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Catherine (Zixin) Xiong

Malden,MA

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Systems Analyst

Analog Devices Inc
Wilmington, MA
01.2021 - Current
  • Act as the IT partner to support Anaplan in model building, problem solving when issues arise, and making sure different systems feed timely and accurate data to Anaplan
  • Gather requirements and manage SAP custom program changes to feed different financial reporting details to Anaplan
  • Perform data validation using SQL and PowerBI, and coordinate user acceptance tests for multimillion projects, i.e., Workday conversion and SAP S4 conversion
  • Implement on-time enhancement releases and manage cross-functional teams on a 24k-user requisition tool using Agile and Waterfall methodology, resulting in improving cycle time for requisitions to be converted to purchase orders
  • Identify needed business improvements and determine appropriate systems required to implement solutions.
  • Volunteer to lead and organize quarterly business review meetings with key business users to support their teams’ needs

Data Career Colleague

Bentley University
Waltham, MA
09.2020 - 04.2021
  • Extracted and Analyzed large amounts of data to identify trends and find patterns, signals and hidden stories within data.
  • Designed and developed excel templates for various career-related reports to simplify reporting structure and future trainings
  • Utilized existing tools to build non-technical dashboards and converted data into actionable insights to drive strategic decisions
  • Presented to the leadership team on the data summary, proposed action plan for the following semester

Technology Risk Consulting Intern

Ernst & Young LLP
Boston, MA
07.2020 - 08.2020
  • Built human resource planning dashboards in PowerBI to speed up the resource planning process
  • Worked on logical access management, change management, and IT operations teams to support an Integrated Audit for one of the Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Executive Analyst

Naya Energy Inc
Phoenix, AZ
11.2017 - 03.2019
  • Analyzed real-time energy data and discovered 10%+ cost-saving solutions for clients
  • Identified and solved workflow problems with a software implementation, saved 34% of company annual software cost

Education

Master of Science - Digital Innovation

Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business
Waltham, MA
2021

Bachelor of Science - Finance and Economics

Grand Canyon University Colangelo College of Business
Phoenix, AZ
2018

Certification

Technical: Anaplan Certified Model Builder | Anaplan Integrations | SAP FI | PowerBI | SQL |Database Management

Soft: Requirements Gathering | Documentation | User Testing and Training | Project Management

Timeline

Business Systems Analyst

Analog Devices Inc
01.2021 - Current

Data Career Colleague

Bentley University
09.2020 - 04.2021

Technology Risk Consulting Intern

Ernst & Young LLP
07.2020 - 08.2020

Executive Analyst

Naya Energy Inc
11.2017 - 03.2019

Master of Science - Digital Innovation

Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business

Bachelor of Science - Finance and Economics

Grand Canyon University Colangelo College of Business
Catherine (Zixin) Xiong