Adetayo Anibijuwon

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Versatile Business Analyst and Project Management Professional with cross-functional experience acquired over the years in diverse areas encompassing:

Project Planning & Execution

Business Analysis

Requirement Gathering

Agile Methodology

IT Operations Management

System Implementation

Budget Management

Issue/ Risk Analysis

Core Banking Solutions

Finacle

Customization

Business Development

Stakeholder Management

Vendor Management

Relationship Management

IT Strategy & Roadmap

Liaison & Coordination

Product Ownership

Quality Management

Team Management

Banking Operations

Branch Administration

Credit Management

Internal Audits

●Core strengths in Project Management and Business Analysis in Software Development Life Cycle involving analysis, design, development, integration support, documentation, implementation, optimization, and maintenance.

●Proven ability in Business Analysis involving research, elicitation, gathering & defining business requirements/user requirements while managing the risks to improve business processes and translating the requirements into IT solution.

●In depth knowledge of Waterfall, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and Rational Unified Process (RUP), as well as data warehouse concepts such as OLTP, OLAP, ETL, Star and Snowflake Schema, data mapping, facts, and dimensions.

●Engaged in migration assessment of trust and custodial accounts from in-house to Broadridge bps platform.

●Adept at eliciting business and functional requirements through 1-1 meeting, interviewing session, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.

●Skills in documenting Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), System Requirement Specifications (SRS), User Stories, and Use Cases.

●Proficient in Unified Modelling Language, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, ER Diagram, Business Flow Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.

●Capability in designing and reviewing Expertise in implementing Test Plans, Test cases, Functional testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing, UAT, as well as maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices.

●Advance knowledge in Finance in areas as capital markets, equities, financial databases, economics, risk management, derivatives contracts, fixed income, asset pricing, bonds tretc.

●Understanding different regulations like CCAR, CFTC and DODD FRANK ACT, Anti money laundering (AML), Know your customer (KYC), and Dodd Frank Act and different reporting.

●Skilled in providing IT consultancy, advisory and deliverables to support the delivery of technology initiatives that enable business groups to meet enterprise strategic goals.

●Proficient in troubleshooting IT problems to ensure smooth project operations and recommending need-based modifications to enhance operational efficiency.

●Lead various process improvement projects within Capital Markets and ensure timely and accurate results of all project deliverables.

●Well versed in managing project implementation in a timely manner involving seamless coordination and transparent communication with all stakeholders at all phases.

●Consummate professional and self-starter, detail oriented, analytical, self-motivated with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

●Good understanding of Equity, Cash management, Capital market, SWIFT, STP and Credit risk, Derivative Securities fundamentals with hands on experience.

●Outstanding organizational skills, interpersonal skills, including ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage increasingly complex issues, monitor performance and problem-solving skills.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION:

●University of Uyo Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

●B. Sc(ed)Accounting (WES Evaluated) August 2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Bank Of New York Mellon, Jersey City, NJ

May 2022 – October 2023

Snr Business Analyst

This is a capital market project for strategic clients. This project was focused on conducting a gap analysis across client advisor portals to identify the gaps specific to clients across all three platforms and confirm which fields are to be migrated to COB 2.0 from 1.0. This project also aims at integrating new fields and enhancing existing fields in client advisor portals for the purpose of collecting investment transactions, reporting and related data for the purpose of tax calculation and client onboarding process.

Responsibilities:

●Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders in an Agile SCRUM environment to improve, prioritize, and support the development, testing and release of functionality.

●Conducted meetings with SME to gather the business requirements, review the requirements, understand the system and workflow, and convert those requirements into functional specification documents.

●Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled, and deliverables are produced within a specified budget, quality, and time.

●Extensive work on financial instruments such as Bonds, Equities, Options, Derivatives, Swap, Securities, Capital markets and CFTC regulations to determine pertinence and consequence on functionality of the implemented system.

