professional summary

Committed, results-oriented Business Analyst with extensive IT project and financial integration experience involving supervisory and individual contributor functions. Experience with full life cycle implementations. Team player with excellent analytical and organizational skills. Demonstrated key strengths in communications, pre and post implementation analysis and Change Management.

professional experience

Confidential

Business Analyst Contract

• Assigned to the Strategy, Architecture and Organizational Capability SAOC group which is under the Chevron Oil Upstream Capability IT Organization.
• Developed and published application Standard Adoption Design Instructions SADI concerning baseline strategic decisions and corporate instructions for deployment teams to reference.
• Work with and interviewed global Upstream Business Units, Functions and IT Technical and Architectural groups to complete required document points for each application Standard.
• Documented proposed opportunities for the improvement of design quality, alignment and standardization across the company.
• Completed required Standard Adoption Readiness Assessments SARA to capture the strategic intents for existing and proposed standards from Business and Technical experts.

Confidential

Business Analyst Contract

• Mass Balance and Fuels Processing system replacement SHARE to OAS and supporting applications CAP interface with Global SAP. Deployment is focused on all US Refineries and Plants.
• Developed design options for multi-Unit application utilization of new system As Is / To Be .
• Work with and interview local and global business and technical focal points.
• Develop and documented Functional and Interface requirements RTM
• Provide assistance to design team to ensure full understanding of all functional requirements.
• Data validation at different testing cycles through the Cloud with MS SQL Server.

Confidential

Business Analyst Contract

• Global Information Risk Management IRM implementation team member for all Class of Businesses within Shell Oil.
• Design Role Mapping from all lines of Business to central Unit.
• Engaged with all Stakeholders, technical and functional, to ensure design and scope integrity.
• Reconciliation of all Finance and Budget activity through SQL and Business Objects analysis.
• Business Case Development, add on designs, work around and test disaster recovery strategies.
• Design MOA and IRM System approval requirements and levels.

Confidential

Analyst Contract

• Engaged with post system implementation, financial analysis, reporting, and project reconciliation activities. Assigned as an Analyst with the BP Gulf of Mexico E P Team.
• Management reporting of Leadership Team Scorecards, KPI's, Project Dashboards.
• Assisted in the development of Logistics Trackers, Equipment Request Status report, Contract Procurement Plan through BP Systems.
• Status analysis and reporting concerning activities from System Management Tools including FileNet, MS SQL Server - Oyster WH and Ariba to provide internal and vendor activities.
• SharePoint Administrator to 28 different PSCM sites and numerous Listings/ Document controls.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Global SAP Streamline finance program implementation team member for all Class of Businesses within Shell Oil.
• Design Role Mapping for FICO, Revenue, Credit, A/R, A/P, PSCM Global SAP .
• Worked on Business Case Development including add on designs and work around.
• Provided direct support to Global groups, Project Management Operations, and Business Units.
• Developed and maintained the consolidation of all Global Manufacturing, Supply and Distribution project accounting, project coding and cost analysis reporting.
• Served as focal point for: Financial accounting and control issues SOX project Test Control Register FICO Master file set up, Joint Venture accounting and due diligence.

Confidential

• Managed the monthly accounting process and provided direction for financial activity.
• Worked on the Shell's Annual IT Budget. Analyze Central Services and Business Unit cost.
• Assisted in reducing the US IT annual cost by > 200M over a 3 year period.
• Developed and implemented plans, processes and procedures for the effective delivery of MI within the business units and projects Utilizing Business Objects.
• Directed Project cost analysis Project coding and reporting Labor cost allocation Workforce reporting and Lease equipment analysis.

Confidential

• Supervised the SAP implementation of the Shared Services activities between Shell Oil and Texaco.
• Set up the SAP modules for FICO, AP, BA, and the allocation process.
• Managed the reporting analysis for each Business Unit utilizing Business Objects.
• Compiled the Monthly Financial Statements for all Business Units and KPI performance reports.
• Supervised the monthly closing and allocation process to the Business Units.
• Responsible for reporting and completing the consolidated Annual Unit budgets.

Technical skills

SAP, Ariba, Oyster, FileNet, MS Applications, Visio, Livelink, Power Point, SharePoint, Business Objects, Microsoft Office Suite, MS SQL Server and SQL TOAD , Cloud Database, Endur, and Access