning, SmartView.

Client: Pfizer Inc, New York, NY.

Dec 07 Feb 09

Pfizer is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, with its headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. Pfizer has a leading portfolio of products and medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cure for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas. Role: Hyperion Consultant Responsibilities: Build data forms, composite data forms with top down and bottom up approach.

 Enable data form properties to let the planners take the Data form offline as well as perform planning in Smart View. Build task list and configure task list to send email notification. Build Process management based on Entity and Scenario. Created financial reports such as Revenue report by product, operating expenses reports by cost center, budget vs. actual variance reports using financial reporting studio. Involved in all the phases of the project life cycle like Development, Testing and Production. Build Finance Book using Financial Reporting tool and schedule reports using batches. Publish financial reports in workspace, setup user security at report level as well as data level. Used FDM to load data from ERP and drill down to GL, ERPi to view transaction details. Implementation support Hyperion Planning and Financial Reporting in Windows Environment Build Planning Model using EPMA. Prepared ADS file to upload Account, Entity, Product, Vendor, Customer, Employee, Assets from PeopleSoft and setup import profile to create the shared dimension in dimension library. Created Multi Currency planning application and setup the application parameters. Worked on Adding dimensions to the application from shared library, Application deployment. Environment: Hyperion Planning System, Hyperion Essbase, Workspace, Hyperion Financial Management, Shared Services, FDM, Star Analytics, Financial Reporting Studio, Hyperion Reports, Smart View, Essbase Excel Add-In, Windows XP, MAXL, Oracle, Solaris, VB API, VBA.

Company: Goldman Sachs Services, New York, NY

Oct 06 Nov 07

Goldman Sachs is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. Role: Technical Specialist Responsibilities: Involved in Budget Sensitivity, Expense, Ratio, Headcount and Scorecard Analysis. Prepared and analyzed business and financial model of the prospective alliance partner. Trained and mentored the team members on various areas of research along with database training. Worked with the Business Development team in identifying profitable JV/Alliance partners (Realtors, Builder and Financial Institutions) in US residential mortgage market. Reported critical metrics like Quality, Productivity & Compliance and prepared Dashboard for Senior Management as well as on-shore partners to mitigate any risk. Assisted in system Forecast Performed quality analysis on peppermint samples to ensure it met customer standards. Determined the composition of menthol using the data obtained from distillation columns. Improved the aspects of peppermint. Developed the material preparation using Hyperion and SAP. Worked on Hyperion to retrieve the data and work on the same to report to the cost center directors. Involved in budget Variance analysis using SAS. Responsible for building reports in Hyperion.

Environment: Hyperion Essbase 7, Excel Add-In, Smart View, Windows 2000/NT.

Company: Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual Life Insurance Ltd, India

Sep 05 Sep 06

Kotak Life Insurance Company ranks fourth in the India for life insurance, with more than 10 million policies issued. Assignment involved Web-based online purchase, submission of insurance claims. Analysing various investment related matters of the customers & advising the right investment. Role: Senior Financial Business Analyst. Responsibilities:

 Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors. Identify project risks to define risk strategies and develop the risk management plan. Gathered requirements during inception phase, documented and delivered functional specification documents, and assisted architecture analysis and design using UML and Rational tools. Providing superior customer service & maintain very good rapport with existing customers as well as the prospective customers. Strong Client management skills in managing dynamic business demands, adding value to client business and exploring new business opportunities. Providing the benefits, advantages & features of our products to the customers. Make the customer understand & give them complete satisfaction in their investment plans. Conducting trainings & regular meetings on the products to help the team to be successful, achieve their goals & to boost the technical and soft skills of the associates. Monitoring the overall functioning of processes, identifying areas of development and implementing adequate measures to maximize Customer Satisfaction / Employee Satisfaction. Provided situational leadership to motivate individuals. Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Windows XP.

Company: ING Vysya Bank, Bangalore, India.

Mar 04 Aug 05

As a Financial analyst, worked in getting acceptance signed by client for all the deliverables, generate invoices for all labour and expenses and ensure all the invoices are paid in time and from an internal organization perspective ensure revenue is recognized, document lessons learnt and project closed in system. Role: Senior Financial Business Analyst. Responsibilities: Responsible for planning, cost analysis, preliminary approvals applications, and design and production of site plans. Manage proactively the resource allocation by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned to the tasks according to the project plan. Performing reconciliations between sub ledger & general ledger on a weekly basis. Handling internal audits & maintaining thorough internal control. Maintaining various accounts & control accounts; to maintain the integrity with the firms books. Assessing operational risk in the business & process high- risks checks. Responsible for the right resource level mix for the team to ensure quality and profitability. Maintaining a repository of all project-related documents for use throughout the project, for historical reference, and for audits. Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Primavera, Oracle 9i.

Company: Canara Bank, Bangalore, India.

Oct 02 Feb 04

Canara Bank is a state-owned financial services company in India. It was established in 1906, making it one of the oldest banks in the country. As on 2009 November, the bank had a network of 3057 branches, spread across India. The bank also has offices abroad in London, Hong Kong, Moscow, Shanghai, Doha, and Dubai. Role: Financial Business Analyst. Responsibilities: Define the scope of the project based on the organization need to meet the management expectations. Identify key project team members and define roles and responsibilities to create a project organization structure to develop a communication plan. Steering initiatives for operations management and inter-branch coordination. Leading a team of 4 individual contributors; maintaining strong operation relationship & coordination with over 375 branches coming under Bangalore circle.

 Delivering superior service to branch heads within designated authority levels & develop centre of influence groups to enable smooth operations between all reporting branches. Conducting analysis and accounting of monthly profitability statements. Handling local cheque clearance and cash remittance, inter branch accounts reconciliation, ATMs transaction reconciliation, cash outflow tracking and transaction errors due to hardware failure and reconciliation. Verifying the completeness of every balance sheet from various branches and handing it over to central auditors for consolidation. Reviewing of manuals relating to operation & conduct inspection of branches. Managing reconciliations of DDs of more than 375 branches under the Bangalore Circle. Ensuring 100% accounting of the DDs. Conducting weekly consolidation, tallying and closure of the DDs transaction with that of the figure shown by the Head Office. Verifying correctness of asset classification, nature & value of security, date of NPAs and year of doubtful furnished in the returns. Archive and retain project records, historical information and documents (e.g., project schedule, project plan, lessons learned, surveys, risk and issues logs, etc.) in order to retain organizational knowledge, comply with statutory requirements, and ensure availability of data for potential use in future projects and internal/external audits. Environment: MS Office, Requirement Analysis, SQL, Windows 2003.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC) Executive Program for Young Professionals (Finance). Bachelors in Commerce (Advanced Accountancy), India.