Nicolas - Business Analyst ESSBASE

Richemont North America (New York) May 2008 – present
Junior Project Manager in charge of the Business Intelligence system based on SAP solution
Reporting enhancement
 Defined business requirements and change requests for new Business Intelligence modules and followed up their implementation with IT team
 Enhanced and designed dashboards and reports to support Finance, Retail and Wholesale operations according to users’ needs and responsibilities: brands sales overviews, wholesale sales reports, boutique dashboards, etc.
 Analyzed, tested and rolled-out new functionality provided by IT team
Reporting solution maintenance and support
 Animated global deployment and rollout of world wide template for distribution entities
 Maintained and animated the global reporting solution ensuring coherence, cohesion and usability of reporting
 Supported 200 business users being key-contact of local management. Managed requests for information, issues or enhancements
 Trained users on a weekly basis during informal Q&A sessions
 Enhanced documentation including the development of 15 flash-animated e-learning modules with Adobe Captivate
CRM Reporting Project
 Elaborated action plan to develop and provide useful and usable CRM functionality for performance measurement and operational tasks support
 Improved Data Quality by cleaning irrelevant or erroneous data and set up indicators to monitor database maintenance
 Developed CRM dashboards and Clients Cultivation reports to improve insight about customers, get new contacts opportunities and monitor marketing campaigns efficiency
Budgeting Solution Project
 Analyzed local sales budgeting process and methods. Defined business requirements for budgeting tool
 Implemented new functionality to load budget data into SAP, redefined process accordingly and performed budget loading for the Richemont North America brands

Business & Decision (Paris) Feb 2005 – May 2008
3+ years of progressive consulting experience in Business Intelligence from junior consultant to junior project manager
Integrated information/decision-making systems, reporting, budgeting and forecasting systems based on Hyperion solutions. Participated to all phases of the projects:
 Definition and monitoring of project methodology, phases and resources
 Project comities and workshops animation
 Business requirement, technical and functional specifications definition
 Implementation including technical integration, database design, scripting, forms and reports creation, and global settings
 Key-users and developers training, documentation and change management
 Users acceptance testing, go-live and rollout management.

Assigned within several different French front-rank companies. Main projects:
 Groupe Médéric (8 months as a project manager, managing 2 consultants): Implemented a reporting and budgeting solution concerning HR and general expenses
 Heineken (2 months): Updated and enhanced reporting Essbase applications. Defined amelioration plans
 CNP Assurances (12 months): Implemented an international reporting system leading the subsidiaries of the group and a budgeting and forecasting solution concerning the general expenses
 Aéroports de Paris (6 months): Implemented an « operational business plan » making system
 Sanofi-Aventis (5 months): Implemented a budgeting and forecasting solution following the merger of Sanofi and Aventis
 France Telecom (2 months): Updated a corporate performance management system
 Cadbury (1 month): Performed a technical audit of a sales performance management system
 SFR Cegetel (4 months): Implemented a budgeting application

PSA Peugeot Citroën (Rennes, France) Sep 2003 – Feb 2004
Professional internship (6 months)
Made secure a supply chain management information system by deployment of alternative process
 Collected and analyzed need in the field ; defined and optimized process
 Induced and trained users ; tested and validated process