Olufunso Soleye

I am a highly motivated and detail-oriented Business Analyst with 5 years of experience in analysing business processes and implementing effective solutions. Proficiency in producing justifiable business cases, functional and technical requirement documents, facilitating requirement gathering workshops with key stakeholders and establishing priorities based on essential business objectives and drivers. Seeking a challenging position to leverage my technical skills and business acumen to contribute to the success of an organisation

Project Description: Worked on a software development project to build a Learning Management System and repository to get rid of manual storage of documentation

Key Achievements:

• Identified the purpose and the business needs that drives the migration and the outcomes the business wants to achieve
• Carried out systems analysis to identify the systems that will be integrated and clearly define business processes that can be demonstrated to deliver improvements
• Led requirement workshops to elicit requirements from the business, analyse and document the requirement
• Conducted one to one interview with stakeholders 
• Worked closely with delivery manager to prioritise requirement using MoSCoW prioritisation techniques and transform them into Product Backlog Items and Development tasks for onward grooming into sprints
• Collaborated with the data team to analyse, model, and visualise data
• Identified and document any Data gaps to allow change impact and downstream impact analysis to be conducted 
• Collaborated with solution architects to formulate the functional solution design and ensured that API artifacts developed are captured to show the requirement and identity features.
• Collaborated with developers to write user stories that conform with the INVEST principles and Acceptance criteria using best practice
• Collaboratively worked on JIRA to ensure Epics, User Stories, Issues and Acceptance Criteria are documented in the sprint backlog
• Participated in daily stand up and scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Led the team in creating wireframe, prototypes and user interaction using User Experience (UX) tools such as Balsamiq, Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN 2.0) and Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Created detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications (BPMN, UML)
• Championed the Company’s Business Strategy and transformation objectives
• Provided analysis of existing business processes using standard methodologies, including Lean to identify areas of improvement
• Collaborated with the Project team to create BRD document
• Communicated requirements to the business and IT and ensuring clarity of requirements

Project Description: A business process improvement project geared towards the design and improvement of the Multi Currency Plan (MCP) to enable expansion to other European countries

Key Achievements 

• Led the design and documentation of processes, procedures, capturing business rules, operational guidance, and service monitoring
• Analysed stakeholder objectives and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and provided options for consideration
• Interacting and communicating with users and business stakeholders to understand the current state and provide advice and support on how the future state can be designed
• Conducted discovery workshops and other requirements gathering techniques such as value stream mapping, impact mapping, process mapping and context diagrams
• Documenting functional and non-functional requirements in order to define, prepare and conduct impact analysis
• Analysed the AS-IS and desired TO-BE state of the business in order to identify opportunities and strength that can add value to future state
• Documenting business processes using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). Mapped the AS – IS and TO - BE process using BPMN 2
• Working with project teams to agree and produce deliverables
• Liaised with the sponsors, stakeholders, and system users for the preparation of business and functional specifications as well as the necessary processes, data analysis and functional architecture
• Produced high quality requirements and related artefacts (user stories/customer journeys/personas with a view to produce something quick and minimise rework
• Took the product/solution from discovery through implementation with a view of delivering a minimum viable product using agile/scrum principles and approaches
• Pro-actively evaluated current processes and systems and recommended solutions for continuous improvement
• Gathering and communicating issues as well as using appropriate resources to determine a range of solutions options
• Supporting various teams to achieve business needs where necessary. Investigating impact analysis, system dependencies alongside with change

Project Description: Natixis CIB was planning to migrate 500,000 customers from its IT legacy system onto a Cloud-based core banking platform. Worked with ETL Solution architects to ensure data integrity, data cleansing, Integration/migration solution design document detailing source-target mappings where applicable and Data extraction from source systems e.g., Banking Core, Treasury, and other identified data sources internal or external to the bank where necessary

• Key Achievements
• Drove the timely completion of project milestones with support from the project manager
• Anticipated bottlenecks and escalated as appropriate
• Supported the Business Strategy and change objectives
• Managed and resolved queries arising during design, build, test, go live and warranty
• Performed requirement analysis, documentation, quality assurance, and Prioritised requirements to deliver maximum business benefit within set constraints
• Liaised with stakeholders at all levels and managed their expectations
• Planned and facilitated extensive interviews and workshops with users to understand their pain points
• Created BA delivery plans, RACI Matrix, High Level Requirements, Business Impact Analysis Matrix, Requirement Catalogue, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Scripts, Project Status Reports, Forms/ Templates for application decommission etc
• Designed and validated the “As-Is”, identified Gaps and clearly defined business processes that can be demonstrated to deliver improvements
• Developed business Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using BPMN 2.0, Mock-ups, Wireframes and wrote User Stories that conform to the INVEST Principle to support the Acceptance Criteria
• Designed and reviewed RAIDS log, lesson learnt, project Status report
• Analysed and carried out impact analysis on all change requests
• Built and maintained effective, collaborative, credible working relationships, and active communication channels with all stakeholders
• Facilitated meetings with cross functional teams, both on/offshore to ensure they have a clear understanding of the project deliverables and assisted with Front and Back End Systems
• Provided regular training and facilitated workshops to manage change across the organisation and ensure that users are supported

2018: MSc, Global Management of Natural Resources, University College London (UCL) - (Postgraduate Merit)

2017: BEng (Hons), Chemical Engineering, Aston University – (2:1)