Lead Business Systems Analyst/project Manager Resume
Westborough, MA
SUMMARY:
Accomplished Business Analyst with extensive experience in the financial industry looking to leverage analysis, time management, and organization skills into a new position. Demonstrated success in collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams to analyze business and functional requirements. Effective coordinator in all phases of system development life cycle to deliver projects on time. Proven facilitator of cross - departmental relationships to increase productivity.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Skills: Waterfall and Agile Project Management, Scrum Framework, Cloud Essentials
Platforms: IBM Mainframe MVS, Tandem Mainframe
Applications: Mutual Fund Transfer Agency (FSR), Fund Accounting Security Processing System (Phase3) Order Clearance, Confirmation, and Settlement
Databases: SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Access
Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel with Pivot Tables, PowerPoint, Outlook), Crystal Reports, Visio, Project, SharePoint (User and Owner), Lotus Notes, Project Portfolio Management, Jira, Insync, File-Aid, TSO, Remedy, DRAS Reports
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Westborough, MA
Lead Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Led team of 3 on- and off-shore developers by organizing and prioritizing functions, delegating goals and time frames for multiple projects, and training staff in policy and procedures.
- Organized meetings with internal and external users, communicated, and guaranteed effective management of project expectations, dependencies and timelines.
- Maintained project plans, directed team and business partners to complete SDLC documentation, gathered approval for implementation process, and facilitated lessons learned.
- Validated technical designs created by developers against functional specifications. Assisted developers to present technical designs in the Design Review Board.
- Chaired weekly Testing Review Meetings, analyzed testing documents, and provided feedback.
Business Systems Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Researched effective solutions to business partners, and clients for daily production issues that included account and transaction issues, ad-hoc reporting, and transmissions.
- Presented test strategy in the Testing Review Board meeting for all the projects within the group.
- Created a new procedure for share-class conversions which included data mapping of multiple files.
- Documented business, and functional requirements for a new process, Know Your Customer. Conducted Joint Application Development sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
- Responsible for mapping lot file and flip process for conversion of account database.
Business Systems Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Participated actively in focus groups to gather requirements, formulated testing scope, objective and plan, executed test cases, verified results, and maintained issue log for annual fee project.
- Documented user and operation procedures, and provided training to end-users on the non-taxable exchange trade functionality to improve processing efficiency.
- Developed use case for commissions payments to brokers and dealers using industry standard Automated Clearing House file formats and reports.
- Reconciled and balanced numerous mergers, liquidations, and de-conversions and conversions of account databases.
Confidential, Burlington, MA
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed, designed and communicated business requirements to programmers to enhance the system.
- Managed Business Analyst meetings for training on the Order Processing System that processed security trades in different currencies helping firms to provide real-time balances and positions.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Quality Assurance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Successfully tested more than 50 database applications for Y2K compliance for PC and Mainframe environments for Fund Accounting Systems.
- Published an article highlighting accomplishments in Careers magazine.
- Attended Job Fairs with the Human Resources department to search for new hires.