Sr Business Analyst Resume
Glendale, CA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Professional Business Analyst, 25 years’ experience in IT area, with highly qualified Project Management skills, outstanding technical capabilities, strong leadership, goal oriented and relationship - building skills. Highly motivated professional with solid experience managing all levels of large scale projects, including budgeting and administration.
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking for Project Manager Position in IT Management area, whereby my working experience and will be utilized to achieve the company’s goals.
OTHER SKILLS:
- Strong analytical skills
- High quality planning capability
- Highly motivated team player that will help foster team growth
- Solid technical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Work Teams Direction
- Dynamic, highly motivated to reach and to comply goals and objectives.
- Strong orientation
- Strong organization and prioritization skills
- English f Off Shore team support
- Research issues, formally present solutions and recommendations to senior management
WORK HISTORY:
Confidential, Glendale, CA
SR Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Produce effective documentation of project and system deliverables, including business/functional requirements, gap analyses, technical requirements, data flow diagrams, process flow diagrams, business charters, meeting minutes, etc.
- Maintains Business Systems knowledge management assets to allow effective capturing, and developing Business Systems assets.
- Ensures business requirements are fulfilled through the process and technology solutions deployed.
- Compile business and technical test plans and use cases with business partners. Also performs detailed analysis to compile effective test plans, user stories/cases, interface specifications, and report specifications.
- Collaborates business users and development team to perform root cause analysis and recommends solutions.
- Performs iterative demonstrations of process and system solutions guiding business users through solution deployments.
- Works with business partners to develop acceptance criteria and plans that assure business acceptance, ensuring the solution meets the business requirements.
- Provide regular updates and communicate business concerns or feedback to the Project Manager/Team as appropriate.
- Identify and communicate risks and issues.
- Participate in planning and administration of programs related to the launch of new solutions.
- In the Interface Coordinator Role participate in interfaces design and review functional specifications in order to meet business requirements under Nestle standards
- Testing leader coordinator for Employee Central Pilot Implementation.
- Project Manager for Annual Enrollment process
- Responsible to maintain and enhance SAP HCM applications for Benefits module and Interfaces from a technical standpoint
- Design, configuration, implementation and support of SAP HCM for Benefit plan and interfaces.
- Participate in production support and ticket resolution responsibilities of the SAP HCM Benefits Team.
- Provide technical analysis and develop functional specifications and change requests for all interfaces process
- Responsible for keep track, documenting and issue resolution or new requirement for Benefits interfaces and processes
- Monitor system performance and status of business applications and interfaces, and coordinate any collaboration needed by Payroll team in order to guarantee the information integrity
- Provide technical assistance to customers and vendors, collaborate with appropriate teams to implement and test system fixes.
- Identify Benefits best practices and processes to satisfy business requirements.
- Ensure that system functionality complies with business requirements, established methodologies and practices.
- Responsible for documenting and prepare test cases for any interface change to ensure expected results to the users and vendors
- Participate in any technical upgrade impacting Benefits Module and its interface processes
- Work with our business partners to jointly identify and prioritize key projects.
- Perform post go live assessments of all completed projects
- Monitoring and reviewing interfaces processes and documentation in order to identify potential issues and processes improvement
- Standardize production support process by documenting key activities and responsibilities.
- Responsible for Implementing systems development best practices in project planning and documentation
- Responsible for improving all testing process by developing standard, repeatable scripts and test scenarios.
- Business improvement by automation large data loading processes and by process reengineering as Annual Enrolment and Reconciliation processes
- Work closely with business partners to understand their business, system challenges, and opportunities in the context of the requirements and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals in a timely manner.
- Gather and define business requirements to help resolve issues or plan for new changes and technologies. Find efficiencies and improvements to the business process
- Actively work in planning and execution of the year end process for the Benefits Human Resources
Confidential, Milwaukee, WI
SAP HCM Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Implementing, customized and configured the Personnel Administration Infotypes and Processes: Enterprise Structure for Canada and USA, Organizational Assignment, Personal Data, Family Members, Dates, and Personnel Ids. Work Schedule, Basic Pay, Payroll Data.
- Implementing, customized and configured the Benefits Module for Saving Plans and Health Plans: 401K, Life Insurance
- Customized and configured the Personnel Actions: Hiring, Re-Hiring, Termination, Change in Position, Change in Pay, Leave of Absence
- Implementing customized and configured Time Management Module: Holiday Calendars by location, Work schedule definitions and rules for 1 st shift, 2 nd shift, 3 rd shift, 12 roster, salaries and Non-bargain employee groups. Different Time schemas for hourly and non-bargain employees, Absences codes and rules for paid absences and unpaid absences, Overtime calculation process based on daily overtime weekly overtime and banked overtime, Different rates for overtime calculation, Payroll integration, Time Statement form, and Wages Type Time assignment configuration, Infotypes 2006, 2002, 2011 and 2001, Attendances for Regular Hours, Travel Hours and rules, Schema rules for alternative payments for regulars hrs and overtime based on employee subgroupings
- Customized Absence Quotas generation process for Sickness, Vacation and Personal Days based on employee groups and subgroups. Configured Calculating Absence Entitlements and Quotas deduction, Payroll Integration.
- Implementing, customized Time Quota Compensation
- Time & Attendance system interface with Time Management.
- Evaluated standard report for Absences and Attendances by cost center, by employees groups and subgroup, by country, Labor Reporting and forms to be generated by SAP
- Documented issues and workarounds
- Ad-Hoc Queries
- Activated OM Module. Loading master data for: Jobs, Positions, Org. Unit, and Function. Integration with Personnel Administration.
- Payroll process Post Going Live support
- Participated in Australia and Chile Roll Outs.
- Outsourcing Payroll for USA & Canada
- Evaluated Client Business Processes versus SAP HCM Business Processes
- Gaps Analysis
- Defined workarounds to fit the clients requirements into SAP Business Processes
- Recommended Business Processes changes and solutions
- Designed Material and Guides for end users
- Translated SME Material for Chile Roll Out
- Project Management documentation and deliverables
- Documented new requirements and enhancements Post Going Live
- Post Going Live Support
Confidential
Leader SAP HCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Implementing, customized and configured Personnel Administration Infotypes: Organizational Assignment, Personal Data, Family Members, Dates, Personnel Ids., Work Schedule, Basic Pay, Payroll Data, etc
- Implementing, customized and configured the Personnel Actions: Hiring, Re-Hiring, Termination, Change in Position, Change in Pay, Leave of Absence
- Determined Business Processes to be configured in SAP to fit the Clients requirements
- Implementing, customized integration between Personnel Administration and Organizational Management
- Implementing, customized and configured the Organizational Management Module: Jobs, Positions, Org. Units, Relationships between Org. Units and Positions.
- Determined standard reports for OM Module and Personnel Administration
- Designed interfaces inbound and outbound process. Determine the input/outputs required.
- Evaluated Legal reports and forms to be generated by SAP and in others applications
- Wrote technical specifications for conversion and interfaces processes
- ASAP Methodology
- Evaluated Client Business Processes versus SAP HCM Business Processes
- Gaps Analysis
- Defined workarounds to fit the clients requirements into SAP Business Processes
- Recommended Business Processes changes and solutions
- Coached Client Business Analyst
- Designed Material for end users and SME ’ s
- Project Management documentation
- Post Going Live Support
- Formulated the plan and activities for HR module implementation
- Follow-up the activities and products in each plan phase
- Coordinated meetings and activities with users team members: 4 end users. sessions planning: 10 persons
Confidential
Leader SAP HCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Evaluated Client Business Processes versus SAP HCM Standard Business Processes
- Gaps Analysis
- Project Manager role for scope definition, planning and execution
- Defined workarounds to fit the clients requirements into SAP Business Processes
- Recommended Business Processes changes and solutions according to Labor Law in Venezuela
- Determined Business Processes to be configured in SAP to fit the Clients requirements and into Labor Law regulations
- Coaching Client Business Analyst
- Designed Material for end users and SME’s
- Project documentation and deliverables
- Cutover activities Plan
- Designed Security profiles and roles
- Post Going Live Support
- Formulated plan and activities for HR module implementation
- Follow-up the activities and products in each plan phase
- Coordinated meetings and activities with users team members: 5 end users. sessions planning: 20 p.
- Designed Unit Test Plan and Integration Test Plan
- Defined Quality Assurance policies and procedures
- Defined Project procedures
- Guided Project Status Meetings: measures and tracking
Confidential
Coordinator SAP HCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Evaluated the Client Business Processes versus SAP HCM Standard Business Processes
- Gaps/Issues inventory and resolution
- Recommend Business Processes changes and solutions according to Labor Law in Venezuela
- Determined the business processes to be configured in SAP to fit the Clients requirements and into Labor Law regulations
- Designed Material for end users and SME ’ s
- Project documentation
- Cutover activities Plan for HR
- Quality Assurance activities.
- Designed Security profiles and roles sessions: 30 end-users
- Post Going Live Support
- Follow-up the activities according to Project Master Plan
- Coordinated meetings and activities with users team members: 8p.
- Project Budget controlling
- Coordinated Unit Tests and Integration Tests execution and results
- Reporting activities to the Project Manager
- Coordinated Project status meetings
