Senior Business Analyst

Adedapo (Ade) Elegbede

A: ****, Bathurst Street, North York. Ontario T:519-***-**** E: ******.**@*****.***

SUMMARY

A Senior Business Analyst with 15 years’ experience and a proven track record of

analyzing and documenting detailed requirements, liaising with senior management and key project stakeholders, proposing recommendations and supporting the implementation of complex solutions to solve business problems. Extensive knowledge and experience in process improvement within multinational corporations in industries ranging from oil and gas to finance. Key achievements include assessing and mitigating risks which have saved the company’s bottom line also managed and implemented projects valued at over $400m.

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Business Process Modeling Tools – Use Cases, Data Flow Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.

•Documentation & Presentation Tools – Created Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Project Status Updates and Senior Management Presentations using Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint.

•Project Management Methodologies – Agile & Waterfall Model.

•Data Analysis Tools – Microsoft Excel, Basic knowledge of SQL

•Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Framework

•Project Tracking Tools – Microsoft Project, JIRA

•Document Management Tools – Document Deliverables Register, SharePoint and other bespoke tools

•Requirements Planning & Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst Feb 2018 – TILL DATE

RHOG Solutions Incorporated, Guelph, Ontario.

Project - Electronic Funds Transfer Reconciliation

Responsibilities:

●Conducted requirements analysis, documented detailed requirement specifications for the reconciliation platform including data flow models while liaising with clients including geographically dispersed stakeholders.

●Identified gaps in the current reconciliation solution and recommended alternative solutions to meet the business needs.

●Elicited requirements, facilitated requirements reviews, workshops, presentations, and demos to validate the requirements and obtain sign off from key project stakeholders.

●Responsible for assessing, reporting and making recommendations to mitigate risks with the existing reconciliation process, saving the company an average of $25,000.

●Coordinated and supported the implementation of the reconciliation project throughout the development, testing and release cycles by liaising with the development and quality assurance teams also ensuring that the solution was delivered to schedule and budget and that it met the business needs.

●Provided regular project status updates to key project stakeholders, highlighting risks, issues and dependencies and tracking them until they were resolved.

●Contributed to the organizations ongoing development of standardized project management practices and procedures in line with the Waterfall project management methodology.

Business Analysis Manager Jan 2013 – Feb 2018

Sifax Group of Companies. Lagos, Nigeria

Projects 1) Microsoft Dynamics Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation

2) Bonded Container Terminals

Responsibilities:

●Implemented 3 bonded container terminals which was a $42 million-dollar project. I liaised with domain experts on the current business processes within the terminal operations and documented the current state.

●Conducted a gap analysis of the terminal operation business processes and elicited the requirements from both internal and external stakeholders.

●Documented both functional and non-functional requirements and proposed a suitable design and new functionalities for the future state.

●Communicated software limitations and functionality constraints to non-technical stakeholders using business process diagrams, mock-ups and models to provide a prototype of the future state solution.

●Performed financial analysis and identified synergies and potential opportunities for growth and investments for the organization. I also communicated my recommendations to senior management via presentations in a clear and concise manner

●Performed root cause analysis on terminal operations to identify the causes of outages, triaged reported issues, documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and implemented permanent solutions to prevent them from recurring.

Lead Operations Analyst Jan 2006 – Dec 2012

Sifax Group of Companies. Lagos, Nigeria

●Supervised the day to day running of the operations team ensuring projects were managed effectively to schedule and on budget.

●Analyzed and documented business requirements for internal operations projects.

●Liaised with clients and resolved queries escalated by the clearing staff.

●Monitored intraday and end of day clearing processes to ensure all breaks were resolved in a timely manner.

Regional Sales Analyst Jan 2004 – Dec 2005

Global Gas & Refining Ltd. Nigeria

●Maintained client relationships and accounts by providing support guidance and responding to all customer inquiries in a timely manner.

●Developed sales strategy and allocated accounts on closed sales to sub region leads

Project Supervisor Jan 2003 – Dec 2004

Shell Petroleum Development Company (Global)

●Developed a sales strategy and allocated accounts on closed sales to sub region leads

●Successfully implemented a $400m project for a gas plant and associated facilities which resulted in the rapid organizational growth and expansion.

●Managed project documentation by building a repository of key project documents in a Documents and Deliverables Register (DDR) managing versions and updates and ensuring only authorised personnel were granted access to the register.

EDUCATION

BSc Hons. Politics, Economics and Philosophy

OAU University, Nigeria 2001

MBA, Marketing

University of Lagos, Nigeria 2015

Professional Courses

Diploma In Web Programming 2002

Diploma In Business Analysis 2015

Volunteer Initiatives

Guelph Community Connector May 2018

Guelph Community Health Center, Guelph

Responsibilities

●Worked with staff and other volunteers to analyze the data in database systems to ensure its accuracy

●Connecting community members with local health and social resources.

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