Venkata Kothagundu

OneStream and Hyperion Consultant

631.590.9450 | kgv.sukumar@gmail.com

SUMMARY
 15 plus years of diversified IT experience in Consolidation, Planning, Master Data, Governance &
BI Applications like OneStream and Hyperion suite of applications.
 Implementation and roll out of multiple Hyperion projects including on-prem and cloud - right
from understanding requirements, to design, to build and to Go Live.
 Implementation experience of OneStream from onprem Hyperion.
 Experience in executing System Development Lifecycle activities – functional and technical
requirements, solution design, interface, and system build, testing cycles, training and
deployment by meeting deadlines and budgets.
 Good experience as Business Analyst/Consultant and well versed with Agile/Waterfall
methodology.
 Working experience in OneStream XF, Hyperion 11x platforms (DRM, DRG, HFM, FDMEE,
Planning, Essbase) and Hyperion Cloud platforms (EDMCS, FCCS and EPBCS)
 Experience in creating Cubes, Workflow profiles, confirmation rules, cube views, dashboards,
form templates, transformation rules, journal templates and data management in OneStream.
 Technical knowledge across full OneStream functionality; financial consolidation, budgeting and
forecasting, reporting, allocations, spreading, reconciliations, etc.
 Subject Matter Expert for Data Relationship Manager.
 Business requirements gathering for external, analytic and management reporting for all stake
holders including Corporate Accounting, FP&A, Global Finance, etc.
 Integrated mappings and translations with Oracle Data Relationship Management web services
to support meta-data management approach to maintaining account and entity hierarchies.
 Strong experience in Masterdata concepts like creating versions, hierarchies, nodes, properties,
queries, validation. Expertise in importing, exporting the data and modifying the data using
action script.
 Strong experience in HFM and Planning concepts like Creation of forms, tasklists, rules, Calc
scripts, journals, Managing ICP and Month end close processes.
 Experience in creating users and assigning privileges according to their needs.
 Automating required metadata files, workflows, data loads, consolidations through windows
batch and Control-M.
 Experience in performing migration between different environments and in upgrade between
different versions including Life Cycle Management utility.
 Working experience on Collibra for data governance.
 Working with compliance teams to ensure system access, auditing, and SOX controls are in place
and compliant to security policy
 Experience and good understanding of Reconciliation processes between multiple systems.
 Knowledge on Implementation and Maintenance of Security using Hyperion Shared Services.
 Experience in utilizing EPM automate to automate metadata loads to Cloud applications.
 Good understanding of the financial concepts and fast at aligning with the client business
requirement and goals.

MAJOR CLIENTS
 Walmart, Moog, Verizon, ANZ, Willis Towers Watson, Duff & Phelps Corporation, Itochu
International Inc., Ecolab Inc., eCRM Labs, Inc.

EDUCATION
 Master of Financial Management 2005
Pondicherry University, India
 Bachelor of Commerce 2003
Sri Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

CERTIFICATIONS
 Oracle Certified DRM Implementation Specialist 2017
 Oracle Certified EPBCS Implementation Specialist 2018
 Python Programmer 2021
 AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2021

TRAINING ATTENDED
 Scaled Agile to adapt the Agile way of working methods.
 Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM) to adapt the
DevOps way of working.
 JIRA usage and Introduction to Lean
 Service Desk Manager & Service Now to create and manage change orders for releases
 Oracle FDMEE, DRM and HFM
 Project Management Professional (PMP) and Introduction to SDLC

TRAININGS CONDUCTED
 Scrum Framework, PSD, PSM for the team to understand the Agile and DevOps concepts
 HFM Migrations, HFM Life Cycle, DRM concepts, FCCS and Celcus

EXPERIENCE

Project: WMTUS Merch November 2021 –

Present
Client: Walmart Role: Senior Consultant
Environment: OneStream

Responsibilities:
 Upgraded onprem Hyperion application to OneStream including HFM and Planning.
 Creation of cubes, dashboards, data management, form templates, journal templates, data
sources, workflow profiles, time profiles in OneStream. Loading FX rates on month end process.
 Creation of multiple rule types including, transformation, business, consolidation and
confirmation and certification rules in OneStream.
 Maintaining audits and User roles for SOX compliance related activities for OneStream.
 Running processes for consolidations and responsible for seeding actuals to planning cubes.
 Running RCM process (reconciliation) between Consolidation and GL cubes.
  Created data management jobs in OneStream. As part of BAU process involved in application
maintenance and any masterdata related issues, creation of new rules, forms, smart forms,
consolidation process. Validating data between Source Essbase application and OneStream
application through QuickViews.
 Managing OneStream team in both onsite and offshore.
 Taking care of all team deliverables from business perspective.
 Migrations between multiple environments in OneStream. User Access Management.
 Identifying the issues causing variances between source and target.
 Converting business requirements into OneStream for Data Quality.
 Performed configuration duties within OneStream and other financial systems to meet defined
objectives.
 Setting up data mapping and integrations from various source systems to OneStream platform.

