Junior Business Analyst

RAYMOND TAIWO

Lagos, Nigeria Mobile: +234**********

**************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-taiwo/ PERSONAL PROFILE

A high-performing junior business analyst with experience in assessing organizational data, creating user stories, and visualizing reports for clients and stakeholders. Adept in business process modeling, research, and requirements gathering tailored to help improve business and product development processes. With spectacular problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills, I can confidently boost the efficiency of operational tasks and provide innovative, sustainable solutions to support projects and senior staff. Experienced in using Microsoft Office suite packages, data visualization tools, productivity tools, and process automation tools. Committed to continuous learning and seeking an opportunity to leverage my skills to help achieve organizational goals.

CORE SKILLS

Soft Skills: Requirements gathering, Team Collaboration, Elicitation, People management, Agile methodologies, Data Analysis, Project Support, Business Analysis, Business development modeling, Strategy, Information organization, Web3. Tools: Power BI, Trello, Jira, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), SQL, Microsoft Office 365, Google Suite. WORK EXPERIENCE

Business Development Manager Mar 2023 - Present

QoinPal

• Formulated a 6-month product development roadmap to align with the company’s goals and business strategy using Jira, Lucidcharts, and Google slides.

• Conducted a stakeholder analysis, researched 4 major cross-border payment platforms, and provided insights on cryptocurrency product markets that help inform product development decisions.

• Developed 4 epics with over 20 user stories and their acceptance criteria to capture software features to be integrated with the Qoinpal web app using Jira.

Project Manager (Contract) Nov 2022 - Present

Talli Transport

• Implemented a reliable and efficient method of project tracking and managing over 15 workflows in the company using Trello.

• Resolved 3 major transportation problems the company faced, including a lack of reliable manpower, improper maintenance of company vehicles, and client management which led to a 100% increase in proficiency of service delivery.

• Monitored and coordinated onsite activities during 24+ pickup and delivery of client goods Data Analyst (Internship) Dec 2019 – Feb 2020

KPMG NIGERIA

• Gathered and collected over 5000 bank population data units, carefully cleaning and removing inconsistencies to improve overall data quality.

• Generated queries and reports from the KPMG insights centre guest data and created over 20 dashboards, visualizing the corresponding data using Power BI Desktop and Power BI service.

• Automated the data visualizations and reports by connecting them to their application programming interface and data source files.

• Collaborated with team members and the operational manager in developing a detailed commercial and operational analysis of all bank ATM outposts in Nigeria using the UiPath studio automation tool. Technical Lead Jul 2016 – Sep 2016

Strategic Outsourcing Limited

• Managed a team that consisted of 10 people. Devised and proposed strategic plans to reach a wider range of potential customers, leading to a 75% increase in sales.

• Documented and maintained data of 100+ customers from the team to track daily progress and curate a weekly sales report to the team supervisor.

EDUCATION

University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria.

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. Dec 2016 – May 2023 Relevant courses: Process Optimization, Process Analysis, Engineering Management, Operational Methods, Statistics. CERTIFICATIONS

• Scrum Fundamentals Certified, SCRUMstudy, 2023.

• Career Essentials in Business Analysis, Microsoft, 2023.

• Agile Requirements Foundations, LinkedIn, 2023.

• The Complete Business Analysis Fundamentals course, Udemy, 2022.

• RPA for Business Analysts, Ui Academy, 2020.

AWARDS

KPMG Scholarship Award, 2018; Chevron Scholarship Award, 2018; Overall Best Mathematics Student, Iju Senior Grammar School, 2015.

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