1. Michael Aldentaler
868 Main Street
Lino Lakes, MN 55014
651-283-0714
mjaldentaler@yahoo.com
Professional Summary:
• 18+ years experience with Hyperion Plannning, OLAP, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion HFM, and
Hyperion Enterprise, as well as many other reporting systems.
• 9+ years consulting experience as senior project manager working with all levels of the
organization defining business requirements, software selection, implementing of new or
upgrades to systems and/or processes. These projects included both domestic and global
systems and processes.
• Expert knowledge with the automation of reports and processes utilizing Hyperion Essbase,
Hyperion Planning, Hyperion HFM, Hyperion Enterprise, various BI tools, PeopleSoft nVision,
PeopleSoft Query, Oracle, Cognos, Crystal, Quickbooks, Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel,
Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Access.
• Strong financial analyst with a solid accounting background in a variety of industries including
the financial sector, agriculture, trading, manufacturing, real estate, healthcare and
government.
• Focused on areas including management reporting, financial statement reporting, budget
preparation, process improvement and financial analysis.
• Proven project professional with a strong track record of successful projects including an
implementation of Hyperion Planning 9 and 11 as well as an implementation of a new system
OCRA that consolidated and reported financials with an acquired company.
Technical Summary:
• Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion Retrieve, Excel Add-in,
Hyperion HFM, Smartview, Crystal Reports, Sharepoint, Oracle Reports and Cognos
• Accounting Software: JD Edwards, Platinum Accounting
• Wide Area Workflow: used with the government to submit and track invoices and
receipt/acceptance documents over the web MS Access
• MS Excel, Macros, VBS, Visio
• PeopleSoft
• Oracle
• SAP
Professional Experience:
Project Consultant 2006 - Present:
After the successful completion of a large financial system implementation project after Lawson
Software acquired Intentia, I became a full time project consultant completing financial system
projects for the following companies:
Caravan’s, Incorporated, Blaine, MN 03/2013 – Present
• Gather key business requirements and necessary information from the Owner of this
successful Aviation Company in order to put together a plan to ensure that the financial and
reporting needs were to be met.
• Developed a new model with the use of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access for the input of
key information needed for the most accurate reporting possible.

2. • Created the functionalities (i.e. Vlookups, Other key formula(s), Pivot Tables, etc.) in Microsoft
Excel in order to most efficiently document the financial information for the company.
• Uploaded all of this financial data into Microsoft Access tables, which was necessary due to
the high volume of transactions and created important Forms, Charts and Reports that
enabled the Owner to examine the company’s financial status more accurately.
• Solely responsible for taking the Owner’s requests and implementing new reports to
successfully meet the needs specified.
Northern Tier Energy, St. Paul Park, MN 08/2012 – 02/2013
• Held a key role on a project team to implement a new reporting system specifically with
Hyperion Planning, but also Smartview, Hyperion Essbase, and Hyperion HFM to replace the
existing systems.
• Worked closely with the functional side and gathered information in order for them to perform
their duties in the most accurately and efficiently manner possible.
• Was responsible for collecting business requirements for the new implementation of Hyperion
Planning and Hyperion Essbase from the functional side and relaying them to the technical
side.
• Was the “go-to” person in cases where the functional side needed assistance with new
processes and/or procedures.
• Held a key role on automating reporting systems such Red Prairie and Radiant in conjunction
with Hyperion.
• Responsible for the collection of metadata as well as automation and testing of new financial
reports for the company to be used by all areas.
• Responsible for the setup and monitoring of the user security for Hyperion reporting and
querying which included training groups on the use of intercompany elimination data as well as
consolidations.
• Solely responsible for developing a new dimension hierarchy for the financials and relaying the
new structure to the end users.
• Demonstrated efficient time management skills in the newly introduced reporting processes.
In addition, portrayed strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Developed very important and complicated financial reports for the senior users of both the
refinery and the retail side of the business to use on a regular basis.
• Worked with all departments to improve their reporting structure on a daily basis.
Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC 10/2011 – 03/2012
• Was the administrator of the Hyperion Essbase reporting system as well as Hyperion Planning
and the Oracle EPM system.
• Solely responsible for gathering/collecting information and business requirements from the
functional side and then presented those requirements to the technical side prior to the final
design and implementation.
