Prachi Talwar
Burlington,ON
Summary
Analytically-minded business analyst with 7 years of experience and a proven track record of driving operational efficiency and optimizing business processes. Possesses a strong blend of technical expertise and business acumen, adept at gathering and analyzing complex data to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement. Skilled in requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and solution implementation across diverse industries. Excellent communicator with a keen ability to translate technical concepts into actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst II
Randstad
St. Louis, MO
08.2022 - 02.2024
- Collaborated with IT to ensure that technical design, unit and functional testing, deployment, and implementation meets business requirements and properly documented
- Prepared documentation on several business cases, requirements documents, RFPs, RFQs, design outlines, technical and business requirements, project scope, budget and risks.
- Determined application and process changes that enhance business processes, operations, and information process flows.
- Collaborated with different departments such as marketing, IT, operations, customer service and scheduling team to build relationships to ensure the projects runs smoothly and that resources are available.
- Met with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business and technical requirements, systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues.
- Created systems models, specifications, diagrams, and charts as needed for communication and support.
- Developed test plans to make sure the processed defined can be executed without any roadblocks.
- Provided trainings for new and existing business owners on the current and new systems
- Streamlined project management with effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams..
- Developed high-quality documentation to support training efforts, helping employees fully understand new systems and procedures.
- Developed financial models and forecasts to support business decisions.
- Drafted functional specifications documents outlining project scope, objectives and deliverables.
- Identified gaps between current state and desired future state operations.
- Developed reports using SQL queries to track progress against key performance indicators.
- Managed projects and served as primary liaison between client and multiple internal groups to clarify goals and meet standards and deadlines.
- Developed reports or created dashboards, providing financial-related information to make informed business decisions.
Business Analyst
Travelodge Hotel
St. Louis , MO
02.2018 - 07.2022
- Design, develop and publish Tableau dashboards based on customer needs
- Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams.
- Worked alongside teams within the business or the management team to define KPI and analyses certain dimensions.
- Managed vendor relationships to negotiate contracts, secure favorable pricing, and ensure timely delivery of products or services.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
- Conducted market research to identify potential opportunities for new product development.
- Developed financial models and forecasts to support business decisions.
- Drafted functional specifications documents outlining project scope, objectives and deliverables.
- Conducted interviews with subject matter experts to gather information on existing systems and procedures.
- Prepared documentation summarizing findings from stakeholder meetings and workshops.
- Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
St. Louis, USA12.2020
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOUR
St. Louis, USA12.2019
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile & Scrum Methodologies
- Business Process Mapping
- Technical Writing
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Jira
- Problem Solving
Certification
- Python for Data Analysis from IBM
- Alteryx Certified
- Business Intelligence from University of Missouri-St louis
- HubSpot Marketing
- Salesforce
- Project Management by Google
Timeline
Business Analyst II
Randstad
08.2022 - 02.2024
Business Analyst
Travelodge Hotel
02.2018 - 07.2022
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOUR
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