CAREER SUMMARY:

Experienced business analyst and business system analyst with excellent interpersonal skills that have been used in various positions held with several major Fortune 500 companies. Valued as a skilled professional with excellent skills in systems integration and migration.

SELECTED KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Migration of systems to a new financial calendar (4 - 4-5 to monthly) for a newly acquired division
• Analyzed and revised closing process after system implementation
• Member of the data conversion team reconciling information in the data migration process of a Great Plains Dynamics to SAP accounting system conversion; reconciled information at a balance sheet and income statement level to validate mappings in Business Warehouse and Performance Point
• Member of Implementation Team that executed the merging and migration of two Hyperion System Financial Management software systems including creating web forms, data grids and reports to allow users to upload data and extract organized and useful information from the database. Also was a key participant in developing training manual and addressing issues that users have while working in the system.
• Gathered requirements and performed analysis of month-end deliverables in a successful effort to shorten financial close by one day after implementation of a Hyperion Financial Management System

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:

SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Great Plains v10, JD Edwards, Lawson, Hyperion Financial Management, Financial Data Management, Business Objects, Performance Point System, Business Warehouse, XLR, SQL, Vision, Axure, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access, Trintech AssureNet GL and Unity

WORK HISTORY:

Independent Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

•   Gather and analyze relevant information related to business processes, functions, and operations to evaluate data credibility and establish data requirements
• Collaborate with key business partners such as Finance, Information Systems and Quintel, the system integrator to support business operations and understand how the future systems will improve business processes and productivity
• Elicit business requirements as part of the project lifecycle and identify and define new business process workflows using best practice approaches
• Manage the requirements elicitation, definition and documentation process with the DRPA and Quintel, the system integrator
• Create business process to set-up partnerships to enable Zakti to provide its services to outside fitness organizations
• Research franchising practices to support Zakti in its effort to become a franchise facility
• Advise Zakti management on financial matters such as bookkeeping, taxes, individual and package service fees, and partnership fees
• Wrote items/questions for test assessments in accounting information systems for an online university based on guidelines provided by GrandMasters Item Writer Handbook and the objectives provided by the university
• Peer reviewed items prepared by other writers and provided feedback and suggestions for improvement
• Made changes to items based on peer review feedback or supplied an explanation when making changes
• Participated in team activity to rate the difficulty of each question prepared for the assessment

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

• Acted as the liaison between the client and the technical staff to ensure that clients’ needs were understood and met
• Gathered and documented requirements from users for use in planning, building and implementing custom software systems for the U.S. Government
• Analyzed accounting processes and provided solutions to improve delivery of financial information to key business users
• Prepared business process workflows, wireframes and prototypes for new systems for client approval, using Visio and Axure
• Assisted quality assurance analysts with the development of test plans and test cases, and performed testing as needed
• Researched the Principles of Federal Acquisition Law to ensure that the system would comply with requirements set forth by the U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Provide input on project cost estimates and analyze actual versus budgeted cost information

Business Analyst/Accounting Consultant

Confidential

• Gathered and documented requirements from users for use in planning, building and implementing system upgrades and test plans and testing for SAP, Trintech’s AssureNet GL and Unity software
• Systems administration: member of SAP Master Data team, OpenText workflow administrator, and AssureNet GL and Unity administrator
• Analyzed accounting processes and provided solutions to improve delivery of financial information to key business users
• Served as a business system analyst for accounting systems and assisted business users with change and information requests related to the ERP system
• Review project timelines and negotiate timeline extensions or additional resources depending on the significance of the project
• As a data analyst, performed data extracts using XLR and Smartlist in Great Plains
• Reviewed and validated data from Great Plains and prepared SAP upload file
• Reconciled data extracts and uploads from Great Plains to SAP at an account, balance sheet and income statement level for current and historical actuals, current budget and current forecast; identified, investigated, and resolved variances
• Documented processes used in the validation and migration of data during the SAP implementation

Senior Staff Accountant

Confidential

• Member of the testing team for the implementation of a Hyperion System Financial Management software system which included testing reports and making corrections when necessary
• Gathered requirements and performed analysis of month-end deliverables in a successful effort to shorten financial close by one day after implementation of a Hyperion Financial Management System

Staff Accountant

Confidential

• Migration of systems to a new financial calendar for a newly acquired division, which included the identification and review of all financial close deliverables with a focus on the timing and information needed to complete each task; creation of an action plan which included detailed workflow changes needed in each department and specifications for upgrades to information systems; implementation of all action items specified in the action plan within the project timeline
• Member of implementation team merging and migrating a Hyperion System Financial Management software system including creating web forms, data grids and reports to allow users to upload data and extract organized and useful information from the database; was a key contributor in developing training manual and identifying and resolving issues post-go-live