SUMMARY

• Senior Analyst andInformation Technology professional with an excess of fifteenyears' experience in business, functionalrequirements gathering and documentation, process analysis, data analysis, gap analysis, used case documentation, testing, project scope, schedule, and riskmanagement within industries such as financial, pharmaceutical and healthcare.
• Coordinated, documented and successfully executed requirements with primary focus on new application development, data/system migration, process analysis, data analysis, analysis/alignment of IT with governance framework, data privacy or security assessments, gap analysis and application upgrades.
• Delivered requirements for multi-million dollar projects within the financial industry for companies such as GE Capital, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, UBS Investment Bank and Noble America for deliverables with focus on financial products, process and data improvements.
• Adept at working with all levels of stakeholders nationally and globally to provide high levels of quality service.
• Maintained excellent business relationships with stakeholders, gained sign off on deliverables and ensured their needs are met throughout the development and implementation of each complex program.
• Tested, identified and documented defects and proactively managed the resolution of defects in order to eliminate risks.

SKILLSETS

Business Analysis:

• Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Process Analysis for Current and Future State, Functional Analysis, Gap Analysis, Workflow Analysis, Data Analysis and Modeling, Technical Documentation, User Acceptance Testing, Document Management, Credit/Margin Workflow Process, Project Management,Excellent Communication, Interpersonal, Prioritization and Leadership skills.
• Applied stakeholder management skills among leaders within areas such as, Risk, Program and Product Portfolios, Marketing, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, Finance, Information Technology, Pharmacology and Healthcare.

Application/Software Knowledge:

• MS SharePoint, MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Visio, SAP BPC, SAP Net Weaver,HP Quality Center, Remedy, JIRA software, Vantive Software and Blue Print Requirements software.

Equities/Derivatives Trading Risk Management Systems:

• Master files Trading and Repository system, Boomerang Trading system, Open Image Trading system, Memphis Trading system, Listed Options, Margin and Collateral Management system, Triple Point Commodity XL TPL Energy system, Global Counterparty Energy system.

Knowledge:

• Business Analysis, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Project Management, Quality Assurance Testing, Risk Management, IT Governance, HHS and HIPAA regulations, Commodities, Clearing, SPAN Margin Process, Equities and Derivatives products,Complex Matrix Organizations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Data Lead

• Liaised with EDM team and stakeholders from departments such as: Risk Management, Economic Capital, Stress Testing, Treasury, SEC Reporting, Finance and IT to manage, gather, and producenewhierarchies of data for all GE business units.
• Worked with Enterprise Data Management team to research and develop a consolidated master internal and external product and attribute hierarchy.
• Created a master data dictionary by collaborating with all teams within the Enterprise framework.
• Produced and monitored detailed scope, requirements and schedule to establish benchmarks.
• Performed gapassessments, identified and eliminated gaps betweenmaster product hierarchy and the current state product hierarchies, evaluated results, produced findings and recommendations.
• Assisted with standard operating procedures and data lineage maps on the flow of product information to various downstream activities.
• Produced status reports and managed the project timelines and resources.

Environment: ProjectExcel vlookup, pivot tables MS Project MS Power Point, MS Power Point.

Confidential

LeadAnalyst,Risk Assessment- Contract

• Elicitedstakeholders from various divisions to successfully captureand document the current state processes, data flows and activities, utilizing MS Visio and MSWord.
• Coordinated, gathered and documented the current state of all processes and activities within the health care divisions,and performed a Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment which provided process and data transparency, identified all areas of non- conformance with HSA and HIPAA regulations, resulting in a report for a corrective action planwithin health care divisions.
• Created process flow and data flow throughout each system and documented the system architecture utilizing MS Visio.
• Mapped, analyzed and assessed findings among processes and controls toproduce a report for corrective action and appropriate controls, utilizing MS Excel and MS Word.
• Managed and executed the assessment by applying the appropriate project management skills, utilizing MS Project.

Confidential

Senior Analyst

• Worked with the Business Planning and Consolidation team on requirements for the conversation of financial data from several complex R D systems into a SAP Business Object Consolidated Financial Data set that provides automated input, upload, output or reporting schedules for planning, budgeting and forecasting amounts.
• Maintained excellent business relationships with stakeholders and ensured their needs were met throughout the development of this highly complex program
• Created detailed used casesto satisfy SDLC requirements in each schedule, successfully coordinated testing and worked with business stakeholders and developers to execute deliverables within an aggressive timeline.
• Worked with developers to define and document data requirements, security requirements, cost center requirement, develop hierarchy of tables, categorize dimensions and define member properties associated with data and their values.
• Modeled various scenarios for the creation of input, output and upload and reporting schedules for financial planning.
• Assisted the software development team in the translation of financial actual, forecasting, planning and budgetary requirements into technical specifications.
• Identified and documented defects using JIRA software and proactively managed the resolution of defects in order to eliminate project risks.

Environment: SAP BPC, SAP Net Weaver, JIRA Software, Microsoft Office Suite.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

• Elicited stakeholders from within the Credit and Risk management, Legal, Treasury and Operationsteam in order to define, gather, document and gain approval on business and functional requirements for the new application.
• Co-ordinated and managed the requirements documentation, design and testing of a manual and time consuming collateral and margin workflow spreadsheet process into to a new collateral management and margin workflow application that automatically calculates and generate counterparty and collateral margin risks.
• Created user interface mockups, process flows, formulas and prototypes to demonstrate the integration of trade, position, counterparty, credit, agreements, collateral and margin data which is transformed into the processes of the new system. Evaluated unstructured data among the trading systems and performed a gap analysis to produce categories of referential data requirements, needed to determine database requirements and solutions for margin, exposure balances and reports for the system
• Created a procedural document, defined data structures, and documented data dictionaries that describes all features and data within the new Collateral Management system, Amphora and SunGard trading system.
• Developed used cases and worked with user acceptance testing team on successful resolution of all functionality.
• Utilized MS Excel in the design of GUI screens, MS SharePoint as the primary repository, and dashboard to provide global transparency and MS Project to manage schedule and scope.

Environment: Microsoft Office Suite Derivatives/Equities Market Data C Sharp and Dot Net