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Laertis Metsis

Senior IT Business Analyst
Marousi

Summary

Perceptive Senior Business Analyst with 6+ years driving successful business processes for Banking, Portfolio Servicing & Customs sector, particularly in large-scale, complex, and mission-critical projects.

Dedicated professional versed in cutting-edge business analysis techniques such as Agile Analysis methodologies and the Scrum framework. Ready to leverage wide-ranging skills to design innovative business analysis procedures for companies' unique operational needs.

Solid organizational, problem-solving, attention-to-detail, and communication skills, which have proven instrumental in previous engagements. Additionally, exhibited a resilient and versatile character, enabling to adapt to challenging and dynamic project environments.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior IT Business Analyst

Netcompany-Intrasoft
03.2020 - Current

Major national customs projects, namely HMRC/UK Customs, Greek Customs, Tunisian Customs and Jordan Customs.

  • Involve with requirements elicitation
  • Participate and/or lead workshops with customer, in order to gather business requirements and perform fit/gap analysis
  • Produce gap-analysis / elaborate and document AS-IS & TO-BE business process specifications (BPMN)
  • Elaborate and draft functional & non-functional specifications (UML, Epics/User-Stories)
  • Prepare, plan and prioritize project backlog
  • Day-to-day support of project team and customer/business users
  • Participate in implementation of configuration, parameterization, and customization of software modules
  • Coordinate with developers' team for software customizations
  • Participate and/or lead User Acceptance Test (UAT), support activities and act as point of contact for Customer’s Users
  • Act as liaison between customer stakeholders and communicate issues raised by Customer to respective technical teams
  • Prepare and deliver demos & trainings
  • Involve with incident & change management
  • Support IT Project Manager to follow-up on deadlines

Business Systems Interface Advisor

QQuant Master Servicer S.A.
10.2018 - 03.2020
  • Acting as liaison between business users and technical teams by planning, conducting and directing analysis of complex business needs to be supported by relevant systems.
  • Analyzing required changes, preparing specifications, developing supporting documentation and communicating to both internal/external teams for review and approval.
  • Managing implementation/ testing processes, preparation and reviewing test scenarios, participation in testing phase where needed.
  • Fully monitoring planning and execution of tasks in projects when acting as Product Owner, reporting and escalating issues along with proposing alternative solutions.
  • Providing exceptional service to both internal end-users and external vendors by logging, tracking and resolving incidents, responding to and following up on queries and issues based on criticality.
  • Managing day to day Systems Monitoring and Administration.
  • Collaborating with Business Process Analysts team to apply systems abilities to processes, participating in development and review operational manuals and procedure documents.
  • Managing vendors regarding incidents, new developments and delivery dates.
  • Conducting system training to internal teams.

Operations Analyst

Qualco S.A., Portfolio Management & Analytics Services Dpt.
11.2016 - 10.2018
  • Monitor & Support of QCR application everyday operation.
  • Assure business continuity through the system.
  • Optimize application parameterization and software configuration according to client needs, while taking into consideration all aspects as
    regulation, business needs, functional limitations.
  • Analyze medium scale client projects and propose best approach & system configuration.
  • Perform QA checks to assure that already existing and new application features are working properly, both in technical & business terms.
  • Prepare Business Requirement Documents, in order to best describe both client business need and technical approach.
  • Debt Collection Agencies on boarding in QCR application.
  • Monitor and support DCAs at daily integration, based on Integration Specification Document
  • Sign-off Business Requirements/Technical Specifications Documents.
  • Plan, prepare and monitor User Acceptance Test and execute Business Scenarios.
  • Perform UAT Integration & Business scenarios in order to assure system operation.
  • Monitor, prioritize and deliver clients requests.
  • Perform training sessions in new or existing features of the application.

