SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

• Project management and financial/business/data/process analysis experience in diverse business settings
• Thrive on projects that improve operational processes and financial/strategic position
• Skilled at solving complex problems and implementing solutions
• Proficient at: Enterprise business data, process, system analysis, SDLC, Agile, BPMN
• Hyperion Enterprise, Oracle, Business Objects, SharePoint, Excel, VBA, SQL, Toad, MS Project, Visio Planview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

• Collaborated with operational, financial and internal/external technical teams to drive the company wide transformation effort, moving worldwide enterprise resource planning from current state to the new consolidated project planning, financial forecasting, reporting process and tools
• Collaborated with different business units on Business Objects reports/dashboards and financial metrics standardization
• Partnered with enterprise master data management and architecture teams to develop target vision for master data for the enterprise resource planning and reporting program
• Supervised contractors, assigned workload, reviewed deliverables and provided consultation to team members
• Analyzed source data and system interfaces to determine the root cause of data issues Created data validation rules to mitigate data issues Assisted in designing processes to improve data quality
• Extracted, integrated and analyzed financial, clinical, and project planning data from various systems
• Evaluated solution options and timeline advised senior management on costs and benefits of each solution
• Collaborated with clients, business development, finance, legal, IT, vendors to drive process and system changes required to comply with US federal and international compliance reporting requirements
• Led team to implement a new scalable reporting process and user friendly reporting tool to be used across business units and customers
• Assisted in creating or revising policies, business processes and services provided to customers
• Recommended interim and long term solutions to meet customer's immediate and long term needs

Project Manager/Finance Business Systems Analyst/Enterprise Business Data Analyst

Confidential

• Participated in the company wide process re-engineering/improvement steering committee and presented findings to the senior management and operational teams to get buy-ins
• Managed internal staff and external vendors on process improvement, systems and operational projects that met customer expectation, timeline, cost and regulatory requirements
• Facilitated data stewardship team to align processes to enterprise data analytics requirements, standardize financial metrics, identify master data and get buy ins on process/data ownership
• Recommended manual and system internal controls to reduce business/financial risks and monitor data quality issues
• Led team to resolve data issues in the financial data mart and ensure accurate financial reporting
• Proposed solutions to integrate custom operational systems and financial system that resulted in timely and improved financial analyses
• Performed complex financial analyses and automated the data collection/formatting processes
• Analyzed business problems and evaluated business and data requirements
• Performed business process mapping/modeling, data mapping, information flow analysis, gap analysis and cost/benefit analysis
• Interviewed vendors and reviewed Gartner and various research articles to evaluate financial and analytical products' functional capabilities and architectural fit Presented findings to senior management team
• Trained users on new processes and reporting tools

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential

• Contributed to the development of the company's first corporate forward looking 5 years forecasting model to project income statement, balance sheet and cash flow and to support budgeting, planning and long term strategy
• Identified key drivers and assumptions for financial projection and analyzed market trends
• Performed various analyses to guide staffing, compensation, resource allocation, engagement contract and cost savings decisions
• Analyzed performance results and provided commentary on trends observe
• Worked with regional controllers on annual budgets and monthly forecast
• Consolidated worldwide financial results and provided recommendations to senior management team
• Analyzed planning, forecasting and reporting requirements and collaborated with developers to implement solutions
• Proposed and assisted in the implementation of a new corporate planning and forecasting system to improve financial analysis and reporting capabilities
• Automated the planning/forecasting and reporting process using Hyperion, Access and VBA

Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Confidential

• Managed and coordinated the implementation of a new financial reporting system SaFIRE
• Gathered and analyzed business requirements for the company wide initiative to improve operational process using Portal
• Automated and improved the information gathering process for SEC filings and shareholder's reports
• Resolved audit issues with the investment administration and operations, corporate finance, legal and marketing departments
• Prepared financial statements in accordance with GAAP

Auditor

Confidential

• Interviewed clients and documented business strategies, business processes and internal controls
• Identified internal controls and business risks
• Analyzed income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for 10Q and 10K reporting
• Supervised and coached assistant auditors