✦ Summary ✦I help business leaders improve their leadership skills, and manage projects to boost business outcomes, and accelerate profit. A finance and project management professional with a rich blend of expertise in financial reporting, project management, and accounting for the public and private sectors. Known for ensuring alignment to budgets, schedules, and work plans, with a record in managing financial facets for institutions such as the World Bank, multinational banks, and WaterAid projects. Skilled in ITIL principles, risk management, and governance, I have led diverse, multilingual finance teams and am dedicated to championing diversity and inclusion.✦ Areas of Expertise ✦Internal Auditing | Financial Literacy | Data Science | Budget Alignment | Project Management | Financial Reporting | Team Leadership | IFRS 9 | Payroll Management | Governance Control | ITIL Principles | Public Speaking | Risk Management | Multicultural Leadership | SAP Accounting ✦ Key Achievements ✦• Client and Business Advisory: Served as Senior Officer for the World Bank, providing advisory services and leading financial and change management initiatives in DC. Managed Payroll/Accounts Receivable teams.• Financial Reporting: Financial Controller for Uganda and Mozambique, overseeing a team to deliver Group, Regulatory, and Statutory financial statements on various timelines, from daily to annual reports. • Operational Efficiency: Managed a comprehensive review of the Disbursement Financial Information Letter (DFIL) templates, enhancing efficiency for loan client-facing teams across the World Bank's instruments and Trust Funds.• Project Selection & Blockchain Implementation: Led the project selection track of the World Bank Finance Blockchain initiative for Disbursement Traceability, resulting in the training and engagement of key staff and the selection of pilot country projects.• Regulatory Compliance: Led the IFRS 9 implementation across 9 African countries, delivering a Target Operating Model and governance framework to ensure full adherence by 2018.• Project Management: Managed the 3-year data center project for Barclays Uganda, which involved building and equipping a new data center with disaster recovery capabilities.• Process Improvement: Developed accounting procedures documents and digitized the budget management process at The World Bank, WaterAid, and Barclays Bank/ABSA.• Leadership & Diversity: Led the Barclays Women’s Network Forum, cultivating a community of 500+ members.Please feel free to contact me at ekatorobo@gmail.com.