Mathieu RomainIndependent consultant

Senior Business & Functional Analyst

BA Lead – Project Management – Regulated environments

I transformcomplexityinto clarity.

I work on large-scale transformation programmes. I get to the heart of what the business needs, design precise functional solutions and work with business and IT all the way to delivery.

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  • 13+ yearsof experience

  • Projectswith high stakes

  • A lasting bridgebetween business and IT

Mathieu in front of a glass wall showing a transformation unfolding: vision and objectives, then products and offers, then processes; below them the systems, the data and the teams; everything converging on rollout and adoption.

01My experience

13+ years on thesystems that runinsurance.

These assignments taught me to handle projects where systems, processes, data, business rules and teams are tightly interlinked. I keep the big picture in view, coordinate the analysis and keep the documentation clear, so that business and IT stay aligned all the way to delivery.

  • Core systemreplacement

    Modernising core business systems

  • Migrations &digitalisation

    Reshaping processes, products and customer journeys

  • Complexprogrammes

    Systems · teams · dependencies and stakeholders

  1. 2013 – 2016

    Business Analyst

    Service Management

  2. 2016 – 2022

    Business &Functional Analyst

    Core SystemReplacement

  3. 2022 – 2023

    Business Analyst& Project Manager

    New product ·Packaged solution

  4. 2023 – 2025

    BA Lead

    Portfoliomigration

  5. Since 2025

    Business Analyst& Project Manager

    Digitalisationprojects

02My expertise

Analyse in depth.Structure. Deliver.

From functional analysis to steering the work, I step in where things need to be understood, structured, prioritised and coordinated, so that business needs become solutions IT can actually build.

Understand first.Then simplify.

  • Core expertise

    Business & Functional Analysis

    Getting to grips with complex subjects quickly, challenging requirements and turning them into a clear, workable functional solution.

    • Understand and challenge requirements
    • Design the functional solution
    • Document rigorously, with traceability
    • Support testing and UAT
    • Requirements
    • BPMN
    • Screens
    • Testing

  • 02

    BA Lead

    Leading teams of analysts and raising the quality of both the analysis and the documentation.

    • Review and challenge the analysis
    • Coach analysts and help them grow
    • Put standards and templates in place
    • Align ways of working
    • 5 – 7 analysts
    • Athora

  • 03

    Prioritisation & Backlog

    Keeping control of what needs analysing, scoping it and prioritising by value, complexity and dependencies.

    • Scope what needs analysing
    • Prioritise by value, complexity & dependencies
    • Organise the backlog and make it visible

  • 04

    Project Management

    Setting up the project framework, coordinating stakeholders and keeping progress on track through to delivery.

    • Set objectives and priorities
    • Plan and coordinate the work
    • Manage dependencies and risks

When people call me in

  • A transformation or digitalisation programme is starting, and the existing processes have never been mapped.

  • You are migrating a system or taking over an application estate, and the analyses are piling up with no one holding them together.

  • Your analysts each work in their own way, and the documentation is inconsistent from one topic to the next.

  • The business knows exactly what it needs, but IT has nothing it can build from.

See how I work

A method, the right tools, deliverables that get used

03Beyond insurance

Specialised expertise.Transferableskills.

Replacing a live system, working under regulatory constraints, aligning departments that do not talk to each other: the problems are the same in industry, services, the public sector and healthcare. Only the business domain changes.

Diagram: an "Insurance" bubble on the left, from which ribbons converge on a single point and then fan out towards five sectors, industry, services, public sector, healthcare and other sectors. What transfers: core systems, transformations, complex processes and regulatory environments.

  • Replacing a live system

    Migrating without disrupting the service, with the gaps identified before work begins.

  • Responding to new regulation

    When regulation changes: identifying what it affects across processes and systems, and delivering on time.

  • Getting business and IT talking

    Translating business needs for IT, and IT constraints for the business.

04Additional skills

Two natural extensionsof what I do.

Complementary skills I bring in as the context requires, alongside my core expertise.

Process & Organisation

I analyse processes, roles and interactions to understand how things work today and to find the improvements worth making.

  • BPMN
  • Roles & responsibilities
  • Optimisation

Web & Digital

I also design bespoke websites and business applications for small companies and independent professionals, starting from what users need and how they actually work.

Different contexts.The same commitment to clarity.

05Let's talk

Start with your context.

A project, a question, a complex transformation? Let’s talk it through.

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