Tayo Oriowo
Jimboomba,QLD
Summary
Detail-oriented and highly motivated Business Analyst with over 5 years of experience translating business requirements into technical solutions as well as analysing processes and driving dynamic change within key areas of a business. Polished in formulating business improvement strategies and overseeing new technology and system implementation, i have had the opportunity to implement different initiatives across different domains. This includes the roll out of new systems and software, enhancing existing processes with the aim of achieving continuous improvement, increasing value and return on investment (ROI). My experience cuts across finance, E-Commerce, Supply Chain, telecommunications, Health, and Disability services.
My core competences and attributes include strong leadership, application design, cross-functional collaboration, problem solving skills software testing, and staff/user training for large-scale complex systems. I have great focus and passion for discovering business problems and working independently and within a team to provide or recommend business solutions. I am adaptable, articulate and result driven, a problem-solver with honed skills and ability to manage projects, collaborate with stakeholders to deliver complex or large solutions including ERP solutions.
I have valuable experience working within the waterfall and agile environment and applying both methodologies during the software development lifecycle as applicable.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst
Able Australia
Hobart, Tas
06.2020 - 08.2023
- Created detailed process flows and user stories to document system requirements and design solutions.
- Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, cases, and results matrices to validate system functionality.
- Conducted interviews with subject matter experts to gather information on existing systems and procedures.
- Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to define requirements for new projects.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to elicit and document business requirements
- Designed and delivered technology solutions aligned to business objectives
- Leveraged existing technology and identify new ones for business solutions.
- Coordinated User accepting activities(UAT) with stakeholders and business users
- Led strategic initiatives to replace existing finance system with Oracle NetSuite as the core ERP application
- Led Agile scrum teams to successfully implement NetSuite resulting in streamlined finance and reporting processes.
- Developed and executed a robust management plan to facilitate a smooth transition for end users by conducting training sessions, and preparing user guides
- Developed execution/go live plans, milestones, and activity breakdowns to stakeholders
- Created user stories and acceptance criteria for agile project development
- Created business process mapping and notations using flow charts, swim lanes, process flows.
- Developed business cases to support implementation of identified solutions
- Developed reports and dashboards for senior management for analysis
- Developed and maintained systems, and integrate with relevant company platforms
Technical Business Analyst
Department of Education
Melbourne, VIC
05.2018 - 09.2020
- Gathered and documented business requirements from stakeholders by conducting workshops and interviews.
- Analyzed current processes, identified areas for improvement, and developed solutions to increase efficiency.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as developers, project managers, quality assurance, and others throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Offered decision-makers ROI and cost-benefit projections to guide project development and implementation.
- Worked on dimension modelling for data warehousing and integration
- Collaborated with system owners, data engineers and database administrators during the mass injection stage of the data warehousing project
- Managed end-end IT projects, including system upgrades, migrations and integrations for clients in education and health sector.
- Conducted thorough needs assessments and feasibility studies to determine most suitable technology solutions for clients specific requirements.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies which includes sprint planning, daily stand up, backlog refinement, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
- Gathered KPI definitions to implement Performance Reporting
- Monitored source systems functions in deployed departments
- Facilitated requirement gathering from the process owners
and stakeholders - Liaised with the product owner and SMEs in maintaining the
product backlog
Business Analyst
Andela
New York City, New York
02.2017 - 04.2018
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions with cross-functional teams to understand business needs, analyse processess and document as user stories to be implemented by development team
- Organised workshops, and conducted interviews to understand business goals and epic/user story level detail.
- Developed reports using SQL queries to track progress against key performance indicators.
- Evaluated business processes for improvement opportunities through automation or streamlining.
- Managed complex projects across many areas within the business.
- Spearheaded the development and implementation of successful Salesforce CRM pilot.
- Monitored projects through SDLC process using Agile/Scrum Methodology.
- Acted as an intermediary between the business and the technical team to translate business requirements to technical solutions.
- Performed data analysis, data mapping to ensure data accuracy and maintain data integrity.
- Work independently with users to define concepts and clarify functional and non-functional requirements to the software development team.
- Managed, prioritised, estimated the product backlog in collaboration with the product owner.
- Analysed business information systems, translating compliace language and processes, exercising significant initiative where practices and direction are not clearly defined.
- Presented complex technical concepts in a clear manner suitable for non-technical audiences.
- Liaised and built relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align strategies, assess change impact and identify opportunities for growth/improvement for people and process
- Provided post-implementation support and addressed user inquiries, resulting in increased user adoption and overall system efficiency.
- Conducted users’ acceptance testing (UAT) in conjunction with software development team with stakeholders and business users.
Education
Master of Science - Professional Accounting
Kings Own Institute
Sydney, NSW07.2019
Graduate Certificate - Human Resource Management
University of Newcastle
Newcastle, NSW09.2016
Skills
- Campaign Performance Tracking
- Quality Assurance
- Customer Needs Assessment
- Workflow Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Data Mapping
- Strategic Planning
- Requirements Gathering
- Business Process Improvement
- Staff Training and Development
- Needs Assessments
- User Acceptance Testing
- SAP
- Process Optimization
- Database warehousing
- Data analysis skill
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Data migration
- Application programming interface (API)
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile and Water fall Methodology
- Strong Analytical Thinking
- Facilitation and Presentation
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication
- ERP Implementation
- Strong critical thinking
- Writing test plans
- Problem Solving
- Training and Support
- Active Listening
- Attention to details
- Risk Analysis
- Emotional Intelligence
- AI proficiency
- Change Management
- Defect Management
- Microsoft Office Suite
Certification
- Professional Scrum and Product Owner (scrum.org)
- Professional Srum Master 1 (Scrum.org)
Tools
- Jira
- confluence
- Microsoft visio
- Miro
- Draw.io
- Lucidchart
- Power BI
- Microsoft excel
- Azure devops
- Trello
Timeline
Business Analyst
Able Australia
06.2020 - 08.2023
Technical Business Analyst
Department of Education
05.2018 - 09.2020
Business Analyst
Andela
02.2017 - 04.2018
Master of Science - Professional Accounting
Kings Own Institute
Graduate Certificate - Human Resource Management
University of Newcastle
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