SUMMARY

• Extensive IT experience in software design, business analyst and financial industry including investment banking with emphasis on business requirements and functional requirements.
• Strong ability to interact with technical, functional and business teams.
• Advanced BA skills with Integrations and Conversion experience (Requirements Gathering, Functional Design, Data Analysis, Data Mappings, Data Validations, Testing).
• Develop and execute custom configured reports in Workday, and other systems, and provide data analysis and recommendations, as needed.
• Establishing long - term relationships with key accounts which led to the effective use of these accounts as customer references within the ECM community.
• Develop Agile/Scrum processes, including analysis of existing processes, elicitation of requirements from subject matter experts, and application of industry best practices and standards.
• Experience creating HLD and SRS(high level design & systems requirement specifications).
• Professional experience on developing ERP system and standalone applications.
• Proficient in the following HRMS modules: base benefits, compensation, position management, staffing, and NA payroll, variable compensation, payroll interface, benefits administration, pension administration, and administer training.
• Experienced in Database creation, MS Access Queries, and custom reporting, with intensive data manipulation.
• Proficient in creating and building Work Flows using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.
• Performed GAP analysis, SWOT Analysis and Impact Analysis on existing system and performance considerations.
• Proficient at creating and transforming business requirements into Software Requirements Specification (SRS) using Rational RequisitePro and designing business models using UML diagrams such as Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams in Rational Rose.
• Experienced in ECM integration for SAP modules, JDE interfaces, Financial applications.
• Functional analyst with Kronos iSeries 6.2 for Timekeeper, Basic Scheduler and Accruals modules.
• Developed user stories based on business and systems requirements.
• Extensive experience with SQL query writing and query tools, data mining and views and stored procedures on platforms of Oracle, Teradata, SQL server.
• Communicated with cross-functional teams to extract the requirements for the desired database model and updated BRD (Business Requirements Document).
• Experienced in Workday report writer tool and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Studio.
• Experience in data architecture, data warehousing, master data management, enterprise information integration and ETL.
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment.
• Global Support for HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking, EIB Loads, Absence Management.
• Work as financial analyst; analyze and evaluate financial statements of public companies; conduct research and improvement reports about company's invested projects, etc.
• Builds strong relationships with business staff and management, in order to facilitate project success. Documents and understands the project scope thoroughly.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize and communicate business imperatives to the project team and technical solutions to the business partners.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000. 2003, XP, Seven, Vista.

Databases & Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, T-SQL, MS Access.

ERP System: SAP FI/CO 4.3, 6.0.

Document Processing: MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Vision, MS Web, MS Excel.

Workday skills: Workday HCM, Workday conversions, Workday Report Writer, i Loads, Core connectors and Workday Studio.

Multimedia: Adobe Photo shop, Dream Viewer.

Methodologies/ Frame work: Rational Unified Process (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, and Clear Quest), Waterfall, JAD, Data Modeling, Business Modeling, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.

Quality Management: MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Vision, MS Web, MS Excel.

ETL\Reporting tools: Business objects (BOXI) R3 with Crystal Report, Cognos.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements for the listed options risk management system, specifically for index options risk management spreadsheet. Defining requirements for product control and risk management end of day feeds.
• Help to organize and facilitate problem-solving discussions with the client, internal operations team, and project managers to resolve issues requiring a focused approach to maintain project continuity and requirements.
• Created many Use case diagrams and UML diagrams for the in house Projects.
• Identified solutions that leverage the organization's HR related information tools and resources to meet the strategic and operational needs of the business globally.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, and Visio.
• "Hands-On" and work directly with customers to research, troubleshoot, and resolve report writing issues in a timely manner.Advanced experience designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining reports and dashboards using Workday and Excel.
• Help to organize and facilitate problem-solving discussions with the client, internal operations team, and project managers to resolve issues requiring a focused approach to maintain project continuity and requirements.
• Prepared UML Diagrams like Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams for the requirements, also prepared Business Process Model for the complete application systems.
• Created workflows with SharePoint designer to interact with the forms.
• Participated in Requirements/BRD Walkthrough Meetings for detailed requirement reviews and provided feedback to Business Analyst on gaps in BRD.
• Provide setup and configuration support for Taleo Enterprise Edition System Administrators.
• Performed Data Analysis on data warehouse systems for various reporting needs within an organization using SQL.
• Worked with Rational Rose, Use Cases and Test Scripts and delivered Functional Specifications and Software Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Identified solutions that leverage the organization's HR related information tools and resources to meet the strategic and operational needs of the business globally.
• Core responsibility involved complete manually testing of the User Acceptance Test (UAT).
• "Hands-On" and work directly with customers to research, troubleshoot, and resolve report writing issues in a timely manner.
• Establish clear exit/entrance criteria measurements for project risk management and trade-off decision making through each phase of the SDLC.
• Experience leading project teams in all phases of the Workday implementation life cycle.
• Identifying, assessing and resolving functional and technical issues and problems with HR, Payroll and Time Modules. Testing, troubleshooting system modifications for escalation of system issues.
• Consult with stakeholders in HR on their operational and management reporting needs.

