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IT Business Analyst - Responsibilities include: the gathering, analysis and documentation of business and technical requirements.Interact with the development staff throughout the design and build phases and advise the business users during QA and user acceptance testing.Additional responsibilites include: project management, development of SDLC processes and creation of documentation. templates.

* Corporate IT headquarters for the number 11 firm on the Fortune 500; initially hired to lead a team of business systems analysts responsible for all projects related to core systems, including tax processing, income collection, corporate actions, settlement processes, and security movement and control.* Interact extensively with business management during concept development phase, to advise them and define the business requirements (features and functionality) for a given project.* Create the detail requirements document which defines: the system purpose, objective, scope, risks, assumptions and data flow, as well as detailed specifications based on the scope items, for each project. * Coordinate with design team and testing group regarding project planning, design, QA and end user training. * * Bottom line: commended numerous times by management for playing a key role in bringing in projects on time, within budget, and to strong end user satisfaction.

* Processed, controlled and settled daily global securities transaction ranging up to $50M.* Recognized for timeliness and accuracy of transactions, enabling excellent relations with investment advisors.

* Managed a project to reconcile a large uninvested cash fund of the newly acquired Barnett Bank, enabling the on-time relocation of operations from Florida to Texas. * Required rapid mastery of Barnett's internal accounting and trust accounting systems.

* Produced reconciliation reports on the trust accounting control system; reconciled over 800 positions* Key project: balanced the $500M Texas Uninvested Cash Fund.

* Recruited by the Securities Operations Manager to spearhead a major project, the development and implementation of a process in Excel which performed statistical analysis of securities settlement and movement.* Project was highly successful, enabling senior management to better gauge the performance of individual business units, and significantly improving the efficiency of cash flow operations.

* Turn-around role: Charged with reducing high error transaction rate and overtime costs within the department. Managed a staff of 17.* Reengineered and streamlined department processes, reducing error rate by 90% while completely eliminating overtime expense.* Led several major projects, including end user testing and implementation of a mainframe subsystem, the transition of NCNB's custodian bank from Security Pacific to Bankers Trust, and the development of a department disaster contingency plan.

* Managed a staff of 12. Significantly increased coordination between the central office and Clien Services..

Managed a staff of 10. Refined processes and procedures greatly increasing productivity and significantly improving accuracy.