Paul Adzokpa, Cfa, Mba Email & Phone Number

Naperville, IL, US

St. Paul, MN, US

• Lead pricing of new contracts and renewals, ensuring competitiveness while maximizing profitability.
• Supervise annual financial planning, ongoing forecasting, and periodic financial performance reviews.
• Manage and approve month end accounting entries, account reconciliations, and performance reporting.
• Monitor and approve operating expenses, contractor invoices payments, and intercompany transactions.

St. Paul, MN, US

• Coordinate intercompany dividend payment, loan pricing as well as documentation and monitoring
• Analyze and review free cash flow forecasts and distribution plans for financing and holding entities with Internal Finance Committee
• Manage and coordinate Latin America free cash flow management with regional finance directors ensuring efficient working capital management, optimal capitalization and cash repatriation.
• Manage global foreign currency risk exposure of Ecolab's entities through hedging to reduce volatility in earnings
• Perform monthly interest rate and cross currency swaps valuation and performance reporting
• Execute and advise on net interest payments related to interest rate and cross currency swaps to counterparty banks

St. Paul, MN, US

• Directed financial analysis of innovation projects to ensure only financially viable projects were undertaken - new projects generated more than 10% gross margin improvement
• Executed monthly value driver analysis of revenue and gross margin performance to inform sales strategies aimed at maximizing revenue and profitability - division achieved 11% annual revenue growth
• Managed global monthly net new business generation analysis to help business leadership understand new business trends and mitigate losses.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Analyzed structured investment products such as mortgage-backed, and asset-backed securities
• Performed in-depth fundamental credit analysis, financial statements analysis and preparation of financial research reports on corporate entities
• Conducted insightful financial and business analysis of companies by evaluating historical performance trends and building financial models to forecast future financial performance
• Conducted scenario analysis on the impact of changing company financial performance on credit quality and ability to meet debt obligations
• Won a treasury bond portfolio management competition - outperformed the benchmark by more than 50 basis points

• Directed analysis of bank’s deposit stability and concentration in order to determine appropriate maturity profile for loans and other investments to avoid insolvency
• Supervised the fundamental credit analysis of corporate entities to determine their credit worthiness
• Presented key insights through monthly price analysis to ensue prudent deposit pricing in order to maximize profit
• Evaluated impact of changes in exchange rates and interest rates on bank deposits and investment portfolios, resulting in enhanced investment decision making process
• Coordinated timely preparation and submission of regulatory reports to Central Bank ensuring Zenith Bank suffers no sanctions

• I Led team of three to setup an effective operations unit for Zenith Custodian Services; – increased portfolio size by more than 50% by signing on a major Trustee
• Initiated and coordinated development of effective portfolio monitoring, evaluation and reporting program using Microsoft excel, reducing portfolio reporting time by 20%
• Strengthened relationship between bank and investment portfolio stakeholders as business development officer, resulting in more than 10% increase in portfolio size
• Represented Zenith at stakeholder meetings to present and explain investment portfolio performance analysis

• Directed processing of treasury bills, interbank deals, and fixed deposit placements
• Led reconciliation team to recover over $200,000 through diligent reconciliation
• Supervised the usage of SWIFT to manage international money transfers

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Statistics