Highly independent and fast paced business professional with over 9 years of proactive experience as a Business Analyst with expertise focused in Banking, Supply Chain, Ecommerce and Manufacturing domain. Being an inborn INTJ Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging personality which in itself explains my natural characteristics that are most required qualities for a BA including highly independent, self-motivated, detailed thinking, well organized, persuasive, strategic, timeliness, decisive, perfectionistic, inquisitive, logical and imaginative. In addition to this, I also possess strong verbal and written communication skills, leadership skills, math and analytical skills acquired through my educational career and my professional career as a Business Analyst.

Professional Summary

vExcellent conceptual knowledge in Business Analysis, Financial Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Forecasting, Budgeting, Project Management, Investment Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP , Business Process Re-engineering BPR , Production Planning PP , Quality Assurance QA with Six Sigma DMAIC and Statistical Process Control. vComprehensive work experience in various SDLC methodologies including Application Implementation Methodology AIM , Waterfall, Spiral, V - model and Agile methodologies such as Scrum, RUP, XP RAD. vAdept in performing SWOT Analysis, Gap Analysis, Cost-benefit analysis, Feasibility analysis, Root cause analysis, Data Modeling, Risk and Impact analysis. vExtensive experience in facilitating meetings and Joint Application Development JAD sessions with end-users, Subject Matter Experts SME's , Development and QA teams. vExpert in requirement gathering and preparing various artifacts such as Project Plan, Source to Target Mappings, Conceptual Data Model CDM , Logical Data Model LDM , Target Process Model TPM , Business Requirement Document BRD , Product Requirements Documents PRD , Functional Requirement Document FRD , System Requirement Specification SRS , Data Sheet, GUI, Risk Register and User Manuals vHighly proficient in creating Use Cases, User Stories, Wireframes, Static and Dynamic Prototyping and expertise with UML tools especially MS Visio for developing Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Timing diagrams, Communication diagrams, Swim Lane diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Process flow diagrams. managing resources and using math and analytical skills to gather information, find solutions to administrative problems and prepare reports strategically.

Technical Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Confidential

The messaging of client reference data to and from GMI using CDDS as a distribution method is a key building block to the long-term strategic Client Reference Data Program in Credit Suisse, Investment Banking Division. Stream GMI is a global, cross-asset and scalable back-office processing system for listed and cleared OTC derivatives. This project included migration of client account data from GMI Atlantic Pacific into Consolidated Client Repository CCR and the ability to capture and maintain data for GMI Accounts in iCON Account.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed GMI in-scope attributes
• Identified and defined all GMI attributes from all modules maintained by Reference Data Services RDS for both Atlantic and Pacific instances
• Identified all the GMI attributes in Customer Master System CMS and Asia Consolidation Effort Integrated Client Onboarding System ACE ICON
• Identified all the GMI attributes for amendment in Integrated Client Onboarding System Account ICON Account and all the GMI Party level APAC attributes in SIMBA system
• The source of all GMI attributes in Customer Master Module where identified by analyzing the upstream systems such as CMS Request, ACE ICON and SIMBA for golden sourcing attributes during Data Migration.
• Data owners for all the 200 attributes maintained by RDS in GMI where identified and approved.
• Analyzed the existing Logical Data Model LDM of Consolidated Client Repository for possible extension to accommodate the new GMI attributes and identified similar entities and attributes.
• Worked with other Business Analysts to prepare Business Requirement Document BRD and Functional Requirement Document FRD by conducting data analysis using the GMI Data Extracts.
• Worked with other Data Modelers in creating Conceptual Data Model CDM and extending the Logical Data Model LDM of Consolidated Client Repository CCR with new GMI attributes.
• Worked with other Process Modelers in creating Target Process Model TPM by understanding the Standard Operating Procedures SOP and developed current and target state Process Flow Diagrams.
• Conducted workshops to identify in-scope attributes by differentiating client reference data from non-client reference data through categorizing the attributes according to the business purpose.
• Produced various different Source to Target Mappings such as GMI account attributes from Atlantic and Pacific to CCR/LDM, Historical Party GMI attributes from ACE ICON to CCR/LDM, GMI EMEA attributes from CMS Request to CCR/LDM, GMI APAC attributes from SIMBA to CCR/LDM and On-going GMI attributes to ICON Account.
• Updated Client Data Dictionary with new GMI attributes and definitions and released the new extended Logical Data Model with new entities containing GMI attributes.

