Abayomi Abolarin

I have built a track record as a data governance analyst helping businesses across organisations improve customer experience, decision making efficiencies, meet regulatory requirements, reduce turnaround times for manual reconciliations, save overhead cost and better return on investments.

My key strengths are stakeholder engagement and management, change management, data governance and management.

My ability to go into businesses, understand and appreciate what the culture is, identify the business drivers, understand current levels of data maturity and carry out gap analysis.

Locate data sources and critical data assets, define critical data assets and establish data owners and stewards, agree on data quality plan with agreed dimensions and threshold.

Appoint the right people in the right positions, creating a communication plan to maintain the data governance framework and council and aligning all the above to the overall organisational goal and strategies.

In line with these are my project management skills with risks and issue log, resolution and change management implementation plan.

Approaching a decade of knowledge and experience of data governance approaches, practices and pitfalls in large organisations.

• Experience with change management and a track record of success.
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences.
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Experienced team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.
• A real interest in the field of data and treating data as an asset.

Organisational change management Certification