Financial Analyst/Accountant/Controller

Profile

Over * years’ experience as a Financial Analyst, and Accountant in multi-national companies

Bachelors Degree in Accounting (First class honors)

CPA PEP – Four subjects left to complete (Elective, Capstone modules 1 & 2, and CFE)

Associate Chartered Accountant (CA)

Experience in financial management & reporting, audit & assurance, tax administration, benefits administration, account receivables, account payables, working capital management, bank reconciliations, internal audit, compliance & control

Experience with SAP; Proficient with Excel (vlookups, pivot tables, concatenate etc), Word, PowerPoint

Employment History

Financial Analyst Since March 2017

Loblaw Companies Limited Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Canada’s food and pharmacy leader, and the nation’s largest retailer

•Prepares daily journal entries, reviews and uploads entries in SAP

•Experience in budgets, trends and forecast preparation and analysis

•Manages complex account reconciliations and financial investigations.

•Periodic and quarterly reporting and analysis

•Coordinates with suppliers, customers, internal stakeholders to reconcile accounts

•Recommend and implement process improvements

•Works in a team environment, communicating clearly, and achieving departmental goals

Senior Financial Accountant Apr 2014 to Oct 2016

AIM Consultant Limited

AIM focuses on consulting services.

Financial Accountant May 2013 to Apr 2014

Transnational Corporation (Transcorp)

Transcorp focuses on conglomerate and hospitality services.

•Managed complex account reconciliations and financial investigations for proper presentation.

•Performed several cost accounting and cost analysis to support in proper pricing decisions by management

•Engaged in the maintenance of year-end audit working papers and schedules for proper external audit execution.

•Performed inventory valuation for proper disclosures in the financial statements.

•Developed several business models and reporting processes for management to ensure good compliances purposes as well as investment decisions.

•Assisted in the good risk management and in the formulation of good internal controls & auditing to ensure safeguard of assets, detection & preventions of errors, mistakes and fraud.

•Handled account receivables and collections management for the organization to ensure good working capital management and proper disclosures in the financial statements.

•Identified data integrity issues through monitoring processes of financial control such as reviewing financial reports and performing trend analysis.

Senior Audit Associate June 2011 to May 2013

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

PwC focuses on audit and assurance, tax and consulting services.

Tax Associate October 2010 to June 2011

Deloitte

Deloitte focuses on audit and assurance, tax and consulting services.

•Handled external audit engagements from planning to reporting stages in line with IFRS and IAS

•Handled corporate, institutional and personal income tax computations

•Performed review of clients’ controls in line with corporate governance codes and industry standards

•Educated clients and staff on proper financial preparation and disclosures

•Investigated on unusual trend balances and items

•Trained clients’ staff in proper tax and accounting recording to facilitate future audit process

•Reviewed staff remittance payments schedule in line with statutory requirements

Customer Service Representative Oct 2016 to Dec 2016

24-7 Intouch Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

24-7Intouch focuses on first class customer services delivery.

•Identified and assessed customers’ needs to achieve best satisfaction.

•Built sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication with clients.

•Provide accurate, valid and complete information to clients by using the right methods/tools

•Handled complaints, provided appropriate solutions and alternatives within the time limits; follow up to ensure prompt resolution of all complaints without any delay.

•Keep records of customer interactions, process customer accounts and file documents appropriately.

•On several occasions, I personally de-escalated many escalated calls by using the appropriate customers’ relationship experience and necessary procedural methods.

Accounting Clerk April 2008 to October 2009

Visafone Telecommunication Limited

Visafone focuses on telecommunication and internet services.

•Daily posting of accounting records and transactions from the source documents

•Computed accounting ratios, prepared bank reconciliations

•Participated in inventory counts, completed tax forms

•Conducted research for the finance managers

•Assisted with special events planning such as arrange for meetings and conferences

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Worker Since 2017

Church of the Rock Winnipeg, Canada

Education Background

CPA PEP 2018 CPA Manitoba (Four modules to complete)

Manitoba

Bachelor Degree in Accounting 2007

University

Associate Chartered Accountant (CA) 2007

CA Institutes Nigeria

Related Training

Soft Skills Training (Blue Culture) 2017

Loblaw Winnipeg, Canada

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