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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

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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