ADERONKE OKUROUNMU
Oakville,ON
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Business Analyst professional with over 10 years of experience. Expertise in delivering digital solutions and automating processes to meet business, technical, and quality requirements. Versatile background in Financial Services, Banking, Retail, and Manufacturing, with the ability to adapt to new industries. Comprehensive knowledge in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance, and Testing. Proactive and collaborative team player focused on delivering value aligned with team and organizational goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Group Manager, Client Reporting
TD Wealth management
05.2021 - Current
- Built a robust issues management protocol that includes assessing and monitoring of statement issues, defining escalation protocols, proactive issue identification, strategic and short-term solutioning, monitoring and reporting.
- Coordinate activities and timelines across multiple teams including vendors, Technology, and business Architecture to ensure completion of statement production across all Td Wealth lines of business. Provide subject matter expertise and swiftly coordinate resolution to all barriers to completion.
- Executed a partnership with business stakeholders to gather, verify and document requirements
- Carried out system analysis and investigation of existing functionality
- Mapping functional requirements in support of technical development and business change
- Acting as Product Owner within an agile software development project delivery model
- Create use cases to outline system functions, Actors, business rules and data elements
- Partner with business to prioritize requirements and manage scope changes to ensure that impacts are assessed, and ultimate business value is achieved
- Participate as a key member of the Agile Scrum team, attend daily stand-up meetings, backlog grooming, sprint planning, support development and Quality Assurance testing
- Coordinate Business Acceptance Testing to validate that the end product meets the business and quality expectations
- Carried out User Research to understand User perspective, document and solution pain points
- Partnered with stakeholders from several Lines of Business to execute journey maps, verify and document current state
- Developed User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Test Cases to facilitate System Migration
- Partner with Product Owners to groom stories and test cases to support migration
- Coordinate with data validation team to continuously inform and enhance model assumptions, reduce outliers , improve data quality and improve business process.
- Charted and planned strategies around migrating reporting from the Legacy system
Business Analyst
Belezza Multiconcept Ltd
06.2018 - 10.2020
- Managed stakeholder needs analysis, eliciting, documenting and validating requirements
- Carried out process analysis, gap analysis and investigation of existing processes
- Liaised with various business Units to elicit and document requirements
- Maintained Agile ceremonies such as Sprint and Product backlog using JIRA and Confluence
- Created Scope Documents and use cases needed for Business Process Management
- Comprehensive analysis of current state to identify gaps in the system
- Worked with Architects/Developers to design and create mock-ups
- Documented Business Requirements and created process flow diagrams and use case diagrams
- Facilitated the development of test plan and BAT
- Documented functional specification requirements
- Facilitated the development of training materials for end users.
Business Analyst, ( Payments and Collections)
Union Bank Plc
05.2014 - 05.2018
- Elicit and document Business Requirements, created process flow diagrams and use case diagrams
- Collaborated with various business stakeholders to verify and validate business need and solution
- Worked with vendor teams to review project schedule and documentation such as Project Management Plan and Schedule Certification Checklist(s)
- Collaborated with project team in developing test cases and user training documentation
- Worked with PO to create epics and broke it down into very clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria
- Maintained the Sprint and Product backlog using JIRA and Confluence
- Worked with Architects/Developers to design and create mock-ups
- Successfully managed the project for deployment of Oracle EBS as the procure to pay module in a top tier Bank and executed the expense centralization project to standardize processing
- Planned and launched the invoice validation team, documented relevant SOPs, provided training, and coaching for new staff
- Built issue management system and escalation protocols.
Business Analyst, (Clearing & Electronic Funds Transfer)
Keystone Bank Plc.
11.2010 - 04.2014
- Facilitated meetings to understand Stakeholder needs and adequately document their requirements
- Collaborated with development team based on client’s feedback to develop solutions that met their needs
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
- Engaged stakeholders in story mapping, documented User Stories on Jira and facilitated collaboration
- Refined and clarified concerns around User stories and epics to improve shared understanding
- Collaborated with Product Owner on Sprint Goals and Development team to meet Acceptance Criteria
- Managed communication between vendors, stakeholders, payment processors and internal stakeholders
- Performed vendor assessment to ensure compliance with service level agreements and regulator standards
- Teamed up with Product Owner to create User Story for Check Truncation Project.
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Obafemi Awolowo University
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
University of Ilorin
Skills
- SDLC Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Iteration
- Problem and Scope Definition
- Release planning
- Product Backlog Management
- Scrum Events- Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews and Retrospective
- Road map development
- Root Cause Analysis
- Facilitation and Communication Skills
- Presentations, Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions, Focus Groups, Walk-throughs
- As-is State and To-Be Models: Process Flow Diagrams
- Elicitation Techniques: Interview, Brainstorming, JAD sessions, Workshops, Surveys, Focus Groups
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management: Stakeholder and Vendor Management
- Documentation & Project Deliverables: User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Use Case Modelling, Mock Ups, Business Requirements Documentation, Requirements Traceability Matrix, RACI Matrix, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Training and Application Support
- Collaboration and Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Share Point, Teams, WebEx, Outlook, Zoom, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, One Note
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Scrum Master Accreditation (SMAC)
- Six Sigma Green Belt
Timeline
Group Manager, Client Reporting
TD Wealth management
05.2021 - Current
Business Analyst
Belezza Multiconcept Ltd
06.2018 - 10.2020
Business Analyst, ( Payments and Collections)
Union Bank Plc
05.2014 - 05.2018
Business Analyst, (Clearing & Electronic Funds Transfer)
Keystone Bank Plc.
11.2010 - 04.2014
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Obafemi Awolowo University
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
University of Ilorin
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