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JEBA KALAI ARASI G

Business Analyst
Chennai

Summary

  • Seasoned Business Analyst with over 13 years of experience in the banking and financial services sector, driving high-impact initiatives across Org Design (OD), fraud detection, and product transformations.
  • Proven expertise in eliciting, analyzing, and translating business requirements into actionable user stories and functional designs, ensuring seamless collaboration across technology and operations teams.
  • Adept at leveraging tools like JIRA, SAGE, Clarity, Salesforce, and Tableau to manage workflows, analyze performance, track budgets, and deliver data-driven insights to executive stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional teams of up to 5 analysts, enhancing productivity and alignment through mentoring, agile practices, and structured communication.
  • Strong believer in data-informed decision making, consistently delivering measurable outcomes such as 15–30% improvements in process efficiency, reporting accuracy, and project delivery timelines.
  • Experienced in developing and maintaining Business Analyst artifacts—BRDs, FSDs, traceability matrices, process maps—ensuring audit readiness, clarity, and compliance.
  • Collaborative partner who builds strong relationships across risk, finance, product, HR, and technology teams to drive shared ownership and collective success.
  • Resilient under pressure, with a track record of early risk identification and mitigation, supporting sustainable delivery across multiple project cycles.
  • Guided by values of integrity, transparency, and accountability, consistently aligning with the Group’s Code of Conduct and contributing to a culture of compliance and trust.
  • Passionate about continuous improvement and learning, with a strong focus on delivering value to customers, enabling team growth, and aligning initiatives with long-term business strategy.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Intermediate Business Analyst

Citicorp Services India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - Current
  • Led end-to-end business analysis across OD, fraud detection, and product lifecycle projects with a total budget impact of $20M+, delivering measurable business outcomes.
  • Gathered and translated complex business requirements into user stories and solution epics using JIRA, ensuring 100% traceability and sprint delivery accuracy.
  • Managed and mentored a team of 5 junior BAs, enhancing delivery velocity by 30% through structured backlog grooming, training, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Leveraged SAGE to track project financials, resulting in 98% budget compliance and timely reporting on benefits realization and funding utilization.
  • Used Clarity PPM to manage a portfolio of 10+ cross-functional initiatives, achieving 95% milestone adherence and real-time progress tracking.
  • Built and maintained real-time dashboards in Tableau, providing CXOs and Control Towers with key KPIs on fraud trends, org design impacts, and product adoption metrics.
  • Drove business case creation and quarterly reviews for OD initiatives, supporting $7M+ in investment approvals with accurate data insights from Salesforce and Tableau.
  • Collaborated with Salesforce CRM teams to align fraud monitoring logic and trigger-based automation, resulting in 18% faster case triage and 12% fewer false positives.
  • Created and maintained comprehensive BA artifacts – BRDs, FSDs, process maps, RACI, and traceability matrices – ensuring documentation standards were met for audits and UAT.
  • Conducted stakeholder workshops across risk, operations, product, and tech teams, aligning requirements and resolving 90% of conflicting asks in early phases.
  • Led UAT planning, test case reviews, and issue resolution cycles for major fraud detection releases, achieving zero critical defects post go-live.
  • Delivered monthly KPI packs highlighting fraud risk mitigation (↓22% in Q3), process turnaround (↓15% TAT), and OD restructure impact (↑10% span of control efficiency).
  • Integrated insights from Salesforce, SAGE, and Tableau, reducing manual reporting effort by 40% and increasing reporting consistency across functions.
  • Maintained cross-tool data integrity by reconciling Clarity and SAGE entries, ensuring 15% improvement in forecast accuracy across product teams.
  • Consistently recognized for cross-team collaboration and risk foresight; escalated and mitigated 12+ major risks through structured RAID logs and leadership reviews.

Operations Manager

Sentient Software Solutions
05.2020 - 09.2021
  • Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
  • Directed initiatives to improve work environment, company culture or overall business strategy.
  • Applies domain/industry and information technology expertise to support proposals, feasibility studies, implementations and new development.
  • Orchestrate backlog grooming by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models broken down into epics & user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria and definition of done.
  • Facilitates daily scrum & review meetings and conducts sprint retrospective to follow up on action items for continuous improvement.
  • Assists in conducting 3+ levels of testing including scrum, integration, regression, user acceptance, and performance testing to verify client’s needs are met.
  • Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications and defects tracking mechanisms.
  • Proactively examines and identifies complexities in changes to identify risks for company's clients.
  • Conducts functional test case/matrix reviews to ensure coverage in all levels of testing specializing in edge cases.
  • Lead client demo presentations to collect feedbacks from stakeholders ensuring project deliverables as per spec.

