Nasrin Karimi
Results-driven Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise banking transformation initiatives
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Results-driven Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise banking transformation initiatives across lending, loan origination, and core banking environments. Proven expertise leading requirements elicitation, business process analysis, stakeholder workshops, use case development, and Agile delivery for enterprise implementations supporting 20,000+ users across 2,100+ branches. Recognized for building strong client relationships, guiding cross-functional teams, and delivering business solutions that improve operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.
Experience
Independent Business Systems Consultant - Tejarat Bank - Remote
(2025-09)
- Lead requirements elicitation and business analysis for a Supply Chain Lending modernization initiative, translating business needs into functional specifications that enable faster supplier onboarding and expanded access to trade financing for corporate clients.
- Perform current-state analysis, impact assessments, and dependency analysis across integrated enterprise applications, using AI-assisted analysis to accelerate risk identification and improve requirements discovery.
- Lead business analysis for the modernization of an enterprise Loan Origination System (LOS), using AI-assisted analysis to streamline future-state process design and support solution validation, testing, and implementation readiness.
- Define business requirements for credit scoring and automated decisioning enhancements, using AI-assisted analysis to improve decision consistency, strengthen regulatory compliance, and support more efficient underwriting.
Business Analyst - Tecnet Inc. / BC Government - Victoria, BC
(2025-05 - 2025-08)
- Developed a Power Apps/SharePoint solution for the BC Legislative Assembly, gathering requirements, documenting SOPs and training materials, and coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Reduced incident volume by 20% by analyzing ServiceNow tickets and developing knowledge articles that improved self-service resolution across the BC Government.
- Facilitated AI and technology readiness assessments across multiple employee groups, identifying capability gaps and recommending training to support adoption.
- Mapped and standardized operational workflows using Visio and JIRA automation, improving service delivery efficiency across teams.
Business Systems Analyst - Tejarat Bank
(2020-03 - 2023-06)
- Analyzed integration requirements between Loan Origination, Core Banking, and downstream systems, ensuring consistent business rules and end-to-end data flow.
- Led operational readiness for the migration from legacy COBOL/UNIX banking systems to a modern integrated Core Banking platform, coordinating business, technical, and branch teams to validate readiness before go-live.
- Prepared project status updates and communicated risks, dependencies, and recommendations to project managers and senior stakeholders.
- Facilitated stakeholder workshops to elicit, analyze, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements, translating business needs into use cases, functional specifications, and solution designs.
- Performed current-state/future-state process modeling using BPMN, redesigning lending workflows and reducing loan processing time by 30%.
- Planned and delivered role-based business and technical training for branch users, operations, and technical teams ahead of LOS implementation, ensuring organizational readiness and adoption.
- Led UAT planning, business validation testing, and defect triage, ensuring delivered solutions met business requirements before deployment.
- Developed Power BI dashboards for lending performance and operational monitoring, improving reporting efficiency by 40%.
Business Systems Analyst - TIDDEV Company
(2017-08 - 2020-03)
- Led business analysis activities for enterprise Credit Scoring System enhancements, facilitating stakeholder workshops, defining future-state business processes, and increasing scoring accuracy by 25%.
- Supported project planning by estimating analysis effort, identifying dependencies, and contributing to release planning activities.
- Presented business requirements, solution options, implementation impacts, and project progress to senior stakeholders and executive sponsors to support decision-making.
- Developed and maintained Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) across the SDLC, improving testing coverage and delivery quality.
- Coordinated requirements, testing, and rollout across 2,000+ branches for Cheque System enhancements, ensuring compliance and consistent operations at scale.
- Led workshops with internal teams and external partners to elicit and document business and integration requirements, reducing requirement ambiguity across projects.
Immigration to Canada - Career Transition
(2023-06 - 2025-05)
Adapted professional experience to the Canadian technology market through Agile/Scrum certification, business analysis training, and volunteer service with the Canadian Red Cross.
Education
Master of Information Technology Management - Information Technology Management - Payam Nour University
Bachelor of Software Engineering - Software Engineering - Islamic Azad University
