BUSINESS ANALYST
With superior analytical skills applied to contract negotiations, analyzing market trends, developing complex business strategies, creating business/product required documentations, building business processes, collecting and normalizing data
EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY DAVIE, FL 2009 – 2012
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY BROOKVILLE, NY 2008 -2009
EXPERIENCES
Sr. Business Analyst Carnival Cruise Lines (2019 – 2020)
Work with project managers to develop/manage workflows in effort to meet deadlines
Utilize data to identify savings, forecast market trends, improve process and procedures
Gather, organize, reconcile, clean-up large data sets and conduct relevant analyses
Identify insights, synthesize results, and prepare management presentations
Partner with IT, Project Management Office (PMO), and Finance teams to make sure savings are accurately measured and validated
Utilize different ERP systems to actively communicate project statuses with Cross-functional teams (SAP, Oracle-People Soft and Microsoft Dynamics)
Effectively coordinate weekly meetings with stakeholders to discuss project pipelines
Sr. Sourcing Business Analyst Office Depot, Inc. (2017 - 2019)
Deliver any ad hoc Financial analysis requests including but not limited to Balance of Trade analysis, Days Payable analysis, Supplier Consolidation analysis, Diversity reporting, and economic impact reporting & analysis
Manage the ‘Direct Sourcing Dashboard’; where Sourcing Managers create, control & quantify their individual project pipeline
Support RFP/RFQ bid analysis as well as any data analysis that results in savings and cost avoidances
Responsible for creating and managing network and cloud services through platforms such as Servicenow, RMS, SAP, Vendor Portal, AWS, JIRA and Oracle
Responsible for collecting and creating business required documents in effort to automate different business processes (Harmonization of “Office Depot and CompuCom”, Creating new items on the system, verifying supplier tariff increases and etc)
Category Assistant Office Depot, Inc. (2016 – 2017)
Provide operational support for the Merchandising Team utilizing varies systems such as SAP, SQL, Microsoft Office products, Mainframe, Oracle, Vendor Portal, JIRA and etc.
Utilize data to support pricing and promotional guardrails
Analyzing and assisting merchants in forecasting, budgeting, managing assortment, score-carding vendors, setting price points utilizing pricing strategies
Review governing documents to identify policies, standards and procedures
Identify and analyze operational and financial impacts resulting from the disruption of business functions and processes.
Business Analyst AP Recruiter (2015- 2016)
Responsible for business process reviews
Create/Modify business templates for governing documents, product and project requirements and definition
Review governing documents to identify policies, standards and procedures
Identify risk and controls in order to make recommendations for preventing internal/external threats
Research current trends in Information Technology/Information Security and Client directives as it relates to NextEra Energy business practices to structure new controls going in to future enforcement
Predicts the consequences of disruption of a business function and process/gathers information needed to develop recovery strategies
Create/Perform Risk Assessments to identify and prevent potential business function threats
Personal Banker II/ Operations Specialist J.P Morgan Chase Bank N.A. (2012-2015)
Responsible for verifying staff awareness on Internal Controls and Legal Compliances
Performed monthly and quarterly audits to verify the branch audit efficiency
Top Personal Banker within the Palm Beach/Broward District for the 2013 year in Production & Sales
Provide products and services to clients in order to meet their ever-changing financial needs (Cash flow management assistance, reconciling registries, verifying merchant services, and etc.)
Develop a query-based report, allowing management to access real time data at a moment’s notice
Develop tracking reports on Microsoft excel, enabling all branches to accurately report and manage daily metrics
Operations /Business Analyst Intern Platinum Television Group (2009-2010)
Analyze past sales in order to compare to projected sales using pivot tables
Support subject matter experts in business systems analysis areas
Created and maintained press releases and scripts, On-air talent, grip, and personal assistant
Assist in conducting root cause analysis of defects to identify key and recurring problems as well as providing solutions to prevent recurrences
CERTIFICATIONS
Business Intelligence Analyst Course 2020