1. S Hariharan Mail id : rvsshari@rediffmail.com
Mobile No: +91 9900265238
More than 20+ years of overall techno functional experience and out 20+ years,6years’ experiencein Business
Intelligence Tool, Enterprise Planning, Data warehousing and 10 years’ experience ERP implementation activity.
Also, involved in support activities and managingthe team of 3 to 5 members. The main responsibility ofmy role is
to collect the requirements, design, development, test, implementation and support and administration activities.
The tools used for Business Intelligence and Enterprise planning are Cognosv8.1/v8.2/v10.2,OLAP tool IBM Cognos
TM1. Application used for ERP is Infor(FMS) Sun Systems v4.26,v4.33, and v5.2 and SSIS of SQL server 2005. Using
the SSIS pushed the Sun Systems data into Data warehouse.
Professional Experience
Experience in full life cycle implementation of Cognos Enterprise Planning & Business IntelligenceProjects,
ERP Financial project (Sun Systems)implementation, Planning Contributor Models for Budgeting and
Forecasting, Cognos Planning Analyst and Cognos Contributor.
Experience in data migration using DTS Packages of SQL Server 2000 and SSIS ETL packages ofSQL
Server 2005, Revenue Accounting Systems for Airline industry, HRMS Payroll, TSQL and troubleshooting
on various data issues and MS Access, Excel 2007, VBA coding, Business Objects Reporting and SAP for
data validation.
From October 2015 working on IBM Cognos TM1 10.2 version and IBM Cognos BI 10.2 version in
Hindustan Unilever, Bangalore and Unilever Srilanka client of Tekacademy.
Working knowledge in Hyperion Essbase and used Smart View for creation of report
Technical Skills
OLAP Tool IBM Cognos TM1 10.2, 9.5 and knowledge in Hyperion Essbase
IBM Cognos
BI/Planning/Cons
olidation Tool
Cognos BI, Cognos PlanningAnalyst,Contributor Administration Console,Cognos Controller
for Consolidation, FrameworkManager, Event Studio and Smart View
Reporting Tools Cognosreport studio, Query studio, Event studio, Business Objects,Crystal Reports,Vision
reporting, MS Excel and MS Access reportingusing VBA Macro, Foxpro 2.6, Dbase iii+
ETL Tools SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
ERP Infor (FMS) Sun Financial Systems 4.26v,4.33v and 5.2v, 6.1v
Databases SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2000, SQL 2008,MS Access
Operating System Windows 2000,Windows XP
Educational Qualification
Board/University Examination Year Of Passing
Madurai– Kamraj, Madurai- Tamil Nadu B.COM 1984
Microdata Consultants, Mumbai PGD in Computer Science 1986
Syspro, Mulund,Mumbai Certificate Course in Oracle 7.1 1996
MAESTROS (Mediline), Andheri, Mumbai SQL 2000, VB 6.0, Crystal Reports 2001
In house Training
Company Training Year
Cognos, Bangalore Cognos BI 2007
Finasys, Mumbai Cognos Planning Analyst and Cognos
Administration Console
2009
2. Employment History
Company Duration Designation
Tekacademy Labs, Mumbai 26 Oct 2015 - Till Date Sr. Consultant
ThirdwareSolutions Pvt.Ltd., Chennai Jan 2015 to 23 Oct 2015 Sr. Application Consultant
Thomson Reuters India Services Pvt.
Ltd, Hyderabad/Bangalore
Nov 2012 – Jan 2015 Associate Architect
Misys SoftwareSolutions Pvt. Ltd,
Bangalore
Dec 2006 – Nov 2012 Senior Analyst Financial Systems
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt.
Ltd., Mumbai
Jan 2006 - Dec 2006 Consultant
Jetair PrivateLimited, Mumbai Dec 1998 – Dec 2005 Sr. Executive Systems
Eternal Agro Ltd., Mumbai Jun 1997 – Nov 1998 Asst. Manager – EDP
Parasrampuria Plantations Limited,
Mumbai
Feb 1994 –Jun 1997 Asst. Manager - Systems
Rishiroop Rubber(Intl)Limited,
Mumbai
Feb 1993 - Jan 1994 Executive MIS
Universal Flexibles Pvt.Ltd., Bangalore Apr 1991 - Jan 1993 Asst. Manager (Computer & Administration)
Soldez Industries,Mumbai Oct 1985- Mar 1991 Computer Programmer
WORK EXPERIENCE
Project Manager/Project Leader/Sr. Application Consultant/Senior Analyst - Financial Systems/Sr.
