I am a senior business data analyst specializing in data integration, data migration, analytics solutions, and reporting, with more than ten years of experience bridging business needs and technical teams. I have strong experience supporting enterprise transformation initiatives, including ERP-related data integration and migration projects within Finance and Human Resources domains, working closely with both business and technical stakeholders. I excel in eliciting and analyzing business and data requirements, translating them into clear functional specifications, user stories, and test strategies, and ensuring that data-driven solutions meet stakeholder expectations. My strengths include stakeholder communication, Agile delivery, data quality analysis, and process optimization. By actively listening to stakeholders and fostering collaboration across business and technology domains, I deliver pragmatic, sustainable solutions that create real business value. My profile reflects a hands-on, collaborative approach, combining technical rigor with a clear focus on business outcomes. I thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and am passionate about turning complex data into actionable insights that drive enterprise performance.

Inès‑Emmanuella KOUAKOU

I am a senior business data analyst specializing in data integration, data migration, analytics solutions, and reporting, with more than ten years of experience bridging business needs and technical teams. I have strong experience supporting enterprise transformation initiatives, including ERP-related data integration and migration projects within Finance and Human Resources domains, working closely with both business and technical stakeholders. I excel in eliciting and analyzing business and data requirements, translating them into clear functional specifications, user stories, and test strategies, and ensuring that data-driven solutions meet stakeholder expectations. My strengths include stakeholder communication, Agile delivery, data quality analysis, and process optimization. By actively listening to stakeholders and fostering collaboration across business and technology domains, I deliver pragmatic, sustainable solutions that create real business value. My profile reflects a hands-on, collaborative approach, combining technical rigor with a clear focus on business outcomes. I thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and am passionate about turning complex data into actionable insights that drive enterprise performance.

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I am a senior business data analyst specializing in data integration, data migration, analytics solutions, and reporting, with more than ten years of experience bridging business needs and technical teams. I have strong experience supporting enterprise transformation initiatives, including ERP-related data integration and migration projects within Finance and Human Resources domains, working closely with both business and technical stakeholders. I excel in eliciting and analyzing business and data requirements, translating them into clear functional specifications, user stories, and test strategies, and ensuring that data-driven solutions meet stakeholder expectations. My strengths include stakeholder communication, Agile delivery, data quality analysis, and process optimization. By actively listening to stakeholders and fostering collaboration across business and technology domains, I deliver pragmatic, sustainable solutions that create real business value.

My profile reflects a hands-on, collaborative approach, combining technical rigor with a clear focus on business outcomes. I thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and am passionate about turning complex data into actionable insights that drive enterprise performance.

