Motivated Business Intelligence Practitioner and Professional Business Analyst, Reid H.
Type of candidate: Self-employed / Freelancer
Category: IT / Telecommunications
Sub-category: Business- / Requirement Analyst / Process Management
Education Level: Master / MBA (University / HES-SO / EPF)
Certificate title: Master of Education - Information and Communication Technology, Professional Learning
Total years of work experience: 10 - 15 years
Notice period: Available now
Working pattern: Full-time (100%)
Residence: Switzerland / Valais
Work permit: B - Settling permit
I provide leadership and expertise in Business Intelligence from both Project Management and Business Analysis perspectives, bringing together people, process and technology to provide business value.
My work centres around forming strong on-going relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues, supporting effective communication, stakeholder management and managing perceived uncertainty. By reinforcing these relationships and growing trust, I'm able to maintain the focus on working together to achieve value. This comes down to understanding stakeholders as whole people who have human needs as well as the needs of their role and responsibilities.
I enjoy working with people to realise business solutions and the processes that can be put in place to support their ongoing success. I'm adept at translating the needs from business contexts into changes in business processes and requirements for technological solutions.
Languages:
Mother tongue
English
Fluent
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Competent
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Basic knowledge
French
Certificate title:Master of Education - Information and Communication Technology, Professional Learning
Social sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
2008
Certificate title:Certificate of Business Studies - Finance
Business Management
Massey University
2008
Certificate title:Bachelor of Science - Interedisciplinary Science, Physics
Physics
Victoria University of Wellington
2004
Certificate title:Prince2 Practitioner
Management & Services
ILX Group
2010
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Senior Business Analyst
07-01-2019 & 20-12-2019
Background:
APRA is the prudential regulator of the Australian financial services industry. Athena is a major transformation program, replacing the data collection tool “Direct to APRA” with the COTS 'Vizor' product.
Key achievements:
Recognised & awarded for my requirements analysis work multiple times.
Entrusted with elicitation of most difficult business processes and problems.
Delivered all requirements and redesigned more effective inter-agency data quality correction process.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Senior Business Intelligence Specialist
01-05-2018 & Today
Backgound:
The CBA is Australia’s largest bank. A cost recharging reporting solution is required for budget planning and actuals variance monitoring. This will support rationalising internal business customers’ consumption of the banks BI and Big Data platforms using performance and decision support tools. The project requires the acquisition of operational systems data, ETL, the creation of a Recharge database, and reporting through Apptio and Tableau dashboards.
Key achievements:
Elicited & documented business requirements via workshops.
Designed & prototyped a working tactical database in Teradata.
Designed and developed performance reports in Tableau.
Supported industrialisation of prototypes.
Reserve Bank of Australia
Senior Business Analyst
01-11-2016 & 30-04-2018
Background:
The Reserve Bank is the central bank of Australia. The Core Forecasting System supports monetary policy implementation and the maintenance of the official cash rate by providing the insight necessary to execute trades in the cash and FOREX markets.
Key achievements:
Respected leadership role in bank’s Business Analysis Community of Practice.
Engaged and managed numerous stakeholders across multiple business units.
Gained confidence and respect from the banks economists for my requirements work on banks complex forecasting systems (Excel spreadmart using 100s of interconnected workbooks with embedded business rules; multiple source systems).
Coded PoC ETL (SQL Server) to confirm the extracted business rules produced accurate forecasting results and were accurate to the cent.
All requirements signed off & delivered.
Personal training and fitness, squash, tennis, technology, languages in general but now focusing on French, environmental change, ethical living, social policy, science, architecture and design, travel, learning, volunteering, sailing!
