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Keri Fournier

Litchfield,USA

Summary

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst with 12+ years of experience in risk management, M&A integration, and financial data analysis within highly regulated industries. Skilled at leading vendor risk assessments, regulatory compliance reviews (GDPR, FedRAMP, DORA, EU-US Data Privacy Framework), and internal audit support.Adept at developing and implementing processes that strengthen security posture, streamline compliance operations, and ensure data integrity. Trusted partner to cross-functional teams including Legal, Privacy, Security, and Sales.

Successfully managed GRC initiatives and optimized data systems, demonstrating strong team collaboration and leadership skills. Spearheaded projects improving efficiency by 20%, aligning with industry standards and regulations.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analyst Cyber Risk

UKG
Lowell, MA
04.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for working with compliance, security, and privacy teams to process requests, and respond by acknowledging internal platforms, and aligning with privacy policies and compliance requirements.
  • Maintain policies and standards within structured information security documentation.
  • Work directly with internal and external customers on data privacy, while ensuring we comply with UKG policies and procedures.
  • Process RFP requests.
  • Assist internal audit with customer audit requests, such as evidence collection, weekly status meetings, and audit closure procedures.
  • Manage GRC initiatives, including issues, policy development, training, communication, and support.
  • Support vendor risk assessments and audit requests, including leading calls and providing additional security-related documentation.
  • Answer all vendor Risk Assessment questionnaires.
  • Maintain customer portal, fielding incoming emails and various requests, as well as updating documentation customers access through the portal.
  • Process all incoming request through ServiceNow, with accuracy and timeliness.
  • Support Sales, Legal, Privacy, AI and other groups that require security and privacy assistance.
  • Align with the Security and Privacy teams to maintain the most up to date policies.
  • Provide additional development of AI tools and Generative AI functions within the IT, Compliance workstreams.
  • Manage various projects within IT, Compliance, AI and present project data to these teams.
  • Align with Legal on various laws and regulations pertaining to GDPR, EU-US Data Privacy Framework, DORA and FedRamp requirements.
  • Assisted with the implementation of Safebase and a new Trust Site for customer to access policies and other security related documentation required.

M&A Integration Business Analyst

IBM
Lowell, MA
02.2014 - 04.2024
  • Responsible for working with acquired companies to integrate their employees, customers, contracts, and processes into IBM.
  • Maintain finance and accounting data for all acquisitions.
  • Designed and developed quality control data checklist to acquire clean data.
  • Improved business processes by analyzing current practices and recommending optimization strategies.
  • Facilitated change management initiatives ensuring smooth transitions during organizational transformations.
  • Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
  • Work directly with internal and external customers on data privacy while ensuring we comply with IBM policies and procedures.
  • Monitored employee tasks to gauge business functions and inefficiencies.
  • Optimized data access and storage to improve performance of analytics systems.
  • Analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and assess the risk involved for data not provided within scope.
  • Identified business improvements and determined appropriate systems required to implement solutions.
  • Oversaw project timelines for Data Archiving and reported project progression to upper management on a monthly basis.
  • Managed the data archiving efforts for all acquired customers.
  • Collaborated with internal and external teams to bring over data utilizing Workday HCM, Compensation and Reporting.

Operations Business Analyst

IBM
Lowell, MA
05.2011 - 02.2014
  • Work hand in hand with the Quote to Cash team, supporting their integration efforts.
  • Managed the end-to-end business from quoting, order processing, invoicing, and reconciliations.
  • Reviewed quotes and orders for accuracy and compliance with auditing requirements.

Education

Northeastern University
Burlington, MA

Skills

  • Risk assessment
  • ServiceNow
  • Salesforce
  • SafeBase
  • Workday HCM
  • Reporting
  • Compensation
  • FedRamp
  • Data analysis
  • Team collaboration
  • NIST models
  • Microsoft Office

Timeline

Business Analyst Cyber Risk

UKG
04.2024 - Current

M&A Integration Business Analyst

IBM
02.2014 - 04.2024

Operations Business Analyst

IBM
05.2011 - 02.2014

Northeastern University

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