JEFFREY A. SAUL
Hackettstown,NJ
Summary
Seasoned Business Analyst offering over 10 years of success. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making. Multi-faceted professional with achievements in business analysis, reporting, and SAP. Proficient in Agile methodology with Product Owner certification (CSPO) . Highly adept at streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and preparing reliable analytics. Comprehensive background in business and reporting analysis for a Fortune 500 corporation including analyzing workflow, providing support to staff, gathering necessary requirements, and delivering timely reports to management. Skilled in serving as a liaison between business units and IT developers.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant
WELLS FARGO
05.2022 - 05.2024
- Business Analyst on Agile Team working on internally developed applications for tools and reporting capabilities used to perform compliance oversight and analytics
- Worked with the Business Owner to create and write user stories in JIRA addressing defects and enhancements to the system
- Provided overview in biweekly Sprint Planning sessions
- Continuously reviewed and refined backlog items to ensure the Business Owner needs were met
- Functioned as liaison between the Business Owner and Development stakeholders
- Actively participated in stand ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to help the team function with a clear understanding of goals
- Acted as backup to Scrum Master to facilitate Daily Stand-Up sessions when Scrum Master was unavailable
- Performed QA functions on stories related to UI and Report screens and provided feedback to developers for improvements, as well as regression testing prior to release
- Ran queries in the Production environment to assist developers in completing their user stories
- Created release tickets in ServiceNow and participated in release deployments to provide verification that deployment was successful in the Production environment.
Business Analyst
COMPASS GROUP
06.2021 - 03.2022
- Member of the team that studied the feasibility of system upgrade as well as providing support for off cycle payment requests
- Documented specific rules for application of key metrics for the migration of Canada employees to SAP system
- Performed testing of Canadian employees in the SAP Payroll system to verify functionality and make sure the data was complete
- Analyzed the flow of employee records from onboarding, through PeopleHub and SAP, all the way into MyStaff (timekeeping).
Business Analyst
QBE NORTH AMERICA
10.2020 - 05.2021
- Member of the Business Analyst team that worked with business stakeholders to gather requirements and other information needed by IT developers for system implementation
- Analyzed current process flow for Reserving process
- Gathered document artifacts from business stakeholders to prepare for implementation of Property coverages into underwriting platform.
Business Analyst, Finance
ENSTAR GROUP
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Member of Project team that performed analysis of individual systems and data sources in preparation for migration to a consolidated data-mart
- Worked with business users to map bordereaux into a common template for upload to data-mart.
Senior Business Analyst
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
04.2006 - 09.2018
- Premium Accounting/Reporting – AIG Property Casualty
- Served as the primary liaison between the business owners and project developers to ensure requirements were documented and understood properly
- Key member of Analyst team that partnered with developers on the implementation of SAP BOBJ reporting (Webi/Hana), which encompassed detailed analysis and documentation of current reports as well as testing and training of the new system
- Collaborated with developers to create new and enhanced reports in SAP BOBJ utilizing new technology to provide data to Premium Receivable Collections Managers
- Worked closely with business teams to gather requirements for implementation and reporting
- Generated detailed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports
- Key Achievements:
- Played an instrumental role in the migration of the reporting from SAP BI to SAP Business Objects (specifically Webi and HANA), which saved the company over $4M annually
- Developed reports that tracked open receivables and individual collectors' inventories, which improved efficiency by clearing out older receivables and payables while slashing costs
- Acted as a liaison between the business units and IT developers while migrating manual reports from SAP FS/CD into SAP BOBJ
- Conducted requirements walkthrough with development and testing teams
- Ensure clarification and understanding of all requirements and obtain sign-off
- Played a key role in quality assurance testing from the development side and user acceptance testing from the business side.
Senior Business Analyst
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
03.2003 - 04.2006
- Global Reinsurance Module (REM)
- Leveraged knowledge of underwriting unit, reinsurance practice, and underwriting system to assume the role of Subject-Matter Expert in the development of a new internal Reinsurance Module
- Assessed current business flow of underwriting unit regarding reinsurance
- Analyzed current business flow of existing internal treaty database to develop business requirements, use cases, and coding rules for the new eTreaty Database system
- Key Achievements:
- Developed seamless integration plan between existing underwriting system, new reinsurance system, and new Treaty Database System
- Schedule and facilitate business requirements gathering sessions with business groups
- Performed quality assurance testing from the development side and user acceptance testing from the business side.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Finance, Statistics
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
New Brunswick, NJ1993
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Agile Methodologies
- Product Owner
- User Stories
- Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning
- Data Analysis and Reporting
- Requirements Gathering
- User Acceptance Testing
- User & Peer Training
- Commercial Insurance and Reinsurance
- Microsoft Office
- JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, SAP, SAP Business Intelligence
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - ScrumAlliance.org Certificate ID: 001655004 Active through 2026-06
Timeline
Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant
WELLS FARGO
05.2022 - 05.2024
Business Analyst
COMPASS GROUP
06.2021 - 03.2022
Business Analyst
QBE NORTH AMERICA
10.2020 - 05.2021
Business Analyst, Finance
ENSTAR GROUP
04.2019 - 10.2019
Senior Business Analyst
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
04.2006 - 09.2018
Senior Business Analyst
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
03.2003 - 04.2006
Bachelor of Science - Finance, Statistics
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY