RUCHIKA PATEL

**** ******* *****, ***** *********, NJ 08902 acqlym@r.postjobfree.com 732-***-**** (cell) EXPERTISE

Project Management End User Training Functional Specifications Requirements Gathering Process Improvement User Acceptance Testing Software Documentation Ad-hoc Reporting PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quest Diagnostics Madison, NJ Aug 2014 - Present Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Partner with finance management and guide finance users to define, develop and maintain standardized reporting and metrics

Develop and implement production reports and dashboards using PeopleSoft nVision and query and other reporting tools

Lead special analyses in support of initiatives for systems integration, audit activities or enhancements to the current financial controls environment

Work with developers to ensure requirement specifications are understood and followed

Provide support to customers from value creation through delivery utilizing reporting tools within the finance organization

Ensure consistency with data quality and timeliness within applications silos and across all integrated dependencies

Respond to user inquiries regarding errors, problems, and questions on the use of the financial system

Contribute to the composition and maintenance of financial system documentation and learning materials by providing content, review, and feedback

National Basketball Association (NBA) Secaucus, NJ Sep 2012 – Aug 2014 Senior Specialist, Financial Information Systems

Project lead to implement new Electronic Invoicing system which converted paper-based and manual labor-intensive accounts payable process into an efficient paperless invoicing, approval and record retention system

Liaise with IT department on new development initiatives

Maintain PeopleSoft trees and mapping tables for financial reports and production data processing

Create and maintain complex PeopleSoft nVision reports

Develop and update PeopleSoft queries and fulfill any ad-hoc query requests

Detail functional knowledge of GL module to enable trouble shooting and solve user and system issues

Assist in the business process and documentation as needed for new technology

Other ad-hoc analyses as needed

Design and customization of SharePoint lists, content types, workflows, views, sites and more with and without SharePoint designer

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Hoboken, NJ Apr 2011 – Sep 2012 Business Intelligence Analyst

Coordinate and conduct requirement gathering workshops and produces associated deliverables

Analyze and document business requirements, processes and related business rules

Translate requirements into functional specifications and high-level prototypes

Build user acceptance tests and produce test plan documentation and scripting

Contribute to the on-going development of business analysis methodology, processes and documentation

Work with technical writers to ensure product documentation including user guides, implementation guides and product information are maintained and up to date

Create documents to request enhancements and fixes to existing systems and reports

Investigate reporting and system issues when identified including reviewing data in the data warehouse

Review technical documents and test enhancements and fixes to give sign off that they meet business needs NYU Langone Medical Center New York, NY Aug 2008 – Apr 2011 PeopleSoft Implementation Project

Provide the assistance in the implementation of the PeopleSoft general ledger and commitment control applications

Work on reporting needs from the ledger and develop query using nVision functions

Assist with documenting solutions and for developing test plans and performing testing

Provide the support to GL team in data conversion using mapper tables and journal entry creation using GEAC data to PS

Support budget load process to PeopleSoft

Partake an important role on chart string conversion from GEAC/CUFS to PeopleSoft Financial Systems Analyst

Assists finance staff with the creation of various reports and queries that can be used for year-end reporting, audits, and on- going process improvements, including integration of functional tasks

Coordinate and liaises with the information technology group on projects pertaining to the GEAC applications and functions, including system upgrades, year-end processing support and implementation of customizations

Assist in the maintenance and configuration of system control tables in accordance with desired operational processing requirements

Manage the complete GL Data for NYH and HJD via various interfaces into general ledger which includes payroll, AP, patient billing and gift process

Assists functional leads with staff training in system functionality

Monitor and controlled year end close and ledger roll forward process in GEAC for three years

Identify and implement schedule and process improvement to significantly reduce time to complete assigned work

Assist on various special projects as assigned such as calendar year to fiscal year change in 2008, benefit allocation change, vendor statement automation for 50+ large vendors, GEAC TB/Oracle/BVM data reconciliation and creation of calendar year trial balance

Data Macro maintenance for GEAC after year end close

Work with JPMC/Xign payment net project to support accounts payable to maintain the check file transfer

Provide data to accounting departments on a daily basis using GEAC extract job using Cobol JCLs and transforming the data to Excel

EDUCATION

Pennsylvania State University Reading, PA Sep 2003 – Dec 2006 Bachelor of Science Business Administration, concentration in Finance PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Professional Women’s Network Sep 2012 - Present

Strengthening professions, developing networks and exchanging knowledge Young Professionals Network Aug 2014 – Present

Peer networking and knowledge sharing

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, SharePoint; Hyperion-Brio, Workspace, PeopleSoft, nVision Reporting; GEAC; WebFocus; Tableau

SUMMARY

8 years of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience Exceptional training and development skills, including training program and materials design, group and individual facilitation, and highly-effective coaching and mentoring methods Ability to analyze business requirements

Enthusiastic to take on new tasks and excellent with time-management skills Able to handle multiple assignments under high pressure and consistently meet tight deadlines Trilingual: English, Gujarati and Hindi

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