ISIAKA A. BELLO, MBA

281-***-**** • adzmht@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Auditor & Accountant Helping Companies Translate Their Business Goals to Reality.

A versatile, collaborative, accomplished, and knowledgeable auditing and accounting professional with extensive experience in risk management, regulatory compliance, audit management, public accounting, and internal controls. Possess verifiable leadership, analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills that help put across things with a crisp point. A remarkably successful mentor to peers and colleagues with the ability to manage multiple projects at once. Enjoys opportunities to think outside the box, aligning detailed audit steps with comprehensive risk assessment. Have a solid track record in providing innovative and sustainable solutions to the clients’ business problems and challenges with exceptional focus and follow-through abilities.

Skill Areas: Risk Management • Financial Audits • Attestation Engagement • Internal Controls • Contract & Performance Audits • Public Accounting • Financial Reporting • Data Analytics • Uncovered Overpayments • Gained Efficiencies • Reduced Expenses • Performance Optimization • Financial Statement & Analysis • Financial Reporting • General Ledger & Account Reconciliations • Data Analytics • Cost Control • Budgetary Control & Forecasting • Organizational Leadership & Team Building • Adaptability & Flexibility • Exceptional Oversight & Process Improvement • Cash Flow Projection • GAAP/IFRS • GAGAS • SOX rules and compliance.

WORK EXPERIENCE

O.J. Lawal & Associates, Houston, TX Jan 2011 – Present

Audit Senior & Accountant

●Delivered high-quality audits and accounting functions in accordance with US GAAP, GAAS, PCAOB standards, and GAGAS framework to maximize performance metrics.

●Achieved a 30% expense reduction by analyzing business performance/audit plans.

●Uncovered over $2M in accounting overpayments during a 1-year period.

●Yielded a 30% improvement in process efficiency and revenue maximization.

●Generated a 25% decrease in customer complaints by enhancing internal processes.

●Performs detailed audit steps such as test of controls, substantive testing including analytical procedures and organizes audit evidence to support audit conclusions.

●Evaluates materiality and significance of deviations from standards, procedures, and conducts through review of documentations/transaction records.

●Strengthened overall financial performance by streamlining processes, maximizing cash flows, improving control evaluations, mitigating risk, and optimizing bottom-line results.

●Research auditing, accounting procedures, and mitigated risk by integrating a Sarbanes-Oxley act aligned with financial/business plans across all aspects of the compliance.

●Develop and communicates audit observations, findings, recommendations, process improvement opportunities and solution for deficiency in internal control systems.

●Obtain management responses to draft final audit report and conclude engagements.

●Conduct follow-up procedures to confirm the implementation of management action plans.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Waco, TX Sept 2009 – Dec 2010 Inventory Control & Audit Specialist

●Developed accounting functions for inventory such as inventory costing analysis, year-end, cycle counts, inventory turns, slow-moving, and other related functions in the store.

●Achieved adequate stocking of departmental products for customers while working in close collaboration with the sales unit.

●Eliminated waste and shrinking of products by maintaining proper inventory control audits.

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First Bank of Nigeria, PLC, Lagos, Nigeria April 2005 - Nov 2008

Manager, Risk & Asset Management Control/Senior Accountant

●Generated $12M in cost savings by constantly identifying expense reduction, implementing cost control strategies to minimize risk from major clients in 1 year.

●Mobilized and directed the Business Process Restructuring Project team.

●Conducted general ledger reconciliations and reduced closing accounting cycle times.

●Prepared ledger accounts, prepaid/accrual items, cash flow statements, cost/variance, budgeting controls, reconciliations, income statements, and balance sheet analysis

●Examined journal vouchers, verified compliance, and processed fixed assets.

●Influenced Executive decision-making by delivering reports,making recommendations and made key contributions to yearly consolidated audit engagements..

●Developed credit and collateral risk analysis to manage agricultural, commercial, oil and gas, consumer, corporate lending, and constructed concrete repayment plans.

●Streamlined treasury cash activities and liquidity to support customers’ borrowing needs and analyzed financial data to evaluate financial risks and portfolio securities.

EDUCATION

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

Master of Business Administration, Major in Accounting 2004

Bachelor of Science, Banking and Finance, Major in Finance 2002

Houston Community College, Houston, TX 2018

Associate degree of Arts, Accounting

TECHNOLOGIES, CERTIFICATIONS, & AFFILIATIONS

Technologies:

Audit File (Cloud-Based) • Oracle ERP • SAP • PeopleSoft

Clients Ledger Systems (CLS) • Pensoft • QuickBooks • ArcReporting

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Advanced Excel)

Certifications:

SAP Certified Consultant - Human Capital Management

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - Milestone Institute

The Association of Business Executives (MABE)

The Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB)

Affiliations:

Member, Association of Business Executives, London

Member, The Chartered Institute of Bankers

American Institute of Certified Public Accountant, CPA Eligible

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