Tako C Pmi-Pmp®, Csm® Email & Phone Number

United States

• Develop project plans covering scope, timeline, resources and $5M + budgets, revenue, expenses, and schedules, ensuring timely and within budget completion. Tracking progress and status reporting to stakeholders.
• Analyze and reconcile large volumes of data, calculate and interpret Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and performed variance analysis. Manage deliverables for 50+ stakeholders, ensuring accurate reporting.
• Ensure compliance with industry laws and regulations, maintain up-to-date contracts. Manage client’s communication and provide them with monthly reports to promote transparency.
• Reduced project revenue collection on overdue debts by 70% through strategic research, process improvement, SOP development, team training, collaboration with cross-function teams and issue resolution with stakeholders.
• Facilitates scrum ceremonies including stand ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, ensuring timely project delivery. Removed blockers and collaborated with product owner to maintain prioritized backlog.

• Led 5+ projects simultaneously, from start start to finish while working with cross-functional teams, duties included defining project scope, planning, gathering requirements, risk and change management, developed.
• Collaborated with product owner and cross functional teams on software upgrade and process automation project, where 500+ merchants were successfully automated resulting in 95% success rate and simplified business.
• Managed budget exceeding $3m, tracked project cost and schedule, data analysis, reporting, and escalating incidents to leadership thereby reducing losses by 40%+ within a year.
• Managed deliverables of 20+ projects, created SOW and led team in project execution including heavy data testing, reconciling and analyzing, identifying and resolving bugs to ensure project success.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives, while removing blockers for the team to ensure timely delivery of project.

United States

• Defined project scope, and risk management approaches while working with cross functional teams and external stakeholders leading to project delivering on time, cost and quality.
• Gathered project requirements and translated them for project teams and planned bi-weekly workflow. Led 5+ projects simultaneously and successfully completed them on time and within budget.
• Worked with cross functional teams to migrate financial data, test and reconciled, journal ledger entries and general ledger reconciliation to ensure data accuracy leading to 95% success rate.
• Budgeted, tracked project cost, schedule and reported project status to stakeholders leading to successful project delivery within budget and time frame.
• Managed business operation in AR, AP, vendor management, month-end closing activities including journal entries adjustments, general ledger reconciliations and prepared monthly financial statements.
• Facilitated the scrum team of 5 to follow the Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to promote prioritization and commitment for each sprint and ensures deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each.

Blantyre, Southern Region, Malawi

• Budgeted and monitored project revenues to be collected timely and expenditure within budget to meet project goals.
• Led 6 team members in finance department to ensure proper revenue accounting and timely collection of receivables using SAP.
• Reviewed and approved customers' sales orders for 500+ dealership customers monthly in compliance with organization’s limits and policies, and computed incentives using advanced Excel, thus ensuring high satisfaction.
• Conducted financial statements month-end closing procedures, prepared monthly analysis reports and distributed to 5+ manager’ s to ensure high accuracy of financial statements.