Open To Work
Neha Kharya
Toronto,Canada
Summary
Results-oriented Lead Business/Data Analyst with 19 years of experience in enterprise data, analytics, and system transformation within financial institutions. Specializes in business requirement elicitation, system impact assessment, data mapping, and SQL-driven validation. Delivers scalable, governed data solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and optimizing workflows.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Business System Analyst - Expert
CIBC
01.2024 - Current
- Lead end-to-end business systems analysis for AI-driven Fraud Analytics and Claims platforms, managing requirements across Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews and workshops to document business requirements, high-level designs, data dictionaries, and source-to-target mappings, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Perform system impact assessments for regulatory changes and platform migrations.
- Own backlog prioritization, define acceptance criteria, and support Agile sprint ceremonies.
- Validate complex data transformations using SQL to ensure reconciliation accuracy above 99%.
- Drive migration of Customer Information Warehouse to Azure Databricks, improving reporting performance by 40% and reducing cost by 30%.
- Coordinate UAT cycles, defect triage, and production releases ensuring seamless deployment.
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to align functional requirements with enterprise data architecture.
- Analyzed business requirements to improve operational efficiency across departments.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define detailed system specifications and project goals, facilitating clearer communication and project alignment.
Business /Data System Analyst
BMO
01.2022 - 12.2024
- Acted as Lead Business Systems Analyst across Finance and Risk reporting modernization programs.
- Elicited functional and non-functional requirements to enhance regulatory and executive dashboards.
- Created data flow diagrams, process documentation, and system interface specifications.
- Led warehouse migration from Netezza to Azure Synapse improving query performance by 35%.
- Performed data profiling and quality analysis improving reporting accuracy by 40%.
- Facilitated UAT sessions and coordinated defect resolution across business and technical teams.
- Ensured BI systems compliance with OSFI regulations and enterprise governance standards.
- Designed and developed applications and software components, ensuring thorough testing and documentation.
- Identified areas for improvement in systems architecture and proposed optimization strategies.
Data & Analytics Lead
Google (via TCS)
12.2020 - 12.2022
- Partnered with business stakeholders to define analytics requirements and roadmap for SMB enterprise accounts.
- Translated sales and operational needs into technical specifications and data models.
- Designed Spark-based pipelines increasing analytics capability by 40%.
- Performed advanced SQL analysis identifying revenue optimization opportunities.
- Developed executive dashboards improving visibility into KPIs and performance metrics.
- Led data analysis projects to identify trends and insights for decision-making.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve data collection processes.
- Implemented data governance policies to ensure compliance with industry standards.
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Earlier Enterprise Experience
04.2007 - 12.2020
- Delivered 30+ enterprise BI and data warehouse initiatives as Senior Business Systems Analyst.
- Led requirement workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather insights for business process modeling.
- Developed dimensional data models and semantic layers aligned with reporting requirements.
- Created source-to-target mapping documents and transformation logic specifications to ensure alignment with data processing needs.
- Performed SQL-based data validation and reconciliation to ensure accuracy of regulatory reporting.
- Supported full SDLC lifecycle including UAT coordination and production deployment.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Shankaracharya College of Engg And Technology
06.2007
Skills
- Business & System Requirements
- Gap Assessment
- System Impact Analysis
- Data Mapping
- Source-to-Target Documentation
- ETL/ELT Design
- Data Governance
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data modeling
- Data management
- Advanced SQL Data Validation
- Testing
- Power BI
- Tableau Dashboard Architecture
- Azure
- Databricks
- Cloud Data Platforms
- ADF
- Synapse
- Process Modeling
- Workflow Optimization
- Reconciliation
- Agile
- UAT Coordination
- Business process analysis
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Effective communication
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeContract WorkLocation Preference
RemoteHybridSalary Range
$45000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Business System Analyst - Expert
CIBC
01.2024 - Current
Business /Data System Analyst
BMO
01.2022 - 12.2024
Data & Analytics Lead
Google (via TCS)
12.2020 - 12.2022
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Earlier Enterprise Experience
04.2007 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Science -
Shankaracharya College of Engg And Technology