Below are the 7 Business Analysts & 6 Functional/Application Analysts with strong technical skills & multiple systems expertise.   The Thor Group® provides business analysts and functional/application analysts with your systems, software & industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

What can a JDE (JD Edwards) business analyst with specialization in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards OneWorld and PeopleSoft, as well as experience in technology, telecommunications and manufacturing industries do for your organization? Technical competencies consist of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards OneWorld, PeopleSoft, Oracle, UNIX, Delphi-5, C++, C, Visual Basic, Java-2 and COBOL. Educational background includes Master of Computer Applications and Bachelor of Science in Physics.

Key roles of this JDE business analyst were composed of providing mappings for the sample data provided from the PeopleSoft side, as well as providing the functional details related to AP, GL and PO modules in JDE. Duties involved interacting with client business users for business requirements and OBIEE report developers, in addition to providing and verifying the design documents. Testing of the OBIEE reports was performed to see whether the report data matched correctly with the JDE data. BusinessObjects was used to create sample data out of the PeopleSoft environment. An additional job included interacting with the senior management team and business users for the project related tasks.

Other functions included implementing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.10 in all of the manufacturing and trading locations, in addition to implementing JD Edwards in a phase by phase manner in all the locations. All the technical operations were controlled centrally from the head office. Areas of expertise included analyzing and fixing production support issues. Other strengths involved Object Management Workbench (OMW), Form Design (FDA), Enterprises Report Writing (ERW), Business Function Designing [NER & C] and Master Business Function.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in computer/network security industry and proficient in MS Dynamics GP, MS Dynamics 365 and QuickBooks? Technical competencies involve MS Dynamics GP, MS Dynamics 365, Power Objects, QuickBooks, Visio, Power BI and SQL. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science, Business and Computer Systems. This individual is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) in Business Applications.

Important contributions of this business analyst included eliciting requirements for a CRM system implementation and creating a project charter. Tasks covered implementing Dynamics 365 customer engagement, providing support and administration of Dynamics 365 and assisting the system admin as needed with Office 365 and support cases. Skills brought to the table included monitoring new technology and product updates and looking for ways to improve processes with these advances. Aside from implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cases were also implemented. Microsoft Dynamics Talent was provisioned for the HR department. A Microsoft PowerApp was designed to quickly capture event leads at conventions, shows and events. This app was meant as a proof of concept but was quickly adapted for shows and aided in the adoption of Dynamics 365. Work was handled in implementing Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation.

Key roles involved website design, SEO and Online marketing initiatives, as well as providing technical support and setting up of QuickBooks and other software. Financial reviews and audits were handled, along with instituting various business operations enhancements. Duties consisted of redesigning the website ranked top 10 on search engines. As a result, the company increased sales by $1,000,000.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in manufacturing, mining and pharmaceutical industries, as well as proficient in SAP SD, SAP LE, SAP ABAP and SAP MM? Technical competencies involve SAP SD, SAP LE, SAP ABAP, SAP MM and SAP WM. Educational background includes BA in Computer Science, as well as MSA (Accounts Receivable and General Ledger Administration).

One of the important contributions of this business analyst included serving as SAP SD production support functional analyst responsible for the resolution of many backlogged tickets across the SD domain. The job entailed being assigned as a “staff-aug” resource during new projects to assist and support during the enterprise structure reorganization. Assistance was provided with the setup of new plants and organizational units in LO/LE modules. This individual was directly responsible for applying production master data changes through FIRE-CALL authorizations using LSMW and MASS transactions. Tasks covered further developing SAP ABAP queries and applying new reporting change requirements working directly with ABAP’s. Supporting the company’s global landscape and interacting directly with entire global customer base were also managed.

This specialist provided analysis and solutioning to eliminate master data gap errors in the EDI Order creation process interface. Skills brought to the table involved defining needed purchasing logic and user exit identification to support the “PO to SO” intercompany orders process, delivering end-user support and working seamlessly with the entire IT/SAP team in a highly customized environment.

What can a business analyst with work background in medical centers and a cancer center, as well as specializations in Lawson SCM, Accounts Payable and Infor Lawson bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve Lawson SCM, Purchasing, Accounts Payable and Infor Lawson, as well as Oracle SQL Plus and Kronos.

