Mohammed Kadir

Lead Business Analyst

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London, Greater LondonMember since September 12, 2025

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Highly skilled Consultant & Business Analyst with over 15 years’ experience across Big4 firms to systems integrators, including public and private sectors. Delivered many complex solutions and products for a wide variety of clients. Passionate about solving challenging problems and delivering innovative solutions.

Technical Lead for the data warehouse (£2.6m) at a very successful Commonwealth Games 2014 event.
Devised a BI strategy addressing needs, technology, data architecture and analytics at David Lloyd Leisure.
Business Analyst for the Automatic Bag Drop at EasyJet, successfully deployed at UK airports.
Lead Consultant managing the analyst team at Unilever, translating requirements to migrate thousands of on-premises data assets to a cloud environment and achieve high efficiencies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Leading collaborative workshops to conduct discoveries from high level strategies and objectives to detailed elaboration and requirements analysis.
Data strategy and architecture, organizational structure and governance, data modeling, process modelling, functional and cross-functional workflows.
Team management and leadership to achieve strong results and outcomes.
Hands-on experience with SQL Server, Power BI, T-SQL, Databricks, and Azure.

Experience

CAPGEMINI - Senior Business Analyst (07/2022 - Present)

People manager, lead analyst & comms manager for the BA Community of Practice.

Data Consultant (Financial Reconciliation) | AutoRek
Senior Business Analyst leading the Capgemini team at AutoRek. Working directly with clients, from discovery to elaboration to define financial reconciliation requirements, data feeds, transformations, rules and outputs.
Service Transition Lead | DWP

Established a Service & Support Model to align with DWP Digital & Analytics technical governance reviews and approval barriers and pass SQR for Go-Live. Planned milestones, conducted workshops with stakeholders from across the organisation and delivery team including architects and developers to ensure adherence to DWP standards and protocols.
Lead Analyst | Unilever

Achieved on-target delivery of all stories (6000~ per annum) and client requirements through detailed validation and technical feasibility analysis. Slashed translation timelines by 20% and reduced test failures by 15% through improved processes, standardised templates and improved collaboration.

HITACHI SOLUTIONS - Senior Analytics Consultant (05/2017 - 07/2022)

Delivered technical solutions and led business analysis adding value, efficiencies, and results for clients. Developed the analytics methodology (Consensus) from pre-project to operation including processes/templates to support project delivery. Contributed towards sales activities and RFPs, promotion of our product/service.

Strategy, Business Analysis & Development | David Lloyd Leisure
Devised a BI strategy advising on business needs, technology and data architecture, data governance, analytics capabilities, and team structure. Introduced data governance, ownership, and controls/processes. Achieved on-time delivery of a self-service reporting and visualisation solution to deliver Customer and Finance insights using Power BI + Azure data platform.

Delivered a single version of the truth through definition of user stories, BI requirements and KPIs, and delivery of dashboards for Customer and Finance.
Business Analysis and Discovery | Environment Agency

Won a long-term engagement through envisioning of an analytics solution: Authored an analytics solution roadmap to introduce Power BI and Synapse as part of inception and discovery. Outlined requirements including epics, features, user stories, NFR’s, acceptance criteria and use cases.
Business Analysis and Data Modelling | Royal Brompton Hospital

Full requirements analysis including use cases, user stories and non-functional requirements with fully mapped patient processes, data sources and data model to improve patient experiences.
Solution Design and Development | Department of Health

Helped our client discover, manage, and govern data and reporting assets. Achieved an on-time design/delivery of an end-to-end solution, sourcing data from O365 to Power BI to provide insight on usage and resources. Reduced capacity wastage by 25% (unused dashboards, reports, workspace). Technologies: Azure Functions, ADLS, Key Vault and Power BI.

EASYJET - Business Analyst (02/2015 - 04/2017)

Automation of key financial processes, eliminating manual effort, reduction of human error and improving visibility/access of key metrics and information.
Automatic Bag Drop: reduced check-in time by 50% for 90% of passengers. Worked with finance, airport systems and IT to define requirements for a new comprehensive payments process across UK airports.
Cheque Payments: eliminated human errors and 100% of manual effort (10 hours weekly) in payments reconciliation. Worked with banking/treasury to define a new process for handling EU261 cheque payments.
Fraud Analytics: eliminated manual processing and improved efficiency through automation and expanded analytical capabilities. Identified business/data requirements to deliver an enterprise solution (SQL Server, SSIS, Tableau) with full stakeholder engagement.
Safety Data Reporting: achieved regulatory compliance via production of safety reports based on accurate and timely data. Identified requirements & analysed Alteryx processes to upgrade to a new platform (SSIS, Tableau).
BI Reporting for Marketing: eliminated third-party reporting costs (£12k per annum), with improved visualisations and insights on customer feedback.
Defined a new reporting model on the Microsoft BI stack with Tableau and a new data integration model (FTP, SQL Server, SSIS) to support external feeds.

ERNST & YOUNG - Senior Consultant (02/2010 - 02/2015)

Promoted from Associate (2010 – 2011). Delivered numerous projects for clients including end-to-end solutions for high-profile clients. Contributed towards bid development, PoC’s and training.

Solution Design & Development |Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
On-time and on-budget delivery of an end-to-end solution (£2.6m programme) to enable the tracking and deployment of 11,500 security/safety personnel: Requirements, design, and delivery of a solution to support provision of accurate data pertaining to personnel during the Games. Valuable insights (dashboard, reports) to track personnel successfully delivered through an ETL process (SQL Server 2012, SSIS) to collate, process and store data from all safety/security suppliers (£17m).
Data Modelling & Analysis |Ministry of Defence

Conducted deep analysis of inventory data and produced a detailed diagnostic of data integrity issues across inventory systems. To provide flexible reporting and analysis, I developed an ETL process (SQL Server 2008, SSIS) using snapshot & transactional fact tables.
Application Development |Lloyds Banking Group

Requirements gathering, solution design and development (Access 2003) to integrate insurance product data and perform complex calculations.

CLARITY SYSTEMS - Implementation Specialist (07/2008 - 02/2010)