Aisha Rahman
Business Analyst
Profile
Business Analyst with five years' experience in financial services, leading requirements, process mapping and change for customer-facing systems at an insurer and a building society. Comfortable moving between senior stakeholders and delivery teams, turning vague problems into clear process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria. BCS-qualified, data-literate in SQL and Power BI, and focused on changes that save time for customers and colleagues.
Experience
Business analyst in a 6-person agile team rebuilding the online claims journey for home and motor insurance customers.
- Mapped the end-to-end claims process with 20 stakeholders across claims, fraud and customer service, finding 11 manual hand-offs to remove
- Wrote and refined around 140 user stories with acceptance criteria in Jira, keeping the backlog ready 2 sprints ahead
- Helped deliver an online claims journey that cut the time to report a claim from 22 minutes by phone to 8 minutes online; 46% of claims now start online
- Ran 12 research sessions with customers and claims handlers, shaping the design of the new claim tracker
- Built a Power BI dashboard on where customers drop out of the journey, which focused fixes that raised online completion by 18%
- Led user acceptance testing for 3 releases, coordinating 15 business testers and triaging defects with the developers
- Wrote the business case for online document upload, estimated to save £180,000 a year in postage and handling
Junior analyst in the change team supporting mortgage and savings operations.
- Documented current and future processes in BPMN for mortgage offer production, supporting a change that cut offer turnaround from 9 days to 5
- Gathered requirements for a new online savings application form, reducing incomplete applications by 30%
- Wrote SQL queries to size problems and check data fixes, saving the team days of manual checking
- Took minutes and kept the RAID log for the monthly change board
- Supported 2 regulatory change projects, mapping how new rules affected customer letters and processes
Part-time contact centre role while at university.
- Handled around 50 customer calls a shift about accounts, cards and payments
- Logged recurring complaints and suggested script changes that reduced repeat calls
Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Process Mapping (BPMN)
- Stakeholder Management
- Workshop Facilitation
- Gap Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing
- Agile and Scrum
- Jira and Confluence
- SQL
- Power BI
- Data Analysis
- Business Case Writing
- MoSCoW Prioritisation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Visio and Miro
- Consumer Duty Awareness
- Requirements Traceability
- Data Mapping
Education
Certifications
- BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate