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Belfast, GB

Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

• IT AdvisoryCurrently working as a Senior Information Technology Business Analyst in Open Banking building out APIs within a client eco system as part of the Digital Customer Innovation team.Open banking is a financial.
• Senior Business Analyst for API Business team working in an agile environment e.g. SCRUM methodology – Stand ups, product backlog, incremental releases.
• Interpreting and building out requirements based on Open Banking specification.
• Responsible for leading and facilitating workshops with key stakeholders
• Attending Open Banking workshops and providing feedback to wider team
• Dealing with Third party vendors who wish to join the AIB digital API ecosystem i.e. testing/incident management.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Client - Rabobank.The role involves creation and the day to day maintenance of the following project management products.
• Agile PID, Agile PSA, Highlight Reports, Issue and Risk log, Lessons Learned, End Project Report, and Stage Plans.
• Helped define project scope, goals and deliverables that supported business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Multi location communication issues (timing difference / distance /language barriers).
• Communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Reviewed deliverables prepared by project team.

Greater San Diego Area

• This role involved the system/application integration analysis of two CoreLogic Credit platforms. Both systems crossed over in terms of functionality and business need.The aim of the project was to provide a tangible.
• Engaged with CoreLogic staff from Product, Customer Solutions, IT andFinance to gather information and data and participated in interviews, meetings, and workshops.
• Constructed a reference model for both platforms, consisting of client, product, technology, cost, reliability, and consumer and future possibilities information.
• Analysed data collected in reference model to construct hypothesis looking at production rationalization, customer strategy, process efficiency, and IT business investments.
• Created best fit deliverable, recommend solutions and risks.
• Part of team that was responsible for presenting to the CoreLogic steering committee to help them come up with which business direction to go in.

• Client - RBSJan 2015 – Current RBS, Group Treasury Technology– Business Analyst, London This role involves adoption of new applications into the Group Treasury Technology space – working in a team of.
• Lead Business Analyst for requirement gathering, testing and implementation
• Delivery of governance processes in order to maintain security with confidential data within both institutions
• Replicating and comparison of reports to ensure the build meets the expectations of the business requirements
• Use of business logic to assign different cash flows to asset classes
• Created an end-to-end process for the creation of DR Runbooks. Presented proposed process at governance forums employing use of process maps and sample templates to explain process and obtain signoff.

Stockholm, Sweden

• Client - Business Analyst - SwedBank, Stockholm, – Jan 2013 –Aug 2013 This role involved being part of the Swedebank system migration team - FOBO Project -Front Office and BackOffice Trade System Migration.
• Creation of functional spec, constructing cash flow and trade reports for analysis.
• System architecture and design: Consideration of issues such as market data connectivity, working with various providers (Bloomberg and Reuters), schema design, failover and resiliency testing, security/entitlements.
• Gap Analysis on valuation reports between Calypso and Opus post migration.
• Experience in taking part in regular meetings with senior stakeholders and clients, liaised with heads of IT, Valuations, Front and Back Office, and Key Vendor leads to provide progress reports and to ensure progress.
• Key part in Development of a test plan including UAT, integration and stress testing, i.e. regular updates of migration scripts to help aid in decreasing the differences between cash flow and trade reports.

London, United Kingdom

• Client -Royal Bank of Scotland, GBM Risk & Technology, Credit Risk IT Analyst (Jul 2011 – Dec 2012)Role involved ensuring the smooth running and maintenance of a number of test environments to evaluate the impact of.
• Main responsibilities included:
• Involved in the daily processing of key batches, trades, profiles scenarios through the rolling systems, where testing of new credit derivatives and products have been tested.
• Overseeing UAT & OAT cycles for new products and systems before production release.
• PACMAN testing (Performance and Capacity project) – providing managers with various analyses ranging from data volume comparisons to batch timing optimization.
• In-depth and thorough knowledge of UNIX and SQL was required and has been built upon constantly. Database navigation and query creation has been greatly improved through this role, along with server monitors and grid.

Dublin

• CITI Bank, Dublin, Junior Hedge Fund accountant (September 2008 – September 2009)
• Responsible for looking after my own Daily hedge fund.
• Main responsibilities included:
• Responsible for calculating the daily NAV of the fund.
• Organizing, managing and controlling payments for the funds the designated cash departments which required.
• Timely and accurate communication with all departments and often the necessary authorizing from the appropriate powers.