Business Analyst · New York

From boardroom questions to production systems.

I'm a business analyst at KISS Products, translating merchant and stakeholder requirements into functional specifications, workflow diagrams, and QA for a B2B SaaS retail platform. Master's in business analytics, with hands-on data warehousing, ETL, and NLP work.

Now
B2B SaaS Retail
Toolkit
Requirements · Data · QA
Based in
New York, NY
01 / Work

Selected projects

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Overview

A vertical B2B SaaS retail platform serving Beauty Supply merchants — checkout, promotions, and inventory across locations. As the business analyst, I own the path from stakeholder requirement to tested, shipped functionality.

What I did
  • Gathered and documented business requirements from merchant and internal stakeholders, translating them into functional specifications and workflow diagrams.
  • Partnered with UX/UI, engineering, and product teams to define user journeys and scalable feature specs, maintaining traceability from requirement to deliverable.
  • Led cross-functional coordination with software vendors, payment processors, and POS hardware providers as subject-matter expert through rollout.
  • Designed and executed QA/UAT test cases across retail scenarios — promotions, discounts, payment processing — driving data quality and process improvements.
  • Conducted competitive and workflow gap analysis across POS ecosystems to spec gap resolutions and inform roadmap prioritization.
Impact

Requirements the whole team can trace, cleaner data quality, and a roadmap prioritized on gap analysis rather than guesswork.

Stack
RequirementsFunctional specsWorkflow diagramsQA / UATGap analysisSQL
Overview

A feature inside the S&P Capital IQ platform that lets users discover how companies relate through the language they share — surfacing connections that a plain keyword search would miss.

What I did
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define requirements and integrate the NLP/LLM-based trend-analysis feature into the platform.
  • Implemented clustering and cosine-similarity scoring to structure related key-phrases and concepts.
Impact

Improved data quality and a richer end-user search experience for discovering how companies reference shared concepts.

Stack
PythonNLPLLMClusteringCosine similarity
Overview

Two large, messy NYC open datasets — 311 service complaints and open parking violations — that nobody had connected. I merged them into a clean warehouse and visualized what the combination revealed.

What I did
  • Defined source-to-target mappings and built ETL pipelines with dbt to integrate the two sources into a unified data warehouse.
  • Built Tableau dashboards visualizing KPIs to support data-driven analysis and reporting.
Impact

A queryable, combined view of two civic datasets and the relationships hiding between them.

Stack
dbtSQLETLTableau
Baruch Data Challenge — 1st Place · Pitney Bowes

Led a team through time-series analysis, clustering, and segmentation to build a predictive solution that improved client decision-making. Managed the project plan, kept delivery on time, and built the final presentation that carried the business insights.

Adobe Analytics Challenge — Semi-Finalist · General Motors

Analyzed Cadillac's data in Adobe Analytics to identify key user behaviors and conversion drivers, then recommended mobile optimization and personalized engagement for the Build & Buy tool.

Stack
Time-seriesClusteringSegmentationAdobe AnalyticsStorytelling
02 / About

A little background

I came to data the long way — and that's the point.

I studied political science and journalism at Dongguk University, then earned a Master of Science in Business Analytics at Baruch's Zicklin School of Business. That path — from understanding people and stories to modeling their behavior — is exactly how I approach analysis: listen first, then turn what stakeholders actually need into specifications a team can build against.

Today I'm a business analyst at KISS Products, owning requirements, functional specifications, and QA for a B2B SaaS retail platform. Earlier I helped integrate an NLP/LLM feature into S&P Capital IQ, and managed $750K+ in annual ad campaigns at Buddhist Broadcasting System — client-facing, data-informed work across three industries.

Skills

Business Analysis
Requirements gathering, functional specifications, workflow diagrams, QA & UAT, gap analysis
Data
SQL, data warehousing / ETL (dbt), data quality analysis, Python, NLP, LLM
Analytics & Viz
Tableau, Advanced Excel, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, AWS
Languages
Korean (native), English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate)

Education

M.S., Business Analytics
Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
2022—2024 · GPA 3.98 / 4.0 · New York, NY
B.A., Political Science
Dongguk University — double major in Journalism & Mass Communication
2014—2018 · GPA 3.95 / 4.5 · Seoul, Korea
03 / Contact

Get in touch

Let's talk —
Hyejin7111@gmail.com