●Managed changes to project scope using a change management procedure in coordination with Change Control Board (CCB)

●Involved in Business Impact Assessment (BIA) with project teams to identify what steps and resources are needed to deliver its most essential services and products.

●Organized the project into phases to impose management control using stage-gate reviews such as high-level user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, dimension modeling, data mapping, ETL.

●Responsible for performing complex Credit Risk Analysis to maximize profits and asset growth.

●Involved in business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and proposing solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness.

●Conducted Gap Analysis to compare ‘as-is’ with the ’to-be’ business processes, perform analysis and offer solution recommendations.

●Analyzed bugs using JIRA and interacted with team members in fixing errors.

●Facilitated SIT and CIT by providing test data and test cases and Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients.

●Involved in the creation of use cases for different Line of Businesses (LOBs).

●Coordinated with stakeholders and dev teams to design and provide technology solutions that address business needs, ensuring alignment with requirements and feasibility.

●Worked closely with senior management, partners, clients, and dev team creating initiatives depending on the business’s requirements and needs.

Tools: Agile Scrum, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, MS Excel, Jira, Confluence, MS office Tableau.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation - New York

November 2020- April 2022

Business Analyst

This project was a capital market Broker-to-Broker Trading System: This project was to develop a system to help facilitate the trading of securities between broker - to- broker and institution - to - institutions. This Project was based on managing and customizing a system that provides broker-to-broker dealers with financial account supervision and trading surveillance tools for managing their business. The application can take in data feeds from a variety of clearing firms and present the trade data in an easy-to-use user interface.

Responsibilities:

●Involved in project initiation meetings with IT and Sales division and the middle office teams that coordinate with broker-to-broker traders.

●Documented the workflow and activities of the existing broker-to-broker trade and confirmation process using MS Visio.

●Worked extensively with trade middle office teams to gather the trade blotter details for various financial instruments and created detailed mapping diagrams to link them to the new system.

●Involved in the creation of use cases for the middle or back-office user to view and remark about deviations in trade between brokers.

●Involved in Sprint planning meetings to identify and prioritize product backlogs that included the development of Oracle based database for collecting trade information, algorithm to compare internal trade details with the counterparty trade details.

●Managed the project flow, backlogs, requirements, and test traceability matrix using VersionOne.

●Coordinated with the development and testing team to conduct white box testing on the new application and database systems using HP QC and LoadRunner.

●Involved with middle office and back-office teams to conduct UAT tests on the new system.

●Performed analysis to identify mission-critical business processes, the technology the processes depend on, the impact if those processes cannot be performed and specific performance metrics, such as recovery time objective(RTO) and recovery point objective(RPO)

●Coordinated with other senior business analysts to conduct training sessions to make the users comfortable with the system and functionality.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, IBM Mainframes, VersionOne, HP QC, LoadRunner, SQL

First Republic Bank, Jersey City, NJ

October 2019- September 2020

Business Analyst

The objective of this project is capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. The project was to make enhancements to existing applications of the Fixed Income Trading System. The Fixed Income Trading systems serve the needs of all fixed income asset class trading desks that manage custodian accounts, sub advised funds accounts and institutional investors’ accounts

Responsibilities:

●Acted as the Liaison between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source Applications) and implementation team.

●Designed trade-related workflow for fixed income trading flow through to the settlement and accounting systems.

●Conducted meetings with SME to gather the business requirements, review the requirements, understand the system and workflow, and convert those requirements into functional specification documents.

●Attended day to day project meetings to discuss the outcome of implementation processes, testing efforts, timelines, etc. Conducted and distributed meeting minutes.

●Led the team in IST Testing, Defect Remediation and Solution Delivery.

●Proactively monitored project, identified scope/requirement changes, Identified project impact, notified the management and project team, as necessary.

●Involved in data mapping and data validation and created various data mapping documents.

●Compiles relevant observations from transaction level and recommends consequent review of the Credit Risk Policy.

●Supports the evaluation of the risk impact of each major decision related to credit products and processes, bringing dedicated expertise as part of Credit Risk Policy involvement into projects & activities undertaken by the lending tribes.

