Olufemi Isheyemi

In this strategic data leadership role, I drive enterprise-wide data strategy, BI modernization, and regulatory-compliant analytics, while enabling executive decisions, cross-functional collaboration, and analytics capability. ● Enterprise Data Strategy: Shaping an enterprise-wide data strategy that integrates reporting, analytics, and governance across product, risk, compliance, and operational functions, improving strategic alignment and decision-making confidence. ● BI Modernization & Transformation: Leading next-generation analytics solutions that deliver transparent, compliant, and performance-focused reporting across the Bank’s strategic project portfolio ● Data Governance & Regulatory Compliance: Driving organization-wide data governance protocols, ensuring consistent data quality, regulatory alignment (GDPR, BCBS-239, Basel III, CRR III, DORA), & audit readiness across multiple business units. ● Executive Advisory: Translating complex operational, technical, and compliance insights into actionable strategies that guide investment, capital optimization, and risk decisions. ● Cross-Functional Leadership: Partnering C-Suite & other business leaders to ensure alignment of operational & commercial analytics deliverables, breaking silos and improving collaboration across 5+ business functions. ● Data Culture & Capability Building: Designed and delivered advanced analytics training programs across business units, fostering adoption of enterprise data assets and enhancing cross-functional analytics literacy.

In this role, I led Europe Zone logistics analytics, leveraging financial, operational, and risk management insights to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and drive strategic business outcomes. › Unified Data Governance: Standardized and enforced enterprise-wide data governance across the Control Tower environment, reducing inconsistencies in logistics reporting by 30%. › End-to-End Analytics Solutions: Developed predictive analytics models for demand planning, inventory optimization, and transportation routing, enabling proactive management of supply chain disruptions. › Operational & Strategic Impact: Delivered insights that improved production scheduling, inventory deployment, and returns management, contributing to measurable efficiency gains and cost savings. › Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Presented insights to VP of Supply Chain and senior leadership, influencing freight spend reduction of 8% and operational risk mitigation strategies

In this role, I directed gaming data strategy and analytics initiatives, integrating commercial, operational, and compliance insights to drive growth, maximize user value, and ensure regulatory compliance. ● Integrated Data Strategy: Unified gaming platforms, CRM systems, and third-party datasets into a single, trusted source of truth for product, risk, and compliance teams. ● Revenue & Growth Optimization: Applied advanced analytics on customer acquisition, retention, dynamic pricing, and fraud trends, increasing margins by 18% and improving user lifetime value. ● Regulatory Compliance & Reporting: Automated regulatory reporting workflows, reducing audit resolution times by 50% and ensuring adherence to gaming authority standards. ● Executive Influence & Performance Frameworks: Advised the CFO on bonus and commission frameworks, optimizing agent performance and revenue generation while maintaining regulatory compliance. ● Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborated with marketing, product, and risk teams to embed data-driven decision-making across the organization, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance monitoring.

In this role, I set up an enterprise analytics integration platform for retail, investment & commercial banking businesses, linking customer insights with risk, compliance, and marketing strategies. ● Enterprise Data Architecture: Consolidated 8 siloed databases into a single customer 360° platform, driving a 12% uplift in retail revenue. ● Strategic Decision Support: Delivered actionable insights on product performance, customer behaviors & segmentation, and sales & marketing effectiveness, shaping retail & commercial banking strategy and investment allocation decisions. ● Risk & Compliance Integration: Embedded AML/KYC and fraud detection in real-time customer onboarding, reducing potential fraud losses by 6̃% QoQ, and ensuring regulatory adherence. ● Leadership & Team Development: Managed teams across analytics, engineering, and governance, fostering high-performance culture and delivering enterprise-grade insights. ● Data-Driven Culture: Developed analytics playbooks and supervised the deployment of dashboards for business units, enabling self-service insights and improving cross-department decision-making.

In this role, I coordinated BI and data infrastructure modernization program across pan-African subsidiaries, aligning analytics with group risk, compliance, and growth targets. ● Scalable Data Pipelines & APIs: Managed the implemented of automated data pipelines and APIs for subsidiary data harmonization, enabling real-time liquidity risk monitoring and operational decision-making. ● Revenue & Operational Impact: Leveraged advanced analytics and data-driven strategies to generate actionable insights, resulting in a 15% increase in customer engagement and a 10% growth in cross-subsidiary revenue within a 12-month period. ● Regulatory Compliance & Reporting: Led a team of data professionals to automate Basel III & IFRS9 reporting frameworks, reducing submission delays by 60% and ensuring consistency across jurisdictions. ● Data Governance & Quality: Established subsidiary-level data governance process & frameworks, ensuring compliance with local regulations and continuous improvement of data quality. ● Executive Advisory: Partnered with regional executives to incorporate analytics into market expansion, product design, and risk management decisions.

● Developed scalable data pipelines that streamlined the processing of large datasets, reducing data ingestion and transformation times by 40%, significantly improving data accessibility for business insights. ● Automated data validation and quality assurance reduced data errors by 55% across key workflows. ● Streamlined operations with AI-powered automation of industrial part classification and sales. ● Contributed to research papers on schema matching, data cleaning, and entity recognition, advancing the field of data integration and informing best practices.

• Developed scalable logical and physical database models, accelerating budgetary and financial reporting efficiency by 35%+ through optimized workflows. • Performed ROI analysis on Operations and Marketing initiatives, evaluating risks and customer journey impacts, and delivering actionable recommendations for continuous improvement. • Streamlined billing and payment workflows, implementing system changes that reduced Account Receivables by 18% and Account Payables by 5% monthly. • Conducted advanced customer data analysis to develop data-driven strategies for loyalty programs, CRM, marketing, and digital channels, driving personalization, segmentation, and targeted campaigns. • Synthesized market research data to uncover insights into customer behavior, channel efficiency, product adoption, and demographic trends, informing business strategy.

• Performed advanced statistical analyses on primary and secondary data, contributing to the successful publication of multiple academic papers and an annual state-of-the-market report. • Ensured data integrity by implementing robust quality control standards, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of research findings. • Compiled and presented detailed reports and synopses, translating complex data analysis results into clear, actionable insights for key stakeholders. • Produced market intelligence reports that informed the development of 5+ high-impact case studies, influencing strategic decisions and policy recommendations.