Syed Haq Nawaz Ahmed, Core Banking Manager /  Business Analyst

Syed Haq Nawaz Ahmed

Core Banking Manager / Business Analyst

FIS

Location
Pakistan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
25 years, 0 Months

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Core Banking Manager / Business Analyst at FIS
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since March 2010

FIS Profile Core banking system implementation and post implementation support.

National Bank of Pakistan has branch network of over 1300 branches. Core banking system is successfully implemented in over 1300 branches. This project comprises;

- Profile - Conventional Banking
- Profile Direct - Islamic Banking
- AllProfits - Trade Finance
- Theta - Loan Origination System
- MISYS Kondor + Treasury

I am managing a team of 12 professionals consist of technical and business analysts. Responsible for all software/core banking system deliverables, from requirement gathering, analysis, requirement finalization/sign-off, development, release management, testing/UAT and deployment support.

Interacting with PMO and IT of the bank for production support and change request discussion and priority setting. Supervising support desk, assigning and tracking all reported issues and presenting statics to the client and management. Managing stakeholder’s expectations.

T24 Functional Consultant at BMI Bank
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • October 2010 to January 2013

Position Temenos T24 Functional Consultant
Responsibilities
I am part of BMI bank's team for T24 R8 maintenance and support. Main areas I am looking into are retail banking and retail credit.

• Primarily responsible for requirement gathering in close coordination with business users.
• Capturing and translating business requirements into functional requirement specifications document.
• Transforming business requirements into solutions with available option and features in T24.
• Working in collaboration with the business users and T24/Temenos Technical Analyst.
• Independently investigating problems, formulate solution proposals and discussing with business users.
• Working closely with Technology team for testing, and implementation activities.
• Keeping control of users' requirement and ensuring that they are meeting the bank standards.
• Maintaining record of users' requirements, enhancements, change requests etc. through Change Request Form.
• Defining new products and system parameters in T24 and documenting changes.
• Responding to queries raised by the users and development team on business/functional requirements.
• Involve in different project going on like IBAN and IS security policy implementation.
• Acting is single point of contact for business user for all issues related with T24 system.
• Assisting in project planning and management activities.

Temenos T24 Lead / Support Manager at Meezan Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2007 to October 2010

• Worked on extended company structure of T24, which is multi company and multi book. T24 versions are R8 and R5. My role is more of techno-functional.
• Responsible for solution design and operational support team of T24, modules are core, foreign exchange, money market, securities and other general banking areas like customer, account, data capture, funds transfer, teller, interest / charges, stock management, remittances and security management system.
• In-charge of parameter setup and deployments in live T24 environments. Administrative tasks are also performed like monitoring of TCServer, IBM WAS and MQ, communication with Temenos helpdesk for the system error resolution, its testing and correction application.
• As a part of T24 implementation team, I have been involved in business analysis of core and treasury modules. This includes interacting with users to gather business requirement in business review forms, performing gap identification, customization and local development where required.
• Managed data migration activities from legacy system data extraction to T24 system data and report verification
• Mapping GL line and monitoring GL miss-matches
• Managing user profiles and menus and implementing security policy

Misys Equation Implementation Team Lead / Asst. Vice President at KASB Bank Limited
  • Pakistan
  • August 2006 to September 2007

Duration August 7, 2006 - September 22, 2007
Organization KASB Bank Limited
Location Information Technology Division, Karachi
Position Misys Equation Implementation Team Lead / Asst. Vice President.
Responsibilities
• Worked as team lead in the successful implementation and system role out of Misys Equation into different branches of the bank
• Responsible for Build activity of Misys Equation, to make sure it provide the same or even better functionality than that of old system
• Keeping up meeting and discussion with the business users to finalize the Business Analysis phase
• Maintaining discussion and workshop sessions with business owners and branch users to document their specifications for Business Process Reengineering
• Constant in touch with international vendor (Misys) for the system installation, maintenance, updates and various system trouble-shootings
• Facilitated business users in the UAT phase

System / Business Analyst at Union Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2006 to August 2006

Duration January 5, 2006 - August 5, 2006
Organization Union Bank Limited
Location Information Technology Division, Karachi
Position Non Core Banking Project Manager / Officer Grade D
Responsibilities
• In charge of eCIB cell for reporting whole consumer portfolio of the bank. This includes activities like data gathering from the core banking system (Misys Kapiti), processing the data to make it adaptable for SBP eCIB software, validating borrower records for different checks, and finally uploading the data on the SBP website through SBP given client side eCIB software.
• Similar responsibility involved constant interaction with DataCheck (credit history service provider) for their monthly data requirements.
• Provided DB2 database administrator services for Misys Trade Innovation

System / Business Analyst at Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates
  • Pakistan
  • August 2004 to December 2005

Duration August 2004 - December 2005
Organization Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates (Pvt) Limited
Location Information Solution Department, Karachi
Position System / Business Analyst
Responsibilities
Worked on Soneri Bank project; in-charge of designing and development of General Banking, Remittance and Locker Management modules. Scope of responsibilities included,
• Finalizing System Requirement Specification (SRS) document, by extracting information from business process
• Formulate Prototypes based on scope specified in System Requirement Specification
• Preparing Detail Design Specification (DDS) document which included all the technical aspects of application like DFD, database architecture (ERD) and business rules like option and field level validation
• Defining programming code standards and supervised team members all the way of development phase
• Coordinating with quality assurance team in testing phase and implemented regular software releases on the client's environment

Software Developer / Officer Grade I at Bank AL Habib Limited
  • Pakistan
  • May 1999 to August 2004

Duration May 1999 - August 2004
Organization Bank AL Habib Limited
Location Information Technology Division, Karachi
Position Software Developer / Officer Grade I
Responsibilities
Responsible for solution design i.e. application development, testing and implementation of different modules of ALHABIB SYSTEM. Mainly focused on modules; Branch Setup, CRM, Teller, Back Office, Term Deposit, Credit Management.

Its development platform was VisualAge for Java 4.0 using DB2 UDB 7.1 as RDBMS under Windows NT Environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • December 1998

Bachelor of Computer Science

Master's degree,
  • at Pakistan Institue of Management
  • January 1998

10 Courses of MBA completed

Specialties & Skills

Training Planning
Business Analysis
Project Management
Technical Support
T24 Core Retail Functional Consultancy
System Support Manager
Business Analysis
Project Management Support
Software Development Manager
Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

PMI
  • member
  • December 2015

Training and Certifications

ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
Axelos
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
Valid Until:
January 2019
Database (Training)
Training Institute:
DB2
Date Attended:
September 2002
T24 Training (Training)
Training Institute:
T24
Date Attended:
December 2007
Programming (Training)
Training Institute:
Java
Date Attended:
February 2001