Marketing Manager

UDOKA PEACE UGWOKE

*, ******** ****** ******, *****, Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria.

+234********** ***********@*****.*** www.udoka.ng DOB: 07/Sept/1996 Career Objective

To be in a team of professionals, advising organisations and providing sustainable solutions to business problems in line with global best practices.

Education

MSc., Marketing (Distinction [4.8 CGPA]) Feb 2020

University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) – Enugu, Nigeria BSc., Marketing (First Class Honours [4.63 CGPA]) Jul 2015 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) – Enugu, Nigeria Work Experiences

Internal Control Officer/Forensic Auditor – MBA Trading and Capital Inv. Ltd. Sep 2020 till Date Audited operational processes and prepared a Standard Operating Manual (SOM) to reduce loopholes for fraud and errors; performed forensic investigations and deployed strategies to clear outstanding backlogs and reduce customer complaints statistics.

Finance Advisor/Consultant – Udoka.ng (www.udoka.ng) Feb 2020 – Sep 2020 Engaged in providing professional advice to start-up companies and existing MSMEs on finance, marketing, customer satisfaction and operating standards; Designed business plans and drafted market analytics for clients including Invoge Integrated Services (www.invogeservices.com), www.pmat.ng, and other companies. Senior Accountant/Finance Officer – Tsahanna Nigeria Limited Aug 2018 – Jan 2020 Initiated and established a digital and comprehensive accounting system using Sage 50 accounting software; Implemented tax avoidance strategies; Initiated and supervised the efficiency of internal controls and the preparation of annual financial statements; Deployed applications to prepare monthly management accounts used to guide management decisions.

Marketing Manager – Raadaa Partners International Limited Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 Designed marketing strategies through extensive market research and earned millions of naira for the company; Engaged in creative content creation to secure grants, deals, and other funding opportunities for the start-up tech company; resolved conflicts and enhanced organizational human relationship among teammates.

Marketing Facilitator – Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 Enlightening National Diploma One (ND1) students of the Department of Marketing on the course, Fundamentals of Marketing; stimulating and inculcating the research spirit via quiz competitions, awards and mentorship programmes.

Audit Associate – Mazars Nigeria Oct 2016 – Nov 2016 Worked with a team of chartered accountants on the audit of Addax Petroleum Company and handled the bank reconciliation statement, debtors and creditors reconciliation and payables and receivables preparation. Professional Certifications

Associate Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) 2016 Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Customer Relationship Management (CICRM) 2017 Associate Member, British Project Management Academy (BPMA) 2017 Fellow, Lagos Business School (LBS) Young Talents Programme 2017 Associate Member, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) 2018 Awards and Recognitions

Nigeria’s Awardee of the Moremi Initiative Fellowship for Women’s Leadership in Africa 2019 Rivers State Governor’s NYSC Award for Selfless Service to 23 Communities in the State 2018 Award of the Best Graduating Student of the Department of Marketing, UNN 2016 African Marketing Development Foundation Merit Award of Excellence 2016 Certificate of Recognition of service in the capacity of the Chairman, NAMS Academic Board 2015 Nigeria’s Best Marketing Student, awarded by NIMN and UNILEVER multinationals 2014 Personal Community Development Services

‘Kit the Kids Initiative (www.kitthekids.org) – an NGO that empowers disadvantaged children psychologically and physically by providing educational and psychosocial support to help them become better people in the society.

Projects Executed:

Open Secrets – A campaign geared towards encouraging teens and youths to speak about their sexual harassment experiences, as well as distribution of one hundred copies of the book “My Open Secret” as part of the empowerment programme

Scholarship Programme – A programme that allows for poor kids to access funds to further their education.

1000 Kids; 1000 ideas – A project that teaches the necessity of penning down ideas as well as the process of penning down, nurturing and executing the idea. As part of the empowerment programme, 100 copies of branded books were distributed to kids in Enugu State.

Publications

Dare! Be the Difference - A book that captures my setbacks and overcoming strategies 2019 adopted in executing seventeen community development projects during my NYSC in a bid to 2018 to inspire readers to impact their local communities despite all odds. 2016

The Journey so Far – A pictorial magazine of all my personal community development 2016 service projects as a corps member 2015

Virtual Hawkers Will Soon Send Conventional Shop Owners Packing – published on nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng 2014

References are available on request.

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