Financial Analyst Manager
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Aremu George’s Curriculum Vitae
Aremu George, MSc ACCA ACA ACTI ICBB® PhD in view
** ****** *** ******, ********* Estate Maryland, Lagos +234 (0-809******* aremugeorge @yahoo.com Profile Summary
Financial Planning & Analysis * Strategy & Business innovation * Business Performance * Analytics An astute business professional blended with Financial agility, creativity and analytical skills along with results- proven ability to problem solving and innovation to propel companies to the next level. Sturdy talent for building and cultivating trusting relationships across the organization, corporate executives as well as external Stakeholders. Demonstrative results include heightened topline and bottom line (profitable growth), Operational excellence with lean and Six Sigma methodology, Financial reporting in line with IFRS, Financial Planning & modelling, Budget & Control, Business Valuation, Corporate fiancé and Cashflow management, Tax planning, improved and streamlined processes, internal control and risk minimization
Education & Qualifications:
University of Ibadan MPhil / PhD. Energy Finance (in view)
(2019 to 2021)
Metropolitan School of Business and Management Global Business Strategy (SEMP)
(2016 – 2016)
Lagos Business School Senior Financial Analyst
(2010 – 2010)
University of Lagos MSc. Economics
(2007 – 2009)
University of Ilorin BSc. Economics – Second class upper
(2000 – 2003)
Professional Qualifications:
2015 Associate Chartered Taxation Institute ACTI
2015 Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt ICBB®
2014 Associate of Chartered Certified Accountant ACCA 2009 Associate of Chartered Accountant ACA
2006 Associate of Certified Cost Manager ACCM
Professional Experience:
Director of Financial Planning & Operation 9mobile Nig. Ltd Managing and supervising eight core Finance units; working closely with CFO and CEO to formulate strategies for business growth and stability. Managing cost reduction Program across Business units Head, Financial Planning, Reporting & Budgeting 9mobile Nig. Ltd
(Budget, Planning, Reporting, & Corporate Finance) Aug. 2017 – to date
• Oversee the preparation of financial reports, Budgeting, Investment Planning, direct investment activities, and implement cash management
• Monitor and control the organizations budget, prepare financial forecasting and analysis and advise management on different financial business decisions to be made
• Develop Business Plan and coordinate its discussion with Management team and Operating committee
• Managing external stakeholders i.e. Auditors, Tax Authority, Solicitors, and Government agents Aremu George’s Curriculum Vitae
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• Managing and supervising, Fixed Assets, Inventory, Financial system, Account payables, Revenue Accounting, Receivables and Credit Control
• Responsible for Financial processes and Financial system Manager Budget, Financial Planning & Reporting Etisalat Nig. Ltd
(Budget, Planning, Reporting, forecasting & Decision support) Mar. 2014 – Aug.2017
• Modelling 5-10 year Business plan in line with corporate objectives
• Manage business decision support process. (Investment analysis, business valuation, project profitability analysis, free cash flow analysis etc.)
• Month end Financial Closure. GL Analytics, Management reporting and Business performance report
• Tax Planning, modelling & Tax management & Control i.e. ( VAT,PITA, CITA,WHT,NITDA)
• Formulate annual and multi-year financial forecasts, including alternative scenarios
• Building and managing site profitability and cost- to- serve analysis
• Managed Capital expenditure board (CAREB) and Program /Project Pioritaization board (PPB)
• Managed CAPEX Procurement and Contract Process in line with the Company DOA
• Lead various investment decisions and provide recommendation to management
• Manage and co coordinating Project post implementation review Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis Etisalat Nig. Ltd
(Budgeting, Planning & Analysis Finance support) Feb. 2010 – Feb 2014
• Preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
• Business decision support. (Investment analysis, business valuation, project profitability analysis, free cash flow analysis etc)
• Working with other departments to develop corporate budgets and forecasts.
• Project evaluation, Control and management
• Budget control on ERP with variance analysis
• Preparation of 5year business plan using driver base approach
• Managing major Capital expenditure (CAPEX) and monthly CAPEX report.
• Corporate performance report and KPIs monitoring
• Quarterly preparation of CFO board paper
• Financial business partner to Commercial, Procurement and Technical department
• Financial Modelling, Cash flow analysis & other financial ratios. Key Project Engagements
• Project Manager Business due diligence and sale of 9mobile process
• Financing of $650m and Refinancing of $1.2billion loan
• Negotiation and evaluation of National fiber project ~ $128million and Data Centre
• Evaluation and Managing Business IT outsourcing
• Set up cost optimization- Project accelerate & Nexus Project Finance Manager Ericsson
(Project Finance, Control & Reporting) Nov 2009 – Feb. 2010 Served as a proactive, business oriented, fact based and result driven professional, supported the Project Managers in MU Sub-Sahara to build shareholder value through an excellent understanding of the financials and the underlying drivers of the customer projects.
Main tasks:
• Accountable for reviewing the performance of a portfolio of projects in a structured manner on a recurring basis.
