Yemi O.

Tunapanda Institute delivers open, low-cost digital-era vocational education across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They run practical training programs (Mobile LEAP, KASA, etc.), create open educational content and FOSS, and partner with local organisations to boost digital inclusion and employability.

• Supported the finance team to document and simplify core accounting processes, improving consistency in month-end activities.
• Assisted with monthly budgeting cycles: prepared budget templates, collected inputs and reconciled actuals to budget.
• Led QuickBooks setup and configuration support (chart of accounts, initial balances and transaction workflows) to enable digital bookkeeping.
• Identified opportunities for small process improvements (approvals, expense tracking) to reduce manual rework and improve transparency.

• Built FP&A processes and forecasting models tailored to an automated-reporting product, enabling rolling forecasts and scenario analysis.
• Automated budget updates and consolidation routines to reduce manual effort and increase refresh cadence for executive reports.
• Created executive-facing dashboards and alerts that surface cash availability, upcoming payment obligations and potential cost overruns.
• Partnered with product and engineering to instrument key financial KPIs and ensure analytic outputs aligned with CEO decision needs.

• Analyzed data to determine if there were outliers or data accuracy issues and worked with related departments to make the corrections
• Coordinated and completed ad-hoc inter-department requests and requests from strategic partners by providing decision support and consultative services
• Developed and designed reports, financial schedules, and dashboards using a variety of data-mining and presentation tools
• Identified and resolved issues
• Identified gaps in the current reporting process and drove the implementation of new controls and strategic solutions
• Validated client-delivered data
• Work with business stakeholders to define and execute test plans and seek implementation signoff.

• Improved collection performance to 40% collection rate per month through the championing of in-depth analysis, following up on critical receivables, and diligent monitoring of performance
• Streamlined methods to run and distribute quarterly and annual sales and gross profit reports to upper management.
• Assisted in controlling business and operating expenses
• Developed KPIs for sales manager
• Developed and ran a variety of automated management reports supporting decision making
• Partnered with the Sales team to ensure accuracy of the CRM system and to provide ad hoc reports

• Budgeting and Forecasting, including reviewing and challenging submissions, preparation of budget packs, and planning for presentation to internal management
• Lead processes including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Managed sales and gross margin planning
• Monitored the financial health of new and existing workloads, including reporting/communicating results, budgeting, and forecasting
• Oversaw project completion, including planning, assigning, monitoring, reviewing progress and accuracy of work, evaluating results, etc.

• Acted as the finance business partner to multiple teams, ensuring drivers for performance are communicated and insight provided to managers
• Assisted in developing the forecasting models for various departments
• Developed tools and reports to help analyze actuals and forecasts.
• Performed ad hoc analysis and special projects as requested
• Provided accurate & timely financial plans with a focus on cost & its drivers

• Worked with the departments to understand forecast issues. Prepared month-end, quarter-end and year-end aggregated financial information for global operations. Reviewed all month-end closing activities including sales analysis for the US and global operations. Created and routinely ran projections accuracy report.
• Developed & implemented substantial improvements to the Forecast Process, reducing costs by 15%.
• Guaranteed timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial and management reporting; oversaw intricate sales transactions, forecasted payments, and facilitated timely settlement of key accounts.
• Ensured continued and reliable maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures.
• Developed and executed analysis of various business initiatives, and coordinated with the departments to understand their forecast issues and establish consistently outstanding solutions.

• Oversaw for the Marketing’s R.O.F (Rolling Operating Forecast) accuracy and timeliness. Compiled, reviewed and presented seasonal plans; aided in producing bi-annual corporate planning package. Spread the financial plans by months, either using last year’s expense flow, retail calendar or special direction from each department.
• Promoted to Senior Financial Analyst, managed an annual budget totaling $400M+, and minimized forecast swings between ROF submissions within 10% while handling timely monthly closings with supporting documents.
• Measured the benefit of marketing campaigns by department level to help management with strategy development.
• Revamped efforts to monitor the daily changes in the financial forecast, planned changes for a better control, helped with the reconciliation and improved the confidence of marketing department’s projections.
• Developed essential tools to monitor and help project more accurate plans, perform detail analysis of the budgets variances to the account and job level, and created reports to monitor purchase order variances/policy compliance.

• Worked directly with the creative department and external ad agencies to validate advertising and creative costs and ensure timely recording of expenses, prepaids and liabilities.
• Maintained General Ledger accounts and monitored the Budget Tracking & Reporting (BTR) system to provide accurate financial reporting.
• Assembled and distributed monthly financial statement reporting packages to stakeholders.
• Coordinated detailed financial plans and reconciliations between the creative team and agency partners to support campaign budget control.

• Managed an annual national broadcast budget totaling $300M+. Coordinated with seven divisions for planned and actual expenses, vendor co-op information by media category and summarize in monthly/seasonal and annual basis. Reconciled expenses by operating divisions, provided comprehensive expense analysis on variances from plan and rolling forecasts, developed and implemented expense allocation methodology to operating divisions.
• Worked closely with internal Media Buying department and outside agencies to generate detailed division expense plans by DMA and operating division, based on sales promotional calendar.
• Compiled, reviewed and presented seasonal plans, in addition to providing integral aid in producing an expansive bi-annual corporate planning package totaling $2B+.
• Organized work efforts with the creative department and with 3rd party advertising agencies to validate cost details and ensure timely, accurate recording of expense, prepaid and liabilities.
• Coordinated with the creative department and ad agency to develop superb financial plans.

Small employer (unspecified) where the role focused on core accounting operations including payables, fixed assets, inventory and daily bank reconciliations.

• Performed balancing and reconciliation activities for accounts payable to ensure supplier statements matched ledger balances.
• Tracked fixed assets and recorded monthly depreciation entries into the general ledger.
• Reconciled inventory and posted necessary adjustments to reflect accurate on-hand quantities and cost.
• Prepared daily bank reconciliations to confirm cash balances and identify timing differences or exceptions.