Thomas Rudge

Business Analyst (AVP)

Designed and built analysis and testing programs for the JPMC biennial price quality assessment, used to process millions of vendor and internal trade prices and drive the firm-wide pricing policy.

Raised multiple changes to enhance the pricing service and reduce operational overhead.

Automated common BA tasks, including data enrichment via system API, testing, and data analysis.

Created Business Analyst documentation templates and advised best practice.

Freelance

Designed and built Nepos, a point of sale and cash management system for start-ups and small businesses. Currently in use by several businesses in the north east of India.

Created desktop software that creates Swift MT940 cash statements from financial records for a company in Germany.

Provided Business Analyst services to a finance company for various projects in and around Nagaland.

Produced various designs and printed materials for a number of companies in the north east of India.

Career Break

During this time I moved to Nagaland in India to spend time with my wife's family, and get to know her place of birth, culture, and customs. As well as exploring her beautiful country I spent a lot of my time acquiring knowledge and learning new skills through online resources.

Technical SME
Analyst


Senior analyst in the management team of the corporate and investment bank’s reconciliation services utility. Responsible for the proactive optimisation of operational processes and systems. Advisor to senior management on operations, technology, and change.

Business technical lead in global change activities, including requirement elicitation and management, solution assessment, operations impact analysis, risk analysis, testing, implementation planning and execution.

Owned and managed the front end configuration of the bank’s main reconciliation system.

Generated and maintained bespoke MI using SQL for various areas in the department.

Worked with external auditors to develop a control framework for the reconciliation of a national payment system and clearing process.

Business Analyst
Corporate Change


Business Analyst within the Global Payments Change Team. Role included: Eliciting and documenting stakeholder and end user requirements; performing impact assessments on business operations and systems; contributing to operational risk assessments and developing/proposing effective controls; designing and managing the execution of User Acceptance Testing; creating implementation plans; and performing post implementation analysis and lessons learnt.

• Awarded the "Significant Technology Achievement Award" from the CIO of Technology and COO of Barclays Africa, in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the Kenya Replatforming Programme.
• Awarded the "Global Payments Award 2009" from the GP Vice Chairman for playing a critical role in the resolution of a BAU system incident.
• Successful implementation of multiple projects.

TLM System Administrator

Monitoring and administration of STL TLM and SSR Swift messaging systems. Duties included static configuration; monitoring via logs and SQL queries to databases; incoming and outgoing message monitoring; account proofing; and incident management and resolution.

Account Manager
Global Payments


This role involved the daily monitoring, reconciling, and timely reporting of account ledgers and statements. Due to my extensive knowledge of the business processes I was selected to write the business procedures and process flow maps as part of an off-shoring project. I then used those documents to train and test my off-shore colleagues.