Oladele Odugbemi Email & Phone Number

Lagos, Nigeria

Babban Gona is an Agritech company that leverages technology to solve some of the key challenges in agriculture for smallholder farmers such as access to finance, top qulaity input, post-harvest losses, storage, and access to market. Its unique model has helped scale the business and attained a singular largest cultivator of Maize in 2022 farming season.The business is over a decade and has been able to support over 400,000 smallholder farmers in aggregate.A 2023 winner of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.I oversee the following for the business:Finance OperationInvestor RelationSale and ProcurementInventory Management

Maryland, Lagos

Consult and train accounting professionals

Agbara, Ogun State, Nigeria

GZI is a can manufacturing company with over 60% market share in Nigeria. Has two manufacturing plants in Nigeria with over 1.5 billion can manufacturing capacity. Supplier of cans to most of the big names in the beverage and brewery industry. Has a presence in Kenya, Mauritius, and South Africa. Role and Responsibility:• Collate, prepare and interpret reports on budget, accounts, and financial statements to support sound management decision-making process.• Preparation, review, and monitoring of month-end/year-end closure to ensure that all financial records are updated accurately and reflect the state of the business as at the period ended on SAP.• Preparation of board model showing business performance, EBITDA analysis, Sales analysis and working capital analysis and other key ratios to assess business performance.• Involved in business process improvement through development of new procedures bring about efficiency and quality in business processes.• Carry-out ad-hoc tasks as requested by the CFO and Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Lagos, Nigeria

• Collate, prepare and interpret reports on budget, accounts and financial statements to support sound management decision making process.• Preparation, review, and monitoring of month end/year end closure to ensure that all financial records are updated accurately and reflect the state of the business as at the period ended.• Preparation of long term business plans to support growth plans for the African CEO and Africa’s CFO.• Coordinate and control income, cashflow and expenditure to ensure cost within budget and income and growth are in-line with business plan.• Carry out business modelling and assessment of risk associated with the business to ensure the business remains resilient to adverse changes and maintain growth trajectory.• Review of IFRS financial statement of the company to ensure compliance with the relevant financial reporting standard, laws and regulation governing the industry.• Interacting and liaising with external parties such as external auditors, bankers, regulatory bodies and solicitors to support in the operation of the business• Preparation of transactions taxes schedule for filing to relevant tax authority and ensure they are filed in due time.• Handling of project billing to ensure that billed amount is accurately computed with no errors• Management of trade debtor balance ensuring that long overdue balance account for less than 3% of total trade debtor balance.• Adhoc reconciliation of trade debtor and creditor balances to ensure the balances are accurately stated

• preparation and review of IFRS financial statement to ensure compliance with the relevant and laws and regulation governing the industry.• creation of financial models in test of account balances (loan, PAYE, pension, depreciation, inventory unit cost, et cetera) making use of complex functions and macros on excel.• preparation of report on internal control deficiencies based on the outcome of an audit engagement reflecting all processes covered, financial statement lines items audited, and other areas identified during the course of the audit.• preparation and planning of statutory and group audit engagement from start to finish by identifying significant risk areas and developing audit strategy to ensure that all possible misstatements are identified and addressed through the level of work performed.• communicating to the engagement partner and manager on the progress and status of work through weekly report summarizing all issues noted, management’s comments and possible solution. This is to ensure all potential roadblocks are identified and addressed timely.• review and test of company controls, procedures and policies inline with the applicable standard operating procedures • management of audit teams with size ranging from 5 to 15 individuals on an engagement

Nigeria

• development of web based application (radiotalk, bulk SMS platform)• development of administrator platform for monitoring of SMS web application• troubleshooting of challenges on various product of the company.• maintenance of the entity's database to ensure optimal performance at all times• training and coaching of new hires on the use of PHP and Java in programming

Aca, Accounting

Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst, Finance And Financial Management Services

Financial Modeling Finance Excel Valuation Budgeting, Forecasting Presentation & Visuals Accounting Strategy

Bachelor'S Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Programmer, Academic Director of NACOSS ( National Association of Computer Science Students), Moderator at LUG.

Ssce

Activities and Societies: Quiz Club, Chess club, and Scrabble club

Ssce

Activities and Societies: Quiz club and Scrabble clubPlay Football and participated in debate

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