Business Analyst Resume

SUMMARY

Analyst seeking to leverage experience and education in new career in Product Development. Strong product management skills with deep understanding of product vision and overall product lifecycle.
Combine statistics, product, and data science techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
Partner with developers and business teams to test models in production; build customer - facing reports explaining insights. Work closely with business staff to propose and build solutions.
Ability to use code (Python, SQL, R etc.) and work in an Agile environment to analyze data and apply product management skills to provide customer-oriented solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with teams managing the financial and business data for this globally integrated trading company.
Support accounting, financial and transactional reporting including production of accurate, timely, and informative financial statements and relevant KPIs for presentation to the management team.
Manage relationships with banks; open 5 to 20 LC’s weekly to support trading obligations.
Use forward thinking skills contributing to new ideas to improve financial transactions and reporting for trading.

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Defined project vision and worked with engineering, sales, and marketing teams to design and promote products using Agile. Conducted brainstorming sessions with sales and clients to improve changes.
Performed A/B testing for clients on new product features/enhancements
Conducted customer interviews for product feedback/innovation
Conducted Win/Loss Analysis with customers to evaluate the existing sales process
Provided key support to the product team by facilitating investigation, analysis, review and documentation of business features and functionality. Worked closely with Engineering technical leadership to ensure key architectural roadmap items are woven into the product backlog using Jira.
Focused the team to work on product issues that maximize the return on investment.
Championed the product, pricing models, ran sprint, and backlog of tickets.
Utilized business acumen to facilitate and make final decisions on releasable projects.

Confidential

Senior Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

Continued growth and development in Hyperion Planning/Essbase knowledge and experience while also being involved in sales and project management.
Supported pre-sales for various clients and project management.
Developed and implemented several Hyperion Planning/Essbase solutions for clients tailored to their individual Forecasting and Budgeting needs.
Pivotally involved in over 10 projects spanning a variety of different industries and forecasting/budgeting processes.
Assisted clients in understanding how to conduct financial analyses through a developed Planning Application.
Guided clients on best practices for effective budgeting and forecasting. Conducted and led several meetings with client FP&A teams geared toward gathering strong requirements, developing a cohesive design plan, collaborating with team members and clients, and managing client expectations
Developed a comprehensive design tailored for each individual client to meet the Forecasting and Budgeting processes outlined by the business requirements.
Have been the primary consultant/liaison between the Confidential Project Manager and the client on three of the last four projects.