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Obaseki Samuel Ebarumeifo

Glasgow

Summary

Accomplished professional with expertise in financial risk assessment, strategic risk management, and data analytics. Demonstrates strong leadership and mentoring abilities, coupled with advanced project management skills. Proficient in evaluating internal controls and engaging stakeholders to enhance financial reporting and analysis. Adept at critical thinking and problem-solving, leveraging advanced Microsoft Office skills for decision-making excellence. Committed to driving organisational success through innovative solutions and strategic insights.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
2019
2019
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Manager, Assurance - Centre of Excellence

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
05.2019 - 05.2025
  • Planned and managed multiple client portfolios to ensure seamless audit engagements.
  • Coordinated audits from planning to completion, developing audit plans and managing stakeholder expectations.
  • Established strong relationships with senior management, facilitating effective communication between teams and clients.
  • Responsible for providing technical guidance on audit of complex accounting areas such as corporation taxes, transfer pricing, research & development tax credits, corporate interest restrictions, deferred tax assets valuation and share based payments.
  • Fostered professional connections across multi-location teams to enhance audit quality.
  • Mentored team members to achieve professional development goals and improve audit delivery.
  • Successfully led statutory audits for diverse clients, ensuring compliance with the applicable financial reporting framework (i.e., IFRS, US GAAP, ISA) and local regulations.
  • Led a sub-division within my business unit as a Squad Leader, overseeing a team of 30+ professionals, including three senior managers and two managers.
  • Supported senior leadership with respect to strategic goals by hosting sessions for various business units within PwC UK to promote collaboration through multi-functional team approaches to audit delivery. This successfully drove my team growth, increasing chargeable hours significantly within two years.
  • Led and coordinated training for PwC Service Delivery Centers (SDC) in India with respect to performing audit work for non-judgmental areas by offshore teams. This was critical to helping my team focus on more technical and judgmental areas, enabling us to deliver higher quality audit and add value to our clients.
  • I was selected to participate in the PwC’s Emerging Leader Programme (ELP) for the best performing managers across the UK.

Senior Associate, Financial Services Audit Division

KPMG Professional Services
Lagos
09.2015 - 04.2019
  • Led statutory audits for diverse clients, including mortgage banks, asset management companies, and pension funds, ensuring compliance with IFRS, ISA, and local regulations.
  • Evaluated internal controls over financial reporting, identified deficiencies, and provided strategic recommendations.
  • Prepared Board Audit Committee reports to present key audit findings to those charged with governance.
  • Coached, supervised, and provided strategic guidance to junior team members. I also served as liaison between the firm, our client’s management, and component auditors.
  • Led group audit of a Primary Mortgage Bank in Nigeria (PMI) reporting under IFRS with total assets valued over $44 million. My team timely delivering of the audit and value-adding recommendation led the Board of Directors to extend KPMG’s tenor as their auditor for two more years.
  • Assistant team lead, during a statutory financial statements audit of a listed Nigerian bank with total assets valued over $2.6 billion. I successfully delivered key audit areas within 80% of the standard delivery time, whilst identifying errors of about $1 million in accrued interest on fixed income investments (short and long positions) based on computer assisted audit techniques (CAATs) I had performed.
  • Successfully led an engagement team to audit a subsidiary (an investment company) of a Multi-National Bank, with operations in South Africa and Nigeria.
  • I was rated as a Highly Effective Performer during my time at the firm.
  • Representative clients: Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Imperial Homes Mortgage Bank Ltd, Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Limited, Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM).

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied Accounting

Oxford Brookes University

Bachelor of Engineering - Petroleum Engineering

University of Benin

Skills

  • Financial risk assessment
  • Evaluation of internal controls
  • Project management
  • Leadership and mentoring
  • Data analytics
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving
  • Strategic Risk Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Financial reporting and analysis
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills
  • Advanced data analytics
  • Decision-Making expertise

Websites

Certification

  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), 2024
  • Certificate of Achievement in Business Analytics and Introduction to Big Data, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, 2024
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), 2018
  • Affiliate Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), 2018

Custom

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), United Kingdom, External Auditor Training, US Year End Auditing Update Curriculum, US PCAOB remote access curriculum – Year 4+, Audit Years 1 to 4 – Tutoring Overview, Qualified Through Experience (QTE) – Introduction to AICPA Audits, Training and Facilitation Skills
  • KPMG Professional Services, Nigeria, KPMG Senior Development Centre, Audit 4 (KPMG Johannesburg), Audit 3 Training, Audit 2 Training, Auditing under IFRS, Audit 1 Training
  • Human Capital Partners (HCP), Supervisory Skills Development Training, Advanced Business Writing Skills, Advanced and Intermediate Excel Training, Basic Interpersonal/Effective Communication Skills, Basic Time Management and Personal Effectiveness

Timeline

Senior Manager, Assurance - Centre of Excellence

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
05.2019 - 05.2025

Senior Associate, Financial Services Audit Division

KPMG Professional Services
09.2015 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Petroleum Engineering

University of Benin

Bachelor of Science - Applied Accounting

Oxford Brookes University

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