Moez Seyedan
Business Analyst
Experience
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
7 months Germany
Business Analyst
KFW-IPEX Bank GmbH
- Analyzing, specifying, and documenting technical requirements
- Creating and maintaining functional designs for reports
- Conducting data quality checks along the data lineage (source systems, data integration layer (DIS), DWH layers, REDIX reports)
- Responsible for data governance and data delivery agreements with suppliers and consumer systems
- Documenting processes, reports, and data models
- Tools: Data Management Tool, DB2, DbVisualizer, BCBS 239, MicroStrategy, SQL, JIRA, GIT, Scrum
Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
1 year 3 months Germany
Product Owner/Business Analyst
Zwilling J.A. Henckels
- Business analysis as the interface between the development team and stakeholders, translating use cases into user stories
- Project management in waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban; planning and coordinating resources and the development team
- Creating and maintaining the product backlog: capturing, structuring, and prioritizing requirements from use cases
- End-to-end product lifecycle management from strategy of the reporting platform to roll-out, proofs of concept, cloud architecture, process optimizations, and documentation
- Regular alignment with stakeholders and management to agree on the roadmap and ensure solutions meet requirements
- Tools: IBM Planning Analytics (Cognos TM1): PAfe, PAx, Workspace; Tableau; JIRA; Confluence; Microsoft SharePoint; SQL; GDPR
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
6 years 7 months Germany
Controlling Systems Specialist
Deutsche Bank AG
- Working in financial controlling to build, optimize, and manage reporting and planning processes: cost and performance accounting, product portfolio management, segmentation
- Translating banking requirements (functional and non-functional) for IT
- Designing and further developing processes for product portfolios and cost segments (FP&A)
- Preparing monthly reports and annual financial statements
- Responsible for operating and evolving the reporting platform
- Technical implementation of business processes: interface connections and data delivery agreements, system-side setup of metrics, hierarchies, and reports, master data management
- Conducting functional tests and end-to-end tests
- Business acceptance of IT-developed packages
- Regular coordination with stakeholders
- Tools: IBM Cognos 10 (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Analysis Workspace, EventStudio), IBM Planning Analytics (Excel Perspectives, Architect, Web), MS Excel, Oracle 11g, SAP SEM, SAP FICO, HP ALM, GDPR, Scrum
Project: Unity (02/2021 - 03/2022)
- Served as data scientist to build a data platform in data management for Deutsche Bank AG subsidiaries
- Elicited functional requirements and ensured non-functional requirements and data governance policies were met
- Platform architecture, process documentation, and selecting appropriate data quality and analysis software
- Test planning and offshoring test activities
- Tools: BCBS 239, MaRisk AT 4.3.4, Data Policy, Apache Hadoop, SQL, JSON
- Served as tester for General SAP Sub-Ledger in finance (commissions business) for data analysis and quality assurance of migrated data
- Tools: SAP FI Subledger, HP ALM, IBM AS/400
Project: Management Information System (MIS) (07/2018 - 08/2019)
- Worked as controlling systems specialist in financial controlling to migrate Postbank brand products to a new reporting platform
- Requirements management and specification in user stories
- Data analysis, preparation, integration, and reporting into the new data warehouse
- Gradual data migration to target structures
- Functional and acceptance testing
- Tools: Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics (Architect, Web), PL/SQL, JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM
May 2016 - Jun 2016
2 months Germany
Business Analyst
Bayer Business Services GmbH
- Served as finance consultant to replace the existing data source (Oracle Data Mart) with SAP HANA backend for MicroStrategy frontend
- Software architecture and data modeling to build schema objects in SAP HANA
- Data warehousing in MicroStrategy to migrate information views
- Data visualization in MicroStrategy dashboards
- Documenting functional designs and presenting results to management
- Tools: MicroStrategy v9.4, SAP HANA, Oracle 11
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
8 months Germany
Developer
Bayer Business Services GmbH
- Served as lead developer in logistics to build a new self-service BI for physician payment transactions
- Project management, requirements management, enterprise architecture, data architecture, and implementation of system landscape including permissions, roles, and security
