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Gobikrishnan Maruthaiah

Austin,TX

Summary

Experienced Business Analyst and Certified Scrum Master dedicated to driving team success through a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and organizational skills. Extensive knowledge of business requirements in finance, EPM, and healthcare industries. Seeking roles as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst, or in project management to pursue continuous learning and professional growth.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SAFe Agile Scrum Master

Wipro
11.2022 - Current
  • Scrum master for production support / enhancement team of 10, supporting in-house production/ Dev applications and migrating apps to cloud location
  • Responsible to conduct agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-up, Sprint planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective)
  • Story board management, help team with risk, impediments, Dependencies, assumption
  • Work closely with ART manager on Iteration/sprint planning, prioritizing on business and IT requirements
  • Conduct story grooming sessions, product backlog refinement sessions
  • Conducting meeting with other teams as and when needed to work on RIDA (Risk, Impediments, Dependencies, and assumption closure
  • Worked as a vendor team manager and responsible for company team deliverables and had weekly connect with client managers
  • Responsible for user communication on Production Outage, changes, and enhancements across Organization
  • Support new team member on on-boarding and help connecting with lead resources on assigning shared stories to make sure new resource trained and knowledge shared
  • Plan enhancements / patching works on weekends based on peak windows
  • Successfully migrated all applications from On-Prem to Cloud locations
  • Facilitated cross-functional communication, enabling teams to collaborate effectively on project tasks.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress. Tools : - Version-one (Digital.ai), Reetro.io, ServiceNow, VIZ reporting

Business System Analyst (PMO & SM)

Wipro
03.2021 - 11.2022
  • Responsible for implementing multi tool application starting from Configure, price, quoting-> contract creation till financial reporting in Hana / Tableau
  • Handled team of 14 in onsite for process, functional, technical (Apttus CPQ, X-author, PeopleSoft, Hana staging, SQL, Tableau)
  • Conduct weekly status meeting, daily stand-up call with business / internal team
  • Responsible for reports like weekly, monthly status desks, Maintaining RAID log, and follow-up on action items, issues, risks statuses and impediments
  • Liaised with business and functional owner during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive & execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards
  • Responsible to submit functional design, Key decision, Technical design documents
  • Responsible for teams to complete sprint target, highlighting impediments to client and close issues/risks
  • Expert in User story / Epic/ theme creation, and uploading in Jira, guide the business users to write acceptance criteria & Description
  • Work with multiple stakeholder on smooth and successful implementation
  • Responsible for maintaining delivery of work aligned with SOW
  • Supported the integration of new software applications by liaising between development teams and end users throughout all stages of the project lifecycle.
  • Improved decision-making capabilities with accurate reporting tools that provided valuable insights into key performance metrics.
  • Managed cross-functional teams, fostering strong working relationships and open communication channels among team members.
  • JIRA, Confluence, MS-Visio, MS-Project plan, (Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Hana, Tableau)

Business Systems Analyst – SAP BPC

Wipro
07.2016 - 02.2021
    • Implemented SAP BPC 10.1 NW models to solve business problems in area of financial planning and operational planning and Consolidation
    • Document functionality with goal of developing models in client's SAP system and responsible for successful delivery of BPC solutions to client
    • Work with stakeholders to analyze business requirements, and define target SAP BI/BW/BPC solution architecture and associated technical specifications & implementation plan
    • Expertise includes Models, Dimensions, Reports, Input Schedules, Data Manager Packages, Package Links, BPF, DM package automation using Process Chains and Scheduling and automation of data loads
    • Maintain Master data, Created Input Templates & Reports as business users need
    • Co-ordinate with Core team to review functional specification and clarify functional requirements before starting Technical specification conversion
    • Set up Data flow mapping from Apple's SAP source system to SAP BPC models and display financial statement in SAP UI system to business team for easy financial forecasting
    • Create Enterprise performance management (EPM) excel reports for business users to validate large financial data
    • Testing BPC technical objects functionality and code review and Delivery plan of all features, Specification review and scorecard test
    • Perform onsite / offshore coordination for all interface developments and complete Design, Build, Test and Deploy phase successfully
    • Provide technical assistance from design and development standpoint Conduct status meetings with onsite and offshore throughout project
    • Strong in Agile methodology and collaborating tools like confluence/JIRA and quip
    • Record and track all defects identified during testing phase and cycle back with core development team for any fix / fine tuning
    • Responsible for creating BPC admin configuration, Script Logic, Business Rules, worksheet Logic, Transformation, Conversion files, data loads using BW, flat files
    • Responsible for setting up BPC security (TP, DAP) for users based on roles
    • Responsible to apply fixes and get sign off from testing teams for production move of interfaces, Prepare cut-over documentation with all necessary steps and configurations covered before interfaces are moved to production
    • Fix errors in production system using change request and Issue reporting documentation for any exceptions that arise
    • Responsible to train business user on new BPC finance model developed and prepare user guidance on technical usage and EPM report navigation
    • Tools: - SAP BPC 10.1 NW Classic, SAP BI/BW 7.5, Hana DB 2.0, JIRA / Confluence, Quip, Central station, Radar, connectme

