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Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Certification
Community Engagement
Languages
Accomplishments
References
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Saima Rizvi

Sydney,Australia

Summary

Detail-oriented Business Analyst with almost 8 years of experience conducting analysis and research to come up with solutions to common business problems. Polished in formulating business improvement strategies and overseeing new technology and system implementation. Commercially-aware professional with in-depth knowledge of computing systems and project management techniques. Hardworking employee with customer service, multitasking, and time management abilities. Devoted to giving every customer a positive and memorable experience.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Service Representative

Service NSW
Sydney, Australia
09.2022 - Current
  • Work within a high volume, high pressure and constantly evolving contact center environment
  • Adapt to changing priorities, rotating shift patterns and achieve both individual and team KPIs within defined service standards
  • Deliver expert specialist assistance across both basic and complex agencies and campaigns
  • Accept enquiries across multiple skill types simultaneously, providing seamless transition from one enquiry type to another
  • Professionally resolve enquiries and complaints from customers that present with uncooperative, disruptive or abusive behaviors whilst adhering to business compliance requirements and ensuring consistent application of policies, guidelines, procedures and legislation.

Online Personal Shopper AM

Woolworths Lidcombe CFC
Sydney, Australia
07.2022 - Current
  • Helping customers make the best possible purchases by providing advice, guidance, and excellent customer service
  • Responding promptly and effectively to customers' complaints and requests
  • Advising customers on suitable substitutes for dated, discontinued, or unavailable products
  • Reporting customer issues, supply shortages, and inferior products to Management immediately
  • Engaging with customers and ensuring any special instructions are followed
  • Ensuring that orders are accurately selected, scanned, and packed
  • Assisting with order collection, packaging, loading, and payment, where required
  • Keeping track of product offerings and availability
  • Collaborating with store departments to ensure efficient service delivery.

Customer Services/Telemarketing

PCLoads
Sydney,Australia, NSW
10.2021 - 05.2022
  • Contacting old and potential customers to assess current needs and book appointments for equipment pickups
  • Offering better rebates to prevent eWaste landfill through ethical recycling procedure
  • Answers questions about the eWaste recycling, IT Assets auditing and offering rebates
  • Database maintenance - including updating records
  • Make 100 calls per day - ability to multi-task and use computer easily.

ICT Business Analyst

Student Accommodation Service Trading
West End Brisbane, Queensland
04.2017 - 05.2018
  • Gathering boarding house business requirements and converting them into functional and user requirement specifications
  • Defining the student accommodation service As-Is and To-Be processes, and then elicit the subsequent trading business requirements.
  • Conducted Gap analysis to understand current business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into finance application to handle late payment issues in terms of late payment interest and surcharges.
  • Preparation of customized report templates to retrieve intelligent business-based results

Key Achievements

  • Gained Australian work environment experience with immense learning
  • Working efficiently and meeting challenging deadlines with the assigned tasks

Visual Information Provider (V.I.P)

Informed Sources
Wellington, New Zealand
12.2013 - 05.2014
  • Collection of retail data within designated areas
  • Reporting using web forms for the pricing of data collected
  • Weekly data collection reports back to head office
  • Delivered reports in a timely manner to management performing extra work as required for the task
  • Effectively perform projects within deadlines and detailed orientation
  • Timely preparation of analytical and marketing information

Key Achievements

  • Refined research and time management skills
  • Working efficiently and meeting challenging deadlines with the assigned tasks

ICT Business Analyst

Com Soft Systems
Karachi Pakistan, Sindh
05.2006 - 06.2013
  • ❖ Business and System analysis, research and consulting of system from Financial Management & Warehouse Management.
  • ❖ Provide alternate solutions where technical constraints impede the business process
  • ❖ Identifying process limitations and deficiencies in existing system, associated processes, procedures and methods.
  • ❖ Testing, debugging, diagnosing of errors and finding root cause within the authorized boundaries, under the protocols set by standard best practices.
  • ❖ To ensure the smooth running of processes in system, maintaining the quality and standards as defined by technical development team.
  • Performing necessary technical upgrade, configuration and modifications in system to provide users with wide variety of plant maintenance, procurement and inventory management processes.
  • Upgrade of Business Blue Print document & preparation of authorization control documents.
  • Continuous improvements and optimization of existing business processes.
  • Troubleshoot implementation issues.
  • Providing necessary information, and technical details to programmers for the development of customized Reports, scripts and user enhancements.
  • Act as a liaison between business team and technical development team.
  • End user Application trainings and preparation of user manuals.

