Gokul Selvam Sadasivam

• Manage the design, development, integration, and release of Record to Report applications (Anaplan and Xactly).
• Simplify financial planning and analysis processes to help us scale effectively.
• Exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills, and the ability to make informed and fast decisions.
• Engage internal stakeholders to determine needs, assess viability, gather requirements, outline technical considerations, and calibrate strategic objectives.
• Manage a team responsible for supporting the delivery of the record to report scrum.
• Collaborate with product management, architecture, and engineering to help strengthen and innovate the application portfolio.
• Make tactical decisions while helping the company think long-term.
• Established strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships, and continued business.
• Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
• Held monthly meetings to create business plans and workshops to drive successful business.
• Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
• Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
• Reduced costs, optimized resource allocation, and improved efficiency in managing projects.
• Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within the organization.
• Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
• Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
• Drove adoption of new technology solutions, modernizing operations and improving operational efficiency.
• Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
• Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Managed senior-level personnel working in commissions and legal systems.

As an Anaplan Solution Architect for the NLG (Node Level Goaling) project in the Sales Compensation team with Cisco. Providing solutions and data modeling using Anaplan for business users.

Responsibilities:

• Building an Anaplan business model for the fiscal year commission forecast using the real-time data.
• Analyzing the historical data to create Anaplan models that forecast the goals for the next fiscal year, along with provisioning for manual intervention and overriding the system-calculated numbers.
• Implementing workflow and notification via Anaplan, and integration with Oracle using ETL and shell scripting.
• Real-time support to business users working across the globe and helping them reach their targets. This implementation has currently resulted in the clients being able to achieve their goals well before time.
• Improved solution efficiency by designing and implementing scalable architectures for enterprise clients.
• Conducted research to evaluate systems design and process efficiency.