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Elmer M. Balce Jr.

Elmer M. Balce Jr.

Senior Business Analyst
Mandaluyong City

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Summary

A professional of 10 years IT industry experience with extensive work as an E2E IT Business and Systems Analyst. Has strong client communication, analytical and collaboration skills with proven results to plan and drive the whole project and its team members. Also skilled in AI tools, data analysis, BA documentation, process optimization and supporting business decisions and improvements across multiple industries (e.g. Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Banking, Insurance and Financial Services).

Overview

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2
Languages
6
6
Certifications
15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior BA

APW Tech
Makati City
11.2025 - Current
  • Capturing detailed requirements from business requirements documentation, integration specifications and workshops/meetings
  • Leading and managing requirements, walk through and demos with key business stakeholders and technical teams
  • Translating requirements into high quality user stories with supporting artifacts including mock-ups/wireframes, workflow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and data mapping specifications
  • Translating requirements into high-quality user stories with supporting artifacts including mock-ups/wireframes, workflow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and data mapping specifications
  • Created acceptance criteria that aligned with build requirements, ensuring clarity and quality in deliverables
  • Analysing and facilitating in the design of software solutions
  • Guided team members through project tasks
  • Facilitated workshops to achieve project outcomes

1) TAMI (Technical Assistant Messaging Intelligence) Chatbot Migration

2) AskIT Copilot Chatbot with ServiceNow integration

3) IRM (Indonesian Resident Mission)Vehicle Reservation App

Senior BA

Equicom Savings Bank
Makati City
06.2025 - 11.2025
  • Facilitated requirements elicitation workshop, presenting findings to stakeholders for informed decision-making.
  • Define business processes in consultation with business users.
  • Design and present potential solution to stakeholders.
  • Develop necessary requirements document for the project.
  • Develop prototype based on agreed requirements.
  • Coordinate with testing team and assist users with User Acceptance Testing.
  • Monitor and manage bug fixes/issues and their resolution.
  • Collaborated with vendor(s) to clarify requirements, design solutions, and ensure quality assurance.

Senior IT BA

Capgemini Phils. Corp
Taguig City
08.2024 - 12.2024
  • Understand clients’ business processes.
  • Responsible for managing multi-level relationships with clients.
  • Managed ongoing support for applications; prioritized issues and worked with customers to address their business needs effectively.
  • An end to end Business Analyst working closely both in client and technical team to deliver a project focusing on API integration from our bank client to different banks nationwide.
  • Formally document prioritized solution requirements that are aligned with technical and business feasibility plan and execute acceptance Testing.
  • Document API processes and integrations all related to the Bank’s transactions.
  • An end-to-end Business Analyst working closely both in client and technical team to deliver a project focusing on API integration from our bank client to different banks nationwide.
  • Formally documenting prioritized solution requirements that are aligned with technical and business feasibility plan and execute acceptance Testing.
  • Act as the representative and be the client's "single contact".
  • Analyzed and documented API services utilized by the bank.

Senior IT BA

Tata Consultancy Services
Taguig City
06.2023 - 07.2024
  • Leads, Determines, Elicits, analyzes requirements, recommends solutions and delivers an integrated, end-to-end IT solution to the business community.
  • Built, enhanced, and maintained simple to complex systems to meet business needs while monitoring and coaching business systems analysts at all levels in delivering business analysis tasks.
  • Functionally supervises IT project team members and ensures that deliverables are completed within agreed schedule and budget.
  • Understands global and future technology landscape, uses technology extensively in work. Able to perceive technology impacts and problems before they happen.
  • Leads the analysis of business requirements, facilitates designs sessions with team to define the solution and recommends the appropriate IT solution.
  • Assess business process and system inefficiencies and offer advice on possible business process and system improvements.
  • Leads the preparation and ensures that system requirements are aligned with user expectations.
  • Collaborated with developers to implement requirements, providing guidance to testers during system/integration testing and user acceptance testing.
  • Reviews and signs-off the System Test Strategy and System Test Cases to ensure completeness and correctness.
  • Monitors and tracks all phases of the project. Communicates with project team/stakeholders on the status of system projects and related issues on a regular basis and prepares progress reports within agreed timeframes.
  • Plans the activities, timetable, deliverables and resources for small systems projects and leads the team to complete the assigned tasks following agreed schedule and budget
  • Reviews plans and progress of different work groups to ensure work is coordinated and continues to meet overall project objectives.

