Feb 2010

Professional Corporate Reporting
This sums up my role at Syncrude.
Sometimes I have to formate spreadsheets/PowerPoints, photocopy reports, sort paperworks. Sometimes I want to complain.
But now I realized something different. I see the big picture.
Like I said this is professional corporate reporting (my words). What we business analyst do, is to gather monthly operating data from our systems and area leaders; analyse and summarize into something meaningful about the company; then present it to the leaders.
My part is to make sure our owners see top quality packages, when presenting the operations to them.
It's not very value added work. But on the other hand I see it this way, I see the reports that is presented to the owners; I get to see the performance of our company; I think about where our company is at and how to improve.
So I drop the complains and take full advantage of the learning opportunity that was given to me.