SOMOK CHOUDHURY
Hounslow,UK
Summary
Highly experienced and detail-oriented certified professional with 15+ years of robust experience in managing, designing, implementing, configuring, and customizing Oracle EPM planning, budgeting and consolidation applications. Proven track record of delivering successful solutions to clients across various industries. Demonstrated ability to lead project teams and work collaboratively with clients to identify business requirements, design solutions, and ensure successful delivery of complex projects on-time and within budget delivery. Ability in leading and motivating offshore and onsite teams toward the achievement of corporate objectives with time and budget targets. Stellar communicator with a global exposure skilled in conveying complex information to technology partners, vendors, and clients.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Technology Consulting Associate Manager
Accenture
LONDON
07.2022 - Current
- Oracle EPM Solution Manager for Accenture Oracle Business Group, helping clients to understand leading business processes so they can transform their business by designing and implement the EPM solution that aligns with business needs and best practices across Market wide Europe
- Managed a large scale EPM transformation project for a European manufacturing company, responsible for leading and managing the end-to-end implementation of financial planning, budgeting and reporting capabilities
- Collaborate with senior management to define the organization's EPM strategy and objectives to ensure the successful delivery of EPM projects within scope, timeframes, and budget
- Develop project plans, allocate resources, and monitor progress
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
LONDON
01.2019 - 06.2022
- Led the Oracle EPM ADM tower track (team of 10 member) for a large global insurance based company in UK. Establish strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, understanding their requirements, and addressing their concerns.
- Designed and led Oracle EPBCS transformation for a Dubai based real estate and investment company, tailoring each system to meet specific business needs and processes
- Led and managed the on-prem Oracle EPM upgrade involving HFM/Planning/FDMEE applications. Communicate project status, risks, and milestones effectively to stakeholders, senior management, and clients
- Leveraged superior organizational and technical leadership skills to monitor ticket queues, prioritize work responsibilities within delivery teams, and review open tickets as per SLA and KPI's
- Conducted requirements gathering workshops and facilitated business process reviews to identify pain points and improvement opportunities
- Reduced operating costs by merging and restructuring teams.
- Engaged clients to understand software design requirements and advise on best-fit options
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
KOLKATA / LONDON
06.2015 - 12.2018
- Technical Lead for all the operations & managing overall delivery involving Oracle EPM applications support under Managed application services model for a multinational airline holding company
- Building Customer Relationship by meeting expectation, optimizing offshore services & meeting the SLA norms
- Solutioning, designing and implementing the Planning Budgeting Forecasting (PBF) solution for a large scale Oracle EPM Transformation project involving EPM suite (Planning/Essbase/FDMEE) involving Financials and Manpower module
- Managed design, development, and delivery of end-to-end PBCS solutions and data integrations process for a UK based utilities company
- Continuous improvements by configure and customize the EPM solution, resulting in > 30% reduction in manual processes and improved data accuracy during financial planning cycle
- Conducting multiple Conference room pilot & UAT sessions with the FP&A teams and successful Go-Live
- Updated clients on project status and progression on regular basis.
- Established business opportunities with existing and new clients by writing proposals for new projects to deliver requests of clients.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
KOLKATA / RIYADH
05.2012 - 05.2015
- Senior development lead, for a large scale Oracle EPM Planning and Budgeting transformation involving multiple subsidiaries for a Middle East metal and mining company
- Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into a technical solution design. This involves defining the structure of planning models, data integrations, and reporting templates
- Design and developed data integration solutions from various source systems into the planning and budgeting modules
- Develop standard and ad-hoc financial reports to meet management and regulatory reporting requirements
- Reviewed existing planning processes, collected and analyzed data to identify improvement areas.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, customizations, and development work to facilitate knowledge sharing and troubleshooting
- Install and configure Oracle EPM software and associated components, ensuring that they are properly set up to meet the organization's requirements
- Develop and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to safeguard EPM data and ensure business continuity in the event of system failures or data loss
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
KOLKATA
05.2010 - 05.2012
- Design and configure dimensions, hierarchies, forms, and security settings to meet business needs for a giant American Metal and Mining company
- Create calculations and business rules to support forecasting, budgeting, and consolidation processes. Ensure the accuracy and efficiency of calculations
- Identify and resolve issues, errors, and performance bottlenecks that may arise in the planning and budgeting application during month end closings
- Analyzed, monitored and optimized Planning and Essbase application, fine tuning to increase the process efficiency and decreasing the database size block size up to 60%
- Implemented Hyperion application upgrade and migration
- Collaborated with business FP&A users across regions (North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia) for Application Support maintenance and daily stand ups
- Preparing Estimates, requirement gathering, analysis and understanding the overall business requirement and implementing them in the application and creating technical specification document
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
KOLKATA
03.2008 - 05.2010
- OBIEE & ETL developer (Created prompts, reports, filters, dashboards ) and tester for a UK based telecom company
- Reviewed, validated and automated testing to improve code quality involving PL/SQL for regression testing
- Built simulation systems to model designs (Star Schema data model), informing development decisions.
- Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments
- Undergoing various corporate trainings in BIPM and ETL (Informatica)
Education
B. Tech - Computer Sc. &Engineering
West Bengal University of Technology
2007
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Solution Architect
- Consulting
- Client management and governance
- Business development
- Coaching and mentoring
- Process improvements
- Business Analysis
- Estimations and proposal writing
- Upgrades and Migration strategy
- Managed application services
Certification
Oracle Planning 2022 Implementation Professional
Additional Information
Work Permit Status: Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa
Timeline
Technology Consulting Associate Manager
Accenture
07.2022 - Current
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2019 - 06.2022
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2015 - 12.2018
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2012 - 05.2015
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2010 - 05.2012
Assistant Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2008 - 05.2010
B. Tech - Computer Sc. &Engineering
West Bengal University of Technology
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