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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

key responsibilities were:Analysis and design of enhancements and change requests to the BOMi system. This includes reviewing, analysing and documenting Change Requests, enhancements and corrections to functionality requested by the SDM User Group as part of the monthly release cycle Managing projects within the area of production support for the Department of Social ProtectionRequirements definition through workshop facilitation, client interviews and prototyping.Updating and maintaining existing user storycards, detailed functional specifications, batch specifications, user acceptance criteria, use cases and associated documentation. Working with Business architects office, SDM user group, business users (across most scheme areas), developers and system testers to define the system requirements, to provide detailed functional specifications, carryout impact and cost analysis of the enhancement/change. The project uses an “agile” development process which involved the business analyst working closely with the business users and developers to achieve the system goals.Managing the backlog of work (priority list) for iterative monthly release cycles to ensure deliver of business critical requirements.Standards definition and adherence to the business analysis ‘Definition of Done’Process improvement for business analysis, methodology and and solution deliveryMentoring and training of more junior business analysts In summarythis team uses an agile development using scrum and kamban technology with John working closely with deasp business users and developers across all the main scheme areas with particular reference to deasp business areas. John has updated user stories. detailed functionality specifications and user acceptance criteria.for these schemes

Dublin

Assigned to the Irish Revenue Commissioners Client site since 2001.Role was as a member of the Revenue Management Team within the IT division.Responsible for providing functional and technical analysis of the core live tax systems across all sub-systems including return, payment, compliance and refund processing.Involved in the business processing of multiple tax heads, dealing with live tax case issues when priority required. Provided assistance on financial aspects of tax processing for various development teams, creating and maintaining new taxation systems. (e.g. presentations of existing tax processing to project managers)On a daily basis interacted with a number of external consultancies and government departments. This involved dealing with managers across multiple divisions of Revenue when issue arose.Regularly asked to investigate and implement ad-hoc processes and specialist analytics reports under extremely tight deadlines as well as liasing with the Data Warehouse (Jaspersoft) on data mining for Dail Questions and Business Intelligence (REAP) for compliance purposes. The primary reporting tools are Advanced SQL and Excel. Other tools included Microsoft Project & Microsoft Visio.Sample Projects:-IXBRL Compliance for Corporation Tax (October 2013)The functional requirements, design and implementation of new compliance reports (Corporation Tax). Automatic processing of Final Demands (February 2013)Elicited dozens of business rules for the automated process. This project dramatically reduced the amount of manual effort required for the issue of these demands.Comptroller & Auditor General Annual report (January 2011)Managed implementation of new reporting system which used ETL tools to feed into the annual Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on payments and repayments. This report was used for providing questions to the chairman for annual meeting with the public accounts committee.

County Dublin, Ireland

During this period, acted as a functional lead on tax business processing and managed a number of support teams, ranging from 3 to 11 members, made up of mix of client staff and external resources. The number of team members fluctuated depending on period of activity.LEVEL 2 team was responsible for managing the nightly batch schedule and ensure that all batch applications complete successfully. e.g. Tax Clearance, Payment Processing, Returns Processing.LEVEL 3 team investigated issues with the live tax system and liaised with the business users in Dublin and Limerick to ensure that all emergencies were resolved promptly and prioritising application fixes for immediate or scheduled release. The work was ITIL structured and used an service desk approach to resolving issues.

Transfer of Income Tax and Corporation Tax Collections functionality from Mainframe system to Core Tax system (ITS). Also supporting the assessing interfaces between the Assessing system and ITS. This also included the other minor taxes.Analysis, design and Implementation of new business rule processing for Main Business Taxes (Income Tax,Corp Tax,VAT,PREM). This work ensured that tax compliance was as effective as possible Transfer of RCT (Relevant Contract tax) from a standalone system to the integrated tax system. I was responsible for the analysis,design and development of the RCT30 and RCT35 tax functionality (Withholding tax within the construction industry)

Dublin City Centre

Analysis, design, and implementation of new financial products in the HOGAN Banking system. These included current and saving accounts, tracker bonds and other investment products(TDA\DDA) . My primary development tools were COBOL,VSAM,JCL

Kildare

Implemented a number of spreadsheet based financial and reporting systems. These included annual estimate and end of year financial applications with graphical screens

Chartered Tax Advisor (Cta), Taxation, Part 2

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Diploma, Of Taxation

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Bsc(Hons), Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Internship in Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier St, 1995/96. Software Engineering

Diploma (Fetac Level 5), Bookkeeping And Computerised Accounting, City & Guilds Passed With Merit

Formal certification in Accounting and bookeeping

Accountancy, Acca, Level 1

Education record

Activities and Societies: Gaelic Football School Sarcristan 1987, School Librarian 1988