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Akshita Pradhan

IT Consultant

Summary

Innovative Senior Business Analyst known for delivering actionable insights and driving process improvements. Led cross-functional teams to streamline operations, resulting in significant cost reductions and improved efficiency. Excel at stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment and successful project outcomes.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

HCL Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2021 - Current
  • Currently working on GuideWire ClaimsCentre for Property and Auto Claims.
  • Extensively worked on implementation and support of Accenture Life Insurance Platform (ALIP) product suite with specialization in Product Configuration and support to Actuarial, data analytics and reporting for Life and Annuity products.
  • Worked on Deferred Variable Annuities, Immediate Annuities, Term Life
  • Gather Business Requirements from key client stakeholders which includes client's business team, compliance, product management & actuaries.
  • BRD documentation and coordination with all IT teams/external vendors
  • Understand business requirements and mapping the requirements-to-specification matrix (RSM)
  • Refine business requirements in collaboration with Development Product Owners
  • Analysis of business requirements related to Issue, Service and claims process of insurance lifecycle.
  • Development and implementation of product and business configuration changes while coordinating with onshore/nearshore/offshore teams.
  • Research technical nuances and configuration capabilities to implement features and user stories.
  • Configuring the Policy Management, Transaction, Disbursement and Termination processing screens by setting up the rules, page groups and workflows to meet product requirements.
  • Resolving issues faced by business users of the application, analyzing real defects, classifying them, estimating effort needed, designing the solution, configuring the changes and demonstrating changes to business users.
  • Redesigned Reinstatement process for a new product as per business requirements.

Business Development Assistant

Gemworth Pvt Ltd
Jaipur
05.2018 - 10.2019
  • Generated increased customer interest with innovative marketing strategies.
  • Utilised social media platforms for boosting company's online presence.
  • Fostered client loyalty through excellent communication and service skills.

Support Engineer

Pitney Bowes
Pune
02.2017 - 04.2018

Deliverables:
As a L1 Support Engineer:
· Support the operational environment that provides the company client facing applications and meets the requirements of service availability and recoverability.
· Coordinate, plan and perform application deployments.
· Routinely identify operational problems by observing and studying system architect, functionality and performance results.

As an L2 Support Engineer :
These deliverables are in addition to our role as L1 SE:
· Organize and facilitate outage events management activities such as outage status communication, problem determination activities and root cause analysis.
· Capture and report application availability metrics.
· Develop, maintain and operate automated application deployment scripts and software solutions which automate the traditional role of a system administrator or support engineers.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Finance

Symbiosis Institute of International Business
Pune
06.2019 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Technology -

Symbiosis Institute of Technology
Pune
06.2012 - 06.2016

Skills

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Certification

SAFe5 PO/PM

Accomplishments

    Delivery R&R Award for excellent performance in 2023 Q4

    Thumbs Up Award by Managers for expert handling of outages and for being an extremely dependable resource.

    GRAT Awards by peers for being responsible and dedicated to the work model of Pitney Bowes.

Timeline

SAFe5 PO/PM

09-2021

Senior Business Analyst

HCL Technologies
06.2021 - Current

Master of Business Administration - Finance

Symbiosis Institute of International Business
06.2019 - 06.2021

Business Development Assistant

Gemworth Pvt Ltd
05.2018 - 10.2019

Support Engineer

Pitney Bowes
02.2017 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Technology -

Symbiosis Institute of Technology
06.2012 - 06.2016
Akshita PradhanIT Consultant