Ayankunle Adeola
Manchester,Greater Manchester
Summary
Finance professional and chartered accountant with 15 years of post-qualification experience in top leadership roles in a variety of industries. Experience managing diverse financial functions, tax management, and reporting as part of a financial team.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Accountant Specialist
Worldpay FIS
02.2023 - Current
- Responsible for all external financial and statutory reporting, including Worldpay International Group Limited consolidation and the UK statutory filing.
- Annual preparation of the group and reviews of subsidiary financial statements, as well as statutory reporting and filling.
- Participation in the design of the half-year and year-end reporting processes.
- Collaborate with accounting teams from multinational businesses and guide periodic compliance requirements.
- Manage annual audit completion and own and coordinate relationships with external auditors.
- Monthly and quarterly financial report preparation, as well as board pack preparation.
- Technical accounting - IFRS, UK FRS101, FRS 102 and US GAAP.
Data Analyst
Skills City
01.2023 - 03.2023
- Providing data insight analysis, interpreting results using statistical techniques, and recommending improvements and strategies to aid in data-driven decision-making.
- Improved data integrity with rigorous auditing and cleansing.
- Troubleshot database to minimise glitches and bugs.
- Generated reports from extracted data for analyses.
- Organising and transforming information into comprehensive structures.
- Performing data analysis and visualise data in easy-to-understand formats.
- Monitor data quality and design process for data manipulation and delivery.
- Working with data analysis systems - SQL, Power BI.
Management Accountant
Mitie PFI Limited
08.2022 - 12.2022
- Oversee the commercial aspect of the business and create partnerships with commercial and operational teams.
- Coordination of financial presentations to senior executives for the Mitie PFI £100 million turnover education segment.
- Partnering with key stakeholders to deliver greater insight to business performance.
- Plan monthly and year-end accounting closing and reporting packs, variance analysis with commentary.
- Collected and collated information and data to prepare annual budgets and forecast projections.
- Investigated budget variances to identify causes and suggest corrective action.
- Provided accurate monitoring information to budget holders on monthly basis.
Accountant
Pennine Accounting
07.2022 - 07.2022
- Handle management accounts, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax services.
- Preparing and reviewing periodic ledger balances and balance sheet reconciliation.
- Updated journal entries and accounts on accrual basis with Xero software.
Finance Manager
TotalEnergies Coop
09.2015 - 09.2021
- Monitored and reviewed financial controls, processes and procedures to enable best practice development.
- Developed thorough forecasting and cash-flow management processes to maximise progression and profitability.
- Managed timely and accurate reporting of various financial transactions and information for detailed analysis.
- Developed and administered annual budgets following periods of strong analysis and research.
- Directed financial reporting detailing yields, cost of transformation and profitability.
- Acted as point of contact in support of end-to-end system audits.
- Drove continual improvement in department processes and workflows.
- Oversee end-to-end financial planning and analysis
- Forged strategic business partnerships with budget holders to uphold cost-effective management.
Senior Financial Accountant
Ecobank Transnational Bank Incorporation
01.2012 - 08.2015
- Responded to financial enquiries by gathering and interpreting data.
- Prepare and analyse financial statements, and review financial publications
- Plan and coordinate periodic audits to ensure timely completion and receive clean audit reports
- Advised global finance team in accounting complications, journal processing and balance sheet reviews.
- Delivered core year end reports and statutory processes within strict agreed timescales.
- Oversaw balance sheet reconciliation including payroll VAT, fixed assets and accruals.
Group Financial Accountant
Oceanic Bank Plc
09.2008 - 01.2012
- Oversee financial accounting and deliver key stakeholders' information and reporting, supervised the group's merger & Acquisition
- Monitor and implement financial systems and suggest an improvement
- Plan periodic Group and Bank financial statements and returns in line with reporting standards (GAAP & IFRS)
- Safeguard financial objectives of the Group including monitoring, and tracking of key performance indices
- Align the preparation and presentation of consolidated corporate reports to Senior Executives
- Responsible for tax planning, compliance (CIT, CGT, WHT, VAT) and liaise with external tax consultant
Senior Accountant
A.P, Maersk Group
05.2006 - 08.2008
- The world's largest container shipping, and terminal operator company with operations in 120 countries.
- Deal with account receivables and payables functions; billing process, revenue assurance, and credit control for the company.
- Implement invoicing system (MLIS) and collected $ 500 million in long-overdue debt.
- Keeping a close watch on debtor account balances and reducing debtors' Days Sales Outstanding and raise dunning letters for outstanding debts
- Responding to client queries and keeping customer retention levels high and adhering to credit policies
- Maintaining a record of all expenditures, payments, and outstanding payables
- Process invoices, post transactions, and verify financial data for use in maintaining accounts payable records
- Guarantee the accuracy of an organization’s financial documents for payment, auditing, and tax purposes
- Protect businesses against unintentional overpayment and monitor prompt vendors payments
Education
Master of Science - Financial Technology
University of the West England
Bristol 09.2021 - 09.2022
Higher National Diploma - Accountancy and Finance
Yaba College of Technology
Lagos 12.2000 - 12.2002
Skills
- Self-motivated professional and problem solving
- Strong communication and leading
- Financial statements and closing process expertise
- Stakeholder relations & business partnering
- Data trending and analytics
- Fiscal budgeting knowledge, planning and forecasting
- Regulatory compliance and statutory reporting
- Financial management, reporting and analysis specialist
- MS Office Suite, ERP and HFM software
- Corporate tax planning knowledge
- General ledger accounting and account reconciliation expertise
Certification
Qualified ACA, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), transiting to ICAEW ACA pathway.
Part-qualified Accountant, Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA)
Languages
English
Native
Timeline
Accountant Specialist
Worldpay FIS
02.2023 - Current
Data Analyst
Skills City
01.2023 - 03.2023
Management Accountant
Mitie PFI Limited
08.2022 - 12.2022
Accountant
Pennine Accounting
07.2022 - 07.2022
Master of Science - Financial Technology
University of the West England
09.2021 - 09.2022
Finance Manager
TotalEnergies Coop
09.2015 - 09.2021
Senior Financial Accountant
Ecobank Transnational Bank Incorporation
01.2012 - 08.2015
Group Financial Accountant
Oceanic Bank Plc
09.2008 - 01.2012
Senior Accountant
A.P, Maersk Group
05.2006 - 08.2008
Higher National Diploma - Accountancy and Finance
Yaba College of Technology
12.2000 - 12.2002
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