“Natarsha is a highly motivated, organised and disciplined worker.
A valued employee with good interpersonal skills.”Ross Ciesla - Partner and Investment Manager at Veritas Investment Management LLP
Who are we?
Lead by Natarsha Wendt, the Director/Business Consultant of Wendt & Associates, our main focus is to ensure a very high standard of customer service and delivery of services to our end client.
Natarsha’s experience ranges from Lead Business Analysis, negotiating for sponsorship/tenders/new contracts, consulting to sports team/athletes/financial companies, leading change within companies through business process re-engineering, relationship building, managing social media relations and leadership by example.
What do we do?
Our senior business analysts are able to provide consultancy services on a daily, weekly or long-term basis. If your team requires support we can provide ‘at-the-desk’ coaching during key project milestones to help your team meet their goals.
The skills which we bring to the table is Lead Business Analysis, Project Consulting, Social Media Management, Sponsorship negotiations within many fields and much more.
Specialties: Asset Management, Retail Investments, Financial Advising, Relationship Management, Change Management, Social Media Management, Sporting/Race Teams/Athletes
Our Experience
Lead Business Analyst responsible for liaising with clients to implement white label platforms.
Meeting with user groups to gather and analyse and document end user requirements.
- Provide product support and consultation to Bravura Solutions internal and external clients
- Analysing workflow to create process maps and isolate areas of potential improvement.
- Produce Design and Implementation documents suitable for sign off by clients, containing business requirements and functional solutions.
- Developing functional specifications that design and document desired outcome of system enhancements/development.
- Producing technical specifications to communicate user requirements in technical terms to analyst programmers/project team.
- Provide support and mentoring assistance to Business/Test Analysts and Developers as part of project responsibilities.
- Review project documentation for other Business Analysts in order to ensure high quality documentation as part of the standard SDLC.
- Preparing material and providing training and assistance to end-users following implementation.
- Working as a crucial component of a project team responsible for enhancing existing systems or developing new systems.
- Provide timely and accurate reporting to Project Managers on important client issues.
- Working within the Fixed Income Business implementing the Alternate Investment Fund Management Directive
- Research and analysis within the Fixed Income business
- Documenting and implementation of a valuation policy for each Alternate Investment Fund.
As the Lead Design BA for the Adviser and Client Workstreams, my responsibilites include designing the user interface for both the Adviser network and the investor using the platform, documenting business requirements/functional specification documents for our developers to build from, writing test scripts and testing the system and providing training and support to our users internally and externally.
Working within the Legal Division on a Data Migration Project, tactical to strategic.
My role at Newton Investment Management as a Lead Business Analyst is to:
- Support NIM Project Manager(s) on allocated projects by applying business analysis skills.
- Manage the allocated workload and provide regular updates to Project Manager(s)
- Understand, to the level required, Newton’s project process in order that work carried out is in alignment with said process and requirements.
- Act as subject matter expert to the project(s) allocated in all Business Analysis related activities
- Lead business process reviews, guide on change and oversee implementation
- Produce documentation to the standard required
- Participate in training efforts, course building etc as required
- Manage time and tasks based on project priorities
- Provide regular reporting as required and appropriate
- Travelling as required to other sites as project demands dictate
Since joining Newton Investments in December 2009 I have been very fortunate to be part of some very exciting and challenging projects. The first phase of my first project required me to document test scripts, test the system, process map workflows, write procedures and train key staff for the businesses new scanning software and document management system. Upon renewing my contract for another 6 months in June, I was asked to lead a team of 10 people and streamline 6500 client files in preparation for scanning using our new software.
At the beginning of July I interviewed and recruited 10 staff member and began the task of streamlining 6500 client files. My team and I delivered Phase 1 of the project ahead of schedule.
Upon returning from Christmas break, we progressed to Phase 2. Phase 2 is due to complete 30 June, 2011.
My role during Phase 2 of the project has been to Project lead the scanning solution across Edinburgh, Leeds and London. This includes reporting to the steering group, training members of the front office on the scanning solution software and ensuring the project meets its deadline.