Joy Oguntade
Calgary,AB
Summary
Highly motivated and resourceful professional with over 6 years' experience in Project management, project financials, resource tracking, communication management and reporting. Work experience in the financial services, banking and consulting industries in Africa and North America. A detail oriented with a well-earned initiative to achieve organizational goals. I am looking to secure a challenging position as Project Control Officer where I can leverage my expertise and performance within Project Management to conduct project planning, budget analysis, stakeholder management, communication, and resource management.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Consultant
KPMG
07.2022 - Current
- Supporting the Project Manager & the Program Manager with ensuring the successful delivery of multiple engagements within various industries captured in the KPMG Productivity Enhancement Program
- Co-ordination and management of 8 various teams of 15 – 30 audit professionals and assisting in oversight of their projects.
- Defining processes and frameworks to increase Audit quality and effectiveness by leveraging newer methodologies, technologies, and D&A capabilities.
- Reduced Status report creation time from 1 hour to 10 mins resulting in improving overall reporting experience and increasing visibility in all aspects of the project, including team performance.
- Coordinating high-priority projects, ensuring that they align with the organization's overall goals and that deadlines are met.
- Leading and collaborating with cross-functional and offshore teams to meet the project goals and ensure the appropriate tools are in place to deliver as stated in the plan.
- Managing and working closely with the teams to pro-actively anticipate, mitigate, and handle risks or issues and remove any impediments.
- Tracking, monitoring, and reporting Program Status to the Executive leadership team for Global reporting. Provide them with visibility and recommended action plans to meet Business objectives.
- Proactively tracking milestones and critical path activities to identify risks and evaluate effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.
- Provide reliable updates using automated status reporting from internal tools using data visualization tools like Excel, Power BI.
- Tracking and monitoring project performance and budgets, analyzing project data and producing progress reports.
- Liaising with key stakeholders and cross function teams to ensure project team adheres to provided timelines and deliverables. Proactively identifying and assisting teams solving any issues/risks that may arise during the project lifecycle.
- Managing and building relationships with multiple teams, managing day-to-day activities for the Audit Engagement team.
- Assisting the Audit Engagement Manager with administrative functions and processes; achieving the goal to aptly even out workload throughout the year thereby, increasing efficiency by 75%, ensuring better client experience with high quality audits.
Senior Project Coordinator
Cardinal Health Canada
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Supported Project Manager & the Program Manager with ensuring the successful delivery of multiple projects within the Digital, Supply and Payments portfolios.
- Responsible for scoping, planning, executing, resourcing, and monitoring assigned project(s) to keep on schedule and on budget. Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, managing issue resolution process, and taking corrective action, as necessary.
- Strategically created and maintained artefacts, successfully managed financials and invoicing on projects on the complex mergers, where IT wanted to merge all processes and documentation, but finance wanted all financials still separate.
- Manage change request process by evaluating deliverable changes and determine their impact on related and interdependent tasks and projects. Perform analysis of change in schedule, regarding resources, costs, and task completion.
- Resolved 90 days old invoices within 4 weeks of joining. Worked with various vendors and consultants on interview coordination, SoW/CR reviews, resource on/off-boarding, invoice reviews and payment tracking and third-party risk management (TPRM).
- Supported project managers on various work streams by updating resource allocation using PPM to ensure projects are delivered within defined budget as approved by the project sponsor.
- Supported project administrative activities throughout the project lifecycle by developing project presentations and creating reports, organizing meetings, documenting minutes and updating action-items on project SharePoint.
- Acted as the primary point of contact for the communication of relevant project information and project status to the project resources, cross-functional project team and management.
- Managed the project document repository (SharePoint) by ensuring logical grouping of project artifacts and maintenance of an effective naming convention and version control; ensuring project artefacts are stored along with all required approvals.
- Managed changes to project scope arising from progressive elaboration of deliverables, while monitoring project budget and conducting meetings with project management offices at regular intervals to highlight project updates in relation to the budget.
- Assisted the project manager in controlling changes to project scope by tracking Project Change Request (PCR) processes and liaising with members of Change Advisory Board (CAB) to verify and approve changes to scope.
- Documented and tracked project issues and risks accurately, which helped project teams develop strategies to resolve issues and mitigate risks appropriately.
- Ensured day-to-to-today vendor relationship management, including monitoring performance, reviewing and approving vendor invoices.
Senior Project Analyst
Computershare
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Actively involved with the delivery of multiple initiatives within Information Technology Service Management leveraging customized internal tools.
- Provided support for multiple ongoing projects from initiation to closing through utilizing effective communication and sound stakeholder engagement skills.
- Updated and managed project RAID log items (Risk, Action Item, Issues and Decision) during project status meetings and kept track of pending items with assigned owners.
- Developed regular scorecards to monitor key performance indicators related to the project which ensured proper assessment with organizational goals and project objectives.
- Supporting the program manager in managing resource allocation using Primavera and collaborating with department teams leads to capturing assigned resource allocation.
- Attended process improvement workshops to understand how to prepare documentation that effectively captures clients' requirements.
- Collaborated with the finance department to develop monthly project cost forecasts, investigated discrepancies between costs in SAP and sales reports, initiated processes to correct discrepancies and worked with quality management to create processes to avoid replication of the same issue in future.
- Supported multiple project managers in maintaining project plans that include deadlines, parties responsible for each task and milestones, monitoring and reporting the progress and status of the project to stakeholders and management.
- Maintained oversight of communication plans and supported the management of multiple stakeholders through regular biweekly project meetings.
- Assisted project manager in coordinating the development and implementation of new processes to align with the needs of the business while maintaining operating efficiency and accuracy of workflow.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Accounting
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
NigeriaSkills
- Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC)
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Models
- Waterfall
- Agile and Scrum
- SharePoint
- Planview
- PPM Clarity
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Power BI
- Flex Track
- Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visio, Outlook)
Professional Highlights
- Strong knowledge of SDLC and PMLC practices, procedures, and principles of project management, sufficient to analyze detailed concepts, and apply them in a range of related subjects and various functional lines of business.
- Achieved 50% increase in milestone completion rate at deadline in 1 year of joining KPMG, showing proven ability to address the goals of multiple parties/stakeholders and provide solutions for all.
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects in a timely manner and flexibility to adapt to changing workload in a fast-paced collaborative environment while demonstrating resilience and adapting to evolving plans and strategies.
- In-depth knowledge of change and risk management to identify and understand areas of risk and oversee change control processes. Ability to identify and document issues and risks, assess severity, create action/mitigation plans, and negotiate with all types of stakeholders to resolve complex issues.
- Strong knowledge of Financial/budget analysis for monitoring, tracking, and maintaining project financials including forecast, actuals, and variance analysis.
- Extensive experience in scheduling and being able to manage calendars (including the ability to work out scheduling conflicts with senior management).
- Effective at ensuring deliverables are delivered on time, to the highest standards, and at the lowest cost with no impact to quality; deliverables are always provided in accordance with client specifications.
- Strong problem solving and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
- Exceptional skills with Project Management tools such as Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Outlook), Microsoft Project, SharePoint, PPM Clarity, Jira and Planview.
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional
- CSM - Certified Scrum Master
- CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner
Timeline
Senior Project Consultant
KPMG
07.2022 - Current
Senior Project Coordinator
Cardinal Health Canada
01.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Project Analyst
Computershare
10.2019 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Technology - Accounting
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology