Taiwo Kuyoro

403-***-****

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Profile Summary

An astute financial accounting professional with over ten years’ successful track record in full cycle accounting; skilled at building positive and effective relationships with key stakeholders, providing contemporary business-focused compliance and risk management expertise; possesses an inquiring mind and ability to influence decisions to ensure compliant behaviour

Summary of Qualifications

Combined hands-on experience in treasury management, accounts payable, financial reporting, internal audit and control, multi-site regulation, risk management and compliance

Strong experience in performing reviews and analysis of internal controls, financial policy development and internal/external audit responses, data and records management

Highly proficient in the use of MS Office products and various ERPs such as Eskadenia, TMW and others.

Highlights of Achievements

Successfully implemented the first and flexible annual Internal Audit charter within the organization, which led to the establishing of an effective and recognized Internal Audit Department

Codified the first accounts receivable policy and circulated same through the organization, thereby improving revenue collection by 85%

Solved and rectified the problem of differing monthly revenue reports by remodelling the report tracker thereby making the report consistent and stable with 100% reliability

Successfully built and led a highly successful line and project team

Effectively supervised monthly and quarterly variance to budget analysis team and advised management on best workable action plans

Effectively monitored and reported revenue generation, measured revenue performance, compared budget to actual on monthly and quarterly basis for more than 5+ years

Successfully implemented policy on cost reduction, thereby reducing both automobile maintenance and gas consumption costs by 35% and 25% respectively

Selected Highlights of Key Experience

Accounting Specialist – Aveda Transportation & Energy Services

2018 - Present

Handling and coordination of daily and weekly treasury management activities

Preparing the weekly cash flow forecast for Management decision making

Ensuring that funds are available for operations as and when required in accordance with approved or revised cash flow forecast

Ensuring adequate funding of all Company’s bank accounts and maintaining a weekly and monthly positive account balance in all bank accounts

Conducting daily and weekly bank reconciliations of all bank balance with cash accounts

Sets-up and monitors all Visa card accounts for both US and Canada employees, handling and resolving all issues relating to suspicious/fraudulent transactions, ordering of replacement cards, ensuring coding and submission of expense reports to the designated employee, payment of card balances before due date

Books all the AR’s Cash/Cheque deposits/receipts and apply same to the related invoices

Prepares and monitors monthly AP accrual lists for monthly financial accounts and liaises with the Director of Finance with respect to month end closing

Raising GL journal entries – investments, accruals, adjustments, reclassifications, etc.

In compliance with C-SOX and SOX regulation on separation of duties, review and post GL journal entries raised by other members of the Accounts department

Weekly and monthly analysis of gas and fuel usage and cost and redistributing them to the respective cost centres/units for approval and decision making

Accounts Payable Specialist – Aveda Transportation & Energy Services

2014 – 2018

Processes all purchases (suppliers’ and vendors’ invoices) and as well as refunds (credit notes)

Classifies purchases into or by expense types and obtains appropriate payment authorization

Manage and coordinate work of team members while being responsible for various personnel functions including recruitment and selection, performance management and vacation schedules.

Creates, maintains and updates vendors’ profiles and maintains other required documentation

Ensures compliance with the Company’s authority matrix and approval limits

Manage AP operations effectively by monitoring, reviewing key metrics and developing new metrics and as well as effectively reconciling account statements.

Reviews Vendors/Suppliers Credit Applications and aligns them with Company’s payment terms

Politely handles suppliers account queries via telephone, email and fax and promptly resolves queries and deal with complex issues related to payment requests, including non-purchase order and purchase order transactions (e.g. final demand letters, settlement agreement, finance charges/fees negotiation, etc.)

Efficiently performs weekly payment runs for both Canada and US operations

Successfully trained 5 AP team members on all AP activities and functions within 2years and also responsible for team development and coaching; fostering a culture of support and continuous learning within the team

Prepares and monitors monthly AP accrual lists for monthly financial accounts and liaises with Corporate Controller with respect to month end closing

Participate in and/or lead the planning and development of AP system enhancements/initiatives

Team Lead, Internal Audit - Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc. Lagos, Nigeria

2007 – 2013

Actively reviewed the annual internal audit plan on a year to year basis

Designed new audit procedures that supported company policies and organizational structure and worked with the Risk Management team in order to eliminate or reduce identified risks

Performed Compliance and Regulatory Audit for company terminals across the country

Reviewed from time to time business operations and environment in order to identify potential cost savings and value adding opportunities and recommended cost reduction and profitability improvement measures

Monitored asset acquisition and capital spending through capital expenditure control, tracked physical inventory and reconciled asset record, and tagged asset and enforced assets disposals policy which reduced asset and capital loss to 0%

Effectively reviewed on a continuous basis the effectiveness and efficiency of company internal controls and provide quarterly reports to both Audit Committee of the Board

Facilitated board and management decision making by issuing periodic and continuous audit reports on operational and procedural standards and quality assurance

Regularly reviewed degree/level of compliance with and/or adherence to established policies, plans, procedures and as well with regulatory requirements and ensured full compliance

Reviewed operations and revenue results in order to ascertain the consistency of results with the set target; compared achieved revenue with set budgeted and investigated deviations and recommended measures set at increasing revenue or correcting the deviations

Mentored, coached and trained 6 team members, evaluated their annual employee performance reviews (AEPR) and as well provided effective on-the-job training to facilitate employee competence optimization

Effectively coordinated annual capital and revenue budgeting and analysed prospect and new market development and penetration strategy

Accountant, Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc. Lagos, Nigeria

2003 – 2007

Achieved 100% target of monthly posting of entries into the assigned Banks’ cash books

Performed special financial analysis/research and submitted report before required deadlines

Accurately journalized entries for all revenue and expenditure transactions as and when due

Conducted monthly reconciliation exercises of bank and cash accounts and achieved 0% error level. Prepared bank/cash book and agreed same with bank balances

Coordinated ad-hoc tasks of other accountants in order to set priorities, produce schedules and generate necessary reports as required by Management

Analysed appropriate financial statements and investigated variances in order to make necessary recommendations to Management

Monitored cost in relation to annual financial plans, reconciled variances between annual budget and actual for the purpose of setting appropriate cost control/reduction measures

Consistently met deadlines and demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills while maintaining standard and compliance objectives

Actively involved in the training of new accountants in Finance and Investment Department

Education

Canadian Accounting Fundamentals, SAIT Calgary, Alberta 2014

HND, Accounting – Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Ibadan, Nigeria 2001

Professional Affiliations

CPA Alberta – Passed/Completed all the 14 Modules of CPA PREP Alberta Mar. 2016

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