Natasha A.

About Natasha A.

My key attributes include building strong relationship with cross-functional teams (finance and IT), leading from inception to delivery of projects, change management skills, and ability to drive root cause analysis.

Experience

1. Staff Business System Analyst

   Intuit

   Dec 2013 — Present

   Business Systems Analyst/Product Owner in defining and implementing data requirements and reporting solutions for internal finance reporting using a mix of Scrum and Kanban framework for Agile. Effectively used JIRA, Confluence and Aha as tools for tracking and roadmap building• Led a scrum team of 6 financial reporting developers in USA and India, providing technical requirements, approval for design and working with business to obtain final approval to deploy.• Coordinated with cross-functional stake holders and 3rd party vendors to drive activities and projects (for Finance Reporting) that require input for engagement, strategy or planning.• Collaborated across cross-functional and decentralized teams to leverage resources, knowledge to analyze problems and achieve results for effective and accurate operational reports and visualizations. These reports are relevant to financial close process and compliance for the Intuit financial systems (Oracle, BRM, Revstream).• Managed an Agile Product Backlog, facilitated and participated in sprint planning, retrospective, sprint demos. Monitored the Sprint Burndown and conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team, removing impediments, and co-ordinating tasks toward goal completion.• Control owner of multiple SOX controls for Finance, with ownership to ensure performance is per expected compliance.• Utilized SQL and business intelligence development skills to operationalize analytics and metrics into data visualization dashboards using Qlik and Operational Reports using Business Objects.• Effectively managed contractor hires, SOW management and budget allocation. • Provided production support to resolve data and reporting issues for internal users.

Education

• Philadephia College of Pharmacy

  Pharmacology and Toxicology

  1988 — 1991

• Villanova University

  Master's degree, Information Technology Project Management

  2018

• San Diego State University

  Accounting

  1991 — 1995