Sampson Oluo
Antioch,CA
Summary
Accomplished Senior Strategic Finance Manager with 15+ years progressive experience leading annual budgeting, long-range planning, quarterly forecasting, financial reporting, continuously identify areas to streamline and improve financial management processes, tools adoption and systems implementations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager
Echefu & Patience Property Management
02.2024 - Current
- Reduced costs by 10% and increased productivity by 15% through process improvements, systems implementations and automation, financial analysis and reporting, great tenant or clients screening including background checks and all resulted to 20% savings.
- Excellent cash management, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accounts reconciliation, bank reconciliation and vendor management, effective rent management.
- $41K rent collections and adjustments resulting to 8% increase in cash flow
- Achieved 100% regulatory compliance by assist tenants or clients with lease agreements and therefore avoided regulatory compliance issues
Senior Financial Analyst
Verizon
08.2004 - 12.2022
- Managed an annual budget of $500M+ for a multinational corporation’s engineering organization, helped the company to complete 100% of their projects on time and within budget and accomplish 100% of the company’s annual spend target or goal
- Saved 20% ($100M) for the purchase of wireless spectrum by analyzing budget lines to identify funds in projects that are not needed by collaborating with the engineering team to achieve the $100M in savings.
- Trained regional senior staff on the proper use of budget and forecast template which saved 25 hours quarterly, reduced errors by 10%, and achieved 100% annual spend goal.
- Achieved more than $2M in savings by identifying overcharged taxes and collaborated with the tax department to resolve the tax issue.
- Developed a tracking system to correctly monitor, track 100% budget allocations, spend, costs to help management and stakeholders to understand the region’s financial position.
Consultant
Various Companies
05.2001 - 07.2003
- Leveraged expertise in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, process improvements to optimize financial outlooks and drive efficiencies.
- Spearheaded credit risk assessments as SME, scrutinized customers’ creditworthiness, interpreted financial ratios, translating financial data into actionable insights.
- Approved appropriate credit limits to maximize risks while working with sales, customer service and the management to granted credits to qualified customers.
- Performed credit investigations, collaborated with sales and forecast 5000 AR portfolio worth $12M and reduced AR portfolio by 3000.
- Established as a trusted advisor, guiding treasury initiatives, setting credit control standards, conducting cohesive discussions to upskill stakeholders.
Finance Manager
Nortel Networks
02.2000 - 04.2001
- Managed Capital budget of $250M and OPEX budget of $97.5M, provided the stakeholders with sound, smart financial guidance for decision making.
- Reduced operational costs by 25% and capital by 22%, with total savings of 47%. Data-driven strategy, strategic business partnering, decision support analytics, profitability analysis.
- Developed project tracking which resulted in timely project reporting per Capex and Opex tracking.
- Prepared monthly and quarterly forecasts, headcount, cost per square footage, financial outlooks, major project reports to the senior management.
- Performed month end, quarter and year end close, analyzed budget vs actual, variance explanations to help the management to make smart financial and financial decisions.
Education
MBA - Finance
Alabama A&M University
Huntsville, ALBachelor of Science - Accounting
Alabama A&M University
Huntsville, ALSkills
- Technical: PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Adaptive, FUZE, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Power BI
- Industry: Annual Budgeting, Quarterly Forecasting, Monthly Re-forecasting, Financial Reporting, Variance Analysis, Budget vs Actual, Commitment View, Financial Outlooks, GAAP, SOX, Financial Modeling, Microsoft Outlook, G-mail
- Soft Skills: Excellent Analytical ability, Excellent Communication, Cross-Team Collaboration, Teamwork, Excellent Problem-Solving Skills, Detailed Oriented and Reliability, Trustworthy, Very High Integrity
Certification
PRIDE award (Verizon Wireless) for efficient and effective costs and budget management.
Professional Development
- 20 hours of IBM SkillsBuild AI Completed link below
- Your Future in AI, Computer vision, AI Agents, Natural and Artificial Language Processing, AI in the Real world, The Intelligent Behind AI, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning, AI Forms and Functions, Machine Learning, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, AI Fundamentals Glossary, AI Fundamentals- Language and Vision in AI, AI fundamentals: Foundations for Understanding AI
Timeline
Manager
Echefu & Patience Property Management
02.2024 - Current
Senior Financial Analyst
Verizon
08.2004 - 12.2022
Consultant
Various Companies
05.2001 - 07.2003
Finance Manager
Nortel Networks
02.2000 - 04.2001
MBA - Finance
Alabama A&M University
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Alabama A&M University