- Implementing ETL processes: interface connections and data mart construction, data warehousing (relational modeling), process automation
- Designing and developing reports/dashboards
- Aligning with stakeholders and application operations
- Data quality checks, testing/debugging/acceptance
- Tools: MicroStrategy v9.4 (Developer, Web, Object Manager, Visual Insights), Oracle 11
Jan 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 10 months Germany
Developer
Bayer Business Services GmbH
- Served as finance developer to implement MicroStrategy Mobile dashboards
- Interface connections, data mart setup
- Data warehousing: definition and implementation of key performance indicators and master data
- Designing and developing pixel-perfect dashboards for management
- Data quality checks, testing/debugging/acceptance
- Tools: Oracle, Apple iOS, MicroStrategy v9.4 (Developer, Web, Object Manager)
May 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 6 months Germany
Developer
BWI Informationstechnik GmbH
- Developed MicroStrategy balanced scorecards in the Hercules project from the Maximo system
- Gathered requirements from functional designs and specified them
- Developed service reports, balanced scorecards, and mobile dashboards
- Various alignments with business units
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
4 months Germany
Developer
Telekom Deutschland GmbH
- Worked as ETL developer to identify unpaid phone bills for fixed-line customers
- Analyzed business requirements and specifications
- Analyzed data sources (billing data, payment behavior, customer master data)
- Developed SQL queries and ETL scripts
- Ensured data integrity and optimized performance
- Tools: Pentaho Data Integration, SQL, Cognos Framework Manager
May 2012 - Sep 2012
5 months Germany
Developer
Postbank Systems
- Developed processes to detect current ATM disruptions (ETL) and created the operations manual
- Tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Integration Services SSIS, Reporting Services SSRS), Visual Basic procedures, T-SQL
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
2 months Germany
Pre-Sales Consultant
T-Systems International GmbH
- Served as pre-sales consultant to successfully win the “Sioux” project to determine resource utilization of internal and external staff
- Developed a product prototype to improve sales management; the product was later refined and marketed
- Tools: MS Navision, database development with Microsoft SQL Server (Integration Services SSIS, Analysis Services SSAS, Reporting Services SSRS, SharePoint), T-SQL
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
3 months Germany
Developer
E.ON Energy Trading Holding GmbH
- Designed automation for individual Excel reports from risk finance
- Rebuilt reports in Microsoft Reporting Services SSRS
Jan 2009 - Nov 2011
1 year 11 months Germany
Application Management
T-Systems International GmbH
- Served as application manager for 1st and 2nd level support of CA Clarity
- Recorded and addressed inquiries and incidents
- Troubleshot or escalated complex issues to 3rd level support
- Monitoring, system configuration
- Functional, technical & performance tests
- Process documentation, nearshoring of application support
- Tools: Six Sigma, PPM CA Clarity v12
Jul 2009 - Dec 2009
6 months Germany
VBA Developer
Deutsche Telekom AG
- Worked as programmer in the “BTM Apps and Solutions” department
- Calculated and built key performance indicators from various Excel tables into a final report using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA for Excel)
- User manual creation
Jan 2007 - Apr 2008
1 year 4 months Germany
Machine Learning Engineer
Atos Information Technology GmbH
- Served as machine learning engineer to build a prototype for knowledge extraction from call center data of then E-Plus GmbH
- Modeled and clustered customers using text analysis in IBM SPSS Modeler; employed NLP and linguistic technologies
Summary
I am a freelance expert in business intelligence, financial controlling, and IT project management. I support executives and teams in efficiently managing their data and systems to fully leverage their potentials. Companies benefit from time and cost savings, improved data quality, better decision-making foundations, and enhanced competitiveness. To that end, I bring more than seventeen years of experience in gathering business and regulatory requirements, creating functional designs, and implementing complex data solutions with great passion – skilled in both agile and traditional project methodologies.
Languages
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
Education
FH Dortmund
Diploma in Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Germany
Certifications & licenses
Clarity Project and Portfolio Management v12
Introduction to Apache Hadoop
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Engineer
Project and Process Management
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