Agatha Nkole Ogbe FCCA
London,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished Head of Finance with great interpersonal skills known for driving financial strategy and operational efficiency. Led cross-functional teams to streamline processes, resulting in increased profitability and reduced costs. Expert in group accounts consolidations and financial reporting, cash flow management and financial planning, delivering measurable improvements in bottom-line performance.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of finance
Integrity Global Ltd
01.2022 - Current
- Directing the annual budgeting and forecasting activities to align financial goals with organisational objectives hence reducing overall costs.
- Represented the business in negotiations with external partners and achieved quotations that helped reduced the costs of the business.
- Assisted budget holders to better understand and manage financial information using financial reports that are comprehensive and understandable to the non financial stake holders.
- Designed dashboards to enhance Business Intelligence and KPI reporting for the board of directors and CEO.
- Managing daily running of finance team and execution of budget governance activities across the various business departments.
- Coordinating the Groups annual financial planning exercises for strategic decision making.
- Leading a team of finance professionals, mentoring and coach them from finance interns to senior finance managers. Achieved this by fostering an environment of excellence and inclusion.
- Maintaining the Groups KPI reporting tools for accurate, up-to-date financial data for decision-making.
- Liaising with external auditors for seamless audits.
- Preparing the Groups consolidated comprehensive management accounts, integrating income statements, cash flow and balance sheets, including transfer pricing and Inter company reconciliations.
- Reviewing bookkeeping and management accounts to achieve clear and correct reports.
- Overseeing the groups budgeting and forecasting activities to ensure business growth.
- Monitoring and reviewing the financial controls, processes and procedures to enable best practice development.
- Overseeing the groups financial reporting processes, maintaining accuracy and compliance with US and UK regulatory standards.
- Managing the groups cash flow and liquidity, mitigating financial risks and ensuring stability.
Senior finance manager
Integrity Research and Consultancy Ltd
01.2018 - 12.2021
- Formulated annual budgets that aligned with organisational goals and objectives and presented to the board of directors for recommendation and approval.
- Implemented new accounting software for a new start up in the US and registered the new subsidiary according to US compliance and and accounting standards.
- Led a team of junior finance professionals towards achieving shared objectives including passing their accounting exams and achieving promotions progressively.
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement within the finance department, enhancing productivity levels significantly and making the finance department with the lowest turnover for leavers.
- Oversaw audits in the various project offices and subsidiaries and was able to collate accurate data and recommend constructive improvements.
- Administered payroll processes for accurate, timely salary disbursements in the various project offices.
- Harnessed data visualisation to drive insights through management reporting for the Board of directors for the UK and US offices.
- Served as finance business partner to drive strategic business decisions for the various project offices and subsidiaries.
- Negotiated favourable terms with suppliers such as external accountants, resulting in considerable cost savings for the company.
- Produced monthly comprehensive financial reports in a timely manner for strategic decision making such as informing the directors of the changes in the cash flow of the company
- Revamped existing financial procedures resulting in streamlined operations across departments and prepared the standard operating procedures.
- Analysed financial performance to implement key improvement strategies in both the UK and US offices.
- Delivered regular management reporting and supervised quarterly and annual tax calendar.
Finance manager
Integrity research and consultancy
08.2014 - 12.2017
- Management of day to day finance tasks and processes including producing weekly cash flows and informing management of financial risk areas, overseeing accounts payable and receiving, credit control, staff utilisation on projects, credit card and cash payments and reconciliations, regional cash management and reconciliations and ensuring all reconciliations in regional offices are properly done and complete
- Managing the monthend process, including setting the timetable and ensuring the monthly deadline is met by overseeing the process in the UK and across the various regions, Africa, MENA and Asia
- Producing monthly consolidated management accounts and providing commentary for management to make business decisions
- Assisting in producing the monthly board report
- Training budget holders on how to complete and modify the budget template according to the requirements and specifications of the project depending on the stage of the project
- Answering queries from budget holders on actual vs forecast analysis and providing reports where needed to complete the budgets
- Carefully analysing the KPIs and monitoring them ensuring that they are inline with the set project parameters
- Recommending changes for negative performance results
- Producing accurate monthly financial analysis reports detailing the KPIs for project managers and budget holders
- Running all regional payroll, reconciling the payroll, creating and posting monthly journals.Calculating and providing fees information for consultants in various currencies using the contracted information and budgets
- Balance sheet reconciliations including prepayment, accruals, revenue recognition and fixed asset list and depreciation on a monthly basis
