Dinesh Sunder Kathasamy, Senior Business Analyst

Dinesh Sunder Kathasamy

Senior Business Analyst

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Marketing and Sysems
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Senior Business Analyst at First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2022

• Deputed as Senior Business Analysts for First Abu Dhabi bank (FAB) to manage NHL (National Housing Loans) platform.
• Analyzed 8 Business unit’s operations and automated the Customer Onboarding process which improved the efficacy across business units by 42%.
• Spearheaded the development of New NHL Mobile app from the scratch and launched the App in the play store.
• Documented the user stories and lead the end-to-end requirement definition with Business and Technology stakeholders
• Responsible for Product presentation and demos to key stakeholders & partners.
• Conducted UAT with the cross-functional business teams to ensure the system was aligned with the vision of the business teams.
• Received recognition award for the contribution towards NHL Mobile App & the Business Process Automation.

Associate Business Consultant at Tech Mahindra
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2020 to December 2021

• Deputed as Business Analyst with Standard Chartered Bank to manage the Credit Risk Platform (Horizon).
• Built a Reporting template around key risk metrics, saving 70 hours of manual work.
• Creation of the Data Mapping document between the upstream systems and ARML (Adaptive Risk Markup Language).
• Documented the user stories and solution for Pre-Deal Checks (PDC) and Excess Vigilance workflows in the Horizon Platform.
• Performed Technical UAT and review defects with development team.
• Lead and document the end-to-end requirement definition with Business and Technology stakeholders
• Drive the delivery of the projects from initiation to production go-live

Senior Business Analyst at Datamatics
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2019 to June 2020

• Deputed as Senior Business Analysts for JCPenney team to manage Loyalty and Rewards Systems.
• As the lead individual, designed an Automated Profile Merging tool which is being used by JCPenney to manage customer profiling.
• Identified and prioritized requirements for the Ecommerce new market entry application that projected increase in annual revenue from $200 million to $400 million.
• Documentation of FSD and maintenance of Requirement Traceability matrix
• Conducted UAT with the cross-functional business teams to ensure the system was aligned with the vision of the business teams.
• Provided comprehensive support to all end users and stakeholders through training and documentation.
• Writing Use Cases and Business Rules for implementing solutions.
• Documented API PRD's and Implementation Guides.
• Collaborated with management and external stakeholders to identify and implement changes to systems and processes to increase the efficiency
• Creation of customization documents and handling change requests for multiple deployments.
• Conducting Gap Analysis of customer’s requirements with the existing product and designing customized product for deployment at client end.

IT Business Analyst at Ducont FZ LLC
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2016 to October 2019

• Created Requirements Specifications, Functional Specification (FSD), Use Case Diagrams, High Level and Detailed Process Flows and Robustness Diagrams as well as standardized a process that decreased requirements gathering and analysis time by 50%.
• Conducted meticulous GAP analysis while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives
• Created product Wireframes/Screen mock ups using proto.io.
• Responsible for Product presentation and demos to key stakeholders & partners.
• Maintain and keep project documents like Functional and Design Specifications, User Requirements Specifications and Requirements Traceability Matrix.

IT Product Manager at Doveaz technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2015 to November 2016

• Responsible for end to end product management & Delivery.
• Spearheaded the product development which is a hyper local logistics platform from the scratch. The beta version is been launched in the app store.
• Responsible for UML use case diagrams, Wireframe Designs Functional & Business Documentation, Business Case Preparations.
• Responsible for Product presentation and demos to key stakeholders & Investors.

IT Consultant at Brainbridge technologies (PTY) Ltd
  • South Africa - Johannesburg
  • March 2011 to November 2015

• Responsible for RFI responses and responding to RFPs for all Business/IT Proposals
• Responsible for Preparation of Commercials based on the efforts and tools required.
• Responsible for preparing the Statement of Work, Partnership Agreements with service level agreements articulated as per the organizational norms and client expectations.
• Respond to RFI / RFP / Opportunities and facilitate the sales process, resulting in successful leads & winning proposals
• Leading the estimation and pricing on bids and providing inputs for preparation of winning sales
Plans and proposals
• Understanding of client business process operations and business objectives and utilize that knowledge on engagements/analyze workflow to design solutions (As-Is and To-Be Analysis)
• Responsible for Client Presentation and product Demos.

Programmer Analyst at Dexterity Business Analyst Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • May 2006 to November 2007

• Collecting requirements and implementing the task given.
• Developing the code as per the requirements.
• Writing UI/Business validations for the owned use cases
• Coordinated between coding team and UI design team and the client.
• Designed and built advanced application
• Collaborated with cross function teams to define, design and ship new features
• Worked on features to connect to 3rd party APIs

Education

Master's degree, Marketing and Sysems
  • at ICFAI Business School
  • May 2010
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • at Anna University
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Product Development
Functional Analysis
Requirements Gathering
Stakeholder Management
Business Analysis
MS office
Camunda
Functional testing
Salesforce
Use Case
Postman
Functional Specification Document (FSD)
Requirement Gathering
Technical Documentation
MS Visio
Product Roadmaps
Gap Analysis
Sprint Planning
User Story Grooming

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Hindi
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certified Scrum master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Certified Scrum Product Owner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2020