Head of Business Analysis
Ministry Of Finance - Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months
• Leads requirements gathering sessions to understand and document complex business needs, including eliciting hidden requirements and clarifying vague or unclear requirements.
• Collaborate with business leads, including senior management, to understand business processes and the challenges facing the organization.
• Analyzes business operations and processes to understand strengths and weaknesses and support the identification of opportunities for automation.
• Ensure that the business analysis team is aware of overlapping requirements amongst portfolios and guide on when and how to incorporate them in the current body of requirements.
• Conducts regular meetings with Analysts to ensure consistent communication and that any issues are discussed.
• Lead employees to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality and goal accomplishment.
• Provides ongoing support to the business by responding to a variety of inquiries and issues regarding the systems or processes in the business area, ensuring efficient resolution with minimal impact on business performance.
• Interaction with the Business to gather requirements, obtain, analyze and validate requirements for changes to business processes and policies.
• Understanding current business processes and implementation of efficient business processes for various clients.
• Creating Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Cases/ Functional Specification Document, User Stories, Test cases, Training Documents, and System Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Facilitate and improve the Change Management processes.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer goals.
• Mitigate risk by planning, identifying, resolving issues across multiple delivery groups, projects and products.
• Plan, design and recommend business processes to improve and support business activities.
• Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into various documentation deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases user stories, and data flow diagrams.
• Assist in coordinating business analyst tasks on information technology projects and provide support to other team members.
Deputy for Planning and Information Affairs
• Writing Business Requirement Specifications that successfully delivered necessary change in a manageable and non-intrusive way.
• Implementation of new designs within the Business Operating Model.
• Involved in workshops / training/presentations.
• Managed the analysis and implementation of several large IT - projects.
• Analysis & design for a web-based adaptable workflow system for use across the business to streamline endorsement procedure for administrative processes.
- Was trained by the Operations Group in Department of Information Technology.
• Master of Information Technology, Southern New Hampshire University USA, Dec 2013 Specialization in Web Development (GPA 3.86 out of 4.00)
• Bachelors of Information Systems, Al-Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University Saudi Arabia, June 2010