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ALEXANDRU BĂCICA

Summary

Over 15 years experience in corporate environment and 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst with the technical expertise and business acumen necessary to translate business requirements and objectives into scalable, highly resilient and successful system solutions. Responds to shifting business needs and priorities in a systematic and effective way. Excels at implementing operational assessments and conducting functional requirements analysis for businesses of all sizes.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analyst

European Commission (B2B Trasys)
10.2023 - Current

Analyst in a small project team, owning ESA in-house developed contract management system. Driving process and product enhancing and improvement.

  • Process mapping, documentation and reengineering
  • System meta data analysis and delivery of data dictionary
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
  • Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
  • Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.

Systems Analyst

OANDA
01.2023 - 12.2023

CX System Analyst, leading technology change projects for Customer Experience value stream. Driving projects, managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project and operations teams to deliver technology change and process improvement initiatives.

  • Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
  • Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions.
  • Researched and adopted new technologies to add value to existing offerings.
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
  • Established specifications and coordinated production with software programmers.
  • Presented business leaders with ROI estimations to drive project planning.
  • Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
  • Driver for long pending projects - delivered several projects that were stuck for over 18 months

Business Analyst

AON-Tyche (B2B Cognizant)
01.2023 - 03.2023

Business Analyst for an Agile QA project team for a fixed-goal short-term project.

  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Delivered extensive documentation for existing self-testing portal and processes
  • Gap analysis for self-testing portal between manual and automatized test scenarios
  • Meta data analysis and creation of data dictionary

Senior IT Analyst/ Product Owner

Grid Dynamics Sp. Z.o.o.
12.2021 - Current

Providing the client with microservices based architecture for a retail client in order to streamline EDI between client database and vendor databases and building necessary APIs

  • Act as a consultant for systems improvement, implementation and enhancement
  • Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog and scrum master role
  • Documented user stories and product features
  • Performed product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation
  • Querying SQL databases and performing data and metadata analysis
  • Data mapping
  • Roadmap planning

Business Analyst - Product Management

OANDA
05.2021 - 11.2021

Product Management & Operational Excellence BA, engaged in customer driven product development. Driving projects and acting as a consultant for both internal and external clients, aiming to enhance customer experience by delivering or enchanting existing products or processes.

  • Delivery of requirements for development of in-house CRM, billing systems and trading platform
  • Migration of legacy CRM, billing systems and trading platform
  • Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
  • Enhance CRM capability and reduce lead time
  • Salesforce integration
  • Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results
  • Championed customer experience through expert analyzation and communication.
  • In-depth analysis of current and future state of products, services and processes and coordinating development
  • Building requirements and wireframes for UI enhancement
  • Data analysis and migration for legacy system to newly developed CRM tool
  • De-facto project manager role in an Agile environment

Additional work : EMEA Head of EDI: leading internal initiatives and projects championing equity, diversity and inclusion for improving work environment and encouraging self-expression.

Business Analyst - Risk Change

UBS Business Solutions Poland Sp. Z.o.o.
06.2020 - 04.2021

Project summary: implementing a new cloud storage solution for existing databases across several business units, complete data migration and provide guidance and support for model developers.

  • Implemented user acceptance testing with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases (supporting application focused team)
  • Reviewed files, records and other documents to obtain business information and key data informing responses to development requests.
  • Performed data and metadata analysis

Business Analyst

UBS Business Solutions Poland Sp. Z.o.o.
07.2017 - 05.2020

Project summary: building a media monitoring system using AI and machine learning to detect and highlight risk associated with clients and enhance KYC process

  • Gap analysis, requirements gathering and BRD creation
  • Design UI and UI enhancements.
  • Integration of existing risk management system with SaaS solutions
  • Recommended operational improvements based on tracking and analysis
  • Developed a set of metrics derived from raw data to assess quality

Business Analyst

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. Z.o.o.
08.2015 - 07.2017

Change and Implementation - Regional BA/PM

  • Acting as regional PM through different project stages
  • Gather and detail business requirements, supporting prioritization and tractability
  • Highlight risks and issues and risk mitigation
  • Identify and mitigate operational risks
  • FTE impact assessment and capacity model
  • Data modelling and functional design
  • Developed a set of metrics derived from raw company data to track improvements in organizational efficiency
  • Testing

Senior Transformation Analyst

Capgemini Polska Sp. Z.o.o.
09.2013 - 08.2015

Various projects and customers

Senior Administrator - FinOps

Heineken Global Shared Services Sp. Z.o.o.
03.2012 - 01.2013

Sales Analyst

Hewlett-Packard Global E-Operations
09.2010 - 02.2012

Education

Master of Arts - Management Of Sports Organizations And Activities

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, CJ
2020

A four semester study for Master's Degree in Management with a focus on sports organizations and activities. Includes general management areas and subjects such as Law & Ethics, Management & Finance, Human Resources Management, Career Path and Motivation and Project Management.

