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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 services term as part of financial technology that refers to: The use of Open APIs that enable third party developers to build applications and services around the financial institution. Within AIB, I was tasked with the following:• 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.• Managed vendor related issues. I.e. Business expectations and vendor capabilities.• Provide business support to PMO manager.

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 solution and find opportunities that provide sustainable competitive advantage, increase efficiency & scale, and reduce costs.Responsibilities included – • 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.• Responsible for building a high level execution road map and transition strategy for the recommend solution.

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 BA’s/Developers/Production Support to bring applications into line with current infrastructure.Responsibilities• 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.• Took lead when dealing with Vendor related aspects of migration – SME for number of applicationsAug 2013 – Jan 2015 GTT - Support This role involved being a member of the Group Treasury Technology support team – Responsibilities• Oversee large Incidents - managed user expectations.• Direct engagement with multiple business user groups and other senior stakeholders through meetings, conferences and workshops in the identification and definition of business requirements to satisfy regulatory needs.▪ Translation of business requirements to IT focused functional specifications.• L2 and L3 Support• Liaise on a regular basis with Client/Vendors.• Oversee client and vendor interaction• Production releases• DR coordinating • Knowledge of Treasury applications and the associated business functionality• Actively own and maintain support documentation• Defined Testing Strategy including creation of Testing Plan documentation, test cases, entry/exit criteria and testing schedules for SIT/UAT phases

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 Responsibilities​• 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 testing and GUI design.• 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 in line with stakeholder’s needs and that deadlines were met.• 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.• Analysing the discrepancies between both systems, looking into the individual deals, i.e. Market Data and upload issues.• Overseen Team Lead responsibilities when they were not available, working closely with Calypso and Swedbank business leads. • Front and Back Office Support and Development for OPUS trading system.•​Main responsibilities included:• Providing the bank with both development and support resources on their trading systems. Main duties include the ongoing support of operations in Opus, on many levels, i.e. front office, middle office, accounting, risk department, upgrades, interfaces and reporting.

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 new releases before being integrated live into the RBS credit risk production system Responsibilities• 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 computing engine maintenance.• Have acquired and improved upon many skills including communication, speedy escalation, vigilance, and attention to detail, all of which are a necessity on such a role.

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.• Booking Daily trades, subscriptions and redemptions and accurately communicating with the various prime brokers involved.• Responsible for on the job training for many of the placement students and also the new full time staff members.