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About Candidate
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Education
Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
Graduated with a merit. Modules passed include Modelling & Analysis for Management, Strategic Advantage, Economics & Business Environment, International Business, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Management of Change, Entrepreneur & New Venture Creation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Accounting & Financial Management, Marketing, and Strategy & Practice. Dissertation topic: Promoting Gender Equality and Financial Inclusion for Nigerian Women
Bachelor of Science in Geography and Planning
Graduated with a 2nd Class Degree (Lower Division)
Work & Experience
Senior Business Development Manager / Project Manager – Primary Markets, Listings Business
• Managed the development of capital markets transformational projects for NGX’s listings business (such as Growth Board, SPACs) resulting in increase in new client participation, revenue and improvement in time to market for listings by 172%, 62% and 67% respectively. • Led end-to-end delivery of business requirements using agile and predictive approaches. Forecasted, defined, and managed the requirements effort including cost and timelines. • Identified, validated, and documented current state processes and collaborated with the capital market business community and other stakeholders to design the desired future state. • Supported complex business processes by ensuring the accuracy of business requirements documentation during projects, thereby mitigating frequent changes and ultimately reduce cost. • Demonstrated ability to enable high-profile initiatives and drive the integration of requirements into operations through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
Head, Product and Segments, Personal Banking
• Led the product management function (following business merger), and managing product roadmap for new business opportunities, working with development teams, creating documentation & product requirements tools, supporting product release cycle using Agile. • Served as the businesses nominated Scrum Master or Project Manager on several high priority and transformation projects (such as Access REAL loyalty program, W – Initiative) adopting both agile and predictive methodologies. • Collaborated with remote teams, partners and vendors on design, development, testing and implementation of solutions while ensuring that business & technical requirements are met. • Engaged with various stakeholders & subject matter experts across audit, IT, operations, risk, etc. in the roll-out of new products to ensure alignment to standards & regulatory requirements.
Senior Product Manager, Personal & Business Banking
• Redesigned the product development processes for the Personal and Business Banking business, identifying opportunities for reducing time-to-market, increasing efficiency and optimizing value. • Delivered large scale initiatives/projects using Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) while ensuring that developers adhere to the solutions’ business/technical requirements, using agile methods to ensure faster time to market and MVP delivery. • Led the design and implementation of business transformation projects across transactional products and digital platforms including mobile platforms, in-branch kiosk, and ATM channels. • Drove stakeholder interactions with business units and relationship managers to identify and analyze complex issues, problems, and opportunities for new or enhanced product features.