Paul CHIPALO - AMBCS
BUSINESS ANALYST
LONDON
Summary
An adaptable, resourceful and enthusiastic Business Analyst whom has extensive experience and a wide level of general knowledge in the software development lifecycle, requirements elicitation & analysis and all around end-to-end product solution design. Excellent communication skills gained throughout my career have played a major part in being able to communicate with stakeholders of all levels effectively. Previous experience in finance and professional qualifications have reinforced my ability to identify and evaluate options for improving systems, elaborate and define requirements, and ensure the effective implementation and use of information systems in line with the needs of the business.
Overview
3
3
years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
The Office Group
London
07.2019 - Current
- This current project relates to the update of the core finance system moving from a legacy version of Microsoft Navision ("NAV") to SAP Business ByDesign ("SAP ByD").
- Understand Finance requirements for financial, management, core, and ad-hoc reporting.
- Review SAP ByD standard reports and understand if Finance outputs could be reconfigured to work with these standard reports.
- Using the SAP ByD "Business Analytics" work centre design additional reports required by the Finance department.
- Help design, build and operate robust and scalable SAP ByD in-system dashboards and visualisations.
- Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Manage Stakeholders.
- Defining the ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ process.
- Gap Analysis.
- Ensure Finance users are adequately prepared to use the new reports.
- Continual support in the period post go-live.
- Review of the training materials and working with the business Systems Trainer to ensure Finance team is adequately trained for the new reporting.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
- Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver software and applications according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality.
- Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial interests.
Junior Business Analyst
BMB
London
09.2018 - 07.2019
- BMB (Beattie McGuiness Bungay) Media Agency Worked on the implementation of a brand-new finance system for an 11 strong finance team.
- Was responsible and involved in the elicitation, analysis, and validation of requirements.
- I was also involved in identifying and translating client requirements into business cases, project briefs and high-level designs using mind maps, class diagrams and use cases during the systems life cycle.
- Involved in producing the ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ business process.
- Exposed to and heavily involved in GAP analysis.
- Monitoring all change request for the new finance software.
- Conducted interviews and workshops for main stakeholders.
- Produced use case diagrams.
- Ran requirements through filters to attain validation.
- Reviewed all functional and non-functional requirements for new finance software.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
- Evaluated business requirements, leveraging information to forecast costs relating to hardware, software and consulting.
- Evaluated consistency and importance of different business intelligence data against needs to determine optimal courses of action.
09.2016 - 08.2018
- Senior Accounts Payable – Somerset House Trust.
- Review and verify invoices and check requests.
- Involved in testing for implementation of Access dimensions finance system.
- Super user for project of implementation of Access dimensions finance system.
- Sort & code invoices.
- Enter & upload invoices onto system.
- Track expenses and process expense claims.
- Prepare and perform BACS runs.
- Post transactions to journals, ledgers and other records.
- Reconcile accounts payable transactions.
- Prepare analysis of accounts.
- Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
- Maintain vendor files.
- Correspond with suppliers and respond to enquiries.
- Assist with month end closing.
- Provide supporting documentation for audits.
08.2015 - 09.2016
- (Temp role): Accounts Payable – Bright A Blind.
- Review and verify invoices and check requests.
- Sort , code & match invoices to purchase orders.
- Enter & upload invoices onto system.
- Prepare BACS runs.
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
- Correspond with suppliers and respond to enquiries.
Accounts Assistant
07.2014 - 07.2015
- Barnard Marcus.
- Assisting the Senior Accounts Assistant with entering purchase invoices (average 35 per day).
- Leading on the debt collection process contacting occupants and landlords.
- Issuing monthly customer statements.
- Allocating direct debits and payments to customer accounts.
- Calculating closing and balancing on a daily and monthly basis.
- Filing receipts.
- Running and reviewing Aged Debtors reports weekly for team review.
- Running the monthly sales statements.
- Producing and sending credit notes.
- Preparing clients move in moneys invoices ( average value of £3000 per invoice).
- Monthly invoicing for occupied units and managed properties.
- Credit control for aged debtors and rent arrears.
- Processing expenses for lettings and sales negotiators ( petrol, parking expenses ect).
- Assisting with reconciliations for companies accounts in our region ( 7 branches in our area so working between 7 bank accounts).
- Billing council tax and service charge back to landlords.
Sales Ledger
Input Media
08.2013 - 06.2014
- Producing sales invoices from job sheets in the company’s finance package (average invoice value of £2500).
- Distributing invoices to clients and ensuring the Sales Log is updated (average 25-30 per day).
- Assisting the Senior Accounts Assistant with entering purchase invoices ( average of 50 per day).
- Purchasing office equipment & supplies with company credit card.
- Leading on the debt collection process contacting clients.
- Running and reviewing Aged Debtors reports weekly for team review.
- Running the monthly sales statements.
- Managing the daily Petty cash reconciliation and analysis.
- Assisting with monthly timesheet analyses.
- Producing and sending credit notes.
- Bank runs depositing cash.
Education
Practitioner Certificate - Requirements Engineering
BCS - The Chartered Institute of IT
London 04.2021 - 04.2021
Practitioner Certificate - Foundation in Business Analysis
BCS - Chartered Institute of IT
London 04.2021 - 04.2021
Bachelor of Arts - International Business & Globalisation
DeMontfort University
Leicester 09.2010 - 05.2013
Skills
Business process mapping
undefinedAccomplishments
- Experience in Access Dimensions & aCloud scanning software ACHIEVEMENTS.
- Awarded with a 2:1 grade in my degree International Business & Globalisation.
- Elected School Council representative at Wimbledon College.
- Former member of the DeMontfort ACS (African and Caribbean Society).
- 6th Form Prefect at Wimbledon College.
- Completed walk for life in 2009.
Affiliations
BCS - The chartered institute of I.T
Timeline
Practitioner Certificate - Requirements Engineering
BCS - The Chartered Institute of IT
04.2021 - 04.2021
Practitioner Certificate - Foundation in Business Analysis
BCS - Chartered Institute of IT
04.2021 - 04.2021
Business Analyst
The Office Group
07.2019 - Current
Junior Business Analyst
BMB
09.2018 - 07.2019
09.2016 - 08.2018
08.2015 - 09.2016
Accounts Assistant
07.2014 - 07.2015
Sales Ledger
Input Media
08.2013 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Arts - International Business & Globalisation
DeMontfort University
09.2010 - 05.2013
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