Below are the 4 Financial Analysts & 5 Business Analysts with Lawson and other systems expertise. The Thor Group® also provides Analysts on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a financial analyst with experience working in educational services and computer technology industries? Educational attainment is composed of BA in Math and Economics. Software skills involve Lawson Software (all Sub-systems), PeopleSoft, Hyperion, TM1, ADP payroll, Great Plains, FAMIS, GALAXY, FMS, COGNOS Reporting versions 8.4 and 10.2.

Serving in an educational services company as a financial analyst, has provided Budget and Forecasts analysis and reports to Senior Management, processed year-end reconciliation journal entries, as well as made key improvements on Budgeting, Forecasts and Cash Flow Reporting. This professional has assisted regional controllers with cash flow reporting, as well as assisted in Lawson Software Conversion.

As a financial analyst in a computer technology company, has served as a billing coordinator of all invoices for D.P.S infrastructure application division. Also, has carried out payroll administrator, 401(k) and A/P Manager- Pre Dell acquisition, as well as reconciled balance sheet accounts. Moreover, has provided revenue, COGS and other profitability analyses, as well as assisted in the implementation of Lawson Software. Furthermore, has assisted the controller in company downsizing by managing accruals.

Would a detail-oriented financial analyst with work experience in insurance and financial services industries fit in your organization? Educational background is composed of BS in Agriculture Economics and MBA in Finance & Investment. Technical skills involve Lawson, Hyperion Essbase and Novell Netware.

Some accomplishments included analyzing surplus expenses of various legal entities reports within US Division and preparing expense commentary with plan and previous quarter for quarterly SOE meetings. As a financial analyst in an insurance company, has prepared and maintained quarterly transfer pricing model independently among the legal entities account settlement on GAAP basis with extensive use of Essbase (Hyperion) software, Lawson, web focus and spread sheet which is based on the transfer pricing policy updated every year by senior management. Moreover, has performed and analyzed quarterly (Company 94) Omnibus invoice expense analysis based on the service agreement and allocation expense methodology approved by the Board.

Shared expertise by preparing key financial performance report of Business Units for Executive Manager. While employed in a financial services company as a senior financial analyst, has prepared reports of source of earnings, underlying earnings and reported earnings. Furthermore, has reported earnings based on FSRT, performed monthly and quarterly SOE forecast, as well as prepared above mentioned reports with excel and Hyperion software.

How can a senior financial analyst who worked in insurance, financial services & education delivery services industries a current business consideration? Educational background is composed of Bachelor of Science with Concentration in Finance and MBA with Concentration in Applied Business / Criminal Justice. Technological know-how involves Lawson, Oracle, Hyperion, Smartview/Essbase tools, QuickBase, Concur, Planning, and Consolidation experience.

Working with challenging issues such as providing accurate and highly detailed explanations of actual vs. budget financial variances on a month and year-to-date basis to all key financial personnel have vetted this specialist’s work experience. This was done by researching through various sources each month, providing reasoning for variances and making recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures (primarily P&L review). Acting as a senior financial analyst in an insurance organization, has communicated with management, subsidiaries, affiliates, other third parties, etc. as to project status and completion deadlines including outcomes.

With a “can do approach” in the area of providing operational accounting analysis to Vice Presidents and Directors for reconciliation, operational reporting and budget review have been career objectives. As a senior financial analyst in the education sector, has coordinated general ledger month end closing process and month, quarter and year end management reporting processes including actual vs. budget analysis, and other financial support. Furthermore, has reviewed and verified accuracy of journal/ledger entries while processing, reconciling and analyzing interface of operations data to the accounting system.

Would hiring a senior financial analyst with experience working in cosmetics and airline industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Software skills involve Lawson, JD Edwards and Oracle Business Intelligence.

Acting as a senior financial analyst in a cosmetics company, has served as an accountant to Selling Business Units (SBU) planners and analysts, as well as reviewed reserves requirement, audit allocation of reserves across brands and customers, to ensure alignment with SBU plan (budgets). Some of the tasks were providing guidance to Financial Managers for realignment in SBUs reporting, as well as maintaining significant reserve Account Analyses, reviewing Reserves Justifications and Management reports for SBUs using Lawson.

While working for an airline company as a senior financial analyst, has provided accounting for fuel usage and ground handling expenses as well as maintained prepaid analysis for fuel. Other duties were assisting implementation of Determination of effectiveness and Accounting of Cash Flow hedge. While employed as a senior accountant, was responsible for corporate internal and external reporting as well as analyses. Furthermore, has worked on the preparation of monthly Income Statement, Management Report, and schedules in 5 business days, from month-end for overall internal business analysis and investment centers’ performances.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst with experience working in retail and manufacturing industries? Software skills include Lawson, Oracle, Crystal Reports and IBM WebSphere.

Contributed to the organization’s success by working as the Lawson consultant to implement Lawson/Infor’s version 10, hosted Infor HR, SCM Suite as well as best practices including Lawson’s Mobile Supply Chain Management (MSCM) Solution. As a Lawson business analyst in a manufacturing company, has worked with other teams in expanding EDI capabilities request approvals using IPA. Some of the tasks were working on Infor version 10 upgrades and implementations, as well as working on all phases of Infor’s HR modules and implementation including Payroll module. Also, has served as a Lawson systems analyst, supporting Lawson software, installing CTP’s, environment upgrades, custom programs, ESS and ancillary systems (BSI & Master Tax) having to do with HR, payroll, benefits and finance. Recently completed Lawson System Admin training and set up a Lawson v10 environment on Linux. This individual provided ongoing systems administration of Lawson ERP applications (Financials & Procurement, Human Resources, Payroll, & Benefits), interface development, database administration, matching, and EDI.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by implementing, supporting and managing projects within the Lawson Applications, currently upgrading to INFOR10x application level. While employed as an Infor Lawson business analyst, has worked on interfacing Lawson, System Administration and smart notification development, as well as responsible for Process Improvement, training, support and troubleshooting.

