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Olaide Aloba

Dallas,USA

Summary

I am a result-driven financial accountant with forward-thinking leadership skills and over a decade experience. My background encompasses diverse roles, including Workday Finance Manager, Financial Analyst and Collection Specialist, where I consistently delivered results by prioritizing profitability and cost reduction through strategic financial planning and analysis.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Consultant

Agile Technology Partnerships, Inc
09.2024 - Current
  • Configure and optimize Workday Grants functionality including award management, budget tracking, and F&A rate structures.
  • Worktags configuration including Grant, Fund, Program, and other driver worktags to support report filtering and financial structure.
  • Responsible for post–go-live redesign of business processes, configurable security, and validations.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize existing reports for usability and performance improvements; assist with report-related Workday system updates and testing.
  • Maintain assignable roles and created custom validations, and condition rules.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on finance-related system enhancements and dashboard-driven workflows.
  • Conduct client meetings to analyze current-state grant reporting and budgeting processes and translate needs into Workday configurations.
  • Supported implementation of Workday Grants, including data migration, workflow testing, and design demonstration

Client Finance Manager – Workday

ECCO Select Corporation
10.2021 - 07.2024
  • Finance Manager for Wunderman Thompson (WPP); supported the migration from Maconomy to Workday Financials and managed post-go-live stabilization and reporting.
  • Led implementation and configuration of Workday modules: Contracts, Billing, Revenue Recognition, Cash Management.
  • Developed and maintained financial reports and dashboards to monitor project revenue, billing status, and cash flow trends.
  • Configured customer accounts, contracts, billing schedules, and revenue recognition rules, aligned with GAAP and client-specific policies.
  • Assigned security roles, designed business processes, and implemented custom validations to enforce policy-driven compliance.
  • Supported UAT and financial reporting validations; collaborated with technical teams to ensure data integrity across modules.
  • Conducted variance analysis and provided insight into revenue, expenses, and profitability using custom reporting tools.
  • Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance finance operations, budgeting, and Workday adoption.
  • Customized the Workday platform to support unique revenue workflows and implemented automated financial reporting dashboards.

Staff Accountant

Wisetek Solutions Inc.
12.2018 - 04.2021
  • Reviewing and evaluating the credit profile of company's client and customer to understand their credit risk profile, historical payment pattern and credit risk rating
  • Responsible for financial statements analysis, cashflow review, account receivable and payable analysis and sales report
  • Processing daily financial transactions, management of the bank accounts and wire transfers from customers and vendors
  • Bank reconciliation and merchant statements reconciliations for four retail stores
  • Reviewed collection reports to determine status of collections and the amounts of outstanding balances
  • Detailed review of Customers account to determine the credit terms of agreement
  • Preparation of deliverables for CPA audit firm
  • Assisted comptroller with year-end financial audits

Collections Specialist

Costar Group Inc.
03.2017 - 12.2018
  • Responsible for monitoring and maintaining assigned accounts, account adjustments, small balance writes off, reconciliation and processing credit memos
  • Accountable for reducing delinquency of all the assigned accounts
  • Enlist the efforts of sales and senior management when necessary to accelerate the collection process
  • Set up and updated customer accounts with interactions, payments
  • Coordinating with team members to resolve all credit issues with customer's account
  • Providing customer service regarding collection issues and process, review account adjustments and resolve discrepancies, misapplied payments in relation to customer accounts
  • Communicating and follow up effectively with Customer accounts on a timely basis
  • Reconcile customer disputes as they pertain to payment of outstanding balance that are due
  • Monitored accounts for compliance with established payment plans
  • Reviewing individual or commercial customer files to identify and select delinquent accounts for collection
  • Responsible for data mining and analyzing financial data about clients, including payment habits or history, and purchase activities

Accounts Payable and Collection Specialist (Costar)

Accountemps – Robert Half
10.2016 - 03.2017
  • Managed collections for selected clients and followed up on customers' complaints
  • Responsible for all clerical support of the client job
  • Worked in conjunction with AP Manager in clearing urgent vendor discrepancies
  • Processed accounts payable

Accounting Assistant

Darcars Automotive Group
12.2015 - 10.2016
  • Obtained signatures for financial documents
  • Took charge of the accounts receivable and collection of all outstanding payments
  • Processed payment on invoices via credit cards, debit and checks
  • Management of the front office and all administrative duties

Administrative and Accounting Personnel

PERK Consulting
01.2015 - 08.2015
  • Performed general accounting functions, including preparation of journal entries, account analysis and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Expense reporting and recording, petty cash flow and vendor negotiations
  • Feasibility for small businesses
  • Processed accounts payable

Education

MBA -

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
06.2021

Bachelor of Science B.Sc. honors - Accounting

University of Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
01.2008

Skills

  • Workday Financials
  • NetSuite
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Dynamics -Navision
  • Enterprise CRM
  • Bill Trust
  • Maconomy – Deltek
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)
  • Grants Management
  • Data Conversion & Configuration
  • Business Process Optimization

Certification

Workday Financial Management Data Loading Services.

Workday Pro Contract To Cash Services.

Workday Pro Grants Management Services

Timeline

Principal Consultant

Agile Technology Partnerships, Inc
09.2024 - Current

Client Finance Manager – Workday

ECCO Select Corporation
10.2021 - 07.2024

Staff Accountant

Wisetek Solutions Inc.
12.2018 - 04.2021

Collections Specialist

Costar Group Inc.
03.2017 - 12.2018

Accounts Payable and Collection Specialist (Costar)

Accountemps – Robert Half
10.2016 - 03.2017

Accounting Assistant

Darcars Automotive Group
12.2015 - 10.2016

Administrative and Accounting Personnel

PERK Consulting
01.2015 - 08.2015

MBA -

University of Maryland

Bachelor of Science B.Sc. honors - Accounting

University of Lagos

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