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 project schedules, resources allocation, implementation and project status reports.• 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 processes.• 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 sprint.• Managed stakeholder communication and resolved issues to ensure goal alignment and project success.

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 and business growth.• Conducted financial statements month-end closing procedures, prepared monthly analysis reports and distributed to 5+ manager’ s to ensure high accuracy of financial statements.