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HUMPHREY TONY-OSA

Product Manager
London

Summary

Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of SaaS and digital products. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Product Manager

BARCLAYS
London
04.2017 - Current

Served as Product Manager for the Barclays Wealth digital programme: Barclays Banking app for Wealth and Private Bank and online portal - Barclays One

  • Collaborated with the UX/UI team, solutions architects, API team, development team and business product owners to ensure the requirements were agreed and signed off and planned into the development sprint
  • Facilitated backlog prioritisation sessions to ensure the BA team works on prioritised backlog as per business needs
  • Demonstrated strong attention to detail to ensure requirements were tracked correctly for each sprints using JIRA
  • Collated and analysed business objectives and document functional requirements, translated into requirements and solution definition documents
  • Led daily BA scrums, sprint retrospective and sprint planning sessions


Served as lead for for deploying Swiss Avaloq Front End Platform (AFP) (strategic Loan Booking application) for Private Bank UK, Private Bank Jersey and Private Bank Ireland clients


  • Worked as the lead for the securities backed lending and real estate financing project with an aim to digitise Securities backed lending and Real estate financing via digital channel (Barclays Mobile Banking) for Private Bank clients
  • Utilised influencing skills to guide the team from idea to execution, owned requirements, and scope in partnership with business stakeholders, lead the team in the right direction
  • Translate processes to collaborate with Solutions Architect to formulate To-Be architecture state

Senior Product Manager

PROGNOSTORE
London
01.2016 - Current
  • Product Roadmap and Strategy: Defined high quality product roadmap based on organisational strategy and vision – to deliver a point of sale, Inventory Management and Analytics software for small retail businesses.
  • Product Owner: Product owner in a Scrum team, including backlog grooming, triage and prioritisation, and cross-functional coordination. Created detailed user stories used to create product feature specifications. Managed backlog by creating a prioritised list.
  • Team Leadership: Leading a cross-functional group of product managers, designers, and developers to deliver on the product roadmap.
  • Customer Focus: Designed the Customer Feedback Loop that incorporates one-on-one customer interviews, group surveys, and summarising questionnaires results to ensure product development is in line with customer needs and expectations.
  • Design: Translate requirements into detailed functional design including creating wireframes. Worked closely with design lead on UX/UI, to review designs and provide design feedback in InVision as well as provide final sign-off for all designs. Managed the bi-weekly design meetings.
  • QA/Testing: Designed the test process, created test cases, and performed QA for feature releases in both dev and prod environments while ensuring bugs are fixed and improvements implemented in future sprints.
  • Integrations: Managed multiple integrations including; Payment Express, Paystack, Authorised.Net, Stripe and Xero.
    Customer Onboarding: Designed and implemented the customer onboarding process.
  • Content Management & Training: Managed all content including website, Help Centre and application. Trained sales and customer support teams on product.customer support teams on product.

Business Manager

BARCLAYS
09.2014 - 12.2015
  • Managed the overall administration of people, resources, and infrastructure to ensure the successful day-to-day running of the Shared Services
  • Includes designing the FTE attestation process and Purchase Order request, approval and tracking process
  • Designed the programme cost reporting process and performed cost reporting and analysis for investment spend across programmes, providing financial insights into project delivery.

Business Manager

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
11.2013 - 09.2014
  • Managed the system implementation process
  • Collaborated with the Development team including performing user acceptance testing before system roll out for new reporting tool, Harbour, an Oracle based reporting and analytics portal
  • Devised robust processes and procedures for financial management of global projects
  • Support annual planning and managing the monthly forecast process
  • Devised the headcount reporting process which was implemented across global teams.

Business Analyst

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
07.2011 - 10.2013
  • Gathered requirements from the Finance, PMO, HR and Property Management teams to ascertain the specifications for the cost reporting tool
  • Designed the business logic and processes
  • Designed the user interface based on the user requirements to ensure simplicity and ease of use
  • Performed user acceptance testing for reporting tool
  • Redesigned the month end reporting process.

Business Consultant

HGE Capital
06.2010 - 07.2011

Secondment Senior

Deliotte & Touche
09.2008 - 03.2009

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied Accounting

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford
06.2005 - 06.2008

MSc Professional Accounting - Accounting

University of London
London
07.2020 - 06.2021

Skills

  • Agile frameworks
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Accomplishments

  • Led the design, development and launch of a point-of-sale and inventory management SaaS software for small to medium businesses in emerging markets and the U.K. Includes integration with payment, accounting, and e-commerce solutions.
  • Designed and implemented a new Headcount Reporting tool to efficiently manage c.1000 colleagues.
  • Delivering step changes to the quality and efficiency of Project reporting and forecasting while reducing the reporting process by 14 days.
  • Reduced invoice payment period by designing and implementing a new Invoice Management process thereby achieving the Balanced Scorecard target of 86 percent up from 46 percent.

Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Certification

ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Product Ownership

Timeline

ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Product Ownership

09-2021

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

11-2020

MSc Professional Accounting - Accounting

University of London
07.2020 - 06.2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

02-2020

Certified Scrum Master

11-2018

Product Manager

BARCLAYS
04.2017 - Current

Senior Product Manager

PROGNOSTORE
01.2016 - Current

Business Manager

BARCLAYS
09.2014 - 12.2015

Business Manager

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
11.2013 - 09.2014

Business Analyst

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
07.2011 - 10.2013

Business Consultant

HGE Capital
06.2010 - 07.2011

Secondment Senior

Deliotte & Touche
09.2008 - 03.2009

Bachelor of Science - Applied Accounting

Oxford Brookes University
06.2005 - 06.2008
HUMPHREY TONY-OSAProduct Manager