• Determined the roles necessary for successful project completion and then assigned the most
appropriate people to those new roles.
• Was involved with a team of individuals that worked on not only setting up the environment to
install Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), but was also heavily involved in the actual installation
testing.
• Held the security role of granting users access to what level necessary for the end user based
on their role within the company, in addition to building the rules necessary for the system to
operate functionally.
• Created new reports as needed and requested.
• Used the Microsoft Access database for daily routines as well as on an ad-hoc basis.
• Wrote Oracle, and some Microsoft, SQL as needed.

3. • Automated reports and processes for creating them working within the Lawson Financial
Database structures communicated often with the Finance subject matter experts.
Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN 11/2010 – 05/2011
• Involved in working with creating a new department in the Finance/Systems area. The main
objective of this new department was to bring Finance/Accounting and ITS in agreement on
figuring out the best way to create a new system/process to handle their financial records.
• Met with the end users (functional side) on a regular basis to collect the necessary information
and business requirements needed and then transposed that information to the technical side.
• Created and automated new Microsoft Access database(s) to store important financial data.
• Responsible for creating new Microsoft Excel spreadsheets using the data from the newly
created Access database(s) which helped them automate their processes and make financial
reporting during month-end not only easier, but more efficient.
• Developed and held training sessions for other Lawson employees in the finance, accounting
and ITS departments for the newly developed tools.
United Health Group, Minnetonka, MN 04/2010 – 07/2010
• Created a new Microsoft Access database that housed valuable financial and statistical data
that was used by Senior Management on a monthly basis for budgeting and forecasting
purposes.
• Automated their daily and monthly reporting with tools such as Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1,
Microsoft Excel, Visio, and other programs as well.
North Memorial Medical Center, Robbinsdale, MN 07/2009 – 10/2009
• Responsible for developing a new Position Management system within the organization.
• Created new as well as automated existing financial and headcount reports using Microsoft
Access, along with Microsoft Excel and SQL for all areas of the hospital.
• The goal of these new reports was to provide serious efforts to reduce costs to save the
company money.
• Heavily involved with analyzing the current data and creating scenarios used by Senior
Management to review on determining what staff needed would be best for Position
Management.
Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis, MN 03/2009 – 06/2009
• Worked as a financial consultant performing various financial tasks on a major project that
involved implementing a new system, and process, to the company.
• Involved in many high level planning meetings that were geared towards utilizing the best
practice on starting the project.
Cargill, Minnetonka, MN 06/2008 – 11/2008
• Assigned the Sr. Project Manager role for two projects that increased the efficiency of
domestic and global reporting within the company.
• Major role of creating reports using PeopleSoft 9.0.
• Held responsible for fulfilling daily requests to change and/or automate reports with PeopleSoft
9.0 as well as Visual Basic macros.
• Utilized the Query tool within PeopleSoft 9.0 to resolve many reporting issues.

4. • Took charge of handling daily requests for re-running reports for various Business Units within
Cargill.
Piper Jaffray, Minneapolis, MN 03/2008 – 06/2008
• Solely responsible for providing month end reporting for all of the industry groups within the
Financial Reporting department of the company.
• Utilized Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Hyperion Essbase 9.3.1 to create management
templates and ad hoc reports requested by the Senior Leadership Team.
• Provided financial analysis and developed queries in order to create presentation materials for
management.
• Played the role of Project Manager in order to automate various reports within Piper Jaffray.
Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Minnetonka, MN 03/2007 – 11/2007
• Played a critical role, both from the technical side as well as the functional side, in the
development and implementation of Hyperion Planning 9.0 to the company.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge while also being able to work closely with the business
side while introducing Hyperion Planning as the new system.
• Heavily involved with using Hyperion Planning 9.0 to set up the Budget/Forecast processes
that are currently used.
• Played a major role in completing the account and department mapping from the newly
acquired company Navigant’s general ledger systems (GlobalMax and JDEdwards) to CWT’s
general ledger system (Oracle).
• Created an automated process of uploading budget rate data into Hyperion Essbase 7.0.
• Led the charge for completely automating the processes in running the CPR (Client
Profitability Reporting) reports through the combination of Visual Basic macros and Hyperion
Essbase 7.0 retrieves, which cut down the running time of 6 days to just 1.5 hours per month.