• Estimating project Cost and evaluation
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• Review and analyse project performance according to global process and initiate change within the project to ensure best in class financial performance.
• Identifies strategic opportunities for improving project profitability and escalating to Project Management for implementation.
• Reviews total project performance and drives the minimization of risk and improvement of project profitability.
• Acts as a reference point on best in class project setup and supports the project organization
• Involved in reviewing and analyzing project planning, forecasting, invoicing, profitability, inventory and accounts receivable for the projects.
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Business Development & sales Ericsson
(Regional Pricing& Commercial Manager) December 2008 – October’09 Responsibilities:
• Contract Profitability analysis
• Business development, sales support and relationship management
• Pricing, price tracking and benchmarking
• Commercial terms and conditions
• Champion contract/ project risk analysis for new offer
• Contract bare bone scoping
• Development of proposals and delivery material
• Business intelligence and competitive analysis
Business Consultant Ericsson
(Business Strategy Financial Modeling) December 2007 – December 2008 Overall responsibilities in Ericsson include:
• Business analysis and building business case
• Financial modeling expert.
• Business development, sales support and relationship management
• Market research and business opportunity creation.
• Development of proposals and delivery material
Key Project Engagements t: MTN Ghana, MTN Nigeria, Kuwait Telecoms, Airtel cost transformation Specialist Revenue Management & Assurance Globacom
(Revenue Assurance & Interconnect Analyst) January 2007 – December 2007 Overall responsibilities in Globacom included:
• Revenue forecast and Revenue analysis.
• Review of the rate control document (RCD) against the different billing systems for different products to ascertain the accuracy, exactness and validity of rates & products.
• Review of billing, invoicing, bill dispatch and collections, preparing reports and follow up on exceptions and recommendations.
• Interconnect Validation (Local and Foreign Operators),Settlement and reconciliation
• CDR reconciliation. Point of Interconnect Reconciliation and End- to –End Revenue Assurance.
• Collecting and analyzing data on the business environment.
• Study Market and other economic variables and; Ensuring availability of data for effective planning and decision-making.
• Monitoring the continued growth and analyzing the profitability of the business..
• Providing strategic planning assistance and support to management in defining and validating business operation.
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Financial Analyst Starcomms Nigeria Plc
(Financial Analysis and Management Accounting) January 2006 – January 2007 Responsibilities:
• Assisting in preparation of Management Account and Management Report
• Data integrity check, Variance analysis, Trend Analysis and Financial Ratio Analysis.
• Budgeting and Budget analysis.
• Assisting in Budget monitoring and Budget control.
• Analytical Review of Financial Account on Monthly bases.
• Journal posting and query to IFS—UK -ERP software (Financial Module)
• Cost center allocation and cost apportionment of transactions.
• Monitoring and converting Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order- through IFS-
• Sales Analysis, Analysis of subscriber Behaviour.
• Market and Competitive market benchmark analysis
• Setting the cost and Revenue Drivers for Performance Management.
• Graphical Presentation of Report and Model building.
• Regression, correlation and relating Business variables) Treasury & Account Payable Officer 21st Century Technologies Nigeria Ltd
(Finance, Treasury & Billing) September 2004 – January 2006 Responsibilities:
• Daily treasury operation- analysis of deposit, revenue summary and monitoring of bank accounts.
• Managing Payroll and Head count cost
• Financial Account preparation and financial analysis
• Daily bank and cash lodgment analysis.
• Bank reconciliation
• Generation of bills for Data products and services (DSL,ISDN)
• Activation and Cut off subscribers account
• Preparation of Purchase Order
• Price negotiation with the suppliers and contractors.
• Reconciling the supplier’s account with supplier’s statement Courses/Trainings
Professional Development
Energy Transition (Low Carbon Future) May 2019 (French Institute of Petroleum IFP- Online)
Practical Tax planning workshop Nov 2017 (Info -Tech- Lagos)
Network Planning for Finance Manager Nov 2012 (ICTPS- Lagos)
Oracle Hyperion Budget & Planning Jan 2011 (Abudhabi-UAE)
Advance Financial Analyst Aug 2010 (LBS – Lagos)
Project Management(PROPS-C) Sept 2009 (Semcon – Lagos)
Pricing and commercial Sept 2009 (Stockholm – Sweden)
SAP QTC(Financial &Project planning) June 2009 (Ericsson Education, Lagos)
Business Finance Feb 2009 (Kista- Sweden)
Pricing and commercial intelligence Dec 2008 (Johannesburg-South Africa )
Revenue Assurance best practices May 2008 (GRAPA&Phillips Consulting)
Business Intelligence and Data mining May 2008 (GRAPA&Phillips Consulting) Other Professional Skills
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
ERP: IFS, SAP, Oracle Financial. Statistics: SPSS, E-views,
Telecoms: INTEC system, Pay account system(prepaid) and BSCS-post paid system Reference: Available on Request
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