Sr Business/financial/acquisition Data Analyst Resume
Herndon, VA
SUMMARY
- Over ten years of information technology, business analysis, systems analysis, requirement analysis, reconciliation, project management experience, testing and custom development
- Over 7 years of IT experience in RDBMS & Data warehousing, experience in design, development, testing, implementation and support of enterprise data warehouse.
- Strong experience in Business and Data Analysis, Data Profiling, Data Migration, Data Integration
- Experienced in Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Test Preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management, and Management Reporting.
- Experienced in developing Data Mapping and Identifying Bottlenecks of sources, mappings.
- Ability to collaborate with peers in both, business, and technical areas, to deliver optimal business process solutions, in line with corporate priorities.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including Requirements, Specifications Analysis/Design and Testing as per the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Ability to understand current business processes and implement efficient business process.
- Expertise in defining scope of projects based on gathered Business Requirements including documentation of constraints, assumptions, business impacts & project risks.
- Analysis and review of Software and Business Requirement Documents.
- Gathering business and Technical requirements that would best suit the needs of the technical architectural development process.
- Experience with leading multiple projects as a project manager
- Interviewing Subject Matter Experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.
- Substantial knowledge of the Mortgage Banking Industry, practices of the Secondary Mortgage business, Asset Servicing, Real Estate financing and Government Consulting
- Extensive working knowledge of analysis, requirements gathering, testing in the Data Warehouse (DW) environment
- Strong analytical, problem solving and result - oriented skills
- Excellent organization, verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in the time-sensitive, fast-paced environments
- Skilled at learning new concepts quickly, can work well under pressure and able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
- Excellent team player with an ability to perform individually, good interpersonal, analytical skills, multitasking and detail oriented
- Ability to work independently and as a cooperative team member in a deadline-driven environment
- Experienced in developing accurate business process requirements
- Excellent communicator focused on customer service.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Sr Business/Financial/Acquisition Data Analyst
- Worked closely with management and business partner to identify, prioritize and analyze business requirements.
- Worked closely with Project Team, SME and Internal Business Partners (IPs) to clarify business requirements and translate the requirements into technical specifications.
- Preformed gaps and requirements analysis to ensure functional requirements are met.
- Worked closely with the development team and provided input on design solutions
- Involved from beginning of the project such as of Statement of Work (SOW) to post implementation of SDLC process.
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts for all testing events such as Quality Assurance Testing (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Unit Integration Testing.
- Worked closely with cross functional teams to facilitate gathering of business requirements.
- Created and managed multiple project plans for projects
- Lead multiple projects as a project manager
- Worked closely with a project team for gathering business requirements and interacted with business users to translate business requirements into detailed mapping documents
- Conducted workflow, process diagram and gap analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
- Interacted with stakeholders to understand client business processes.
- Created and managed multiple DW Project plans for the Finance, HR and cross functional team projects to help keep projects on schedule and deliver on time.
- Lead and managed a cross functional DW project for environment upgrade to the cloud environment
- Held meetings with projects team to help ensure company best practices, lessons learned, deep dives to ensure process compliance.
