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Priyanka Lokanathan

Toronto,Ontario

Summary

Proactive Senior Business Analyst well-versed in industry best practices, regulatory standards, and product management, with over 10 years of experience across multiple industry verticals. Experienced in driving product development from concept to delivery, fostering corporate growth and revenue. Effective communicator and collaborator, dedicated to enhancing business operations.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

RR Donnelly
2019.09 - 2021.03

Projects: Internal HR recruitment Portal

Domain: HR

Client: RRD

  • Conducted a thorough needs assessment to understand the requirements of HR and other stakeholders that defined the scope, objectives, and key functionalities of the HR portal.
  • Analyzed existing HR processes to identify areas for improvement and automation.
  • Developed the System design documentation indicating workflows, and integration points with other systems with the support of solution architects.
  • Conducted thorough testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
  • Collaborated with internal business partners to implement commission arrangements.
  • Designed and Conducted training sessions for HR staff and other end-users on how to use the portal effectively.
  • Implemented a plan for ongoing maintenance, updates, and improvements.


Business Analyst

World Bank
2017.03 - 2019.06

Projects: Process Optimization Phase 1 & 2, Cornerstone - COMPASS

Domain: HR
Client: HRDSO , WFA

Technologies: Neocase Management, PeopleSoft, iGrafx, MSVisio,Compass,
Description:

  • Process Optimization- Projects core goal was to automate/ Simplify/ Eliminate few selected processes in HRDSO ( Insurance, Visa and UPI)
  • Involved in interacting with respective internal stakeholders (SME’s & POD Leads) to
    understand current process to drill down possible pain points and propose possible
    solution associated with the technology team.
  • Perform impact analysis of upstream over downstream.
  • Involved in delivering the business requirement to Technology team
  • Conduct baseline analysis using time studies and capacity calculator.
  • Analyzed and developed process models, use cases, exception handling and dataflow
    diagrams in iGrafx.
  • Document the process with the processing steps and prepare Desk procedures with
    respective screenshots.
  • Involved in migration from legacy tool to new tool for recruitment module of HR Domain.
  • Analyze the legacy system pain points and try to incorporate in the new tool for higher
    efficiency.
  • Create a sample template to reflect offer letter based on any probability scenarios.

Business Analyst

Telliant Systems Pvt Ltd
2016.02 - 2016.10

Domain: Healthcare

  • Excellent knowledge of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
    (HIPAA) transaction and code set rules.
  • Proficient in ICD-9-CM and ICD -10-CM coding and claims processing. Analysis on
    Trending Topics Such as, Macra, HIPAA, Wearables etc


Projects: Dental EHR- Total Dental Application, Business Analytics/Reporting Portal,
Client: Total dental, Pediatric Associates

Technologies: Visual Studio 2015, IIS 7.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, TFS 2015, C#, ADO.Net,
MVC 5, Jquery, SQL Developer for Oracle.
Description:

  • Project deals with recording the outpatient healthcare information during the visit with a
    “dentist”. The recorded information can be sent to other dentist in different facility and patients
    through direct mail. It gives education on patient’s diagnosis, lab test results, medication to the
    respective patient. It provides patient’s insurance claim option with eligibility check using third
    party gateway.
  • Pediatric Associates is looking to build new reports such as influenza-like illness (ILI), coding by
    provider, coding by audit, W15, and CIS report for their internal audit and administrative
    purposes. With this new report development, the client will generate the reports in automatically
    in an Excel format without any manual interference.

Education

MBAMIT - ICT Business Analyst

James Cook University
Brisbane, Australia
05.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

MOP Vaishnav College For Women
Chennai,India
04.2007

Skills

  • Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence)
  • SDLC - Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Kanban
  • Product Roadmaps, GNATT charts, KPI metrics
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Requirement Elicitation & Product Life Cycle Management
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • User story, UML modelling, Prototypes
  • Business Process improvements
  • Tableau , Power BI
  • Business & Strategic planning

Additional Work History

IT Business Analyst  | Pickzy Software pvt Ltd ,Chennai, India (2014 -2015)

Business  Management |  Harvent Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia (2011-2013)

Programmer Analyst | Cognizant  Technology Solutions, Chennai, India (2007-2008)

Accomplishments

  • Earned the "Achiever" Award for two consecutive quarters for documenting, redesigning and improving HR business processes at RR Donnelly.
  • Cognizant’s Award as “Best Performer” for learning the Data warehousing tool in short span and delivering the results on time with high quality in spite of being trained in .NET.
  • Recognized for helping design and implemented an innovative workflow solution that Involved migration from legacy tool to new tool for recruitment module of HR Domain for World Bank


Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

RR Donnelly
2019.09 - 2021.03

Business Analyst

World Bank
2017.03 - 2019.06

Business Analyst

Telliant Systems Pvt Ltd
2016.02 - 2016.10

MBAMIT - ICT Business Analyst

James Cook University

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

MOP Vaishnav College For Women
Priyanka Lokanathan