Achievements

  • Automated monthly reporting for the bank by standardizing data mapping in SAP, reducing human error and time required for report completion.
  • Able to implement an ETL process to automate the existing business processes.

Senior IT BA

Collabera Digital
Makati City
09.2022 - 05.2023
  • Translate business requirements or high-level user stories into detailed user or technical stories and acceptance criteria that can be efficiently implemented by the agile development team with minimal additional input.
  • Collaborated with internal teams to resolve client issues, ensuring clear and timely communication
  • Interacted with business owners and IT to identify, interpret, and document requirements for improved project alignment
  • Collaborate with internal teams for issue resolution communication with clients
  • Work with team members to proactively identify, communicate and resolve issues.
  • Work independently with minimal direction.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and scripts to ensure software quality and functionality.

Achievements

  • Able to create user stories defining the process transformation agreed by the bank, process maps, user manual which aims to integrate the insurance products of the banks to different third-party applications both in mobile and web.

Senior IT BA

Surbana Jurong Private Ltd
Mandaluyong City
04.2021 - 09.2022
  • In charge of Enterprise-wide systems, processes and business domains.
  • Maintained expertise in assigned function to provide sound recommendations on business needs and identify automation opportunities.
  • Leads the analysis of business requirements, facilitates design sessions with team to define the solution and recommends the appropriate IT solution.
  • Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during System/Integration Testing and/or User Acceptance Testing
  • Reviews and signs-off the System Test Strategy and System Test Cases to ensure completeness and correctness.
  • Functionally supervises IT project team members and ensures that deliverables are completed within agreed schedule and budget.
  • Monitors and tracks all phases of the project. Communicates with project team/stakeholders on the status of system projects and related issues on a regular basis and prepares progress reports within agreed timeframes.
  • Plans the activities, timetable, deliverables and resources for small systems projects and leads the team to complete the assigned tasks following agreed schedule and budget
  • Assisted users in preparing comprehensive business cases that align with project objectives.
  • Assess business process and system inefficiencies and offer advice on possible business process and system improvements.
  • Monitored and tracked all project phases, communicated status updates to project team and stakeholders, and prepared timely progress reports.
  • Assists users in the preparation of business cases.
  • Reviews plans and progress of different work groups to ensure work is coordinated and continues to meet overall project objectives.
  • Created timelines, user stories on every feature and provided support after deployment.
  • Improved the existing processes, user Interface and algorithms being used by the apps

Mid IT BA

Vertere Global Solutions
Makati City
01.2020 - 03.2021
  • Interacts with business process owners and clients, both external and internal, to gather business requirements and identify solutions for new and existing applications.
  • Conducts BUR walkthrough sessions with sponsor, stakeholders, SMEs and project team.
  • Prepared detailed BUR documentation, capturing all requirements at the appropriate level of detail according to established standards.
  • Ensures that all detailed BUR artifacts are delivered within project timelines.
  • Obtains sign-off/approval of detailed BURs from all required signatories.
  • Provides support to the respective teams for BUR clarification during development and testing phases.
  • Resolved callouts and issues related to business requirements by collaborating with stakeholders, SMEs, and affected teams.
  • Reviews and provides feedback on traceability of BURs to technical/testing artifacts

Achievements

  • Able to enhance the existing major apps used by UNILAB in both asset management and packaging systems. Provided a major revamp both in front-end and back-end processes.

