Waheed Rehman

Over the past two decades, my extensive experience as a business analyst has not only honed my skills but also ignited my enthusiasm for instigating beneficial transformations and leaving a significant imprint. I am eager to further utilize my expertise and insights to assist companies in overcoming obstacles, capitalizing on prospects, and reaching their long-term goals in the future.

Business Analyst Specialist – Scotiabank, Toronto

(Feb 2011 – Present)

• Elicited requirements for the project through workshops, user shadowing, interviews, review of existing processes, etc. 
• Collaborated with stakeholders to create details requirements documents. 
• Provided presentations to business stakeholders to highlight solutions and improvements.
• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications. 
• Developed conversion and implementation plans and strategies to support system configurations.
• Performed data analysis to develop data extracts, data loads as well as reporting solutions for business users.
• Document and perform IT Audits on financial and Investment systems Quarterly to comply with company policies and standards.
• Administered, Configured, and Support Infor Systems.
• SME and provide support on applications that include Infor Sun Accounting, Infor QA, Infor FSM, Infor Form Designer, Infor Report Designer, knowledge of Infor ION, Frontier Recon, Clarity Forecast and Budgeting system, Scotia EDI payments, iFAST and Scotia Positive Pay payments, CheqXpress application, Cognos Reporting, Crystal reporting, and Actuate reporting tools using SQL and Oracle databases.
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• Worked on SQL and TSQL databases for Infor Systems, Clarity Planning and Budgeting system, and Fiserv Frontier Recon (CheckFree) system. 
• Support Internal and external IT Audits on finance systems.
• Support Finance users to complete Period End, Quarter End, and Year-end processes.
• Experienced in investment portfolio systems.
• Worked on PL\SQL - Oracle databases for Capital Market systems such as Charles River (Order Management), SimCorp Dimension, and Mpower. 
• Completed several projects and automated several internal processes through required documentation and delivery of functional and reporting capabilities. 
• Exceeded quarterly and annual goals.

(Feb 2006 – Feb 2011)

• Worked with business stakeholders to understand business requirements.
• Liaise with various stakeholders to clarify and assess requirements thereby leading to innovative business solutions. 
• Estimated timelines necessary to complete requirements, ensuring that operations run smoothly, and deadlines are met promptly.
• Performed Analyst services either independently and/or collaboratively within the team to a variety of clients internal and external. 
• Participated in team discussions, and represented the team in internal discussions with stakeholders as needed.
• Identified applications or business process problems and recommended solutions and strategies to resolve the issues.
• Successfully upgraded Infor Sun Accounting and InforQA finance systems to comply with business standards and policies.
• Worked with the Investment Portfolio Management business team to improve the reconciliation process using the Frontier Recon system.
• Conducted business process reviews and/or walkthrough sessions to facilitate system changes and improvements to support reporting requirements.
• Effectively reviewed and thoroughly tested the inherent functionality in the in-house Crystal, Actuate, and Cognos Reporting modules.
• Supported, maintained, and expedited the delivery of quarterly and semi-annual reports and data.
• Contributed to the process of database improvement across various analytic and database tools.
• Developed and built strong, relationships with internal customers.
• Administered and supported multiple systems within in finance department.
• Performed IT Audit on Infor systems, and Investment portfolio systems.

(Feb 2000 – Feb 2006)

• Administered multiple business applications and provided support to the business line, daily. 
• Worked with project teams to align and Implement Wealth Management systems as per company policies.
• Audit business applications on a monthly, Quarterly, and Annual basis.
• Documented data flow design documents and developed interlink systems charts.
• Executed process improvement by organizing the documentation of procedures to ensure adherence to controls and mitigation of unnecessary risk
• Efficiently managed and monitored system cycles. 
• Worked with the Production services team on overnight cycles to ensure systems were updated for the next business day.

Applied for Associate Science (Computer Hardware Technology), 1996

Bachelor of Computer Science Technology, University of Karachi, 1993

Development courses

Microsoft Certified

Introduction to the Financial Market

Six Sigma Methodology

Data Modeling & Relational Databases Design

IT Risk Management

Business Analyst

Big data tools

Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Jira and Kanban board process