ANJOLAOLUWA AYO-LAWAL

Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 857-***-****

adt4r1@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/aayo-lawal EDUCATION

Master of Science in Finance Aug 2022

Hult International Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA

• Member, Hult Consulting Club (HCC) & Hult African Business Club

• Relevant courses: Corporate finance & valuation, Modeling & analytics, Budgeting & forecasting with Excel, Financial reporting

& analysis, Investments, Fintech, Leading change, International business consulting, Disruptive business models. Bachelor of Science in Economics Jun 2016

Babcock University Ogun state, Nigeria

WORK EXPERIENCE

HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Boston, USA Jun 2022 – Jul 2022 Limitless Learning Facilitator – Assisted professors in managing classes, setting up class tools and engaging all virtual students for better class participation and learning experience. 54GENE INC Lagos office, Nigeria Oct 2020 – Sep 2021 Financial Accounting Analyst – Active team player in driving financial control, analysis, reporting and liquidity management for US biotech startup funded by $45 million venture-capital.

• Coordinated budgetary control through weekly analysis of expenses and reconciliation of actual with budget. Monitored daily cash balances, prepared variance analysis reports and weekly, monthly & quarterly cash utilization reports to track budget compliance and plan cash forecasts for subsequent periods. Led to 15% cost reduction in operational costs.

• Managed account payables for 70+ vendor accounts, processing 50+ payment requests and 100+ general email inquiries weekly. Led to improvement of cash-to-cash cycle by 50% through better negotiation of credit terms and payments.

• Prepared weekly report as a finance business partner to sales, operations & project teams. Provided more visibility to both top line and bottom line which assisted in the allocation of resources by management to profitable business opportunities.

• Performed monthly bank reconciliations, journal entry postings, vendor reconciliations and other assigned month end or year-end closing tasks for financial reporting and year-end financial audit exercise. 54GENE INC Lagos office, Nigeria Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 Junior Analyst

• Developed basic expense management system and payment process flow to standardize payments processing to best practice. Resulted in improved finance processes & reduced inefficiencies in operations.

• Performed monthly analysis, reconciliation, and reporting of bank general ledgers (GLs), payable and receivable GLs, prepayment, fixed asset GLs, depreciation runs and intercompany ledgers as supporting schedules in month end closing.

• Executed audit deliverables, investors due diligence and managed external stakeholders for banking & tax advisory. PLUSH HOMES LIMITED Operations Officer Lagos, Nigeria Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 FSDH MERCHANT BANK LIMITED Internal Audit Graduate Intern Lagos, Nigeria Apr 2017 – Dec 2017 STERLING BANK PLC Strategy Graduate Intern Lagos, Nigeria May 2016 – Jul 2016 CERTIFICATION & SKILLS

Certifications: Associate Chartered Accountant (ICAN – Nigerian CPA equivalent), CompTIA Project Management Skills: Financial Analysis & Planning; Budgeting & Forecasting; Accounts and Bank reconciliation; Financial modeling, Financial Management; Project management; Financial accounting and reporting; Communication & Presentation. Technologies: Microsoft Office; Advanced Excel, SAP; Sage; SQL; Power BI; Tableau; Canva; R. Other Interests: Creative writing & blogging, Creative designing, Video editing, Art, Travel.