Ibidapo Lana
Baltimore,MD
Summary
A Business Program Analyst with a positive attitude and successful experience in eliciting, analyzing, and documenting requirements for business processes and information systems in IT, Business development and financial domains. Extremely detailed and attentive team player with strong analytical, perspective, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Well versatile in managing multiple projects simultaneously while executing project deliverables that meet client's satisfaction with a high level of accuracy and punctuality.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Business Analyst
ASRC Federal Holding Company: NASA Affiliate Contractor
08.2022 - Current
- Collect and analyze financial data to identify trends and discrepancies.
- Utilize advanced Excel functions such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs and macros to streamline manual tasks associated with data entry and analysis.
- Develop budgets and forecasts breakouts to align with functional area leads, project managers and lead engineers requirements for life-cycled projects.
- Develop complex financial models for forecasting, budgeting and analysis utilizing Excel.
- Advise senior leadership team on strategic technical decisions and cost savings opportunities.
- Execute sensitive analysis to evaluate financial decision scenarios.
- Execute in-house cost estimates for contract proposals for future fiscal year projections.
- Complete action items and calls as they arise, such as variance analysis, mid-year reviews and quarterly status reviews.
- Monitor and analyze costs and variances for contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants on a programmatic scale.
- Develop high level financial status reports for all headquarter analysts within the program on a weekly and monthly basis
- Led training sessions for new-hire analysts on advanced analytical techniques and reporting tools.
- Facilitate smooth month-end close processes by efficiently reconciling accounts and addressing discrepancies promptly.
Technical Business Analyst/ Change Management Specialist
ASRC Federal Holding Company: NOAA/NESDS affiliate Contractor
05.2021 - 07.2022
- Worked closely with Change Management lead to create overarching assessments and recommendations for the benefit of the enterprise as it transitions to cloud transformation.
- Facilitated Bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings with Federal lead directors, deputies, and branch managers.
- Researched and developed strategic guidelines, policies, and playbooks for the enterprise to follow during the transition from on-prem to the cloud.
- Worked side by side with change champions to identify risks and impediments within Business Processes, Workforce Management, Governance Framework and Stakeholder Engagement.
- Worked closely with directors, deputies, branch managers and chief scientists to identify fedRAMP tools to utilize in the transition into the cloud.
- Responsible for creating Jira and Confluence knowledge-based needs analysis requirements for all program offices transition into the cloud.
- Supported and lead collaborative JAD sessions to understand requirements and formulate strategic approaches.
Functional Business Analyst
Stack- IT Solutions
06.2017 - 05.2021
- Lead the effort to effectively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and capture functional requirements to efficiently support a Business Process Re-engineering project for an organization.
- Conducted monthly application review meetings with End Users, to gather and document business needs and translated them into functional requirement document (FRD).
- Collaborated with developers and subject matter experts to establish technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Collaborated with administrators and developers on various projects that contained an online retail platform application.
- Participated with software developers to create a dynamic application with the back and front-end databases for retail platform application.
- Worked closely with developers and end users to ensure that the SQL commands created to organize/store data in the back-end reflect and communicate thoroughly with the front-end client side on retail platform application.
- Instituted an ETL process with developers to help access and analyze data efficiently by using Informatica software.
Business Analyst
MKIT Consulting
08.2016 - 04.2017
- Facilitated the Joint Application Development (JAD), and Requirements Gathering sessions with Stakeholders/clients, SME's and System Owners in order to capture the direction of the business requirements, processes and system requirements for various projects.
- Prioritizing development backlog, planning releases, planning sprints, and driving requirements/user stories.
- Monitored projects through the SDLC process using the Agile/SCRUM methodology.
- Lead the effort to effectively deliver requirements and data-driven recommendations to stakeholders and client's through documents such as Functional Requirement Documents, Business Requirement Documents, traceability matrices, Use Cases, Test Cases, Process Flow Diagrams, GUI Interface designs (Mock-up screens).
- Worked independently with users to ultimately define and create concise detailed Functional and Non-functional requirements on a daily basis.
- Worked with end-users to interpret the customer business needs and translate them into application and Non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate with developers and SME's to design database schema's by creating multiple functional process charts, relationship entities, SQL commands and write-ups within DrawIO.
Education
B.S. - Business Administration: Finance
The College of New Jersey
Trenton, NJSkills
- Microsoft Office
- Google Workspace
- MS Visio
- Gliffy
- Jira
- Confluence
- Oracle
- DrawIO
- Putty
- PeopleSoft
- Agile Methodology
- Waterfall Approach
- Traceability matrices
- Smartsheet
- Strategic financial planning
- Data collection & research
- Budget support
- Variance analysis
- PowerBI
Certification
Business Communication Program, Cornell University: eCornell, 2022-05-01
Timeline
Program Business Analyst
ASRC Federal Holding Company: NASA Affiliate Contractor
08.2022 - Current
Technical Business Analyst/ Change Management Specialist
ASRC Federal Holding Company: NOAA/NESDS affiliate Contractor
05.2021 - 07.2022
Functional Business Analyst
Stack- IT Solutions
06.2017 - 05.2021
Business Analyst
MKIT Consulting
08.2016 - 04.2017
B.S. - Business Administration: Finance
The College of New Jersey