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OBJECTIVE
Over ** years’ experience working as a Business/Systems Analyst-Project Lead supporting requirements with customers, stakeholders such to understand the current aspect of product transactions. Identifying business metrics / KPI's. Enhancing existing business processes to save time, effort and money. Generating dashboards, visualizations and reports for Senior Management. Handling global technology teams, aiding in delivering projects on time and within budget. Collaborating with peers in both, business and technical areas, to deliver optimal solutions Solid customer relations, learning ability, initiative, organization and performance under pressure.
SKILLS
Liaison between Business and IT Departments
Leading Teams
Proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Analyzing
Troubleshooting
Business Requirements
Knowledge of Agile and Scrum Processes
SHARON PHILLIPS
Profession or Industry 469-***-**** (M) adbv9i@r.postjobfree.com
EXPERIENCE
ATHENE LIFE & ANNUITY COMPANY
FORMALLY AVIVA
Athene Life & Annuity Company, West Des Moines, IA
June 1991 to 12/31/2019
Business & Technical Analyst II
Project team member or Team leader:
Identifying system requirements
Analyzing processes or workflows
Compiling data, assessing scope & risks
Responsible for the daily researching, analyzing and resolving moderate to complex production issues related to processing, policies, and the administration system. Testing system enhancements and implementing Solutions. Developing communication relationships within various business units serving as a liaison between the book of business and Information Technology. Assists programmers with system needs, solutions, clarifications of requests and providing examples of errors with mocked-up solutions. Assists others in understanding company products, business processes, system or tools, workflows, procedural and system changes.
Provide guidance and training on analyzing, designing, testing, documenting, and implementing changes to the administration system
Develop test plans and test scripts based on requirements from project or IT Level requests. Includes reporting, documenting errors/issues, retesting and regression testing. Update or develop documentation related to procedural changes, system modifications, and technical solutions.
Continually maintaining the administration system with updates due to enhancements or business rule changes.
Quality Assurance Analyst
Reviewed manual processing to determine automation in the administration system. Assisted in maintaining the administration system - created and updated records. Submitted New Business applications preparing for underwriting processing. Product Implementation – designed, created, tested and documented new products created onto the administration system. Provided training to the business
Commissions Analyst
Coordinated system for daily internal commission statements and supervised implementation. Analyzed agents commission account statuses and reconciling balances each month. Payment of commissions earned on a bi-monthly basis to agents and prepare check requisitions.
Manually calculated commissions and maintained a general ledger
Researched and investigated all general agents commission statement discrepancies. Processed New Business premiums to appropriate accounts
Prepared reports for management review for total New Business processed
Processed renewal premiums received towards applicable policies.
Worked as a conversion team member to assist in smooth execution of new system.
EXECUTIVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, JERICHO, NY OCTOBER 1988 - JUNE 1991
Commission Analyst
Investigated and researched all commission discrepancies
Payment of commissions earned on a bi-monthly basis to various agents
Handling of renewal premium payments to the appropriate accounts
Senior Analyst
Reviewed, assembled and disbursed new business contracts
Reconciled suspense accounts for the annuity area
EDUCATION
University of Phoenix, Bachelor of Business Administration
NYC Technical College, Data Processing
Nassau Community College, Computer Information Systems