Catherine Baba
Summary
Dynamic Business Analyst with over 10 years of diverse experience across multiple organizations in the United Nations, and Private sector. My interpersonal skills have served me well by helping me convert ambiguous requirements into well defined working artifacts (like business requirements and functional requirements documents) for my organization to achieve desired outcomes. I enjoyed working to perform GAP analysis on projects. This provided me with invaluable experience gathering requirements from disparate sources and further increasing my confidence. Consequently, I increased my exposure to test scenarios and test cases while collaborating with cross functional teams during UAT process.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
UNDP
Abuja
11.2014 - Current
- Analyzed and assessed client requests to create professional, presentation quality deliverables in the form of dashboards & reports to provide additional insight to any critical indicators.
- Presented the business process workflows to business stakeholders.
- Tasked with coordinating, tracking and updating project issues, risks and change controls that impacted each programme unit.
- Run Ad-hoc reports for management, as well writing SQL queries and upload reports on SharePoint site.
- DocumentedAPI, and BATCH file transfer process requirements to maintain information.
- Assisted programme team to ensure requirements are translated into executable Test Plans and strategies.
- Alignment of scope, processes, skills set and KPI with donor expectations.
- Examine the sources and uses of cash within the organization to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement. This analysis helps in understanding the drivers of cash flow and optimizing cash conversion cycles
- Collaborate with stakeholders, analyze costs, tracking actual expenditures, and implementing strategies to ensure that the project stays within the approved budget while delivering the desired outcomes.
- Assist in the coordination and management of payment schedules, ensuring that payments are made within agreed-upon terms. This may involve analyzing cash flow, prioritizing payments, and facilitating communication with suppliers regarding payment inquiries or issues
- Collaborate with programme and procurement teams to ensure accurate and timely cost recovery processes from other Un agencies that services was provided.
Business Analyst
UNICEF
Abuja
11.2011 - 10.2014
- Ensure that the organization's financial records match the bank's records. It involves comparing the company's internal accounting records, such as the general ledger, with the bank statement to identify and resolve any discrepancies .
- Analyze and report on the performance of programme funds or portfolios. This involves calculating and evaluating key performance metrics, such as return on investment (ROI), risk-adjusted returns, and benchmark comparisons. .
- Collaborated with company representatives, to guarantee services and products supplied achieved standards.
- Used data processing for ongoing activities and assist with resolution of participant issues including the timely and complete close out of participant cases.
- Verified the inspection data for possible data quality issues.
- Collaborated with operation manager to align reporting objective & analytic reports requirements.
- Ran performance tuning and optimization of large databases for fast accessing of data and reports.
- Maintained the KPI scorecards/other performance measurements using tableau server.
Junior Business Analyst
Kaldan Investments and SME Services Ltd
Abuja
07.2006 - 11.2011
- Teamwork and Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, facilitate meetings, and build productive relationships. .
- Worked intimately with business domain to gain full knowledge of the flow of business.
- Tools and Software: Experience with business analysis tools, such as Microsoft Visio, JIRA, and Excel. Proficient in SQL for data analysis.
- Held interviews and brainstorming sessions for requirement analysis, and to define business and function/technical specifications
- Conducted Gap Analysis by identifying the strategic objectives.
- Analyzed the AS-IS system for payment process, users deficiencies to correctly identify a cost effective and efficient future state.
- Participated in UAT and developed test cases for unit testing based on functional specifications.
- Collected data for internal users to track interaction between user and system.
Junior System Analyst
Weco Systems International
Abuja
04.2002 - 05.2005
- Enhanced interfaces to promote better functionality for users.
- Gathered user requirements for mapping data flow process analysis.
- Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
- Made Use Cased diagrams for process documentations to assist stakeholders.
- Conducted system analysis and implementation to maintain and improve computer systems.
- Produced weekly status reports for business teams to understand updated reporting system
- Tracked, analyzed and interpreted trends rational databases for bank financial position, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through design workshops with users.
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
Process Analyst
DN Meyer Plc
FCT
09.2000 - 06.2004
- Developed change management protocols to streamline required business process alterations through preemptive training and guidance.
- Processed management reports on monthly basis through effective collaboration with various departments.
- Designed process models to provide clear, understandable tools for presenting complex business processes to individuals with minimal knowledge on topic.
- Gathered documentation and created reports on assessed information.
- Conducted walk-through demonstrations of proposed process changes.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to conduct thorough discovery and due diligence on existing processes.
Education
MBA - Project Management
Walden University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA07.2017
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Nigeria10.1998
Skills
- SDLC (Waterfall and Agile)
- Data modeling
- Business systems analysis
- UML
- Business process improvement
- Functional requirements
- Requirement tracing
- Scope and project definition
- JIRA
- MS Office Suite (Word, Xsl, PP, and Outlook)
- MS Sharepoint
- Tableau
Timeline
Business Analyst
UNDP
11.2014 - Current
Business Analyst
UNICEF
11.2011 - 10.2014
Junior Business Analyst
Kaldan Investments and SME Services Ltd
07.2006 - 11.2011
Junior System Analyst
Weco Systems International
04.2002 - 05.2005
Process Analyst
DN Meyer Plc
09.2000 - 06.2004
MBA - Project Management
Walden University
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Ahmadu Bello University
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