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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 (1.3 GW of solar and wind power projects in South Africa, Egypt, and Senegal, and a 1.8 GW project pipeline). Collectively, both deals received the Deal of the Year – Equity award at the African Banker Awards 2023. ❷ AFC's USD 200 million corporate facility to BUA Industries Limited, a part of BUA Group, (to complete its vertically integrated sugar facility) which received the deal of the year award in Agriculture at the African Banker Awards 2022 by the African Banker Magazine.

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 sectors across Africa; conducting environmental and social (E&S) risk assessments and ongoing monitoring of project E&S risks; managing country, sector, counterparty and single obligor limits; reviewing and approving counterparty and transaction KYCs; coordinating Development Impact (DI) measurement and reporting; ...

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 in entrepreneurial leadership as a catalyst for Pan-African development. It also serves as a pragmatic medium for honing skills in greenfield corporate setup, business strategy and corporate governance, necessary for the founder's medium and long term professional pursuits.

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 portfolio of sovereigns & multilaterals, commodity traders and agribusiness entities, large local corporates and MNCs; Collaborated with Senior Relationship Managers, product partners, Global Account Managers (GAMs) and global specialized teams (Corporate Finance, Structured Export Finance, Project Finance, Debt Capital Markets, Rates Structuring, Syndication, etc.) in business development, deal origination, transaction structuring, execution and delivery.Key Accomplishments:• 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 asset and profitability growth.• 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 associated EUR/USD FX hedge offer.

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 major industries and sectors of the economy; carried out macroeconomic reviews and performed stress-tests and impact analysis of risk events on the bank's credit portfolio; prepared sovereign and corporate group mandates for aggregation of credit exposures to client groups; prepared Country Credit Underwriting Standards and assisted credit approvers in periodic tracking of portfolio-wide risk-triggers; oversaw Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with Credit Analysis Centres of Excellence (CA CoEs) across Africa; contributed in sales, origination, structuring and ongoing management of vanilla and complex transactions including structured trade finance, project export finance and corporate finance; provided business planning support to the Africa Head of Credit Analysis; piloted ad hoc projects. Key Accomplishments:• 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 Finance International (PFI). • 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 transaction delivery as well as ongoing client coverage. Collaborated with Senior Relationship Managers and Product Partners to structure credit facilities and ensure appropriate risk mitigants are in place. Prepared business credit applications and liaised with Credit Managers for approval. Managed bilateral and syndicated loan drawdown, rollovers, repayment, rate fixing and fee collection. Partnered with Legal and Compliance, Credit Risk Control, Credit Documentation Unit, and clients on standard documentation processes to ensure the Bank’s position is protected. Conducted market intelligence to foster competitive positioning. Prepared pitch books, briefing notes, call reports, and industry and business summary papers. Key Accomplishments:• 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). • Coordinated the investigation and resolution of issues involving interest in suspense discrepancies (ageing > 2 years) related to syndicated loans for 10 key accounts.

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 Financial Crime Compliance, and CDD Execution Teams across US, Europe, and Asia. Performed CDD and prepared Group Introduction Certificates (GICs) for network account opening and Global Addendums (GAs) for cross-border FM Trading. Specialties: CDD, KYC, AML, CTF, Financial Crime Compliance.Key Accomplishments:• 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 innovations in workflow to achieve efficiencies. Processed transactions comprised of local and cross-border cash management operations, trade finance operations, and treasury operations. Ensured that the bank’s policies and procedures, global anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing standards, and local regulations were adhered to in transaction processing.Key Accomplishments:• 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 transaction delivery; performed portfolio/documentation quality assurance ahead of a Group Internal Audit; and piloted a CDD remediation exercise for the segment. • 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 across the banking industry in Cameroon.

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 collection. Performed facility agent role for a number of syndicated loans. Conducted management and custody of physical credit/security documentation, and regular monitoring and reporting. Performed ad hoc periodic reviews of documentation for a portfolio of 90+ borrowing accounts to ensure ongoing portfolio hygiene. Implemented electronic archiving of credit and security documentation for the borrowing portfolio.

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