- Preparing the management pack, analysing the variances and helping write commentaries for the board park on monthly basis
- Monitoring the cashflow of the company, producing 6 weekly and 6 monthly cashflow statements , including preparing forecasts and advising where improvements need to be made to manage cashflow
- Monthly auditing and managing of regional cash payment, transfers and request for projects expenses in various regions, whilst indirectly managing project officers and operations officers in the regions on financial aspects
- Producing and analysing the staff time spent on projects by managing the time monitoring system in the company including training staff on accurately providing the data
- Trained 2 new finance apprentices, managed and motivated them
- They were promoted to finance officers after a year and were recognised by their training provider as success stories
- They were interviewed and appeared in the AAT September 2016 magazine edition as success case studies
- I as the manager was interviewed on the skills used for training apprentices and developing them
- Lead and implemented the pension contribution system in the company which was a compulsory requirement by the government in April 2016
- This included setting up processes and systems to adhere to the pension regulatory system
- Helped in setting up the processes for a regional offices in kenya and Turkey including payroll and banking processes ensuring that all the tax and local compliances were adhered to
- Helped in bringing outsourced accounting services inhouse helping the company save and become more efficient in terms of moving from quarterly to monthly financial reporting and meeting the tight deadlines sent by the management for the board pack
- Successfully trained a newly appointed regional project officer on how to create and manage a US budget ensuring all the rules around US financials were followed
- Managed to create new IT finance systems which non financial staff could access and report on easily
Management Accountant/ Finance Manager
Bigfoot Arts Education UK Ltd, Cineclub
, UK and Australia
08.2008 - 08.2014
- Company Overview: Education Sector
- Managing the finance operations for three companies including the production of the management reports for the CEO and senior management
- Advising management on best cost control measures and providing them with current financial reports and forecasts
- Implementing all internal controls including managing two Junior accounts staff and overseeing all payments for internal staff and external consultants
- Reviewing time sheets and reconciling them with their invoices for monthly payments and in charge all supplier contract checks on fee calculations
- Managing all the invoicing processes and dealing with all the customer queries including managing the credit control team
- Calculating royalties for franchises and carrying out the planning and budgeting process with other budget holders throughout the year and producing reports on any variances for the franchises around the UK
- Overseeing the funding and treasury aspects of the company and managing the bank system (NatWest) including all financial transactions and accounting for loans to the Australian company
- Improving the internal control processes of the company including updating and upgrading the financial system
- In charge of the month end and year end processes including posting journals, prepayments and accruals
- Other duties include, producing all the financial accounts for all 3 companies for the external accountants and auditors
- Reviewing and Auditing the statutory accounts from the franchises around the UK to ensure head office has accurate information and procedures are followed
- Reconciling all company accounts, processing and submitting VAT and being the first contact for all HMRC queries including corporation tax payments and PAYE
- Managing the charity accounts including the submissions to the charity commission and gift aid documentation
- Calculating, reviewing and processing commission pay-outs
- Prevented future charges and penalties imposed by HMRC upon joining the companies by providing them with information needed
- Advised and involved in the starting of a new branch in Australia in 2011 by implementing an effective accounting department and financial system
- Improved the working capital cycle within all the 3 companies to ensure payments are made on time
- Improved the credit control and funding system with the factoring company by providing information to the clients upon request
Finance Analyst
ING Lease UK
Redhill, UK
01.2007 - 07.2008
Education
BSc - Economics and Spanish
University of Matanzas
01.2000 - 01.2004
ACCA qualified -
London School of business and Finance
01.2011 - 01.2014
MSC - International Finance and banking
London South Bank University
01.2009 - 04.2010
Skills
- Sage 50 Accounts and payroll
- Project reporting, forecasting and budgeting
- Financial Analysis and Consolidation reporting
- Xero Accounting System
- Quick books
- US accounting software
- UK VAT and Corporation Tax
- Australian Accounting and Tax compliance
- Kenya Accounting and Tax compliance
- Turkey Accounting and Tax compliance
- UK and US Employment compliance
- UK pensions
- US 401K, US Benefits and US payroll
Personal Information
Hobbies: Travelling, Swimming, Dancing, Cycling, Charity work, Volunteering for events to help women's health and welfare
Custom
References are available on request.
Timeline
Head of finance
Integrity Global Ltd
01.2022 - Current
Senior finance manager
Integrity Research and Consultancy Ltd
01.2018 - 12.2021
Finance manager
Integrity research and consultancy
08.2014 - 12.2017
ACCA qualified -
London School of business and Finance
01.2011 - 01.2014
MSC - International Finance and banking
London South Bank University
01.2009 - 04.2010
Management Accountant/ Finance Manager
Bigfoot Arts Education UK Ltd, Cineclub
08.2008 - 08.2014
Finance Analyst
ING Lease UK
01.2007 - 07.2008
BSc - Economics and Spanish
University of Matanzas
01.2000 - 01.2004
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