SUMMARY OF SKILLS:

• Financial Research
• Financial Analysis
• Trend Forecasting
• Strategic Relationships
• Target Marketing & Penetration
• Sales Presentations/ Closing
• Project Management
• Effective Improvement
• Efficient Communication
• Planview
• JIRA
• Ms Project
• Ms Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master (Cloud Migration)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the preparation of the Project Scope, Schedule and Budget
• Ensure proper and effective documentation of Statement of Procedures/Work (SOP)
• Work with the Product Owner and Development team to ensure adequate time slots are provided for all Scrum Ceremonies
• Attend daily stand up meetings and Sprint Retrospectives to remove impediments distorting the progress of the Scrum team
• Creating and tracking of issues in JIRA and ensuring all change in requirements are documented in JIRA
• Initiate weekly status call with the IT and Business project managers to keep track of open items and document next line of actions.
• Working with clients and internal partners to resolve problems, and define best practices to prevent future errors
• Ensuring adequate information regarding the progress of the project and status of all issues are disseminated to all stakeholders
• Provide graphical representations to senior management regarding the velocity of and the performance of the Scrum team
• Identify Risk and ensure all open items are tracked in the Risk Register and mitigated as proposed through the Risk Management Plan

Confidential

Collateral Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Design and publish appropriate metrics for operations control.
• Work as trusted liaison internal business partners, IT teams and vendors.
• Develop plans and activities to implement the defined scope. Identify and schedule project activities and assign the roles and responsibilities.
• Work closely with Reg W finance, SEC reporting, credit risk and legal teams to understand changes to existing regulations and stay abreast of new regulations and the impact on the collateral team.
• Testing, training and implementing systems and communicating feedback to upper management
• Partner with business associates including operations, technology and change management to redevelop end to end infrastructure and future state processes ensuring key mile stones are met with quality deliverables
• Participate in IT projects for the regulatory reporting team in other to comply with external regulatory authorities
• Working with clients and internal partners to resolve problems, and define best practices to prevent future errors

Confidential

Derivative Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Process all levels of CCP/bilateral Derivatives trading activities including SWAPS, FX, and FUTURES.
• Work closely with investment managers and brokers to ensure trades and cash have been processed as instructed
• Monitor risk triggered by credit events and market news and the impact against daily positions
• Modeling of trades and verification of prices on Bloomberg terminal
• Reconciliation of stock and cash positions
• Working with clients and internal partners to resolve problems, and define best practices to prevent future errors
• Assisting with any new client issues and Client On - boarding.
• Assisting with ad hoc audit requests and compiling MIS reporting.

Confidential

Business Analyst (Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with vendors to ensure the effective implementation of Agile Methodology
• Anticipated problems and proactively resolved them to ensure the required Milestone was achieved
• Evaluated software development processes and made recommendations as needed
• Developed Agile training techniques for new staff hires
• Defined project roadmaps and delivery plans (GAP ANALYSIS)
• Escalated risk and issues to project board
• Managed Client's expectations on project development regarding the definition of done
• Communicated project status to the team and a wide range of stakeholders (Daily Stand-ups)

Confidential

Business Analyst (Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated creative problem solving and solid judgment/decision making
• Managed clear expectations and understanding by establishing clear timelines and managing documentation requirements
• Exhibited adherence to policy and procedures as established Service Level Agreements
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Tracked and communicated team metrics and sprint/release progress to teams and management
• Worked with internal and external teams to remove roadblocks to project and feature delivery
• Interfaced and effectively communicated with both business and technical resources
• Proactively advocated for quality using processes and automation such as continuous test and continuous integration

Confidential

Project Manager (Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Established and lead program level cadence and program level ceremonies Release Planning, Backlog reviews, Scrum of Scrums, release train retrospectives
• Prepared schedule and budget estimations and technical proposals for new project bids using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Effectively communicated progress and milestones in the form of KPIs and Velocity metrics
• Worked with the Product Owner to position priorities and define acceptance criteria
• Facilitated discussions, decision making, and conflict resolutions.· Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
• Understood backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Ensured self-organized team's continuous improvement- Monitor and coached
• Challenged the team to implement operational improvements
• Served as communication liaison between the team and Product Owner
• Provided PMO guidance to business units and ensured system integration whilst adhering to project management best practices

Confidential

Market Intelligence Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitored economic data for trends to develop capital market expectations
• Tracked inter-bank markets
• Understood and monitored current financial global occurrences
• Identified regulatory policies and market developments that may affect the financial market
• Ensured that information was properly stored for easy retrieval
• Uploaded various reports and the daily Nigerian financial snapshot on the portal which have proven useful for our clients
• Enhance, build, and negotiate business partnerships with incumbent, new and prospective clients
• Consulted senior management team on budgeting and financial strategy