Below are the 4 Functional/Application Analysts & 8 Business Analysts with multiple systems/technical expertise & other systems experience. The Thor Group® provides business analyst or financial analyst with your systems, software & industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

How can a functional analyst with specialization in JD Edwards and background working in technology, agriculture and chemical industries fit within your organization? Technical specializations involve JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and WMS software. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Engineering and a Diploma in Management.

Key roles of this functional analyst covered managing the transaction between JD Edwards and a third- WMS System through RTE, as well as getting involved in gap analysis. Responsibilities involved creating functional solutions based on defined business requirements, along with creating functional designs, test scripts and training documentation. Furthermore, this specialist configured the JD Edwards software to match approved design solutions and assisted in estimating implementation project activities. Duties consisted of troubleshooting issues with business process configuration and testing the transaction in the WMS software (SWISSLOG).

This individual was involved in testing before the go-live while creating test scripts and training documentation. Tasks involved troubleshooting issues with business process configuration, mentoring and supporting teammates with functional questions and issues, in addition to interacting with the support team regarding the recurring issue. Workaround was provided for the recurring production issue. A defect for those recurring issues was created. Skills covered doing the route cause analysis (RCA) and providing permanent fix for the defect after testing in lower test environment. If needed, interacting with tech team was also completed. Expertise included JD Edwards ERP application in Distribution and Logistics Module. Other proficiencies involved creating functional solutions based on defined business requirements, in addition to creating functional designs, test scripts and training documentations.

What contributions could a sr. Oracle EBS functional analyst with experience working in automotive, mining/metals and consumer electronics industries bring to your organization? Technical skills include ERP modules such as Oracle Applications R12/11i. Knowledge in development tools consist of Plus, SQL Developer, PL/SQL Developer, SQL Loader 6.0 and Oracle Workflow Builder. Database expertise involves Oracle 9i/10g/11g and SQL Server. Has solid understanding of integration of Oracle Applications modules, Multi Org, Reporting Currencies Setups, Chart of Accounts, FSG, Budgets and Flexfields.

Challenges like being involved in implementation and testing of Oracle Applications Financial R12 GL, AP, AR and CM modules were successfully completed on a regular basis. Acting as a sr. Oracle EBS functional analyst in an automotive company, developed test plans and scripts and conducted testing for quality assurance, as well as configured GL, AP modules in R12 Environment. Part of the job was to function as a principal lead for General Ledger Multi-org on an R12 implementation, as well as worked on requirements gathering, gap mappings, and various functionalities in General Ledger. The professional designed FAH to GL interfaces.

In another job, shared expertise by working on Accounts Payables, Inventory, Accounts Receivables, General Ledger, Engineering, Quoting and Purchasing modules of Oracle Financials/Manufacturing. Serving as a sr. Oracle EBS techno functional consultant in a mining/metals company, worked for designing and developing integrations for Oracle EBS. Other duties were developing new custom forms in Inventory module, as well as working on customizing Oracle seeded reports in PO, AP, Inventory and AR modules.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this sr. application analyst with experience working in oil/energy, engineering and IT services industries? Educational background is composed of Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics. Professional certifications consist of ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management. This specialist worked on the implementation, application upgrades, roll out, systems enhancements and management of Oracle Supply Chain (SCM) modules Order Management, Oracle Configurator, Oracle PLM (Advance Product Catalog), Advance Pricing, Oracle iStore, Purchasing, Inventory, BOM & WIP as well as their underlying integration with Financial modules like Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables and General Ledger along with their integration with third party systems.

Contributed to the organization via Configure to Order (CTO) Expansion by extensively working on developing configurable product structures with implementation of Configurator Developer (CZ) using various types of CZ rules to support business logic along with extensions to facilitate business requirement. Serving in an oil and energy company as a sr. application analyst, worked on manufacturing initiatives as design and solution of CADWorx to BOM integration, Custom Item description using Oracle Business events and few other reports like BOM Metrics report, Intended Bills of material, along with various Discoverer reports. Also, performed third party integration like Argus freight solution, Eng. Applications and few in-house products.

The job encompassed enhancements and support of Oracle EBS for Cummins Generator Technology (India and UK). Working in an information technology and services company, provided enhancements and support of Oracle EBS for Cummins Power Generation (India and UK), as well as enhancements and support of Oracle EBS for Cummins Turbo Technology. Furthermore, participated in various roll-outs and instance upgrades.

Is impacting your organization with a system application analyst who worked in insurance, HR software and distribution industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Management Information Systems and Finance Administration. Summary of qualifications involve Lawson Application Implementations, Upgrades, as well as Lawson Application HCM/Finance Support.

While employed in an insurance and HR services company as a system application analyst, has supported Lawson HCM /Financial Applications, did daily operational support of HR and Payroll application, as well as carried out HR and Payroll daily operations support. This professional has managed databases and operating system across network, as well as performed system upgrades and installed application patches as needed.