Business Analyst

Teqnio Inc
Pasig City
12.2018 - 12.2019
  • Identified and documented needs of multiple stakeholders to align project goals.
  • Facilitating the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
  • Understanding the needs of multiple stakeholders.
  • Guided business stakeholders in envisioning future processes and necessary changes for alignment.
  • Helping the business stakeholders envision the future and how their work will need to change to support the future.
  • Creating, analyzing, and validating detailed functional specifications.
  • Facilitating design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.

Performing presentations during client meetings.

  • Led analysis and documentation of Mundipharma’s eBudget system to ensure comprehensive understanding and implementation.
  • Delivered a new application from scratch with complete documentation.

Technical Specialist

Concentrix
Mandaluyong City
06.2017 - 10.2018
  • Working as Technical Specialist that supports a financial software and does troubleshooting for escalated calls from clients.
  • Collaborated with technical team to clarify escalated issues, documenting and creating tickets to streamline problem resolution.

Achievements

  • Was recognized as one of the top performers for the year 2018 as a technical specialist due to continuous support for the technical team and its needed documentations.
  • Assisted international clients, particularly in the US, through calls, chats, and emails to address technical inquiries.

Business Analyst/Product Owner

Accenture Phils.
Mandaluyong City
03.2014 - 03.2017
  • Worked as a Business Analyst/ Product Owner in our Company that specialized in the full functionality of our Internal web Apps and receiving customer feedback.
  • Addressed client issues related to application usage.
  • Create user stories, FSD and flow charts to translate requirements readable to clients and technical team.
  • Provided level 2 production support for collaboration tools, conducting troubleshooting, application performance testing, and client education.
  • Led cross-functional teams in developing data-driven strategies to optimize project outcomes and drive client satisfaction.
  • Performed level 2 production support to all Collaboration tools that we are using which includes high-level troubleshooting, application performance testing and client education.
  • Do client facing if there are issues in the applications they are using.

Inbound Customer Service

Omniglobe International
Quezon City
01.2012 - 02.2014
  • Processed online orders for internet, TV cable, and home phone services for AT&T customers.
  • Assisted US clients over the phone, documenting their orders accurately and efficiently.
  • Achieved personal performance goals consistently throughout tenure as an Inbound Customer Service Representative.
  • Mentored new hires through training initiatives, providing shadowing opportunities to enhance their learning and adaptation to the role.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology

Camarines Norte State University
Philippines
01-2011

Skills

Project Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Cross-functional leadership

SQL

JIRA

Salesforce

ServiceNow

MS Azure Dev Ops

Requirements elicitation

User story writing

Business process analysis

Acceptance criteria development

UAT coordination

Product roadmap planning

Backlog prioritization

Release planning

Change management

User acceptance testing

Gap analysis

Affiliations

  • Association of Information Technology Professionals

Software

JIRA

Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Copilot Studio

MS SQL

MS Azure DevOps

DrawIO

ServiceNow

Active Directory

HTML 5

Atlassian Confluence

API Postman Collections

Swagger Editor

Sharepoint

Certification

Information Security and Awareness Training

Interests

AI Tools

Basketball

Bicycle

PERSONAL QUALITIES

  • God – fearing
  • Hardworking
  • Respectful
  • Responsible
  • Trustworthy
  • Cooperative
  • Versatile
  • Cheerful

Timeline

Senior BA

APW Tech
11.2025 - Current

Senior BA

Equicom Savings Bank
06.2025 - 11.2025

Senior IT BA

Capgemini Phils. Corp
08.2024 - 12.2024

Senior IT BA

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2023 - 07.2024

Senior IT BA

Collabera Digital
09.2022 - 05.2023

Senior IT BA

Surbana Jurong Private Ltd
04.2021 - 09.2022

Mid IT BA

Vertere Global Solutions
01.2020 - 03.2021

Business Analyst

Teqnio Inc
12.2018 - 12.2019

Technical Specialist

Concentrix
06.2017 - 10.2018

Business Analyst/Product Owner

Accenture Phils.
03.2014 - 03.2017

Inbound Customer Service

Omniglobe International
01.2012 - 02.2014

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology

Camarines Norte State University
Elmer M. Balce Jr.Senior Business Analyst