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Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria

• Key Accomplishments:
• Actively contributed to the appraisal, structuring and delivery of investments > USD 2 Billion.
• Contributed as credit risk manager to the following award-winning deals:❶ Acquisition of AFC’s stake in Infinity Energy Africa, and Infinity’s acquisition of Lekela Power B.V., Africa’s largest renewable energy company.

Lagos, Nigeria

Risk Manager, reporting to the Chief Risk Officer (CRO); contributing in upholding a healthy enterprise risk management culture across the Corporation; performing risk assessment of project finance and investment memos for debt and equity investments in infrastructure projects in power, transport, telecom, heavy industries, oil & gas, mining and other.

Douala, Cameroon

Bold Entrepreneur Ltd is an investment company with focus on startups and SMEs. It also provides management advisory to its portfolio companies. Its mandate is born of a passion to contribute to the development of Africa by helping young entrepreneurs to start, fund and grow successful scalable business ventures. The company is the fruit of a side interest.

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

• Supported the Country Director of Credit Analysis in developing and executing the overall strategic orientation of the credit analysis function; Conducted credit analysis and credit monitoring of a diverse strategic.
• Prepared well researched and commended investment memoranda that facilitated the approval of incremental credit limits summing to c. USD 275 million (at group mandate and obligor levels), thus positioning the bank for.
• Contributed as member of the Deal Team in Standard Chartered's co-advisory role in the "Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement" (BOAD)'s USD 830 million Eurobond issuance in Oct 2019 and Standard Chartered's.

Douala, Cameroon

• Conducted comprehensive credit risk analysis and ongoing monitoring of a portfolio of top corporate, financial institution, public sector and developmental organization accounts comprising all strategic names across.
• Contributed as member of the syndicated deal team that structured and closed a €918 million financing for the Natchigal 420MW hydropower project which was awarded Global Multilateral Deal of the Year 2018 by Project.
• Single-handedly covered credit analysis for the country portfolio for over 4 months, while maintaining credit analysis performance metrics within KPI thresholds.
• Received written commendation from the Regional Chief Credit Officer for the AME Region and other senior regional credit risk executives for the quality and depth of my credit analysis write-up.
• Initiated the review of the bank's interbank indemnity (IBI/IGG) process which resulted in a 22% saving on IBI cost.

Douala, Cameroon

• Supported Senior Relationship Managers in the end-to-end customer relationship life-cycle, from on-boarding to portfolio management, including account planning sessions, credit analysis, documentation management and.
• Successfully handled a double-hat role as Client Manager and Credit Analyst for 1 year 7 months.
• Completed a 3-month short term assignment at the West Africa Credit Analysis CoE, Lagos (Aug-Oct 2017)
• Anchored an MIS project for Head of Credit Analysis Africa, built a robust MS tool for monitoring credit analysis performance metrics and assisted in deployment across Africa.
• Piloted the migration of earmarked accounts to Credit Analysis CoEs across Africa.
• Improved limit utilisation as well as TAT for loan processing (from more than 72-hours to same-day on average).

Douala, Cameroon

• Supported the Country Director of the Client Due Diligence (CDD) Programme as part of the overall financial crime compliance framework. Actively engaged clients, Relationship Managers, Legal and Compliance, Group.
• Contributed to the maintenance of CDD and GIC overdue and rework rates far below group thresholds which led to the consistent top-ranking of the Cameroon COBAM Team in AME Region.
• Championed FATCA compliance project for the Cameroon portfolio, including borrowing and non-borrowing clients.
• Coordinated a static data clean-up initiative, leading to the off-boarding of 100+ dormant accounts.

Douala, Cameroon

• Collaborated with sales, credit, customer service, finance, and risk/compliance functions to understand and enhance the customer experience through service review, root cause analysis of complaints, and ongoing.
• Completed a 12-month cross-functional assignment as Credit Analyst for the Local Corporates, Commodity Traders & Agribusiness segment (Oct-13 to Sep-14). Provided support in portfolio management, credit monitoring and.
• Mitigated potential financial losses of up to 50 million FCFA resulting from external fraud attempts and system failures.
• Re-engineered cash management operations processes and developed innovative tools which enhanced operational risk mitigation and improved efficiency in transaction processing.
• Designed a robust tool for operational performance management comprised of collecting, analysing, and reporting transaction processing data which improved MIS for management decision-making.
• Worked with project team to implement Central Bank recommendations for compliance with the standards of the 'Centrale des Risques' reporting framework for customer static data synchronization and credit consolidation.

Douala, Cameroon

Prepared loan agreements, banking facility letters and other related documentation. Worked with Legal and Compliance and others to ensure the integrity of documentation. Reviewed executed documentation and CP satisfaction, issued security compliance certificates, and managed limit maintenance. Managed drawdown/repayment of facilities and revenue.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Banking And Finance

- Best Student, BSc. Banking and Finance, 2007 - Excellence Award by the Ministry of Higher Education, 2007

Cgma, Management Accounting

Pursuing the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) qualification