Tokunbo (Toks) Akindele, MSc, MBA, CFA

Thornton, CO, 80260. USA

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Financial Analysis & Planning Professional

Accomplished and results focused professional with broad experience, collaborating with executive leadership to build top-performing businesses within challenging, competitive, and volatile markets. Combine a strong balance between commercial and technical finance. Utilise visionary and strategic financial proficiencies that produce financial strength.

Possess strong expertise in corporate finance, start-up operations, capital structuring, market positioning, budgeting and forecasting, financial assessment, business case preparation, channel management, and business development.

Financial and Management Competencies

Financial Analysis & Planning

Strategic Financial Management

Business Case Analysis & Consulting

Financial Reporting & Due Diligence

Continuous Process Improvement

Database Design & Implementation

Stakeholder Communication

Technical Issue Resolution

Career Experience

Stratagem (Present) Dish Network ((11/2022 to 1/2023) Comcast (3/2022 to 9/2022), AT&T (11/2021 to 2/2022)

Financial Analysis Contractor. 11/2021 – Present

Working with Stratagem to track project profitability and completion. Helping with Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance analysis and Reporting

Working with Dish Network in an FP&A role. Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting of Spend by Vendor and Department. Tasked with designing new processes to help with tracking expenses and make variance analysis more automated and easier.

Worked with Comcast to provide FP&A business support for the Xfinity mobile business. Includes budgeting, Forecasting, Variance analysis, Adhoc Business Case analysis, Financial Modeling, Monthly Close etc

Worked in the Project Management Office of AT& T (PMO) to help track Project costs and benefits. Interacted with various Stakeholders to gather information and track results.

Custom Made Meals, Denver, Colorado

Financial Analysis Manager. 2/2021 – 9/7/2021

Responsible for corporate reporting process to the board of Directors; this includes data collection, reviewing and tracking down explanations for the data, creating slides etc. Also providing analytical and reporting support to the Operations team in the company; this includes multiple performance reporting and specified KPI tracking, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Monthly Close etc

Key Contributions:

Automated and streamlined the reporting process which cut out 4hrs from the whole process.

GHX, (SaaS), Louisville, Colorado

Senior Financial Analyst, 7/2019 – 9/24/2020

Responsible for the corporate planning process for 5 business Units in the Company (IT, HR, Finance, Product Development, Legal); includes budgeting, Monthly forecasting of results, variance analysis, and reporting. Work closely with department VPs to implement corrective actions when needed. Create analytical models to help facilitate business decision making. In charge of the Capital Requisition and expenditure process.

Key Contributions:

Automated the creation of management reporting package; cut time from a 2 day cycle to less than 5hrs.

Oildex, (SaaS), Denver, Colorado

Financial Analysis Manager. 12/2017 – 3/2019

Managed and coordinated a wide range of operations regarding corporate planning process, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting. Engaged and conferred with department heads as required to implement corrective actions when needed. Forged and sustained robust working relationships with CFO to design and implement operating metrics and KPIs in order to improve performance by department across the corporation. Credited for producing and executing a new and streamlined reporting infrastructure in the Company as well as created new sources of data and designed better relational data collection and cadence. Oildex is a SaaS technology company serving the Oil &Gas industry.

Key Contributions:

Succeeded in improving and strengthening the billing process as well as developed tools and processes that slashed billing from about 4 days to about 4hrs. This saved the need of a $40K per year headcount increase.

Designed, created, and implemented executive dashboards and Board of Management reporting package with including but not limited to revenue and profitability by product, expenses, bank covenant reports, variance analysis.

Westcon, Colorado

Senior Financial Analysis and Credit Analyst, 3/2015 – 11/2017

Performed comprehensive analysis for the sales organization as well as deal structuring and profitability analysis. Utilized modern inspection techniques to analyze credit line applications from customers modeled/reviewed submitted financials as well as conducted market research to identify the right level of credit line to approve.

Key Contributions:

Saved the Company a lot of money and secured more deals by developing a tool that allowed sales representative to provide more accurate transportation cost estimates with the quotes. Cost savings and increased sales of $100K.

Orchestrated the establishment of the budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting, and resource allocation process for a $3B business unit.

Seagate, Peak, Comcast Cable, Verizon, T-Mobile, Colorado

Contractor/Consultant Finance, 3/2012 – 2/2015

Ensured the adequate management of the corporate budgeting process such as tool design, budget timeline, liaised with departmental stakeholders. Played a vital role in successfully managing the capital spending forecasting process and maintained the forecasting tool. Exhibited keen eye for detail during developing a 3-way integrated financial statement for corporate planning and investors. Commended by executive for timely developing business case analysis model for a technology project and created reporting processes. Produced and organized executive-level presentations and presented complex findings to management audience.

Key Contributions:

Boosted senior management decision-making process by developing insightful performance reports.

Assessed the impact of variance analysis and management reporting to ensure the seamless running of process.

Oversaw a wide range of regional purchasing function as well as steered efforts toward implementing a new Ordering process that increased fulfillment rate ranging from 75% to 95%. About $50K/yr savings in Inventory, Transportation and Ordering costs.

Envisioned, built, and deployed comprehensive financial models to support management decision making and evaluation of initiatives.

Senior Financial Analyst Dothill Systems, Longmont, Colorado 12/2009 – 9/2011

Financial Analysis Manager, Quark Software, Denver, Colorado 8/2008 – 5/2009

Financial Analysis Manager, Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado 7/2002 – 1/2008

Education

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Designation

Master of Business Administration

University of Calgary – Alberta, Canada

Master of Science, Applied Chemistry

University of Calgary – Alberta, Canada

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry

University of Ilorin – Ilorin, Nigeria

Computer Skills: Excel (Advanced) MS Word, PowerPoint, SAP, Oracle, Access (Advanced), Essbase, Netsuite, Tableau, Hyperion

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