SUMMARY
Self-motivated individual with over ** years experience as a business and financial analyst in the biopharmaceutical industry. Known for taking initiative and skilled at meeting challenges and deadlines. A team player who is attentive to detail and produces quality results. Areas of expertise include:
Project Management
Report Preparation
Written Correspondence
Data/Business/Systems Analysis Data Flow & Process Mapping
Testing/Scripting/Documentation
Requirements Gathering
Strong Analytical and Decision-Making
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bristol-Myers Squibb – Princeton, NJ 2011 to Present
Business Analyst, Corporate Finance, Legal, Compliance & Ethics
Collaborate with all project team members within the Finance, Legal and Compliance departments for 2012+ portfolio estimates of upcoming projects for all applications.
Business relations manager, client facing for ONYX application which was recently deployed for contract management. Liaison for business owner and application support team for any technical issues.
Created operational support model for ticket prioritization and assist in prioritizing tickets that are elective enhancements, required modifications and break fix for ONYX.
Work with retirement team to retire applications that are no longer used or needed due to upgrades or obsolescence. Assist business owner to create work plan for retirement process and archiving solutions.
Manage data migration for ZymoGenetics and Amira acquisitions for the legal department. Ensure all contracts, patent-related documents and legal documents are migrated to proper locations. Give updates to key project estimators.
Gather requirements for new records management application for the compliance department, with legal holds and retention schedules. Work with business owner and procurement group to get vendor information and research different tools.
Client facing for Records Management’s migration to new SharePoint site with appropriate capabilities to show legal holds and retention schedules as needed.
Business Relations Manager in collaborating IT needs from Finance, Legal and Compliance departments for upgrades, new applications, and change requests. Align solutions with appropriate teams such as data, architecture, and key estimators. Once project is approved, initiate the project with project manager, input information into project applications and conduct meetings with teams to ensure project is on target.
Pfizer, Inc. – New York, NY 2003 to 2010
Business Analyst, Finance & Procurement in Business Technology 2007 to 2010
Review all operations with support and non-support projects in Business Technology with SOW’s, requisitions, and budget analysis.
Participate in audits for financial applications, particularly SOX applications. Ensure audit issues are remediated and updated in Trackwise, the corporate audit application tool.
Gather data for all contingent workers for Business Technology, Finance and Procurement group, analyze and ensure contingent workers are in compliance with Corporate Procedure 117.
Working as project manager, led a team of contractors to coordinate and create Enterprise Life Cycle documents for all stages for the Ariba application to ensure compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Work with business for functional specifications and details as needed.
Gather requirements, create project management plan, create and execute test scripts for UAT, and make sure all stages in the Enterprise Life Cycle is completed properly and in a timely manner. Liaise with business stakeholders for appropriate signatures and document processes. Deployments include Italy, Canada, Ireland, Regional Europe 16, and Belgium for the Ariba application.
Create and review test scripts for Ariba systems for automated and regressions testing for requisitioning, invoicing, contract management, vendor maintenance, and FCPA.
Create requisitions and purchase orders for multiple vendors and ensure the invoices are paid according to SOW. Also help to troubleshoot payment issues.
Analyze budget for capital project for the Ariba application with contractors and materials as needed.
Executive Assistant, Corporate Information Technology 2003 to 2007
Assisted the Vice President of Corporate Information Technology in the daily operations of administrative tasks.
Assisted direct reports of Senior Directors with creating purchase orders and maintaining the monthly invoices.
Coordinated monthly group meetings, weekly team leadership meetings, arranging conference rooms, meals as needed and any technical support.
Tracked and maintained all vendors for BT/IS with legal contracts, review and communicate with vendors whose contracts need to be revised or updated according to company policy.
Assisted the Senior Finance Manager with 4 different department budgets within BT/IS on a quarterly and annual basis.
Resilien, Inc. – Melville, NY 2000 to 2002
Trader
Worked in the OEM division, buying and selling to Asia, working Asia hours.
Bought and sold electronic components, general IC’s, CPU’s, memory, networking, semiconductors, passive components, etc.
Developed long-standing buying and selling relationships with manufacturers and distributors such as HP, Dell, Nokia, and 3M of Asia.
Handled purchase orders, checked references and financial backgrounds with vendors.
Awarded Buyer of the Month for generating most profit for the month of April 2002.
EDUCATION
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY – BOSTON, MA
Master of Business Administration, 2012
Master of Science in Finance, 2013
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX – PHOENIX, AZ
Bachelors of Science in Business – Finance, 2010