OBJECTIVE:

• Business Analyst
• Energetic and experienced professional who gains the trust of individuals, achieves consensus, and maintains long - term, mutually-beneficial business relationships. Experienced team builder and advocate for total quality.
• Strategic Planning 
• Policy Development
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Reporting & Forecasting 
• Tax Management 
• Troubleshooting
• Quality Assurance 
• Cost Reduction
• Process Improvement
• Policy Development 
• Continuous Improvement 
• Staff Training & Development
• GAAP 
• Transparency

SUMMARY:

• Oracle Business Analyst, Financial Management, and Accounting Professional with 12+ years of experience
• Expert level skills in the implementation, trouble-shooting, and support for Oracle EBS R12
• Extensive experience with General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Web ADI, UAT, SIT, SOW, Design, document, write and execute test cases and validate changes to existing test procedures and equipment
• Extensive experience analyzing and validation test date determine whether systems or processes have met validation criteria and to identify root causes of production problems.

ORACLE APPLICATIONS:

• Oracle 10g/11g R2
• Structured query language (SQL) Expert
• Database Architecture
• TOAD
• Database Migration
• Database Security
• RMAN
• Backup & Recovery
• Database Maintenance
• RAC/Grid Control
• Performance Tuning
• Enterprise Manager (EM)
• ASM & Non-ASM
• Oracle Applications
• Database Design
• Data Warehousing
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Testing
• Production
• Development & Documentation
• Installations & Configurations
• Upgrades / Patching
• User - Role Administration
• PL/SQL optimization
• E-Discovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering Sessions for gaining detailed requirements and finalizing Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• This process included interviewing SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes, data usage and data storage.
• Data mapping and field mapping of the data elements responsible for data migrations.
• Developed current state assessments and requirements for data archiving and retention and performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, and user administration to be used for the new migration platforms.
• Implementation Lead Consultant and Project Manager with expertise in enterprise software including Oracle 11i & R12, Hyperion, and Oracle Financial Module Enterprise (ERP) and Government sectors
• Proficient in corporate finance and resource planning, financial systems evaluation, design and implementation. Implementations include: Oracle Financial Module and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). Applications included OBIEE, Planning, Hyperion Financial Management for Financial Reporting
• Extensive experience with Web ADI, UAT, SIT, SOW, Visio, Design, document, write and execute test cases and validate changes to existing test procedures and equipment

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Solution Engineer 

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and documenting requirements of variety of projects ranging from internal enhancements, client requests to migration of different systems
• Responsible for generating and maintaining business and functional requirements of all the reporting needs of next gen version of portal
• Conducted controlled brainstorming sessions with project focus groups for collecting high level business requirements.
• Conducted several Requirement Gathering Sessions for gaining detailed requirements and finalizing Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Interviewed SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Involved in data mapping, field mapping of the data elements responsible for the migration BRD.
• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration to be used for the new migration platform
• Created and maintained a project schedule using MS Project showing all target dates for deliverables.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed over 20 key business and technology stakeholders to understand data usage and storage
• Developed a current state assessment and requirements for data archiving and retention.
• Review of current database size, partitioning approach and make recommendations based on key attributes.
• Review data model for opportunities to optimize and make recommendations.
• Incorporated his findings into a four year roadmap which additionally covered leading practices in ILM, data provisioning, data governance.
• Development/testing recommendations including Oracle12c features that can be leveraged for large databases, any tiered storage data management to support ILM.
• Participated in two deliverable presentations to the client Operating CIO and management team.

Confidential, Hamilton, VA

Data Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Focal point for making sound decisions related to data collection, data analysis, data security, methodologies and designs.
• Conducted research to collect and assemble data for databases - Was responsible for design/development of relational databases for collecting data.
• Maintained the data integrity during extraction, manipulation, processing, analysis and storage.
• Built data input and designed data collection screens - Managed database design and maintenance, administration and security for the company.
• Discussed intelligence and information requirements with internal and external personnel.
• Data output - Made data chart presentations and coded variables from original data, conducted statistical analysis as and when required and provided summaries of analysis.
• Trained data analysis beginners to improve overall efficiency of department.
• Cooperated with external outsourcing for the design and development of analysis.
• Engaged in cross-platform database migration; Data/metadata movements using Data Pump and SQL Loader.
• Planned for database growth and changes by undertaking capacity planning
• Created New Non-Partitioned Tables, Inserted data to be retained, Created and Dropped Indexes
• Managed Database Security environment using Profiles, Privileges and Roles.