Part of the job as an implementation application support in an HR software company was to work in payroll implementation, data conversion, processing, testing and auditing, as well as customer implementation and support. Other responsibilities involved Time and Labor ( e-Time) implementation and training, providing Lawson/PeopleSoft/UltiPro conversion and parallel support, as well as project managing UAT- user acceptance and parallel testing. As a system administrator/DBA, has carried out Lawson system administrator/maintenance, upgrades, as well as Lawson patches, support, and e-business.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in a health system, as well as proficient in Infor Lawson, Lawson HCM, and Lawson BI? Technical competencies involve Infor Lawson, Lawson HCM, and Lawson BI. Areas of expertise include providing development/programming support for Infor Lawson applications, Lawson Billing and revenue management.

Important contributions of this business analyst included facilitating end-user training sessions in Lawson GL & AP modules, as well as implementing Lawson 9.0 Financial Suite including AR, AP, BL, CB and GL modules on environments. A key role was performed in implementation team for Lawson 9 ERP system as custom financial reporting specialist using Crystal Reports, Lawson Add-Ins and Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) tools. Tasks covered consulting with support teams on processes, security and data integrity and other related SQL Server issues, along with creating functional and technical specifications of centralized Accounts Payable Services Center Crystal based (Lawson Financials, Procurement and Supply Chain version 9.0) reports for a nationwide hospital system.

Work was carried out with Powerplan’s Asset Decision Support module, providing a clear and comprehensive view of organization’s asset health. Duties covered installing, implementing, customizing and administering Lawson HR/Payroll, Lawson Procurement, the Lawson Portal, the Lawson Add-In’s for Microsoft Office, and Lawson Employee/Manager Self-Service. In addition, this specialist facilitated design sessions and gathered requirements for solutions in AP, AR, HR. Designed a reporting model for capturing traditional, conventional and Ad-hoc models of generating revenue. Information was extracted from non-Lawson accounting systems and the data was configured in Lawson-compatible formats.

Does a business analyst who is experienced in aviation, mining and automotive industries and knowledgeable in MS Dynamics AX and SAP pique your interest? Technical knowledge involves MS Dynamics AX, SAP, MS SQL, Access and Crystal Reports. This individual obtained a Certification in MS Dynamics AX Financials.

Major responsibilities of this business analyst included facilitating requirements gathering and documentation, performing fit/gap analysis and identifying requirements for customization. Preparing the functional design documents, preparing test scripts documents and performing different levels of system testing including unit testing, QA testing, Integration and regression testing were some of the key roles. Training manuals were prepared and user training was conducted. User Acceptance testing was also facilitated. Documenting how to guide and troubleshooting guide for internal knowledge sharing, along with incident and request management through JIRA were positive experiences brought to the business table. Support was provided for MS Dynamics AX.

Accomplishments involved designing/implementing the vendor onboarding process (AX centralized vendor setup), in addition to designing and implementing the vendor payment remittance advice (auto-email process for eBanking transactions). An additional function consisted of implementing the pre-payment process (AX standard pre-payment process). Responsibilities involved implementing the Fixed Asset module (from a legacy system to AX) and designing/enhancing the inventory value report. Duties covered handling AX workflow and user administration. Contributions included implementing the Purchase agreement in AX, implementing barcode scanning using RFSMart (warehouse receiving), in addition to conceptualizing and designing the template barcoding. The imperfection report was also designed.

Is impacting your organization with a business analyst who worked in aerospace, manufacturing and engineering industries a current business consideration? Software knowledge consists of Epicor Vantage (ERP) 6.10 & 8.03, and 905 as well as Crystal Reports.

While employed in an aerospace/defense company as a business analyst, has participated in the plan, design, implementation, integration, and validation of ERP System, Epicor 8.03 and integrated applications, specific knowledge of the following modules Quality, Finance, Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management, Engineering and Manufacturing for existing live system. Also, has worked on Business Optimization through system utilization. Moreover, has evaluated information gathered from multiple internal sources, reconciled conflicts, decomposed high-level information into details, abstracted up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguished user requests from underlying business needs.

Part of the job as a business analyst in a manufacturing company was implementing Epicor 9 from MvBase ERP 2.0 (for other divisions). In addition, has participated in the plan, design, implementation, integration, and validation of Epicor 9 and integrated applications, specific knowledge of the following modules Human Capital Management, Finance, Purchasing, Order Management, Engineering and Manufacturing. Furthermore, has evaluated information gathered from multiple internal sources, reconciled conflicts, decomposed high-level information into details, abstracted up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguished user requests from underlying business needs.

How can a senior JDE (JD Edwards) business analyst who is knowledgeable in JDE OneWorld with background working in technology, construction and petroleum industries fit within your organization? Technical specialties cover JDE E1 and JDE OneWorld (OW). Educational attainment includes BBA in Accounting. This individual is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Duties of this senior JDE business analyst covered providing full JDE financial support and leading financial implementations. Some of the functions were providing full support for several independent divisions and resolving prior AP to GL out of balance issue while also setting in place procedures and integrity reports to prevent future discrepancies. Aside from training the staff, other tasks involved setting in place daily or weekly financial integrities and training the staff on usage, resulting in improvement from nearly 500 unposted transactions in 2010 to none as of June 2011. Assistance was provided in reconciling and balancing FA to GL where there were out-of-balances of over $2 million.