Junior Project Manager

EFG Eurobank Financial Planning Services S.A.,Remedial Management Implementation & Monitoring Dpt.
12.2010 - 10.2016
  • Mortgage & Consumer Portfolio Segmentation and Treatment based on: Decision Trees, Queues, Strategies of QCR application
  • Participation in working group on systemic merge of ProtonBank, TBank and NTTBank with Eurobank.
  • Participation in business analysis of merged portfolios, in order to ensure business continuity.
  • Business analysis and identification of optimal implementation approach regarding portfolio management, while taking into consideration aspects of legislation.

Financial Advisor

EFG Eurobank Financial Planning Services S.A.
02.2009 - 11.2010
  • Used scripted conversation prompts to convey current account information and obtain payments.
  • Achieved performance goals on consistent basis.
  • Maintained high volume of calls and met demands of busy and productive group.
  • Worked in call center environment handling manual and automatically dialed outbound calls.
  • Resolved customer disputes and disagreements through professional, calm communication to find mutually beneficial solutions.
  • Responded to customer inquiries and provided detailed account information.
  • Deployed automated system tracking and skip tracing to locate hard-to-find, re-located customers.
  • Worked with customer to create debt repayment plan based on current financial condition.

Customer Service - Bank Teller

EFG Eurobank Ergasias A.E.
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • Assisted customers with setting up or closing accounts, completing loan applications and signing up for new services.
  • Answered customer inquiries regarding account balances, transaction history, services charges and interest rates.
  • Place customer orders for checks and bank credit/debit cards issuance.
  • Sold and cross-sold bank products to new and existing customers.
  • Maintain supply of cash and currency and turn in excess cash to head teller.
  • Reconcile cash drawer by proving cash transactions at the end of shift
  • Turned in excess cash to maintain drawer security

Education

MBA - Engineering & Economic Systems

National Technical University
Athens
03.2010 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Science - Economics

University of Piraeus
Piraeus
09.2003 - 02.2008

High School Diploma -

High School of Athens 61st
Athens
01.2000 - 06.2003

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Scrum Framework

Workflow Analysis

Operations analysis

Functional Specifications

User Acceptance Testing

User Stories

Use Case Specifications

Process Flow Diagrams

UML Diagrams

Business process modeling

XML Schema Definition (XSD)

Problem Solving

Analytical & Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Software

IBM Rational Software Architect

Camunda BPMN / DMN Process Modeler

TIBCO Software

Microsoft Visio

Drawio (diagramsnet)

Atlassian Jira

Atlassian Confluence

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Teams, Slack

TortoiseSVN

Core Banking Systems: Altamira, AS-400

Loan Management and Servicing Systems: Qualco Collection Recoveries, Qualco Loan Manager

Certification

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) https://www.credly.com/badges/a2e2d2fe-1c4c-46ae-828a-12f76e53575c/public_url

Interests

Swimming, Cooking, Basketball, Traveling

Work Availability

monday
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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) https://www.credly.com/badges/a2e2d2fe-1c4c-46ae-828a-12f76e53575c/public_url

11-2022

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) https://www.credly.com/go/5vx2VgXvZszkXhY4litQ9g

09-2022

Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA-AAC) https://images.credential.net/embed/2pjvkf1k.png

03-2022

Senior IT Business Analyst

Netcompany-Intrasoft
03.2020 - Current

Business Systems Interface Advisor

QQuant Master Servicer S.A.
10.2018 - 03.2020

Operations Analyst

Qualco S.A., Portfolio Management & Analytics Services Dpt.
11.2016 - 10.2018

Junior Project Manager

EFG Eurobank Financial Planning Services S.A.,Remedial Management Implementation & Monitoring Dpt.
12.2010 - 10.2016

MBA - Engineering & Economic Systems

National Technical University
03.2010 - 10.2012

Financial Advisor

EFG Eurobank Financial Planning Services S.A.
02.2009 - 11.2010

Customer Service - Bank Teller

EFG Eurobank Ergasias A.E.
01.2008 - 01.2009

Bachelor of Science - Economics

University of Piraeus
09.2003 - 02.2008

ECDL Certificate: Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation, Information & Communication

05-2003

High School Diploma -

High School of Athens 61st
01.2000 - 06.2003
Laertis MetsisSenior IT Business Analyst