Environment: Embarcadero Rapid SQL, Mainframes AS400, IBM DB2, Sybase, Oracle 11g Client, UML, Erwin Data Modeler, Microsoft Office Suite Power Point, Excel, Word, Project , MS SharePoint

Confidential

Implemented Oracle EBS R12 Supply Chain Management Procure to Pay P2P cycle including Requisition, Request for Quote, Quotation, Quote Analysis, Purchase Order, Receipt, Invoice, Payments and General Ledger and Order to Cash O2C cycle including Ordering, Scheduling, Shipping, Invoicing, Receipts and Collections, Cash Management and Transfer to General Ledger.

Responsibilities:

• Identified business requirements for Procure to Pay and Order to Cash cycles working closely with the business team and mapped them to the Oracle application functionality.
• Performed as a Scrum Master and facilitated Project kickoff meeting, daily scrum meeting, sprint planning meeting, sprint review meeting, and sprint retrospective meeting for all the iterative sprint sessions.
• Configured the Oracle Applications to meet the client requirements and documented application set-ups.
• Led functional design meetings and documented business requirements and technical specification.
• Worked with external software vendors to turn specifications into software solutions.
• Developed detailed implementation and upgraded project plans in conjunction with other account team associates and ensured that documentation is updated when change requests were approved for the project.
• Worked with the Development team to deliver the implementation of P2P and O2C modules.
• Prepared project plans and testing schedules and coordinated testing activities and worked closely with internal business groups and third-party vendors to ensure the successful implementation of new modules.
• Worked with the user as an Administrator in the testing environment to test all results to determine whether system changes met project specifications used scenarios to assist the end user in acceptance testing.
• Developed end-user documentation with user manual and delivered end-user training.

Environment: Oracle EBS R12 Supply Chain Management, Microsoft SQL Server, UML, HTML, Microsoft Office Suite Power Point, Excel, Visio, Word, Project , MS SharePoint, Toad, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest

Confidential

Confidential Application consisted of two different modules: Sanction Screening module and Customer Identification module to provide fraud protection for Prepaid Master Cards. Sanction Screening Module was used to screen unauthorized applicants in which the applicant will be checked against the Screening Lists provided by the World-Check in the Confidential software. Customer Identification Module was used to verify the personal details of the applicant in which a third party tool called Ideology was used to check the personal details of the applicant.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted key financial analysis and reported to senior management including KPI reporting, variance analysis, profitability by country and various ad hoc analyses.
• Performed month-end close by preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, product line sales analysis and expense analysis within the framework of Sarbanes-Oxley SOX internal control environment.
• Used HP Quality center for loading the test scripts and logging the defects.
• Conducted Smoke testing for each build and then continued to more rigorous Black box testing.
• Used BPMN to specify various business processes in the Fraud Prevention department to generate Screening Lists for Sanction Screening Module in the Pegasystem software.
• Generated Work Breakdown Structures of RAD and tasks completed within each phase were as follows:
• Requirements Planning phase - Gathered and analyzed Business requirements from various departments Product, Marketing, Sales Fraud Prevention through interviews and JAD sessions with SMEs, Product Owners and Business Users
• RAD design workshop phase Presented actual working prototypes generated by programmers and analysts to the users using group decision support system and obtained refined requirements
• Implementation phase Generated Test plans and Test cases and introduced the Know Your Customer application to the organization as incremental product after successful testing and refinement
• Utilized RAD Rapid Application Development within the In-house SDLC methodology of MasterCard since the project involved novel application which needed quick results due to the pressing reasons from the business users and also due to the support of highly skilled programmers and analysts

Environment: RAD, MS Word, MS Projects, Mainframe, C .NET, SOX, MS-SQL, UML, MS Sharepoint, JIRA, HP Quality Center, BPMN, Load Runner.

