Viswanath Iyer

Strategic Leadership & Planning

• Develop and implement the BI strategy and roadmap for finance business stakeholders.
• Provide data-driven insights to support key business decisions related to financial performance and risk management.

Reporting & Communication

• Lead Manager for the preparation and delivery of financial reports, analysis, and presentations for executive leadership.
• Present insights and findings to senior management and key stakeholders to facilitate data-driven decision-making.

Data Management & Analysis

• Ensure data accuracy and integrity by establishing data quality standards, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and security across all BI reporting initiatives.
• Design and implement data models, financial dashboards, and reporting tools to showcase the KPIs.

Team Management & Development

• Lead and mentor a team of data analysts, fostering a data-driven culture.
• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to identify data needs and ensure seamless data integration.
• Provide training support and conduct demo sessions for finance stakeholders on BI tools and technologies.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure financial reporting and data are compliant with SOX compliance standards.

• Lead BI Consultant in gathering requirements for the Insurance Reporting Data Warehouse (IRDW) systems/interfaces, and creation of Historical Profitability dashboards and Financial reports using Microsoft Power BI.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) workshops for requirement elicitation, involving the majority of the business domain leads and teams.
• Conducted Power BI training sessions for business end users to become well-versed in the reports, tool functionalities, and features.

• Lead BI Consultant in designing the Conceptual and Logical Data Model to build a centralized Center of Excellence (COE) Dashboard in QlikView to showcase application technology, currency plans, projects, and releases.
• Conducted report demo sessions for business end users to showcase the reports, tool functionalities, and features.

• Lead Business Process Consultant for the Certificate of Insurance (COI) process to identify the areas for automation and business process re-engineering, resulting in 40% FTE time savings.
• I translated the business requirements into a technical design for the Blue Prism team to implement the solution for the areas identified for automation.

• Spearheaded the Application Portfolio Transformation program as a Lead Consultant, which was institutionalized in the client organization for the Retail Banking and Corporate Investment Banking franchises, resulting in an IT cost reduction of 10%.
• Orchestrated workshops for C-level executives and key stakeholders to drive the transformation initiative.
• Radically simplified the existing application architecture to align IT investments with critical business objectives.

• Module lead for Utilities Billing, Contract Management and Meter Data Management business functionalities and led team from requirements elicitation phase to deployment for US and European Energy Utility clients
• Created functional and technical design documents covering detailed business specifications, technical feasibility and architecture
• Developed and extended base application functionality using custom business rules and oracle utilities proprietary rules language to meet customer business requirements
• Conceptualized and Designed Business Intelligence Crystal reports for billing and meter usage data to report on unbilled and meters with no usage data
• Assisted Business Support Operations (BSO) team’s production maintenance activities and resolved time sensitive critical issues/exceptions related to usage data and customer accounts for US Energy Utility client
• Conducted business and technical training at the Delivery Unit level, which resulted in a 10% resource pool growth