Kavmani Meegaswatte

Project 2- Engaged as a PowerBI Developer and Business Analyst integrated into the Project Management team of Sydney Metro's, Digital Asset & Reporting Enablement (DARE) Program, an infrastructure major capital project.

• Collaborated closely with client stakeholders to facilitate workshops and project meetings, enabling comprehensive requirements gathering, identification of pain points, and conducting current state and gap analysis
• Produced high-quality artifacts including use case wireframes, epics, features, user stories, tasks, business process maps, flow charts, and functional and technical documents to meticulously document functional requirements identified through business requirements elicitation
• Liaised with Data Engineers to design and develop data pipelines to acquire, clean and process data from source systems and these data pipelines are then consumed by Power BI to build the use-case specific data model.
• Leveraged Power Query and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) for data modelling, creating interactive and visually appealing reports and dashboards from various data sources to support informed decision-making for Sydney Metro project teams
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on built dashboards alongside client Business Analysts to ensure alignment with intended functionality, while also addressing any bugs and facilitating enhancements as necessary
• Prepared comprehensive hand-over documentation and conducted showcase sessions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, utilizing walkthroughs and demonstrations to highlight dashboard functionalities
• Undertook Scrum Master responsibilities including facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog management sessions, and sprint retrospectives, fostering clear communication and ensuring timely delivery of key deliverables at high quality
• Led distinct pods within the larger team to efficiently deliver critical use cases within tight timeframes, demonstrating strong leadership and project management skills.

Project 1 - Engaged as the technical Business Analyst in the API integration team on the CPA's Member Management and Finance (MMF) Program to perform duties to facilitate integration between D365 CE and Client web user interface.

• Worked closely with application teams to gain a complete understanding of the data model design within the backend provider systems of D365 CE and F&O.
• Strategically planned and conducted workshops with product owners to refine and clarify data mapping requirements, ensuring they align with project objectives.
• Provided clear and concise requirements to Integration Engineers and other Business Analysts, facilitating effective data mapping, and promptly addressing integration-related challenges.
• Developed and meticulously maintained data mapping and business rules to ensure consistency and accuracy throughout the integration process.
• Managed team interdependencies between the integration team and application teams, effectively addressing obstacles and facilitating progress, and documented them on Jira.
• Maintained traceability and ensured general Jira hygiene to keep the delivery status up to date, enabling efficient project tracking and management.

Practice and growth contributions

• Actively participated in the Business Analyst Community of Practice (BACoP) internal practice development initiatives, utilizing the BA toolkit to aid new joiners in effectively navigating the BA domain.
• Played a pivotal role in contributing to the Business Development approach by spearheading proposal development and offering support in bid processes, resulting in successful project wins.

• Conducted comprehensive environmental evaluation and viability testing for potential spatial computing projects in 2 new industries
• Researched and analysed existing solutions, consumer psychology and behaviour, industry trends, forecasts and developed visual dashboards to present the findings
• Provided strategic recommendations on leveraging business analytics, data to develop customer-centric goals and processes which led to increasing conversion rates by 5%.

• Managed the design and development of the IFS ERP enterprise-wide business application, and level 3 support for customers
• Conducted interviews, discovery workshops to gather customer requirements on payment modules and developed comprehensive user stories, process flow diagrams, requirement traceability matrix and functional specifications
• Built customised workflows, reports, and dashboards with a change management framework to prioritise deliverables and manage dependencies, enhancing release management processes
• Collaborated with the business users and Software engineering team to evaluate functional issues during development and implemented a knowledge management platform, ensuring alignment with the requirements, scope and technical constraints
• Analysed support calls lodged by the IFS consulting offices and developed procedures to proactively monitor and resolve issues, improving turnaround time by 15%
• Developed comprehensive test scenarios, test protocols and test data for new functional changes whilst implementing a test automation framework, which maximised reusability
• Conducted an As-Is To-Be business process mapping for AP/AR, Tax ledger modules and introduced process changes to improve workflows and efficiency
• Redesigned UX flows of several pages in the financial module including mixed payment, bank reconciliation, supplier/customer check based on the user interaction guideline in the new web-based enterprise business suite (IFS Aurena), improving user experience
• Conducted agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demos and functional training to internal and external stakeholders, improving transparency and knowledge sharing capability.

• Managed 3rd party payments for divisions including marketing, engineering, maintenance, bill collection and logistics whilst consistently maintaining a high level of accuracy and efficiency.
• Conducted staff training focusing on business processes, finance applications and collaborated with the finance manager to implement a tailored development plan which improved staff engagement by 12%.
• Prepared comprehensive reconciliations on bank balances, outstanding customer and supplier balances whilst arranging petty cash reimbursements within KPIs.
• Produced detailed SOPs, user manuals and other documentation to report findings, new ways of working which helped to minimise reprocessing.