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Kendall Finnigsmier

Kendall Finnigsmier

Business Intelligence Professional
Denver,CO

Summary

Senior Business Intelligence Manager with 20+ years developing visual data analysis, ensuring data integrity and conducting business analysis. Specializing in creating practical solutions that measure strategic objectives and provide actionable analysis. Communicative and collaborative with proven history of improving business operations to support corporate growth and revenue.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager of Business Analytics

INTEGRA CONNECT
West Palm Beach, Florida
5 2024 - 10.2024
  • Company Overview: A value-based healthcare, precision medicine company specializing in solutions for providers, patients, life science, and EMS companies.
  • Managed and developed a team of data analysts to deliver client reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
  • Focused continuous improvement efforts on understanding business processes, evaluating trends, root cause analysis, identifying data anomalies, presenting findings, and recommending improvements.
  • Leveraged knowledge of database design and structure to present new opportunities for increased utilization of database and programming tools to reduce manual effort and improve reports.

Business Analyst/Reporting Engineer III

WIDE OPEN WEST
07.2020 - 02.2024
  • Company Overview: WOW! is one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business, and wholesale consumers. WOW! provides services in 14 U.S Markets.
  • Conducted business analysis, wrote SQL for new data sources, performed Tableau report development, facilitated UAT, and coordinated deployment activities for BI requests submitted from all functional groups.
  • Designed and implemented a detailed revenue model with analysis for the number of subscribers by product and the average recurring monthly revenue per unit, which saved 12 hours per month gathering data.
  • Developed a new customer work order analysis report for the Field Sales team, which provided the number of completed installs by week and a listing of pending installations for sales agents to ensure completion.
  • Provided trending analysis of call center sales agent success rate for new sales calls, guided by AI prompts, to ensure adherence to the process that was designed to maximize revenue.

IT Sr. Engagement Manager for Business Intelligence

NEWMONT MINING CORP.
07.2015 - 12.2019
  • Company Overview: Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead with a world-class portfolio of assets and prospects located in favorable mining districts around the world.
  • Created and improved data integration, data quality, data delivery, and visualization in support of business initiatives and capability/technology roadmaps.
  • Elicited functional requirements, performed gap analysis, and participated in the solution design process, including data modeling.
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders across all functions to implement a new self-service reporting and analysis strategy by establishing an Analysis Community of Practice with over 50 members worldwide, providing Tableau training, and promoting data-driven decision making.
  • Managed the BI development life cycle of over 80 solutions, which included data from all SAP modules and multiple COTS systems loaded to MS SQL Server and Teradata.
  • Reduced the number of enterprise reports from over 750 to 40 by developing the most valuable reports in Tableau and optimizing data delivery with SQL in Google Big Query.

IT Global Lead Business Analyst

NEWMONT MINING CORP.
04.2013 - 06.2015
  • Led the strategic technology interface to stimulate, surface, and shape business needs and to ensure that the potential value from business assets and capabilities was optimized.
  • Managed solution delivery expectations through the implementation of an IT request prioritization model and request status visibility.
  • Recruited, managed, and developed a team of 5 IT Business/Solutions Analysts who developed business cases, generated business technology requirements, and executed technology projects that aligned with business/technology roadmaps and priorities.
  • Designed and implemented standardized BI Business Analysis processes and procedures, which created a consistent customer experience and fostered a partnership between IT and each business unit.
  • Led the implementation of a corporate cost center dashboard with financial analysis, headcount analysis, and open risk mitigation task that significantly reduced data gathering, allowing for more focused analysis.

IT Sr. Business Analyst

NEWMONT MINING CORP.
02.2012 - 03.2013
  • Executed and enabled multiple business units' strategy by serving as the overall Subject Matter Expert (SME) for process reengineering, business case development, and business/technical requirements gathering on global initiatives and projects.
  • Implemented the first global standard mining operations reporting, which allowed individual mine sites to be ranked by metric to identify the top performers and implement global sharing of best practices to improve overall mining production and cost savings.
  • Created a process to accurately track actual capital expenditure costs of over $150M per year for ongoing projects against the business plan by periodically loading data to the consolidations application, which provided an accurate plan for depreciation for the first time.

IT Business Solutions Enablement Manager

NEWMONT MINING CORP.
10.2007 - 01.2012
  • Built partnerships between IT and assigned business units to identify, launch, and execute IT-related projects.
  • Successfully implemented a new Treasury Management System for under $1M, on time and on budget, including full historical data migration, without interruption to the business.
  • Created all design review documentation and facilitated design review sessions.
  • Developed the business case, use case scenarios, business requirements, technical requirements, and RFP scorecard for the selection of the Treasury solution.
  • Recorded system flows, data flows, and data mapping for the execution of the Treasury historical data migration.
  • Documented reporting requirements and developed custom Treasury reporting in Crystal Reports from the proprietary solution database.
  • Generated the first formal global process for providing IT Peer Review of business cases and funding requests that involved technology supported by IT or required IT resources, which prevented purchases of non-supported technologies and allowed for IT resource planning.

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Finance

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Skills

Data and Analytics

Software

Tableau

SAP

Work Availability

monday
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Professional Development

  • IT Business Analyst Professional Certification (CBAP), 01/01/10 - 12/01/20
  • Business Relationship Management Professional
  • Data Warehouse Lifecycle, Kimball University
  • Project Management, Course Completion

Interests

Military history

Timeline

Business Analyst/Reporting Engineer III - WIDE OPEN WEST
07.2020 - 02.2024
IT Sr. Engagement Manager for Business Intelligence - NEWMONT MINING CORP.
07.2015 - 12.2019
IT Global Lead Business Analyst - NEWMONT MINING CORP.
04.2013 - 06.2015
IT Sr. Business Analyst - NEWMONT MINING CORP.
02.2012 - 03.2013
IT Business Solutions Enablement Manager - NEWMONT MINING CORP.
10.2007 - 01.2012
University of Wyoming - Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance
Manager of Business Analytics - INTEGRA CONNECT
5 2024 - 10.2024

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