I am a disciplined, analytical, and astute business analyst with years of experience facilitating the delivery of digital transformation and business change projects across several business focus. I excel in end-to-end project management with expertise in requirements elicitation, gap analysis, workshop facilitation, business case creation, risk management, sprint planning, testing, and product backlog grooming. I am a persuasive communicator, adept at influencing and negotiating with senior leaders and stakeholders to deliver customer-centric and cost-effective IT and Business Transformation solutions. I am skilled in leveraging unified modelling language (UML) and business process mapping (BPMN) to transform requirements into tangible deliverables. Proficient in Scrum, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Agile/Waterfall/Wagile methodologies
Key Projects
1. Customer Relationship Management Optimization to improve customer experience index and cross the 18% satisfaction mark, which has put the brand in the lower rungs of industry rating
2. Delivery of Corporatepay platform which was designed to aid corporate payments for companies through banks, using a common payment route.
· Elicited business and functional requirements, coordinated validation exercise, and maintained requirement traceability matrices (RTM).
· Wrote user stories from validated requirements and developed acceptance criteria that was deployed in testing
· Analyzed the feasibility of the new proposed digital product and created epics and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria, ensuring the system designs are fit for the needs of the customers.
· Assessed the complete process flow of the proposed product, deploying SQL skills in analyzing and interpreting data.
· Prioritized requirements using the MoSCoW approach and oversaw the maintenance of a ranked backlog of user stories and defects based on business value.
· Supported the development of user training documentation for end users to ensure effective and efficient use or adoption of the new systems, which led to increased efficiency in business processes.
· Responsible for the functional design and management of any change.
· Created detailed business process maps, flowcharts, and documentation to illustrate the AS-IS and TO-BE processes.
· Developed use cases and user stories to define specific scenarios for CRM integration and how it impacts different user roles to ensure that the integration meets the needs of various user groups.
· Led data migration endeavors by collaborating with the data team to gather data requirements and establishing guidelines and expectations for data cleansing, transformation, backup, and mapping in preparation for data migration.
· Engaged with the test team to develop test scenarios and test cases and conduct testing of the integration.
Good project and time management skills Data Cleansing and management Proficient in Data Analytics & Data Science Risk Assessment and Management Multi-tasking and Analytical skills
Technical Skills: Business Process Modeling, Requirements Engineering, Benefits Evaluation and Delivery, Gap Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Change Management, Requirements Elicitation Techniques, Microsoft Office, Visio, Python, Data Analysis, Slack, Software Development, Power BI, Draw IO, Data Cleansing
Work Skills
Ability to work both in waterfall and agile environments
Stakeholder Engagement & Management
Key Projects
1. Develop and deploy an automated stock management & returns system for a trading company with branches across Eastern Europe and parts of Africa.
2. Development and implementation of an online learning platform.
3. Development and deployment of a white-label, e-ride-hailing solution.
Key Responsibilities
· Engage excellent technical writing skills to create Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specifications Documents.
· Liaise with stakeholders, obtain business requirement signoff, and manage their expectations to accomplish business goals and objectives.
· Direct large-scale business system analysis involving analyzing existing sales processes in the RFP-driven cycle and developing AS-IS process maps while coordinating Gap Analysis to help in transitioning to TO-BE scenarios.
· Engage UX designers and deploy Balsamiq and Visio capabilities to create AS-IS and TO-BE maps, user-friendly wireframes, prototypes, and mock-ups for the sales platform while mapping out the customer journey to identify pain points and improvement areas.
· Work with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts in the relevant departments to define needs and requirements for the learning and development function change.
· Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements, and conduct playbacks to stakeholders to review, agree, and obtain sign-off.
· Write and prioritize user stories and manage the backlog to reflect the most valuable stories in priority order.
· Strong stakeholder management defined through a detailed RACI Matrix.
· Create and manage RAID log to identify, capture, and discuss risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies affecting the data requirements so stakeholders could be better briefed for decisions.