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Swarna Bindu Biswas

Business And Process Analyst
Pune,Maharashtra

Summary

Experienced Business Analyst successful at responding to shifting business needs and priorities in systematic and effective way. Well-versed in implementation of operational assessments and conducting functional requirements analysis for businesses of all sizes. Quantitative expert with exceptional speed in analysis of quarterly and annual reports and providing comprehensive syntheses.

Experienced Business Analyst offering 11years of Insurance industry success. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision making.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

Allianz Technology India
Pune, Maharashtra
10.2019 - Current
    • Led cross-functional teams of million dollar transformation project to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes. Managed scrum teams of 10 people of different skill set.
    • Analyzed key business resources to confirm that business results are feasible to maximum business scenarios
    • Managed key stakeholders to ensure smooth transformation of business processes
    • Managed team of business analyst across business models successfully which confirmed action on backlogs as required
    • Acted as functional architect for Payments, GL Transition and Agent Commission modules. Also support for Reinsurance and Product Development Area
    • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
    • Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
    • Exercised critical thinking to resolve manual error in data transfer
    • Worked one-on-one with clients to improve business specifications

Business Analyst Specialist

Allianz Technology India
Pune, Maharashtra
06.2015 - 10.2019
  • Evaluated consistency and importance of different business data against needs to determine optimal courses of action.
  • Understanding of current functional process at client's end elicitation through various BA techniques
  • Documenting FRD, Prototypes, Use Cases to highlight stakeholder requirements better and helps in estimation. Created over 50 BRD and Prototypes. Also managed to create more than 500 Sprint zero Demands out of stakeholder discussion.
  • Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results. Assets created are regularly used by various key business stakeholders including ERT models, Prototypes and Swim Lanes
  • Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to align with changing business needs
  • Identified Overall and Throughput and Resource process efficiencies through gap analysis and outlined sensible solutions
  • Created workflow diagrams and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines
  • Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
  • Assisted in planning of Manual software and system testing efforts. Supported and reviewed TOM
  • Estimated business requirements, leveraging information to estimate costs and efforts via estimation tools like MUSCOW
  • Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver software and applications according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality.
  • Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements. Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial interests
  • Completed 32 PDUs required for CBAP certification

Assistant Operations Manager

ICICI Prudential Private Limited
Mumbai, Maharashtra
11.2009 - 05.2015
  • Spearheaded daily staff meetings to identify improvement strategies, discuss policy updates and facilitate open communication. Helped team members maintain business professionalism by coaching each on methods for delivering exceptional service to every customer. Developed productive, profitable and achievement-oriented working environments for employees. Taught employees how to collaborate on daily job tasks and achieve service targets.
  • Generated operational reports for management on Daily and monthly schedule. Evaluated current operational strategies and recommend improvements. Managed operational process like Medical and non medical Data Entry and Customer Communication, Rural policies, Branch queries and external audit.
  • Vendor Management: Onboarding by liaisoning with Product, Legal and CCU and Audit. Managing of Daily targets. Proper payment confirmation with support from HR support team. Conducting training and assessments at office or vendor premises for updating latest norms regularly (Quarterly or half yearly)
  • Product and process guideline: Coordinating with product team for new product launch and update current systems as per new products. Documenting instructions from IRDA for current process change and implementing them with people responsible. Inter Departmental coordination with UW, BSG, product department for rules, product and process norms
  • Hind-sighting of UW processes by random and selective sampling based on UW limits. UW limits are increased or decreased for specific users based on hind-sighting reports. Coordinating with Internal audit team
  • Matching of RI ceding data with UW policies and highlighting mismatch data to RI team. This was done for both Facultative and Treaty ceding. Publishing MIS for same. Scrutinizing all applications received through online or offline channels and selecting lives which can be insured. Accepting insurance policies based on financial and medical parameters
  • Processed over 100 UW data (Non-Medical/Medical/Hind-sighting) daily. Managed up to 7 different processes as Assistant Manager

Education

Bachelor's in Insurance And Risk Management (BIRM) - Insurance And Risk Management

West Bengal University of Technology (MAKAUT)
Kolkata
06.2005 - 05.2008

12th STD - Commerce

St. Xavier's Institution
Kolkata
06.2003 - 05.2005

10th STD - Science

St. Xavier's Institution
Kolkata
06.2001 - 05.2003

Skills

    Business process mapping, Predictive Modelling

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Certification

Executive Program in Insurance and Risk Management

Work Availability

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Accomplishments

Accomplishment Summary: Swarna Bindu Biswas

With over 15 years of progressive experience in business analysis and process optimization, Swarna Bindu Biswas has established herself as a high-impact professional driving innovation and efficiency in the insurance and financial services domain. She combines deep domain expertise with technological agility to deliver strategic and digital transformation projects across global insurance operations.

Key Career Accomplishments
  • Business Transformation Leader: Spearheaded major process reengineering initiatives at Allianz and ICICI Prudential, achieving up to 30% reduction in processing time through lean methodologies, automation, and digital payment workflows.
  • AI & Automation Innovator: Actively contributed to the adoption of AI-driven solutions such as OCR, NLP, and RPA in claims processing, fraud detection, and customer experience. Skilled in prompt engineering, conversational AI, and the use of tools like Power BI and ChatGPT for generating actionable insights.
  • Strategic Change Agent: As a Local Change Authority at Allianz, played a pivotal role in governance and approval of change requests, ensuring minimal risk and high-quality delivery across SAP Finance modules and stakeholder engagements.
  • Exceptional Business Analyst: Delivered more than 100+ stakeholder requirement gathering sessions using interviews, workshops, prototyping, and traceability matrices, translating complex business needs into comprehensive BRDs, wireframes, and user stories.
  • Cross-functional Project Management: Managed Scrum teams of up to 10 members, delivering enterprise-grade solutions with robust JIRA-based dashboards and sprint metrics. Oversaw project budgets, timelines, and vendor partnerships across multiple geographies.
  • Expert in SAP-Finance & UAT: Hands-on with SAP FICO modules (GL/AP/AR), contributed to financial reporting enhancements, vendor onboarding, and test plan execution with full-cycle UAT and regression testing in dynamic environments.
  • Skilled Trainer & Mentor: Conducted training for 500+ professionals on business processes, tools, and transformation frameworks, demonstrating strong leadership in capability development and change adoption.

Emerging Strength: AI Enthusiast & Prompt Engineer

Swarna has embraced her passion for artificial intelligence by engaging in continuous learning through platforms like Coursera and Google AI. She has effectively applied prompt engineering techniques in enterprise environments to improve documentation quality, automate requirement analysis, and enhance customer support processes.

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Bengali
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

05-2021

Lead Business Analyst

Allianz Technology India
10.2019 - Current

Business Analyst Specialist

Allianz Technology India
06.2015 - 10.2019

Assistant Operations Manager

ICICI Prudential Private Limited
11.2009 - 05.2015

Executive Program in Insurance and Risk Management

02-2009

Bachelor's in Insurance And Risk Management (BIRM) - Insurance And Risk Management

West Bengal University of Technology (MAKAUT)
06.2005 - 05.2008

12th STD - Commerce

St. Xavier's Institution
06.2003 - 05.2005

10th STD - Science

St. Xavier's Institution
06.2001 - 05.2003
Swarna Bindu BiswasBusiness And Process Analyst