GOBIKRISHNAN MARUTHAIAH

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including Daily stand-up, Iteration and release planning, Retrospectives, and Demos
• Facilitated timely cross-functional coordination amongst product owner, analysts, developers and QA through prompt barrier and blocker removal.
• Supported product owner in creating and refining backlog.
• Tracked agile metrics comprising of team velocity and sprint/program progress.
• Identified, documented and supported team in removing RIDA (Risk, Impediments, Dependencies, Assumption).
• Implemented Scrum Framework to maximize team performance and delivery.
• Collaborated with ART manager to plan and prioritize business and IT requirements for PI/iteration/sprint.
• Ensured compliance with SOX, PII, HIPAA, PCI and other regulatory frameworks through managing applications.
• Communicated Production Outage information, changes, and improvements with Organization's users
• Aided in onboarding new team members to ensure smooth integration and access to essential resources for collaborative projects, enhancing training effectiveness.
• Planned enhancements and patching works during peak windows, coordinating with teams for seamless execution.
• Collaborated with product owners to devise migration strategies and prepare necessary documentation.
• Contributed to the team's successful shifting of applications from On-Prem to Cloud in compliance with management's new directive.

Tools: - Version-one (Digital.ai), Reetro.io, ServiceNow, VIZ reporting, PowerBI & Sharepoint

• Developed an end-to-end application covering Configure, Price, and Quoting (CPQ), contract creation, and financial reporting utilizing Hana and Tableau technologies.
• Prepared a comprehensive project plan with a timeline, utilizing an MS Project plan. Included risk assessment, assumptions, milestone tracking, and coordination of multi-team activities.
• Led weekly status meetings and daily stand-up calls with business/internal teams.
• Compiled weekly and monthly status reports.
• Collaborated with stakeholders during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to develop and implement effective action plans, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards.
• Submitted functional design, key decision, and technical design documents with detailed KPI and KRI information.
• Led teams in achieving sprint targets, effectively communicating impediments to clients, and resolving issues and risks.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating user stories, epics, and themes and uploading them in Jira.
• Collaborated with diverse stakeholders to ensure successful implementation.
• Ensured alignment of work delivery with SOW requirements.
• Facilitated the seamless integration of new software applications by acting as a communication bridge between development teams and end users at every step of the project lifecycle.
• Enhanced decision-making abilities by implementing precise reporting mechanisms that facilitated comprehensive analysis of crucial performance indicators.
• Managed cross-functional teams, establishing strong working relationships and promoting open communication channels among team members.

JIRA, Confluence, MS-Visio, MS-Project plan, (Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Hana, Tableau)

• Implemented SAP BPC 10.1 NW models to solve business problems in the areas of financial planning, operational planning, and consolidation.
• Documented functionality for model development in client's SAP system
• Collaborated with stakeholders to examine business needs, develop and establish SAP BI/BW/BPC solution architecture, and technical specifications.
• Demonstrated proficiency in creating and managing Models, Dimensions, Reports as well as automating data load through scheduling.
• Maintained Master data, Developed Input Templates and Reports based on business user requirements
• Coordinated with Core team to review and clarify functional requirements in order to align technical specification conversion with compliance.
• Implemented data flow mapping to transfer financial data from Apple's SAP source system to SAP BPC models and visualize it in the SAP UI system, facilitating effortless financial forecasting for the business team
• Create Enterprise performance management (EPM) excel reports for business users to validate large financial data
• Tested functionality and reviewed code for BPC technical objects while developing delivery plan for all features. Reviewed specifications and conducted scorecard tests.
• Coordinate onsite and offshore interface development activities successfully from design to deployment phase
• Provide technical assistance from a design and development standpoint.
• Conduct status meetings with onsite and offshore throughout the project.
• Strong in Agile methodology and collaborating tools like Confluence, JIRA, and Quip.
• Record and track all defects identified during the testing phase and cycle back with the 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, compliance with move to production policies.
• Fix errors in production system using change request and issue reporting documentation for any exceptions that arise.
• Responsible for training business users on the new BPC finance model developed, and preparing 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.

• Reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts, Prepayment, 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
• 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

Tools: - SAP R/3, FICO, Hyperion Essbase, JEM, Asurenet, Informa

• 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

• 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

• Applied payments on customer accounts by receiving modes such as EFT, CC and Lockbox
• Managed aged accounts receivable reporting, monitored unallocated cash, and minimized suspense account.
• Updated client master data, frequencies, and billing cycles while also performing rollback of customer bill amounts
• Provided monthly reports of MIS and error trackers to both management and clients.