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