Oleg Afanasyev
@oleg-afanasyev
Senior Business & Systems Analyst optimizing products and processes through requirements, analytics, and Agile delivery.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Business & Systems Analyst with 5+ years in IT, product, and analytics roles across document automation, large-scale internal systems, and payment domains. I act as a liaison between business stakeholders and development teams across the full lifecycle—from market research and discovery to requirements, delivery, and support.
I focus on process optimization and reporting automation, consistently improving execution. Across key projects, I’ve driven a 20–40% reduction in task lead times and labor costs, accelerating delivery by leveraging strong requirements elicitation, documentation, and Agile delivery practices (Scrum, Kanban).
My experience includes Jira/Confluence enhancement and support (including optimizing Scrum artifacts and business workflows), implementing a payment gateway between legal entities and partner banks with faster payment confirmations and fewer payment errors, and leading greenfield internal products through MVP scoping, non-functional requirements alignment, and UX/wireframing. I also build data-driven KPI and dashboard systems (SQL, Tableau, Power BI) to support decision-making and forecasting.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Business System Analyst
ROLF
Sep 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 6 months)
Led analysis & system design for Jira+Confluence; 900+ US & bugs in 10.2022–03.2026 → company's SDLC accelerated on avg by 35%/Y
• PM functions: planning development hours, prioritization, roadmap management, backlog grooming → saved 1/3 of the project budget
• Payment gateway between ROLF & banks — automation of banking documents
• BA/SA for 2 greenfield products, full dev. cycle
And much more...
Lead Business Analyst
Samolyet
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021 (0 months)
BA lead for EDM automation project covering 5 key company departments:
- reduced the lifecycle of key closing documents for construction projects from ~2 weeks to 2–3 days, saving the company 2-3 $mln per year;
- automated 20+ document types in a single system, reducing manual operations by 70%
- sprint execution transparency +40%
- 350+ BPMN diagrams & tech specs, backlog → grooming time -30%
Lead Business Analyst
DRT (E-Tags in Retail)
Aug 2020 - May 2021 (9 months)
Managed BA for products in payments and electronic shelf labels (hardware + web/mobile UX) for 8 large retailers.
• Collected & formalized business requirements from stakeholders → 160+ development and UX tasks.
• 25+ process diagrams (BPMN, UML, ERD) & maintenance of 250+ documentation artifacts → new developer onboarding accelerated from 2 weeks to 4 days.
• Supported implementation...
Business Analyst
VEPAY
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020 (4 months)
• Market/competitor analysis in e‑commerce: studied 25+ payment services, formulated 10 product proposals, 7 of which were implemented.
• 30+ technical specs for web+mobile products; monitored implementation by development teams.
• 15+ BPMN interaction diagrams, instructions, and glossaries for stakeholders.
• Tested functionality against requirements, communicated with clients (10+ demos).
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Hanken School of Economics
Master's Degree, Quantitative Finance
2010 - 2013
Completed a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance at Hanken School of Economics from 2010 to 2013.
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
Specialist Degree, Economic Geography
2004 - 2009
Earned a Specialist Degree in Economic Geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University from 2004 to 2009.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
Tableau
DBeaver
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server
drawio
Lucidchart
Gmail
Figma
Slack
Telegram
Jira
Python
PowerShell
RabbitMQ
Bizagi Modeler
Confluence
Trello
Gemini
Microsoft Excel
Notepad++
Docker
OpenVPN
Miro
Skype
Zoom
TeamViewer
Microsoft Power BI
SQL
Microsoft Visio
Airtable
Mattermost
SoapUI
Neon
Cursor
DeepSeek
Claude Code
pgAdmin
ChatGPT
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Location
Authorized to work in
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