PROFILE:

Seeking Purchase - to-Pay Business Analyst opportunity to develop technical solutions for business problems from definition through implementation and follow on maintenance.

AREAS OF PROFICIENCY:

• SAP - 8 years Process Mapping
• Warehouse Management
• QAD - 2 years Microsoft Visio
• Supply Chain Management
• QA Testing
• Workflow Implementation
• Master Data Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Logistics
• Cost Accounting
• Requirements Documentation
• Inventory Management s Financial Ratio Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with client stakeholders and end business users to understand gaps between as-is and to-be landscapes
• Liaise between SCAO product owners and third-party vendors to ensure all business requirements are clearly and concisely communicated
• Design and configure target system to meet business requirement functionality. Perform Unit Testing activities to confirm actual results match expected results
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing sessions and promote Train the Trainer change management philosophy
• Document all software defects and remediation action plans and communicate to software vendors for resolution, retesting and final sign-off
• Present project status updates, risks and issues to Executive Leadership Team on weekly and monthly basis

Cost Accountant

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Responsibilities:

• Developed Standard Cost maintenance process in Confidential system. Coordination across Program Management, Engineering, Purchasing and Operations group to ensure all data maintained is accurate and consistent
• Variance analysis of budget to actual costs with detailed explanation and corrective action plans
• Worked with Engineering, Program Management, Operations and Purchasing departments to ensure new program launch information has been identified and maintained in Confidential system
• Documented current as-is business process and develop to-be processes to maintain accurate and consistent data within Manufacturing and Costing systems
• Prepareed weekly, monthly and quarterly Gross Margin Analysis reports

Business Analyst

Confidential, Mason, MI

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business peers and IT staff (analysts, technicians, software developers) to assist in resolving problems with processes and the associated solutions and software systems
• Participated in the evaluation of vendor software targeted for possible integration into the systems or environment, including strategic applications, tools, and utilities
• Collaborated with project managers and project sponsors to continually align the project with business objectives
• Provided strategic consultation to assigned business customers to define or design business processes, functions and organizational structures
• Compiled or design architectural models of current and proposed systems across the enterprise
• Reviewed and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing processes and systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging technology solutions to meet business goals
• Translated conceptual requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the development team, the project team and executive management

Bill of materials/Business analyst

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Item Master Data in ERP system for use across all US manufacturing sites based upon Engineering Drawings, Engineering Change Notices and customer Change Requests
• Maintained Bill of Materials and Routings with ERP system for use in manufacturing of Finished Goods and Work-in-Process assemblies and sub-assemblies
• Maintained configuration of Process Change Control within QAD for Master Data approval workflow
• Cross-functional team member coordinating with Engineering, Finance, Program Management and Production Control to complete data elements required for new item transactions using QAD Process Change Control process
• Identified opportunities to harmonize common data used across all US manufacturing sites including Item Master Data, Customer Data and Supplier Data
• Performed data cleansing and conversion of Legacy Master Data to be used in QAD ERP environment
• Configuration and testing of new Master Data Maintenance processes within QAD. Create and maintain Work Instructions for Master Data Maintenance

Senior Inventory Analyst/Buyer

Confidential, Commerce Township, MI

Responsibilities:

• Supply Chain Business Process Lead for documenting current as-is processes and future to-be processes for use in development and implementation of new ERP solution across supply chain functions - procurement, inventory management, warehouse management, shipping and receiving
• Managed inventory levels and replenishment of stocking materials with focus on minimizing inventory carrying levels while minimizing stock out occurrences through issuance of purchase orders to approved vendor base
• Negotiated pricing, terms and delivery schedule with vendors based upon historic and forecasted annual volume of business
• Determined optimum stocking levels based upon historical demand, current demand, forecasted demand and vendor lead-time
• Developed vendor metrics and reporting including on-time delivery performance, over/under deliveries, backorders and quality performance. Develop corrective action plans for vendor improvement initiatives
• Developed early warning process for identifying potential stock outs and communicate to sales and management teams
• Identified and implement opportunities for re-sourcing of materials to consolidate like components and localize suppliers
• Created and modify Bill of Material breakdowns used in the consumption of inventoried materials and non-inventoried value-added services

financial analyst

Confidential, Bingham Farms, MI

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented new business process for acquisition of Fixed Assets for each manufacturing and corporate location including ROI analysis, Asset Master creation in SAP, capitalization of Fixed Assets and beginning of depreciation
• Documented all Accounting Process Policies to be used by internal and external auditors through requirements gathering sessions, process mapping, document creation and final review with each end-user area
• Identified business processes within Finance and Supply Chain areas that can be updated to better leverage SAP solution
• Managed excess inventory including reporting metrics, identify opportunities to reduce or eliminate obsolete inventory and review discontinued inventory and provide ongoing analysis to Vice President of Customer Relations for sales opportunities to third-party liquidators
• Developed incremental direct labor, direct material and overhead rate cost models for existing discontinued work-in-process inventory for determination of sales price required to meet or exceed sunk cost recovery rate goals
• Ran costing on new and existing work-in-process and finished good SKU in SAP. Identify items where BOM structure and routing information is incomplete and communicate to Master Data Team for correction

it business analyst

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Worked within cross-functional team across multiple business units including Indirect Material Procurement, Investment/Project Management, Fixed Assets, Finance/Controlling, Accounts Payable and Sales/Distribution
• Development and training of the Change Agent Network. Development, coordination and delivery of training processes
• Facilitated meetings to ensure all SAP project requirements are addressed and validated against Confidential Group LLC business processes
• Defined current Confidential Group LLC end-to-end business processes and mapped processes to future use of SAP across multiple business units
• Led cross-functional team of subject matter experts within Confidential to create and execute system test scripts, system integration testing and system assembly testing
• Functional design and implementation of Material Master (MM) module within new SAP environment