Working with areas such as providing ongoing troubleshooting for Lawson Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Lawson Portal, and Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) was one of the skills brought to the table by this business analyst. Duties covered leading and managing the Lawson LBI Crystal Report dashboard, as well as gathering and analyzing all requirements for crystal reports to eliminate redundant reports and converted reports to Tableau. Building and maintaining HR, PR, BN, and LP screens based of facility policies and corporate standard, along with successfully managing the project as it related to suite responsibility (not limited to Lawson) were some of the tasks. Key roles covered effectively working with 3rd party vendors to obtain files for conversions and test for ongoing interfaces.

Responsibilities consisted of presenting TCO (total Cost of ownership) scenarios & functionality gap assessment (utilized vs. non-utilized) of the current Lawson V9 ERP self-hosted subscription vs. cloud-based solutions scenarios of the V10 Lawson ERP while addressing organizational needs for budget, contract management, and accounts payable workflow automation. One of the tasks involved assisting with the migration from on-premise to the Infor/SaaS Cloud including conversion from LAUA to LS9 Security Data conversion from AS/400/DB2 to SQL/windows operating system. Subject matter expertise was provided in the following disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio Management, and SDLC.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst with work experience in nonprofit organization, wine and research industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Arts (BA) Communications Studies and Master of Science (MS) Information Systems. Professional certifications involve Project Management Professional Training Certificate (PMBOK). Proficient in NetSuite and Salesforce.

Contributed to the organization’s success by implementing NetSuite and Salesforce functional changes and coordinating change management, improving accounts payables and receivables process, as well as increasing Cash receipts, improving procure-to-pay and quote-to-Cash processes, and reports for accounting, lending, account management, and project manager units. Serving as business analyst in a nonprofit organization, gathered business requirements, use cases, user stories and system specifications for design, implementation, integration, and support of NetSuite ERP, Salesforce CRM, Box Enterprise, Certify, loan management, and program management. Moreover, analyzed and documented legacy ERP and Salesforce data objects, processes, business rules, department workflows, data flows, database mapping, group policies and user roles according to specifications.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by implementing NetSuite ERP and Salesforce customer relationship management functional changes and coordinating change management to improve business process for Order-to-Cash and procure-to-pay. While employed in a wine company as business systems analyst, improved Order fulfilment and procurement by documenting business requirements, use cases, user stories, process models, and B2B integration requirements to enhance planning, integration, customer experience, vendor relations, and reports for accounting, sales, inventory, warehouse, and Marketing business units.

Is impacting your organization with a senior Oracle business analyst who worked extensively in university hospitals a current business consideration? Educational background involves BS in Science of Food, Nutrition, and Exercise. Software skills are composed of Oracle EBS 11.5.9 & 11.5.10, R12, Oracle Discoverer 4.1, ADP Enterprise, Lawson 8.1, ADP PC/Payroll and Oracle Business Intelligence.

While employed in university hospitals as a senior Oracle business analyst, has handled various activities on projects like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, and documenting the functional business requirements. Some of the tasks were working with project managers, project teams, technical teams, and leads across the organization, as well as leading on several work streams for the Oracle system integration of 4 acquired hospitals. Also, has analyzed corporate business processes to develop solutions to reduce costs and improve efficiencies, as well as documented business processes by identifying gaps and requirements. Additional responsibilities were providing functional production support of the Oracle E-Business Suite for HRMS, as well as maintaining and updating system configurations.

Part of the job as an Oracle functional analyst was to provide end user support and assist to resolve all issues for the following Oracle E-Business Suite Modules: HR, OTL, Financials, iProcurement, Supply Chain, Order Management, and iExpenses. Furthermore, has configured and performed setups of applications, as well as designed functional documents and maintained them for change control management.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst/EDI compliance specialist with experience in automotive, financial services and manufacturing industries? Educational attainment is composed of BA in Accounting/Finance. Technical skills include Epicor, SAP iDocs, ABAP and CMS. Business analyst duties included gathering business requirements and details from internal contacts and external trading partners, documentation and project progress tracking. Technical duties involve 20 years of EDI: IBM Sterling SI, GENTRAN Server, IBM WTX DataStage Mercator, WDI; Sterling SFG, BizTalk, Trusted Link Server (TLi) & PC (TLw) Translation and transmission packages.