Consultant/Consultant/Manager Finance
From 26th October 2015 Tekacademy, Mumbai - Client Location : Unilever, Bangalore
Position : Sr. Consultant (IBM Cognos TM1 10.2 version and IBM Cognos BI 10.2 version)
Client : Hindustan Unilever, India and Unilever Srilanka
Period : From October 2015
Team Size : 4 team members for TM1 and 5 members for Cognos BI reports
Requirement gathering for new projects, enhancements, project planning, client meetings for TM1
application.
Requirement gathering for new BI reports, enhancements, client meetings for BI Reports
Creation of TM1 server, .CFG file maintenance, TM1 server log file maintenance, Savedata etc...
Maintenance of IBM Cognos Configuration
Design, develop, and implement Cognos TM1 10.2 applications for Costing and Forecasting
applications.
Development of Turbo Integrator(TI) Processes to load and retrieve data from database tables and
other data sources, for creating dimensions, hierarchies, and cubes.
Maintenance of TM1 users, roles, and security
Performed Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing
Resource management of the team
Maintenance of change request
Maintenance of support tracker
Troubleshooting the production issues
Taken the training on IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler
Presently leading the Costing and Forecasting Applications for Home Care & Personal Care, Foods, Water,
Export, Corporate and Segmental Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account allocations for Hindustan
Unilever India.
3. Also leading the costing and forecasting application for Unilever Srilanka. Completed the requirement
gathering and design. Development process is on. As we are following agile methodology, now completed
the UAT for Volume to Turnover.
Project 1
Project Name Costing and Forecasting
Project Description Unilever Sri Lanka (USL) is using IBM Cognos EnterprisePlanning Version
10.2 (Adytum as popularly known among the users) for Forecastingand
Costing. Data is uploaded in thesystem using comma separated files (.CSV)
and also collected from the user using contributor application (Web interface).
As part of implementation USL has decided to migratethe all the Costing and
Forecastingapplication into IBM Cognos TM1 version 10.2.1 and use IBM
Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1 for reportingpurpose.
Duration October 2015 to till date
Client Unilever Sri Lanka ltd.
Platform/Tool IBM Cognos TM1 10.2 , Cognos Enterprise Planning 10.2
Role Sr. Consultant/Lead
Responsibility 1. Develop the tm1 module from their current system (Cognos Enterprise
Planning).
2. Change design and logic or add new logic as per client requirements
3. Create Active Form & Perspective Reports as per required format.
4. UAT on Tm1 module.
5. Training on Tm1 module to all users.
Project 2
Project Name Forecasting and Budgeting - Enhancement and Support
Project Description Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer
Goods (FMCG) Company. The company offers products in over 20 distinct
categories in home, personal care, food and beverages. They have a TM1
module category wise like foods, water, export and home & personal care for
forecasting and budgeting.
Additional module GMVA (Gross Margin Variance Analysis) and SEGA
(Segmental Development).
GMVA used for to calculate the Gross Margin Variance Analysis based on
Forecasted and actual data for all category module
SEGA Balance Sheet intends to allocate accounts to various brands quarterly
and
SEGA Profit And Loss intends to allocate accounts to various brands monthly
on allocation logic given by business user
Duration February 2016
Client Hindustan Unilever ltd.
Platform/Tool IBM Cognos TM1 10.2 , Cognos Framework Manager
Role Sr Consultant/Lead
4. Responsibility I have worked on GMVA and SEGA Module
GMVA:-
1. Support GMVA module and Small development as per user
requirement to change the logic.
2. UAT and Training on this module
SEGA:-
1. Role on this module as Lead/Support and managing the TM1 Team.
2. Based on user requirement changed the allocation logic.
3. Data integration to load the actual from SAP BW, UAT and
deployment to production
4. UAT and Training on this module
5th January 2015 to 23rd October 2015 Thirdware Solutions Ltd., Chennai
Position : Sr Application Consultant (ERP Sun System Support 4.22v,4.33v,6.1v,6.2v)
Client : Pfizer (Project Lead)
Period : January 2015 toOctober 2015
Requirement gathering for enhancements, project planning, client meetings.
Handling team, providing Sun ERP support, resolving ERP Sun System support tickets for finance module.
Preparation of Daily Ticketing progress Reports, Monthly MSR Report presentation to business.