• Developed Hyperion Essbase 7.0 calculation scripts for complex processes in creating the
multidimensional database cubes.
• Automated many crucial monthly reports with the use of Hyperion Essbase 7.0.
• Validated that every P&L line item balanced for actual, budget and forecast.
• Transferred data to the current version of Oracle 10G and upgraded to a newer version of
Oracle 11G both as a Systems analyst as well as Business Analyst.
• Created macro’s to run these reports through the use of Visual Basic, to save the company
time and money.
• Participated in development, UT, UAT and System Test Phases.
Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis, MN 09/2006 – 03/2007
• Played a leading role on projects automating various reports and reporting processes to
improve consolidations, eliminations and other general ledger data.
• Systems used for this automation include, PeopleSoft nVision 9.0, PeopleSoft Query 9.0,
Cognos, Crystal, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Access.
• Developed, organized and led many meetings for gathering reporting requirements on the
Improve the Foundation project to implement a new general ledger and reporting system.
• Performed many different exercises of mapping and reconciling general ledger data as a result
of gathering these reporting requirements.
• Played a key role with beginning to produce a new chart of accounts for the Improve the
Foundation project.
• Created pivot tables using Microsoft Excel and then imported these pivot tables into Microsoft
Access.

5. • Developed various reporting tables and queries in Microsoft Access after this data was
imported to Microsoft Access.
• Wrote report specs and produced report mocks that were necessary for the project and these
were used for IT development of the reports and for testing.
Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN 02/2005 – 09/2006
Financial Systems Analyst/Project Manager
• Successfully played the role of Project Manager on a project of implementing a new system
called OCRA. The intent of this system was to be able to consolidate and report financials
with the newly acquired company from Sweden.
• Provided formal training to the user community regarding Hyperion Essbase 6.0.1 system
access, navigation, and on how to use Essbase for refreshing reports as well on how to use
Essbase on an ad-hoc basis for research purposes.
• Led technology related projects with IT and other areas to utilize/integrate the system and
ensure appropriate utilization and access of the system.
• Managed overall project implementation phases and communicate with IT Project Managers to
update project plans and ensure that projects are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Served as the agent and advocate in ensuring that the functional areas achieve their strategic
information goals.
• Responsible for detailed project implementation scoping, planning, overall coordination, and
consulting.
• Considered the system expert with Hyperion Essbase 6.0.1 at Lawson and was responsible
for automating many reports and processes with the use of Essbase, Excel Add-in, Crystal
Reports, Cognos as well as other systems.
• Proactively participated in technology design and planning based on corporate and functional
strategy.
• Developed Hyperion Essbase 6.0.1 script applications, calculation scripts and load rules for
complex processes in creating the multidimensional database cubes making the cubes and
reports created from the data as efficient as possible.
• Participated in development, UT, UAT and System Test Phases.
• Held in charge of fostering and maintaining a positive relationship with other appropriate
functional owners and also work closely with IT, third parties, and other Lawson departments.
• Contributed product support expertise and leadership for each respective business area to
assist Lawson to establish better controls, operational excellence, and customer experience.
• Defined enhancement project detailed business requirements and user acceptance.
• Facilitated Business Process Models Implementation Activities (as-is assessment and
business design).
• Managed resource and task execution for Quality Control Implementation Activities.
GMAC-RFC, Bloomington, MN 11/2003 – 02/2005
Senior Financial Analyst
• Responsible for ensuring that accounting and business changes were accurately reflected in
Corporate Accounting’s reporting infrastructure.
• Led the reporting research within Hyperion Essbase 6.0 and PeopleSoft 7.5 to ascertain non-
G/L sources of truth.
• Lead for the Enterprise to improve the accounting change management processes.
• Actively worked on translating theoretical accounting changes and resolved issues into GAAP
reporting requirements. Provided leadership and communication for Enterprise-wide reporting,
which included educating users on structure methodology, reporting views, and procedures to
improve the quality of reporting data.

6. • Led the efforts for correcting the continuing systematic General Ledger errors or inefficiencies,
which included working with the different business lines and the Corporate Accounting team to
increase the accuracy of General Ledger accounts between month-end close cycles.
