JEFFREY M. PAICH

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Senior Business Analyst

Highly skilled Business Analyst with a broad base of knowledge and experience, including project planning and management with a proven ability to research and recommend solutions with a continuous improvement perspective. Capability to improve processes through extensive analysis and utilization of complex system tools. Ability to configure and modify systems to maximize productivity while maintaining strict adherence to all regulatory requirements and standards. Solid experience assessing needs, implementing designs, and formulating solutions to resolve complex business issues. Adept strategist who transforms strategic plans into workable solutions. Extensive ability to oversee large projects to successful conclusions. A proven communicator with ability to facilitate meetings to successfully obtain company business objectives.

Experienced in measuring and reporting progress against objectives, regarding inventory and sourcing strategies and modified existing procedures to incorporate best practices.

Experience in design, development, implementation, customization, and production support of Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning with Constraint Based Optimization

Cross-functional liaison between functional business areas including IT, Marketing, Human Resources, Benefits, Payroll, Accounting, Sales, and Operations.

Designed and developed analytical reporting solutions across relational database management system and reported results directly to executives for decision-making purposes.

Facilitated collaborative meetings between Sales, Marketing, Operations and Procurement to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is utilized in demand forecasting

Subject Matter Expert in Creating Cross-functional reports from OBIEE for Logistics, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Business Planning and Plant Facilities.

Managed project integrations valued up to $50M and led strategic Project Development and Implementation Program that was delivered under budget and one year ahead of schedule.

Proven ability to manage complex technology and process implementation activities with consistent record of accomplishment of meeting / exceeding defined performance deliverables.

Experienced project manager / coordinator responsible for leading successful system implementations with value up to $50M.

Adept at supporting sales / marketing and operations stakeholders in product management activities in the Energy, Oil, Gas and Electricity sectors.

Environment – Industry Manufacturing – Applications, Oracle R12, R11, Oracle Utilities Suite, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, Oracle RDBMS, OBIEE, Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Visio, PeopleSoft, NetSuite, Success Factors, UltiPro, Empyrean, Workforce, Hyperion, VDI, Vista XP, Legacy Mainframe, Linux, SFTP, SharePoint.

Strategic Planning

Oracle EBS

Oracle Supply Chain

Project Management

Aggregate Planning

Operations Management

OBIEE/BI Development

Productivity Improvements

Process Improvement

Continuous Improvement

Inventory Management

ERP Analysis

Quality Control

Six Sigma

Sales Management

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alcoa Corporation 02/2023 – Present

Senior IT Finance Requirements Officer

Primary liaison between the business customer and IT. Responsible for managing requirements through the lifecycle of a project with no guidance or direction. Provides directional leadership around the approach to elicit, analyze, and allocate requirements and solution design.

Responsible for assessing all business requirements and utilizing information technology systems for making suggestions on how they can better meet those business needs. Including refining the roles and responsibilities of IT professionals on their team, creating implementation requirements and developing IT plans with stakeholders.

Collaborate with technical development teams and coordinate for new implementations, functionality enhancements, application updates and performance issues.

Demonstrates fundamental understanding of specific business applications, processes, and technology including Operations, HR, Logistics, Sales Management, Inventory, QA, Accounting and Finance.

Analyze support operations and recommend practices and procedures that focus on enhanced and increased productivity while minimizing costs.

Worked closely with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure accuracy of requirements through Beta Testing before the implementation process occurred.

Utilized ITIL, PMBOK, and BABOK procedures to define current state processes, gather information for BRD analysis, define future state solutions, and troubleshoot issues and propose feasible solutions.

Vector Security 10/2022 – 1/2023

Senior IT Requirements Officer

Responsible for assessing all business requirements and utilizing information technology systems for making suggestions on how they can better meet those business needs. Including refining the roles and responsibilities of IT professionals on their team, creating implementation requirements and developing IT plans with stakeholders.

Oversee application testing plans and test scripts to ensure completed technical solution is consistent with documented business requirement documents.

Independently led teams to solve problems and implement solutions across various business units and documented specific changes requested by the business.

Established effective communications across the organization, with leadership, customers, and suppliers and accountable for 3rd party deliverables (Sunrise LLC).

Implemented Dale Carnegie continuous improvement methodologies to improve relationships with partners including collaboration to requirement issues resolution.

