Augustine Onijamah

A dynamic Business and Risk Analyst professional with over eight years of experience in supporting system development and business process improvement. Experienced in transforming business and stakeholders’ needs into functional and technical requirements that align with business objectives.

Operational Risk Analyst: May 2023 – Present
NextGen Worship Centre.                                                                                                             Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• Conduct surveys to create data on the center’s service offers
• Carryout periodic diagnostics to determine the capability maturity of operational risk       management in the Centre
• Facilitate awareness workshop among stakeholders
• Project manage the implementation of operational risk management framework in line with COSO

Senior Business Analyst: June 2020 – April 2023
Raw Materials Research and Development Council
• Elicited business requirements from various stakeholders across multiple lines of business
• Led structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs, identified gaps and recommend options
• Led the assessment of business needs, documented and modeled AS-IS and TO-BE business processes utilizing MS Visio BPMN 2.0
• Developed detailed project artifacts such as business requirements documents, business cases, RACI Matrix, Requirements Traceability Matrix, and related project deliverables
• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement
• Supported data mapping between the old and new system
• Documented requirements for RFP and a scoring model for evaluation of vendors
• Created mock-up of new functionalities, developed flow charts, use cases, test cases, user stories, prototypes, wireframes, models, functional diagrams, and descriptions that communicated application design specifications as required
• Coordinated the development and grooming of Project Backlog and User Stories with business and technology partners
• Wrote clear user stories and coordinate sprint planning, daily stand-up, and sprint retrospective meetings
• Created test plans, test cases and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Developed internal training materials and job-aiding materials on streamlined business processes

Business Process Analyst: August 2018 – June 2020
National Space Research and Developmental Agency
• Facilitated requirements elicitation and review sessions.
• Created business process documents and analyzed existing business processes to identify tasks and sub-processes in different lines of business
• Planned and conducted stakeholders review sessions to validate different documented artifacts
• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement and completed gap analysis for the documented current state
• Participated in the implementation of streamlined business processes by providing recommendations to management with findings from analysis
• Created internal training material, job aiding materials on streamlined business processes
• Coordinated and facilitated the delivery of streamlined business processes to audit auditors to ensure compliance with implemented business processes
• Led the analysis of Business processes and Standard Operating Procedures for different product lines

Business Analyst: July 2016 – July 2018
Nengsobin Integrated Services Limited
• Gathered business requirements and facilitated JAD sessions with stakeholders to refine business requirements
• Facilitated interviews and workshops to gather and analyzed requirements
• Reviewed information gathered from multiple sources
• Conducted GAP analysis on current business processes to identify opportunities for operational efficiency
• Led the design and development of business cases, process maps, business requirement documents, test cases, and other project artifacts.
• Developed functional design specifications documents, creating detailed use cases, wireframes, logical statements, and database models
• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Prepared cost-benefit analysis to support system and process changes

Business Analyst: July 2013 – June 2016
Financial Datanet House Limited (FDHL)
• Engaged stakeholders to elicit business requirements
• Performed requirements analysis, documentation, and quality assurance for all deliverables
• Developed business process diagrams and flows.
• Analyzed current and future states and performed gap analysis.
• Analyzed business requirement documents to identify, track, and resolve business system issues and software requirements
• Created and reviewed technical design documents and worked with the development team in the code development process
• Provided support in all phases of projects, identifying, tracking, and resolving technical issues
• Worked closely with QA to coordinate testing efforts
• Facilitated iteration planning meetings, coordinated work within individual sprints and led daily stand-ups meetings, sprint retrospectives and demos
• Actively worked with Product Owner to groom and prioritize product backlog on an ongoing basis to meet release timelines and value to the business
• Coordinated user acceptance testing, reviewed test plans and create test cases

• B.Sc. Chemistry 2007
• M.Sc. Risk Management - University of East London 2012
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt 2023
• Certified Scrum Fundamentals 2023