Rini David
Brussels
Summary
Experienced Functional Analyst with over 10 years in automotive, logistics, and manufacturing, adept at translating operational needs into actionable functional requirements & delivering high-impact projects. Skilled in facilitating cross-functional workshops and delivering scalable solutions from concept to implementation through strategic planning & execution. Leverages structured analysis techniques alongside a focus on emerging technologies, supported by a specialization in Data Science and Deep Learning, to drive continuous improvement.
Overview
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Certification
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Analyst – Digital Transformation & Systems
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
Brussels, Belgium
02.2025 - Current
- Facilitated cross-functional workshops and design sessions with Packaging, Purchasing, Logistics, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity and Data Modelling teams, translating operational needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
- Designed and led a live vendor-evaluation demo for a Control Tower solution, authoring detection-to-recovery process flowcharts and a UI mockup to benchmark vendor capability — informing a multi-stakeholder digital transformation investment decision.
- Managed solution lifecycle end-to-end: functional specifications, data-mapping, logical data models, sprint planning support, and UAT, ensuring full requirements traceability in Confluence and JIRA.
- Created material-flow diagrams (Monooj) in BizzDesign and developed capability matrix with T-shirt-size estimation to facilitate scalable roadmap planning.
- Led live vendor-evaluation demo for Control Tower solution, authored detection-to-recovery process flowcharts and UI mockup to benchmark vendor capability, informing multi-stakeholder digital transformation investment decision.
- Project: Logistics Cost Analysis; EXT Logistics Box-to-Box Tracking
Business Functional Analyst
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
Brussels, Belgium
03.2024 - 01.2025
- Facilitated stakeholder workshops across Logistics Cost, Purchasing Account & Finance, and Planning teams to design a self-billing solution, reducing manual workload by 30%.
- Owned business case development through functional specification, executive sign-off, and UAT; delivered functional walkthroughs and user training to facilitate smooth adoption.
- Project: External Logistics Self-Billing; Scanning System Integration to AS/400
Business Analyst – Application Support (A2P)
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
Brussels, Belgium
09.2022 - 08.2023
- Acted as primary escalation point for critical incidents — proactively identifying risk trends before they impacted the business and flagging them to leadership, coordinating with upstream/downstream teams to minimize disruption.
- Coached and onboarded new team members through knowledge-transfer sessions, enhancing team capability and mitigating key-person dependency.
- Conducted 3-month root-cause and trend analysis, identifying repetitive issues and proposing automation solutions that reduced ticket volume.
Proxy Product Owner / Business Analyst
Automotive Company, via Infosys
12.2020 - 07.2021
- Facilitated stakeholder interviews and workshops to translate business needs into actionable recall and claims workflow requirements.
- Facilitated stakeholder interviews and workshops to translate business needs into recall and claims workflow requirements.
- Supported UAT planning and execution, ensuring validation of functional enhancements for successful low-issue deployment.
- Project: Claims & Recall Process
Senior Design Engineer
Ansaldo / Solar Turbines, via Infosys
06.2011 - 11.2020
- Digitised 100 years of legacy service-part data from PDFs into structured, accessible datasets on SharePoint, enhancing data retrieval.
- Coordinated onsite/offshore engineering team as a combustion design engineer.
- Coordinated onsite/offshore engineering team for combustion design projects, ensuring alignment on design specifications and timely project delivery.
Education
Executive Postgraduate Programme - Data Science, Specialisation in Deep Learning
IIIT Bangalore
Bangalore10-2023
Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering
ANITS
Visakhapatnam05-2011
Skills
- Business Process Automation
- Business process modeling
- Process Mapping
- Agile/Scrum
- JIRA
- Confluence
- SQL
- SharePoint
- Project management &tracking
- Strategic planning
- Stakeholder communications
- Risk management
- Scope management
- Software development lifecycle
- Task prioritization
Accomplishments
- Proposed an AI-assisted workflow automation concept for logistics recovery-action recommendation, targeting ~50% reduction in manual effort — reflecting a proactive, technology-forward approach to solution design.
- Delivered a self-billing digital solution for external logistics partners, facilitating cross-team workshops that cut manual workload by 30%.
- Led scanning-to-AS400 integration via Stonebranch automation, eliminating manual reconciliation and saving ~3 FTEs per shift.
- Owned process optimisation of the Stringing process end-to-end, delivering an operational benefit of €250K/year.
- Drove a 30% incident reduction for the A2P application through structured trend analysis, root-cause investigation and process redesign.
- Designed a vendor evaluation programme for a Control Tower (logistics visibility & recovery) solution, defining detection-to-recovery workflows used to benchmark vendor capability against business requirements.
Certification
- SAFe POPM (Product Owner/Product Manager)
- Data Analysis and Visualisation Foundations Specialisation
- Python for Data Science, AI & Development
- Excel Basics for Data Analysis
LANGUAGES
English (Fluent)
Dutch (learning)
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst – Digital Transformation & Systems
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
02.2025 - Current
Business Functional Analyst
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
03.2024 - 01.2025
Business Analyst – Application Support (A2P)
Toyota Motor Europe (TME), via Infosys
09.2022 - 08.2023
Proxy Product Owner / Business Analyst
Automotive Company, via Infosys
12.2020 - 07.2021
Senior Design Engineer
Ansaldo / Solar Turbines, via Infosys
06.2011 - 11.2020
Executive Postgraduate Programme - Data Science, Specialisation in Deep Learning
IIIT Bangalore
Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering
ANITS
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Functional Requirements Translation
- End-to-End Process Analysis & Improvement
- Workshop & Design Session Facilitation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Architecture, Dev, QA, PM)
- Digital Transformation & Emerging Technology
- Solution Design & Vendor Evaluation
- Stakeholder Communication & Influence
- Data-Driven Analysis (SQL, Data Science)
- Risk Identification & Escalation
- Agile/Scrum Delivery
- Coaching & Knowledge Transfer
Rediscovering lost flavors
I enjoy researching vegetables that were used in ancient times and cooking forgotten traditional recipes with them