Demonstrates fundamental understanding of specific business applications, processes, and technology including Operations, HR, Logistics, Sales Management, Inventory, QA, Accounting and Finance.

Collaborate with technical development teams and coordinate for new implementations, functionality enhancements, application updates and performance issues.

Utilized ITIL, PMBOK, and BABOK procedures to define current state processes, gather information for BRD analysis, define future state solutions, and troubleshoot issues and propose feasible solutions.

Dollar Bank 2/2022 – 10/2022

IT Requirements Officer

Responsible for assessing all business requirements and utilizing information technology systems for making suggestions on how they can better meet those business needs. Including refining the roles and responsibilities of IT professionals on their team, creating implementation requirements and developing IT plans with stakeholders.

Develop and document solutions for complete HRIS integration including Payroll, Benefits, Finance, Operations, and Legal Compliance through IT management processes based on best practices to cover required functions within release management and production support.

Analyze support operations and recommend practices and procedures that focus on enhanced and increased productivity while minimizing costs.

Participate in the design, build, and implementation of Business Solutions utilizing Oracle eBusiness Suite, and provide functional support for post-integration issues.

Participate in the design, build, and implementation of Business Solutions utilizing Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Utility Suite and provide functional support for post-integration issues.

Worked closely with the Quality Assurance Team to ensure accuracy of requirements through Beta Testing.

Duquesne Light 9/2016 – 2/2022

Senior Systems Business Analyst

Responsible for processes, interpreting and documenting business requirements, processes, products, services, and software through analysis of data. Ensure business efficiency increases through their knowledge of both IT and business function.

Develop and document solutions for complete HRIS integration including Payroll, Benefits, Finance, Operations, and Legal Compliance through IT management processes based on best practices to cover required functions within release management and production support.

Collaborate with technical development teams and coordinate for new implementations, functionality enhancements, application updates and performance issues

Oversee application testing plans and test scripts to ensure completed technical solution is consistent with documented business requirement documents.

Utilized ITIL, PMBOK, and BABOK procedures to define current state processes, gather information for BRD analysis, define future state solutions, and troubleshoot issues and propose feasible solutions.

Duquesne Light 11/2015 – 9/2016 Oracle Application Manager

Responsible for implementing processes to manage the release of new functionality, maintenance updates and fixes to the Oracle Utilities Application Suite Environment. Provide oversight to the production support teams ensuring prioritization of all fixes and changes. Accountable for driving standardization and automation of IT processes relating to Business Development utilizing ITIL service management knowledge.

Responsible for partnering with Oracle Implementation Team from Accenture to ensure accuracy of all information downloaded into the DLC Home Network.

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US Steel 07/2014 – 2015

S&OP Manager

Developed supply and demand forecast capabilities at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of inventory planning functions across the entire supply chain from source acquisitions to production locations. Analyzed historical sales and inventory, researched demand drivers and prepared forecast data, statistical forecasts models and evaluated results.

Charter given to locate all inventory located throughout the United States and not accounted for during last Audit.

Worked closely with Order to Cash team to resale lost inventory that had not depreciated through Accounting Methodology to our Buyers resulting in a Net Profit of ~$30M.

Oracle ERP Project Manager 07/2008 – 2014

Utilized expertise to identify process improvement opportunities and create solutions. Applied knowledge of applications and leading-edge products and technologies in combination with industry and business skills to translate business requirements into system solutions. Worked in conjunction with assigned team to develop business process and define system interactions.

Worked closely with the Accenture team to ensure all Requirements from the Tubular Division of US Steel were met after the implementation process occurred.

Developed and processed all reports for the Tubular division including executive reports initiated through Oracle OBIEE and Power BI systems.

Completed Tubular Division ERP implementation of Oracle R12, six months ahead of schedule.

Worked diligently with Customers throughout the United States to familiarize them with changes to documentation and processes that would occur after the “Go Live”.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA

Bachelor of Science, General Management / Human Resource Management

Magna Cum Laude

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA

CERTIFICATION

APICS CPIM Certification Pending

CCBA - Pending

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Managing Diversity and Inclusion

Competency Based Selection

Situational Leadership

Managing to Win

Coaching for Excellence

Six Sigma Green Belt

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