Melis Küçük

Expert IT Business Analyst @Garanti BBVA Teknoloji | MSc Management Engineering @ITU | PSMII | PSPOI

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

💼 Professional Experience (5 Years): 🚀 IT Business Analyst, Corporate Applications, Fibabank (1 year - Part Time) 💸 IT Business Analyst, Treasury Banking, Garanti BBVA Technology (4 years) 🔍 Key Expertise: 🔗 Vostro (foreign banking account management) 💳 SWIFT, EFT 💱 FX Spot transactions 💰 Precious Metals 📊 Market data (Reuters, Bloomberg) 🛡️ Compliance 💡 Skills: 📝 Business analysis 🔍 Software testing 🤖 Test Automation (Selenium) 🔧 Service Testing (Postman, BloomRPC) ⚡ Agile methodology & Collaboration 🔬 Machine Learning 🌟 Achievements: 📈 Highest GPA in 3 Universities 🏆 Leading a large-scale project 🚀 Conducted innovation workshops to promote an innovative mindset across the company 🤖 Active role in the AI working group 🎯 PSM II & PSPO I certifications

Experience

  • Garanti BBVA Teknoloji (4 yrs 4 mos)
    • Expert IT Business Analyst | AI Champion
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Senior Associate IT Business Analyst | AI Champion
      May 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

      *Responsible for Infrastructure of Currency Release, Currency Transactions, Market Data, Currency Position and Vostro. (Vostro module includes payment messages such as EFT and SWIFT messages including MT and MX formats.) *Leading FX trading project *Acting as AI Champion within Treasury Banking, identifying and driving high-impact AI use cases across the entire Treasury domain. *Developing comprehensive scope documents that outline the business needs of Treasury units *Assessing business unit requests in terms of cost, usability, and technical feasibility *Creating detailed functional analyses tailored to business needs and ensuring documentation adheres to company standards *Designing test scenarios and conducting rigorous testing of completed software developments *Collaborating with the business unit to perform UAT on finished developments *Overseeing the deployment of developments into the production environment and ensuring smooth transitions *Providing ongoing support to users after deployment to ensure seamless operation *Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving systemic issues in the production environment to maintain system integrity and performance *Implementing contingency controls for incoming MX, MT Swift and K14, K20 EFT messages using Fircosoft, ensuring compliance and security *Facilitating AI awareness and innovation workshops to accelerate AI adoption within Treasury units.

    • Associate IT Business Analyst
      May 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      *Responsible for Infrastructure of Currency Release, Currency Transactions, Market Data, Currency Position and Vostro. (Vostro module includes payment messages such as EFT and SWIFT messages including MT and MX formats.) *Leading FX trading project *Developing comprehensive scope documents that outline the business needs of Treasury units *Assessing business unit requests in terms of cost, usability, and technical feasibility *Creating detailed functional analyses tailored to business needs and ensuring documentation adheres to company standards *Designing test scenarios and conducting rigorous testing of completed software developments *Collaborating with the business unit to perform UAT on finished developments *Overseeing the deployment of developments into the production environment and ensuring smooth transitions *Providing ongoing support to users after deployment to ensure seamless operation *Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving systemic issues in the production environment to maintain system integrity and performance *Implementing contingency controls for incoming MX, MT Swift and K14, K20 EFT messages using Fircosoft, ensuring compliance and security *Conducted innovation workshops to promote an innovative mindset across the company

  • IT Business Analyst Intern at Fibabanka
    Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr

    •Supporting the Corporate Applications Unit •Analyzing business goals, objectives, and needs •Managing task processes on Jira •Researching alternatives tools for Workplace by Facebook •Determination of service needs via Postman (API Testing Tool) •Performing Data Analysis via SQL Server •Supporting the inclusion of new streams on the Corporate Application; including the independent construction of a new module

  • Business Development Intern at SSB - Savunma Sanayii Başkanlığı / Presidency of Defence Industries
    Aug 2020 - Mar 2021 · 8 mos

    JobHacks is a Intrapreneurship Project carried out under the auspieces of The Defence Industry Presidency (https://www.jobhacks.tech/) •Preparing documents related to business flows •Assisting analyzing business requirements •Supporting the generation of innovative ideas for the JobHacks Project

  • Production Intern at AN-EL ANAHTAR VE ELEKTRIKLI EV ALETLERI SAN. A.Ş.
    Aug 2020 - Sep 2020 · 2 mos

    •Detailed analysis of scrap quantity and cost data via R Studio and Excel to identify the production processes that need to be developed •Supporting the evaluation of quality test results via ERP •Supporting determining material needs via MRP •Supporting time and work study applications •Reporting on the implementation of Lean Production processes •Supporting optimization processes via Lingo