Olamide Muiz Sanusi | Compliance & Data Portfolio

Olamide Muiz Sanusi

Compliance & Data Portfolio

Policy researcher and data analyst building a career in AML/KYC compliance and financial crime risk, with Excel, SQL, Power BI and Python.

MA International Political Economy, UCD (admitted)

BSc Political Science, OAU

Planning CAMS certification

About

I am a Political Science graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University and a former Graduate Research Fellow at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). My work sits where regulation meets data: at NIPSS I analysed regulatory and governance dynamics, assessed institutional risk and turned my findings into risk-tiered recommendations for senior audiences, and I am now building the technical skills to apply the same judgment to transaction data. I am building a career in AML/KYC compliance and financial crime risk, and the work below shows both sides: policy research grounded in the analysis of institutions and governance, and applied Excel projects built to solve real operational problems.

Base

Ibadan, Nigeria

Focus

AML/KYC and financial crime risk

Background

Policy research and political economy

Method

OSINT verification and due diligence

Status

Open to KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and financial crime analytics roles

Skills & Tools

Data & analysis

Excel
Power Query
Pivot Tables
Dashboards
VBA
SQL
Power BI
Python

Research & compliance methods

OSINT verification
Due diligence assessments
Risk-tiered reporting
Case management
Policy analysis

Applied Technical Projects

Financial crime · Self-directed project

AML Transaction Monitoring: Rule Design and Testing

Rules decide which payments a bank flags, and every rule trades missed laundering against false alarms. I built and graded five rules on a 55,919-payment sample of a 5-million-transaction synthetic dataset. Flagging every ACH payment catches 87% of the laundering but stops 11.5% of honest payments, while the best-balanced rule catches 49% at a 2.1% false positive rate, and each widening of the net added flags that were less likely to be real.

49% of laundering caught at a 2.1% false positive rate · 5 rules graded on 55,919 payments

Excel
Power Query
PivotTables
VBA

Read the case study

Case management · Client engagement

RootLens™: Root Cause Analysis Workbench

An industrial client had no standard method for investigating equipment failures, so I designed and built a twelve-tab Excel workbook that takes an investigation from incident intake through root cause analysis to corrective actions and reporting. It was a paid engagement that I delivered end to end.

12 tabs · 200+ formulas · live dashboard driven by an RCA ID selector

Excel
Dashboards
Case management

RootLens dashboard showing live KPIs and the details of the selected investigation

RootLens dashboard showing severity, stage pipeline, evidence summary and corrective actions

Request the workbook (macro-enabled Excel file)

How it works and why it matters for compliance

Structured method: a ten-section investigation form with dropdown controls, a 5 Whys workspace and a Fishbone analysis across six cause categories.
Evidence and accountability: registers for evidence (with source and confidence rating), corrective and preventive actions (with owners, priorities and due dates), lessons learned and a milestone timeline.
Live management view: KPIs, severity, stage pipeline and evidence counts across all investigations.
Usable without training: guidance prompts in each section and a blank template tab to copy for each new case.

Relevance to compliance work: the same pattern of intake, evidence with confidence ratings, assigned actions with due dates and an audit trail underlies compliance case management and investigations.

Research & Experience

June 2025 to May 2026

Graduate Research Fellow

National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, Nigeria

Analysed regulatory and governance dynamics and assessed institutional risk in more than four structured risk and institutional due diligence assessments for ministerial and national security stakeholders, using OSINT methodology to verify facts.

What this involved and why it matters for compliance

Designed analytical frameworks that translate complex regulatory and governance dynamics into risk-tiered recommendations for senior audiences working to tight reporting deadlines.
Coordinated stakeholder engagement across government agencies and research teams.

Relevance to compliance work: the reporting formats and investigative discipline of this work map closely onto customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and adverse-media screening.

March 2025 to April 2026

Research and Communication Analyst (Intern)

Vestance Consulting, Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)

Ran OSINT verification across public databases, corporate registries and news sources, and produced more than five strategic policy reports and stakeholder presentations that turned complex data into executive-ready risk insights for institutional clients.

Research paper · In revision

Co-authored with Professor Mimiko

Sino-American trade policy

“Tit-for-Tat: Sino-American Tariff Tensions and Shifting Margins of the Extant Global Trading System” is currently being revised for journal submission. The full text is not published here, and a summary is available on request.

May 2020 to January 2023

Operations Officer

Framework Investment and Consultancy, Ibadan, Nigeria

Managed operational processes and financial records for a consultancy serving more than 50 clients, and implemented process improvements that contributed to a 15% increase in organisational effectiveness over 18 months.

Education

Admitted

MA International Political Economy

University College Dublin, Ireland

September 2018 to September 2024

BSc Political Science

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Second Class (Upper Division). I also supported professors in the department with quantitative and qualitative data analysis for their research projects on an informal basis.