FAVOR OGUNLAJA
CALGARY
Summary
. Perceptive Senior Business Analyst with 5 years driving successful business processes for fast space oriented companies. Dedicated to maximizing impact of key performance metrics to enhance and expand business operations. Known for leveraging both macro and micro-scale analyses to generate holistic images of ongoing business operations for immediate actionability.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
Canada Revenue Agency
05.2021 - Current
- 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.
- Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
- Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
- Worked with team leads and managing leadership, establishing robust talent pool with focus on people and continuous improvement.
- Effectively supervised team performance by implementing measurable metrics to assess delivery of requirements.
- Mentored teams and streamlined [Type] techniques through evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support agile methodology implementations.
- Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
- Analyzed performance metrics to identify opportunities to increase sales.
- Developed diverse reporting packages to meet individual needs of sales, marketing, product management and senior leadership.
- Reduced corporate expenses by streamlining incentive and demand processes across regions.
- Created new analytical systems to boost vital business metrics visibility.
- Collaborated with internal business partners to implement commission arrangements.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs.
Business Analyst
Global Strides Inc
11.2020 - 04.2021
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
Junior Business Analyst
The Brenda Strafford Foundation
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Worked one-on-one with clients to improve [Type] specifications.
- Assisted [Type] departments and [Type] staff to improve client satisfaction.
- Researched competitors to build report of rising trends in [Type] markets.
- Created detailed [Type] reports from [Type] research for review by development team.
- Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - General Management
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, AB06.2016
Skills
- Web-Based Reporting Tools
- Integrated Reporting Information System (IRIS)
- IBM Watson
- Customer Experience Control
- Scrum Methodology
- Deficiency Reporting
- Forecasting and Planning
- System Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- UAT Support
- Operational Efficiency
- Process Flow Diagram Creation
- Test Plans and Cases
- Business Tracking
- Business Requirements
- Requirements Definition
- Functional Requirements Specification (FRS)
- Agile and Scrum Environments
- Work Organizing and Prioritizing
- Atlassian JIRA
- Business Software Applications
- SQL
- Analytical Tool Implementation
- Agile Principles
- Operations Analysis
- Regulatory Reporting Requirements
- Consumer Trends
- Functional Improvements
- Client Meetings
- Methodology Implementation
- Information Flow Management
- Business Solution Development
- Business Recovery and Sustainability
- Test Case Scenarios
- CRM Systems
- SWOT Analysis
- Business Process Mapping
- Acceptance Criteria
- Solution Testing and Implementation
- Product Development
- Gantt Charts
- Six Sigma Methodologies
- Needs Assessment
- Fraud Detection
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Traveling & Relaxation
I love traveling due to nature of my work and I love to relax to the fullest mode when the opportunity comes.
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
Canada Revenue Agency
05.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
Global Strides Inc
11.2020 - 04.2021
Junior Business Analyst
The Brenda Strafford Foundation
09.2019 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Arts - General Management
University of Lethbridge
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