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA

Business Analyst (HR)

Responsibilities:

• Develop Functional Requirements that describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirement(s).
• Support role to Accomplished Financial Manager. Responsible for office management and project management.
• Define standards to guide solution decisions in relation to human resources (HR)/human capital management (HCM) solutions for the enterprise.
• Evaluate functionalities of HRMS that may not be activated today, and recommend solutions that meet business need while fitting into overall HR strategies
• Develop test scenarios and test cases for use in system and integration testing.
• Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and Visio.
• Serve as an internal knowledge resource for other members of the Taleo team.
• Acquired knowledge of client relationship management software, communications and business development.
• Supported the company’s marketing strategies by gathering the system end-users and client’s requirements, designing and developing new functions of ERP System.
• Test, troubleshoot, fix, enhance and support ERP system through problem analysis and resolution.
• Analyze and Design the Database relational model and draw the UML diagram.
• Lead and manage developers in the delivery of custom solutions or that follow standard SDLC process.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives.
• Customizations, Minor fixes and updates to various projects on SharePoint.
• Maintain the HR systems and Applications including data inputs, outputs, processes, security, and delegation of data maintenance.
• Conduct Scrum team training, retrospective workshops, Lean software development workshops for infrastructure teams.
• Developed solution architecture to solution fit gap integration point processes.
• Coordination with HR/Payroll teams, testing strategy, planning and tracking, aligned with requirements and solutions

Confidential, Miami, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan, develop, and implement new concepts, techniques, and standards that support the strategic objectives of the applicable group.
• Work independently with end-users and business partners to assess the business customer requirements, match these requirements to objectives and guide them to the applicable processes and products including developing specifications and enhancements that will achieve the customers and business goals.
• Responsible for understanding business requirements, configuring the Workday HCM product and creating documentation as needed
• Market and communicate program vision to project teams, key business stakeholders, and executive leadership. Ensure continued business sponsorship, engagement, and commitment.
• Help team in functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application
• Ensure proper validation documentation is created for all projects.
• Generate SQL server reports against (RDBMS) Relational Database Management System.
• Preparing future projections, revenue forecasts and financial statements for corporate clients.
• Lead requirement gathering in relation to epic user stories.
• Ability to make changes including setting up any new groups of employees and how that may impact other modules within HCM and Time and Labor.
• Serve as an expert on agile software principles to engineering managers, developers, quality engineers, UX engineers, software designers, and architects.
• Responsible for Test Strategy preperation and understading BRD,creating negative test scenarios,test cases review.
• Created a full suite of Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) project artifacts, using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) in Visio.
• Communicated and worked with HR/HRIS, Payroll and IT on all issues and needs.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to other IT groups.
• Experience leading project teams in all phases of the Workday implementation life cycle.
• Help support various projects or application outsourcing clients with integrations across multiple third parties and client's.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Jr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with Legal, Payroll, and Human Resources Managers as appropriate.
• Partnered with HR functions, Legal, Finance, and other business units as necessary. Coordinated the work of outside vendors and consultants.
• Understand and reconcile gaps, overlaps, and apparent contradictions among and within reports and reporting tools.
• Performed analysis of relevant HR metrics and uncover trends in data, and generate insights which can be applied toward improvement of HR effectiveness.
• Remain current on the latest trends in the industry with comprehensiveknowledge of financial insur-anceproducts and best practices.
• Identify, develop and implement solutions resulting in improved compliance, control and streamline ofSDLCmanagement.
• Identify business logic and prepare Business Process Modeling diagrams, Use Case Scenarios, Use Case Stories and describe the requirements with relevantUMLDiagrams.
• Prepare reports, graphs, charts, and statistics in support of human resource operations.
• Assist with implementation of new functionality/processes.
• Maintained working relationships that include open communication and collaboration with field resources
• Employment Law, HR Centers of Excellence, and any other teams that are involved with or impacted by guidance from Employee Relations.
• Performed skill gap analysis with all managers for the purpose of succession planning.
• Ensure quality assurance of key human resources data sets, reports, and metrics. Accountable for data integrity for the Employee Survey.
• Analyzed and developed complex reports based on data from multiple sources and data types.
• Attained clients forproperty, causalityinsurance.
• Research, implement and process daily administration for technology initiatives including but not limited to the HRIS system, payroll system, and client relationship management system (CRM).
• Provide HR support to clients including employee relations, benefits, payroll, time and attendance, performance management, and applicant tracking.