Is impacting your organization with a sr. business analyst with work experience in financial services and pharmaceutical industries a current business consideration? This specialist has over 7 years of experience in Lawson modules: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Billing, Cash Management, Budgeting, General Ledger, and Report Writer. Also, has experience with Lawson financial modules, banking/credit card process, and tax applications. Moreover, has extensively worked on converting Lawson designs into Functional and Technical specifications in clients.

While employed in a financial services company as a sr. Lawson business analyst in a financial services company, has worked directly with end users and managers to gather requirements and understand their systems needs to provide Infor Lawson financial solutions. Part of the job was to act as a point of contact for technical staff and business unit regarding operational and technical issue. Some of the tasks were eliciting, analyzing, documenting and communicating requirements for implementation of the trading system in the Agile Environment. Moreover, has created multiple functional interface designs to extract data from operational systems not being converted to Lawson in a format that can be interfaced into the appropriate Lawson module.

As a business analyst in a pharmaceutical company, has served as a part of the HR Simplification project creating new components, pages and setup security to access them online. Additional responsibilities were providing support of the Lawson HRMS system, as well as helping client understand the Lawson HCM changes with respect to Core HR, Base Benefits and Payroll. Furthermore, has resolved issues in the customized Lawson HR payroll interface, as well as setup and maintained new and current benefit plans in Lawson/HRIS system.

What contributions could a business consultant/analyst who worked in pharmaceutical and insurance industries bring to your organization? Technical skills include Lawson ERP (HR, Payroll, Supply Chain, Finance, and Open Enrollment), Lawson Infor (GL, AP, PO, PR, AM, AC, RQ), Lawson S3, Crystal Reports and SQL/Oracle.

Challenges like working as functional user for Lawson S3 supporting recruitment, benefits, compensation and other areas as needed as well as assisted clients in advanced use of Infor-Lawson Applications to better achieve their business goals through optimizing the software’s capabilities were welcomed and successfully completed. As a Lawson business consultant/analyst, responsibilities included working closely with, Finance, Payroll, Purchasing, and Materials Management in providing support on all modules of Lawson LBI Dashboards. Moreover, has planned and performed the Upgrade strategy from v9 to v10 Lawson applications and worked S3/LTM data comparing project to monitor and verify Lawson data quality as well as integrity between Landmark and Lawson.

Shared expertise by being involved in a team that performed the ADP and ACP tests as well as calculated and compared actual deferral percentages for highly compensated and non-highly compensated employees. This included database query performance tuning, data, backups, creating partitions, and managing table space size. This professional has created full cycle user training for new 10x applications, to include Ming.le and Smart Office interfaces.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a business consultant/financial analyst with work experience in the retail industry? Technical skills involve Lawson Application S3/System analysis 8.x, 9.x, 10x (Infor Ming.le), Lawson Smart Office/S3 and Lawson Studio Design/Micro Focus COBOL. Core competencies include knowledge in Lawson table relationship, Financial/Supply Chain Analysis, Lawson Security 9.0/Application Workbench, as well as (IPA) Lawson Process Flow Integrator/EDI/GHX.

In a retail company, this business analyst worked on maintenance of Lawson system and coordinated with end users to troubleshoot production problems. This individual verified that the interfaces were in place and are working for information to flow into Lawson system correctly. Other jobs entailed involvement with all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies throughout the project life cycle. More so, the data-transmission process for the Lawson Benefits module was automated. This task included the design and development of on-going Lawson programs for inbound/outbound interfaces. Other tasks encompassed involvement in Requirement analysis along with the creation of Use Case Scenarios and modeling of the business and application using RUP and UML.

Additional responsibilities included creating and maintaining company Benefits plans in Lawson, auditing and arranging correction of Open Enrollment data, as well a managing calculation and distribution of quarterly bonuses. This business analyst gathered, analyzed, documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions as well as validated the needs of the business stakeholders. Another accomplishment included redesigning the HR Department and Supervisor structures, apart from participating in redesign of GL Company and Accounting Unit structures.

Would a detail-oriented business systems analyst with work experience in manufacturing and BPO industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Associate’s degree in Applied Science in Computer Programming. This professional has attended Web Development/Programming classes (Lawson 10 Administration: Windows, Lawson LSA Security Administration). Also, has exceeded 10 years of Lawson Administration, as well as provided support to all end users for Lawson/AS400. Technical skills include Lawson 8.00-10.0.6, BSI, Messenger Plus and Tax Factory.

Some accomplishments included maintaining Lawson software version 9.0.1.7-10.0.6 for Financial Application Group, assisting in Lawson upgrade from v9 to v10, as well as testing Lawson software in version 10.0.1. While employed in a BPO company as a business systems analyst (Lawson Admin), has implemented interfaces with Lawson, upgraded security from LAUA to LSA, installed patches, as well as used Microsoft SQL to query/update data.

Shared expertise by implementing security and patches to the Lawson environment, as well as serving as a main point of contact to provide Lawson support to all end users in addition to providing documentation for end users. While working in a manufacturing company as a system administrator (AS400/Lawson), has assisted/developed better practices to assist end users in their day to day tasks, maintained Lawson security, as well as maintained AS/400 system including security and implementing patches.