Contributed to the organization by working on ERP system migration project. This professional has planned the project and led the team that moved the company from QAD ERP and in-house written UNIX EDI translation scripts to Epicor CMS ERP. As a business analyst/EDI compliance specialist, has worked on Lot Traceability Project in which automotive OEMs required stampers to be able to trace and verify that mill steel was within OEM specifications.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by gathering business requirements, designing approach, planning project, and providing ERP specs to Epicor CMS team. Furthermore, has trained accountants and materials department users with resulting new procedures.

Is impacting your organization with a sr. functional analyst with work experience in utilities, computer software and telecommunications industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Master of Arts in English. Technical expertise involves Oracle E-Business Suite modules. Core business systems include Purchasing (PO), iProcurement (iProc), Sourcing, iExpenses, Accounts Payable (AP), Order Management (OM), Inventory (INV), Accounts Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL) and other modules in Oracle E-Business Suite (11i, 12.x).

While employed as a sr. functional analyst, implemented/configured the RBAC based User Management (UMX) module for Oracle R12.1.3. Other duties were performing the following tasks: provisioning of Roles to Users as per their job titles; creation and management of Custom Roles and Role Hierarchies for RBAC; Creation of Custom Applications, as well as Responsibilities and Menus. Moreover, supported Procure to Pay process (PO, iProcurement, AP, iExpenses) in Production, as well as maintained MD-50 and BR-100 for Procure To Pay process.

Working in a utilities company, acted as team lead for an implementation project that included analysis, support and testing using “session based exploratory” methodology along with functional analysis/testing of Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3. Furthermore, followed business process document BP310 and functional design documents for testing the various SCM like PO, AP, iProcurement, iExpenses, Sourcing, OM, Inventory, and financial modules like GL, AR and PA.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this PeopleSoft functional analyst with work experience in education and financial services industries? Technical skills include PeopleSoft tools 8.53, 8.54, 8.55. Knowledge in PeopleSoft modules include HR, Payroll, Asset Management, Absence Management, GL, AP, AR, Project Costing, CRM, Talent Acquisition and Management(TAM), Commitment Control, e-procurement, Benefits, BRD, FRD, SAAS, SRS, UML Modelling, Database Administration, User Stories, Test Scripts, ESS, MSS, Billing, e-Performance, and Contracts. Other expertise consists of C, C++, SQL, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, as well as databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, Teradata, RDBMS and Mainframe.

Contributed to the organization by upgrading PeopleSoft from Swift 9.2 Modules including Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Absence Management, Contracts, Commitment Control, Purchasing, Time and labor, Benefits, e-Performance, Expense, and Asset Management. Implemented new features in 9.2. Serving as a PeopleSoft functional analyst in a university, worked with financial community to define and clarify requirements. Provided support in understanding PeopleSoft’s Absence Management, Payroll, Project Costing, Commitment Control and accounting capabilities. Responsibilities included customization, bug fixing, enhancements, and supporting the PeopleSoft Modules AP, Billing, Asset Management, Purchasing, General Ledger and Inventory.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by training HR Assistants regarding ADP/Payroll, General Ledger, Asset Management, ADP Report, and HR application. Acting as a PeopleSoft analyst, provided production support and month close support for PeopleSoft finance module such as Billing and Contract. Part of the job was to upgrade PeopleSoft from 9.0 to 9.1 Modules.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this functional analyst who is adept in JD Edwards World, SAP and Oracle with work background in manufacturing, business services and retail industries? Technical competencies involve JD Edwards World, SAP, Oracle, Kronos, IBM WebSphere, SQL, ETL, RPG and DB2 DBMS. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Responsibilities of this functional analyst included collaborating with business members and developers as the primary contact to determine business requirements, complete needs assessments, recommend solutions and determine technical requirements to implement changes in enterprise business system (SAP, WMS, legacy) to support business plan and strategy. Duties consisted of supporting systems integration and maintaining interfaces between SAP systems, WMS and legacy systems, while also serving as a primary contact for supporting vendors. Negotiating infrastructure purchases, leases, support contracts and service level agreements was also completed. One of the skills brought to the table covered working with business members and customers to communicate proposal expectations, develop system models, map data flows, develop test plans, develop training and schedule implementation. IT operations management was provided to verify that server processes were completed properly, problems/ errors were investigated, problem resolution was documented, and systems/ databases were verified to ensure proper functioning as well as maintain system performance.

