Business Analyst with a proven track record of success focusing on business requirements, synthesising these to provide improved or cost effective business services within blue chip financial institutions.
Providing senior level capabilities to build consistently improved business performances. Results orientated and quality focused, with excellent relationship management, strategic planning and business development skills and experience.
Key client relationships include – ABN AMRO, Barclays, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS, SAXO Bank, UBS.
Experienced in business analysis, data analysis, business process mapping, process optimisation, road maps, change management, full project lifecycle, RAID Logs, Test Cases, UAT, client management, training and support, consulting and solutions delivery. Experience is further enhanced by exceptional communication skills and a dynamic self-starter approach.
Business Analyst @ • Streamlined processes for purchase order lifecycle, implemented end-to-end solution with automated approval workflows, reduced email traffic, and auto-responses to the requestor
• Managed and delivered changes to existing resource management processes by implementing a simplified and scalable solution
• Designed control report for tracking resource management operations, with enriched data and actionable MI
• Provision of expert support to the Leadership Team, Project Managers, and Service Owners, responsible for the global resource management of Joiners, Movers, and Leavers
• Lead the requirements capture for the revised annual forecast of headcount planning and vacancy management, duly submitted to Finance for review and sign-off
• Accomplished successful data migration to a golden source system, including data reconciliation, cleanse and maintaining data integrity across systems From June 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomBusiness Analyst @ • Planned migration of IT Application Services to Windows Server 2012, developed migration recommendations with licensing and resource transition costs
• Evaluated likely migration alternatives, produced compatibility road maps and cost models
• Planned migration of IT Application Services to Windows Server 2012, working closely with globally based IT Application Service Owners to optimise the migration
• Undertook research with Application software vendors, established compatibility road maps, and produced migration recommendations with licensing and resource transition costs
• Evaluated the likely migration costs and produced a cost model for the HSBC IT Regional Head to budget for testing and remediation work required From March 2013 to June 2013 (4 months) Business Analyst @ • Improved report processes for actual and forecast costs of the Wholesale Banking Market, acknowledged as the models enabling report figures to reflect the correct financial balance
• Delivered tool to oversee supplier spend from inception through to go-live in live environment
• Designed, built and implemented compliant SharePoint document management control site
• Responsible for work streams including process optimisation, project management and delivery of projects within Wholesale Banking & Market sector
• Appointed to undertake detailed review of the Financial Reporting and MI project quality
• Enhanced applications to automate and deliver critical reports and enriched MI
• Delivered a robust tool overseeing supplier spend by capturing requirements from Supplier Management Team and production of business requirements specifications
• Designed, built and implemented a SharePoint site with additional sub-business sites From February 2012 to February 2013 (1 year 1 month) Business Analyst @ • Analysed current architecture, critical business flows and created architecture models of the IT landscape, agreeing key performance indicators
• Reduced application development costs by gathering requirements and providing solutions for Commodities, Credit, Emerging Markets, FX, Rates, Repo and Securitised Products
• Established a common set of technologies and shared services across all Fixed Income and FX product lines globally leading to a rationalized, cost effective ecommerce infrastructure From June 2011 to December 2011 (7 months) Change Business Analyst @ • Increased integrity of ‘Right First Time’ (RFT) data input from 75% to 95% increasing efficiency
• Built a robust tactical tool generating detailed RFT metrics / dashboards saving time and cost
• Delivered reference data store book and book hierarchy information within the IB
• Responsible for gathering requirements for a Right First Time Trade Data Integrity project
• Performed detailed analysis, identified and addressed root causes of trade amendments
• Built a robust tactical tool to generate detailed RFT metrics and dashboards for businesses within Fixed Income: Structured Credit, Flow Rates and Securities
• Created a workflow model for opening / closing / moving books reducing manual requirements and enhancing operational efficiency
• Reduced control gaps across different functions established golden source of book data From March 2010 to April 2011 (1 year 2 months) Business Analyst @ • Implemented control methods to enhance process of deploying new configuration items in the production system improving overall performance in quality, speed and service
• Responsible for the release management of new configuration items into production, coordinating user acceptance testing, producing manuals and organising user training forums From March 2009 to November 2009 (9 months) Application Support Analyst @ • Hands on day-to-day support, analysis and enhancement of the Murex FX trading application, including querying the application, developing reports, configuration, implementation, upgrades and testing
• Provided support for users around the globe, including traders on the trading floor, as well as liaising with finance, operations, product control, and risk management From October 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 5 months) Test Analyst @ • Within an Agile methodology, worked closely with the Test Manager to develop and maintain the functional map of the FX trading application
• Used the functional map to create business focused test case scenarios, prepared tests cases for non-functional testing, cases covered, load, performance and volume From October 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 5 months) Business Application Analyst @ • Provided support and analysis of business applications used by Treasury, Finance and Risk in particular ALM (Asset Liability Management) and FiRE (Bank of England reporting)
• Supported the application analysis team to ensure that systems are fit for purpose, as well as provide the timely delivery of analysis and/or reports
• Responsible for system testing, regression testing and assisted in user acceptance testing: Migration Project – All Bonds from Summit into Murex 2.10. Upgrade Project – From Murex 2.10 to Murex 2.11 From November 2005 to September 2007 (1 year 11 months) Business Analyst @ • Bridge between business and IT development for report requirements / production
• Carried out analysis of requirements then produced specifications for the IT development team
• Provided data analysis in ad-hoc investigation, reporting and financial cases
• Supported the business by making recommendations for automating regular commitments
• Solely responsible for delivering a process improvement project on time resulting with increased productivity for call centre staff From August 2002 to October 2005 (3 years 3 months) Consultant @ Junior Business Analyst – Ford Motor Company
Junior Developer – Department of Environment, Transport and Regions From September 2000 to January 2002 (1 year 5 months)
BSc (Honours), Business Information Systems @ University of Hertfordshire From 1996 to 2000 Sajjid Khan is skilled in: Business Analysis, User Acceptance Testing, Requirements Analysis, SharePoint, Testing, Data Analysis, Excel VBA, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Fixed Income, FX, Treasury Operations, Insurance Premium Finance