Karthi Tsk

Self-motivated EPM professional with over 15 years of experience across Oracle Hyperion EPM Suite, service delivery, production support, implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and project management. Strong background in Hyperion Essbase, Planning, HFM, FDMEE, DRM, Hyperion Financial Reporting, Smart View, and related database platforms. Experienced in requirements gathering, application and environment design, effort estimation, resource planning, incident/problem management, SLA reporting, and multi-vendor delivery across onsite/offshore models.

Known for building strong client relationships, solving production issues, and communicating effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership.

EPM Sr. Consultant at Cognizant (2024-04 – Present)

• Manage day-to-day maintenance and troubleshooting for HFM and Hyperion Tax Provisioning applications.
• Deliver enhancements and new integrations for existing EPM applications based on business requirements.
• Implement application design changes and modifications for new user and business requirements.
• Create and maintain HFM templates for journals, intercompany records, customized data grids, and forms.
• Maintain FDMEE mappings and support the business during month-end close activities to map data to required HFM target elements.
• Support balance sheet reconciliation and resolve promote/publish issues during business unit close cycles.
• Monitor consolidation task schedules and support month-end close activities.
• Participate in Hyperion application upgrade activities from version 11.2.14 to 11.2.20.
• Monitor daily HFM refresh jobs and data load processes as part of production support.
• Provide timely status reporting to leadership on application productivity, issues, enhancements, and remediation activities.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation for Hyperion applications and work with Oracle vendor support on ongoing issues.

EPM Technical Lead at Cognizant (2021-03 – 2024-03)

• Conducted and coordinated workshops with business stakeholders to analyze demand, understand needs, and recommend appropriate EPM solutions.
• Installed, configured, and maintained EPM 11.1.2 environments and supported high availability for Essbase users.
• Prepared design documents and work estimates for new Essbase cubes and enhancements.
• Upgraded Essbase applications from version 6.5 to EPM 11.1.2.0.
• Managed day-to-day production support for HFM and Hyperion Essbase, including troubleshooting, enhancements, and integrations.
• Created and maintained HFM templates, FDMEE mappings, customized data grids, and forms to support close and reporting activities.
• Developed load rules, functions, report scripts, BSO/ASO applications, outlines, calculation scripts, partitions, MDX member formulas, and automation scripts.
• Performed Essbase performance tuning, including query tuning and database tuning using appropriate index, data, and calculation cache settings.
• Designed and maintained applications with balanced dense and sparse dimensions for improved performance.
• Administered Hyperion Shared Services, including user directories, users, groups, projects, applications, authentication, and provisioning.
• Monitored ITSM queues, prioritized incidents, documented resolutions, and supported SLA compliance.
• Coordinated with offshore teams and delivered learning/training sessions for team members.
• Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly metrics and reports for senior management and project stakeholders.

EPM Sr. Consultant at Cognizant (2017-01 – 2021-02)

• Performed Oracle EPM 11 system administration, including monitoring, disaster recovery, backups/restores, user administration, and upgrades.
• Supported Essbase and Planning applications in production, monitored scheduled jobs, and resolved issues based on priority.
• Implemented continuous system improvement activities through minor and major enhancements.
• Gathered business requirements, designed applications, and prepared functional specifications and documentation for new Essbase cubes.
• Developed new Essbase and Planning applications, including dimensions, rules, calculations, and automation scripts.
• Performed unit testing, user acceptance testing, production deployments, and hypercare support.
• Prepared user training materials, application support handbooks, and other project deliverables.
• Resolved Essbase process and data issues in production and supported performance tuning for Essbase and Planning applications.
• Monitored daily Essbase refresh jobs and data load processes and provided regular status reports to leadership.

Sr. Hyperion Consultant at Cognizant (2016-01 – 2016-12)

• Installed, configured, and maintained EPM 11.1.2 environments and helped ensure Essbase availability for users.
• Prepared design documents and estimates for new Essbase cubes and enhancements.
• Upgraded Essbase applications from version 6.5 to EPM 11.1.2.0 and performed Essbase system administration.
• Gathered requirements and completed impact analysis for new sales force additions to the existing prescriber reporting system.
• Developed BSO and ASO Essbase applications, including outlines, rules, calculations, MDX member formulas, report scripts, and automation scripts.
• Supported production Essbase applications, resolved process/data issues, and performed performance tuning.
• Developed SQL and Teradata views/procedures for data extraction and reconciliation.
• Prepared documentation for requirements, design, unit testing, SIT, UAT, deployments, quality deliverables, and application run books.

Hyperion Consultant at Cognizant (2014-01 – 2015-12)

• Managed day-to-day maintenance, troubleshooting, and production support for Hyperion applications.
• Provided functional and development expertise to design Hyperion applications based on business requirements and maintain integration points with other systems.
• Developed load rules, functions, report scripts, cube builds, and data load processes.
• Performed query and database tuning using appropriate index, data, and calculation cache settings.
• Generated customized Hyperion financial reports and deployed reports through Hyperion Workspace for web-based access.
• Developed Windows batch scripts to automate EPM jobs.
• Performed EPM system administration, including monitoring, disaster recovery, backups/restores, and user administration.
• Coordinated daily activities and improvement items with the client system architect.

Essbase Consultant at Cognizant (2012-01 – 2013-12)

• Gathered requirements from business users, designed applications, and prepared functional specifications, documentation, and testing artifacts.
• Developed and maintained BSO and ASO Essbase applications, including outlines, calculation scripts, member formulas, MDX member formulas, dimension builds, and data load rule files.
• Executed and documented test cases for new application components used with Hyperion products and Excel Spreadsheet Add-in.
• Administered applications by enforcing security, scheduling backups and data exports, executing data loads, and optimizing databases.
• Created users and groups, assigned privileges, and applied application security using filters.
• Monitored daily, weekly, and monthly Essbase production loads and resolved production support issues.
• Facilitated meetings, coordinated communications, followed up on open items, and maintained project documentation.

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant (2010-07 – 2011-12)

• Ran daily, weekly, and monthly Essbase data processing loads in production support.
• Identified root causes for issues and recommended improvements to address recurring problems.
• Performed application administration, including security, scheduled backups, data exports, data loads, and database optimization.
• Reviewed design documents and developed new Essbase and Planning applications.

Bachelor of Engineering in ECE – Anna University (2010)