LILAS QU

2295 Lenox PL, Santa Clara CA 95054 ∙ 404-277-9349 ∙ lilasququ@hotmail.com

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SUMMARY

Senior Hyperion Administrator with 8 years of Hyperion administration and development experience

·         Extensive knowledge of Hyperion Essbase

·         Hyperion Financial Management Administrator Certified Expert

·         Hyperion Financial Planning Administrator Certified Expert

·         Advanced knowledge of Hyperion Reports and Financial Data Quality Management

·         Went through two Hyperion implementation projects and two Hyperion upgrade

·         MBA, graduated with High Honors, concentration in Finance

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Novelis, Inc. - Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                                                                                                     Mar 2007 - Present

Senior Hyperion Administrator

·         Maintain the Hyperion Planning application by performing changes to outlines and web forms for monthly rolling forecast, annual budget and strategic plan

·         Develop business rules, calc scripts and/or mdx formulas to satisfy various business requests (cash flow, working capital, KPI and etc)

·         Create and maintain Essbase cubes (BSO and ASO) for Treasury, Strategy, Manufacturing Excellence and other business functions

·         Create Essbase load rules to load both metadata and data; write calc scripts and report scripts for data extract

·         Create batch scripting to automate tasks for Essbase databases

·         Use Planning utilities for managing web forms and security with different applications

·         Maintain the Hyperion Financial Management application by performing changes to metadata and rules for monthly SEC reporting

·         Create FDM mapping / scripts / logic groups and support FDM users for monthly data load

·         Maintain the mapping from HFM to HFP by making changes in the SQL queries

·         Manage global Hyperion user security through shared services and collaborate with internal auditors for SOX compliance

·         Develop complex Hyperion financial reports and Web Analysis reports

·         Provide guidance and training on system functionalities, including Essbase Excel add-in and SmartView, to global Finance and Accounting users

·         Collaborate with the FP&A teams to collect business requirements, make recommendation for system changes, and coordinate with user acceptance testing

·         Manage the standard work process in the development, testing and production environments

·         Upgrade of Hyperion 9.3.1 to 11.1.2.1

o        Responsible for application functional upgrade, data copy and reconciliation and system unit testing

o        Responsible for creating User Acceptance Testing documents and coordination with global testers

o        Designed training documents for global users

·         Hyperion Strengthening project

o        Design, communication and execution of Change Management and Incident Management procedures

o        Design, communication and execution of 24/7 support modules

o        Designed training documents, lead global subject matter expert training and team cross-training

o        Documented current process flow and drove improvement to system performance

·         Upgrade of Hyperion Systems from 9.2 to 9.3.1

o        Created and executed testing plan

o        Migrated FDM applications

o        Created global user communication / training documents for upgrade

·         Re-implementation of HFP 9.2

o        Redesigned Planning web forms and cleaned up business rules

o        Assisted in the creation of User Functional Guide

o        Assisted in the global User Acceptance Training sessions

·         Implementation of HFM 9.2

o        Collaborated with the Corporate consolidation team to re-design the company Chart of Account

o        Created the HFM consolidation applications for Actual and History

o        Loaded and reconciled historical data from Enterprise into HFM

o        Created FDM applications, including import format and mapping tables for data load from various local ERP systems

o        Lead global workshops and UAT sessions

 

 

Lanier Worldwide, Inc. – Atlanta, GA

Mar 2006 – Mar 2007

Financial Systems Support Analyst

·         Maintained the Hyperion Enterprise systems and provided daily support to end users

·         Developed, tested and performed monthly system changes in terms of Chart of Account, Consolidation Structure and calculation logic

·         Designed financial reports using Hyperion Financial Reporting systems

·         Transferred and reconciled closing data from Oracle General Ledger into Hyperion Enterprise

·         Managed application security and monitored server capacity

·         Created and executed SQL queries per users’ requests.

 

Crown Holdings, Inc. - Paris, France

Aug 2003 – Aug 2004

Hyperion Administrator

·         Received and consolidated monthly financial data through Hyperion Enterprise from Business Units

·         Provided day-to-day support and maintenance for the company’s global users

·         Reported monthly financial closing data to the headquarter

·         Developed, tested and implemented system changes

·         Managed application security and protected data integrity

·         Assisted in the migration projects from Enterprise to HFM and to Magnitude

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

 

·         Master of Business Administration Concentration: Finance. Duquesne University, PA

·         Master of Management Science ICN-Graduate School of Business, France

·         Bachelor of International Business, University Paris XII, France

·         Bachelor of French Language, Shanghai International Studies University, China

 

PROFILE/SKILLS

 

·         High Fluency in English, Chinese and French

·         Software skills: Hyperion (HFM, Planning, Essbase, FDM, Hyperion Reports, SmartView), Extensive Excel skills, Access, Visio, PowerPoint; VBA, SQL