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I am a Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with extensive experience delivering large-scale digital transformations in regulated financial services, including payments, financial market infrastructure, core banking and corporate transactional platforms. I work across end-to-end lifecycles from instruction initiation to settlement and reporting, bridging business, product, architecture and delivery teams to ensure modernised platforms operate reliably in production and meet long-term operational and regulatory expectations.…I am a Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with extensive experience delivering large-scale digital transformations in regulated financial services, including payments, financial market infrastructure, core banking and corporate transactional platforms. I work across end-to-end lifecycles from instruction initiation to settlement and reporting, bridging business, product, architecture and delivery teams to ensure modernised platforms operate reliably in production and meet long-term operational and regulatory expectations.

George Schoonraad

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I am a Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with extensive experience delivering large-scale digital transformations in regulated financial services, including payments, financial market infrastructure, core banking and corporate transactional platforms. I work across end-to-end lifecycles from instruction initiation to settlement and reporting, bridging business, product, architecture and delivery teams to ensure modernised platforms operate reliably in production and meet long-term operational and regulatory expectations.…I am a Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with extensive experience delivering large-scale digital transformations in regulated financial services, including payments, financial market infrastructure, core banking and corporate transactional platforms. I work across end-to-end lifecycles from instruction initiation to settlement and reporting, bridging business, product, architecture and delivery teams to ensure modernised platforms operate reliably in production and meet long-term operational and regulatory expectations.

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I am a Senior Business Analyst and Product Owner with extensive experience delivering large-scale digital transformations in regulated financial services, including payments, financial market infrastructure, core banking and corporate transactional platforms.
I work across end-to-end lifecycles from instruction initiation to settlement and reporting, bridging business, product, architecture and delivery teams to ensure modernised platforms operate reliably in production and meet long-term operational and regulatory expectations.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Fluent

Afrikaans

Fluent

Italian

Intermediate

Work Experience

Senior Business Analyst at Old Mutual

October 1, 2024 - Present

Consultant assigned to the South Africa Transformation program delivering Operations Asset Controls (Reports and Dashboard) pre–National Roll-out for Savings and Investment products. Performed functional analysis and mapping to support migration of legacy policy administration data into the new PAS; defined operational and financial controls; designed asset dashboard; defined data control logic; validated through test scenarios; supported release readiness.

Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst at Standard Bank Group (SA and Rest of Africa)

October 1, 2023 - October 1, 2024

Product Owner/ Senior Business Analyst for the BOL+ Corporate Transactional Banking Platform, refining end-to-end user journeys, defining API-based integration, supporting cloud delivery, ensuring audit, regulatory and reporting data requirements; SIT/UAT/pre-prod support.

Senior Business Analyst at Payments Canada

May 1, 2018 - September 1, 2023

Lead BA on the Lynx RTGS modernization; system-wide requirements; settlement lifecycle use cases; coordination with system integrator and 17 institutions; MX ISO 20022 enablement; interface specs; testing support; contingency planning.

Senior Business Analyst at SIA Spa / NEXI

April 1, 2015 - February 1, 2018

Senior BA on Advanced National Payment System project (RTGS and ACH); defined functional requirements, settlement processing, liquidity optimization; message mappings; supported testing; used Enterprise Architect, XML, BPMN, UML.

Business Analyst at Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Bank / Nedbank / ABSA / Unisa

January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2015

Facilitated workshops across trade finance and corporate banking; produced use cases and functional specs; supported SIT/UAT; contributed to data governance and strategic initiatives; worked with Finacle/T24 etc.