(617) 555-0167 ◇ Quincy, MA
sinead.kavanagh@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/sinead-kavanagh ◇ sineadkavanagh.com
Business Analyst with 7+ years bridging operations and engineering on system and process change in financial services. Delivered requirements for 22 releases across 4 platforms, cut a claims process from 11 steps to 6 for an $840,000 annual saving, and reduced post-release change requests by 58% through sharper acceptance criteria. Measures success after go-live rather than at handover.
Coursework in Systems Analysis, Database Design, Business Process Management, and Statistics.
Certification current; also holds Professional Scrum Product Owner I, earned in 2020.
- Own requirements for 4 platforms across claims and policy administration, delivering 22 releases with 3 engineering teams.
- Redesigned the claims intake process from 11 steps to 6, cutting average handling time by 34% for an $840,000 annual saving.
- Reduced post-release change requests by 58% by rewriting acceptance criteria to cover the 9 edge cases that caused most rework.
- Gathered and documented requirements for 9 projects across lending operations, writing about 400 user stories.
- Coordinated user acceptance testing with 30 business testers across 6 releases, tracking 240 defects through to closure.
- Mapped 26 process flows across 3 departments, exposing 14 handoff gaps of which 11 were closed within two quarters.
- Produced weekly operational reporting across 5 service teams handling about 12,000 cases a month.
- Identified a queue routing error affecting 900 cases a month, and the fix cut average case age from 9 days to 4.
- Automated 6 recurring reports in Excel and SQL, saving the operations team roughly 18 hours a month.
Claims Intake Redesign. Mapped the current state across 3 teams, timed each step, and found 5 of the 11 steps existed only to correct earlier ones. The redesigned 6-step process cut handling time 34% and saved about $840,000 a year.
Acceptance Criteria Standard. Analysed a year of post-release change requests to find that most traced to unstated edge cases rather than changed minds. A revised criteria template covering those 9 patterns cut post-release changes by 58%.
Benefit Realisation Reviews. Introduced a 90-day post-launch review measuring whether each project delivered its stated business case. Three of 12 projects had not, and the findings changed how the portfolio estimates benefits at approval.
- Member of the Boston chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis, serving on the programme committee.
- Mentor 3 analysts a year through a professional association programme, focused on the move into senior roles.
- Volunteer process advisor for a Quincy food pantry, redesigning its intake flow to serve about 200 families a week.
- Lead a practice group of 5 analysts, setting documentation standards and reviewing requirements before development starts.
- Introduced the 90-day benefit realisation review now applied to every project above $250,000 in the portfolio.
- Facilitate requirements workshops with groups of up to 18 across operations, compliance, engineering, and finance.

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