Senior Manager, Finance & Account - QED International Oil & Gas Limited
(2026 - 2026-12)
- Oversee the company's treasury activities, through preparation of monthly cash flow budget, ensure day to day financial operation needs are well planned and met.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly Management reports required to aid strategic business units goals setting, performance appraisal and decision making.
- Provide professional supports and offer strategic financial advice to Management through monthly Management accounts/reports.
- Liaise and manage relationship with banks and other external Business partners (Sub-Contractors, etc).
- Working with the External Auditors, ensure all audit queries raised during year end audit are addressed and closed-out.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and support to the Interim CFO as required, maintaining a high degree of autonomy and professionalism in all deliverables.
- Maintain and update the corporate financial model, integrating actual results and forecasts to provide insightful analysis against key corporate targets such as profitability, liquidity, and funding.
- Analyze financial information contained in Management Accounts and summarize financial performance to Management team at Monthly Performance Review (MPR) meetings.
- Ensure preparation of company's year-end financial statements.
- Manage a team of Accountants and the day to day operations of finance department.
- Carryout regular reviews to Ensure accuracy and effectiveness of all accounting tasks including review of transaction journals as well as postings into the ERP accounting software.
- Carry out periodic verification and reconciliation of all accounts payables and receivables.
- Work closely with the Commercial Department in area of invoicing and monitoring payments from clients, Debtors Age Analysis / Review, etc.
- Work closely with Commercial Department by supplying financial inputs during tendering and liaising with banks for reference letters as part of documents required while tendering for new contracts.
- Review and sign-off monthly bank reconciliation statements of all the company's bank accounts.
- Assist in tax audits and follow up with tax consultants to ensure proper filling of statutory returns.
- Review the activities of project staff as regards time sheet of expatriates and other direct manpower deployed to clients sites and rigs.
- Conduct financial scenario analysis to support strategic reviews and investment decisions, illustrating impacts on returns and liquidity.
- Produce high-quality monthly variance reports with clear, insightful commentary for internal management and external stakeholders.
- Act as a strategic business partner to functional and asset managers by providing financial analysis, commentary, and advice to support budget and KPI achievement.
- Support the implementation and optimization of the Group's ERP system, ensuring full integration of planning, budgeting, and reporting processes, and serve as the Finance function's key ERP liaison.
Manager, Finance & Accounts - Del Waste Mgt Company Ltd
(2024-01 - 2026-01)
- Manage yearly preparation of departmental budgets as well as overall budgets of the company.
- Prepare comprehensive ExCo and Board-level reporting packs and presentations on financial performance, ensuring accuracy and professionalism.
- Oversee the company's treasury activities, through preparation of monthly cash flow budget, ensure day to day financial operation needs are well planned and met.
- Participate in strategic financial decisions by providing Management reports required to aid strategic business units goals setting and decision making.
- Provide professional supports and offer strategic financial advice to the CEO through monthly Management accounts/Cash flow reports.
- Analyze financial information contained in Management Accounts and summarize financial performance to Management team at Monthly Performance Review (MPR) meetings.
- Liaise and manage relationship with banks and other external Business partners (Sub-Contractors, etc).
- Working with the External Auditors, ensure all audit queries raised during year end audit are addressed and closed-out.
- Ensure preparation of company's year-end financial statements.
- Manage a team of Accountants, provide leadership and direction to the operations of finance department.
- Ensure control over expenses and capital expenditure.
- Ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of all accounting tasks including review of transaction journals as well as postings into the accounting software.
- Carry out periodic verification and reconciliation of all accounts payables and receivables.
- Work closely with the Commercial Department in area of invoicing and see to monitoring payments from clients, Debtors Age Analysis / Review, etc.
- Work closely with Commercial Department by supplying financial inputs during tendering and liaising with banks for reference letters as part of documents required while tendering for new contracts.
- Review and sign-off monthly bank reconciliation statements of all the company's bank accounts.
- Assist in tax audits and follow up with tax consultants to ensure proper filling of statutory returns.
- Review the activities of Warehouse as regards inventory and procurements inline with approved purchase orders.
Finance Manager - Del Waste Mgt Company Ltd
(2018 - 2023)
- Manage yearly preparation of departmental budgets as well as overall budgets of the company.
- Oversee the company's treasury activities, through preparation of monthly cash flow budget, ensure day to day financial operation needs are well planned and met.
