About
Highly accomplished Finance Manager and Chartered Accountant (ACA) with over a decade of progressive experience in FMCG, specializing in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. Proven expertise in leveraging ERP and Business Intelligence tools to optimize financial processes, drive strategic decision-making, and deliver significant cost savings and revenue enhancements. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and providing high-impact insights to top management, consistently exceeding performance targets and earning multiple leadership awards.
Work
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Managed financial planning across nine regions, overseeing actuals reporting, variance analyses, revenue management, and product pricing to optimize profitability and support strategic decision-making.
Highlights
Successfully mapped the reporting pack's Chart of Accounts to a new ERP under implementation in 2 regions, creating management reporting visibility for 6 previously pending periods.
Assisted in refining Product Profitability Models, optimizing product mix to enhance profitability and business value.
Awarded Employee of the Month, CFO's Leadership Award, and MD's Innovator's award three times within one year of assuming the role.
Developed and established Regional Benchmarking templates, enabling leadership to understand regional profitability, break-even points, and optimize overall business positioning.
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Coordinated end-to-end financial planning, including budgets and rolling forecasts for FCW businesses, while managing reporting timelines and corporate data warehouse updates.
Highlights
Led development of a value-chain optimization model, resulting in a pricing-mix decision €24 million better than an interim decision without sacrificing product competitiveness.
Achieved absorption of actual cost of sales into Finished Goods, enhancing leverage on brand and product profitability data.
Redesigned majority of actual reporting models, optimizing turnaround time by up to 1 day.
Conducted Excel trainings for 2 cohorts (30+ colleagues over 15 weeks), driving knowledge sharing and capability improvement across finance functions.
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Ensured financial integrity and control environment alignment for relevant sites, focusing on product cost planning, value chain analysis, and manufacturing financial performance reporting.
Highlights
Created the consolidated 'Cost Flash' model for the ISC SSA Region, cutting the overview timeline from D+4 to D+1.
Improved reporting timelines by 1 day, addressing cost allocation analysis bottlenecks via an enhanced Excel Model.
Achieved 'achieved expectation' rating for the entire MTI Global Internal Control Audit, earning the Managing Director's award of excellence.
Provided key insights into longstanding material variance bottlenecks, developing templates for weekly reviews and root cause identification, leading to major cost savings in waste.
Crashed provisions for write-off through constant engagement with process handlers and developing trackers to monitor material lifecycles and usage rates.
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Interfaced with various departments to provide business partnering for planning, controlling, and reporting of costs and performance KPIs related to production operations and supply chain, ensuring compliance with guidelines.
Highlights
Delivered essential business partnering across finance and non-finance departments, optimizing cost and performance KPIs for production and supply chain operations.
Managed financial controlling & reporting processes, financial & risk analyses, and supported the team in achieving cost effectiveness.
Ensured strict compliance with relevant internal and external guidelines and standards across all financial operations.
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Managed budgeting, forecasting, variance reporting, and overhead analysis for Detergent, Power Plants, and Shared Services with an annual cost budget exceeding N3 Billion.
Highlights
Led the Cost Pillar of Continuous Improvement for 2 years, overseeing projects that saved over N300 million in costs.
Developed management reporting templates for a new ERP System structure, reducing reporting turnaround time and period close proceedings by 90%.
Prepared 2019 Budgets for 72 cost centers across Family Care Factories (N7 Billion+ value), delivering on schedule.
Saved over N15 million in employee cost by performing overlapping functions as Site Financial Controller for the Aba Site for a year.
Strengthened Internal Control measures, particularly in material and cash management, for inventories valued over N6 Billion.
Conducted site-wide Stock Count Processes for inventories (Raw, Packaging Materials, spares) valued over N6 Billion.
Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Summary
Managed primary accounts, payroll, bank reconciliations, financial statements, and budgets, providing advisory functions on investible projects and loan appraisals for a private educational service.
Highlights
Migrated receivables and payments management systems from manual to electronic at zero setup cost, significantly reducing report generation time and providing insights into operations and finances.
Established standard processes for budgeting, payroll, receivables, and management reporting.
Successfully anchored a N15 million profit-sharing loan-contract for the firm, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction.
Education
Languages
English
Skills
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Variance Analysis, Strategic Planning, Financial Reporting, Revenue Management, Product Pricing.
Accounting & Control
Management Accounting, Cost Control, Internal Control, Financial Analysis, General Ledger, Payroll Management, Receivables Management, Financial Statements.
ERP & Business Intelligence Tools
ERP Systems, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Data Warehouse Management, System Implementation.
Process Optimization
Process Improvement, Operational Efficiency, Value Chain Optimization, Lean Methodologies, Problem Solving.
Data Analysis & Reporting
Data Analysis, Financial Data Management, Performance KPIs, Reporting Automation, Microsoft Excel (Advanced).
Leadership & Collaboration
Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Decision Support, Mentoring, Training & Development.
Risk Management
Financial Risk Analysis, Compliance, Audit Preparation, Inventory Management.
References
Oni Babatunde. J., FCA.
Commercial Finance Head, PZ Cussons Nigeria PLC. 0806-1397-010
Kuye Taiwo, FCA.
Manager, Accounting and Advisory Services, KPMG, Nigeria. 0809-8081-287