Business Analyst Resume Reston, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Senior Business/Data Analyst with extensive experience in the Financial Services Industry.
In depth knowledge of financial concepts and various financial instruments like stocks, bonds, derivatives etc.
Possess a strong mathematical and statistical background with proficiency in programming languages like R and SQL.
Rich experience performing data analysis and creating visualizations using Tableau.
Proficient with MS Excel and using advanced functions like Vlookup, Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts for data analysis and reporting.
Extremely passionate about Machine Learning and hands on experience creating statistical models using Regression, Classification and Clustering.
Extensive experience with Relational Databases and using SQL for data analysis including joins and Analytical functions.
Dedicated team player with excellent communication and presentation skills.
Possess solid organization, negotiation, analysis skills and demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple assignments, meet tight deadlines and be effective and decisive under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Intelligence & Reporting: Tableau, Business Objects, Crystal Reports

Programming Languages: SQL, R, Python, SAS

Operating Systems: Windows, LINUX, UNIX, IBM Mainframe

Databases: Teradata, Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Redshift

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

Facilitated requirements gathering session with the business users for the new SaaS application used for Business Architecture Modeling.
Worked in a fast paced Agile Scrum methodology and participated in daily standups for tracking project status.
Prepared requiremts document and mapped them to the desired functionalities to track traceability.
Coordinated with ancillary teams and departments to ensure successful onboarding of the application.

Data Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

Conducted meetings with the business users from HR and Legal domains to understand the business use case and requirements.
Created data dictionaty for HR and Legal business domains.
Validated data flow from source to the target system using SQL.
Used JIRA, Service Now for projects and issue tracking.

Sr. Analyst

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

Facilitated and led meetings with the client to analyse the business needs and other ad - hoc requests.
Created reports and visualizations to analyse data using MS Excel and Tableau and provided recommendations to the client.
Coordinated with the tech team to research data issues and anomalies.
Extensively used joins and partition functions in SQL to extract data stored across multiple tables in Relational Data Warehouse and getting it ready for further analysis.
Created machine learning models using R and refreshed existing models to improve their accuracy.
Created MS PowerPointpresentations to communicate the results and recommended future strategy to the client.

Sr. Data Analyst

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

Met with the business users and stakeholders to understand and document the business requirements.
Worked in a Relational Data Warehouse environment and extensively used SQL for data analysis.
Validated the data flow from source to target tables to ensure data is loaded per the business rules.
Created dashboards and reports using MS Excel and Tableau.
Discover business narratives told by the data and presented them to business stakeholders, and managers at various levels.