SUMMARY:

• Experienced and successful IT professional with 6 plus years of track record on software engineering as Business Analyst, Risk Analyst, Financial Analyst and Deployment Expert.
• Outstanding record of understanding business needs
• Diversified domain experience.
• In - depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Also highly experienced with different methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, and Iterative.
• Expert leadership skills as a facilitator between Development Team and Executives.
• In-depth knowledge of contracting and negotiating complex situations.
• Proven ability to architect and engineer complex business process systems that are flexible, easy to maintain, and that align to business objectives.
• Experience in defining scope of the project, perform feasibility study, GAP Analysis (As-is to To-be state), Impact Analysis as required and proposed possible solutions.
• Expertise in preparing BRD, FRD, Use Case document, Financial Reports, and Process Flows.

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE:

• Project Management- ZOHO, JIRA
• Microsoft Office, Visio, SharePoint, SQL
• Accounting-Peachtree, Quickbooks Pro, People Soft, Chesapeake T-Recs
• Mortgage-MSP, LPS, HSSN
• HPQC
• MS Project
• Team Forge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Financial Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed daily general ledger postings and month end reconciliations.
• Efficient use of JIRA to document Scrum methodology (Epics, Features, Product Backlogs, Bugs, Defects)
• Assisted development team & business identify root cause of the issues
• Conducting Acceptance Testing
• Assisted business units (clients) with development of business cases.
• Writing, organizing and simplifying requirements.
• Writing and updating Business Research Documents.
• Monitored daily bank transactions to ensure that bank account balances to general ledger and any unusual items are investigated.
• Assisted with financial related Audits and all cash/restricted cash account reconcilement.
• Conformed and adhered to internal controls over accounting procedures as set forth by upper management.
• Requirements elicitation from business.
• Translating and communicating requirements to the development team.
• Obtained necessary approvals on project related documents and artifacts.
• Assisted in the development and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance workflow processes.
• Quarterly Forecasting of amortization for Pre-paid expenses, forecasting audit fees expenses, and forecasting expenses for other Income Statement accounts
• Prepare financial reports & variance analysis and assist with budgeting

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Project Manager in establishing project methodology, estimating resource needs handling conflicts with finances and deadlines and presenting propositions to project sponsors.
• Provided Project Management Oversight for new regulatory items issued by government agencies by planning, conducting, and completing analysis of current business practices & procedures.
• Assisted in GAP analysis and business process reengineering; identified and documented improving area to meet the end state requirements
• Worked throughout the SDLC, which included requirements, specifications, design, analysis and testing utilizing AGILE methodology.
• Identified internal and external system impacts and developed interim controls to monitor and/or limit risk exposure
• Performed cost benefit analysis, ROI & comparing actual vs. forecast
• Worked as the main contact between business units and compliance to ensure effective communication when developing new business practices programs and procedures
• Ensured that process improvements, trainings, and system enhancements were delivered on time
• Performed KPI (Key Performance Indicator) analysis and explaining results to upper management
• Proactively worked with multiple business units to identify possible risk exposure, to ensure compliance with regulatory oversight requirements, corporate policies and procedures including following projects:
• Accounting/Finance
• Responsible for processing monthly expense reimbursement report
• Prepared journal entries for daily activities
• Prepared monthly short/long term amortization schedules
• Performed tax research at state level
• Project Analyst- FHA Claims
• Served as conduit for managing system requirements between the business and the software development team
• Managed and trained group of ten associates and worked as a liaison between employees and management
• Performed manual loan level reviews; exceptional reporting updates, maintained confidential data audit findings.
• Provided a leadership role with my team and helped my peers display best practices for our client.
• Built relationship with attorney’s office to retrieve critical documents for completing the process
• Operation Management/HR Management
• Analyzed and managed the performance of all the active vendors
• Created & updated internal reporting database
• Recommended way to mitigate internal and external risk to management
• Monitored internal training database and on boarded new employees

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Business Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and modeled existing loan processing workflow; identified improved opportunities
• Responsible for auditing and closing portfolio consisting of GSE and non-GSE loans
• Responsible to make sure all closing adhere to internal policies & procedures and according investor guideline
• Created detailed Use Case documents, BRD and other business documents necessary for the development team and their understanding of project milestones.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from various business areas.
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle.
• Involved in the design of BRD, FRD, Use Case diagrams and Activity diagrams using MS Visio.
• Understood the requirements of the cash processing and fulfillment
• Prepared monthly closing report, analyzed monthly cash processed report etc.
• Interview end users of systems, collect requirements, develop use case provide them with the knowledge needed to run their business. Made use case to generate functional requirement/work with QA team. Performed data mining, simple programming, and report generation functions
• Developed practice of process improvements of workflow and created P&P as well as job aid for business department
• Created and maintained Business Requirements document and System Requirements document. In addition, was responsible for getting appropriate sign-offs and approvals.

Confidential, Lawrence, Kansas

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed preliminary credit application and analyzed the risks as well as associated DTI ratio
• Prepared all financial documents to finalize the sale & complied with federal & local law
• Created CSI report and conducted consumer surveys
• Acquired executed auto title and sent over to proper authority to file correctly
• Ability to handle large amount of cash and reported it properly
• Made consumers aware of the government tax incentives
• Excellent closing sales skills including going over legal papers with clients