Sr. Business Analyst ( SME)

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Design, document, write and execute test cases and validate changes to existing test procedures and equipment.
• Provided verification and validation testing across multiple platforms included new hardware and software level.
• Networking and Web related applications testing, doing functional integration and UAT testing on Web ADI, Attending weekly status meeting and working closely with business and analyst and developers offshore
• Generated bug reports and test reports. Worked closely with the developers in recreating the bugs and in verifying the bug fixes. Analyzed validation test date determine whether systems or processes have met validation criteria and to identify root causes of production problems.
• Designed, implemented and conducted test and evaluation procedures to ensure system requirements are met
• Maintained automated test script and architectures for application products
• Worked closely with Engineering, Systems, Product Design and Quality groups in the evaluation of test processes results
• Oracle Functional Consultant for the re-implementation of Oracle Applications, Merger PeopleSoft to Oracle Financial Modules
• Designing of global chart of accounts, multi-org structure, financial approval process re-engineering, Interfaces, data conversions of all Financials Modules were the key tasks of this implementation.
• Developed a strategy for merging stand-alone instances into a single instance in order to have better control General Ledger, Account Receivable and Payables processes, where purchasing and payables are on two different instances.
• Drive the assessment workshops through stakeholder interviews and discussions
• Documentation of user responses during the sessions.
• Identify and suggest process improvement opportunities around core Finance & Accounting operations
• Suggest best practices in Oracle EBS data migrations and 3rd party integrations
• Conducting ERP Assessments workshops in the context of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements, analyzing and documenting stakeholders’ needs.
• Includes designing of global chart of accounts, multi-org structure, procurement approval process re-engineering, Interfaces, data conversions, Daily Business Intelligence for the Financials, Procurement and Inventory modules were the key tasks of this implementation. .
• Assisted in Business Acceptance Testing/User Acceptance Testing of new development or changes for sign off prior to implementation into production.
• Developed test cases with the detailed test plan, and ensured that all developed test cases are part of a regression test.
• Provided support for the integration, Business Acceptance, User Acceptance test phases of the project.
• Involved in GAP analysis around the identification of design rules and system process flows, User administrative and requirements.
• Participated in Requirement gathering, design, documentation, setup and configuration.
• Setting up System Profiles, Application Security (user, menus and responsibilities) Flexfields, Value sets, Ledgers, COA, Calendar and Currency.
• Participated in making recommendations for implementation and to support users on resolving issues
• Set up transaction types, invoices, guarantees, deposit, credit memos and debit memos.
• Participated in Requirement gathering, design, documentation, setup and configuration.
• Defined GL setups, Chart of Account (COA), Calendars and periods for Assets and projects.
• Involved in Payment functions including Oracle Receivables, Payables, Cash, Bank operations.

Environment: General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Web ADI

Confidential, Snellville, Ga

Branch Operations Supervisor | Assistant Treasurer

Responsibilities:

• Performed statistical analysis of cash flow and budgets to evaluate interest and investment metrics and budget forecasting.
• Evaluated expectations and established midterm and long-term planning to meet costing guidelines, and assisted with all costing-related issues and financial statement preparation and utilization.
• Produced financial reports for each accounting period and maintained integrity of chart of accounts.
• Forecasted and planned future spending and profits.
• Prepared and preseccnted variance analysis reports to the Board of Directors.
• Prepared statutory reports (balance sheet sensitivity to interest rates, derivatives credit risk, pledging), conformity reports (asset concentration, asset quality, capital requirements), internal management reports (liquidity ratios, current assets, liabilities maturity, cash flow), and industrial and financial KPI reports.