Mary (Spuches) Cirruzzo

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Upon graduating from SMC, I received my Master’s Degree in 2014 in Applied Mathematics from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. I worked as Business Intelligence Analyst within the Human Resources department for a large healthcare system in Charlotte, NC for 6+ years. In this role, my responsibilities ranged from ad hoc reporting requests, to building automated reporting solutions in Excel & SuccessFactors, to statistical analysis on various workforce metrics.I currently work as a Vice President – HR Analytics Consultant for Bank of America in the Workforce Analytics, Reporting, and Data Governance (WARDG) department. I work with large employee data sets centered around Compensation, Pay and Financial Impact metrics. About 50% of my role is developing automated reports, dashboards, and tools for our Compensation business partners using MicroStrategy, Tableau and Alteryx. MicroStrategy is a data extraction and reporting tool. Tableau is a data visualization tool which is great for aggregating large data sets into an executive ready dashboard. Alteryx is a data manipulation tool similar to Excel or Access. The other 50% of my role is ad hoc analyses for topics related to Compensation such as: how does increasing the minimum rate of pay create compression across like job roles throughout the bank; or financial impact assessments of year-end bonus deferral grids, and more.

Working for a large financial institution has given me countless opportunities to develop myself both personally and professionally. For example, during the COVID pandemic, I took on additional responsibilities to be part of a project responsible for daily reporting around employee COVID cases & vaccine status which goes directly to the CEO (Brian Moynihan). It was great exposure to work with senior leadership and I get to work with colleagues from all across the globe, all of which bring diverse thoughts and skills to our team. My career is very exciting and rewarding; having a degree in mathematics from Saint Michael’s College helps me be very versatile in the types of work I can perform and provides a competitive edge in today’s data driven job market.