Edward Olayemi, Business development

Edward Olayemi

Business development

Matrix

Location
Nigeria
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
13 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 6 Months

Business development at Matrix
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since January 2018

for defined annual target, this includes identifying opportunities, develop
relationships, develop proposals, and pursue deals to close.
* Continuous management of existing client relationship and vast in the execution of internal audit and
internal control engagements
* Scope and pitch for new engagements
People Management
* Serve as counselor to mapped counselees;
* Participate of recruitment of good hand for the practice;
* Facilitate trainings and capacity building on methodologies and sector knowledge;
* Provide continuous mentorship to subordinates.
Operations
* Plan, execute and report on engagements. Coordinate technical delivery of the following solutions:
* Internal audit (Co-source and Outsource)
* Internal Control - assessment, framework design, implementation and monitoring including co-
sourcing and outsourcing
* Forensic and investigation
* Corporate Governance- design, implementation and monitoring
* Regulatory compliance - design, implementation and monitoring
Responsible for the following as the project lead:
* Engage clients’ leadership team to identify and evaluate business risk areas for developing effective
risk-based annual internal audit plan.
* Responsible for project planning, directing execution, and managing clients’ expectation to achieve
predefined quality of deliverables within agreed timelines.
* Coordinate team on multiple engagements including deploying relevant audit programs & procedures,
interpreting client sampling methodology where applicable, leading sessions to agreed Risk and
Control

Manager at Ernst and Young (
  • July 2011 to December 2011

Business development for defined annual target, this includes identifying opportunities, develop
relationships, develop proposals, and pursue deals to close.
* Continuous management of existing client relationship and vast in the execution of internal audit and
internal control engagements
* Scope and pitch for new engagements
People Management
* Serve as counselor to mapped counselees;
* Facilitate trainings and capacity building on methodologies and sector knowledge;
* Coordinate EY Nigeria Risk Advisory relationship with other EY practices
Operations
* Plan, execute and report on engagements. Lead following engagements;
Project evaluation and monitoring
* Lead monitoring and evaluation of state government implementation of strategy initiatives.
* Lead evaluation of World Bank supported implementation of SIFMIS project for some State
Governments;
Internal audit
* Lead Internal Audit (outsourced and co-sourced including secondment) for several multinational and
national companies in the public sector, Financial Institutions, Telecommunication, Oil & Gas, FMGC,
etc. including audit of business processes and functions, financial statement, contract and SLAs,
warehouse management, revenue assurance, etc.
* Quality Assurance Review for Internal Control and Internal Audit functions of leading Financial
Institutions benchmarking against IIA and COSO frameworks;
* Revenue Audit of Financial Institutions, multinational companies and Internally Generated Revenue of
Government MDAs;
* Implementation of internal audit function including recruitment of resources.
Internal control and control attestation
* Lead implementation of internal control for Nigeria based multinational manufacturing company;
* Establishing procedures, test scripts and coordinates testing for Sarbanes Oxley/Internal Control
Systems review for a Multi-national Oil Exploration Company, Multi-national Oil Servicing Company
and a Telecommunication Company;
* Internal control review covering Entity Level and Transactional Level Processes/ controls for
Multinationals Companies;
* Sox review for leading Multinational Telecommunication, FMGC, Oil and Gas Companies and Oil and
Gas Services;
* Cluster hybrid internal control framework implementation for banks;
Regulatory compliance and corporate governance
* Code of CBN Corporate Governance compliance review for banks;
* Development of regulatory compliance requirements for banks;
Risk management
* Lead portfolio of risk advisory projects and monitor the projects revenue, profitability, delivery quality,
billing and client relationship;
* Risk management review for banks covering strategy, operational, credit, market, liquidity and legal
risks;
Performance improvement
* Lead the supply chain transformation of Nigeria entity of a multination manufacturing company;
* Lead the readiness quality assurance on the Mega Warehouse deployment for the Nigeria entity of a
multination manufacturing company;
* Lead finance transformation projects for companies
* Secondment to establish finance function for four companies;
* Facilitate strategy session and monitor implementation of outcome initiatives for FinTech organisation
Investigation and forensic audit
Lead investigation assignments for agencies, organizations board activities, contracts and transactions.

Senior Consultant at Ernst and Young (
  • April 2008 to July 2011

Lead team of dedicated resources that is responsible for providing assurance to management on the
design and operating effectiveness of business processes, policies, procedures and control through risk,
internal control and compliance units.
* Led control testing for multinational oil and gas and telecommunication companies;
* Led external audit of financial statement for companies in the shipping sector;
* Work as team member on various engagements including Internal Audit, Internal Control, Compliance,
Quality Assurance Review, Process Improvement and external audit;
* Led statutory audit of companies;
Internal Audit
* Engage stakeholders and develop audit plans.
* Coordinate periodic audit by defining audit objectives, scope, plan and work program.
* Provide guidance to team members and engage departmental executives.
* Coordinate effective implementation of remediation plans.
* Review and present report to management, board and other required stakeholders on demand.
Risk Management
* Develop enterprise risk framework and maintain enterprise wide risk register including continuous self-
assessment and incident management;
* Review all risk management activities on a weekly basic;
* Report periodically to management on risk management activities;
* Develop procedures for risk assessment and monitoring;
* Manage business continuity plans including periodic evaluation of disaster recovery processes;
* Provide continuous training and risk process improvement to build a strong risk culture;
* Review identified potential areas of risk and compliance vulnerability;
* Coordinate monitoring of the recommendations that have been provided in review process of policies
and transaction;
Internal Control
* Develop internal control framework based on COSO principles and implemented;
* Review and approve policies, processes and procedures across organization;
* Approve confirmation of assets / investment to third parties;
* Provide leadership and guidance to internal control unit;
* Report periodically to management on internal control activities;
Regulatory Compliance
* Develop and periodically update rule book for regulatory compliance monitoring;
* Develop and implement training timetable for all staff and sponsor individual in line with regulatory
requirement;
* Review all correspondences with regulatory authorities;
* Review all risk management activities on a weekly basic;
* Report on a periodical basis to management on risk management activities.
General Advisory
* Develop material and train all staff on mandatory in-house regulatory requirement.
* Restructuring and organization designs
* Led development of fixed asset register for oil and gas client;
* Led several reconciliation audits;
* Work as team member on various engagements including Internal Audit, Internal Control, Compliance,
Quality Assurance Review, Process Improvement and external audit across all sectors;
* Work as team member /field team lead for statutory audit;

Reporting Manager at ABC Plc
  • June 2006 to March 2008

Responsible for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly account preparation for management and
regulatory authorities;
* Coordinate and review reports from terminals including Ghana
* Perform investigations on branch transactions;
* Perform system audit for branches;
* Key member of Quality Assurance Review Committee for the company;
* Manage treasury team which function include collection and accounting for revenue;
* Develop and Implement finance policies, processes and procedures
* Coordination of Half-year and yearly stock counts of material worth of over N1.5b with locations
across West Africa;
* Liaise with external auditor for the yearly account;

Investment Analyst at Interstate Securities Limited
  • October 2004 to June 2006

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Obafemi Awolowo University
  • January 2008

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Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Obafemi Awolowo University
  • January 2008

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High school or equivalent, Accounting
  • at Federal Polytechnic Ilaro I Upper
  • January 2002

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at University of Ibadan
  • January 1999

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Specialties & Skills

CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FINANCE
FINANCIAL
PROCESS ENGINEERING
QUALITY CONTROL
BUSINESS PROCESS
LEADERSHIP
OIL PAINTING
RISK MANAGEMENT
TELECOMMUNICATIONS