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Jennifer Torrez

Visalia,CA

Summary

Dedicated Business Analyst with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Successful at responding to shifting business needs and priorities. Well-versed in operational assessment strategies and functional analysis methodologies for businesses of different sizes. Quantitative expert with comprehensive approach to analytical projects, business reporting and process improvements.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Operations and Maintenance Analyst

Renewable Solar
06.2023 - Current

•Increased efficiency by streamlining data analysis processes and implementing automation tools.

•Identified trends and patterns in large datasets, leading to actionable insights for business growth.

•Supported customer relations by providing clear communication of complex findings through visualizations and reports.

•Enhanced customer satisfaction rates through detailed analysis of customer feedback data.

Business Analyst

Aspire General Insurance
06.2022 - 06.2023

•Investigated and addressed system issues to enhance usability and improve functionality.

•Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.

•Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business and customer requirements.

•Manage requirement traceability and changes on IT projects.

•Conducted daily audits of insurance policies to ensure accuracy and reported abnormalities.

•Created/revised, organized, and archived training materials to support future employees.

•Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.

Business Analyst - Meter Revenue Operations

American Electric Power, AEP
11.2021 - 06.2022

•Support AMI Head-end systems, Command Center, and UIQ.

•Worked daily with networked meter systems, MDS, MACSS, MDM, and AMI Head End Systems

• Provided system administration and support to enable efficient and effective Meter and Revenue Operations for Operating Companies.

• Ensured accurate and timely meter data billing by collecting daily Gap Meter reads.

• Coordinated and ran company work group weekly meeting to review projects, open items, and documented minutes and action items.

• Identify and initiate process improvements by working closely with other departments, operating companies, and vendors.

• Gathered data from various sources to make data-driven decisions.

• Created business process documentation to support customers in various Operating Companies.

Business Analyst Financial Controls

American Electric Power, AEP
04.2019 - 11.2021

•Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and overall departmental productivity.

•Employed optimal safety practices to reduce work site complaints, hazards, incidents, or lost-time accidents to improve overall OSHA scores and expand bid opportunities.

•Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze, and report performance and safety data.

•Supported efficient conferences by organizing zoom meetings, documenting discussions, and distributing meeting notes.

•Develop and distribute company-wide training material for the natural disaster response process.

•Achieved and maintained customer loyalty by forging long-term relationships based on prompt and courteous service with vendors.

•Resolved vendor billing issues by handling invoice discrepancies and missed/late payments.

•Tested newly established vendor authentication process with users' stories provided by IT to confirm or troubleshoot expected user experience.

•Analyzed and enacted Distribution Forestry and Distribution Line contracts by cross-referencing imported rates in CAMPs to the agreement to guarantee correct and timely payments to vendors.

•Gathered fuel expenditures from various depositories to reimburse vendors/contractors according to contracted agreement rates.

•Utilized strong analytical skills and various experiences working with cross-functional teams, to enhanced both internal and external customer online account registration.

Sr. Analyst Revenue Assurance - NIM

Verizon
06.2016 - 12.2018

•Assembled stakeholders to resolve process gaps by quantifying the customer or revenue impact to mitigate the losses.
•Assisted in preparing a cost analysis by extracting and interpreting financial data to justify technical application changes.
•Consolidated financial data and materials for key leadership meetings.
•Wrote SQL code to uncover issues impacting customer billing and situations where customers are under or over-billed.

•Performed regular audits on accounts that fit billing issue criteria to ensure IT fixes remained intact.

•Supervised and prioritized multiple national billing issues, utilizing impeccable time management and organizational skills.

Sr. Analyst Revenue Assurance - NBE

Verizon
06.2013 - 06.2016

•Investigated root causes, presented with appropriate investigation teams, and managed work queues.
•Used project management skills to track billing issues from beginning to end, ensuring a timely resolution to prevent future revenue risk.
•Partner cross-functionally with Customer Service, Marketing and Operations support organizations, Area Finance, Network, and outside vendors to drive discrepancies to closure.
•Worked with IT and other teams to resolve basic to advanced system issues.
• Review daily system operations to monitor completed audits and workflows to other billing teams.
•Troubleshoot issues by considering surrounding conditions such as new IT code changes, new product launches, network migrations, and Price plan changes.
•Compiled critical statistics for the Monthly KPI Report and related Operations Reviews with Sr. Leaders related to Error Handling functions.
•Ensure ongoing compliance with all SOX-related procedures for Error Handling processes.

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
02.2024

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Human Resource Management

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
04.2021

Skills

  • Data Research and Analysis
  • Compiling Data
  • Monitoring Results
  • Issue Reporting
  • Business Operations
  • Data Verification
  • Active Listening
  • Organization and Time Management
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Communication and Interpersonal Skills

Technical systems / Software programs

Oracle (PeopleSoft)
Teradata SQL
Data Warehouse
ServiceNow
Business Objects
Monday CRM

Microsoft Office and Windows: Access, Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint

Timeline

Operations and Maintenance Analyst

Renewable Solar
06.2023 - Current

Business Analyst

Aspire General Insurance
06.2022 - 06.2023

Business Analyst - Meter Revenue Operations

American Electric Power, AEP
11.2021 - 06.2022

Business Analyst Financial Controls

American Electric Power, AEP
04.2019 - 11.2021

Sr. Analyst Revenue Assurance - NIM

Verizon
06.2016 - 12.2018

Sr. Analyst Revenue Assurance - NBE

Verizon
06.2013 - 06.2016

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Human Resource Management

Western Governors University
Jennifer Torrez