Alaba Olawunmi

Leading IT transformation across Atlantic Canada, where resilient tech meets empowered talent, while supporting Strategic IT Governance, Cybersecurity resilience, and future‑ready workforce development.

Led cybersecurity and automation initiatives supporting enterprise security objectives and Agile delivery teams. Aided stakeholder engagement across cybersecurity, engineering, and leadership teams, helped boost clarity and speed up decision making across 10+ workstreams. Managed 300+ work items with a 93.71% resolution rate, contributing to smoother delivery and clearer visibility for stakeholders. Collaborated with developers, architects, and product owners to translate technical requirements (APIs, integrations, cloud components) into actionable delivery plans, supported 300+ work items and enhanced clarity across multiple teams. Helped strengthen communication and alignment across cybersecurity, engineering, and leadership groups, supporting faster and clearer decision making across 10+ active workstreams. Led the delivery of 2 cybersecurity and automation projects using Agile and Hybrid methods, keeping work aligned with security and business needs and achieving 100% on time delivery for all planned milestones. Assisted in managing project plans, schedules, and risk mitigation activities for vulnerability management programs, and provided delivery consistency and reduced operational issues by roughly 15%.

Held progressive roles including Business Process Manager, Business Intelligence Manager, Business Application Manager and SAP FICO & Integration Lead, delivering enterprise digital transformation across National operations. Led end to end delivery of digital products, including a B2B platform that increased revenue by 25%. Directed an RPA automation program delivering €420K annual savings and significant cycle time reduction. Managed enterprise application rationalization, reducing the portfolio by 30% and improving operational efficiency. Successfully completed SAP FICO delivery for 6 newly acquired breweries and led 3 major SAP implementation cycles. Directed system integration, legacy data migration, testing governance, and deployment activities across 6+ business units, contributing to smoother transitions and fewer post go live issues. Managed testing strategy (unit, regression, QA, UAT) across multiple releases, achieved >95% defect free deployments and ensured compliance with audit and IT governance standards. Built and led a high performing support structure by coaching 40+ key users and applying Prosci/ADKAR practices, increasing user adoption and reducing support tickets by an estimated 20%. Increased digital solutions adoption across 10 brewery locations, supporting 3,000+ employees. Enhanced cross team collaboration by using Jira to manage backlogs and sprints, improving visibility for 30+ team members.

Delivered full cycle SAP implementations and technical project management across Oil & Gas, Government, Banking, and Consumer Goods. Served as SAP Application Change Manager for 3–5 enterprise clients, supporting rollout, testing, and training, achieving over 90% user adoption. Supported four major SAP FICO cross module implementations, contributing to accurate integration across Finance and Controlling and reducing post go live issues by approximately 15%. Implemented SAP modules including AP, AR, GL, Asset Accounting, CC, PC, PCC, OPA, Funds Management, and SAP NetWeaver across multiple projects, boosting process consistency for 200+ end users. Led the IT infrastructure optimization efforts that enhanced system efficiency by roughly 20–25% through streamlined configurations and process improvements. Coordinated development, testing, and go live activities across cross functional teams, helping deliver releases on schedule and reducing deployment defects by an estimated 10–15%.