Senior Business Analyst Resume Eden Prairie, MN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Experienced Senior Business Analyst and Systems Analyst with strong technology and finance background.
I Strive to create and maintain strategic relationships by acting as the liaison between business partners and technology teams including business users, project managers, analysts and development teams.
I am skilled at gathering and evaluating business requirements, recommending strategies that enhance efficiency, and designing and implementing solutions.
I have served as the subject matter expert for many areas of business functionality, particularly for many interfaces to and from various enterprise systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Serving as the liaison between business and technology teams
Facilitating and leading requirements gathering sessions
Evaluating and clarifying business requirements
Preparing functional and technical specifications documentation
Designing solutions while working closely with technology architecture and development teams
Effectively contributing to JAD sessions
Communicating design decisions to all stakeholders
Developing and maintaining detailed data mapping for conversions and interfaces
Creating and executing use cases and test cases to thoroughly evaluate solutions
Collaborating with infrastructure, security and quality assurance teams to ensure best practices are used for all projects
Balancing priorities for deliverables while working on multiple projects concurrently
Continuously utilizing enterprise standards for SDLC, QA, UAT and change management while seeking ways to improve upon them
I have experience with the following applications, software, and tools
Business applications: (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.), Microsoft Dynamics GP, Oracle EBS Financials, Oracle Retail Merchandising System, Riversand Master Data Management, MS SQL Server including SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Integration Services (SSIS)
Collaboration Tools: SharePoint, Atlassian Software Development and Collaboration Tools including JIRA, Confluence, Kanban, HipChat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Business Process Analysis
Identify and recommend Business Process Improvements
Small project leadership
3rd tier support and troubleshooting
Conversion and interface data mapping
Business Workflow and Process Diagrams
Business Impacts and Gap Analysis
Facilitating requirements gathering sessions
Mentoring less experienced BA and support team members

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