Ing. Pavol Kiss
Senior Business Analyst
Professional Summary
Dynamic and detail-oriented Business Analyst with strong experience in banking, core system transformations, and end-to-end delivery of complex technology initiatives. Combines deep domain expertise with a structured, analytical approach to problem-solving and solution design. Acts as a key partner between business and IT — driving requirement clarity, prioritization, and architectural alignment. Has experience with assessing business cases, analyzing cost aspects of solutions, and ensuring that proposed changes deliver real business value. Known as a reliable single point of contact who enables teams, supports decision-making, and ensures projects move to completion. Recognized for technical acumen comparable to a solution architect, strong ownership mindset, and an approachable, collaborative style that strengthens team performance. Continuously seeks smarter, more efficient ways of working while maintaining high quality and long-term value.
Work Experience
Senior Business Analyst
VÚB banka
- Co-designed a new SDLC process and introduced a structured, business-driven release scoping framework.
- Participated in value-for-money assessments, reviewed business cases, and coordinated component capacity planning.
- Ensured consistent prioritization and cost estimation by analysing task complexity, dependencies, and IT effort.
- Provided informal leadership to a team of 4-5 analysts, offering guidance, removing obstacles, and coordinating deliverables across Business and IT.
- Acted as the main communication bridge between Business, IT, and PMO, consolidating inputs and ensuring alignment.
- Presented release scoping outcomes to stakeholders, clearly explaining inclusions, exclusions, and rationale.
- Served as business architect and single point of contact for the Private Banking & Investments domain, reviewing and refining business requirements and driving prioritization discussions.
- Ensured that domain demand was meaningfully represented in roadmap planning, release scoping, and governance boards.
IT Analyst
VÚB banka
- Participated in the replacement of the core banking system and subsequent migration programme.
- Oversaw end-to-end data reconciliation to ensure accuracy and completeness of migrated data.
- Co-defined and coordinated extensive validation and control checks to detect inconsistencies and processing errors.
- Consolidated findings from multiple workstreams and presented migration readiness reports to project steering committees.
- Acted as a liaison between IT, Operations, and Business to quickly resolve discrepancies and support a smooth migration cut-over.
IT Analyst
Poštová banka
- Mapped core functionalities and created requirements of existing Internet banking platform.
IT Functional Specialist
Zuno bank
- Collected and analysed requirements, prepared functional documentation, and supported configuration and incident resolution across multiple applications.
IT Testing Specialist
Zuno bank
- Prepared test cases, scenarios, test data, executed functional, integration, regression, and acceptance tests.
- Created defect reports and supported root-cause analysis.
- Led the Internet banking testing workstream.
IT Tester
Zuno bank
- Tested Internet banking, core banking systems, and mobile banking (iOS, Android) in SIT and UAT phases.
Education
Engineer’s Degree, Telecommunications Engineering
STU Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Electrotechnical Secondary School, Bratislava
Skills & Expertise
- Workstream leadership (guiding 4–5 analysts)
- Stakeholder management (Business, IT, PMO, Operations)
- Cross-functional communication & facilitation
- Team-oriented, approachable and highly collaborative
- Requirements clarification, functional design & feasibility review
- Business architecture for Private Banking & Investments
- End-to-end process understanding & complexity assessment
- Strong domain expertise across banking products and core systems
- Solution-oriented mindset with architect-level technical insight
- SDLC design, release scoping & prioritization frameworks
- Value-for-money assessment & business case evaluation
- Roadmapping, dependency analysis & capacity planning
- Quality assurance of business demand (scope, clarity, impact)
- Migration governance & reconciliation oversight
- SQL (data analysis), Power BI, advanced Excel
- Process modelling (BPMN), documentation & reporting
- Testing methodology understanding (SIT/UAT/regression)
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail & structured problem solving
Languages
Slovak
Native
English
Advanced
Czech
Advanced
Hungarian
Advanced