Graduated with 8.33/10 grade average over 4 semester and 10 (highest grade) on the final paper - Management Of Diversity In Sports Organizations And Its Impact On Performance

Bachelor of Arts - Marketing And International Business

Spiru Haret University, Bucharest
2008

Three years University studies in Marketing, Economics and Business with a major in Marketing.

Graduated with a final score of 9.6/10

Skills

  • Release planning
  • Workflow and data analysis
  • Business artifacts documentation
  • Stakeholder management
  • AGILE, Waterfall
  • Working under pressure
  • Team player
  • Strong communication skills
  • SaaS implementation and deployment
  • Proficient in project management tools (JIRA, Confluence)
  • CRM systems (Siebel, Salesforce)
  • Fast learner of new technology and tools
  • Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)

Additional Information

  • Implemented automatization of workforce management and planning that saved 3-5 working days effort for people managers
  • Successfully delivered an ad-hoc technology migration project within 45 days with o prep work
  • Designed a capacity model and FTE impact assessment, resulting in clearing operational backlog and cost savings
  • Reduced organizational operating costs by 15% by streamlining processes
  • Successfully built and implemented a new KYC enhancement system to meet regulatory and business requirements
  • Delivery of all crucial projects within a tight and strict time frame

References

References available on request

Individual Projects and Additional Work

Founder and President of Krakow Dragoons FC (Klub Sportowy "Dragoons"), a football club for expats living in Krakow. Running the day to day operations as Club President:

  • Managing an organization with over 50 members (volunteers)
  • In charge of financial operations (budgeting, sponsorship deals)
  • Business planning, designing and implementing changes and improvements
  • Implementation of new technology and systems (Veo, Adobe Suite)
  • Establishing a visible digital footprint

Dragoons FC was developed with the idea of a social club aimed at expats living in Krakow in order to ease the transition and manage the cultural impact and help with integration in the local society and culture through a common interest, in this case football.

  • Shortlisted as Krakow's Multicultural Ambassador 2019 by Krakow City Office
  • Nominated for UEFA Grassroots Club of the Year 2020 by the Polish Football Federation (PZPN) Grassroots Division
  • Multiple recognitions and articles some of the largest Polish and foreign news organizations
  • Multiple FARE grants in recognition of the diversity & inclusion work
  • Received recognition and a grant from Adidas as one of the best 100 grassroots projects in Europe ( from over 2000 candidates)
  • Two consecutive participation in European tournaments for non-professional football clubs

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Timeline

Business Analyst - European Commission (B2B Trasys)
10.2023 - Current
Systems Analyst - OANDA
01.2023 - 12.2023
Business Analyst - AON-Tyche (B2B Cognizant)
01.2023 - 03.2023
Senior IT Analyst/ Product Owner - Grid Dynamics Sp. Z.o.o.
12.2021 - Current
Business Analyst - Product Management - OANDA
05.2021 - 11.2021
Business Analyst - Risk Change - UBS Business Solutions Poland Sp. Z.o.o.
06.2020 - 04.2021
Business Analyst - UBS Business Solutions Poland Sp. Z.o.o.
07.2017 - 05.2020
Business Analyst - HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. Z.o.o.
08.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Transformation Analyst - Capgemini Polska Sp. Z.o.o.
09.2013 - 08.2015
Senior Administrator - FinOps - Heineken Global Shared Services Sp. Z.o.o.
03.2012 - 01.2013
Sales Analyst - Hewlett-Packard Global E-Operations
09.2010 - 02.2012
Babes-Bolyai University - Master of Arts, Management Of Sports Organizations And Activities
Spiru Haret University - Bachelor of Arts, Marketing And International Business
ALEXANDRU BĂCICA