Senior IT Analyst Uusimaa, Finland

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(Updated 2024-02-07)

Senior IT Analyst

Uusimaa, Finland

Native Finnish, English, Beginner Svenska, Beginner German

  • 10+ years of mainframe experience
  • 5+ requirement analyst
  • 10+ years system analyst

Skills (37)

Agile

Mainframe

COBOL

COLLECTION

OFFSHORE

Confluence

PL-1

TESTING

SME

PAYMENTS

OPERATIONS

Scrum

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

JCL

MICROSOFT OFFICE

Jira

SQL

Energy Systems

MS OFFICE

Microsoft Teams

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

FICO

MS Teams

LOANS

Swift

ITIL

XML

VISIO

CRM

COMPENSATION

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

SVN

SHIPPING

IT Support

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING

IT Infrastructure Library

SIEBEL

Summary

I have strong knowledge of IT in banking and insurance sector. During my career I have had several roles in IT from programmer and IT business and system analyst to SME and scrum master. I have multiple customers facing roles, have been working directly with management, have been coordinating and supporting offshore teams. I have often been working with external suppliers with multiple roles. This also includes constant online/internet conferencing with great success. I have solid technical, analytical, business and management knowledge. Most of the assignments business language is English.

Professional Experience

Senior IT Business Analyst

2014-12 - 2024-01

Finland Dec Nordea is undertaking a major transformation and I have an important role to help the bank to accomplish it. Currently I am main requirement analyst supporting as we are implementing new FICO solution for debt collection. Our core team is Nordic and we have partners in UK, India and Poland. Before that I was part of Trade Finance IT team and was responsible for many of our Trade Finance and Loans Products. I have been responsible of several projects.
Tools: Confluence, Fico, DB2, Endevor, Remedy, Quality Centre, Safe, Agile, Jira, Planmill, MQ, Cobol, C++, Visio, Java, Cloud, Use Cases, ITIL, Scrum Master, etc.
Senior IT Analyst

2023-08 - 2024-01

Finland CGI I have a role as an requirement and IT analyst in our Aktia project. I am working in a lending team supporting factoring development.
Tools: Confluence, Jira, Aquarius, Lendscape
Senior System Analyst
Accenture

2011-11 - 2014-11

Finland Accenture This was Accenture one of the first important mainframe contracts in Finland and I had important role as I was responsible of the mainframe operations. Rest of the mainframe team was located offshore and I was coordinating and supporting any development or operational work. Customer was implementing new Core System to replace mainframe and I was also involved in several projects that were using new technologies. One of them implemented SEPA payment system for the company. We also solved issues with new SEPA payments. Customer rating for our team (three roles in Finland rest offshore) was 7/7 - first ever in Accenture Finland! Tools: Jira, MS Project, ISPF, Lotus, DB2, Squrrel, SQL, DL/1, PL1, Cobol, RACF, Java, SVN, MQ, SEPA, SOAP, XML, web-services etc.
System Analyst
Nordea Bank

2010-12 - 2011-09

Finland Nordea Bank My role was between IT and Business Department to make sure that business requirements was understood and implemented properly in IT. Application was one of banks key applications - Corporate Net Bank. Role also included UI testing. We operated in international environment.
Tools: DB2, Logviewer, IBM Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Centre, Lean IT, etc
Business Analyst

2010-10 - 2010-11

Profit Software This was temporary role where I was analyzing company's pension system for coming SEPA-payment changes.
Tools: Excel, Word, Jira, Confluence
Project Manager (Co-Owner)

2006-04 - 2010-04

Bedrock Power I was Project Manager of the team installing renewable energy systems and I was responsible of IT solutions. I designed and implemented company's web-site and installed e-Commerce application.
Tools: Business Contact Manager, MS Office, HTML, Expression Web, MySql, ZenCart
Analyst Programmer
Oak Glen Systems

2005-01 - 2006-03

Finland Oak Glen Systems Temporary assignment during which I designed company's new web application and maintained it. All company's IT support was trusted to me.
Tools: Frontpage, HTML, Ftp, Linux, PHP
System Analyst / Programmer
Esy Insurance

2004-03 - 2004-12

Finland Esy Insurance Temporary assignment where I was responsible one of the client accounts. I developed and maintained Pension System to meet customers' requirements in IBM mainframe environment.
Tools: Cobol, Cics, DB2, SQL, JCL
System Analyst / Programmer

2003-03 - 2004-03

IBM and Finnair Finnair was replacing its existing marketing system (CRM) with new system based on Siebel. My role was to support development team and also ensure required upgrades to existing CRM system. Tools: Cobol, Cics, DB2, SQL, Lotus Notes
System Analyst / Programmer
Pohjola Insurance Group

2002-03 - 2003-02

Finland Pohjola Insurance Group Our team was responsible company's Personal Insurance and Compensation System. System was installed IBM mainframe and we did all the software development phases, starting from collecting requirement to testing, and implementing and supporting application.
Tools: PL-1, IMS, DB2, SQL, JCL
System Analyst / Programmer
Royal Bank of Scotland

2000-10 - 2001-10

UK Royal Bank of Scotland RBS was migrating its IT systems to handle much larger amount of data when merging with NatWest. I was responsible for re-tailoring the company's existing Credit systems. This involved analyzing, planning, re-programming and adding new elements, which was followed by extensive testing.
Tools: Cobol, Cics, DB2, SQL, Lotus Notes, File Aid
Analyst / Programmer
Bank of Scotland

1998-03 - 2000-10

UK Bank of Scotland I had exciting career move from Finland to Scotland. My first role was to support Investment Application and Card Systems(SWIFT). I was also first contact point to branches. Suggested bank to improve its web pages and also planned and coded web page update for the bank.
My final position was that of EMU Analyst and was helping bank to get ready for possible Euro changes.
Tools: Cobol, Cics, DB2, SQL, Lotus Notes, File Aid, JCL, HTML
System Analyst / Programmer
Tapiola Insurance Group

1988-11 - 1998-03

Finland Tapiola Insurance Group I had a key role as a team member of Tapiola's Insurance application development team. Our set of applications were handling property, farm, business insurances to international shipping insurances, including over thirty different kind of applications. Our role included complete development cycle. We started with customer meeting to define requirement all the way implementing and supporting changes and existing applications. Later on I developed and maintained Compensation System. Work also included DB2 performance improvement analysis.
Tools: Cobol, Cics, DB2, SQL, Lotus Notes, File Aid, JCL, VSAM, Smart test, Assembler

Academic Background

Mantsalan Grammar School
Mantsalan Grammar School

2024-09 - 2024-09

Helsinki IT institute
Helsinki IT institute

2024-09 - 2024-09

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