Adetola Oduola

Location: Lagos, Nigeria Telephone: +234 (0-806-***-**** Email: adw14m@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Profile

Summary: Experienced Finance and Audit professional seeking new opportunities to leverage over 30 years of expertise in finance, accounting, internal controls, auditing, risk management, compliance, and fraud prevention. A results-oriented individual with a high level of integrity, commitment, and tenacity for excellence. Possessing strong team spirit, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work under pressure with appreciable results. Skilled in financial reporting, project evaluation, tax management, human resource management, and organization development. Certified member of several professional bodies including ICAN, CITN, ICMA, ISACA, and ACFE. Ready to apply knowledge and skills to add value to new organizations.

Core Skills

Financial reporting

Internal controls and auditing

Fraud investigation and reporting

Compliance

Risk assessments and ERM

Compliance training and communication

Tax planning, computation, and administration

Investments management

Project evaluation and management

Human resource management

Career Summary

February 2019 – Present

GROUP HEAD, INTERNAL AUDIT & CONTROL

The GIG Group, Lagos Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

Established and managed the internal control activities of the Group and its subsidiaries to ensure effective service delivery.

Developed internal audit work plans and financial control instruments, setting standards and guidelines required for effective service delivery of core operations.

Provided guidelines for budgeting and budgetary process monitoring and appraisal.

Took the lead in procurement, contract negotiation, and finalization.

Designed compliance mechanisms with statutory regulations, tax planning, and administration.

Managed internal controls, banking services, and funding for short and long-term capital projects.

Established and coordinated the internal audit team, internal audit programs, and reviewed and recommended internal control procedures in line with current audit standards and best practices.

Key Achievements:

Successfully set up and coordinated the internal audit team, resulting in an improvement in the quality of internal controls and increased efficiency of internal audit activities.

• Developed and implemented internal control mechanisms that resulted in cost savings, improved operational efficiency, and reduced risk.

• Designed and implemented an effective tax planning and administration mechanism, resulting in a reduction in tax liability.

• Implemented best practices in procurement, contract negotiation, and finalization, resulting in a reduction in procurement costs.

• Designed and implemented effective budgeting and budgetary process monitoring and appraisal mechanisms, resulting in an improvement in budgetary control.

• Ensured compliance with statutory regulations and improved banking services, resulting in a reduction in compliance risks and improved financial reporting.

Sep 2016 – Apr 2017

May 2017 – Jun 2018

FINANCE & ACCOUNTS MANAGER

HEAD, INTERNAL AUDIT & CONTROL

Visionscape Sanitation Solutions Limited, Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

Overall responsibility for the management and coordination of the financial activities of the company.

Set up the management structure of the Finance department

Develop financial policies, financial instruments and documentation.

Instrumental in setting up Payroll Management Systems

Spearheaded the development of Chart of Accounts, Reporting deadlines, financial reporting, cash flow management, and management information reporting.

Setting up of standards and guidelines required for effective service delivery

Provided guidelines to budgeting and budgetary process monitoring and appraisal

Team Lead in Procurement, Contract negotiation and finalization

Design mechanism for compliance with statutory regulations, tax planning and administration.

Internal controls, banking services, funding of short and long-term capital acquisitions

Setting up, review and recommendation of internal control procedure in line with industry standards and best practices

Key Contributions:

Led the team in providing 3rd line support for cloud infrastructure, resulting in a high level of customer satisfaction and minimal downtime.

Implemented automation and scripting processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors, resulting in a 30% increase in productivity for the team.

Migrated on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, resulting in cost savings and improved scalability for the organization.

Led incident management and resolution, resulting in a 50% reduction in mean time to resolution.

Developed and maintained documentation for cloud infrastructure and processes, resulting in improved onboarding and training for new team members.

Collaborated with development teams to implement platform engineering practices and DevOps culture, resulting in faster deployment times and improved software quality.

Implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible and Puppet, resulting in more efficient and automated infrastructure provisioning and management

Configured and maintained networking and virtualization technologies, such as Cisco routers and switches, VMware vSphere, ensuring optimal performance and availability.

Oct 2012 – Jun 2014 MANAGER, FINANCE & ACCOUNTS

Jul 2014 – Jan 2015 MANAGER, INTERNAL AUDIT & CONTROLS

Unitech Drilling Company Limited, Portharcourt, Nigeria

Key Contributions

Provided exceptional coordination of the activities of the Finance and Administration department

Monthly and annual financial reporting, cash flow management, management information reporting

Internal controls, banking services, funding of short and long- term projects

Budget preparation and monitoring.

Statutory regulations and compliance

Corporate and Personal income taxes, filing and administration

Contract negotiations with suppliers

General office administration

Setting standards and guidelines required for effective performance of clients’ projects.

Setting up, review and recommendation of internal control procedure in line with industry standards, compliance with statutory regulations.

Jul 2008 – Sep 2012 MANAGING PARTNER

Adetola Oduola & Co., Portharcourt, Nigeria

Key Contributions:

Overall responsibility for the coordination of the activities of the Firm.

Setting standards and guidelines required for value-added audit and Accounting/Management services

Mar 2003 – Jun 2008 CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

Techint Cimimontubi Limited, Bonny, Nigeria

Key Contributions:

Provided top-notch supervision of accounting and finance duties (Revenue budgeting, developing procedures, cash flow forecasting, short-term investment, etc.)

Interface with Statutory auditors

Management of company relationship with Federal, State and Local Government Regulatory Agencies

Dec 1999 – May 2002 SENIOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT

BJ Services Company Limited, Portharcourt, Nigeria

Key Contributions

Revenue and expenditure budgeting and analysis

Supervision of Accounts team

Procurement of key consumables and spares

Management of Payables and monthly reconciliation and reporting

Receivables Age Analysis and Credit Controls

Staff Payroll, Statutory deductions and remittances

Management of Assets Insurance

Oct 1989 – Jun 1996 Audit Senior/Supervisor

Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Lagos Nigeria

Key Contributions

-Statutory Audit of:

Banks & other financial institutions (Banks, Finance Houses, others)

Manufacturing/publishing companies (including multinationals)

Shipping and service oriented companies (shipping, construction, Associations and Clubs)

Oil & Gas and related companies (consolidated oil limited & others)

-Provided Reporting Accountant services to various clients on Initial Public Offers

-Company Income Tax Computation, Filing and Defence

-Presentation of Financial Reports to Shareholders at Annual General Meetings

-Corporate Secretarial Administration

Education & Qualifications

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Accounting 2nd Class Upper

University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance & Accounting

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS

Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA)

Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Management of Nigeria

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (FCTI)

Certified Member, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Certified Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Texas (ACFE)

Certified Member, Institute of Certified Management Accountants, Australia

Certificate of Completion, CISA Certificate Prep 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Additional Information

Keyword Skills: Chartered Accountant Financial Reporting Internal Audit and Control Advanced Financial Statement Analysis Financial Modelling Fraud Prevention, Detection and Management Due Diligence and Valuation Regulation and Compliance Industry and Firm Analysis Risk Analysis and ERM Corporate Strategy and Economic Analysis Risk Control & Compliance Management Warehouse & Logistics Management Project Evaluation and Management Organisation Development and Reengineering Budgeting, Forecast and Performance Monitoring Negotiations and Cost savings Organization Communication Proactive Self-starter Regulatory compliance Investment Management Tax Planning, Computation, Filing and Administration Proactive Self-starter

References: Available on request

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