Preparation of ticketing status and Analysis reports. Also for Downstream & upstream.
Working on Enhancement on Sun projects, Team handling, and conduct team activities.
Weekly & monthly meetings with business, preparation MOM & project management.
Presently working on Infor (FMS) Sun Financial System (4.33v and 6.1) to manage the team members of Legal
Entity Alignment projectand mainly for Latin America Region. It is a segregation project for business units based
on products.
This project executed in Sun v4.33 and Infor10 for Chile, Ecuador, Greece, Bolivia, Russia, Turkey and Thailand.
Interface tools to be created/modified as per business units and using the data integration tool of SUNGI for Ariba
and PT&E, SUNPGM for JDA, SAP, HARPO to SUNHFM. Also, the existing reports to be modified in Vision
Reporting tools.
FORD Project
I have created a presentation document for FORD for budgeting and forecasting application. This is a legacy
system for to support in Oracle 11g, Excel, VBA macroand front Java framework.Along with support activity , will
have to work on to convert this application into Hyperion for management reporting.
Recently created a sample budgeting forecasting application in Hyperion Essbaseand used Smart View for
reports. My role was to manage the team of 2 members. I have also involved in creating the dimension tables,
calculation formulas and prepared the dummy data for to test the application in development environment.
12th November 2012 to 2nd January 2015 Thomson Reuters India Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Associate Architectfrom 12th Nov 2012 to 1st Jan 2014
Requirement gathering for enhancements, project planning, client meetings.
5. Managing the team, providing support for budgeting and forecasting application through support tickets.
Preparation of Daily Ticketing progress Reports for business.
Preparation of ticketing status and Analysis reports.
Working on Enhancement on planning projectsand conduct team activities.
Weekly & monthly meetings with business, preparation minutes of the meeting in respect to the project.
I have alsoactively involved along with theteam in Cognos enterpriseplanning activity (Cognos Planning Analyst
and Cognos Contributor Admin Console).
Every month, we move the application from Production to QA box and then we do the monthly update of dList,
eList, dcube update and validate the data in Planning Analyst of QA for the current actual month. Once we receive
the communication from business in regards to the data is final, the data will be loaded to the respective
application in QA. Upon validation of data the application will be moved from QA to production for entry
purpose.
All the application will be published in tableonly layout. The published database will be used for the management
reporting using cognos BI.
Business uses the cognosfor BI reporting. There are reports and Cubes are developed to analyse the data.
Manager Finance from 2nd Feb 2014 to 02nd Jan 2015 – Location Hyderabad
In the month of Feb 2014, I was transferred to Hyderabad to manage the FP&A team. During this period I have
managed the Business Objects report, MS Access Report and MS Excel report with VBA macro with a team of 2
members.
When working on this, noticed that there are many reports can be automated to reduce the preparing time of the
monthly reports which are to be submitted to the business. In order to reduce the time, implemented MS Access
and pushed the data into MS Excel to create the reports quickly. The reports will be refreshed by clicking the
button.
Theteam was able to finish the transition activity for Order to Cash reports of Business Objects. The whole
transition was finished in 2 months.
11th December 2006to 9th November 2012 Misys Software Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Sr. Analyst Financial Systems
Cognos BI/Planning Analyst and Contributor and Controller/Sun Systems
My role was to act as Team Lead and work on supportactivity of Sun financial Accounting System, Cognos EP &BI,
Time Management System and other software application along with the team members.As a team lead,
toimplement the end to end solutions and by bringing thedata from source to the data warehouse to push the data
into cognos controller for consolidation purpose and actuals in contributor of Cognos planning and to work on
development activity of additional enhancements. BI reporting was done at the end of the above processes.
Asatechno functional person and as a senior team member in the team, totally involved in commercial application
projectsof finance domain. We are 5 members in our team and reporting the Project Manager.
Project General Ledger (Financial System) Data warehouse Project
Client Misys
Period March 2007 to February 2008
6. Description Bring the dimensional data, transactional data and creation of Trial Balance data from Sun
Financial System.Createthe FM model data warehouseof General Ledger to createreport
using report studio.
Position Team Leader
Contribution Develop the SSIS package for ETL (Designed thetables,views & stored procedures) to
bringTransactional data of Financial System.
Designed FrameworkModels, publish the packages for loading the data into contributor.
Design the Frameworkmodel.
Created standard reports in Report Studio.