●Determined alternatives approaches to Basel II regulatory capital calculations allowing significant capital savings

●Financial Markets and Capital Markets regulations ( Basel, CRR, CRD IV, etc)

●Followed Agile and Scrum methodologies for various project phases Functional requirement document’s approval and signoff

●Worked with Broadridge bps product, from the front -office trading and financing to back-office post-trade processing.

●Worked closely with development and QA teams to ensure the understanding of requirements and implementation meets business expectations.

Tools & Technologies: SQL server, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio.

Wellington Management, Radnor, PA

December 2018 – September 2019

Business Analyst

Wellington Management Company is a private, independent investment management firm. Wellington Management’s global trading platform provides Investors, traders, broker-dealer to place trades and monitor accounts through financial intermediaries.

The project was to enhance a global trading platform which supports buy and sell of various asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, Options, Mutual funds, and ETFs. This platform offers users quick trading capabilities, view account balance and positions, pricing history, current news, real time streaming quotes, portfolio, premium research, customizable dashboard, charting tools, news feeds and access to all the broker’s tools.

Responsibilities:

●Worked closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders in an Agile SCRUM environment to improve, prioritize, and support the development, testing and release of functionalities.

●Interacted with Order Management teams to capture requirements for Project Management and Trading modules.

●Documented history of creating and bringing new financial products to market and monitored all investment instruments in the domestic and global securities market.

●Evaluated data gathered from multiple sources, reconciled differences, and ensured consistent approaches, data interpretation, and results measurements were employed.

●Identified the Data Sources and defined them to build the Data Source Views for easy access.

●Conducted Gap Analysis to compare ‘as-is’ with the ’to-be’ business processes, perform analysis and offer solution recommendations.

●Analyzed bugs using JIRA and interacted with team members in fixing errors

●Facilitated SIT and CIT by providing test data and test cases and Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients.

●Wrote and documented user stories about price-change-policies such as cutting off Commission on Equity and ETF trades.

●Assisted top management with structuring low-cost options-contract and other derivatives trading commissions.

●Partnered with QA Manager and Developer Lead to tackle software defects in a timely manner and keep the documentation up to date.

Tools: Agile Scrum, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, SQL, UML, Jira, Confluence, MS office Tableau, Informatica

PNC Bank

January 2018 – November 2018

Business Analyst

The project was based on customizing the web portal for Financial Advisors in a Wealth Management Platform that integrates resources and aggregates data on a mark-to-market basis, allowing Financial Advisors to conduct investment actions quickly and efficiently. This project involved Data analysis, Data cleansing and Data migration to reporting systems.

Responsibilities:

●Worked extensively with Financial Advisors to acknowledge the business requirements by prototyping and meetings.

●Identified the Data Sources and defined them to build the Data Source Views for easy access.

●Used MS Excel and SQL Server to implement data mapping, data validation, data reconciliation and data enrichment.

●Assisted Financial Advisors to conduct comprehensive reviews including asset allocation, risk management, preservation of wealth, accumulation, and wealth transfer strategies.

●Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled, and deliverables are produced within a specified budget, quality, and time.

●Documented history of creating and bringing new financial products to market and monitored all investment instruments in the domestic and global securities market.

●Maintained RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) for the current business process and proposed changes.

●Developed and implemented test plans and test reports, which included writing and running test cases ensuring all the functionalities, are thoroughly tested.

●Interacted with senior business analysts to conduct training sessions to make the users comfortable with the functionalities.

Tools & Technologies: Visual Basic, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, Client Server, UML, HP Quality Center, MS Project.

First National Bank - Pittsburgh, NJ

November2016 – December2017

Business Analyst

The scope of the project was to implement NICE Actimize (SAM/CDD) solutions according to the requirements of the AML operations of First National Bank. It involved execution of various AML scenarios with respect to structuring of the cash deposits, cash intensive businesses, trade-based laundering, shell companies and trusts, round tripping, Deposits through casino winnings, Fictional Loans. The core objective of the project was to prepare CTR and SARs as per the AML compliance requirements.