Business Support Analyst

Wipro
03.2014 - 06.2016
  • Handled technical/Functional issues in EPM tools (Hyperion and SAP BPC), like report issues, access request, Data mismatch Queries, Metadata issues, Smart view queries/issue in Espresso/Central Station tools
  • Analysis of Customer Delivery Data, prepared periodical status reports in addition to Validation & reconciliation of Data using Smart View
  • Monitoring auto-sys job performance for loading data between Essbase and BPC
  • Designed Security created various Groups, Provisioning of Groups, Filter creation, and Filter association to Groups and User access
  • Enhancement activities performed in Existing Production applications to increase performance
  • Individually handled many outages (planned unplanned) like reboot servers
  • Trained in Designing and developing Essbase applications with excellent balance of dense and sparse dimensions, developing various OLAP Models & Meta-Outlines across block storage (BSO) and Aggregate Storage (ASO)
  • Tools: - SAP BPC 10.1 NW Classic, Oracle Essbase, SQL, SAP BW 7.5, Quip, Central station, Radar, Espresso, ETL (Core, Semantic)

Senior Analyst (GL (R2R) – FP& A)

Accenture
02.2011 - 02.2014
  • Reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts, Prepayments, accruals and other current liabilities
  • Balance Sheet/Cash Flow Analysis and reporting, Income Statement Analysis Report, Journal Entry posting
  • Performed periodic Financial planning, forecasting and budgeting
  • Accounting for GL ledger US-GAAP expense Accruals, Prepaid, and reversal entries
  • Analysis of cost center/ profit center and expenses for correct re-classification, cross charge and allocation of expenses
  • Ensured compliance with SOX (Sarbanes Oxley Act) with respect to journals and Reconciliation, Handling Audit queries raised by external auditors
  • Provide weekly and monthly cash forecast and financial budgeting for every quarter
  • Preparing quarterly fixed asset movement report
  • Tools : - SAP R/3, FICO, Hyperion Essbase, JEM, Asurenet, Informa

Process Analyst (P2P)

Accenture
02.2010 - 01.2011
    • Creation and Maintenance of Vendor Master Report
    • Creation of Aging report and analysis
    • Processed allocated PO and Non-PO invoices
    • Processed emergency and manual cash offs
    • Management reporting on accounts payable team
    • Tools : - Lawson, SAP BW, MS-office

Associate (O2C)

Accenture
03.2007 - 01.2010
    • Applying payments on customers' accounts which are receiving in modes of EFT, CC and Lockbox
    • Aged accounts receivable reporting and analyzing
    • Monitor unallocated cash & ensure suspense account is kept to minimum
    • Updating of Client master data, frequency and billing cycle and rollback of customer bill amount
    • Preparing monthly SLA, Dashboard and Metrics reporting
    • Collation and Consolidation of team reports for effective decision making
    • Monthly reporting of MIS and error trackers to management and client
    • Tools : - HP, MS-Office

Skills

  • Agile Metrics Tracking
  • Agile Transformation
  • Adaptive Leadership
  • Business Process Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Data Analysis
  • Scaling Agile
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Business process improvement

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 11/01/21
  • SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 and 11.0, 01/01/21
  • Oracle Hyperion Financial Management 11 Certified Implementation Specialist, 01/01/17
  • SAP FI-CO trained, 08/01/13

Personal Information

Title: Business Analyst

Timeline

SAFe Agile Scrum Master

Wipro
11.2022 - Current

Business System Analyst (PMO & SM)

Wipro
03.2021 - 11.2022

Business Systems Analyst – SAP BPC

Wipro
07.2016 - 02.2021

Business Support Analyst

Wipro
03.2014 - 06.2016

Senior Analyst (GL (R2R) – FP& A)

Accenture
02.2011 - 02.2014

Process Analyst (P2P)

Accenture
02.2010 - 01.2011

Associate (O2C)

Accenture
03.2007 - 01.2010

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