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- Requirements Gathering & Elicitation applying techniques as appropriate including workshops, shadowing, interviewing & Scenario investigation. - Documenting Epics & User Stories including High Level Business Acceptance Criteria’s design flows & Business Rules using tools such as Confluence & BusinessOptix.- Planning & Estimating for analysis & gathering complete High level estimates in conjunction with technical teams. Experienced in JIRA for task and resource management.- Collaborating with Senior System Architects, developers. testers and business stakeholders across geographies in India, Scotland, Australia & England.- Requirements Walkthrough with all stakeholders, mid to senior level for sign off.- Gap analysis of current vs new system & documentation of As-Is / To-Be models. Re-using existing designs & processes where possible.- Analysis of company processes, systems & workflows to implement successful business change.- Relationship-building and interpersonal skills to develop positive, productive relations with internal and external stakeholders.- SQL proficiency and technical background ensures technical aspects & challenges are clearly understood & documented.- Mentoring / Coaching new BA’s in the team. Line managing Business Analysts.

A voluntary/honorary consulting BA/test role with EMC, a personal health care platform revolutionising the care pathway for children / young people with primarily neurological disabilities. Streamlining the patient care process across various health and social care professionals and ensuring a safe and secure digital portal to share critical information quickly and efficiently.

- Requirements Gathering & Validation for the migrating financial products onto a semi-automatic correspondence tool developed by an external organization.- Collaborating with with external client representatives, vendors, Business Operations, project managers, development and testing teams across different locations in the U.K & abroad.- Conducting root cause analysis to identify and resolve issues.- Reviewing test scripts to ensure all business requirements are fully tested.- Reviewing test outputs to ensure requirements traceability.- Triaging defects assigned to business analysis.- Documentation of Design, Business rules and process flows.

- Leadership role in leading 3-4 junior business systems analysts.- Managing resources within the team and prioritizing work generated via various internal and external areas.- Conflict Management techniques used in diffusing challenging situations.- Triaging & Investigating production issues relating to end client correspondence.- Collaborative working & Planning with Relationship Managers in creating high level estimate requests and maintaining overall correspondence plans.- Escalation point for any correspondence issues and breaches.- Impact assessment of change requests and walking through assessment & Options with Senior Management.- Participate & Contribute in inter-company status meetings alongside business relationship managers.- Training & mentoring BA's to maximise team performance.- Conducting Interviews for candidates applying for junior business systems analyst roles.

- System Analysis & technical requirements gathering whilst working on various projects dealing with the functionalities of the ‘wrap’ investment platform provided to independent financial advisers for servicing their clients.- Collaborating with internal business stakeholders, external third party stakeholders and the proposition team to elicit business requirements relating to enhancements and maintenance of the wealth management investment platform.- Facilitating & Participating in requirement gathering workshops with relevant business teams and technical departments whilst contributing with systems solution options.- Producing feasibility study and business requirements documentation.- Conducting walk through sessions of feasibility options with proposition and marketing teams, business architects and business operations to understand proposed benefits and system limitations.- Documenting detailed Use Cases, Solution Blueprints and detailed design documentsusing Enterprise Architecture, business process modelling tools such as BPMN for business process design.- SQL knowledge in completing data analysis where required.- Working in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies based on project requirements.- Providing warranty support and live system support on various system issues.- Strong Offshore management skills. Managing cross functional teams across geographies with high emphasis on work organization and communication.- Delivering knowledge transfer sessions to I.T Operations, System support and development/test teams offshore via video/audio conferencing.

- Systems Analysis and technical documentation on new projects with high level estimates for Design/Build/Test of 4 weeks or under.- Business proposal documentation to improve business and system areas around fund set up and maintenance.- Priorities & Status calls with senior level management to discuss program status and priorities.- Providing solutions & consultancy on possible options, systems feasibility to the business.- System Testing and User Acceptance Testing with business operations.- Gathering requirements from Business Operations and translating these into technical requirements for the offshore team.- On call support for weekly and ad-hoc implementations. Provided System testing / warranty support.- Managing the offshore team (India) consisting of 3-5 team members working on high priority projects with quick turn around times.- Managing the onshore/offshore team of up to 5-6 technical team members and effectively utilized the model to gain resource and cost efficiencies.- Planning and control of resources and skill enabled successful and timely deliveries on high focus regulatory projects.- Coordinating I.T development effort offshore with the business in the U.K.

- Working with the offshore I.T team supporting BNY Mellon Financial services software system used to perform various back office operations and services provided to banks and fund management companies across the U.K.- Enhancing and testing existing application screens as well as developing new screens for the software application.- Developing and testing batch programs built on IMS DB/DC and PL/1 technology.- Code & document reviews of PL1 code & test plans/scripts.