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Dayo Abiola 077******** adatez@r.postjobfree.com

Dayo Abiola – Business Analyst

Fiander Lane, Salisbury SP1 077******** adatez@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayo-abiola/ Professional Profile

Bilingual, versatile, resourceful, and self-motivated with considerable experience in project support and delivery. Effective as a team player and contributor to find cost savings opportunities, design new business processes and supply data insights to support business goals. Supportive in change management, transformation initiatives and business as usual activities with focus on resolving any problems. Key Skills

• Agile/waterfall

methodologies

• Organisational skills

• Requirement gathering

• Interpersonal skills

• Order to Cash process

• Accounting skills

• Project Management

• Train the trainer scheme

• Benefits Realisation

• Facilitation

• Data Analysis

• Business Analysis

• Change Management

• Process modelling

• Stakeholder Analysis and

management

Career Summary

United Kingdom Research & Innovation – Business Analyst/Senior Project Manager March 2019 – Till date Programme Management Office

Project 1 - Workday HR & Finance system - Benefits Review Plan and Baseline development Reviewed the Critical Success Factors with a view to developing a measure to assess the benefits of Workday post implementation. Also produced a Baseline and Benefits Review Plan to measure and track benefits and support the transition to business as usual.

Project 2 - HR & Finance Future Shared Services cloud based solution – Digital Transformation Facilitated workshops to gather functional, non-functional, business, and technical requirements and expand them into user stories, user journeys and business process models ensuring the needs of the stakeholders are logged and validated for “as is” and “to be” processes while feeding into other workstreams such as User Experience Design, Continuous Improvement and Business Change

Project 3 – Governance Structure setup and SMART Objectives and Deliverables for National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)

Used investigative and research techniques to analyse and recommend the best governance model to fit the soon to be Quantum Computing Centre Also analysed the organisation’s business case, mission, strategy, goals, project deliverables and baseline to recommend modifications, confirm the link between them and ensure the objectives were S.M.A.R.T (Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timebound) Project 4 – Verto Toolset – Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Gathered requirements to identify the best tool for reporting on projects and worked with developers to implement the solution

Key achievements:

• Created a survey to gather feedback around improvements, customer satisfaction and lessons learnt. This was regarded as the highest participation survey of 50% with the next best of about 11%

• Member of the team that got recognition for our business analysis efforts on the £35 million project

• Improved stakeholder engagement by 50% which led to higher quality requirements gathered at workshops

• Suggested a successful idea for our workshop which saved on time and cost per workshop Various Accounting projects temporary assignments Aug 2018 – Mar 2019

(Mizkan and Deliveroo)

Abiola Ltd (Financial Services) – Self-employed as a Retail Foreign Exchange Trader Mar 2017 – Till date Travelling and sabbatical prior to starting a family Sep 2016 – Jul 2018 MERCK (Pharmaceutical) – Payments & Credit Analyst Dec 2014 – Aug 2016 Project – Finance Migration (Hull to Feltham)

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• Reviewed and investigated problems relating to payments and credits in both the Accounts Payable and Credit Control teams

• Identified problems/inefficiencies and recommended changes needed to create improved standard operating procedures and policy documents to senior stakeholders

• Practiced continuous improvement techniques by analysing business problems which could be resolved by implementation of automated systems and/or modifications to business processes

• Facilitated monthly credit control and accounts payable meetings with Salesforce team to understand and successfully resolve queries and problems or supply updates Key achievements:

• Improved my business partnering skills by translating management data to non-financial audiences, challenging the status quo with colleagues and senior managers, building relationships, and understanding the business

• Completed detailed assessments of the credit reviews/proposals for new/existing businesses, which resulted in unsecured credit stopped before approval, thus reducing overall bad debts figure by 30%

• Contributed to the successful migration from Hull to Feltham for all accounts receivable and accounts payable activities including user acceptance testing JD Edwards and SAP functionality

• Initiated the development, implementation, review, and adoption of new collection policies and streamlined business processes to save time and money

Earlier experience:

Look Ahead Care & Support (Not for profit) – Income Analyst (Contract) Jan 2014 – Nov 2014 Various Assistant Accountant/Assistant Management accountant temporary assignments Apr 2013 – Jan 2014 Winterhill Largo PLC (Legal, Surveying & Financial Services) – Junior Analyst Jul 2011 – Mar 2013 Various Accounts Assistant/Sales Ledger temporary assignments Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 Lanes Group Plc (Engineering) – Cash Allocations Analyst Sep 2009 – Aug 2010 Centrica Plc (Oil and Gas) – Finance Reporting Assistant Sep 2006 – Jun 2009 Professional Development

Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering 2019 Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice 2019 Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis 2019

PRINCE 2 - Foundation 2019

PMI – Benefits Realisation Training 2019

Learn to Trade – Forex, Stocks, Indices and Commodities Course 2017 BPP – ACCA Part Qualified 2013

QA-IQ Excel VBA Certificate of Achievement 2008

Education

M.Sc. Finance – Leeds Beckett University 2007

B.Sc. Accounting – Babcock University 2003

IT Skills

• SAP ERP, SUN, Oracle, JIRA, SQL, JD Edwards AS400, Dynamics AX, SAS, SAGE 50, PEX, Navision, Microsoft Teams, Visio, SharePoint, Excel, Word

Additional Information

Driving: Full UK driving licence

Interests: Weight training and travel enthusiast, Psychology interest - Insight and MindGym courses have increased awareness of various personalities and enhanced ability to work across management and department levels. Bloomberg

References

References available on request

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