Team Size 3
Environment FrameworkManager, Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Query Studio, SQL Server
Integration Services(SSIS), SQL Server 2005
Project Planning Forecast0809,0910,1011,1112 Model
Client Misys
Period May 2008 to Nov 2012
Description Creation of library,dlist,dcube, dlink, allocation tables in Analyst and creation of
application in Contributor Admin Console, creation of admin link, macro.
Load theActuals data intoContributor model using the cognos framework
package then publish the database.
Create the FM model from published database to createreport from report studio,
query studio.
Position Team Leader
Contribution Develop the SSIS package for ETL (Designed thetables,views & stored
procedures) to bringActuals, Budget and Forecast data.
Designed FrameworkModels, publish the packages for loading the data into
contributor.
Designedthe ETL from published database.
Designed the Frameworkmodel.
Created standard reports in Report Studio.
Configured security by giving defining Roles and assigning permissions.
Administration ofcognos environment.
Team Size 3
Environment FrameworkManager, Cognos Connection, Cognos Analyst,Contributor Administration
Console, Report Studio, Query Studio, SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS), SQL Server
2005
I have involved in Cognos support and Sun financial Systems Support during month end. Every month used to
prepare month end time table for support activities. Also,done the data integrity checking and informing the
management for thedata is fine for reportingand analysis.Thedata integrity checking is nothing but matching the
data warehouse data with source data of sun systems.
In Misys consolidation happens in Cognos Controller. This was done by management accounts team. During data
upload if any error occurs, will be involved in troubleshooting the errors.
Infor (FMS) Sun Financial System
Misys’s financial department is using Sun Systems 5.2 SP23 for their accounting. My role is to inv olve in day to day
support for the said system functionally and technically. Also to develop any report/interface required by users.
Misys is using a report tool Vision 6.3.3 for their reports. This tool can extract transactions from financial systems
database and the report can be designed as per the requirement. In vision reporting tool, the users can have
summary report, summary link report, detailed reports and cubes. In case users want any troubleshooting, they
can go up to the transaction level. Also, the users can use this tool for their reference data and transaction entries to
upload into the Sun Financial System.
I was activily involved in the following projects
7. Converted the reportsfrom Vision 5.1.5 to Vision 6.3.3 and migrationof SUN Systems application 5.1.5 SP1 to 5.22
version.
Data migration activity of Misys Plc company transactions from Sun 4.26 to Sun 5.22 version.
Automated the Employee reimbursement and vendor payment process. Automation means that there is no cheque
cutting. Payments will be directly credited into their account by way of direct credit using NEFT and RTGS of net
banking. Because of this automation, company has saved on cheque printing cost and time.
The above said automation was done for HDFC Bank, HSBC Manila and RBS Europe etc…
January 2006 to 06th December 2006 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Consultant
Deloitte is implementation partner for ERP System Infor (FMS) SUN Systems. I have worked here as a Consultant –
Management Solutions. I was taking care of internal implementation and worked as a coordinatorwith users,
implementation team and IT.
I have developed the reports in Vision Executive and Vision Excel.
December 1998 –December 2005 Jetair Pvt. Ltd., Limited (7 Years)
Sr. Executive – Systems
Infor (FMS) Sun Financial Systems
In the year 2001Jetair implemented the Infor (FMS) Sun Financial System. This company had gone for 4 modules.
The modules are Ledger Accounting, Fixed Assets Register, Corporate Allocation and The Multi Currency. This
system was implemented in the company by Deloitte, Mumbai.
I have worked as one of the core team members for implementing the system and coordinating with the
consultants.Itook trainingfrom theconsultants and then actively involved in implementing the system in Andheri
- Bombay, Nariman Point- Bombay and Jaipur etc. I have also worked as train the trainer.
Created reports in SUN and also the reports werecreated in Impromptu report writer and Crystal reports.Wehave
written programs in Visual Basic 6.0 as a front end to call the reports written in Crystal reports
I have also involved in data migration activity from old Foxpro Systems to new ERP System. These transferring
routines are useful to load the non-integrated system data to the ERP.
I have completely involved in connecting the TDS PAC application tothis ERP. Actually this is separate System. To
generate the TDS Certificates need to import the master and transaction from ERP. Once it is imported the user s
can enter the TDS paid details and generate the report of form- 26 c.