- Participate in strategic financial decisions by providing Management reports required to aid strategic business units goals setting and decision making.
- Provide professional supports and offer strategic financial advice to Management through monthly Management accounts/reports.
- Analyze financial information contained in Management Accounts and summarize financial performance to Management team at Monthly Performance Review (MPR) meetings.
- Liaise and manage relationship with banks and other external Business partners (Sub-Contractors, etc).
- Working with the External Auditors, ensure all audit queries raised during year end audit are addressed and closed-out.
- Ensure preparation of company's year-end financial statements.
- Manage a team of Accountants and the day to day operations of finance department.
- Ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of all accounting tasks including review of transaction journals as well as postings into the accounting software.
- Carry out periodic verification and reconciliation of all accounts payables and receivables.
- Working closely with the Commercial Department in area of invoicing and monitoring payments from clients, Debtors Age Analysis / Review, etc.
- Work closely with Commercial Department by supplying financial inputs during tendering and liaising with banks for reference letters as part of documents required while tendering for new contracts.
- Review and sign-off monthly bank reconciliation statements of all the company's bank accounts.
- Assist in tax audits and follow up with tax consultants to ensure proper filling of statutory returns.
- Review the activities of Warehouse as regards inventory and procurements inline with approved purchase orders.
Head, Finance & Account - Flash Investment Ltd
(2017 - 2018)
- Reviewing general ledgers and preparing month-end Group Management Reports.
- Prepare the Group consolidated budgets as well monthly cash flow budgets of all the subsidiaries.
- Oversee activities of Account Officers of all the subsidiaries and ensure preparation of monthly management accounts.
- Working with Head of Operations of the subsidiaries, plan and manage their day to day working capital requirements.
- Verify and reconcile accounts payables and receivables of all the subsidiaries.
- Provide professional support and offer strategic financial advice to Management through Management accounts / reports.
- Carry out periodic reviews on the group accounting system and ensure necessary corrections are carried out as appropriate.
- Participate in strategic financial decisions by providing Management reports required to aid subsidiaries goals setting and decision making.
- Oversee preparation of subsidiaries / group financial statements and budgets.
- Reconcile / Review of monthly accounts and bank balances and statements.
- Assist in tax audits and ensuring proper filling of statutory returns.
- Liaise and manage the group relationship with banks.
Head, Internal Audit & Controls - Flash Investment Ltd
(2013 - 2017)
- Identifying key risks to business objectives, evaluating and testing controls in place to mitigate these risks with appropriate recommendations.
- Carry out routine review to ascertain the efficiency and effectiveness of the Group's system of Accounting as well as internal controls system with recommendations to bridge identified loopholes in the system.
- Review the reliability and integrity of financial information and means used to capture, measure, classify and report such information.
- Conduct audit of subsidiaries / functions and provide objective views on the control environment.
- Carry out reviews of subsidiaries and provide views on their level of compliance with group policies and other statutory regulatory requirements.
- Ensures physical control of assets (i.e means of safeguarding the Group's assets) and, as appropriate, verify the existence of such assets through periodic spot checks / inspection.
- Reviewing all subsidiaries operations to ascertain whether they are being carried out as planned and results are consistent with established objectives and goals.
- Provide feed-back during exit meeting to Management / Subsidiaries Heads who should take corrective actions, the result of audit examinations, the audit opinions, and recommendations made.
- Monitoring plans or actions taken to correct reported conditions for satisfactory disposition of audit findings. If the corrective action is considered unsatisfactory, hold further meetings / discussions to achieve acceptable disposition.
- Audit payroll and personal records for accuracy and to determine workers compensation coverage, liabilities and compliance with tax laws as well as other statutory regulations.
- Report periodically to the GCEO/Audit Committee with a dotted line to Group Chief Operating Officer on whether appropriate actions have been taken on significant audit findings.
- Resolution of complex problems arising from operations of subsidiaries with cost-effective, value adding recommendations.
- Carry out post transaction audit of various subsidiaries / Departmental processes and follow up on audit for implementation of recommendations.
- Ensures integrity of all financial transactions by carrying out pre-transaction audit on expenses to be incurred seeing that they are in accord to the budget and substantiated as far as practicable with verifiable supporting documents.
