Seasoned Sr. Manager (Business/System Analysis) with over 10 years of success in the finance, insurance, and IT industries.
Expert in leading team sizes of 10+ team members, driving complex business and digital transformation initiatives, managing business and systems requirements, conducting user acceptance testing, and delivering end-user training.
Experienced in product roadmap creation, process automation using SDLC, data mapping/migration and business/application integration projects. Proficient in understanding various phases of SDLC and SCRUM. Capable of conducting upstream/downstream impact analysis, backlog grooming, defining scope, gathering requirements, managing change, and handling stakeholders (Business + IT).
Proficient in developing process flows and wireframes. Successful in defining change requests, feature documents (SRS/FRD/BRD), user stories, and QA/UAT test cases. Facilitates test outcome/bug triage sessions with vendor representatives. Agile practitioner with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Exceptional at prioritizing workflow and conducting data analysis. Offers advanced planning, problem-solving, and presentation skills. Experienced in tracking product performance and delivering leadership reporting/presentations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager Business Analysis
Cognizant
06.2021 - Current
Client: Guardian Insurance - Disability, Life and Dental Products (Jan 2023 to Current)
Lead automation of premium related financial downstream processes (5 team members reporting to me) to scale the customer handling capacity from 30 to 600 customers, saving 40/hrs per working day of manual effort.
Third party integration of FINEOS platform with Guardian's enterprise legacy systems leading to improvement in claim processing efficiency by 60%, automating 90% of onboarding process.
API mapping analysis and implementation for customer facing web portal to improve customer experience by 40% and enhancing data capture capability of the portal by 50%.
Facilitate correct implementation of various product policies on Guardian proprietary claim processing platform
Develop business process documentation (Visio + FIGMA), analyze feature documents, UI/UX designs, conduct analysis to present findings to business and IT team stakeholders; manage risks, assumptions and constraints.
Develop and facilitate user acceptance test cases, manage offshore testing team of 14 members, document upstream/downstream impacts, triage defects with IT, business and third party vendor.
Client: Metlife Insurance, Disability Products (Jun 21 to Dec 22)
Worked with Business, IT Infra teams to facilitate implementation of disability product for 5 US states policies on Metlife claim processing system in a phased manner.
Optimized business operations with thorough analysis of current systems, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable changes.
Coordinated with IT teams to design and implement custom applications (Front end) tailored to specific business needs, resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness of workflows.
Business Analyst Manager
American Express
06.2017 - 06.2021
Lead analysis and development of 3 data analytics based products based on Amex proprietary corporate card spend data of fortune 500 clients leading to savings of 120 hrs per day of manual effort on an average. These web based products generated actionable insights related to potential cost savings and spend patterns.
Helped revamp Amex's North America based client incentive systems by identifying gaps in the calculations the system was performing, introducing new features leading to automation of various manual processes by 30%.
Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups such as Data Architecture team, Business, Technology data Data Engineering.
Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
Created data mapping templates, business requirement documents, understand system and data gaps, analyze and document detailed business and system solution; verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
Evalueserve
06.2013 - 05.2017
Provided consultancy to Verizon on Point of Sale competitive landscape in Europe, focusing on price difference, demographic split of customer base, market trends by country. Project lead to implementation of revised client pricing strategy.
Provided consultancy to British Petroleum on sourcing strategy for aluminum pipes in Kenya and Brazil by analyzing market landscape, top players, pricing, market trends and drivers leading to cost advantages. Project lead to sourcing savings of 4% approximately.
Identify client demand, scope the project, prioritize action items, recommend strategies, build competitive landscape and market trends basis competitive data sourced from secondary and primary sources, report challenges
BUSINESS ANALYST
HCL
06.2010 - 08.2011
Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance.
Helped deploy system enhancements to improve field operations
Identified needed business improvements and determined appropriate systems required to implement solutions.
Education
MBA - Marketing
Pune University
06.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
University Institute of Engineering and Technology
06.2010
Skills
Business and Digital Transformation
Technical and System Analysis
Data analysis
Product Roadmap
Business process mapping
Gap analysis
End to End UAT Testing
Stakeholder management
Leadership updates and workshops
Automation tools: Ui Path
Software development life cycle
Business intelligence tools: JIRA, Confluence, Simpplr, QTest, Visio, FIGMA
Certification
PMI ACP (Agile Practitioner, Project Management)
Nationality
Canadian Citizen
Work Availability
monday
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Timeline
Sr. Manager Business Analysis
Cognizant
06.2021 - Current
Business Analyst Manager
American Express
06.2017 - 06.2021
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
Evalueserve
06.2013 - 05.2017
BUSINESS ANALYST
HCL
06.2010 - 08.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
University Institute of Engineering and Technology