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AYO OYEDIRAN

Kitchener,ON

Summary

Seasoned business analyst with about 8 years' experience supporting business-critical technology projects in Banking, Insurance and Fintech. Release-planning specialist trained in advanced Excel modeling. Creative solutions architect with real-time problem-solving flexibility.

Adept at conducting analysis to uncover business, functional, and non-functional requirements to deliver actionable solutions in line with stakeholders' expectations. Passionate about transforming and improving business processes to ensure alignment with strategic organizational goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

RBC Bank
09.2021 - 01.2023
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
  • Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
  • Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
  • Hands on experience in IT software development with in depth knowledge on all phases of SDLC gained from successful completion of various complex projects.
  • Participate in product backlog prioritization, user story development, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective sessions in line with Agile Methodology.
  • Develop and maintain project documentation such as BRD, SRS, project workflows, Wireframes, use cases documents and data maps as well as managing these project artifacts using Confluence and Sharepoint.
  • Identify business needs through investigation of current functionalities and processes, acting as liaison between business and technical teams to deliver reporting solution that generates detailed reports on Capital markets equity and debt securities as well as Investment Portfolios while ensuring accuracy, consistency and adherence to regulatory compliance in accordance with IIROC, MFDA and CSA.
  • Thorough engagement with business at every level to draw out requirements on Investments and Wealth Management projects as well as acting as SME to provide expert insights on core functionalities and robust solution delivery.
  • Oversee change request process by conducting impact assessment on budget, timelines and scope as well as documenting change requests against project baseline.
  • Coordinate with QA team in reviewing test strategy, test plan and creating test scenarios and test cases for user stories while assigning tasks using JIra or Trello.
  • Develop detailed process maps using MS Visio and Lucid charts while also designing mockups and wireframes using Balsamiq and Figma to illustrate processes to business and accurately communicate requirements to dev team to avoid ambiguity.

Business Analyst

TD Bank
06.2018 - 09.2021
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations to increase productivity by 50%
  • Drafted business requirements and source sign-offs
  • Organized and developed change management and communication material during implementation/release
  • Captured product feedback and coordinate customization requests
  • Supported the product manager's responsibilities for content creation for communications (internal & external) and stakeholder engagement
  • Acted as liaison and cultivate relationships with various stakeholders and teams to gather critical information, document requirements, and communicate results
  • Collected business needs and challenges, analyze requests, and recommended changes in business process or technology to solve for business needs and challenges
  • Maintained product backlog on behalf of Product Manager
  • Supported with analysis for cost and benefit analysis & roadmap development of the product.
  • Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects and updated involved parties to enhance optimal business flow.
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

Junior Business Analyst

Access Bank Head Office
06.2014 - 05.2018
  • Liaised with operations and technical team to convert business requirements into technical solutions for decommissioning of legacy systems.
  • Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and assessed impact on users and stakeholders to evaluate potential areas for improvement using MS Visio.
  • Maintained test log, wrote test evaluation and documented comprehensive summary report.
  • Supported Product Owner in creating user stories and acceptance criteria for development team to work with to eliminate any form of ambiguity in user requirements.
  • Worked closely with Project Manager in creation of project charter by conducting stakeholder analysis and ascertaining project scope to avoid scope creep.
  • Facilitated business requirements workshops to elicited and document user requirements and maintained requirements traceability matrix.
  • Collaborated with Quality Assurance team in documenting test strategy and test cases for testing functional and non functional requirements, as well as facilitating UAT.
  • Designed and developed Use cases, Activity diagrams, process flow chart and wireframes to articulate ideas to stakeholders and development team.
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
  • Took part in current state business process mapping by conducting interviews with key business stakeholders in Finance and HR to collect information, identifying gaps between As Is and To Be.
  • Liaised with vendors to map business requirements to system functionalities/processes using MS Visio Improved business direction by prioritizing users and implementing changes based on collected feedback. This led to 96.5% user adoption rate, 3 months after "Go Live"

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
05.2014

Skills

User Story Development

  • Cost/Benefit & Gap Analysis
  • Business Process Modelling
  • Use Case Development
  • Wireframing & UML
  • Requirements Elicitation
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Agile/Scrum Framework
  • Critical Thinking
  • Facilitation & Presentation
  • Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence

Certification

Scrum Master Certified [SMC]
Issued by : ScrumStudy
Credential ID - 939277
December 2022



Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

RBC Bank
09.2021 - 01.2023

Business Analyst

TD Bank
06.2018 - 09.2021

Junior Business Analyst

Access Bank Head Office
06.2014 - 05.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Waterloo

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