Cornelius Ogba, Cbap, Cpa, Cga, Fcca, Samc Email & Phone Number

Ontario, Canada

• Gathered business requirements, collaborated with software developers and led the implementation of financial planning and reporting systems.. Conducted initial data analysis on input files to verify content...
• Collaborated with marketing team, modelled requirements and supported solution design for COH Project Planning, including Ticketing and Sales budgeting.
• Enhancing the activities of the Governance and Marketing teams with financial modeling and decision support analysis, including insource/outsource decision, sensitivity/scenario analysis and profitability analysis.
• Providing guidance and analytical support for the Governance, Administration and Marketing teams on their quadrennial budgeting and annual reforecast process, ensuring assumptions about expenses and revenues are.
• Facilitating monthly performance review presentations with budget managers to track actual expenses and revenues against budget, explain variances and identify issues and/or opportunities.

Ontario, Canada

• Provided analytical support and collaborated with the Financial Planning and Development Finance Department to update the tangible capital asset management system in line with Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB).

• Responsible for gathering requirements to enable improvements in systems and processes, creating insightful analysis and visualizing financial data to assist senior executives' understanding of financial performance.
• Led improvement initiatives in periodic management reporting, by streamlining reports and developing business processes, standard operating procedures and performance management metrics/KPIs.
• Led technological transformation in the area of corporate performance reporting by managing the implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solution, gathering business requirement form senior leadership team.
• Managed planning, gathering and documentation of requirements for IFRS 9 Implementation.. Created test cases and completed component and integration testing for the IFRS 9 conversion project.
• Facilitated discussions and coordinated Oracle ERP enhancement project to include additional functionalities of sending automated account statement via emails to customers.
• Developed business case for a $1.2b funding model revenue initiative through financial and operational data analysis, leading to new identification of revenue stream and improved credit recovery performance which.

• Closely partnered with Revenue Management Team and marketing team by providing insights and analysis on credit recovery rate, sectoral recovery performance.
• Represented the organization on project teams and system implementation, liaising with the solution delivery team to communicate and model business requirement to ensure appropriate solutions are implemented.
• Partnered with the Technology Department and system users to gather system requirements, identified data elements and performed data mapping for data migration to a new loan management software. Also, created UAT.
• Analysed enterprise readiness for new loan management systems and developed training plans and co-facilitated training sessions for system users as part of transition requirements.
• Led business requirement and solution requirement elicitation, partnered with technical and finance team in the coordination of data migration and reconciliation processes, ensuring successful implementation of Oracle.
• Performed loan servicing activities including setting up loan on the system, tracking receivables and reporting delinquent accounts. Initiated process improvements ideas to enhance clients experience.

• Identified team processes for automation, including amortization schedules (with and without moratorium) and document repository management by creating tools and systems to replace human efforts, which improved.
• Participated in business requirement documentation (BRD), user acceptance testing (UAT), created UAT strategies, test plans, test cases and documented defects or bugs during the implementation of accounting software.
• Worked with financial services representatives to develop understanding of customers’ needs and delivered technical support to ensure exceptional customer service and to build long-term customer relationships.
• Involved in computation of amortized cost in respect of financial instruments for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) implementation. Set up new facilities on loan management systems and designed.

Master’S Degree, Operations Research

Bsc, Mathematics And Economics, First Class.