This specialist trained the staff on transfer programs, integrity issues and balancing. Key roles consisted of leading regularly scheduled financial/IT meetings to cover problem areas, along with explaining JDE tables and programs, how they tie together and how to assist in the analysis of financials. Areas of expertise included JDE E1 financial and OW product support, including five successful implementations/ coordination with distribution and payroll. Other strengths included JDE application support experience (concentrations in financials, payroll, HR, distribution and World Report Writer). Excellent understanding was shown with JDE tables and fields, and how they were affected by JDE programs and processes.

What can a business analyst with work background in retail, food and technology industries, as well as specialization in SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP CRM and SAP ABAP bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP CRM, SAP ABAP and SAP Solution Manager. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications.

Working with areas such as serving as project lead for a global sourcing database and supplier collaboration hub projects for sourcing operations team which generated $7 million HMM savings by helping packaging buyers or category specialists bid effectively, enabling end- to-end optimization and providing better visibility to company partners were some of the responsibilities of this business analyst. An additional duty covered serving as lead analyst for global sourcing raw material planning system (BPC NW 7.5) for sourcing finance team. This tool was used for $5 billon raw materials planning every year. Experience in working collaboratively with various team members across the globe on a day to day basis for production support issues and enhancements was applied, along with the ability to coach and mentor new team members to onboard to company SAP sourcing processes.

Other functions involved participating in configuration and customization of PP functionalities: master data (materials, BOMs, resources, production versions), product master data, MRP, work centers, and routing, in addition to configuring order confirmations, goods movement and availability checks. Areas of expertise included SAP technical and functional experience in driving process reengineering and implementing enterprise level solutions with extensive background with ERP, CRM, Supply Chain, BW and B2B environments.

What contributions could a business solutions analyst with extensive experience working in a children’s hospital bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Associate Degree in Advanced Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major in Computer Information Systems and Master of Business Administration in Management Information Systems. Professional certifications have been earned as: Certified Scrum Master and Registered Nurse. Technological know-how consists of Oracle, SQL Server, Business Objects, Symedical, Visio, Qualtrics, LeanKit and CRM.

Challenges like working with users to identify, analyze and document requirements, as well as leading requirements gathering sessions and translating business needs into requirement specifications were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. While working in a children’s hospital as a business solutions analyst, has created data systems and operational workflow diagrams, as well as mapped data fields from complex data sources and created data mapping documents. This specialist worked with project stakeholders to develop project artifacts, scope, cost, and resource estimates. Part of the job was to conduct system tests and review development deliverables to evaluate quality of function and performance. Also, has planned and executed comprehensive system and user acceptance tests by coordinating key resources and managing technical issue resolution utilizing Agile testing methodology.

Shared expertise by gathering, sorting and analyzing clients’ data and then developing logical conclusions in addition to performing data analysis on clients’ databases and source files. As a business intelligence system analyst, has analyzed clients’ reporting needs, as well as developed reporting requirements documents. Some of the duties were providing data quality checking, data migration, data mapping, and setting up ETL processes, apart from performing data auditing, aggregation validation and reconciliation validation.

Is impacting your organization with a business analyst with work experience in energy, publishing and cosmetics industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering. Software skills involve NetSuite, QlikView, Microsoft CRM, Service Pro and SharePoint. Database knowledge consists of MS Access and MS SQL Server.

While employed in an energy corporation as business analyst, worked on Project “Golden Gate”: Purpose of Golden Gate was to build a single ERP solution (NetSuite) for all the recent CES acquisitions that use different legacy systems. Responsibilities included participating in vendor demo sessions to review plug in software needed for business areas that need customization. Also, customized NetSuite vs licensing an existing Add-on software (Ex: Add-ons for scheduling, training etc.,).

Part of the job as a business analyst in a publishing company was to work as a sr. business analyst in an agile environment with monthly release and bi-weekly sprints. Other duties were reporting to project manager and business analyst team on a weekly basis, as well as performing functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user Acceptance criteria are met. Furthermore, co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with SMEs to make sure that all the requirements are addressed in the application.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this senior business analyst with work experience in banking, textile and security systems industries? Educational attainment is composed of BS Computer Science & Information Technology as well as Masters in Business Administration. Technical skills consist of Lawson M3 Form Designer and VB script & StreamServe (communication server), TrackIT, OnBase, Tableau, AS/400 and Crystal Reports. Key achievements were designing and implementing an automated system to extract data on a daily basis for goods bought and sold to support the company’s operation as a Foreign Trade Zone, which saved the company a minimum of $3 million annually.

Contributed to the organization’s success by managing and providing application support to all functional areas in relation to Lawson (ERP system) & Celerant (POS system), both running on AS/400 and SQL Server 2008 respectively. As a senior business analyst, acted as system administrator for Lawson M3 (ERP system), as well as formed design and media management to output data from Lawson to print file, email, or as data files. In addition, created and published various company reports (Financial, Sales, and Supply Chain/Operations) using Crystal Reports 2008 to facilitate and improve business performance and productivity.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by meeting and interacting with end users to understand requirements. This included scope, objectives, needs and system capabilities for reporting and ensured accuracy of all reports produced.