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Nikhil Sharma

TM1 Consultant
Delhi

Summary

Accomplished people leader with a proven track record, specializing in finance transformation and IBM Cognos TM1. Expert in building and leading teams to deliver end-to-end project solutions, significantly enhancing planning and forecasting models. Renowned for mentoring skills and adept project management, consistently driving technological and financial advancements.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Manager

Pepsico
5 2022 - Current
  • Build and managed team of cross functional highly talented individuals
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Contributed to talent acquisition efforts by participating in interviews, evaluating candidates based on potential fit within the organization.
  • Developed a positive work environment through active listening, empathy, and providing constructive feedback.
  • Ensured client satisfaction with effective stakeholder management and timely resolution of issues.
  • Led large-scale projects from inception through completion by overseeing all aspects including budgeting, scheduling, quality control, stakeholder management, and performance evaluation.
  • Facilitated onboarding sessions and on-the-job training for new hires, bolstering employee job position knowledge and skillset.
  • Evaluated current processes to develop improvement plans.
  • Restructured procedures through coordination with compliance director to create and execute projects.
  • Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
  • Recommended and implemented practical business process solutions, working directly with stakeholders to drive transformation using technology.
  • Getting business requirements and transforming them to end to end working solution and working with stakeholders for proper adoption and further improvement of user experience.
  • Mentoring and coaching technology teams for solution design and development through various phases of system development life cycle.
  • Tracked project performance to analyze successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
  • Identified project scopes, constraints, risks and deadlines.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Evaluated and improved development work of other developers on team, working to provide training, constructive criticism and knowledge transfer.
  • Use of project management tools like Azure DevOps, Jira and Rally.

Sr. Financial Analysis Manager

American Express
01.2017 - 05.2022
  • Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated solutions.
  • Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
  • Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation.
  • Conducted research to evaluate systems design and process efficiency.
  • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
  • Led employee relations through effective communication, coaching, training, and development.
  • Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans, and follow-up procedures.
  • Delivering End to End projects right through from Requirement gathering, POCs to warranty support in TM1.
  • Capacity management and User story sizing
  • Mentoring and Delegating tasks to team members.
  • Analytical capabilities in understanding and delivering solutions to meet End-user needs.
  • Develop driver-based model to automate planning and forecasting models for American express
  • Self-starter having leading attitude in working environment.
  • Use of project management tools like Jira and Rally.
  • Designed developed and deployed user interface on Workspace with data input facility and visualizations
  • Worked Extensively on TIs, Writing Rules and Active forms.
  • Designed and developed forecasting models in TM1 for helping business to forecast data and improve decision making.
  • Designed and developed Recoveries and allocation models in TM1 for smooth recoveries and allocation.
  • Developed complex rules to implement business logics effectively.

Executive

Macquarie Group
07.2014 - 01.2017
  • Develop End to End models in TM1 to meet expectations and requirements as per discussion with business.
  • Design solutions and represent in form of high level diagrams
  • Write TIs, rules and create Active forms to meet expectations of user
  • Established complex business logics in Rules or TIs
  • Track Complete development cycle using JIRA
  • Provide improvement suggestions to stake holders and give them demos for scope of improvements in existing model
  • Using Pulse for TM1 for monitoring and migrating codes from one environment to other

Senior Software Engineer

Larsen and Toubro Infotech
07.2012 - 07.2014
  • Create TIs and rules to implement solution for clients.
  • Resolve incidents raised by Business users.
  • Create templates using TM1 worksheet functions so that business users can send their data to TM1 Cubes through TM1 web and Perspective to make their adjustments
  • Increased efficiency of existing models by optimizing code

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Punjab Technical University
Mohali
06.2009 - 06.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Kurukshetra University
Yamunanagar
07.2006 - 06.2009

Skills

IBM Cognos TM1

Timeline

Sr. Financial Analysis Manager

American Express
01.2017 - 05.2022

Executive

Macquarie Group
07.2014 - 01.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Larsen and Toubro Infotech
07.2012 - 07.2014

Master of Computer Applications -

Punjab Technical University
06.2009 - 06.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Kurukshetra University
07.2006 - 06.2009

Senior Manager

Pepsico
5 2022 - Current

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