Sonya Skinner
Farmington Hills
Summary
Business Analyst with 15 years of experience, proficient in IT and Business Systems. Experience in the areas of Information Technology, Financial Reporting and Audits, School Fixed Asset Systems, Government, and Utilities. Excels in corporate and public sector environments. Demonstrated leadership experience with diverse teams, ensuring effective project coordination and user acceptance testing. Worked with renowned companies such as Accenture and General Motors. Achieved a 95% increase in milestone completion rates and a 98% increase in reporting accuracy. Strengths include data analysis and reduction of testing discrepancies by 95%. Content Governance Manager assisting to maintain internal content within SharePoint,Excel and Teams repositories, ensuring that all assets and deliverables are organized, tagged and easily accessible to those who are granted access.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst
Accenture/Exelon Utilities
Chicago
06.2022 - 10.2025
- Business Analyst (PMO Coordinator) - Supported Project Managers and Delivery Leads on the Exelon–Constellation Fission separation and SailPoint onboarding initiatives by managing MS Project schedules, consolidating plans, and submitting weekly governance reports, leading to a 95% increase in milestone completion rates.
- Business Analyst - Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across six utility divisions, developing detailed test cases for Asset Suite 8 (Oracle) and ensuring execution consistency, which resulted in a 95% reduction in testing discrepancies.
- Quality Assurance Analyst (Tester) - 2 Projects: Delivered System Integration Testing (SIT) for over 50 SailPoint AMP on-boarding applications and conducted regression testing for 25 upgrade scenarios, effectively gathering requirements ,data sources review, logging defects and updating test cases to enhance testing efficiency by 85%.
- Business Analyst - Facilitated stakeholder sessions for third-party bank clients to support UAT activities, updated project schedules, and resolved issues related to Managed File Transfer (MFT) changes, improving stakeholder satisfaction ratings by 98%.
- Business Analyst/Tester - Strengthened the Hyperion Reports-to-Power Automate upgrade by executing both Business Analyst and Quality Assurance responsibilities, including testing, risk assessments, defect management, and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) updates, resulting in a 98% increase in reporting accuracy.
Business Analyst
General Motors
Warren, MI
07.2021 - 10.2021
- Coordinated deliverable approvals and validated supplier data, strengthening TPISR cybersecurity operations and collaborating with over 300 external partners, GM Buyers, and the Legal Department
- Part of a team to facilitated the roll-out of enhanced cybersecurity requirements for GM suppliers, ensuring compliance with security standards and securing necessary CISO . Researched thoroughly and contacted all
- Contributed to enterprise cybersecurity initiatives through effective use of Power BI, Qualtrics XM, and Excel, driving data-driven decision-making.
Family Member Caregiver
MHDDS/Beaumont Home Care
Home Residence
01.2017 - 07.2021
- Trained critical support for a parent’s emergency medical care, assisting with 24/7 needs and Skilled Care Nursing
Application Systems Analyst
Accenture Financial Services, Clarus Group
Overland Park, KS
07.2017 - 12.2017
- Facilitated post- go live issue resolution for the U.S. Navy’s DEAMS project, utilizing Oracle Procurement P2P, General Ledger, and Discoverer tools to analyze and rectify accounting report discrepancies.
- Enhanced system reliability by effectively managing defects and change requests in Rational ClearQuest, conducting thorough testing of BI Publisher/Discoverer reports, and drafting functional justifications for necessary fixes and enhancements
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement system enhancements that improved overall operational efficiency by 90%.
Accountant IV
The City of Detroit - Municipality - Departmental Financial Services
Detroit, MI
08.2016 - 04.2017
- Supported post Oracle Cloud implementation success by leading data cleanup to reconcile all equipment allocated, new process for receiving on purchased items.
- Provided Financial Services for (6) City Legislative Departments, while implementing process revisions to improve accuracy and workflow efficiency and assisted with budget items, fees for Treasury deposits.
- Strengthened system reliability by supporting Oracle Cloud functionality testing, diagnosing user issues, validating system behavior, and collaborating with technical teams to ensure successful resolution.
Program Supervisor /Principal Accountant
Detroit Public Schools District
Detroit, MI
07.2009 - 08.2016
- Directed governance for over $900M in capital assets across 250 schools, establishing district-wide policies that enhanced compliance and introduced an impaired property valuation method, leading to a significant reduction in audit findings.
- Produced high-impact analytical reports, rectifying $3M in depreciation errors while maintaining audit integrity, and prepared capital asset audit schedules for seamless integration into PeopleSoft General Ledger.
- Ensured long-term data integrity and GASB 34 compliance by providing comprehensive audit support for AFCR schedules, successfully preventing findings for three consecutive years.
- Troubleshoot complex fixed asset system issues while resolving end-user inquiries by analyzing Help Desk tickets and collaborating with IT on PeopleSoft system administration tasks, including access provisioning and report setup.
- Achieved an 85% increase in compliance rates by introducing new policies and procedures as corrective actions and audit narratives. Testing the standalone FAS system and PeopleSoft reports, trial balance, and adjustments. SME for PeopleSoft Asset Management implementation.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management and Accounting
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MISkills
- Quality Assurance Testing and Coordinator- Regression, UAT , SIT, Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO ) for test management and defects
- Content governance managing for document assets within repositories, attention to detail
- JIRA training for tracking bugs, using Atlassian
- Agile Collaboration - Requirements, Deliverables,Scrums
- Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Chat GPT,GROK
- Microsoft Project Plan Management
- Data Analysis - review, reconciling, mapping
- Process Improvement - Audits, Policy and Procedures
- Defect Management - Identify, Log, Re-test to Close
- Test Case Development - Plan, Review, Perform Test , Test case scenarios, Understanding of ALM
- Service Now data mapping and Help Desk requests
- Financial Reporting and Audits - Program Supervisor - Oracle, PeopleSoft, Capital and Tracked Asset Management
- Oracle (Asset Mgt, AP ,AR, General Ledger, Procurement, Payroll (Testing), PeopleSoft (GL, Asset Mgt), SailPoint (Access Management Portal)
Certification
- Oracle University - Recent June, 2025
- Oracle Certified Foundations Associate Certificate of Recognition-Oracle Fusion AI Agent Studio Foundations Associate Rel 1
Timeline
Business Analyst
Accenture/Exelon Utilities
06.2022 - 10.2025
Business Analyst
General Motors
07.2021 - 10.2021
Application Systems Analyst
Accenture Financial Services, Clarus Group
07.2017 - 12.2017
Family Member Caregiver
MHDDS/Beaumont Home Care
01.2017 - 07.2021
Accountant IV
The City of Detroit - Municipality - Departmental Financial Services
08.2016 - 04.2017
Program Supervisor /Principal Accountant
Detroit Public Schools District
07.2009 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Science - Management and Accounting
Central Michigan University