Sameera Saib

Experience

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  Durban University of Technology

  Feb 2002 - Aug 2005

  Finance Administration

  Provide administration support to the faculty of finance and tourism by executing on finance queries experienced by students. Assisting in administration duties with the merging of major accounts between DUT and Natal Technikon. processing of invoices, procurement of stationery and balancing of ledgers accounts. Responsible for arranging campaigns and student events.

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  FNB South Africa

  Jan 2006 - May 2015

  • Establish, align and manage target and budget goals for the Business Unit, whilst ensuring effective control of costs for a range of functional areas to increase cost efficiency through Projects• Develop a project service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.• Enable service delivery through implementing systems and processes to improve service with the most effective projects and implement quality systems and metrics for measuring project success• Risk and Issue Management Resource conflict resolution, Scope change management. • Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, to the extent that the key project work streams being technology delivery and solution delivery attain these objectives by producing project plans plan, manage, drive and facilitate the delivery through various work streams of the project through the work stream leaders • ·Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.• delivery attain these objectives by producing project plans plan, manage, drive and facilitate the delivery through various work streams of the project through the work stream leaders • ·Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.• ·Develop and implement business projects for process enhancements and new processes and products within a Business Unit. Quantify benefits. Implement process metrics for measuring efficiency of all key business processes.• ·Scope change management and Change Control Project Administration and Document Management• ·Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analyzing trends and data of all projects• ·Direct and drive Training and change management Show less DATES FROM JANUARY 2011 – TO APRIL 2012PRODUCT MANAGER, FIRST NATIONAL BANK – MERCHANT SERVICES, ACQUIRING BUSINESS UNIT, COMMERCIAL BANKING.• Conduct research and investigation of potential new business strategy• Deliver business cases for new product offerings to the market• Include NPV calculations• Ensure analysis and identification of market trends• Work closely with new business strategy team and use my strong analytical and documentation skills to ensure that business cases are produced and are in line with the current business strategy Show less DATES FROM JANUARY 2009 – TO DECEMBER 2010SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, FIRST NATIONAL BANK – MERCHANT SERVICES, MEDICAL FINANCIAL GATEWAY. My role as a Business Analyst II extended vastly in the solution creation, product development and management of the product. It included analysis, technical design, business process mapping, product pricing models, industry and market research, product functionality and future enhancements, financial processing, system integration for different systems in the bank related to the solution.• Duties involve analysis activities during the planning and analysis stages, analyzing existing solutions, documenting business requirements including potential future requirements• During the analysis and design phase, act as the workshop leader in the creation of business solution design and technical models• Act as the project coordinator for the project, and as such, is responsible for design co-ordination within the project• Using technical background, manage the interaction between I.T., external parties and business owners• Execute compliance requirements for business operations • Analyze the processes (system and business) of the medical aid industry and incorporate the standards and rules in the solution design• Document all business processes and define business operations and business process mapping• Create business application forms and business operations documents that comply to FirstRand standards Show less DATES FROM MAY 2008 – TO DECEMBER 2009BUSINESS ANALYST, FIRST NATIONAL BANK – MERCHANT SERVICES, ACQUIRING BUSINESS UNIT, PREMUIM BANKING.• Understand both business and IT functions and compile business requirements documentation• Compile the functional specification document required for specific enhancements and new functions• Analyze business and/or technical problems relating to the acquiring infrastructure and provide recommendations and solutions• Interface and communicate with other acquirers and vendors in the local and international industry as well as the card associations (Visa/MasterCard) and central organizations e.g.Bankserv)• Oversee the compilation of test scripts compiled by testing analysts, Audit and verify the testing results. Map business processes, Contribute towards content as well as compile procedure guides and manuals for merchants, business users and external interface engineers. Show less DATES FROM JANUARY 2006 – TO APRIL 2008TEST ANALYST, FIRST NATIONAL BANK – MERCHANT SERVICES, ACQUIRING BUSINESS UNIT, CORPORATE AND TRANSACTIONAL BANKING.• Test and requirements analysis, test design and execution. Attend and provide input at JAD sessions • Analyze requirements, extract test requirements and document the analyses process • Writing of test cases against requirements and functional specifications. Creation of test cases on QC; Test Execution. Defect management – logging of defects and tracking status • Conducting testing feedback sessions • Consulting with developers, business and project management concerning defects • Do quality assurances testing of new and enhanced terminal software with predefined test pack and test plans, Analysis of Business Specification and document test strategies • Be responsible for inputs i.e. terminal software testing and actions surrounding the validation of the test results, Knowledge of surrounding systems and the functions they perform• Support in the resolution of live issues from the field Show less

  • Project Manager

    May 2012 - May 2015

  • Product Manager

    Jan 2011 - Apr 2012

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

  • Business Analyst

    May 2008 - Dec 2009

  • Test Analyst

    Jan 2006 - Apr 2008
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  Standard Bank South Africa

  May 2015 - now

  Project Manager

  • Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs.• Facilitate the end to end execution of the process (Daily stand-up meetings, Iteration planning, Demos/ showcases and retrospectives).• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.• Support and work towards ensuring the team dynamic functions well – Execution of work requires a cohesive team with well-defined parameters to work. • Remove all impediments to optimise work through the team ensuring that iterations are running smooth. • Protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work.• Support the Product Owner to track changes in scope and communicate these changes to relevant stakeholders.• Provide leadership to the feature team ensuring that team members are motivated to deliver.• Use of JIRA and Confluence to track status of features and stories with burn up charts and CFD’s. • Responsible for applying project management skills, tools and techniques to successfully deliver projects within approved parameters in terms of scope, cost and quality.• Monitor project progress against the defined schedule and cost using project metrics used in the bank.• Build and manage project plans and schedules. Project plans should cover the various management plans covering scope, time, cost and quality management plans.• Conduct estimations for project activities as it relates to their duration and resources required to perform the work.• Support the execution of all project activities and resolve or mitigate risks or issues that could impact the committed delivery of the project. Show less