Nakisha Ballen Wright Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas

Kapolei, Hi And Austin, Tx

After a successful six-year career as a Business Intelligence Delivery Director, I decided to take a sabbatical to enjoy my time while living in Hawaii and reconnect with my family. During that period, I assisted with the family business as interim COO.In my role as COO, I provided leadership, management and vision that was necessary to ensure that the company enjoyed proper, administrative procedures, operational controls, reporting procedures and people systems in place to effectively grow the company and ensure financial strength and operating efficiency. Now I'm able to refocus on my career and I'm looking forward to utilizing all the additional skills I've learned.

► Leveraged strong strategic insight in delivering project oversight, architectural review and Q&A evaluations of blueprint, design, and development for EPM projects. Directed clients throughout all implementation, process evolution and maintenance stages of their EPM solution.★ Played a key role as the Head of Delivery for all North America Business Analytics including Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), SAP Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC), SAP Business Intelligence (BW & BOBJ), SAP HANA, and SAP Mobile Analytics, Oracle.★ Spearheaded all activities of highly skilled team consisting of 100+ consultants experienced in all aspects of SAP BPC, SAP BI, SAP BOBJ and SAP HANA in North America, Canada and India.★ Developed regular checkpoints with major projects and participated in both informal and formal QA reviews while providing specific BA&O guidance and leadership to the project while escalating any perceived major risks and issues to the relevant Regional Delivery Executive.★ Recognized BA&O Go To Market opportunities which include assisting with the build of unique Vertical Analytics Accelerators and Service Offerings through a partnership with SAP as showcased at Sapphire 2012.★ Initiated an effective mentoring structure within BA&O to ensure the availability of an appropriate development manager for all consultants, which resulted in annual unplanned attrition of less than 7%.★ Minimized resource bench time by conducting cross-training programs to strengthen the BA&O by expanding skills of all consultants across technologies.★ Expertly designed and implemented a SharePoint Portal for Practice to share knowledge collateral amongst consultants. ★ Ensured Consultants’ access to sandbox environments of all latest technology (including EPM 10.0, BI 4.0, BW 7.3, HANA) for cross-training, skill building, demo, and POC creation.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

► As a Senior Architect rendered exceptional technical expertise in understanding client’s unique business environment, analyzing and defining clients’ needs, providing direction and recommendations on application selection, delivering enterprise architectural and system design, application development, application integration, knowledge transfer to client (including providing training manuals and classes), ongoing support and managing and training consultants while determining and resolving issues.Executive.★ Developed, trained and spearheaded cross-functional teams of consultants, senior consultants and senior architects to deliver BPC implementation and support to a wide range of clients.Executive.★ Actively contributed to success of supervised consultants through hands-on training, mentoring, and leading project teams. Executive.★ Addressed project requirements, troubleshooting, budgets, on-going support requirements, and deadlines by serving as a liaison between client executives, business unit, client IT, and BPC consultants.Executive.★ Directed all phases of the CPM project life cycle including pre-sales and closing activities, customer relationship building, and implementation of CPM software Executive.★ Facilitated in the development of internal training program which include creating training environment, scenarios/case studies, quizzes, and final exams to conduct group training sessions for BPC 5.x and 7.x admin and report training.Executive.★ Employed exceptional knowledge of process improvements, strategy, technology implementations and today’s leading analytics software including SAP-BPC, Business Objects, and Cognos-Applix to lead overall process of implementing Business Performance Management (BPM) Solutions.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

► Led all facets of implementing SAP BPC (Formerly OutlookSoft) for multiple global clients spanning the functional areas of budgeting and planning, cash flow management, financial consolidation, human capital management, capital expenditure, FX transactions, working capital and reporting and analysis solutions.★ Supported sales team during the pre-sales process to close deals which resulted in generating over $1M in revenue.

► Played a pivotal role in the development and implementation of FOCUS (Forecasting Online and Consolidation User System) Project which included the design and implementation of OutlookSoft software to automate regional forecasting of mortgage applications and monthly management production reporting, which resulted in saving the CRE Finance team over 600 man hours a month while enabling for much needed reallocation of resources.★ Delivered financial support to National Sales Executives, specifically banking group segments including consumer, premier and small business, while ensuring their sales initiatives profitability and optimal structuring to realize financial goals.★ Directed and trained a high potential team of Senior Financial Analysts and Intermediate Financial Analysts.★ Cultivated and maintained strong business partnering relationships with all banking group channels’ executives, strategy and finance teams in support of first mortgage products.★ Contributed to 3-year sales strategic planning for all first mortgage sales channels including identification of economic drivers, utilization of historical trend data to create models and evaluation of market impacts on the mortgage industry trends.

Charlotte, Nc/New York, Ny

► Spearheaded all project management initiatives such as managing the development and implementation of web-based issues, status tracking, and reporting tools.★ Administered all day-to-day activities of a seven-person PMO tools support and development team. ★ Managed all aspects of the central e-Program Management Office for the Strategic Technology Initiatives Group, created project policies, procedures, and plans while facilitating communication among task groups.

Greater New York City Area

Short Hills, Nj

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology And Accounting

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