Lead Business Analyst Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead business analyst position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for tracking, and reporting, and support solution development, including the design and development of reporting solutions using Crystal Reports, SharePoint, Business Objects, and Excel.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Continuous Improvement experience, in particular previous experience with providing insight for reduce costs through continuous process improvement (LEAN, DMAIC, Six Sigma) methodologies
• Microsoft Office, Visio, SQL, MicroStrategy or similar tool
• Technical integration experience and proficiency, inbound and outbound, with advanced financial, human capital management, and workforce management systems
• Functional configuration of packaged application to meet business needs
• Goal-oriented approach to projects requiring long-term commitment
• Experience with System Administration processes and End User Support within Oracle Cloud
• Comfortable facilitating meetings and interviews with senior executive
• Understanding of the NPPD organization would be ideal

I am excited to be applying for the position of lead business analyst. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for pipeline status reports on a weekly basis using excel spreadsheets and CACI CES database.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience of working on Mortgage projects and programmes
• Experience working in a Scrum Team (desirable, not mandatory)
• Experience in accurately gathering, translating, and documenting user requirements/designs to serve as functional specifications from which technical solutions can be developed
• Experience in creating business requirements, use cases, workflows and documentation
• The Point of Contact for the project for anything related to Functional Requirements
• Extremely knowledgeable of industry standards as relates to Ticketing and EMD
• Extremely knowledgeable in the GDS general features and functions
• Good understanding of the other systems that the Ticketing and EMD products interact with

I would like to submit my application for the lead business analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for development and implementation expertise in all aspects of the current SP platform and the associated Microsoft SQL database server.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Leading business and user requirements gathering through analysis of the project goals and the client's digital ecosystem, background research, and working sessions/interviews with stakeholders
• Leading the creation, communication and management of business and user requirements documentation using industry and company templates
• Leading creation of detailed functional specifications that document the agreed interface behavior for all types of users of the system and any back-end business rules or data requirements
• Supporting the account team in managing client stakeholders by providing documentation within agreed timeframes and consolidating open questions/issues for communication with clients
• Participating in client walkthroughs of documentation or live demonstrations of working functionality and capturing feedback
• Supporting the development team by communicating requirements and functional specifications responding to requests for clarification and deeper analysis
• Partnering with the QA team by reviewing and providing feedback on test cases, logging and triaging defects keeping documentation up to date as discrepancies are identified
• Supporting the release manager(s) to review and approve finished development work before release into production

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead business analyst position.

Previously, I was responsible for maintenance of existing BI solutions - Aruna, Performance Dashboard, SSIS packages, SSAS Cubes, SSRS/Excel MI reports.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Exposure to MS Office products like Visio and Excel
• Good knowledge of database & reporting technologies/systems
• Well versed with concepts around mutual funds, stock markets, securities – equity, fixed income and derivatives
• Knowledge of fund accounting, fund performance, attribution & risk measures is desirable
• Experience with Retail related technologies such as Point-of-sale, employee portal, sales tools, retail store management platforms
• Experience with Financial Services or payment related technologies such as tender, authorization, credit application, gift card, EMV or other PCI-related systems
• Experience with Secondary markets or reverse logistics systems such as product returns, resale, warehouse management, product logistics and refurbishment
• Have strong analytical and communication skills, to liaise with business stake holders and convert concept into Business Functional Requirements

I would like to submit my application for the lead business analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for financial and statistical reporting, ad hoc analysis, PowerPoint presentations and a wide variety of other reports and statistics as required.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience working within a collaborative environment and taking responsibility for our contribution to delivery
• Experience with Mantas and Actimize (beneficial)
• Flexibility in order to attend local time zone meetings with the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific teams
• Ensure accurate conversion of the functional specifications into technical design and be the subject matter expert on the requirements
• Prepare UAT scenarios, provide input into test scripts preparation and also provide guidance to end users through the same process
• Support Java/database developers to develop and customize the user requirements, system workflow and database structures to meet new and changed business requirements
• Work closely with the Team Lead and other Team members to ensure that the changes being developed are fit for purpose
• Client, Trade, Reference data knowledge, good knowledge of technical architecture and functionality of applications used to support the business, a strong analytical and logical approach to systems design and development