• Represented the Corporate Accounting group on certain accounting and reporting related
projects.
• Held responsible for the accounting integration of newly acquired businesses, which included
account mapping and the consolidation/close process harmonization.
Minnesota Life Insurance Company, St. Paul, MN 02/2002 – 11/2003
Financial Expense Analyst
• Supported and produced the calculation of quarterly STAT and GAAP expense adjustments
• Viewed as the MiDAS (PeopleSoft system) expert on budget and expense related data and
processes.
• Ensured that the month-end and quarterly allocation and budget process ran successfully.
Coordinated the implementation and testing of introducing the PeopleSoft 7.5 and the
Hyperion Essbase 6.0 systems to the company.
• Responded to questions raised by Auditors and provided accounting research as needed.
• Coordinated the set up of new chart fields within MiDAS and Hyperion Essbase 6.0, including
tree and allocation placement.
• Developed report specifications for Expense Accounting to represent budget and actual data.
Worked with various reporting tools such as Hyperion Essbase, SQR, PeopleSoft nVision 7.5,
and Crystal on the testing and implementation of multiple reports to be used for month-end
reporting.
• Created and introduced the training material to the end users of the new PeopleSoft 7.5 and
Hyperion Essbase 6.0 systems.
• Played a major role on working with system support and IT to trouble shoot processing
problems as they arose.
• Played a major role in effectively communicating to people at various levels of the company
regarding the introduction of the new system(s) to the company.
• Demonstrated a high level of knowledge in regards to how the PeopleSoft General Ledger
operates within the context of budgeting and monthly expense allocation processing.
American Express Financial Advisors, Minneapolis, MN 02/1997 – 02/2002
Business Analyst
Investment Accountant
Senior Fund Accountant
Settlement Specialist
Education:
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 09/1991 – 12/1996
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance
Relevant courses included: Advanced Financial Management, Analysis and Management of
Investing, Financial Accounting, Management I, II and III, Marketing, Statistics, Business Law, as well
as many other business related courses.

7. • Led the efforts for correcting the continuing systematic General Ledger errors or inefficiencies,
which included working with the different business lines and the Corporate Accounting team to
increase the accuracy of General Ledger accounts between month-end close cycles.
• Represented the Corporate Accounting group on certain accounting and reporting related
projects.
• Held responsible for the accounting integration of newly acquired businesses, which included
account mapping and the consolidation/close process harmonization.
Minnesota Life Insurance Company, St. Paul, MN 02/2002 – 11/2003
Financial Expense Analyst
• Supported and produced the calculation of quarterly STAT and GAAP expense adjustments
• Viewed as the MiDAS (PeopleSoft system) expert on budget and expense related data and
processes.
• Ensured that the month-end and quarterly allocation and budget process ran successfully.
Coordinated the implementation and testing of introducing the PeopleSoft 7.5 and the
Hyperion Essbase 6.0 systems to the company.
• Responded to questions raised by Auditors and provided accounting research as needed.
• Coordinated the set up of new chart fields within MiDAS and Hyperion Essbase 6.0, including
tree and allocation placement.
• Developed report specifications for Expense Accounting to represent budget and actual data.
Worked with various reporting tools such as Hyperion Essbase, SQR, PeopleSoft nVision 7.5,
and Crystal on the testing and implementation of multiple reports to be used for month-end
reporting.
• Created and introduced the training material to the end users of the new PeopleSoft 7.5 and
Hyperion Essbase 6.0 systems.
• Played a major role on working with system support and IT to trouble shoot processing
problems as they arose.
• Played a major role in effectively communicating to people at various levels of the company
regarding the introduction of the new system(s) to the company.
• Demonstrated a high level of knowledge in regards to how the PeopleSoft General Ledger
operates within the context of budgeting and monthly expense allocation processing.
American Express Financial Advisors, Minneapolis, MN 02/1997 – 02/2002
Business Analyst
Investment Accountant
Senior Fund Accountant
Settlement Specialist
Education:
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 09/1991 – 12/1996
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Finance
Relevant courses included: Advanced Financial Management, Analysis and Management of
Investing, Financial Accounting, Management I, II and III, Marketing, Statistics, Business Law, as well
as many other business related courses.