In another job, this individual successfully supported software development and system release management for JD Edwards World A7.3 ERP. Proficiencies included focusing on business systems and enterprise resource planning software including strong background working with clients, customers, designers and programmers to identify and install system improvements, developing project plans, training and personal growth needs, apart from developing implementation timelines.

Does an SAP HCM functional consultant who is experienced in business services, software and professional services industries, as well as knowledgeable in SAP HCM, SAP R/R and Oracle pique your interest? Technical knowledge involves SAP HCM, SAP R/3, ADP, PeopleSoft and Oracle. Educational attainment includes BA Business Administration. Minor in Management and Banking and Finance. This individual obtained a Certification in SAP AG in release 6.0 SAP HR.

Major responsibilities of this SAP HCM functional consultant included providing consulting support in the implementation, rollout, upgrade, improvement and support of SAP HCM configuration. This individual handled organizational management (OM), recruitment (RC), personnel administration (PA), personnel development (PD), training and event management (PE), compensation management (CM), personnel cost planning (PCP), benefits (BN), time management (PT), travel management (TM), payroll (PY), roles and authorizations. This also entailed segregation of duties (SOX), through ERP and portal (BC), Employee Self Service (ESS) Manager Self Service (MSS) and Workflow (WF) for the specific modules of: Finance (FI), Costs (CO), Human Resources (HR), Material Management (MM), Project System (PS) and Sales and Distribution (SD). Interfaces were managed with PeopleSoft and the ADP payroll system.

The job covered serving as SAP instructor for partners and SAP clients. SAP HCM configuration was carried out. Other functions involved SAP HCM configuration, specifically in: Organizational Management (OM), Personnel Administration (PA), Personnel Development (PD), Time Management (PT), Payroll (PY), Employee Self Service (ESS), Manager Self Service (MSS) and Workflow (WF). ABAP team support developments were also performed. Other proficiencies involved Core, Compensation, Profiles, Goals, Performance, Payroll, Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ an applications analyst who worked in real estate, property management and financial services industries? Educational attainment is composed of BA in Finance. This specialist has experience in developing, deploying and supporting enterprise level property management software solutions as well as proven ability to analyze complex business initiatives and develop detailed project management documentation including functional system requirements specs, test plans, and project plans. Software skills involve Sage 300/Timberline, MRI and BuildingLink.

Serving in a property management company as an applications analyst, has performed numerous upgrades, customizations, and provided Level 1 support for MRI, Timberline, Kardin, Millennia, RentPayment, and BuildingLink. Some of the tasks were providing IT training to onboard all new hires, as well as serving as a project manager for implementation of Nexus Payables, a web-based Accounts Payable solution that dramatically reduced time and costs associated with company’s procure-to-pay process.

As an independent consultant-applications team, has documented clients’ current operating state, projected future state, and identified gaps in application functionality and business process coverage (due to employee attrition). Moreover, has leveraged the knowledge and experience of client SMEs to develop and propose potential solutions. Also, was responsible for oversight and documentation of migration strategy and conversion process performed by 3rd party vendor.

Would hiring an Oracle application analyst with experience working in computer software and utilities industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of AS Business Administration, Computer Science and Computer Programming. Technical skills involve Oracle 10g &11g, PL/SQL, SQL Server, JAVA, XML, Crystal Reports 10 and Authorware.

Acting as an Oracle application analyst in a computer software company, did installation, configuration and testing of Oracle Primavera 6.7 Client Suite and Web, installs/upgrades with SQL Server and Oracle db’s. This professional performed database troubleshooting configuration and cleanup with SQL or PL/SQL scripts as needed. Some of the tasks were creating, modifying and troubleshooting of existing Oracle/SQL Server stored procedures/packages based on user requirements using SQL and PL/SQL. In addition, gathered business requirements from dept. managers, executive team and end users for report and application development. Other duties were doing full Lifecycle development of .NET applications for use with Oracle Primavera API for application and database upgrades and modifications.

While working for a utility company as an applications analyst, was the sole implementer/ daily administrator/ support and developer for Asset Management applications Primavera Suite (web and client), Maximo Inventory, Maxavera (an application that bridged Maximo and Primavera) and Data Splice along with all .Net custom apps that interfaced with these applications and Oracle Financials. Moreover, responsible for the initial install of Primavera 5 and all subsequent releases currently on version 6.72, patch releases, Oracle and SQL Server database cleanups, .Net API tools and a 7.0 test environment.