Position: Senior business analyst
Category: Business Analyst
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

As a senior business analyst, I created highly-reliable requirements and coordinated the technical team through their implementation, tested and launched the changes into the product. Additionally I provided recommendations for improving the documentation process, which led to more efficient cross-team collaboration and better requirements traceability, found several important bugs in the system, made recommendations for their elimination.

As a business analyst, I developed a vision of the data structure of the new module for the fintech project.

As a product owner I managed the creation of a convenient and functional CRM system for the sales department of an investment company.

As an investment banker, the most noticeable deals I executed were two US DFC deals closed for our banking client in Ukraine - $16m raised in long-term debt for financing SME businesses in Ukraine. On the venture direction we raised $11m investment into a US venture cyber security firm.

In addition to private clients I also had experience of working on research projects for large global institutions, like FAO (2012) and USAID (2019).
I have more than 11 years of experience in the financial services industry and 4 years experience as an IT business analyst.
For 2 years I have been working as a senior business analyst in a large IT-outsourcing company on a project developing regulatory-analytical product for the banking industry. My responsibilities include: identifying regulatory requirements, transforming regulatory requirements into functional requirements, and then into solution requirements in the form of diagrams and decision tables, reading and making suggestions for changes in the code, writing pseudo-code if needed, creating test data, running the tests, interpreting the test results and adjusting the solution if necessary, updating documentation in JIRA/Confluence/Sharepoint/product documentation, communicating with all stakeholders to sync vision for best solution.
In my previous job, I worked for 4 months as a business analyst for a US fintech project for which I developed data structure and vision for a new module.
From 2019 to 2021, as a Product Owner, I led the development of a CRM system for my company's sales department. I developed a product roadmap, coordinated the collection of user requirements and needs, identified key product features, developed product design, tested the product before release, maintained requirements and coordinated product improvement.
I started my career in 2009 as an equity research analyst covering publicly-traded Ukrainian agriculture & food companies. Later I switched into sell side investment banking. There I widened my industry expertise with mining, energy, real estate & infrastructure, asset management, machinery, defense & aerospace, venture capital, banking & finance. I also went deeper into company management accounts, strategy creation and capital structure.
In 2014 I co-founded an investment advisory firm jointly with my American and British partners. My role was of Managing Partner, CEO. The deals I advised clients on include private equity placements, convertible bond arrangements, local bonds issues, Eurobond issues, debt fundraising from banks and IFIs, M&As, JVs, privatizations and venture capital investments.
From May to November 2020, I also worked as an advisor to the Chairman of the Space Agency of Ukraine on investment attraction.

I am looking for a job as a senior business analyst in an IT outsourcing / product company, preferably on a finance project.
I’m searching for a project related to finance or financial industry, either in IT-outsourcing or a product company. I prefer flexible schedule and remote work. I'm currently located in Europe.