REVENUE SYSTEM
Jetair Private Limited is a GSA (General Sales Agent) for many airlines. Whatever the sales, collections, refunds are
happening at our Counters and Agents. The company has to give the necessary information to the principle
(Airline). For this the company developed an internal revenue application Ticket Stock Sale Accounting System
(TSSAS). This system will have the inputs of Passenger and Cargo.
My role in the said application to co-ordinate with the users for reports requirements. I have team of 6members to
design and develop the reports. There are around 750 reports are developed for passenger and cargo airlines. All
the said reports were developed in Crystal report based on based on query, stored procedures, table link and
Crystal queries.
8. PAYROLL SYSTEM
My role in payroll project is to lead the team to collect the requirement details, design and develop the payroll
system. The payroll system was developed in SQL 7.0 at the back end and payroll application is developed in VB
6.0. This system gives the employee’s salary details, monthly statutory reports of PF, ESIC, P.TAX, income Tax.
Also, through this the company can submit the yearly returns, half yearly returns of PF,ESIC, I.TAX and Form – C
and Form D registers of Bonus.
This system gives budgeting for staff cost. Since the actual staff payroll details are available in the payroll system,
the system can give the variance of budgeted staff cost vs actual staff cost. Various reports are generated for to see
the Management Information.
Data migration program was generated to import the budget and actual staff cost into our Corporate Allocation
Module and GL module of the ERP.
Project LeaderSr. System Analyst
Project : Payroll System
Team Size : Two
RDBMS : SQL Server 7.0
Tools : Visual Basic 6.0, Data Reports and Crystal Reports 4.6.10
Responsibility : Database Design, Development, Testing & implementation.
Jun 1997 - Nov 1998 Eternal Agro Ltd., Mumbai (1 yr 6 Months)
ASST. MANAGER – EDP
Project : Financial Investment Scheme
Team Size : 6
DBMS : FOXPRO 2.5.
Responsibility : Database Design, Development, Testing & implementation.
My role in this project tocollect the requirement details, design and develop the financial application. Also,training
plans and to implement the project for various investment schemes that are in use from time to time for offering
best instruments to the investors.
The financial application runs to provide multiple options of investment under various schemes wit h varying
benefits to investors both to stake holders as well as to common people. The system provides various
reports/queries like brokers & sub - brokers’analysis issue of certificates, dividend warrants, brokers’ commission,
transfer and buyback of units and MIS reports.
Feb 1994 - Jun 1997Parasrampuria Plantations Limited (4 yrs 9 Months)
ASST. MANAGER (SYSTEMS)
Project : Financial Investment Scheme
Team Size : 6
DBMS : FOXPRO 2.5.
Responsibility : Database Design, Development, Testing & implementation.
My role in this project to collect the requirement details, design and develop the financial application. Also,
training plans and to implement the project for various investment schemes that are in use from time to time for
offering best instruments to the investors.
The financial application runs to provide multiple options of investment under various schemes with varying
benefits to investors both to stake holders as well as to common people. The system provides various
9. reports/queries like brokers & sub - brokers’analysis issue of certificates, dividend warrants, brokers’ commission,
transfer and buyback of units and MIS reports.
Feb 1993 - Jan 1994 Rishiroop Rubber(Intl) Ltd., Mumbai (1 Year)
EXECUTIVE -MIS
My role was to maintain the network system and coordinate with the users for various requirements for in house
developments and also to co-ordinate with application and hardware vendors.
Apr 1991 - Jan 1993 Universal Flexibles Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai (1 yrs 10 Months) (Group of Soldez Industries
Asst. Manager (Computer & Administration)
PROJECT: Financial Account, Payroll, Invoice, Quotations & Order Process
My role was to maintain the system and coordinate with the users for various requirements for in house
developments and also to co-ordinate with application and hardware vendors.
Oct 1985 - Mar 1991Soldez Industries (5yrs6 Months)
Computer Programmer
PROJECT: Financial Account, Payroll, Invoice, Quotations & Order Process
My role in these projects was a team member for development activity. The system provides dedicated facilities for
conducting the day to day functions involved in the above mentioned projects.
Awards:
Misys awarded me for Plc migration, automation of payments and support.
Thomson Reuters awarded Finance award to FP&A Team in 2014 for implementing MS Access and MS Excel to
generate all the T&E reports within 8 hours.This is a huge savings for the company.The exact time saved is around
1900 hours for a year. This implementation was very useful to get the FinanceAward for FP&A team.
Personal Details
Date of Birth : 02ndJanuary 1962
Place of Birth : Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian