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Strong Business / Systems Analyst specializing in Finance regulations AML
Ian McConachie-Smith
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West Malling, United Kingdom
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A self-motivated and results-orientated Senior (Lead) Business / Systems Analyst with a wealth of success in providing and delivering innovative, quality solutions to business problems from inception to completion. Experience extends to include practical experience using the full SDLC (including Agile delivery) including Data Analysis, Data Modelling and designing clear and precise System Specifications. Offering a track record and reputation for delivering high quality complex projects within demanding cost and timescale constraints and has exceptional customer facing communication and presentation skills and dynamic self-starter approach.
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United Kingdom
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English
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Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
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My experience
2014 - ?
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Senior BUSINESS ANALYST
Lloyds Banking Group.
• Liaising with stakeholders across the group to ascertain current operating processes for financial crime within differing business divisions, establish the gaps between target state and current state and compile high level requirements in support of a business case for establishing a Group wide financial crime intelligence unit.
• Leading the analysis effort in compiling operating model, business process model generation and helping to deliver and test the implementation of those business processes.
• Sole responsibility for the data model and development of a tactical data hub for consolidation of customer related financial crime intelligence.
• Responsible for gathering, documenting and management of requirements to enable the move from a tactical data hub to a strategic financial crime data store and analytics system (IBM i2) to allow better network analysis, trend analysis and model building to be used in identifying anti-money laundering and terrorist financing breaches.
• Coordinating a group wide standard approach for the capture of customer exit decisions and centralisation of data, and then using that data to prevent those convicted of financial crime and fraud from re-entering any part of the group. This involved working with stakeholders with differing requirements across retail banking, commercial, business banking, consumer finance (loans, credit cards), insurance, wealth, private banking to gain agreement on the approach, liaising with internal and external vendors to document detailed requirements and design document and working closely with IT department to realise those requirements in a phased delivery.
• Project to implement work allocation and process management for data access requests from competent authorities (e.g. court production orders, arrestment's, witness statements, HMRC, Department of work and pensions ) implemented with PEGA solution incorporating many integrations across a number of banking systems.
• Leading the analysis effort in compiling operating model, business process model generation and helping to deliver and test the implementation of those business processes.
• Sole responsibility for the data model and development of a tactical data hub for consolidation of customer related financial crime intelligence.
• Responsible for gathering, documenting and management of requirements to enable the move from a tactical data hub to a strategic financial crime data store and analytics system (IBM i2) to allow better network analysis, trend analysis and model building to be used in identifying anti-money laundering and terrorist financing breaches.
• Coordinating a group wide standard approach for the capture of customer exit decisions and centralisation of data, and then using that data to prevent those convicted of financial crime and fraud from re-entering any part of the group. This involved working with stakeholders with differing requirements across retail banking, commercial, business banking, consumer finance (loans, credit cards), insurance, wealth, private banking to gain agreement on the approach, liaising with internal and external vendors to document detailed requirements and design document and working closely with IT department to realise those requirements in a phased delivery.
• Project to implement work allocation and process management for data access requests from competent authorities (e.g. court production orders, arrestment's, witness statements, HMRC, Department of work and pensions ) implemented with PEGA solution incorporating many integrations across a number of banking systems.
Banking, Processes, Production, Insurance, Development, Implementation, Analyst, Support, It, Design, Business Case, Network, Finance, Analytics, Test, Management, Retail
2013 - 2014
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LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST
HSBC.
• Managing a team of eight BA's across business change and technical implementation for a global tool managing the client due diligence (KYC / AML) of new and on-going business. Introduced the use of agile practices including the use of user stories, a central backlog, two week sprint delivery with business show & tells and the use of Jira to manage.
• Working with global standards, financial crime compliance and global banking to implement single tool for CDD processes globally with a rollout plan for sixty five countries.
• System integration with client reference data, transaction reporting, screening, document management.
• Responsible for best practices in requirements (User Stories) management, business and functional specifications.
• Management of scope and priority of deliverables (using a common backlog) across multiple stakeholder groups, preparation and delivery of message to global working group.
• Using an Agile approach with bi-weekly sprints.
Skills used: Team leadership, Process Modelling, Data Modelling, UML, Agile, Business Requirement / Functional requirements. PEGA workflow, Jira.
• Working with global standards, financial crime compliance and global banking to implement single tool for CDD processes globally with a rollout plan for sixty five countries.
• System integration with client reference data, transaction reporting, screening, document management.
• Responsible for best practices in requirements (User Stories) management, business and functional specifications.
• Management of scope and priority of deliverables (using a common backlog) across multiple stakeholder groups, preparation and delivery of message to global working group.
• Using an Agile approach with bi-weekly sprints.
