MEGAN SIMMONS
Senior Business Analyst
Chicago, IL · m.simmons@email.com · (555) 462-9013
Summary
Senior business analyst with 7 years bridging business strategy and technology delivery in financial services. Specializes in requirements gathering, process re-engineering, and stakeholder alignment, having delivered projects that cut processing time by up to 35%.
Experience
Senior Business Analyst · Capital One
2021 - Present
- Led requirements gathering for a loan-origination platform overhaul, cutting application processing time by 35%
- Facilitated 20+ stakeholder workshops across risk, compliance, and engineering to align on 150 documented requirements
- Built Power BI dashboards tracking 12 KPIs that reduced monthly reporting effort by 10 hours
- Coordinates UAT across 4 business units, clearing 200+ test cases per release at 98% pass
Business Analyst · Accenture
2017 - 2021
- Mapped end-to-end business processes for a retail banking client, identifying $1.1M in annual efficiency gains
- Wrote 80+ user stories and acceptance criteria for an Agile team, improving sprint velocity by 20%
- Ran gap analysis on a legacy payments workflow, producing a roadmap adopted across 5 branches
Junior Business Analyst · Northline Consulting Group
2015 - 2017
- Documented requirements for 6 client engagements, drafting use cases and flows in Visio
- Compiled weekly SQL extracts of 40,000+ transactions to support senior analyst gap analysis
- Coordinated UAT cycles for 3 releases, logging and tracking 120 defects to closure in JIRA
Education
B.S. Business Administration, Finance — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 2017
Skills
SQL, Power BI, Tableau, JIRA, Confluence, Business Process Mapping, Requirements Gathering, Agile/Scrum, Gap Analysis, Visio, Stakeholder Management, UAT
Certifications
PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Project Management Institute
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), IIBA
