Business/Systems Analyst - Project Lead Resume - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Highly resourceful and experienced systems and business analyst/project leader, with long - term experience in the entertainment industry.
For over two decades, designed and customized business applications. Specialties include:
Face to face client interaction, strong written, verbal and documentation skills along with analytical expertise
Extensive knowledge/experience of system solutions resulting in business improvements, system upgrades and data conversions
Building strategic partnerships with business and development teams which results in project completion by deadlines
Team contributor in financial and ERP systems which include AR/Credit Review/Collections, AP, GL, Supply Chain
Gathering and documenting business requirements, process flow diagrams and use cases
Custom development in .net Cloud based and AS400 system
Project Leader for over 30 projects in large corporations using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Self starter, works independently and pro-active

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business/Systems Analyst - Project Lead

Responsibilities:

Interfaced with international office SMEs to gather business requirements for various assignments. Customized .net system to automate manual processes.
Worked with third party vendor. Tested and tracked improvements using Jira. Assigned work to overseas associates.
Documented and prepared use cases, test scripts, scenarios, training and financial procedures for implementation using Sharepoint, Visio, Excel and Word.
Prepared and presented green light documents using Powerpoint to executive stakeholders. Designed and created ad-hoc reports to help with business decisions.
Handled financial and manufacturing projects with extreme deadlines. Drove projects toward results and closed outstanding items for multiple assignments.
Analyzed requirements and designed system interfaces for large customer base.
Acted as primary liaison between IT and financial users to determine best system approaches for meeting financial practices.
Supported and delivered audit requests requiring historical database extracts which saved millions of dollars.
Facilitated testing for corporate payables project with end users. Interfaced between AP system vendor and client departments.
Became technical support administrator and systems point person for historical business requests subsequent to SAP conversion.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

Converted legacy systems to JD Edwards. Interfaced with department users to develop checkpoints for acceptance.
Integrated new distributor warehouses (Chicago and Canada).
Customized returns processing, revenue sharing and restatement systems.
Wrote and tested financial specifications for SAP business warehouse conversions from AS400 JDE.
Completed system implementations for special accruals, accounts receivable and payables, monthly financial reporting and interface to corporate mainframe financial system.