PARUL AGGARWAL

Strategic Solution Architect & Business Product Owner for multiple EPM platforms on an enterprise wide Finance Transformation initiative. Partner across multiple functions & stakeholders to design cutting edge technologies that support integrated FP&A business processes.

Key areas of accountability include designing & sourcing of integrated data models, connected financial planning models, financial reporting & analytics across multiple platforms and integration of data science & advanced analytics capabilities across a global, cross sector, multi-generational roadmap

• Key interface between regional commercial finance & global IT to ensure smooth financial planning and management reporting with implementation of simple to complex project plans in APAC
• Responsible for data integrity between various J&J IT platforms
• Drives process efficiencies with the use of technology both within finance and across the whole organization.
• Creates a data driven culture to better drive business insights
• Interact with the AP Sectors to understand their business processes and ensure the FP&A technologies are making J&J Finance users more efficient & effective
• Lead regional as well as global simplification and standardization projects and initiatives including design thinking
• Resourcing teams to execute project plans and implementation of governance model and support plan for sustaining solutions

- Work with the Global FP&A team to ensure architectural standards are followed and best practices leveraged, leading to the implementation of scalable technology solution.

- Communicate with local business to identify business requirements and coordinate alignments across the region and global as required

- Elaborate functional and conceptual design specifications in close collaboration with business IT / business owners to develop technology road maps, capture architectural requirements and ensure compliance

- Lead in driving best practice sharing, process improvement and issues resolution

Reward and Recognition

o Q2 2013 :Awarded “Star Performer”

o Q3 2013 : Awarded “Best Team” for internal project

o Q4 2013 :Nomination as “Club 100 Semi-finalist” - Awarded to top 100 employees from total 30,000 employees in HSBC ;Technology and Services – GSD

• I was directly responsible for implementing planning, budgeting and reporting solutions
• Spearheaded and implemented new projects to expand scope of engagement.
• Preparing Proof of concepts on IBM Cognos for prospective clients
• Spearheaded and implemented new projects to expand scope of engagement

Key accomplishments

Promoted to Practice Lead from Senior consultant in six months from joining in appreciation of strong leadership and commitment to delivery

• Planned and designed system improvements to meet changing demands.
• Trained users and supported variety of problems with hardware and software.
• Installed improvements and adjusted parameters to optimize functionality.
• Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands
• Facilitated weekly reporting to all business units by updating MIS portal with latest financial data

• Responsible for enhancement and maintenance of the financial systems landscape across finance function
• Provided comprehensive training to internal and off-site users to optimize systems maintenance and resolve recurring issues.
• Created patches and solutions to fix bugs in existing applications.
• Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders.
• Contributed to development, administration and testing of disaster recovery plans.