- Carry out special investigation on fraud or other major policy infractions within the group with a report of findings and appropriate recommendations to Management.
Head, Internal Audit & Controls - HiiT Plc
(2012 - 2012)
- Deliver high quality financial and operational audit reviews across the company.
- Contributing to the development of company audit, risk and assurance policies and procedures.
- Work with the Management to put a system in place to ensure all major risks to company's operations are identified, analyzed and managed.
- Plan, organize and carry out the internal audit function through audit plan.
- Report to the Management on policies and other activities of the organization to ensure compliance.
- Make recommendations on the system and procedures being reviewed, report on the findings and monitor management implementation.
- Review and report on the accuracy and timeliness of the financial and other information that is provided for management.
- Liase with the external auditors to examine the activities and operations of the company to ensure compliance with all regulatory guidelines.
- Identifying key risks to business objectives, evaluating and testing controls in place to mitigate these risks with appropriate recommendations.
- Carry out routine review to ascertain the efficiency and effectiveness of the Group's system of Accounting as well as internal controls system with recommendations to bridge identified loopholes in the system.
- Review the reliability and integrity of financial information and means used to capture, measure, classify and report such information.
- Conduct audit of subsidiaries / functions and provide objective views on the control environment.
- Carry out reviews of subsidiaries and provide views on their level of compliance with group policies and other statutory regulatory requirements.
- Ensures physical control of assets (i.e means of safeguarding the Group's assets) and, as appropriate, verify the existence of such assets through periodic spot checks / inspection.
- Reviewing all subsidiaries operations to ascertain whether they are being carried out as planned and results are consistent with established objectives and goals.
- Provide feeds-back during exit meeting to Management / Subsidiaries Heads who should take corrective actions, the result of audit examinations, the audit opinions, and recommendations made.
- Monitoring plans or actions taken to correct reported conditions for satisfactory disposition of audit findings. If the corrective action is considered unsatisfactory, hold further meetings / discussions to achieve acceptable disposition.
- Audit payroll and personal records for accuracy and to determine workers compensation coverage, liabilities and compliance with tax laws as well as other statutory regulations.
- Report periodically to the GCEO/Audit Committee with a dotted line to Group Chief Operating Officer on whether appropriate actions have been taken on significant audit findings.
- Resolution of complex problems arising from operations of subsidiaries with cost-effective, value adding recommendations.
- Carry out post transaction audit of various subsidiaries / Departmental processes and follow up on audit for implementation of recommendations.
- Ensures integrity of all financial transactions by carrying out pre-transaction audit on expenses to be incurred seeing that they are in accord to the budget and substantiated as far as practicable with verifiable supporting documents.
- Carry out special investigation on fraud or other major policy infractions within the group with a report of findings and appropriate recommendations to Management.
- Provide management with an opinion on the internal controls of the organization.
- Audit payroll and personal records for accuracy and to determine workers compensation coverage, liabilities and compliance with tax laws.
Compliance & Controls Group, Branch Controls Unit (Associate Compliance Officer) - Skye Bank Plc
(2008 - 2012)
- Carry out spot checks on Skye bank branches and report exceptions observed as well as recommendations on controls / process improvement.
- Follow up on audit exceptions raised bank-wide to ensure recommendations are implemented.
- Carry out special investigations on fraud cases and control/policy breaches reported at branches and write a report on findings for management.
- Carrying out inspection and review of all relevant registers and books in the branches.
- GL review and monitoring of suspense accounts in regions bank wide.
- Reconciliation and clean-up of GL accounts with review comment.
- Other reports preparation and collation - activity reports, ad-hoc reports and exceptions report bank wide, special survey reports e.t.c.
- Preparation of account Opening Documentation exception reports, unusual events report, expense report, risk asset review report, income leakages report, monthly staff audit report and other reports on control and policy breach.
Internal Controls / MIS Unit Internal Controls Officer - Triple Gee & Co Plc
(2002 - 2008)
- Updating & Preparation of Monthly Payroll
- Monthly Payroll Reconciliation and Payroll Related complaint Resolution
- Vouching of Documents & Vouchers
- Updating Debtors' Profile
- Periodic Stock Taking, Verification & Control
- Bank Reconciliation Statement and review
- PAYE, WHT & VAT Management & Report
- Assist the Departmental head in following up implementation of External Auditors' Management report.