Project: OneStream Implementation May 2021 – November 2021

Client: Moog Role: Senior Consultant
Environment: OneStream and Hyperion
Responsibilities:
 Upgraded onprem Hyperion application to OneStream.
 Taking care of creation of dimensions in OneStream including Account and Entity.
 As per the month end process, loading of FX-Rates. Creation of Workflow Structures and
Workflow profiles.
 As part of Data collection, created Data sources, transformation profiles and QubecLoad
Workflow Setup. Creation of cubes, dashboards, data management, form templates, journal
templates in OneStream.
 Data Model Refinement including Consolidation, Calc Status and Task Activity.
 Creation of Confirmation Rules and Certification Questions in OneStream.
 Taking care of User Security Management from Cube and Scenario perspective.
 Taking care of Data validations from Quick View POV.
 Comparing data between OneStream and Hyperion applications and identifying the variances
root cause. Running processes for consolidations and responsible for seeding actuals to planning
cubes. Created data management jobs in OneStream.
 Taking care of Migrations between multiple environments for OneStream artefacts.

Project: 2.0 and BAU April 2019 – May

2021
Client: Verizon Role: Senior Consultant
Environment: Hyperion (On-Prem DRM and DRG), Collibra and SAP MDG
Description:
Verizon Communications Inc. is an integrated telecommunications company that provides wire line
voice and data services, wireless services, Internet services, and published directory information. The
Company also provides network services for the federal government including business phone lines,
data services, telecommunications equipment, and payphones.
Responsibilities:
 Designing MDM solutions through Collibra and Oracle DRM systems.
 Requirement’s elicitation including functional, technical and system from the various
stakeholders including FP&A, Group finance, Accounting and COE teams.
 Integration between ERP and EPM/CPM applications for Verizon 2.0.
  Setting up data mapping and integrations from various source systems to OneStream platform.
 Setting up Integration between Collibra and Oracle DRM workflows for metadata management
activities.
 Integration between EPM applications, OBIEE, Tableau with exports from DRM application.
 Creation and Maintenance of DRM version on monthly basis. Building new Hierarchies and
hierarchy groups.
 Monthly deployments as per the Change control board meetings.
 To provide essential change management and data quality remediation workflows, capturing
business changes and applying them with consistency and accuracy.
 Created different types of properties, property categories, exports, imports, comparison reports.
 Migrated capital expense reporting from onprem Essbase application to Cloud EPBCS
application.
 Importing, exporting the data, and modifying the data using action script.

Project: Hyperion BAU (Business As Usual) May 2018 – April

2019
Client: ANZ Bank Role: Analyst
Environment: Oracle DRM 11.1.2.4, Batch scripting, Control-M, EPBCS, FCCS, EDMCS

Description:
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is the third largest bank
by market capitalization in Australia. Australian operations make up the largest part of ANZ's business,
with commercial and retail banking. Project are development / enhancement / upgrade and
maintenance projects for all consolidations of ANZ Bank. All metadata being managed in DRM, FDM is
used to load data from PSGL and HFM is used for consolidations. A very complex rule has been written
up to match business requirement.
Responsibilities Version: 11.1.2.4
 Analyze and understand the business requirements.
 Prepared the BRD (Solution requirements and design) documents for future purpose.
 Created different types of properties and property categories.
 Upgraded DRM to EDMCS and managed end to end activities, including versions, Hierarchies
and hierarchy groups, property definitions, property categories, scripts etc.
 Creation of property queries, exports, new comparison reports, blenders,
 To provide essential change management and data quality remediation workflows, capturing
business changes and applying them with consistency and accuracy.
 Support and enhancements for Month end closes processes of FCSS, EPBCS, EDMCS including on
prem environment Hyperion applications (DRM, Planning and Essbase applications).
 Interacting with the client in a daily call for regular updates and modifications and supporting
testing team and user acceptance testing team for the new requests.
 Creation of new calc scripts and rules, forms in both FCCS and EPBCS applications.
 Supported parallel testing periods for migration of On prem to Cloud.
 Day to day interactions with multiple stake holders like FP&A, Global Corp, Accounting users.
 Importing, exporting the data and modifying the data using action script.
 Creating users and assigning privileges according to their needs.
 Integration through mappings between PeopleSoft GL, HR and Hyperion applications.
 Supporting disaster recovery related activities.