- Managed and lead DW environment upgrade
- Met and lead efforts with clients to capture detailed business requirements, functional specifications, and transformation rules
- Documentation, analysis and testing of the existing Financial and Acquisition data capture process and recommendations on streamlining the process in a new data warehouse
- Provide meaningful analysis on financial data to minimize the impact of inaccurate data on downstream users and systems
- Partner with the development team staff to ensure that the business and functional requirements are properly communicated and correctly translated into ETL code
- Successfully preformed Quality Assurance testing for Financial and Acquisition data capture, transformation and storage processes
- Lead team in time sensitive and fast passed projects
- Preformed Quality Assurance testing using the Toad and SQL developer for oracle tool
- Created and executed Quality Assurance SQL scripts used for manual testing
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Business/IT Analyst
- Lead role in implementing Business Objects reporting tool as an Adhoc function
- Created and developed Business Objects reports and queries
- Designed end user universes in BOXI to support the customers
- Lead role in creating and maintaining Business Objects migration and change management process
- Created test events and scripts to facilitate the execution of the business user’s acceptance test
- SME (subject matter expert) for Business Objects on the MIS team
- Supported all requests for Audit and Investor Reporting teams
- Met with business stake holders, relevant departments, and groups to identify, assess, document, and review business requirements
- Served as a SME (subject matter expert) associated with content, processes, and procedures associated with implementing applications
- Detailed understanding of inputs/outputs and importance of data quality and data efficiency to an operational environment
- Standardized operational deadlines to ensure that deliverables were met on time and within budget
- Identified, evaluated and lead the implementation of process improvement initiatives
- Team lead for successful migration of ASC Main (Production Database) from an Active Directory Server to a dedicated production server. Activities included: needs assessment, requirements writing, test case preparation, UAT test execution, training, and rollout in line with Confidential standards
- Prepared presentations for senior management with a clear summary of changes, trends and analysis
- Interacted with all levels of management from Master Servicing and other divisions on a daily basis
- Performed daily ad-hoc reporting in support of Auditors, Analyst and Servicers
- Identified and developed business requirements for business needs, created testing documentation and supported migration efforts
- Developed, maintained and managed the creation of user reference guides
- Created and provided data presentations for lender visits
- Performed regular daily and monthly updates to business critical EUC (ASC Main)
- Responsible for updating and distributing the month end management reports
- Led efforts for gathering requirements to fulfill business users needs
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Business/Data Analyst
- Lead role in identifying risk and establishing controls for Multiple Addresses Project with FMIS and NSO
- Implemented a process to reduce the 130K population of identified risk and fraud issues
- Lead role in organizing, processing and supervising the accurate execution and control of Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) MBS and Portfolio loans within established deadlines; reconciled related accounts and identified and corrected related reconciling items
- Developed SCRA policies and procedures for management with flow charts and documentation evaluating controls and operational risks
- Led automation process initiative for SCRA with Business Requirements and Servicing Guide changes
- Coordinate project tasks and deliverables to ensure timely completion and implementation
- Developed, produced and interpreted Management Information Systems (MIS) weekly and monthly reports for upper management
- Established and maintained strong relationships with internal customers such as Investor Reporting, Credit Policy, Credit Research and Servicing Consultants, and external customers such as Confidential Servicers
- Supervised training and execution of various processes within the business group
- Managed multiple projects including planning, client management, tracking and reporting
Confidential, Herndon, VA
Business/Data Analyst, and Tester
- Supported the creation, testing and implementation of a new web based system capable of processing different loan and pool products with increased flexibility and speed
- Developed a Microsoft Access database to facilitate the business user’s acceptance test for processing mortgage-backed securities, whole loan deals, excess servicing fee strips and other pools
- Developed and maintained complex modeling tools in Visual Basic to replicate monthly pool aggregations, investor distributions, disclosure creations, accounting transactions and interfaces/reports
- Created test events, scenarios and scripts to facilitate the execution of the business user’s acceptance test
- Created universe and reports using Business Objects to improve data availability for end users
- Coordinated with other business teams to select test data and ensure smooth end-to-end testing
- Mitigated risk by thoroughly testing the system to ensure business requirements are met and controls are in place
- Coordinated with the technical team to answer business requirement questions, make updates and resolve issues
- Assisted in other aspects of the business user’s acceptance test including processing different loan remittance type A/A, S/A, S/S and different loan products like “bi-weekly, daily simple interest, and adjustable rate type mortgages
COMPUTER SKILLS
Web Tools: FrontPage, Adobe Illustrator 8, Adobe PhotoShop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, Macromedia Fireworks 3, Flash 4, Sound Forge XPv4.557., Webtrends
Languages: Visual Basic 6, VB Application, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML 4, DHTML, Java Script, and ASP
Databases: Ms Access, Oracle 8x
Tools: Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Power Point, Ms Visio, ERwin 4.0(Case Tool), Business Objects, Clear Quest, DOORS, Toad, SQL Developer
Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 7
Web Server: Microsoft IIS