Olawale Popoola

Recruitment and Talent Acquisition: Developing and implementing effective recruitment strategies to attract and retain top talent for the organization. This includes job postings, conducting interviews, reference checks, and ensuring a smooth onboarding process.

Employee Relations: Handling employee relations issues, such as conflict resolution, grievance procedures, and disciplinary actions. Also been the main point of contact for all employee-related issues.

Training and Development: Providing training and development opportunities for employees to enhance their skills and improve their job performance. This includes identifying training needs, creating training programs, and facilitating employee development plans.

Compliance: Ensuring that the organization is compliant with all relevant labour laws and regulations, such as employment standards, human rights, and health and safety regulations. This involves staying up to date with changes to regulations and adopting policies and procedures as needed.

HR Administration: Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the HR department, including maintaining employee records, managing HR budgets, and preparing reports for senior management.

Performance Management: Developing and implementing performance management systems to monitor and evaluate employee performance, providing feedback, and identifying training and development needs.

HR Strategy: Developing and implementing HR policies, procedures, and strategies that align with the organization's goals and objectives.

Working closely with other departments to ensure the company's human resources needs are met while aligning with the organization's goals and objectives.

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee pay checks (Locals & Expats), including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits (For both Onshore & Offshore).

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their pay checks, taxes, and other deductions.

Creating Reports: Responsible for generating payroll reports, including tax filings and other financial reports.

Communicating with other Departments: To ensure that payroll information/attendance is accurate and up to date before processing payroll.

Ensuring that employees are paid accurately and on time is essential for maintaining employee morale and retention.

Data Collection: Responsible for collecting data from various sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, and websites.

Data Cleaning and Processing: Cleaning and processing the data to ensure that it is accurate, complete, and in a usable format.

Data Analysis: Using statistical methods to analyze the data and derive insights. This involves data visualization, regression analysis, predictive modeling, and other techniques.

Reporting and Presentation: Presenting the findings of the analysis clearly and understandably, often using visual aids such as charts and graphs.

Analyzing Company Employees’ Costs and Benefits.

Maintaining Employees Data.

Reconcile and Ensuring Compliance of Agencies’ (Outsourced Company) Payroll with the signed contract between the Agencies and the Company.

Ensuring the Agencies (Outsourced Company) follows and obeys the Statutory Regulation.

Extracted key observations and insights from internal and external data sources to drive decision-making.

Drafting and reviewing both Employees’ and Outsourced Agencies Contracts.

Manage day-to-day accounting operations, including accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, and bank reconciliations.

Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, including preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.

Develop and maintain effective financial controls and policies to safeguard company assets and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Oversee budgeting and forecasting processes, providing analysis and recommendations to support business decision-making.

Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements and efficiencies.

Provide support for administrative operations, including managing vendor relationships, facilities management, and other related tasks.

Lead or participate in special projects and initiatives as assigned by management.

Manage processes to record & reconcile expenses against income and provide regular management reporting.

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee pay checks, including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits.

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their pay checks, taxes, and other deductions.

Support all other employer payroll-related requirements.

Be accountable for and manage administrative support staff delivering the following functions: -the reception & front office functions, cleaners, security, and drivers.

Develop, implement, maintain, and document accounting procedures to meet requirements.

Preparation of management reports and actual against business plan & budget as required.

Manage processes to record & reconcile expenses against income and provide regular management reporting.

Prepare & send invoices to clients as required, follow up with invoices, maintain expected payment dates in the cash flow spreadsheet, receive & record payments.

Prepare and implement cash flow management processes.

Support preparation of Annual Audits & preparation of annual financial statements by working with external accountants and auditors.

Ensure timely and efficient delivery of all accounting and administration deliverables

Reconciled and maintained balance sheet accounts.

Training and Development: Providing training and development opportunities for employees and external trainees to enhance their skills and improve their job performance.

Interpreted and explained general accounting principles, laws, and regulations affecting financial operations.

Analyzed and reported the fiscal activity to identify cost reductions.

Prepare & send invoices to clients as required, follow up with invoices, maintain expected payment dates in the cash flow spreadsheet, receive & record payments.

Monthly tax computations and returns to appropriate tax offices: This involves monthly remittances of VAT on paid invoices, Annual corporation tax on audited accounts.

Maintaining financial records which include bookkeeping, ledger entries, and reconciliations.

