ADEREMI IBIDUN, CBAP "Certified Business Analyst Professional"

Business Analyst consultant/Instructor

**** ******** ******* **, ***********, GA 30281, Phone no 224-***-****; ac3eua@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Currently, I have over 5+ years of experience as Business Analyst in diverse domain such as investment banking, loans, Insurance and mortgage banking with various proven ability to work with self organising and cross-functional teams in a wide spectrum of portfolio, Mortgage and financial sectors. A versatile self-statrter with, strong listening, interpersonal skills, quantitative, qualitative analytical, evaluating and analytical skills.

Experience in diverse phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies such as Agile-Scrum and Waterfall-srum.

Extensive experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWORT analysis, Feasibility study, Cost-benefit analysis and Risk analysis.

Experienced in facilitating JAD session involving stakeholders, SME`s, project managers, business sponsors and business users as well as conducting one-on-one interviews, survery/questionnaires, brainstorming sessions, document analysis for requirement elicitation.

Conducted communication between the clients and IT department, involved in gathering, analyzing and documenting Requirements, understand the business Rules and can effectively implement them in Business process flow.

Adept in creating various projects artifacts like Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD/FRD) and System/Technical Requirements Specifications (SRS/TRS)

Thorough knowledge of objects oriented analysis and design using UML diagrams such as Use-Case diagrams, Activity diagrams and Flow chart diagrams.

Experienced in interviewing Business Group, asking detailed questions and recording the requirement in vision Documents & software Requirement Specifications (SRS) that can be understood by both business people and technical people.

Agile-Scrum process facilitation of scrum ceremonies and managing product backlogs.

Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: user stories, velocity, story points, product/Sprint backlog and test driven development (TDD).

Proficient in black-box testing, integration testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing and validation (UAT).

Extensively interacted with the QA Team in executing the Test plans, providing test data and creating test cases.

Strong work ethics, taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities and efficient time management skills.

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

In-depth knowledge of fixed income including equity, asset management, bonds, mutual funds, and securities.

Thorough knowledge of stocks, futures, forwards, swaps, and options

Financial tools such as balance scorecards, benchmaking, and ratio, trend, horizontal, and vertical analyses.

Strong understanding of auto, property, and life insurance.

Bonds such as government, municipal, corporate bonds, and interest rate derivatives.

TECHINICAL EXPERTISE

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, BPMN, Vpository, and Lucid chart

Methodologies/Frameworks: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Spiral

QA Testing Tools: JIRA, MS Test Manager 2013

Documentation Tools: MS Office Suite,

EXPERIENCE

Employer 1, UST Global. Business Analyst March 2016- Present

UST Global (Consulting for Equifax, Wal-mart corporate)Currently consulting for Wal-Mart corporate, a retail giant based in Bentonville AR; one of the biggest in the world. It leverages on its technological cutting edge to analyze its financial actual spending and uses same to make forecast for future spending.

Coordinated daily stand up meetings, managing tasks with teams involved.

Identified business needs and prioritize the most valuable reports;

Translated marketing requirements and product features into software product features and more detailed requirements (e.g., epics, user stories, etc.)

Created product roadmap for various stages and realease throughout project lifecycle.

Conducted SWOT analyses to identify improvement areas and Gap Analysis to understand current business process flow.

Gather business requirements, Write BRDs, functional Specification, User flows, System flows, Technical Specification including API specifications

Conducted JAD sessions with stakeholders and end users, to determine critical business processes and identify key functional requirements for system.

Identfied and suggested different dimension (Slowly changing dimension/rapidly changing dimensions) required for report generation.

Managed Business expectations, facilitating communications and contributing to business satisfaction during and after implementation.

Create UML models such as use case diagrams, activity diagrams and state diagrams in Ms Visio.

Engage with executive leadership to advice of guidance/direction based on independent data analyses.

Hands on experience in converting business requirements into actionable requirement for development teams.

Participated in solution design sessions with leads, designers, and developers.

Involved in story sign-off, launch readiness, bug triage.

Helped define metrics, refine and prioritize reporting, and build the predictive capabilities of Marketing Business Intelligence group

Employer 2, Regcharles Finance and Capital ltd Business Analyst and Scrum Master March` 16-Jan`14

Worked as a Business Analyst for various SME`s clients requesting for loans wherein the application is been processed via primary borrower`s personal information through dynamic questionnaire, orders the credit history of the borrower through credit report angencies and evaluates his income, asset and liabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Performed requirement gathering using both formal and informal sessions through interviewsm NetMeeting, questionnaires, and JAD sessions.

Analyzed, defined, documented, and communicated business requirements to product team and developers by interacting with end customers.

Coordinated with Product Manager on service level agreement for KYC compliance regulations.

Created product plans, and tracked and communicated product status, deliverables, and milestones using Gantt chart.

Contributed towards defining Level of Effort (LOE) and critical path analysis (CPA) using PERT chart.

Led SLA meetings to coordinate with external credit reporting agencies.

Consolidated business requirements with Product Manager, SME, Lead Business Analyst, and Project Manager.

Identified problem definition as part of continuous process improvement using definitions, measurements, analysis, and improvement support organization`s business continuity.

Implemented UML to preapare use cases, process flow, and sequence diagrams from gathered requirements using MS Visio.

Created business requirement document (BRD), systems requirement document (SRD).

Created use cases, user stories, product documentation, and user manual

As a Scrum Master, coordinate with product Owner to priortize user stories in product backlogs.

Led daily scrum meetings and identified impediments faced by team members.

Tracked performance and progress of each sprint cycle

Facilitated daily Scrum meetings, sprint plans, and retrospective meetings at beginning and end of each cycle.

Communicated feedback by stakeholders at Scrum framework meetings to team.

Participated in solution design sessions with leads, designers, and developers.

Conducted user acceptance and functional testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Created consolidated status reports for client and demostrated changes made.

Employer 3, Imperial Homes Mortgage Bank Ltd

Business Analyst and Scrum Master Jan` 14-April`13

Planned and conducted requirements gathering sessions with the business team.

Preapared various artifacts such as use cases, and functional requirement specifications by interacting with end users, project team and the subject matter experts.

Daily cooperation between business people and developers and welcomed late changes into the requirement.

Applied detailed application feature knowledge, architectures and functions to assess scope and impact of business needs throughout analysis and through the completion of all enhancement specifications.

EDUCATION

B SC Economics from university of Ado-Ekiti

CERTIFICATION

Certified Business Analyst Professional.

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