Aruna Sharma
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategic tech business analyst with over 8 years of experience in data-driven transformation within risk, compliance, and financial domains. Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and engage stakeholders effectively. Expertise in delivering scalable solutions and AI-powered initiatives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Bangalore
09.2023 - Current
- Currently working on AI-driven RCSA use case implementation, automating risk assessment insights, which is expected to deliver substantial operational cost savings and reduce manual efforts by up to 60%, allowing risk professionals to focus on analysis and decision-making.
- Optimized multiple Risk Insite modules, reducing report generation time by 40%.
- Enhanced risk summaries and 5x5 matrix views for over 300 audit and compliance personnel.
- Contributed specialized knowledge in Open Pages applications, optimizing Risk, Control, Issue Management, auditing functions, and Production defects.
- Led automation and workflow upgrades, decreasing manual mapping efforts by 30% and increasing audit transparency.
- Implemented Control Risk Automation mapping initiative, achieving 60% reduction in monthly manual processes.
- Obtained AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate and AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate credentials to enhance cloud expertise.
Senior Business Analyst
CREDIT SUISSE
Pune
06.2021 - 09.2023
- Collaborated with over 100 stakeholders from different business units and jurisdictions to finalize the reporting requirements across the bank single-handedly.
- Launched a new reporting platform tool with 20+ new features, along with the development team, in a year, and managed a new team of 10 employees.
- Achieved a 40% cost reduction by reducing reporting templates and budget controls to improve prioritization of the department budget.
- Overhauled the obsolete legacy reporting tool, resulting in increased usability and reduced run-time performance by 35%.
- Performed extensive data analysis sourced from different data warehouse applications using SQL, Excel, and presented 20+ decks through visualization tools (OBIEE, Qlik Sense, Power BI) to stakeholders.
- Collaborated with different region-specific attorneys to perform the end-to-end legal process completion for multiple projects. e.g., LDPR/GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), SOX Compliance, audit activities, and met 100% delivery milestone timeline.
- Managed a cross-functional team of 10 in three locations (India, Switzerland, and the US), ranging from entry-level analysts to vice presidents, and collaborated with business development, data analysis, and operations.
Lead Business Analyst
INFOSYS
Sydney
02.2019 - 05.2021
- Enabled top Australian bank to maintain risk and regulatory compliances by facilitating six project releases over 2 years period.
- Partnered with Architect Team in understanding the SEPA and SWIFT Payment Message formats, its translations and Transaction monitoring against PEP/CTF, AML & Sanctions rules to decrease the false payment alert by 60%.
- Led requirement discussions to document, analyse and translate functional and non-functional business requirements into 7+ different project specifications such as BRD, FRD, SLA/OLA, NFR, Traceability matrix document for Real Time payment processing.
- Collaborated with Key stakeholders, Business BAs and Solution SMEs to finalize the requirements for migration of 5+ functionalities like Payments Screening, Customer Monitoring, Alert Generation & Case Management, Fraud and IFTI, from Detica to NetReveal for a major Australian bank.
- Facilitated knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions for six associates; onboarded and mentored all new associates for the project.
Business Analyst
INFOSYS
Pune
01.2018 - 02.2019
- Worked with the business and technical teams to analyze client's requirements, AML & Sanctions rules and process through Document Analysis, workshops, workflow analysis.
- Analysed the banks historical data (<10M) and worked with multiple source systems and ETL to fetch the data and used outputs to guide the global Customer Risk assessment model to reduced the risk rate by 40%.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, user stories, workflow / process diagrams, data flow / data model diagrams.
- Assisted the Product Owner with Backlog grooming, user story development, project scope documentation and prioritization and improved the team engagement rate by 25%.
System Engineer
INFOSYS
Pune
12.2016 - 12.2017
- Headed NetReveal (v0.7) & Detica (v0.6) Environment management and Release work.
- Reduced operational cost by 25% through facilitating effective coordination between offshore and onsite teams, and third-party vendors for cloud migration of code changes to ensure zero-defect delivery of an application.
- Conducted 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client's needs are met.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Lucknow, U.P.01.2016
Skills
Domain skills: Risk and Control Assessment, Operational Risk, AML, KYC, Sanctions, PEP/CTF, Regulatory Reporting, Transaction Monitoring, Data analytics, and Project Management
Technical skills: SQL, Unix, Linux Shell Scripting, DevOps, and Python
Tools: IBM OpenPages, Cognos, Power BI, NetReveal, OBIEE, JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio,
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (AWS)
- AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate (AWS)
- Google Data Analytics Certification (Coursera)
- Google Business Intelligence Certification (Coursera)
- Global Agile Certification (Infosys)
- Oracle Database Certification (Infosys)
Timeline
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
09.2023 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
CREDIT SUISSE
06.2021 - 09.2023
Lead Business Analyst
INFOSYS
02.2019 - 05.2021
Business Analyst
INFOSYS
01.2018 - 02.2019
System Engineer
INFOSYS
12.2016 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Technology -
UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
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