Preparing financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.

Analysing financial data to identify trends, forecast future financial performance, and make recommendations to improve financial performance.

Ensuring compliance with regulations and laws on financial matters.

Managing budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring that financial resources are used efficiently and effectively.

Advising clients on financial advice to clients, including tax planning, investment advice, and business strategy.

Collaborating with other professionals, such as auditors, financial analysts, and tax experts, to ensure that financial records are accurate and compliant with relevant regulations.

Keeping up to date with changes in regulations and laws, that affect financial reporting and taxation.

Implementing and maintaining internal financial controls and procedures.

Keeping of Cash Imprest Account.

Monitoring bank transfers and transactions

Accounts receivable and payable: This includes raising of invoices, debt collection procedures on invoices due, raising of purchase orders and payment for purchases on due dates.

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee paychecks, including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits.

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their paychecks, taxes, and other deductions.

Support all other employer payroll-related requirements.

Monthly tax computations and returns to appropriate tax offices: This involves monthly remittances of VAT on paid invoices, Annual corporation tax on audited accounts.

Monthly account/bank reconciliations.

Support preparation of Annual Audits & preparation of annual financial statements working with external accountants and auditors.

Ensure timely and efficient delivery of all accounting and administration deliverables

Reconciled and maintained balance sheet accounts.

Reconciled and maintained balance sheet accounts.

General ledger operations.

Preparation of monthly financial reports.

Accounts receivable and payable: This includes raising of invoices, debt collection procedures on invoices due, raising of purchase orders and payment for purchases on due dates.

Monthly tax computations and returns to appropriate tax offices: This involves monthly remittances of VAT on paid invoices, Annual corporation tax on audited accounts.

Preparation of weekly and monthly budgets and forecasts

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee pay checks, including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits.

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their pay checks, taxes, and other deductions.

Monthly account/bank reconciliations.

Implementing and maintaining internal financial controls and procedures

Monitoring bank transfers and transactions

Stock auditing.

Stock administration: Movement of stocks.

Training and Development: Providing training and development opportunities for employees to enhance their skills and improve their job performance. This includes identifying training needs, creating training programs, and facilitating employee development plans.

Support the preparation of Annual Audits & preparation of annual financial statements by working with external accountants and auditors.

Collaborating with other professionals, such as auditors, financial analysts, and tax experts, to ensure that financial records are accurate and compliant with relevant regulations.

Keeping up to date with changes in regulations and laws, that affect financial reporting and taxation.

Preparing financial statements such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.

Assisted the Accountant in the daily banking requirement.

Ensured the accurate and timely processing of positive pay transactions.

Ensured the monthly and quarterly bank compliance activities were performed in a timely and accurate manner.

Responded to inquiries from the Director of Finance, Director of Accounts, Accountant and other finance managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and the like.

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee pay checks, including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits.

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their pay checks, taxes, and other deductions.

Worked with the Accountant to ensure a clean and timely year-end audit.

Assisted in the development and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the department.

Provided weekly reports on all bank reconciliations.

Wrote draft report based on the results of the audit and discussed audit report with the auditor.

Auditing and ensuring no overcharging on the facility (Loan) bank statement

Assessed the level of risks and controls for the various functions to be audited.

Determined the audit scope and objectives, planned audit tests and procedures accordingly.

Assisted the accountant in the daily banking requirements.

Ensured the monthly and quarterly bank compliance activities and features to enhance the workflow of the department

Evaluated all approvals for payment and make sure they are in line with all due process

Provided weekly reports on all bank reconciliations.

Processing Payroll: This involves calculating and processing employee pay checks, including calculating taxes, deductions, and benefits.

Maintaining Payroll Records: Responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee payroll records, including salary, bonuses, and other compensation.

Ensuring Compliance with Regulations: The organization complies with all applicable laws (Federal and State Payroll Regulations).

Responding to Employee Inquiries: Answering employee questions related to their pay checks, taxes, and other deductions.

Prepared the auditable unit risk assessment to determine the frequency of the audit cycle to be used in the preparation of the annual audit plan.

Participated in meetings with auditors in a professional manner

Wrote draft reports based on the result of the audit and discussed the audit report with the auditor.

Provided feedback to the management on the performance of staff auditor officers for their evaluations.