Project: Medina (Upgrading Planning & Budgeting to Cloud (EPBCS)) May 2017 – April 2018
Environment: Oracle DRM 11.1.2.4, Batch scripting, Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.4, EPBCS, Essbase
Responsibilities
 Evaluate business requirements & perform impact analysis.
 Was part of Design, Scrum, and retrospective meetings. Creation of DRM version on monthly
basis.
 All the hierarchies required for Australia division reporting is created & maintained in DRM for
Budget & forecasting in cloud.
 Prepared the Solution requirements and design documents for future purpose.
 I worked as the design lead for 18 dimensions out of 21 including Chart of Accounts, Products,
Channels etc. in DRM. Created different types of properties and property categories.
 Building new Hierarchies and hierarchy groups. Created property queries for new exports,
comparison reports.
 Interacting with the client in a daily call for regular updates and modifications.
 Involved in Hyperion Planning development activities such as Webform, Tasklists, Calculation
Manager Rules etc.
 Worked on the new Metadata (aliases) by track, to be used per user inputs as part of
requirement gathering. Resolved user issues in UAT phase.
 Designed and developed the import profile, blender profile. Supported DR related activities for
the on-premise application. Supported in writing Calculation scripts and MaxL scripts.
 Experience in Administration of Essbase databases, automation process in Window environment
using Batch scripting.
 Developed numerous Essbase artifacts such as Load Rules, Calc Scripts, Reports Scripts and Web
forms, etc.,. Business Rules for Hyperion Planning Applications.

Project: Horizon Dec 2015 – May 2017

Environment: Oracle DRM 11.1.x, Batch scripting, Control-M. It was an upgrade project.
Responsibilities
 Analyze and understand the business requirements.
 Requirement gathering from the various streams of Hyperion team.
 Analysis on the requirements and providing estimates to the requestors.
 Preparing solution requirement and design documents for future reference.
 Build as per the design documents. Creation of DRM version on monthly basis.
 Building new Hierarchies and hierarchy groups. Created property queries for new exports.
 Created new comparison reports. Creation of new exports and books for generation of
Metadata.
 Creation of Dynamic exports. DRM Security and Administration.
 Complete automation of DRM jobs through automated batch jobs with Windows batch
Scripting.
 Creation of new required hierarchies through script in DRM.
 Developed automators to update the hierarchies in MDM. Developed automators to change
properties of members in MDM.
 Worked on installation, configuration and patching related activities for upgrading the version to
11.1.2.4. Maintained SR’s with Oracle for unresolved issues.

Project: DRM Implementation Aug 2014 - Nov 2015

Environment: Oracle DRM 11.1.x, Batch scripting, Hyperion Financial Management.
Responsibilities
 Responsible for gathering business requirement and designing the solution accordingly.
 Designed solution for centralized repository of Finance Master Data.
 Designing solution/architecture for the system integration.
 Creation of versions, hierarchies, and hierarchy groups.
 Creation of hierarchy exports and generation exports.
 Creation of blenders to incorporate the concept of updating the current hierarchy with source
file. Creation of properties and automators. Creation of cfg file for Batch automation.
 Involved in requirements gathering and analysis. Prepared technical designs for DataStage jobs.
 Performed Impact Analysis of the changes done to the existing mappings and provided the
feedback.
 Created required batch jobs for automating generation and hierarchy exports
 Created validations and verifications in DRM as per the requirement.
 Provide maintenance and enhancement support for the deliverables that are being going on.
 Training the new team members to speed up in technical as well as Business growth.

Project: Hyperion Refit Mar 2013 – Aug 2014

Environment: Hyperion Financial Management, FDQM, Planning, DRM
Responsibilities
 Responsible for gathering business requirement and designing the solution accordingly.
 Translate user requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific
solutions, and leading the efforts including developing and testing that cumulate in client
acceptance of the results.
 Writing medium HFM rules and managing metadata in DRM. Responsible for writing complex
validations in HFM. Creating web forms and task lists accordingly.
 Managing security in HFM. Managing ICT Reports. Data load via FDM through Control-M.
 Managing POV in the explore data settings.
 Running consolidation via auto consol (Customized tool developed using HFM APIs used to run
parallel consolidation in HFM). Process management in HFM via auto consol.
 Sharing data using data synchronization and analyzing data using Smart view.
 Supporting infrateam for applying patches for HFM and DRM.
 Prepared schema backups for preparing a fresh application for User Acceptance testing.

Project: ERP & EPM Integration Sep 2012 – Mar 2013

Client: ANZ Shared Services Role: Senior Hyperion
Consultant
Environment: Hyperion Financial Management, FDQM, Planning, DRM
Responsibilities
 Writing medium HFM rules and managing metadata in DRM. Responsible for writing complex
validations in HFM. Creating web forms and task lists accordingly.
 Managing security in HFM. Managing ICT Reports.
 Package movement between different environments. Responsible for tuning of HFM
applications.
 Implementing Database management to copy data from once scenario to another.
 Created complex webforms with validation rules and adhoc grids.
 Creating, scheduling, monitoring automated jobs.
 Supporting users during month end close and financial closure issues.
 Was being part of creating new metadata naming convention for FPA accounts.