Aaron McCloskey
Senior Business Analyst
Derry
Summary
I am a Senior Business Analyst with over 11 years of experience working across diverse sectors, I bring a proven track record of driving pivotal projects to success. At Verison1, I've consistently spearheaded end-to-end project involvement, from orchestrating workshops to seamless design and delivery phases. I am an expert in business analysis, gathering intricate requirements, managing stakeholders, and applying innovative problem-solving methodologies to tackle complex challenges head-on. My robust interpersonal skills have consistently fostered collaborative environments, ensuring alignment with project objectives at every turn.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
Version 1
03.2020 - Current
- Version 1 delivers IT services and solutions to drive customer success. I have worked in a range of challenging sectors from Pubic sector to Financial services, showcasing adaptability as Business Analyst.
- Lead cross-functional teams through comprehensive business analysis, defining project scope, and strategies to achieve objectives.
- Orchestrate workshops with stakeholders to extract requirements and garner feedback for solution design. This collaborative approach ensures stakeholder alignment with project goals.
- Translate complex requirements into actionable User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, facilitating seamless communication between business users and development teams.
- Work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications.
- Manage stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
- Use process modelling methodologies and tools, to drive optimizationand improvement initiatives.
- Monitor project progress and conducted regular status meetings to identify and address potential risks and issues.
Business Analyst
Funds-Axis
11.2017 - Current
- Responsible for the delivery of entire Life Cycle of a range of live projects relating to new client take-on and existing client changes
- Analyse and document project progress, implement changes and new developments onto live client environments
- Ensure timely implementation of features and deployments by Development team in Sprints
- Carry out User Acceptance Testing on all releases and developments
- Interpret business needs, including identifying and modelling process, data structure and business rules requirements
- Gathering of the project details and requirements, including writing User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Participate in daily Scrum Demos and updates with Developers, Product Owners and Project Managers
- Scoping documents, reports and validation documents for the clients upon request
- Raise bugs or issues accordingly with Quality Assurance Lead and work to resolve
- Significant communication required to represent a number of stakeholders including clients and internal colleagues.
Business Analyst
Vela Trading Technologies
03.2017 - 11.2017
- Worked within Market Data Modelling department; the role required me to design and development Market Data Feeds in order to satisfy the requirements of clients
- Used Confluence to document new or changes to the product while working closely with Project Managers and Developers to implement features successfully and on schedule
- Development of Vela Trading Technologies Market Data Model to include new technologies and assets
- Analysed the impact of changes to Financial Regulation (MiFID II) on products of Vela working to find a solution to implement
- Provision of financial market data content expertise to the teams across the Vela Trading Technologies organisation
- Support for the on-boarding of all new market data venues required by feed handlers, market gateways and other products
- Development of processes and tools to enhance the quality and efficiency of market data management within Vela Trading Technologies
- Participate in Scrums with Project Manager and Developers to provide updates on the status of ongoing projects.
Operations Analyst
Citi
12.2015 - 03.2017
- Responsible for payment of all income derived from equity and fixed income products.
- Ensure that all payment and internal deadlines are met, relevant and payable items are investigated, narrated and satisfactorily resolved to achieve settlement.
- Participate in UAT Testing for the replacement of a business critical application.
Operations Analyst
BNP Paribas
11.2014 - 12.2015
- Liaise with the processing team in Lisbon closely ensuring all client payments has been successfully processed while working to strict cut of times and efficiently solving issues with payments by end of day.
- Report and consult payment issues with clients to ensure payments receive best possible outcome.
Reconciliations Placement
Allied Irish Bank (Dublin)
09.2012 - 09.2013
- Placement in account reconciliation, role involved monitoring and completed Reconciliations using Sunguard Intellimatch on designated accounts held within the company
Education
Business Information Technology -
Queens University Belfast
Belfast, BFS 01.2010 - 04.2014
Skills
Business Process Mapping
Requirements Gathering
Stakeholder Management
Agile Methodology
Software Development Lifecycle
Project Management
Product Development
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis
Interpersonal Communication
Analytical Skills
User Acceptance Testing
JIRA
Confluence
Azure DevOps
Dynamics 365
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Project Documentation
Websites
References
- Available upon request
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
Version 1
03.2020 - Current
Business Analyst
Funds-Axis
11.2017 - Current
Business Analyst
Vela Trading Technologies
03.2017 - 11.2017
Operations Analyst
Citi
12.2015 - 03.2017
Operations Analyst
BNP Paribas
11.2014 - 12.2015
Reconciliations Placement
Allied Irish Bank (Dublin)
09.2012 - 09.2013
Business Information Technology -
Queens University Belfast
01.2010 - 04.2014