Responsibilities:

●Understood the AML compliance requirements by interacting with the compliance department, and SMEs.

●Led the team in requirement gathering and managing the requirements using JIRA, which included questionnaires, interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders, Business users, and compliance department and SMEs.

●Studied the existing KYC/CIP system and prepared the test data for the CDD and EDD based on the inputs.

●Created the data mapping from the transactional data to the Actimize tool.

●Prepared the reporting formats for the regulatory filings for internal use and helped the Actimize team to produce the SAR reports.

●Performed testing on generation of compliance reports (SAR/ CTR) to the regulatory agencies and internal systems

●Understood the business logic, User requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using HPQC.

●Participated in Defect-Review meetings with developers, QAs, managers, and suggested enhancements to the existing application from business perspectives.

●Conducted UAT to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.

Tools & Technologies: Agile, Microsoft Office 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel Pivot and VLookup, Outlook, Microsoft Project, Visio), Actimize, Jira, Sharepoint, HP Quality Center, SQL.

The Arc of Union County - Springfield NJ

September 2015 - September 2016

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Assists in developing and launching new retirement plans for employees as well as converting existing retirement plans from prior TPA’s .

●Manages a wide variety of retirement plans through maintaining direct contact with employees, investment institutions and plan attorneys to implement plan requirements and to oversee the day-to-day operations of each plan.

●Assisted in record keeping such as eligibility for participants, vesting updates, account balances, trust reconciliation, plan allocation, contribution calculation, plan termination, form 5500 filings and compliance work for ADP.

●Operated as the lead point of contact for all matters specific to finances.

●Prepared quarterly valuation folders used to issue participant financial statements and maintained strong relationships with existing employees and internal departments chosen to participate in the 2016 key Contributor Award Program, which is a highly selective program awarded to certain employees.

●Ensure compliance with applicable government regulations including reporting requirements.

●Assisted in building a new system to allow employees who are eligible to enroll into 401k to enroll, the system also allows employees to know if they are eligible or not, depending on how long they have been employed.

Tools & Technologies: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Visio, Jira, Informatica SQL.

First Bank of Nigeria - Island, Lagos

March 2012– February 2014

Jr. Business Analyst

The goal of the project was to build a trading desk reporting system. The main function is to enable the business to generate Trading Activity reports and Profit & Loss reports.

Responsibilities:

●Gather and analyze business requirements through interviews, surveys and document analysis.

●Conducted JAD sessions to facilitate requirements gathering in coordination with multiple teams.

●Documented specifications for the Price, Yield, Coupon, Market value.

●Conducted Business Gap Analysis with respect to proposed enhancements and new requirements.

●Conducted feasibility study through mapping of AS-IS Business processes versus TO-BE business processes

●Trained with the Capital Markets team on the forecasting process of treasury for Cash, Investments & Debt and other Income & Expense.

●Interacted with SMEs in identifying and documenting business needs and created data flow, activity diagrams, and state transition diagrams using MS Visio, and collaborated with production team to identify and map detailed existing processes, identify system gaps, and developed functional requirement documentation (FRD) that supported overall strategy, goals, and objectives.

●Use apa jason to abstract subsections with the body of tables and figures.

●Analyzed data sets which included equities, interest rates, and currencies using SQL.

●Maintained Traceability Matrix for the current business processes and proposed changes.

●Documented test plans and test cases, and ensured that the module was linked to market, and the securities were marked to market on report and presented Back End Testing scenarios by using SQL server.

●Conducted Regression Testing to ensure the generation of certain datasets regardless of parameter selection.

●Functioned as a prime brokerage relationship manager and handled field prime brokerage questions, all prime brokered accounts and filed investor inquiries.

●Provided technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing. Tracked testing issues, maintained test matrix.

Tools & Technologies: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Visio, UML,Quality Center, SQL.

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