Skills used: Team leadership, Process Modelling, Data Modelling, UML, Agile, Business Requirement / Functional requirements. PEGA workflow, Jira.
Compliance, Processes, KYC, BEE, Implementation, Workflow, Analyst, UML, Banking, Jira, Due Diligence, Integration, Management, Leadership, User stories, System Integration, Agile, Team Leadership
2011 - 2013
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SENIOR / LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST
RBS.
• The project was to manage the client on-boarding process via a single global tool, this involved facilitating the whole process and engaging with AML / KYC, Tax, Credit, Reference Data, Legal and front office teams. As well as controlling the process, management information was produced to measure the time taken and No of on-boarding cases to identify bottlenecks in the process and provide KPI information. The process covered the gathering of information and classification for new regulations including Dodd Frank, EMIR and FATCA. The key benefits of the change were to provide control and rigour over the client on-boarding process, increase the accuracy of client reference data to aid against financial crime such as anti-money laundering to adhere to industry regulation to avoid regulator penalties and reputational damage, and to improve efficiency during the on-boarding process.
• Working within the client on boarding team liaising closely with business and change team to produce business requirements and system functional specification, data / domain models and application design documents for a global client on boarding workflow application.
• Introduced Agile practices to the team including 2 week sprint cadence, user stories, sprint planning sessions and retrospectives.
• As senior business analyst I was responsible for the requirements (User stories) across several initiatives and the direction of six further business analysts.
• Skills used: Team leadership, Process Modelling, Data Modelling, UML, Agile, Business Requirement / Functional requirements. TIBCO iProcess workflow, Enterprise Architect
• Working within the client on boarding team liaising closely with business and change team to produce business requirements and system functional specification, data / domain models and application design documents for a global client on boarding workflow application.
• Introduced Agile practices to the team including 2 week sprint cadence, user stories, sprint planning sessions and retrospectives.
• As senior business analyst I was responsible for the requirements (User stories) across several initiatives and the direction of six further business analysts.
• Skills used: Team leadership, Process Modelling, Data Modelling, UML, Agile, Business Requirement / Functional requirements. TIBCO iProcess workflow, Enterprise Architect
Design, Team Leadership, Agile, Controlling, User stories, Leadership, Management, UML, Analyst, Workflow, KPI, Office, Enterprise, Direction, KYC, TIBCO
2010 - 2011
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BUSINESS ANALYST / SYSTEMS ANALYST
FTSE.
• Working within the Architecture team to illicit system requirements and produce system specifications ready for development. The project is to replace and enhance existing systems for the building of indices and portfolio based products, which requires the sourcing and manipulation of market and reference data, including company hierarchy, securities, instruments, markets, dividends, shares in issue, free-float, price and corporate actions.
• Provided analysis on data vendors for choice of entity hierarchy.
• Helped introduce improvements to current analysis and development processes by introducing a more iterative / incremental approach (based on AUP).
• Skills used: UML, BPMN, Data-Modelling (Sparx Enterprise Architect for modelling).
• Provided analysis on data vendors for choice of entity hierarchy.
• Helped introduce improvements to current analysis and development processes by introducing a more iterative / incremental approach (based on AUP).
• Skills used: UML, BPMN, Data-Modelling (Sparx Enterprise Architect for modelling).
Sourcing, Architecture, UML, Analyst, Development, Enterprise, Processes
2010 - 2010
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BUSINESS ANALYST / SYSTEMS ANALYST
UBS.
• Working within the Treasury function of Finance IT, the project is to build a operational cash ladder system to monitor the global liquidity of the bank.
• Operating in a full Agile team producing users stories and technical specifications, taking place in agile practices (sprint planning - planning poker, daily stand ups, sprint show & tell and retrospective)
• Working directly with Fx and Money Market, equities and Fixed Income users to illicit day to day operational needs and produce complete systems specification.
• Working with Global Treasury and Liquidity Management to illicit more strategic requirements such as limit setting, scenario testing etc producing system ready specifications.
• Working directly with a number of front-office risk management systems to source data feeds and define clear systems interfaces. Including strategic Integration framework specifications.
• Skills used: UML, BPMN, Data-Modelling (Magic-Draw for modelling), User Stories, Agile.
• Operating in a full Agile team producing users stories and technical specifications, taking place in agile practices (sprint planning - planning poker, daily stand ups, sprint show & tell and retrospective)
• Working directly with Fx and Money Market, equities and Fixed Income users to illicit day to day operational needs and produce complete systems specification.
• Working with Global Treasury and Liquidity Management to illicit more strategic requirements such as limit setting, scenario testing etc producing system ready specifications.
• Working directly with a number of front-office risk management systems to source data feeds and define clear systems interfaces. Including strategic Integration framework specifications.
• Skills used: UML, BPMN, Data-Modelling (Magic-Draw for modelling), User Stories, Agile.
Agile, Risk Management, User stories, Management, Integration, Finance, It, UML, Analyst, Testing, Office, Treasury, Framework
2009 - 2010
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BUSINESS ANALYST / SYSTEMS ANALYST
Justice / NPIA.
Skills for Justice / NPIA
• Appointed to provide consultancy on an integrated competency framework for the justice system
• Carry out analysis of the current system, gather requirements for the future, provide gap analysis and recommendations for further development
• Provide analysis and design skills utilising UML to produce detailed development specifications, including data modelling and interface definitions for third party systems.
• Provide solution architecture and manage development phase of the project using RUP.
• Appointed to provide consultancy on an integrated competency framework for the justice system
• Carry out analysis of the current system, gather requirements for the future, provide gap analysis and recommendations for further development
• Provide analysis and design skills utilising UML to produce detailed development specifications, including data modelling and interface definitions for third party systems.
• Provide solution architecture and manage development phase of the project using RUP.
Design, Solution architecture, Architecture, UML, Analyst, Development, Framework
2009 - 2009
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BUSINESS ANALYST / SYSTEMS ANALYST
Credit-Suisse.
• Appointed to carry out consultation on fine grained entitlements throughout Investment Banking, working closely with IT Risk and Compliance in specific area's including global cross-border data exchange, modelling of critical data and data rules.
• Held interviews and workshops to ascertain individual application requirements
• Carried out market analysis on internal and vendor products, carried out gap analysis and presented report and findings to architecture steering group.
• Developed operating model for entitlements service, including operating processes, resource requirements, role description and budget requirements.
• Carried out design of entitlements system using Enterprise Architect and UML.
• Held interviews and workshops to ascertain individual application requirements
• Carried out market analysis on internal and vendor products, carried out gap analysis and presented report and findings to architecture steering group.
• Developed operating model for entitlements service, including operating processes, resource requirements, role description and budget requirements.
• Carried out design of entitlements system using Enterprise Architect and UML.
Design, Budget, Exchange, Service, Compliance, Architecture, Banking, It, Workshops, UML, Analyst, Enterprise, Processes
2008 - 2008
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BUSINESS ANALYST / SYSTEMS ANALYST
Charities Aid Foundation (Bank).
• Appointed to provide a comprehensive analysis service through to system design stage
• Responsible for managing the gathering, analysis and documentation of user requirements
• Modelling high level business processes, using Rational Rose and UML
• Performed a series of interviews and workshops to gather both business and system requirements
• Utilised Rational Requisite Pro and Rose to produce a use case model (UML) and its' implementation planning
• Managed stakeholder expectation from the business user and the technical staff
• Designed technical specifications using UML including Class and Interaction Diagrams, State Transition, Data Analysis and Data Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Produced project plans and schedule releases for the development team in line with RUP
• Hands on development of middle tier components using C#, .NET
• Responsible for managing the gathering, analysis and documentation of user requirements
• Modelling high level business processes, using Rational Rose and UML
• Performed a series of interviews and workshops to gather both business and system requirements
• Utilised Rational Requisite Pro and Rose to produce a use case model (UML) and its' implementation planning
• Managed stakeholder expectation from the business user and the technical staff
• Designed technical specifications using UML including Class and Interaction Diagrams, State Transition, Data Analysis and Data Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Produced project plans and schedule releases for the development team in line with RUP
• Hands on development of middle tier components using C#, .NET
Design, Data Analysis, C, Service, Net, Workshops, UML, Analyst, Implementation, Development, System Design, Processes
2008 - 2008
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BUSINESS ARCHITECT
Financial Services Authority.
• Appointed as part of a team of Enterprise Architects primarily to support the design of IT Strategy
• Responsible for all aspects of writing an IT Strategy from a business perspective
• Produced a model of business processes & identified which business services when adopting SOA
• Worked closely with the SOA/ Application/ Data Architects to identify legacy software that could be consolidated
• Investigated the IS Department to produce a strategy for improving overall development processes
• Modelled all business process and system designs using UML and BPMN within System Architect tool, Lombardi Teamworks.
• Responsible for all aspects of writing an IT Strategy from a business perspective
• Produced a model of business processes & identified which business services when adopting SOA
• Worked closely with the SOA/ Application/ Data Architects to identify legacy software that could be consolidated
• Investigated the IS Department to produce a strategy for improving overall development processes
• Modelled all business process and system designs using UML and BPMN within System Architect tool, Lombardi Teamworks.
Design, Writing, It, UML, Support, SOA, Development, Software, Enterprise, Processes
My education
n/a
Hndhncorequivalent, Maths/Stats/Computer Programming
Hndhncorequivalent, Maths/Stats/Computer Programming
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