Alexander Penkov

Experience

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  Rosneft

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Internship - Oil and Gas Production Field Operator

  Cultivated a comprehensive understanding of well site and facility processes, emphasizing the intricate communication dynamics between equipment and control systems within the plant.Achievements:• Controlled and maintained efficient and effective operation of wells, pumps, compressors and process equipment.• High regard and value toward company and governmental safety, environmental and health rules and regulations.

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  Pervobank

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

  Foreign Exchange Trader

  Executed FX deals (FX forwards, swaps) via Bloomberg terminal, Thompson Reuters Dealing and phone with retail clients, small and medium CIS banks, oil and gas corporates.Achievements:• Obtained valuable experience in technical and fundamental analysis of financial market.

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  Vdcom

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2020

  Collaborated cross-functionally with teams located in the UK and in the USA to successfully complete international projects:• Client Base Expansion: in 5 months led requirements clarification for Eurobond small lots trading initiative, executed on the OTC market through external brokers. As a result, expanded the client base by 2,7%, trade volume, and commission income for a bank.• Team Leadership: in a year, oversaw a team of 3 business analysts under Operations and Private Bank Rapid Application Development projects, aligning strategic solutions with business priorities. Demonstrated proficiency in managing projects, from initiation to implementation, taking into account schedules, budgets and project resources.• Mentorship and Professional Development: successfully coached 3 hired employees and played a pivotal role in their professional development, contributing to the growth and cohesion of business analysts teams.• Collaborated closely with the Product Owner to prioritize requirements, optimizing resources allocation, contributed to a 10% increase in project completion rates within the development phases.• Assisted in documenting requirements on Confluence and Jira, enhancing clarity and alignment within the Scrum teams, leading to a 15% improvement in task comprehension and implementation.• Worked closely with architect to ensure that technical solutions are consistent with target back-office system architecture. • Gathered requirements for implementation of Anti-Money Laundering regulatory report, by interpreting complex Compliance department requirements and ensuring compliance with Anti-Money Laundering law. Led to a 75% improvement in data accuracy and a 30% decrease in the time required for regulatory reporting.• Demonstrated reliability and acted as a supportive project team member, covering testing activities for implemented features, when the QA team had limited capacity, maintaining project timelines and ensuring deliverables quality. Show less Acted as intermediary between back-office business users and development team, played a critical role to understand business requirements and translate them into simple, feasible solutions:• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of the W-8BEN form into existing banking systems, achieving a 100% accuracy rate in form generation and submission.• Conducted workshops with stakeholders to gather insights, validate and refine requirements, present concepts of solution. As a result, 15% improvement in the quality of delivered solutions.• Agile Methodologies: gained hands-on experience using Agile and Scrum methodologies from 2018 to 2019, contributed to increase in overall product team productivity and project delivery speed.• Utilized UML and BPMN tools to model process designs and flows, resulting in 25% reduction in process inefficiencies and a 30% increase in workflow transparency.• Analyzed business requirements and translated them into functional requirements, resulting in improvement in project deliverables alignment with stakeholder expectations.• Actively participated in quality assurance and testing activities, ensuring that product enhancements met specified requirements.• In 3 months gathered business requirements to implement online monitoring of Systemic Risk-adjusted Liquidity (SRL) limit status for all counter-party payments in back-office system. Show less Translated project requirements into solution concepts. Facilitated effective communication between business and product management teams, in close cooperation with development team, ensuring the correct implementation of business stakeholders needs:• Participated in implementation of compliance and regulatory projects, such as MIFID and EMIR, contributing to the enhancement of reporting functionality and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. This contributed to a 13% improvement in audit findings and a decrease in compliance-related fines.• Prepared and coordinated system integration testing and user acceptance testing schemes, based on agreed requirements, leading to a 30% increase in UAT efficiency and overall projects success rate.• Administered project documentation, including Project Initiation Document and Business Requirement Document, with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and completeness in alignment with project objectives.• In 4 months, led requirements gathering for implementation of unified IT system for monitoring transactions on financial markets for Product Control business division. • Collaborated closely with stakeholders to visualize current and future business processes using Visio, leading to 25% improvement in client feedback responsiveness and a 15% increase in process optimization.• Analyzed, elicited Reference Data Management requirements for integration client’s static data, across multiple back-office systems, into new Business Development Support Platform. Show less

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  • System Analyst

    Mar 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Business analyst

    Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
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  Deutsche Bank

  Aug 2020 - now

  Digital Transformation: as a Business Process Management tool functional analyst, I am engaged in driving Deutsche Bank's ongoing digital transformation by streamlining end-to-end processes with a technology-driven approach.• Managed functional analysis for 3 squads during the year. Ensured no gaps in requirements gathering, resulting in zero complains from stakeholders. Achieved a 100% success rate in meeting project delivery deadlines.• Leveraged analytical and problem-solving skills to identify patterns in various stakeholder requirements. This led to 25% reduction in development cycle time.• Collaborated with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define current state of business processes and determine areas for simplification and automation. Led to 7% increase of onboarded workflows.• Implemented a systematic approach to user story decomposition, leading to a 10% reduction in feature implementation time and improved project delivery timelines.• Conducted wireframing and UI prototyping activities in Figma. Facilitated effective communication to ensure that UX/UI design solutions met both business objectives and technical feasibility requirements. As a result, 15% decrease in rework iterations during development cycles.• Played important role in estimation of automation business process for structured products issuance team. Analyzed "AS IS" business process, proposed a workflow solution to reduce manual operation time efforts by 105 hours on monthly basis.• Evaluated feasibility of enhancement requests, resulting in 20% increase in the accuracy of problem assessment and solution development.• Acted as Product Owner delegate, supported project management activities, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, resulting in a 20% improvement in project planning efficiency.• Conducted training sessions and hackathons for business users worldwide. As a result adoption of no-code applications for business processes automation within the bank. Show less • Authored detailed functional and non-functional specifications, employing user stories and acceptance criteria's, which led to 10% reduction in development time, by providing clear guidance to a development team.• Enhanced Project Efficiency: safeguarded project resources by reevaluating, challenging agreed requirements with business stakeholders in 2 weeks, optimizing project backlog by 35 story points.• Operational Risk Mitigation: successfully eliminated usage of spreadsheets, trackers and emails across the bank by introducing workflow solutions, ensuring compliance and averting financial regulatory penalties over a 2 year period. For instance, exceptions identified in the process of regulatory reporting were managed through email. The introduction of workflow has allowed to control each step of the e2e process.• Operational Efficiency: reduced operational expenses by 20 hours per week within 2 months through design of a workflow solution for Treasury operation team.• Delivered suitable solutions according to business requests: an enhancement request to automatically generate business process, according to the UK calendar, was transformed into generic scheduler functionality, which could be reused by another stakeholder and reduce manual efforts.• Reduced operational expenses by 20 hours, on a weekly basis, by improving control of records management policy of workflow tool in compliant manner. Ensured governance of data with reference to internal policy and regulatory requirements, under the digitalization of outward payments for Global Cash Operations team.• Actively contributed to SDLC process improvement initiatives, resulting in 20% decrease in time-to-market for new features.• Managed creation, maintenance, extension, tagging, and refinement of epics and user stories using Jira, enhancing project transparency and accountability by 25%.• Utilized Tableau as a data visualization tool to represent workflow data, increased stakeholders satisfaction. Show less

  • Senior Business Functional Analyst

    Apr 2023 - now

  • IT Requirements Engineer

    Aug 2020 - Mar 2023