Kseniya Product Owner / Business Analyst
Product Owner (7.0 yr.), Business Analyst (BA) (7.0 yr.)
Summary
Accomplished Product Owner / Business Analyst with a BSc in Management and Computer Science & Software Engineering, boasting 7 years of experience in the fintech, banking, and digital transformation sectors. Proficiency in business process management is evident with the use of Camunda and Pega, reinforced by project management and system analysis skills. The engineer's technical prowess is backed by hands-on experience with SQL, C#, React JS, and a variety of DBMS. Proven expertise in implementing Agile and Waterfall methodologies, as well as strong competencies in business process reengineering, UI/UX design, and the full SDLC, make this candidate a standout for complex IT projects. Key achievements include contributing to government financial system transformations in collaboration with the World Bank, and leading the development of a new state debt system — indicators of a capacity to deliver solutions aligned with international standards and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Work Experience
Product Owner / Business Analyst, IT Business Processes Consulting
Duration: 05.2022 – 01.2024Summary: This project involved consulting a private bank to improve their software development business processes, with a focus on enhancing team performance and reducing time to market.
Responsibilities: Business goals evaluation and specification, analysis of business processes, interviewing and gathering feedback from bank officers, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, facilitating and improving team performance, risk and time management, implementing Agile methodologies, training and coaching employees, and developing a list of improvements for the future.
Technologies: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence, Camunda, Pega
Business Analyst, Project Manager, Re-engineering of the Expenditure Budget Execution Business Processes
Duration: 01.2022 – 05.2022Summary: This project dealt with the re-engineering of the expenditure budget execution business processes, which included analyzing existing processes, envisioning a to-be state, and integrating payment services.
Responsibilities: Formalized description of business processes, evaluation and validation of the business process list, design of the to-be state for processes, market analysis for payment services, ensuring integrations with third-party services, supporting communication with customer departments for seamless business process implementation, workload management for BAs, delivering results to the customer.
Technologies: Jira, Visio, MS Word, BPMN 2.0, Camunda
Project Manager, Product Owner, Development of the Module of the New State Debt System
Duration: 06.2020 – 01.2022Summary: Development of a web application module for managing state debt, aimed at automating functions for local budgets' employees to efficiently present information to the Ministry of Finance.
Responsibilities: Design and reengineering of business processes, leading and facilitating a team, managing workload, evaluating and documenting V&S, backlog and scope management, creating prototypes and user stories, designing BI subsystems and calculation algorithms, integrating banking and payment services, monitoring and reporting on performance, stakeholder management, and user support.
Technologies: C#, React JS, Visual Studio, Jira, MS Project, Xmind, DrawIO, Visio
Project Manager, Product Owner, Approbation of the Unified Chart of Accounts for Budgetary Sector
Duration: 05.2018 – 05.2020Summary: Approbation of a new information system based on a Unified Chart of Accounts for the budgetary sector to improve transparency and compliance with IFRS, developed 'from scratch'.
Responsibilities: Management of V&S definition, team leadership, design of business processes, backlog and scope management, evaluation of prototypes and user stories, analysis of new accounting methodologies, performance monitoring and reporting, analysis of World Bank experts' reports for best practice implementation, and stakeholder management.
Technologies: C#, Visual Studio, Angular, Jira, MS Project, Camunda
System Analyst, Business Analyst, State Treasury System Development and Maintenance
Duration: 11.2015 – 04.2018Summary: Maintenance and feature enhancement for the State Treasury System, catering to reforms in government financial politics and integrating with third-party systems.
Responsibilities: Evaluating and documenting software requirements, designing and improving business processes, solving customer issues, presenting solutions, contributing to software development and product lifecycle, visual modeling and prototyping, managing and updating API integrations, developing SQL queries and stored procedures, updating physical database models, creating customer documentation, and user training.
Technologies: Jira, Xmind, DrawIO, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, Power BI, Visio, PowerPoint), Figma, MS SQL Server, Java, Power Designer, Camunda
Education
- BSc in Management; Computer Science and Software Engineering
Certification
- Project Management
- Business Analysis