SUMMARY:

• Extensive IT experience, executing Business Analyst roles
• Proficient knowledge of gathering requirements, BRDs, and FSDs
• Strong background in Excel, JIRA, JAD sessions, UAT and QA documentation, BRD design and working within Agile environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Senior Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience with Data Mapping, Data Mining and Data Cleansing for multiple Data Migration Projects of various ERP Financial modules in SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Great Plains. Motivated team - player with exceptional communication and organizational skills driven to meet both personal and organizational goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Applies knowledge and understanding of business analysis concepts, principles, and techniques to gather, document and manage business requirements.
• Creates high-quality requirements documentation within specified time frames to solve business problems.

Confidential

Senior Business Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for organizing, leading and facilitating enterprise wide capturing of meta-data applications and their upstream/ downstream systems.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of business analysis concepts, principles, and techniques to gather, document and manage business requirements.
• Assisted and conducted thorough requirements gathering sessions with subject matter experts and development teams to review and document system requirements.
• Created high-quality requirements documentation within specified time frames to solve business problems.
• Create new processes for elicitation, documenting, and designing system functions.
• Support reporting and cross functional system integration efforts.
• Created and edited BRDs and FSDs for data side/data team, including print screens and instructions to be used across the team.
• Build and and mapping process using Excel & Access to identify data elements, capture sample data, then import into a metadata repository.
• Hold weekly JAD sessions with data stake holders to prioritize and compare data uses and reporting requirements.
• Create upstream and downstream data flows from enterprise applications to import into a continuous monitoring portal.
• Document and flowchart the process of accessing Big Data Applications (Hadoop) queries and data extracts.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the design, mapping, and implementation of current state and future state processes for a customized software application.
• Responsible or writing and linking UAT test scripts between JIRA and ALM Application.
• Responsible for providing the data and reconciliation to support audit requests.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of business analysis concepts, principles, and techniques to gather, document and manage business requirements.
• Assisted and conducted thorough requirements gathering sessions with subject matter experts and development teams to review and document system requirements.
• Created high-quality requirements documentation within specified time frames to solve business problems.
• Update, redesign, and populate requirements for Process Flow modeling and analysis.
• Responsible for scripting and maintaining “Actions Items” and formal documentation captured during department meetings for use in creating Standard Operating Procedures.
• Responsible for hosting daily scrum sessions for various applications (design & technical).

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Security Risk Initiative project responsible for identifying and creating a database for Login ID’s, server, and their associated application.
• Responsible for creating elicitation document from thebusiness.
• Created and edited BRDs and FSDs for data side/data team, including print screens and instructions to be used across the team.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of business analysis concepts, principles, and techniques to gather, document and manage business requirements.
• Assisted and conducted thorough requirements gathering sessions with subject matter experts and development teams to review and document system requirements.
• Created high-quality requirements documentation within specified time frames to solve business problems.
• Used V-Lookups and Pivot Tables for data comparison and validation.
• Responsible for working with Internal Audit to review regulatory requirements and compliance policies.
• Responsible for designing and implementing a company wide database in an agile environment fordistributing and collecting (human versus system) log ins and passwords.
• Responsible for writing reports to capture system metrics pertaining to log in security verifications.
• Responsible for synchronizing files between the shared directory and the Sharepoint site to share log information for various teams throughout Confidential .

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the Global Risk Initiative project responsible for implementing the new corporate risk strategies.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of business analysis concepts, principles, and techniques to gather, document and manage business requirements.
• Assisted and conducted thorough requirements gathering sessions with subject matter experts and development teams to review and document system requirements.
• Created high-quality requirements documentation within specified time frames to solve business problems.
• Created and edited BRDs and FSDs for data side/data team, including print screens and instructions to be used across the team.
• Monitor document versioning for new and revised business requirements.
• Review and analyze Impact documents
• Responsible for mapping global initiatives to the document and audit tracking system.
• Assigned to writing and modifying incomplete business requirements.
• Assigned to writing UAT scripts and using HP Quality Center to track use cases resulting in minimal defects.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Data mapping from various data sources (AS400, Access, Excel, Hyperion) to SAP Financial module.
• Write multiple financial report within the SAP Financial module
• Responsible for documenting current processes and use cases as well as working directly with developers to convert from legacy modules on an AS400 platform to Accounts Payable, General Ledger, and PM on JDE and SAP platforms.
• Participate in post implementation financial data corrections and documentation.
• Responsible for establishing partnerships with stakeholders and IT team to create business requirements and functional business documentation.
• Responsible for data extraction, analysis, and validation of multiple systems.
• Responsible for the technical review of data objects associated with Application Program Interfaces.
• Responsible for creating data dictionaries related to project and product terms and conditions.
• Use SharePoint to retrieve, update, and post daily client database transactions and reports
• Provide weekly project updates to the client at various phases of the SDLC using MS Project.
• Collaborate with various functional users, IT, and the client to define, design, and provide secondary support for production system issues post implementation by working closely with the desk top support team to document and resolve end user issues.
• Responsible for providing leadership in collaborating with stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements by creating supporting documents for review and approval such as: business requirements, functional requirements, use cases, flow charts: As-Is vs. To-Be, etc.
• Identify the appropriate mapping between applications to determine data elements required to invoke a web service via database stored procedures.
• Update project statuses after small project release cycles using a ticket tracking system (JIRA) in order to create, monitor, and update project statuses at various stages of the agile SDLC.
• Use basic SQL querying to determine run time errors between stored procedures and web services.

Confidential

Financial Business Analyst/Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for post ERP implementation analysis (client legacy to Confidential Horizon Product) of transactional posting exception errors.
• Responsible for providing documentation and database corrections that included “root cause” analysis of financial transactions in the client database using PeopleSoft and Oracle database administrator to query the Horizon ERP database.
• Used SharePoint to retrieve, update, and post daily client database transactions and reports for executive reviews (internally and externally).
• Responsible for editing files stored and providing documentation of the data cataloged on the SharePoint server while backing up all files and templates in preparation for Sox audits.
• Developed and used ad hoc SQL queries to analyze the database and provide research and perform updates for out of balance encounters which include adjustments for payments and charges.

Confidential

Financial Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Prepare financial statements, forecasts and analysis, created budgets, financial models, capital expenditure analysis, and ad hoc management reports for multiple clients.
• Use SharePoint for document retrieval and storage as well as posting project plan updates to share with third party vendors.
• Responsible for editing files stored on the SharePoint server and cataloging and backing up all files and templates.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings.
• Provide complete project documentation during the post implementation and project close out phases.
• Create test script documentation to define test conditions and implement effective requirements practices, including creating and editing business flow charts and diagrams.
• Support various business operations using multi-industry sector expertise by providing financial analysis and forecasting related to key performance indicator trends.