Nimal Kumar M
Senior Business Analyst
Dubai
Summary
· Experience in Strong functional and technical skills of with VisionPLUS CMS, FAS modules and Way4cards including BA activities during migration.
· Engaged with one of the largest 3rd Party Processor in UAE & South Africa (Network Global) and Fiserv
· Experienced in requirement gathering, project and implementation planning.
· Worked in Card Scheme Compliance Projects and performed roles such as Lead as well as Onsite Coordinator
· Have expertise in providing the high-level design and estimates for small to medium projects including impact analysis from downstream or upstream applications like Base 24, TIBCO, Way4 Cards etc.
· Have worked as Techno-functional analyst, Team Lead & Project Manager for various projects and successfully deployed numerous projects with First Time Right check.
· Extensively worked all phases of project life cycle. Starting from Project Initiation to Project Closure.
· Involved in finalizing the Scope of the Projects, Estimating, Scheduling, Tracking Project Activities, Status Reporting, Risk, Issue and Dependencies Management
· Very strong analytical & reasoning skills and a very good team player
· Good experience in taking complete ownership from the design till project delivery phase.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Designer
Network International L.L.C
Dubai
03.2025 - Current
- Reduced project costs by streamlining processes through efficient solution design methodologies.
- Collaborated effectively with clients to gather requirements, understand their challenges, and develop tailored solutions that met their specific needs.
- Optimized end-user experience through careful consideration of user needs during the solution design process.
- Spearheaded internal initiatives aimed at improving operational efficiency within the organization's solution design practice area through process improvements or adoption of new tools technologies.
Senior Business Analyst
Fiserv
Dubai
03.2024 - 02.2025
- Project: KFH – AUB Migration, ABSA – Multi Wallet Prepaid, Magnati – EPP & VIS, La Riba products
- Client: Magnati, FAB, ABSA, KFH
- Role: Senior Business Analyst
- Duration: Mar'24 - till date
- Description: Facilitated the integration of solutions tailored to client-specific requirements
- Gathers requirements from stakeholders
- Improves processes to enhance efficiency and business expectation in place
- Supports implementation and client testing
- Communicates between business and technical teams
- Stays updated on industry trends and regulations
- Skills/ Involved parties: VisionPLUS application, Base24, Bridge, Postilion, Easytrieve, Schemes
- Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
Compliance Lead
Network Global - South Africa
Bengaluru
01.2018 - 05.2022
- Project: Compliance 23.Q2, 22.Q2, 21.Q4, 21.Q2, 18.Q4, 18.Q2
- Company Overview: Network Global SA being a processor uses VisionPLUS application for managing the credit card life cycle under their portfolio
- Description: Network Global SA being a processor uses VisionPLUS application for managing the credit card life cycle under their portfolio
- As part of this project, CMS and FAS sub modules of VisionPLUS application has been enhanced to serve as compliant issuer and processor
- Network Global SA being a processor uses VisionPLUS application for managing the credit card life cycle under their portfolio
- Understanding the scheme (VISA and MasterCard) release enhancements
- Analyzing the impacts on its operations with respect to the VisionPLUS application
- Incorporating code retrofit into release impacted components
- Reviewing the retrofit and implementation deliverables
- Tracking and monitoring the progress on development and testing
- Compliance VisionPLUS changes deployment into the production environment on effective date
- Pilot Verification test to verify the enhancements made and existing BAU
- Skills: COBOL, JCL & VisionPLUS application
Technical Lead
Synechron
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 09.2021
- · Project: MasterCard Integration
- · Integration of VisionPLUS with Base24, Falcon, Card control, TIBCO and other NI Operations team applications
- · New ISO8583 HISO Interface will be developed between NI UAE Base24 and NI SA VisionPLUS
- · Extracting batch feeds for Falcon & card control from V+ host CIS, PIS, AIS, CRTRAN, Non mon – Batch
- Skills: COBOL, JCL, CICS & VisionPLUS application
Senior BAU Support Staff
Network Global - UAE
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 03.2021
- Company Overview: Network Global LLC is the largest acquirer in the UAE, and a leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA)
- Description: Network Global LLC is the largest acquirer in the UAE, and a leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA)
- The company’s service offering comprises a comprehensive range of payment products and services for both the Issuing and Acquiring segments of banks, financial institutions and retail merchants
- Been part of Way4 LSS team to address any concerns on BAU activity
- Network Global LLC is the largest acquirer in the UAE, and a leading payment solutions provider in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA)
- Customer Support: Oversee resolution of customer issues related to card and payment services
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Coordinate with internal teams, external partners, and vendors
- Operational Oversight: Manage day to day BAU activities for smooth functioning
- Implementation: Deployment of release package in pre-prod and production regions
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement enhancements to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction
- Performance Monitoring: Track KPIs to meet operational targets and identify improvement areas
- Skills: Way4Cards, DataMart, Way4 Gates, Transaction Switch, ETL
Development Lead
Network Global - UAE
Bengaluru
10.2017 - 12.2017
- Project: FAS/API Automation and statistics reporting
- Description: In Network VisionPLUS, FAS online system is manually brought up and down during the critical batch window which is a redundant work for the team, and it incurs a considerable time.
- As part of this project, FAS system will be automatically brought up/down which avoids manual intervention by the support teams
- Both online and Batch EOD processes has been designed to monitor the system performance and BAU functioning based on statistics
- Preliminary functional and technical solution design for the requirement
- Preparation of final implementation deliverables
- Reviewing the project changes before UAT deployment
- UAT testing along with onsite team
- Project changes implementation into the production environment on effective date
- Pilot Verification test to verify the enhancements made and existing BAU
- Skills: SQL, COBOL, CL, KIKS & VisionPLUS application
Associate Engineer
Network Global - UAE
Bengaluru
01.2015 - 09.2015
- Project: ENBD Egypt VISA Product Launches|
- Description: Launched three VISA products under the existing Org 034(ENBD Egypt) in Network VisionPLUS System with requirements which needs posting changes and online screens changes
- Preparation of initial draft of technical changes as per requirement
- Unit testing for the project enhancement
- UAT support and defect resolution within SLA
- Pilot Verification test to verify the enhancements behavior
- Skills: SQL, COBOL, CL & VisionPLUS application
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India 06.2010 - 03.2024
Skills
Applications: VisionPLUS, Way4 Cards, DataMart
Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CL, PL/SQL, Easytrieve, C, Java
Databases: DB2/400, Oracle, VSAM
Tools (Software): File Aid, File Master, FINSIM, MS Tools
OLTP: CICS and KIKS
Version Control: ALDON, Endevor
Project Management Tools: Jira, Confluence
Operating Systems: Z/OS, AS400, Windows, Linux
Certification
AWS Technical Essentials by aws training and certification
Domains
- Cards & Payments
- Banking
Accomplishments
- Awarded the 'PAT On Back' Award during Q4 of 2021
- Awarded the Rising Star Award during 2015-16
- Awarded the Spot Award quarce for various FAS and CMS projects.
Overall Experience
10 Years 5 months
Relevant Experience
10 Years 5 months
Timeline
Solution Designer
Network International L.L.C
03.2025 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
Fiserv
03.2024 - 02.2025
Technical Lead
Synechron
06.2021 - 09.2021
Senior BAU Support Staff
Network Global - UAE
01.2020 - 03.2021
Compliance Lead
Network Global - South Africa
01.2018 - 05.2022
Development Lead
Network Global - UAE
10.2017 - 12.2017
Associate Engineer
Network Global - UAE
01.2015 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
06.2010 - 03.2024
AWS Technical Essentials by aws training and certification
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