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Business Analyst CV Example

Business analyst CV example for UK roles, with a profile, requirements and process improvement results, BA tools and techniques, and BCS qualifications.

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  • Business
  • Mid level
Roles3
Skills19
Years of experience8
Qualifications2
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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 AnalystApr 2023 – Present
Forth Mutual Insurance, Edinburgh

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 Business AnalystSep 2021 – Mar 2023
Lothian Building Society, Edinburgh

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
Customer Service Adviser (part-time)Sep 2018 – May 2021
Castle View Bank Contact Centre, Stirling

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

BSc (Hons) Business Management: First ClassUniversity of Stirling (2017–2021)
Highers: Maths (A), Business Management (A), English (B), Modern Studies (B)Inverleith Park High School, Edinburgh (2011–2017)

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
TipsCV

How to adapt this business analyst CV

  • Open with a three or four line profile that names the job you want and your strongest results.
  • Turn duties into achievements: start each bullet with an action and end it with a result, such as time saved, money made or targets beaten.
  • Match your skills to each advert. This example leads with Requirements Gathering, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria and Process Mapping (BPMN); keep the ones that are true for you, in the employer's own words.
  • Keep it to two pages, most recent job first, and give the most space to your last two or three roles.

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