Financial Business Analyst Resume
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Philadelphia, PA
SUMMARY:
- Financial Business Analyst with 6 years of experience in Finance and Procurement, 5 years of experience working with SAP application (Material Management and Financial Accounting & Controlling Modules), experience working with fixed income and asset backed securities, excellent organizational & interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of SQL
- Extensive experience in Financial domain with exposure to gathering & analyzing end business user requirements
- Experience in MS Office, deep knowledge of Excel (Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, MATCH, Macros) and Visio
- Proficient in developing Use Case Models, Process flow charts, and Use Case Diagrams
- Experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Expertise in Business Analysis and Requirements Management in Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
- Experience in full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from association with end - users for requirements determination, defining the system scope, system analysis, Business Case Development to Rollout, Production, testing, maintenance and documentation
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
COMPUTER SKILLS: MS Office (advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access), SQL, Share Point, Bloomberg, SAP (R/3), SPSS, DataStream Advanced, Capital IQ, Factiva, Balsamiq
LANGUAGE SKILLS: English/Russian/Ukrainian - Native | German - Conversational
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Philadelphia, PA
FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST
Responsibilities:
- Elicited requirements by interacting with the multiple levels of stakeholders, using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process analysis and workflow analysis.
- Documented requirements, including functional requirements specifications, non-functional specs, and business requirements, translated specifications to technical team.
- Obtained Data requirements, identified data sources, determined the content of data fields and created Data Mapping Documents.
- Created a front end prototype using VBA (Excel and Access) to capture data from customers which was then later implemented
- Conducted UAT.
- Documented technical information, project information and developed material.
- Developed a POC for streamlined billing system which increased collection of accounts receivable by 32% and enhanced entity’s ability to invoice by 52%.
- Researched applications development platforms like Salesforce and Zoho Creator. That led management to take quick decision on technology front.
FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Created models of "as is" and "to be" business processes and associated narratives for the payment system.
- Conducted in-depth financial analysis on prospective and existing vendors.
- Gathered requirements (Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams) for SAP developers and architects (SAP ERA, ERO and ERP environments) for the SWIFT payment system.
- Led and organized requirements gathering sessions and JAD sessions before groups of Subject Matter Experts.
- Prepared user stories to make the product backlog.
- Conducted UAT.
- Found a gap in business processes that was putting the entire region Anheuser-Busch RUK under a threat of the manual manipulation on sensitive payment data.
- Initiated regional process improvement actions with respect to the identified gap.
- Found banking partners to support SWIFT payment innovation for the RUK region.
Confidential
CREDIT RATINGS ANALYST’S ASSISTANT (intern)
Responsibilities:
- Assisted in credit risk analysis, strategic research (qualitative and quantitative), financial analysis.
- Collected/updated quantitative and qualitative research-tailored information (database support, news updates, and spreadsheet statistics), report writing.
- Interpreted, inputted and adjusted financial statements and annual reports data.
- Developed and implemented Excel-based reporting advancing tool.
ANALYST
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Participated in indirect procurement (MRO), inventory management (SAP R/3).
- Followed the contracts and management of the indirect material supplies, SQL queries and report writing.
- Wrote correction releases & closure of daily orders for technical maintenance group.
- Was involved in creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of the project.
- Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solutions and made recommendations.
- Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from the user perspective.
- Was responsible for gathering business requirements and doing GAP analysis.
