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To enable the fellow human to have a happy & cheerful life by listening to their daily challenges and transform their life with simple but proven routines.

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To enable the startups and medium organization founders to concentrate the core business by taking care of their finance and accounting on regular intervals to minimize the surprises for Management & Statutory requirements. Extended support on the IT services and solutions.

Understand the customers on their Information technology expectations and build a team and solutions.Develop the product solutions for Finance & Accounting community - CFO offices

As customers started investing in transformation, with the rich knowledge of finance domain and the technology, started working on the CFO organization specific transformation and developing solutions with AI/ML.Winner of Emerging Leader of the year 2018 for Ideating and enabling the team to build "CFO Assistant", an AI based FP&A solution for the CFO, for an interactive analysis from anywhere in the organization Being Transformation specialist defined the data to Information transformation strategy for Controller of Finance (23 entities) to bring the efficiency in financial closure activities by simplifying the data integration, rationalizing applications for a Consumer goods customer, USA Working as a solution architect transformed the manual & Complex clinical trial Planning, Budgeting & Analytics for the leading Pharmaceutical Customer in the USA and improved the planning cycle efficiency by 60% and information accuracy by 95%.To improve the efficiency of the financial systems implementation & support, developed a unique concept of resourcing model where the FTE model would be Core-Flexi and it is aligned towards the monthly/periodical close cycles than having the associates for the entire year.Started exploring the SaaS solutions of EPM (Anaplan, Tagetik, Board International) and working with customer to support their implementations and supportIn addition to the above, transitioned 2 large global pharmaceutical customers planning & budgeting solution and stabilized the support with right combination of functional and technical team.Working on Concept - 'Hubless reporting' to reduce the possible reconciliation issues during close cycle.

With the experience of Center head, started expanding portfolios beyond one city and took responsibilities of India and RoW deliveries, operations, resourcing and pre-sales.Won ‘Gold – 25 years of Cognizant’ award for Leading the EPM practice initiatives, solutions, deliveries, operations and pre-sales with YOY growth of 12% Develop initiatives to build automated SaaS EPM solutions and next gen digital Chabot and auto reconciliations solutions Maintain the strong associate retention approach through process and technology.Also in parallel, transformed in to techno-functional role to define the solutions for the customersAwarded Beacon of the year 2017 for Defining End to End financial planning & budgeting and consolidation solution (57 entities) and help in choosing technology for an Oil & Gas customer, Middle East as a techno functional consultant.Being Transition specialist defined cost effective support model (core-flexi) for Telecommunication customer, Europe. Finance domain expert stabilized and standardized the Planning & budgeting process, for a Pharmaceutical group (60 entities) and established CoE for the support, Europe/APAC.

As a a success of earlier engagements, started specialization in transition under Finance and won more deals under FP&A support space. Key engagements:Finance domain expert stabilized and standardized the Planning & budgeting process, for a Pharmaceutical group (60 entities) and established CoE for the support, Europe/APAC. HFM infrastructure support for the largest conglomerate in USA.FP&A application support for the leading perfume company in USAAlso started penetrating in Indian Markets.As a Lead architect, Implemented descriptive analytics and Management Information system for an India based retail bank’s Loan section and won Most Valuable Manager of the Year 2014 In addition, as a center head responsible for the delivery of 30 customers and managed 120 associates. Responsible for $9mil revenue across the verticals.Leading the Architect group for the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). Involves in researching the products & technologies, work on the Out of box solutions, building models for Planning & budgeting, statutory consolidation solutions and enabling the training & development on the technologies. Technologies span across Oracle Hyperion, IBM TM1, Anaplan and similar cloud based solutions.

After years of gap, back to oracle Hyperion. Did one of the major transition for Enterprise Performance Management group for a Life science customer in United Kingdom for their Group.As a transition lead, established functional & Technical COE for Global planning & budgeting systems sales & marketing (93 entities) of a leading Pharmaceutical customer in the UK and recognized as ‘CPM Wall of the year 2012’ Finance's FP&A application using Oracle Hyperion Planning, Essbase, Financial reporting and ODI. As a lead, was responsible to understand the end to end business process for planning and budgeting and their reporting for CFO. As a part of this built multiple value adds to customer by building solutions to simplify and automated end to end business process through custom solutions such as "HypeMon", "AI Dashboard" to simplify and reduce their business cycle. Started building the Architects community for EPM

Won DW DON of the year 2008 for penetrating in to new technologies and developed reporting landscape for leading Healthcare customer at USAStarted with humble 2 member team and through self learning understood webfocus and implemented a project. As an outcome of this started building the Webfocus Center of Excellence for Cognizant. Built 25 member team in 15 months duration primarily to achieve the development of BI for hospitals of the health care group. Enabled the integration between Teradata and Webfocus to process high volume data in to information and enable the end users to make decisions.

As an Associate started exploring new technologies, leading team. Implemented Report rationalization project for a leading Health Care customer by building 150+ reports in IBI Webfocus after rationalizing more 4000+ report that were existing under Hyperion IR, PR, COBOL, SAS, Cognos BI and MS Access.

Was working as a team member