Edward Arnold, Gwcba Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

South Africa

Responsible for eliciting business requirements and documenting these into detailed business requirements, including functional, integration and process specifications. In this capacity I have played a key role on various business-critical projects by:• Translating business requirements and functional or process specifications for technical designers and developers• Analysing business or system problems and facilitating solution exploration• Analysing and evaluating current and proposed business processes• Coordinating system testing, and participating where required, to ensure requirements are met• Assisting the creation of reports, incident investigation and delivering of technical requests• Acting as liaison for and interface with business, internal and external parties• Acting as the primary liaison for the Stockbroking division in respect of Cyber Security and DMOProjects & Key Contributions:- Lead BA for the YODLEE project, providing a single view portal for High Net Worth Clients to view their total wealth with the Nedbank Group and in particular the Nedbank Wealth Cluster- BA for the re-write of the Portal (central admin and finance system used by Nedbank Private Wealth Stockbrokers to open and maintain accounts and loading of finance transactions for processing through to the JSE), running daily stand-ups with business country-wide to ensure system quality and efficiency- Setting up of account automation between Nedbank Private Wealth Stockbrokers and the JSE- Lead Stockbroking BA for IT3, FATCA, CRS and POPIA compliance- Lead Stockbroking BA for AML remediation and FIC amendment- Lead BA for CFD online trading- Lead BA for Carry Accounts- Lead BA for Regulation 28 monitoring, setting up monitoring to enable Nedbank Private Wealth to comply with the new regulation 28 of pension funds, ensuring consistency in the application of definitions, asset categories and limit structures- Lead BA for Disaster Recovery for BoE Stockbrokers

South Africa

Led a team of 2 Business Analysts with responsibility for reviewing specifications, providing technical guidance and managing the team across various projects for BoE Stockbrokers and Nedbank Capital.Projects & Key Contributions:- Lead BA in a team of 6 Analysts and SME for the JSE SRP MSS project, providing input and clarity relating to systems and processes for Analysts and business users- Lead BA for the development of BoE Stockbrokers tax statements for SARS (South African Revenue Services) and clients- Lead BA for Nedbank Capital CFD reconciliations- Team Lead, providing review and guidance for the BoE Stockbrokers Journal front end and upload automation- Lead BA for the Nedbank Capital Lenders reconciliation- Lead BA, providing guidance for Capital Shareholders Analysis- Team Lead on the BoE Stockbrokers MyCredo multicurrency project- Team Lead for the implementation of enhancements to the BoE Stockbrokers online trading website portfolio, also provided technical overview and accountability for issues raised on the Sensepost security audit of BoE Stockbrokers online trading websites

South Africa

Led a team of 6 Developers, responsible for managing system development for financial (specifically stockbroking) systems across various business clusters (BoE and Capital).• Executed people management responsibilities, including performance reviews, development planning, regular discussions and general staff administration• Performed business analysis, needs analysis, application specifications, application development, database design, application implementation and project management (including project costing)• Project managed IT projects that fell under the BoE Stockbrokers’ umbrella• Ensuring that all systems are optimised and ready for closeout and closely monitoring systems and servers at closeout• Communicated across various internal IT departments on matters relating to routing, security and server operation, for the successful implementation of projectsProjects & Key Contributions:- Led the redesign of the BoE Stockbrokers Website (and white labelled versions thereof) - Provided technical input into the upgrade of the BoE Stockbrokers website to provide DMA (Direct Market Access)- Managed the GL Trade TALX5 upgrade- Provided technical oversight into the Saxo Bank offshore trading partnership with BoE Stockbrokers

South Africa

Lead website developer with the responsibility for developing and maintaining the BoE Stockbrokers website, including the application of business rules and logic to the website.• Modelled and designed databases in accordance with relational practices and in liaison with the Database Administrator• Created SQL scripts/stored procedures for Web (SQL7 and SQL2000)• Performed Internet Information Server administration (IIS4, IIS5 and IIS6)• Oversaw morning operations, including downloads from and uploads to the JSE BDA system• Liaised with business units and Systems Development Manager in the generation of Business Specifications• Translated Business Specifications to Technical SpecificationsProjects & Key Contributions:- Redesigned and recoded the BoE Stockbrokers website from CGI and BIN files to ASP based website. Coded the front and back end functionality to include Online trading, Intraday Portfolio, Live pricing, share watchlist, research and company information, and provided ongoing support and maintenance to ensure uptime and reliability- Created a surveillance program (system analysis, design and development) to allow monitoring for compliance purposes- Developed front and back end components for various intranet sites in HTML, ASP and SQL

Master Certificate In Business Analysis (Gwcba)

GWCBA (certified business analyst) - GWCBA certification, established by ESI International, Inc., in association with The George.

Associate Certificate In Business Analysis

Bcom Hons Cum Laude, Marketing

Bsc, Computer Science And Business Economics

Senior Certificate (With Exemption), General