Key Achievements

  • Gained Client confidence on satisfactory and immediate response to issues.
  • Delivered excellent results according to client’s requirements and desires.
  • Delivered simplistic, workable and logical solutions to complex requirements.

Administration/Instructor

Habib Girls' School
Karachi, Pakistan
08.2001 - 05.2005
  • Teaching programming languages including JAVA, C++ and C# programming to students, school management, coordination of course design, planning and scheduling
  • Handling general office administration including filing, mail processing, maintaining office supplies and consumables, coordinating meetings
  • Regular updating of official website, newsletters and business documents
  • Maintain and developed school databases such as, Employee Database Systems and Education Databases required to streamline business operations
  • Developed administrative staff by providing information, educational opportunities and growth opportunities
  • Resolves administrative problems by coordinating preparation of reports such as student counselling, enrolment and transport, analyzing data, and identifying solutions.

Education

Certificate IV - Cyber Security

TAFE Sydney
06.2021

Master's - Business Process Management

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
06.2016

Graduate Diploma - Management, Development, Strategic Management

Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)
06.2014

Advance Diploma - Software Engineering

Aptech Computer Education
04.2005

Bachelors of Arts (B.A) - Psychology, Political Science and Philosophy

St. Joseph's College
12.2001

Skills

  • Strong analytical and research skills in assessing current and future market trends
  • Strong interpersonal, coordination and organizational skills
  • Stakeholder engagement expertise to drive agility and innovation
  • Critical thinking with mentoring and coaching
  • Strategic planning and thinking
  • Outstanding creativity in building and giving presentations
  • Facilitation and Elicitation of workshops and trainings
  • Expertise in change and conflict management
  • Proven interest in problem solving, as well as in business and technology related issues
  • Ability to adjust in a team work environment and proven leadership qualities
  • Ability to easily get acquainted with diversified business
  • environments
  • As Is and To Be scenario understanding and gap analysis identification
  • MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project, Access, Outlook)
  • Domain Knowledge (Education, Telecom, Infrastructure)
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) understanding (architecture designing, processing, agile, modeling, blue ocean strategy, Waterfall)
  • SQL
  • CRM Handling

Certification

  • 12/01/15, Fundamentals of Business Process Management Serve to Inspire (Training Workshop)
  • 11/01/08, Building Blocks of Leadership (Training Workshop)
  • 10/01/08, Culture of Excellence-Operationalizing Corporate Values (Training Workshop)
  • 08/01/03, Microsoft Office Suite (complete) Programme

Community Engagement

Bunnings Warehouse
Volunteered at sausage food stall by Greenacre Community Center
Jafaria Disaster Cell
Volunteered for fund raising for flood victims

Languages

English
Full Professional
Urdu
Native/ Bilingual

Accomplishments

  • Advance standing of 48 credit points awarded based on previous studies
  • Project research reports on “Aligning BPM and eSOA to achieve competitive advantages with SAP systems” and “Artificial Intelligence and Business Process Management implication in resolving Fare Evasion problem to Queensland Transport” under 24 credit points each was awarded with distinctions
  • Multi Award winner in Call Center environment as "Employee of the Month"

References

  • Ms Linda Douglas, ServiceNSW, +61 436 608 745, linda.douglas@service.nsw.gov.au
  • Mr. Nazar Abbas, PCLoads, +61 420 570 095, abbas@pcloads.com.au

Timeline

Customer Service Representative

Service NSW
09.2022 - Current

Online Personal Shopper AM

Woolworths Lidcombe CFC
07.2022 - Current

Customer Services/Telemarketing

PCLoads
10.2021 - 05.2022

ICT Business Analyst

Student Accommodation Service Trading
04.2017 - 05.2018

Visual Information Provider (V.I.P)

Informed Sources
12.2013 - 05.2014

ICT Business Analyst

Com Soft Systems
05.2006 - 06.2013

Administration/Instructor

Habib Girls' School
08.2001 - 05.2005

Certificate IV - Cyber Security

TAFE Sydney

Master's - Business Process Management

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Graduate Diploma - Management, Development, Strategic Management

Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)

Advance Diploma - Software Engineering

Aptech Computer Education

Bachelors of Arts (B.A) - Psychology, Political Science and Philosophy

St. Joseph's College
Saima Rizvi