SUMMARY

• Over Eight years of diversified analytical experience as Business Analyst
• Extensive experiences in requirement elicitation techniques like Document analysis, Reverse engineering, Brainstorming, and Requirement workshop with users, subject matter experts (SME's) and business stakeholders.
• Expertise in Business Analysis, Financial Analysis and Project Management and Testing/UAT.
• Thorough knowledge of SDLC processes including Waterfall, RUP and Agile.
• Extensive experience in gathering Business and functional requirements, developing Use cases, creating Screen mockups, conducting Impact analysis, Gap analysis, Risk analysis, SWOT analysis, modeling businesses processes.
• Experienced in writing Business requirements document (BRD), Functional requirement document (FRD) and creating Requirement traceability matrix (RTM).
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use case, Activity and Sequence diagram in MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Proficient in writing stories with standards of Scrum Master and Agile.
• Excellent experience in preparing project related documents like project management plan, weekly/daily task reports and status reports.
• Extensive experience with scrum master for process documentation.
• Strong experience in re-engineering of processes.
• Strong Knowledge of Scrum Master and Agile Standards.
• Lead strategic planning and change management initiative for business areas to define CRM functional modules and process improvement opportunities.
• Strong experience in SOX control and Audit process. Functional expertise in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defects Tracking, System Integration and Scheduling.
• Experienced in tracking, documentation, mitigation and resolving Project Risks and Issues.
• Functional expertise in testing strategies like Integration, Regression, User-Acceptance, Black box, White box and Manual Testing.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills combined with a proficiency in problem abstraction, business modeling, interpersonal communication and leading project teams.

Areas of Expertise

• Green Belt tested
• Lean tested
• Extensive knowledge of CMMI, BABOK best practices
• In-depth knowledge of CRM tools like NetSuite, Salesforce.com and Taleo
• Expertise in requirement management tools like-Requirement requisite pro, DOORs
• Strong experience on Oracle 11 I
• Proficient is testing tools like Clearcase, ClearQuest
• Proficient on Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Sr. Business Analyst/ Finance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Headed internal business re-engineering initiatives to review and improve existing process/procedure and build new processes to ensure cost optimization and achieve positive ROI.
• Participated and coordinated project kick off meetings with process management specialists, Functional Leads, Technical leads to define the scope of the project.
• Elicited business requirements through interviews, surveys and JAD sessions with business stakeholders and SME’s.
• Proactively communicated and collaborated with internal Stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the needed artifacts (i.e., Project Charter document, Use cases, Wireframes/ Screen mock-ups and Requirements Traceability Matrix).
• Analyzed business requirements and defined them into Use Cases. Created Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology.
• Created Screen Mockups using Visio.
• Developed business and functional use cases, project plans and managed the project scope.
• Developed a financial model to analyze financial information on projects and to compare actual margin and performance against budget to appraise operating results.
• Served as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team and supported requirements throughout design, development, testing, implementation and transition phases for the project.
• Performed balance sheet analyses, and formulated and presented optimization recommendations
• Worked with multiple US contract types- time and material, fixed price and fixed monthly for revenue recognition and forecasting.
• Supervised and prepared reporting for client financial management (pricing, budget preparation, time and expense tracking, budget reconciliation and variance analysis, client billing and receivable collection and forecasting)
• Conducted quality reviews, mentored and provided feedback on the technical work of junior analysts.
• Delivered presentations on Project Status and Current Open Issues Report to Users, Stakeholders and other involved groups.
• Addressed and resolved engagement, contract management and compliance issues by facilitating communication between engagement leadership and firms’ financial and legal department
• Participated in product design meetings as well as communicated with product owner while analyzing requirements and level of effort estimates.
• Prepared sprint backlog and facilitated sprint planning meetings to discuss requirements that need to be worked on for that sprint.
• At the end of each sprint, presented the completed work to the stakeholders, and facilitated Sprint Retrospective.
• Removed impediments, supported product owner, and improved the team's engineering practices and tools needed.

Confidential, NYC

Project Finance Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed revenue accounting of the largest client worth $50 Million per year.
• Examined, assessed and documented business operations, procedures and requirement for systems and applications that are designed to enable the unit to accomplish its business objectives.
• Interacted with the project team to define system objectives and scope, identified constraints and the measures of success for the system to be developed.
• Extensively worked in defining business processes, identifying risks, base-lining acceptance criteria, and deliverables
• Prepared and reconciled balance sheet schedules for deferred revenue accounts, discount etc.
• Managed statutory/internal/client/SOX audit on quarterly/annually basis.
• Prepared and presented Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Conducted complex financial analysis, analyzed proposals, interpreted financial impact and made recommendations.
• Worked closely with business teams to analyze the client data to effectively help the senior leaders in taking decisions on pricing for the new projects.
• Served as an internal subject matter expert, financial analyst, and strategic business advisor to the Team leadership in all financial matters related to the firm's facilities
• Leveraged process improvement expertise to enhance current processes in terms of requirements, design, and automation needs.
• Strong experience with Credit Card Payment processing.
• Facilitated capital planning and capital budgeting or tracking expertise, analyze capital investments, and provide consolidated capex analysis, reporting, and presentations.
• Provided analysis of expense trends, accurate forecasting, assessment of firm wide financial impacts from business decisions, and delivering of timely and accurate financial management reporting.
• Ensured that the collections are in place as per the terms and the DSO of the company is met as per the forecasts.
• Participated in meetings and projects with staff, project managers, and developers to automate, upgrade, or expand applications that accomplish business operations
• Defined testing objectives and verify requirements are testable.
• Participated in the development and implementation of consequent financial strategies as well as supervised and train less experienced analysts.

Confidential, D.C

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked in defining business processes, identifying risks, base-lining acceptance criteria, and deliverables
• Prepared and reconciled balance sheet schedules for deferred revenue accounts, discount etc.
• Worked closely with business teams to analyze the client data to effectively help the senior leaders in taking decisions on pricing for the new projects.
• Examined, assessed and documented business operations, procedures and requirement for systems and applications that are designed to enable the unit to accomplish its business objectives.
• Interacted with the project team to define system objectives and scope, identified constraints and the measures of success for the system to be developed.
• Served as an internal subject matter expert, financial analyst, and strategic business advisor to the Team leadership in all financial matters related to the firm's facilities
• Leveraged process improvement expertise to enhance current processes in terms of requirements, design, and automation needs.
• Participated in meetings and projects with staff, project managers, and developers to automate, upgrade, or expand applications that accomplish business operations
• Defined testing objectives and verify requirements are testable.
• Facilitated capital planning and capital budgeting or tracking expertise, analyze capital investments, and provide consolidated capex analysis, reporting, and presentations.
• Provided analysis of expense trends, accurate forecasting, assessment of firm wide financial impacts from business decisions, and delivering of timely and accurate financial management reporting.