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Toni Okege

Toni Okege

I am a high‐performing, professional accountant with over 5 years’ experience in accounting services, audit and general finance. Skilled at forecasting financial performance using qualitative and quantitative metrics.

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Lagos, LagosMember since August 13, 2024
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About

I am a high‐performing, professional accountant with over 5 years' experience in accounting services, audit and general finance. Skilled at forecasting financial performance using qualitative and quantitative metrics. I am experienced in leading teams, preparing financial statements and IFRS reporting.

An enthusiastic and committed individual with a solid academic background in accounting coupled with excellent communication and problem‐solving skills. My key attributes include managing people, and an excellent eye for detail while producing high quality work in a fast‐paced, deadline‐oriented environment.

Experience

Team Lead, Finance at Revent Technologies Limited (2022-12 – Present)

  • Managing all accounting operations including billing, pricing, cost savings initiatives, revenue recognition and ledger reviews.
  • Prepared and presented budget, business monthly performance and investors' report and to the executive management team while achieving a 90% on‐time delivery rate on reports that support data driven decisions.
  • Liquidity management, cash flow planning and forecasting.
  • Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filing.
  • Improved the invoicing process and efficiently managing the company's receivables while achieving a 95% reduction in billing and accounting errors.
  • Engage with auditors to ensure audit close‐out and tax consultants to ensure the company complies with tax and regulatory practices.
  • Budget preparation and analysis.
  • Champion month‐end and year‐end close process.
  • Manage the finance and records of three subsidiaries within the group.

Accounts Executive at Rainoil Limited (2021-04 – 2022-11)

  • Timely and accurate reconciliation of bank and intercompany transactions to the general ledger.
  • Led the sales to cash team on the daily reconciliation of the stations' sales to the cash lodged to by over 120 stations within the group.
  • Apportioning salaries between the Group company and subsidiaries and retirement of advances, posting of imprests and AGO consumption.
  • Preparation of the financial statement for a subsidiary of the group.
  • Assisted in the training and tutoring of new staff in the finance department

Audit Senior at EST Audit (2020-02 – 2021-03)

  • Prepared IFRS complete financial statements, managed audit, review and ensuring the achievement of audit objectives on an ongoing basis throughout planning, control evaluation, test, and completion phase of the audit.
  • Continually performed control review on entries and transactions posting on various Software; ERP, Tally.
  • Preparing financial statements with CaseWare Working Papers and organizing CaseWare training for members of staff.
  • Identified critical financial risks areas by testing the design and implementation and the operating effectiveness of the internal control systems of various clients.

Mathematics and Business Tutor at Good Shepherd School (2018-11 – 2019-10)

  • Maintained records of students' progress and development.
  • Introduced students to the double entry principle of accounting.
  • Prepared students for external examinations by preparing and delivering lessons to students.
  • Assisted in students' development by preparing the students for debates and extracurricular activities.

Audit Intern at KPMG Nigeria (2018-07 – 2018-08)

  • Review and roll‐over of Financial Statements
  • Performed analytical review of financial statements.
  • Bank circularization, formatting and footing and casting of annual reports.
  • Assisted in the audit of the financial statements of a client company of the firm.

Finance Intern at Equitable Health Access Initiative (2017-06 – 2017-08)

  • Preparation of the monthly Cash book of the company.
  • Handling operations on Microsoft Dynamics Navigation for travel requests, expense request, ledger, and passed journal entries for transactions.
  • Reconciled the bank statements of the Company and prepared the payroll and payment journals.
  • Ensuring that expenses approved are taken to the bank for payment.

Education

BSc. in Accounting – BABCOCK UNIVERSITY, OGUN STATE (2018)

Skills

I am a high‐performing

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