Associate

Primus Global Technologies Ltd
07.2019 - 04.2020
  • Understanding business rules and sourcing data from multiple source systems
  • Extracted raw data to staging tables using Informatica Cloud
  • Developed Cloud mappings to extract data for different regions (APAC, UK and America).
  • Developed audit activity for all cloud mappings.
  • Generated automated stats with staging loads comparing present day counts to previous day counts.
  • Created File watcher jobs to setup dependency between Cloud and PowerCenter jobs.
  • Created and developed mappings to load data from staging tables to EDW DataMart table based on Source to Staging mapping design document.
  • Implemented Type1, Type2, CDC and Incremental load strategies.
  • Design and development of BDM Mappings for large volumes of INSERT/UPDATE and Parameter sets for Daily and Delta Loads
  • Performed ETL standards - Audit activity, Job control tables and session validations.
  • Worked on Informatica ILM for archival process.
  • Worked on enhancements and production failure fixes of ongoing systems.
  • Worked on AWS to transfer and retrieve files as needed.
  • Involved in validating data and query optimization.
  • Worked on JReports to publish required reporting structure.
  • ▪ Worked on UNIX for streamlining attachment in reports.
  • ▪ Worked on Agile-JIRA for effort tracking and scrum update

Informatica Consultant

09.2016 - 05.2019
  • Analyzed business requirements and functional specifications.
  • Involved in initial set up of Informatica and related features for Business report processing.
  • Loading data to staging tables following Data Integrity rules of Interface Design
    Specifications.
  • Used source external tables to load data to staging tables.
  • Created mapping documents to outline data flow from sources to targets.
  • Modified existing mappings for enhancements of new business requirements.
  • Prepared migration document to move mappings from development to testing and then to production repositories.
  • Created Pre/Post Session/SQL commands in sessions and mappings on target instance.
  • Generated queries using SQL to check for consistency of data in tables and to update tables as per Business requirements.
  • Implemented Informatica BDM mappings for extracting data from DWH to Data Lake
  • Developed and scheduled Jobs using Autosys Scheduler.
  • Involved in technical hands on training on Informatica and related services for associates handling Business.

Systems Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
04.2011 - 08.2012
  • Interacted with Business Analysts to understand requirements and impact of ETL on business.
  • Extracted data from flat files and oracle database, applied business logic to load them in central database.
  • Created reusable transformations and Mapplets and used them in mappings.
  • Worked on different data sources such as Teradata and Flat files.
  • Developed PL/SQL and UNIX Shell Scripts for scheduling sessions in Informatica.
  • Created E-mail notifications tasks using post-session scripts.
  • Worked with command line program to interact with server to start and stop sessions and batches, to stop Informatica server and recover sessions.
  • Compared various mappings in Datastage and developed in Informatica.
  • Developed various JILS in Autosys to run Informatica job in proper sequence and schedule.
  • Maintain necessary tables in Teradata Environment and truncate or delete them as required.
  • Worked in UNIX environment to create scripts and log files and maintain them.
  • Involved in all phases of testing - Development, Systems Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing Environment.

Systems Engineer

Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2008 - 04.2011
  • Analyzed functional specs provided by data architect and created technical specs documents for all mappings.
  • Developing several mappings in Informatica variety of PowerCenter transformations, Mapping Parameters, Mapping Variables and Parameter files in Mapping Designer.
  • Provided Knowledge Transfer to end users and created extensive documentation on design, development, implementation, daily loads and process flow of mappings.
  • Implemented performance tuning logic on Sources, Targets, mappings, and sessions to provide maximum efficiency.
  • Used Informatica Version Control for checking in all versions of objects used in creating mappings and workflows and to keep track of changes in development, testing and production environments.
  • Created Workflows with Worklets, event wait, email and command tasks using Workflow Manager and monitored them in Workflow Monitor.
  • Created logical and physical data models and maintained relationships between tables using Erwin.
  • Developed database triggers, packages, functions, and stored procedures using PL/SQL and maintained scripts for various data feeds.
  • Enhance performance by creating Aggregate tables, Indexes and managing Cache
  • Participated in regular Client Meetings to understand their issues and concerns.

Education

MBA - Business Analytics

BITS Pilani WILP
Hyderabad, India
04.2001 -

B.E - Mechatronics

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
01.2004 - 01.2008

XII -

Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Adventist Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2003 - 01.2004

High School Diploma -

Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School
04.2001 - 01.2002

Skills

Requirements Elicitation & Documentation

Data Analysis & Visualization

Stakeholder Management

Tool Proficiency (JIRA, SAGE, Clarity, Salesforce)

Team & Project Leadership

Risk & Compliance Awareness

Certification

Salesforce certified Business Analyst

Interests

I’m an avid runner, having completed over ten 10K marathons with dedication and consistency

Timeline

Salesforce certified Business Analyst

12-2024

IT Intermediate Business Analyst

Citicorp Services India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - Current

Operations Manager

Sentient Software Solutions
05.2020 - 09.2021

Associate

Primus Global Technologies Ltd
07.2019 - 04.2020

Informatica Consultant

09.2016 - 05.2019

Systems Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services Limited
04.2011 - 08.2012

Systems Engineer

Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2008 - 04.2011

B.E - Mechatronics

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
01.2004 - 01.2008

XII -

Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Adventist Matriculation Higher Secondary School
01.2003 - 01.2004

MBA - Business Analytics

BITS Pilani WILP
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School
04.2001 - 01.2002
JEBA KALAI ARASI GBusiness Analyst