Business Analyst resume example
A business analyst resume gets read for about seven seconds. What survives that read: a two-line summary with a number in it, bullets that start with a result, and the skills the posting asked for. Below is a complete example you can adapt, and the rough notes it was generated from.
Summary
Business analyst with 6 years translating business needs into systems for insurance and banking. Gathered requirements for a claims platform that cut processing time by 40%.
Experience bullets that work
- Wrote requirements for a new claims platform that cut average processing time by 40%.
- Mapped 25 core processes in BPMN, finding $600k a year in duplicated manual work.
- Ran UAT for 4 releases with 300 test cases and zero critical defects in production.
- Built Power BI dashboards that replaced 12 weekly spreadsheet reports.
- Facilitated workshops with 30+ stakeholders across operations, IT and compliance.
Key skills for a business analyst
- Requirements gathering
- Process mapping (BPMN)
- SQL
- User stories
- UAT
- Jira & Confluence
- Stakeholder management
- Power BI
Common mistakes
- Only describing meetings and documents, not their effect.
- Omitting the systems and domains you worked in.
- Skipping SQL or data skills you actually use.
From rough notes to a finished resume
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Grace Kim grace@example.com Meridian Insurance, Business Analyst, 2019-now - claims platform requirements, processing -40% - 25 processes in BPMN, 600k/yr duplicated work found - UAT 4 releases, 300 cases - 12 reports replaced with power bi BSc Business Information Systems 2018, CBAPGenerate this resume free — then swap in your notes
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