Finance/Accounts Manager
Outcess Solutions Nigeria Limited (formerly Customer Contact Solutions Nigeria Limited)
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
• Ensuring functional accounting system is maintained using Sage 50 accounting software
• Liaising with external auditors to ensure completion of statutory audits in record time.
• Prepares annual and monthly management reports and analyses such to the Board,
• Ensuring the company obtains regulatory permits through government departments and comply with relevant laws and regulations to manage financial and reputation risks arising from non compliance.
• Ensuring proper management of financial resources through obtaining funds for working capital and CAPEX using varieties of financial sourcing and cost of capital optimization to ensure proper liquidity and leverage is maintained at all times,
• Providing training for accounts and marketing staff on financial accounting and internal control issues (for accounts staff) and costing of company’s services (for marketing staff) to enable proper quotes are made to clients on demand.
o Prepared lecture notes, assignments, and semester exams on ACCA Corporate and Business Law (F4) and Governance, Risk and Ethics (P1) contents and delivered them to students of Huanghuai University, Henan, China on an exchange program in accounting between Swansea University and Huanghuai University.
o Marked the examination scripts and published them for the International College, Huanghuai University, Henan, China
o Achieved 70% pass rates in both papers after the marking, thereby positioning the students for sitting the ACCA papers in the June exam session.
o The appointment is on contract based on the collaboration between Swansea University, Wales, UK and Huanghuai University, Henan, China.
• Ensuring proper revenue and expenditure accounting for the hospital and its associated companies to enable reliability of monthly financial reports,
• Participating in preparation of budgets by providing the CFO with relevant variables and cost estimates,
• Managing company assets through the update of the company’s Fixed Asset Register (FAR)
• Participated in drawing up a Business Plan which led the company to receive a foreign denominated Private Equity Loan through an Investment Bank from Mauritius (Abraaj).
• Providing reviews of inventory and cash control which are high risk areas in the company’s operations,
• Ensuring internal control procedures covering procurement, sales and treasury operations are functional and attending to queries from external auditors on issues relating to the effectiveness of the controls during investigations and annual audits,
• Reviews financial accounting records periodically to enable reliability of financial statements and compliance with extant controls relating to financial reporting.
I completed the Diploma in International Financial Reporting of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK (ACCA) scoring 73% in the June 2017 exam session in which the results were released on 17th July 2017. This exam focuses on proficiency in Financial Reporting using the IFRS framework.
A bachelors degree from Oxford Brookes Unioversity where I majored in: Financial Accounting Financial Reporting Audit & Assurance Taxation Business Law Corporate Finance
A professional qualification awarded by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK (ACCA) on successful completion of the professional exam papers comprising of: Governance, RIsk & Ethics Corporate Reporting Busniess Analysis Advanced Audit & Assurance Advanced Financial Management