Confidential

Monitored and analyzed inventory and supply chain reporting of various engines and engine heads in Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant by becoming a part of their Supply Chain Operations Team and provided a hands-on support role to ensure the efficient effective reporting on inventory and KPI metrics. Conducted material analysis to ensure corporate inventory goals such as inventory cost, turnover rates and lead times are achieved.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business plans and utilized inventory modeling techniques to set inventory targets and control levels, developed short-term supply plans, and determined the impact of inventory control issues on service levels.
• Assessed risks, identified trends and opportunities, and made recommendations to develop contingency plans.
• Conducted meetings with the functional managers to gather requirements and investigate the capabilities needed to meet certain business objectives.
• Converted the requirements into functional and technical specifications to be built by the development team.
• Worked with the system design and configuration of Oracle EBS Supply Chain Management Application.
• Observed automated flow manufacturing of engines and calculated the cycle times of various operations to identify bottleneck operations and compared it with the Takt times for Line balancing.
• Improved process capability of various processes with Process Capability Index less than 1.33 4 sigma using Six Sigma methodology and statistical process control.
• At the end of this project, the Key Performance Indicator KPI of Line Balancing and Inventory Management was improved and the Operations Excellence Score was increased from 1 Lowest to 4 Highest .

Environment: RUP, SAP, Oracle EBS Supply Chain, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Six Sigma, MS Project, MS Office, OBIEE, Enterprise Architect, LoadRunner, MS SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Altova XMLSpy

Confidential

Implemented Content Management System to migrate data from a robust content storage system to flexible SharePoint based CMS to prevent hardcoding and redundant deployments of the content for every minor change in the code. CMS was maintained across multiple environments such as Development, Testing, Pre-production and Production environments in order to reduce the load in each CMS and any change in values in the existing database was managed by Content Authors using automated jobs whereas CMS Deployment was conducted when a change in schema of the database was implemented.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost benefits analyses in an effort to determine whether the Content Management System will serve the purpose of fulfilling the business needs.
• Performed Gap Analysis for all the functionalities required in the CMS to determine the gap between the as-is and to-be state of the content storage systems.
• Worked with business users to define and analyze problems with existing robust data storage and aligned the most appropriate technical, application and configuration solutions.
• Utilized Application Implementation Methodology AIM in order to deliver high-quality CMS to facilitate improved decision making with various phases such as Start-up, Information Study, Harmonization, Testing and Go Live.
• Developed two applications for CMS: Content Management Application CMA to allow the Content author to create, modify and remove content and Content Delivery Application CDA which uses and compiles that information to update the website.
• Solicited, developed, documented and managed requirements and provided detailed design and business rules to make schema changes in the CMS and supported the requirements throughout project life cycle up to and through CMS Deployment.

Environment: AIM, .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET 2005, Microsoft SQL Server, UML, HTML, Microsoft Office Suite Power Point, Visio, Word, Project , MS SharePoint, Toad, Test Director, Rational Clear Quest

Confidential

Served as a SAP Production Planning Analyst and became a part of Accenture SAP-SCM-ERP Planning team who design, implement and deploy SAP ERP Supply Chain Management solutions specific to Planning, which is the process of coordinating assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer, balancing supply and demand.

Responsibilities:

• Trained in the niche skill of SAP-SCM-ERP Planning software
• Analyzed customer needs and participated in design of business process requirements from a production planning and costing perspective
• Translated production planning and costing business requirements into SAP functional and configuration requirements and documented it in the FRD and SRS artifacts
• Supported client's request prioritization process by providing high level estimates for design and implementation effort
• Utilized Six Sigma DMAIC process within Waterfall methodology to implement and execute ERP systems
• Supported Materials Management MM and Production Planning PP and Controlling CO upgrades and enhancements and Researched CO process, data, and configuration issues and provided recommendations for resolution
• Assisted in managing and controlling updates to MM/PP and CO master data
• Coordinated the QA and testing efforts during the IDE1 PL1 IDE2 PL2 phases by reviewing, creating, validating and executing test plans, test cases and test scripts and also reviewing test performance results
• Served as Capacity Planner and ensured 100 utilization of the available resources resulting in a 10 annual decrease in expense

Environment: Waterfall, SAP-SCM-ERP, SQL, C, C , MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint , SWOT Analysis, GAP Analysis, UML, Enterprise Architect, Rational Requisite Pro, Six Sigma DMAIC