Snr Business Analyst

Aarti Ondhia

908-***-**** *****.******@*****.***

Location: Austin, TX Citizenship: Green card

Career Summary

Highly motivated and conscientious Senior Business Consultant with 10 years consulting experience who has helped clients successfully drive IT change in their organizations. Consistently delivered high quality results on time and within budget in dynamic environments with changing priorities. Worked across Financial Services, Energy and FMCG sectors with proven relationship building skills.

Skills

Methodologies: ITIL V3 Foundation, Prince 2 Practitioner, Agile, PMP, SDLC

Functional: Requirements Gathering, Data Analysis, Process Improvements, Project Management, PMO, Reporting, Stakeholder Management, Training, Documentation, Research, Testing

MS Office: Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Project

Technical: HTML (Basic), SharePoint

Languages: English (Native), Gujarati (Fluent), Hindi (Basic)

Experience

SNR BUSINESS CONSULTANT - XCEED GROUP - SEP 2012 - JUN 2017

Worked in multiple roles with clients, primarily in Financial Services sector. Active member of the internal Future Leaders Program (FLP) and Women’s Leadership Networking Group (WLNG).

Bank of America – Senior Business Analyst: Delivered an in-house developed application (mX) to enable migration of IT infrastructure supporting over 5000 applications to a new environment.

Managed application issues and drove enhancements in an Agile environment

Responsible for infrastructure upgrade for mX

Created test cases and managed UAT

SME for CXO level Dashboard on migration metrics. Drove data integrity and process efficiencies to reduce report production time by more than 50%

Developed & delivered training to drive adoption of application across 5 business divisions

McGraw Hill Financial (S&P CaptialIQ) – PMO Lead /Business Analyst: Created and managed PMO to rationalization of IT infrastructure. Responsible for initiatives that enabled successful closure of a key Data Center (DC) in 3 months which was significantly behind schedule

Identified and analyzed key blockers to critical DC exit. Worked with client SMEs to develop business processes which overcame driving successful closure of DC ahead of program schedule

Improved reporting metrics which enabled CXO level to drive strategic initiatives

Provided all stakeholders with regular reporting and progress communications

Thomson Reuters (TR) – Senior Business Analyst: Multidisciplinary role within team responsible for analyzing the client’s $16 million telecoms inventory and realizing savings greater than 30%

Improved business processes to streamline analysis framework and drive data integrity

Managed team workload to maximize realized savings

Analyzed inventory to identify savings and contacted service providers to negotiate receivables

Truven Healthcare Analytics – Business Analyst: Core part of a team responsible for analyzing existing telecoms inventory, identifying and realizing savings of $460k from an inventory of $1.2m in 5 months.

Created workloads and tracked progress of realizing savings

Analyzed existing services to identify savings opportunities

Researched and investigated queries with vendors to realize savings

SRLC/Admin Re Group – Junior PM/Business Analyst: Managed analysis and processes for creation of new SharePoint platform for SRLC and Admin Re as part of a large operational separation program within organization.

Designed consolidation of multiple SharePoint instances for 2500 users to consolidate to a single enhanced site

Developed and drove solution and migration activities through vendor and SMEs

Executed project planning, work stream management and reporting to effect migration

PMO LEAD - MERCOR CONSULTING (AUSTRALIA) - OCT 2011 - APR 2012

Responsible for initiation, development and successful embedding of a PMO function for key initiatives encompassing over 60 projects at Western Power which were being run to address a Parliamentary Inquiry.

Designed all PMO tools & templates enabling CXO level to have visibility of high priority projects for the first time

Controlled master project plan for projects, and identified opportunities to rationalize 33% of projects

Implemented program change control process providing a an auditable methodology to process changes

Conducted program level health checks to identify gaps, risks and issues and devised mitigation strategies

Managed stakeholder expectations in a visible, highly pressured environment with dynamic priorities

Delivered workshops (CXO level) to identify strategic priorities to be achieved through the program

BUSINESS CONSULTANT - I2A CONSULTING LLP (UK) - JUL 2007 - MAY 2011

Worked with clients, primarily in Oil & Energy, FMCG and Utilities sectors. Successfully completed bid to put company of Preferred Supplier List for local government.

BP - Business Analyst: Responsible for improving and embedding a logical methodology to consistently analyze data relating to BP’s Global Server estate (20,000+ servers).

Designed and implemented business processes, reports and templates to produce metrics which drove strategic business decisions at CXO level

Documented processes and training material to support metric generation

Created team PMO function and Query Management system to manage team workload and priorities

Managed stakeholders to ensure forecast submissions for estate requirements were accurate and realistic

Analyzed impact of new service contract and move towards ITIL on key reporting metrics

Diageo - Compliance Analyst: Conducted research to develop a compliance training program as a response to regulatory requirements

Conducted desk research and interviews to identify compliance related scenarios

Developed case studies and training materials to be delivered

EARLY CAREER – UK BASED

Asian Foundation for Philanthropy Project Officer Jan 2006 - Jun 2007

UBS Global Asset Management TMT Sector Equity Research Analyst (Grad Program) Sep 2004 – Dec 2005

Goldman Sachs Compliance – Intern Summer 2002

London Underground Ltd Finance Analyst Sep 2000 – Jul 2001

Education

University of Warwick (UK) 2001 – 2004 BSc (Hons) Economics

North London Collegiate School (UK) 1998-2000

A Level Mathematics (A), Economics(A), English Literature (A)

11 GCSEs Grades A* and A including Mathematics, English, Double Science

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