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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Facilitate the growth in the pipeline of mortgage inventories in conjunction with the commercial teams. Develop liquidity sources for the mortgage inventories pre-securitization. Establish and expand funding sources through the Canada Mortgage Bond market, partner financial institutions, and other market sources for pooled mortgage-backed securities..

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guinness Plc

• Direct portfolio of $300M, drive strategic finance activities, and facilitate M&A financing requirement presentations to board with team of 9. Negotiate and execute commercial terms for banking offer letters, funding.
• Established Commercial Paper program of $50M, with an oversubscription of over 650% in its series 1&2 issuances
• Secured trade instruments worth $40M+ from distributors—transformed business’ perennial trade debt overdue situation from 35% to less than 1%
• Reduced business overdue trade debt from $33M to less than $1.5M.
• Increased back office operational efficiency by 90% and decreased cost by 130% by standardizing technology and transitioning responsibilities to a global shared center

Wakanow.com Limited

• Managed business accounting functions, finance departments, tax reporting, and business banking relationships for Wakanow with budget of $15M. Led and implemented treasury strategy across group. Established centralized.
• Decreased company’s excess leverage from 180% to 10% of capital through the coordination of $60M fundraising and balance sheet restructuring
• Increased productivity gains by $0.6M annually by centralizing organization’s finance function

MTN

• Managed $1.95B+ of company’s cash position. Directed decision making around investments in money and capital market instruments, cash planning, and cash forecasting. Negotiated foreign exchange purchases via Dutch.
• Increased income by CA$260million in interest and capital gains by deploying macro variables’ forecasting and financial management techniques
• Increased money market yields by 500 basis points by establishing first corporate fixed-income trading desk within MTN with seed capital of $20M

MTN

• Owned $3M budget and oversaw various project appraisals and the valuation of MTN. Organized multiple MTN Roadshows for potential lenders and Export Credit Agency in Europe, Asia, and Canada. Led additional financing.
• Earned Trade Finance Deal of the Year Award by Euromoney’s Trade Finance Magazine on financing deals valued at $2B for the syndication of KFW-IPEX/Ericsson, ICBC/Huawei, & local facilities both in 2011 and 2013

MTN

• Delivered business and cashflow justification for debt financing of $450M foreign facility, consisting of $250M KFW-IPEX/Ericsson and $200M ICBC/Huawei. Conducted financial analysis of lenders term sheets prior to firm.
• Reduced net financing cost by 15% by leading implementation of real time treasury performance reporting dashboard
• Accelerated credit approvals by developing 5-year business plan to restructure $1.5B local facility and finance $450M foreign facility

United Kingdom

Prepared clients’ (companies and individuals) financial accounts and submissions to Companies’ house and HMRC, UK. Provided tax advisory and representations on behalf of clients to HMRC, UK.Implemented accounting structures, entries and software for corporate clients. Conducted year-end audit of clients’ statutory financial accounts.

Ecobank

• Led treasury team on development of accounting product set up for securities and money market instruments to meet IAS and IFRS standards for investment and trading portfolios. Automated reconciliation of Nostro.
• Increased trading income by 100% and trading activity by 200% by establishing efficient trading and accounting for securities

Access

I was trained on the banking industry, with emphasis on bank wide activities. From Operations, Treasury, Financial Reporting and Control, Sales and Marketing, Branch Operations, Administration etc. The training was by senior management staff of the Bank. I was later deployed into the sales function, where I was opportune to cross sell the banking products.

Finance Analyst, Finance, Charterholder

Mba, Finance And Strategic Management

Acca, Accountancy, Fellow

Applied Accounting, First Class

Chemical Science/Engineering

Accounting And Finance

Doctorate, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction