• Identifying and evaluating early-stage fintech (seed and pre-seed) startups in Africa for funding• Conducting due diligence and preparing investment memos• Conducting product, market sizing, price/revenue and competitor analysis• Valuation and ESG performance•Advising on each venture's product strategy from a legal perspective•Reviewing internal documents for product testing and approvals

▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Establishing processes and policies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our services including workflows and resource allocation to support business.✦ Negotiating, drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and advising clients on risk and risk mitigation measures. ✦ Conducting due diligence for M&A transactions and joint ventures.✦ Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions.✦ Advising on copyright and trademark issues.

▶️ Key Achievements:🏆 Successfully achieved 40% growth in three years by deepening our customer relationships through consistent contact with business leaders and relationship managers to ensure market needs and conditions were reflected in credit processes, risk assessment and compliance.🏆 Developed a compliance and regulatory register to track company regulatory obligations and payments effectively lowering our compliance costs by 15%.🏆 Fostered a risk awareness culture by conducting quarterly trainings on what staff should be on the lookout for.🏆 Engaged in customization of a new enterprise system that handles financial, payroll and attendance. This has improved efficiency and lowered company human resource costs significantly as we move to automate processes.🏆 Registered the Alcohol Importers & Distributors Association where I have been able to sign up atleast 50 importers. This association has proved to be instrumental in fostering talks between regulators and importers and as a result reduced arbitrary increases in duty as was the practice previously.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▶️ Key Contributions & Results✦ Spearheading various aspects of risk and control, include but are not limited to Governance, Business Continuity, Compliance and Internal Control.✦ Conducting analysis of risk and associated controls to identify root cause and collaborate with peers and management to report findings with solutions to mitigate risk/control issues.✦ Interfacing with internal and external teams to provide guidance and subject matter expertise, as needed. Ensuring the clients risks, products and services are accurately captured.✦Negotiating legal terms in Service Level Agreements, credit arrangements and managing communications with external counsel