1. Saras Bansal
12/1 Stonehouse Avenue, Plymton, SA 5038 | +61406431513 | saraswatibansal@gmail.com
Professional Summary
A Business Analyst who responds to shifting business needs and priorities in a systematic and effective way. I have an
extensive experience in Banking and Financial Services (BFS) for clients based across India, Europe, Singapore and
Dubai, with proven record in project management, change management, business process re-engineering, stakeholder
management and business analysis.
Skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage project stakeholders from diverse levels and areas
• Facilitate and Conduct workshops with the stakeholders and various teams to understand challenges
• Conduct training sessions for the team members toenhance understanding of the requirements and brain storming
• Leading workshops, requirements gathering/elicitation, documentation of business and functional requirements
• Developing and maintaining project plans, ensuring deliverables are completed on schedule with high quality
• Project management using different process improvement techniques
• Practical Experience of Agile, BABOK and BPMN
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder Management
• Managing change through inclusion, training and provision of information in the areas of business process and
technology
• Performed and managed User Acceptance Testing
• Validating desired business results
• Analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Project Mapping on MS Visio
• Knowledge of SAP FICO(R2/3), SAP BW, SAP SRM (eProcurement/eSource), Hyperion and Asset Management
• Hand on experience of Business Process Re-engineering Methodologies
• Client relationship management
• Team handling
Work History
Aug’15 – Dec’15 Business Analyst, Suntrix
• Facilitated multiple sessions to gather business requirements
• Designed and documented “To Be” process to determine the most effective sales operating model and workflows
attached
• Facilitated multiple workshops and brain mapping sessions to identify key pain points and strategic goal
• Prepared the Business Requirement Document
• Baselined metrics through deep dive into data source and cleaning up exercise
• Worked on obtaining signoff from various stakeholders
May’11 – April’15 Business Analyst, Barclays Bank PLC
• Manage end toend Business Analysis, Change Management and Project Management services for creating efficiencies.
• Identified process inefficiencies through gap analysis and worked towards creating potential efficiencies.
• Implemented user acceptance testing with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases.
• Use Lean and Agile approach.
• Managed end to end SAP data migration from R2 to R3 database.
• Managed testing cycles, including test plan creation, development of scripts, co-ordination of user acceptance testing
and successful signoff from all the stakeholders
• Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis
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• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Researched and resolved issues regarding the integrity of data flow into databases.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to see that they would meet changing business needs.
• Assessed the impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders.
• Delivered some key strategic projects.
• Conducted 6 knowledge sharing sessions per year to capture “Lessons Learned” and streamline the product
improvement process.
• Managed and organized KAIZEN workshops
• Developed a set of metrics derived from raw company data to track improvements in organizational efficiency.
May’09 – April’11 Business Analyst, Barclays Bank PLC
• Handle the Accounting, Reconciliation and Reporting of Fixed Assets.
• Maintaining daily accounts for fixed assets register and inventory, addition, disposal and transfer of assets.
• Prepare various Financial Reports as per the business need for management reporting.
• Review High level process documents for risks and ensure existence of controls (SOX or Non SOX)
• Liaise with the internal (Barclays Risk & Governance, India) and externalauditors (PWC, India & UK) to ensure SOX
Compliance (Sarbanes Oxley Act) to the financial process and INFOSEC requirements.
• Worked as the single point of contact for BCM activities.
Projects Undertaken
• Lead Functionalisation project:
o Creating new Operational Model based on various functions like HR, CRES, IT etc resulting into
streamlined operations, efficiency, effectiveness and better stakeholder management
o Liaising with Senior Management, Function Directors and VP of various divisions
o Involved cohesive work with Risk and Governance, Legal, HR, CRES and IT departments
o Managed daily conference calls to check the progress and manage challenges
o Managed implementation and progress in various phases applying Agile approach
o Worked on obtaining sign off from the CFO and various Cluster/Business representatives
o Also involved financial activity for the Sale & Leaseback program
o To achieve from assets disposals, reporting and communicating to senior management including the
bank Finance Director and Public Relations Department
• Project on integration of SAP system:
o The objective was to achieve one technology across the organization to create a common platform for
accounting and reconciliation, MI reporting, RACE and RAPID reporting, facilitating financial reports
o Managed implementation and progress in various phases applying Agile approach
o Performed and managed UAT
o Prepared Business Requirement Document
o Prepared various dashboards and decks to report to senior management
o Collaborative work with the IT teams based across India and Singapore
• Project on development & configuration:
o Development of workflow toallow two different system tosyncand communicate effectively to facilitate
financial reporting
o This involved development of various transaction codes and business queries in SAP
o Performed UAT
o Validate the result
o Cohesively worked with various teams
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• Formulated policy for all disposals activity
o Working collaboratively across teams, functions ensuring compliance with accounting standards
including teams of internal clients, project managers and suppliers
Developed a detailBusiness Intelligence data warehouse to enhance the accounting for property cost in
the tax computation
• Process improvement and cost cutting initiatives to robust error proofing mechanism
o Creation of a query and report within SAP system to facilitate automated monthly reconciliation of
General Ledger and Sub Ledger accounts and enhanced MI reporting
o Developed mapping of various accounts to enhance synchronization of data between two reporting
systems
o Performed and managed UAT
o Conducted training workshops to educate and familiarize team members with the process and
development
Accomplishments
Rewarded for Operational Excellence, Risk and Governance and Process Improvements
Setting up the Asset Register in SAP earlier maintained on Navision; led to upgradation and effective maintenance of
Asset Register
Successful Transition of process from one location to another
Process improvement and cost cutting initiatives by reducing Man-hours and workflow
Project on development & configuration of transaction codes in SAP to facilitate quick turnaround and efficiency
Project on Rationalisation of procedures & controls around the process
Lead Functionalisation project resulting into streamlined operations and transfer of £6bn asset base
Education
• Post-Graduation Diploma in Finance and Marketing, BULMIM, 2009
• Bachelors (Hons) Degree in Commerce, Delhi University, 2007
Personal Information
• Date of Birth : 14 January 1987
• Languages Known : English & Hindi
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