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Work Experience

Business Intelligence Functional Analyst at BDC
August 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
Migration of legacy BI solutions to a cloud-based analytics platform; traced and documented end-to-end data lineage across priority analytical datasets; performed data profiling and created prototypes validating business, normalization, and transformation rules; compared prototype outputs with existing systems and communicated findings; contributed to functional and data specifications and supported the development of a conceptual enterprise data model; worked as a senior data analyst within an Agile squad planning and delivering sprint-based analytics.
Business Intelligence Functional Analyst at Hydro‑Québec
May 1, 2022 - June 1, 2024
Led workshops to collect business needs and translate them into detailed functional specifications, data requirements, and test strategies; defined the BI solution vision (data warehouse and data flows) and drafted use cases; assisted in migrating BI solutions to Azure; developed Power BI dashboards ensuring data integrity and analyzed data lineage; managed incidents and provided user training and production support.
Business Intelligence Functional Analyst at Industriel Alliance
September 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022
Conducted requirements workshops; defined the target architecture (data warehouse and data flows) aligned with business needs; participated in backlog planning with the Product Owner; worked in a hybrid Agile environment; analyzed new features with stakeholders and tracked objectives; implemented comprehensive testing (unit, functional, regression) and supported client testing; supervised deployments.
Business Analyst at Société Générale Equipment Finance
July 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021
Collected, analyzed and challenged business requirements from the holding company and international entities; evaluated functional impacts and responded to requests from Société Générale Group and the European Central Bank regarding new regulations or remediation plans. Drafted detailed functional specifications enabling developers to implement solutions; generated periodic financial reports for commercial and finance departments. Qualified collected data; performed tests on developed solutions; analysed financial discrepancies between different application platforms and implemented corrective measures. Provided operational support to developers and business users; assisted entities; monitored production projects and data collections; analyzed functional rejections and implemented corrective actions. Managed projects from conception to production; trained colleagues; followed Agile Scrum processes (user stories, sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives).
BI Analyst at Société Générale Equipment Finance
July 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021
Collected and analyzed business requirements from the holding company and international entities; evaluated regulatory/reg remediation requests; drafted detailed functional specifications enabling developers; generated periodic financial reports; qualified and reconciled data across platforms; provided operational support to developers and business users; managed projects from conception to production and trained colleagues; following Agile Scrum processes.
BI Analyst-Developer at Edenred
February 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019
Industrialization of data migration across multiple information systems; analyzed business needs; authored functional specifications; built data communication flows between Talend and Salesforce; conducted functional testing and produced documentation for users.
BI Analyst‑Developer at Edenred
February 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019
Industrialization of data migration across multiple information systems (Talend/Salesforce); analyzed business needs, authored functional specifications, audited existing systems, and proposed improvements; developed data communication flows between applications using Talend and Salesforce; wrote post‑development documentation and SQL queries; conducted functional testing and supported ticketing and planning.
BI Functional Analyst at Berluti (Luxury Retail)
April 1, 2018 - August 1, 2018
Overhaul of the enterprise information system; ERP‑related integration between core business applications; led data collection with business experts; wrote source-to-target mappings and data transformation rules; analyzed data lineage and data flows; defined and executed end-to-end data migration strategies; participated in project committees and managed testing and delivery milestones.
BI Developer at Bouygues Télécom
March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018
Proof of concept for data exchange between Siebel CRM and Salesforce via Talend; analyzed source/target systems, wrote mapping specifications, developed Talend jobs, and delivered a live client demonstration.
Business Intelligence Analyst at Carrefour
October 1, 2017 - March 1, 2018
BI analyst for Carrefour’s e-commerce sites. Managed the data integration chain for e-commerce data from websites into a data warehouse using the internal Mandala tool. Led workshops and maintained regular contact with business actors; analyzed functional requirements and identified data to be exploited in the warehouse. Wrote technical and functional specifications for extracting e-commerce data; supervised development of extraction and automatic transfer flows; defined functional test scenarios. Performed technical and functional testing of e-commerce data; integrated data into the Mandala warehouse in production; resolved issues with the technical team.
BI Analyst – Carrefour at Carrefour
October 1, 2017 - March 1, 2018
Managed data integration for e-commerce data from multiple sites into a data warehouse; led workshops with business actors, wrote specifications for data extraction, supervised development of ETL flows, performed testing, and ensured production data integration.
BI Functional Analyst at Groupe Prunay (Insurance)
January 1, 2016 - September 1, 2017
Assisted the project owner for production of internal and external reports and implementation of a new information system (data warehouse and reporting). Analyzed client requirements; evaluated feasibility and tool suitability; performed functional acceptance of the data warehouse; drafted technical and functional specifications for reports; developed reports based on the warehouse. Tested reports; trained users; managed stakeholder communications across infrastructure, production, IT development, business analysts and business lines.
BI Functional Analyst at Groupe Prunay
January 1, 2016 - September 1, 2017
Assisted project owner for production of internal/external reports and implementation of a new data warehouse; improved reporting, administered Talend processes, performed acceptance tests, trained users, and managed one team member; aligned with Agile Scrum.
Analyst-Developer at Materne North America / Primonial
April 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015
Materne North America: PoC for creating interfaces between ERP and ETL; Primonial: implementation of a data warehouse fed via Talend Open Studio; developed Talend jobs, conducted tests, and documented solutions.
BI Analyst‑Developer at Materne North America / Primonial
April 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015
Materne North America: POC for creating interfaces between ERP and ETL; defined interface types, proposed architecture, and developed solutions; Primonial: implemented a data warehouse fed via Talend Open Studio data flows; developed Talend jobs, conducted tests, and produced user documentation.
Analyst-Developer at Archives Solutions
January 1, 2014 - June 1, 2014
Implemented archiving and digitization solution; analyzed requirements; organized design and validation workshops; proposed optimizations for the digitization chain; developed the solution.
Analyst‑Developer at Archives Solutions
January 1, 2014 - June 1, 2014
Implemented archiving and digitization solution; analyzed requirements, organized design/validation workshops, and proposed optimizations for the digitization chain; implemented the archiving solution.
Analyst-Developer at Coopérative des Sauniers de l’Île de Ré
May 1, 2013 - October 1, 2013
Reorganized and migrated an Access database (GESPROD tool) to a SQL database in a Sage environment; migrated data, created web pages for product information, and added functionality.
Analyst‑Developer at Coopérative des Sauniers de l’Île de Ré
May 1, 2013 - October 1, 2013
Reorganized and migrated an Access database to a SQL environment within Sage; migrated databases, verified table consistency, created web pages for product information, and added functionality to the GESPROD tool.

Education

Mastère in Applied Computer Science for Banking & Actuarial Decision at Télécom Bretagne
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015
Master 2 in Computer Engineering at University of La Rochelle
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014
Mastère in Applied Computer Science for Banking & Actuarial Decision at Télécom Bretagne
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015
Master 2 in Computer Engineering at University of La Rochelle
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014
Mastère in Applied Computer Science for Banking & Actuarial Decision at Télécom Bretagne
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015
Master 2 in Computer Engineering at University of La Rochelle
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Energy & Utilities, Software & Internet, Manufacturing