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
Hyderabad
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
Gurgaon, Haryana
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
Gurgaon, Haryana
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
Mumbai, Maharashtra
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
Finance Transformation
Planning Analytics Workspace
People Leader
Mentoring
Project Management
SQL
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