Boubacary Sogoba
FINANCIAL ANALYST | DATA ANALYST
Dallas
Summary
Results-driven professional with over 7 years of experience in financial analysis and accounting. Providing executives with informed, data-driven support for decision-making. Expert at evaluating and interpreting complex financial data to identify trends, gaps, and strategic business opportunities. Delivering comprehensive models and visualizations to senior leadership to drive new business developments, while continually enhancing productivity and efficiency through process restructuring and system improvements.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Financial Analyst
Bank of America
03.2020 - Current
- Lead the development and implementation of financial reporting and analytics systems for 'Serviced for Others' loans, asset loans, and aggregate loan portfolios, enhancing reporting accuracy and efficiency.
- Implement process improvements that automated reconciliations tasks, reducing manual effort by 15 hours per month.
- Generate control report to escalate high risk unposted cash during reconciliation for month end and different cut-off period.
- Demonstrate strong financial acumen and judgment, focusing on key areas of borrower, investor, and corporate impact, optimizing decision making for portfolio management.
- Resolve complex loan servicing and financial issues through forensic accounting expertise.
- Provide critical support to the Team Manager and offered training and mentorship to colleagues.
- Reviews and interpret complex legal contracts and government regulations, ensuring 100% compliance across loan portfolios.
Financial Analyst
Duraserv Corp
01.2016 - 03.2020
- Performed complex financial analysis, evaluating financial statements and monthly sales data to identify and report top performing services and products while developing informed and accurate financial recommendations for executive management.
- Reviewed financial statements for variances and opportunities for new business development, analyzing monthly profits and operational costs while tracking and reporting identified trends and recommendations for presentation to senior leadership.
- Expertly analyzed, interpreted, and translated data into gross margins, P&L reports, and weekly and monthly sales reports featuring models, pivot tables, and other visualizations to effectively inform and support executive company decision-making processes.
- Regularly engaged with sales representatives to generate commission reports while consolidating various sales orders to track service and product costs daily, identifying, interpreting, and reporting significant changes to upper management as necessary.
- Performed extensive trend analysis across revenue, sales costs, expenses, and capital expenditures to develop financial recommendations and maximize profitable business outcomes.
- Generated billing projections across 20-40 ongoing monthly projects, continually tracking project activities and billings to develop overall progress reports for senior management.
Financial Accountant
Taylor Morrison
02.2014 - 12.2015
- Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly cash position reports and journal entries for senior management, while performing daily accounting responsibilities across prepayment posting and general ledger review to report major variances to controller.
- Functioned as primary vendor contact in support of AP department, investigating and resolving all conflicts regarding purchase orders and invoices to ensure accurate billing.
- Restructured end-to-end vendor management and AP system, providing a secondary quality assurance check on all invoices to reduce accidental double-billing and generate significant company savings.
- Coordinated with direct superior to review financial performance against previous year, as well as key business objectives and success metrics, collaboratively developing forecasted budget before submission for approval.
- Performed in-depth analysis across monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial data to report key trends and potential recommendations to senior management.
Education
MBA - undefined
Prairie View A&M University
Houston, TXBachelor's degree - accounting
FSEG
BamakoSkills
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Variance Analysis
Tableau
Power BI
Financial Reporting
Risk Management
Trend Analysis
Data Visualization
Forecasting
Budgeting
Cost Analysis
Margin Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis
SQL
Additional Training And Certificates
- Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst, Corporate Finance Institute, 03/01/20
- Data Analyst Associate, Data Camp, Self Study, 02/01/25
Certification
Financial Modeling and Validation
Timeline
Financial Modeling and Validation
03-2020
Financial Analyst
Bank of America
03.2020 - Current
Financial Analyst
Duraserv Corp
01.2016 - 03.2020
Financial Accountant
Taylor Morrison
02.2014 - 12.2015
MBA - undefined
Prairie View A&M University
Bachelor's degree - accounting
FSEG