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JOSEPHINE IFEOMA EZE-UBAH

Chartered Accountant| Data Analyst| Financial Analyst| Business Analyst |Tax Practitioner| Internal Control Specialist
Lagos
JOSEPHINE IFEOMA EZE-UBAH

Summary

A Capable, Trustworthy, Ambitious, Team player and Self-Motivated Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Financial Analyst, Chartered Accountant, and Tax practitioner with over 14 years of working experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, Business processes, and Financial Advisory.

I am familiar with managing schedules, directing teams and overseeing closing processes. Well-versed in GAAP, IFRS, ledger updates and report writing. Exceptional interpersonal, communication and multitasking abilities.

I am committed in helping company grow while ensuring business operations follow state and federal regulations. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.

I have extensive knowledge of accounting software such as SAP FICO, Sage pastel evolution, Sage 50, QuickBooks Online, SQL, Tableau, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, PowerBI, Business Analysis, Agile fundamentals, Advanced Excel, Google Sheets, Financial Modeling, Forecasting Analysis, and Projection, Data Strategy, Problem-solving Skill and its reporting process.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES: Adaptability, Reliability, Dependability, Integrity, Honesty. Team-Spirit, Peoples Management, Analytical Skill , Project Management, Problem-solving, Attention to details, Negotiation skill, Leadership Skill, Critical-thinking, Organizational Skill, Interpersonal Skill, Time management.

Overview

16
years of professional experience
13
years of post-secondary education
14
Certifications

Work History

Wazima Healthcare
Lagos

Corporate Accountant
04.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports and presentations.
  • Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues.
  • Cooperated with senior leaders to create operating budgets and initiate financial planning.
  • Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
  • Conducted technical and analytical reviews of tax returns to check for accuracy and qualified deductions.
  • Compiled general ledger entries on short schedule with 100% accuracy.
  • Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
  • Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings.
  • Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
  • Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
  • Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
  • Used accounting software to issue tax returns and prepare consolidated reports.
  • Tracked funds, prepared deposits and reconciled accounts.
  • Computed taxes owed by applying prescribed rates, laws and regulations.
  • Maintained integrity of general ledger and chart of accounts.
  • Identified management control weaknesses and provided value added suggestions for remediation.
  • Facilitated financial and operational audits, working with internal and external managers to communicate recommendations or issues surrounding audits.
  • Identified audit risks, prepared budgets and coordinated with management and audit team in preparing related reports.
  • Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
  • Developed and implemented corrective actions to bring business areas in line with standards.
  • Enhanced audit controls by improving planning and testing processes.
  • Resolved financial and tax issues and maximized customer satisfaction scores.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of tax codes, legislation and tax programs.
  • Worked with management at project level to achieve expense plans.
  • Upheld strict confidentiality protocols with client details and tax return information.
  • Initiated comprehensive account assessments to check viability, stability and profitability of business operations.

TRIEDENT GROUP
Lagos

GENERAL MANAGER
01.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Design strategies to ensure total guest satisfaction
  • Ensure the highest standards of professional services to customers
  • Initiate cost-effective controls and revenue management techniques
  • Prepare, review and assess monthly or periodic financial statements
  • Prepare and administer monthly payroll, deductions, and payments
  • Pension and payee computation and remittances to appropriate authority
  • Develop strategies for organizing, staffing, planning, and executing functionalities
  • Provide training for hotel staff in delivering care that meets the best standards and practices
  • Develop day-to-day operations and functions of a hotel ensuring total guest satisfaction
  • Maintain and efficiently manage hotel equipment, infrastructure, inventories, and other facilities
  • Plan, coordinate, and manage all business operations to achieve corporate goals
  • Develop and implement a business plan for profitability
  • Assist in budget preparation and expense management activities
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing program and recommend improvements
  • Develop strategies to improve overall quality and productivity
  • Generate business, cost, and employee reports to management
  • Schedule regular team meetings to discuss business updates, issues, and recommendations
  • Respond to employee concerns promptly
  • Provide direction and guidance to employees in their assigned job duties
  • Determine staffing requirements and ensure that office positions are filled promptly
  • Assist in employee recruitment, training, performance evaluation, promotion, and termination activities
  • Ensure that employees follow company policies and procedures
  • Manage administrative, logistical, human resources, and accounting services to support company operations
  • Address customer inquiries promptly and professionally and ensure customer satisfaction
  • Identify business opportunities with new and existing customers.

TRIEDENT GROUP

HEAD
01.2017 - 12.2019

Job overview

  • Direct and oversee all aspects of the organization's finance & accounting functions
  • Maintain Petty Cash records in line with the laid down policies and procedures
  • Ensure all payments from the Petty Cash have been authorized by a responsible party
  • Carry out cash count at the close of business daily and compare with the ledger balance to ascertain completeness
  • Ensure petty cash vouchers are posted and filed daily with relevant supporting documents
  • Manage and control petty office expenditure within the approved budget
  • Responsible for recording and maintaining up-to-date records of the company’s daily financial transactions
  • Responsible for ensuring adequate supporting documents (payment vouchers, invoices, receipt) are prepared for filing for every financial transaction
  • Regular review & reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts; investigation and correction of errors identified
  • Review and analyze monthly results to ensure accuracy of financial statements, making accruals and adjustments as needed
  • Preparing final accounts by ensuring all account schedules are prepared to agree with the General Ledger balances on monthly basis
  • Prepare, verify, and process invoices promptly for sales or services rendered
  • Ensure proper coding is maintained on documents, sales invoices, and receipts
  • Collect on accounts by sending invoice reminders and communicating with customers via email
  • Post customer payments by recording cash, cheques, and card transactions and entering them into the accounting software
  • Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure all payments are accounted for and properly posted
  • Investigate and resolve discrepancies with customers’ payments
  • Periodically analyze and report on accounts receivables activities
  • Ensure the company is promptly settled by the banks and payment switches for all services rendered
  • Responsible for developing and maintaining an up-to-date income reconciliation process flow documentation for all company products
  • Promptly send Remittance Advice for payments processed to requesting vendors
  • Responsible for the monitoring and reconciling of vendors’ accounts and ensuring credit balances with vendors are promptly utilized
  • Ensure timely and accurate vendor payments at all times
  • Ensure prompt posting of all payments in the accounting system
  • Responsible for ensuring only properly authorized requisitions are paid
  • Responsible for providing cash advances to staff as well as prompt retirement
  • Custodian of bank hardware tokens, company debit cards, and other items of sensitive nature
  • Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by your line manager
  • Keep an accurate record of monthly payroll calculations, payments, and PAYE deductions
  • Complies and remits VAT, WHT, Consumption Tax, and others
  • Liaising with Auditors and providing all relevant documents during the Audit period.

TRIEDENT SUITES LTD

INTERNAL AUDITOR
03.2012 - 12.2016

Job overview

  • Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies
  • Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend operations and financial activities changes
  • Prepare detailed reports on audit findings
  • Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions
  • Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity
  • Prepare, analyze, and verify annual reports, financial statements, and other records, using accepted accounting and statistical procedures to assess financial conditions and facilitate financial planning
  • Inspect cash on hand, trade receivable, and payable
  • Examine whether the organization's objectives are reflected in its management activities and whether employees understand the objectives
  • Examine records and interview workers to ensure recording of transactions and compliance with laws and regulations
  • Direct activities of personnel engaged in filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records
  • Audit payroll and personnel records to ensure accuracy.

CASTORAMA GLOBAL CONCEPT LTD
Lagos

ACCOUNTANT
06.2011 - 03.2012

Job overview

  • Handling of all statutory payment remittances: VAT, WHT, P.A.Y.E, etc
  • Posting of Cash and cheque payment vouchers
  • Petty cash reimbursement and disbursement
  • Handling of sales pick-up, documentation, and lodgment
  • Management of working capital weekly update
  • Manage general ledger and sub-ledger reconciliation
  • Raise and post-sales invoices, cash receipts, and payroll
  • Carry out all bank-related activities including deposits, transfers, etc
  • Follow up with client payments, ensuring they are made on time
  • Ensuring that there are at all times, proper procedures and control for purchasing, receiving, stores and requisition
  • Ensuring that all supplies’ physical inventories are taken every month and of all operating equipment every quarter
  • Providing the General Manager and Management team with meaningful and timely information on the status of the company’s performance
  • Checking and approving expenditures (via purchase requisition, expenditure approval forms, and receipt)

BABAJIDE ENITAN & CO
Lagos

Audit Executive
06.2010 - 05.2011

Job overview

  • Carrying out end-of-year Stock Taking in Various Clients Company
  • Carrying out an Analytical Review of Expenses and Income Accounts
  • Vouching Financial Transactions and Entries
  • Carrying out Debtors and Bank Circularization
  • Examining and Evaluating Liabilities, Income, Asset, Receivables, and Payables Account
  • Auditing Bank on IFRS VAT remittances.
  • Analyzed complex client problems and generated targeted solutions that resolved outstanding issues while enhancing client business positions.
  • Developed high-level knowledge of client business goals, policies and procedures to establish foundation for targeted problem solutions.
  • Interacted with internal staff and clients to improve operational knowledge of relevant tax issues and business implications.
  • Trained and mentored department staff on policies and procedures to establish strong foundation for client development and service activities.
  • Conducted strategic and technical reviews to verify compliance with quality control standards, schedule constraints and budget parameters.
  • Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
  • Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings.
  • Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
  • Identified management control weaknesses and provided value added suggestions for remediation.

ABOVE & BEYOND TRADING CO. LTD
Lagos

AUDIT EXECUTIVE
09.2007 - 05.2010

Job overview

  • Fixed Asset Management and Control
  • Vetting all other reports before passing them on to the MD
  • Ensuring that all concerned have properly adhered to the company’s rules and regulations
  • Vetting and verification of daily sales reports from the Account department
  • Preparing bank reconciliation statements
  • Carried out Monthly Stock Taking
  • Carried out Analytical Review on Expenses and Income accounts
  • Vouching of transactions and entries to ascertain accuracy
  • Develop and implement internal auditing policies, procedures, and programs.

Education

Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria

Associate from Taxation
02.2019 - 01.2020

University Overview

Our Savoir Institute of Science, Technology

High School Diploma
02.2000 - 08.2002

University Overview

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Nigeria

MBA from Financial Management
02.2018 - 11.2019

University Overview

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
Nigeria

Associate of Arts from Accounting And Finance
10.2014 - 11.2016

University Overview

Institute of Chartered Management Accountant (ICMA)
Nigeria

Associate of Arts from Management Accounting
01.2009 - 10.2010

University Overview

Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM)
Nigeria

Associate of Arts from Accountancy
05.2007 - 08.2007

University Overview

Federal Polytechnic
Nigeria

Bachelor of Arts from Accountancy
02.2003 - 08.2006

University Overview

Skills

    Intuit QuickBooks specialist

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Certification

SAP Security Administrator & Technical Audit

Software

QuickBooks Online

Sage 50

Microsoft Excel

SAP

Tableau

PowerBI

Excel Power Query

Xero Accounting

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Quote

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Timeline

Corporate Accountant
Wazima Healthcare
04.2022 - Current
GENERAL MANAGER
TRIEDENT GROUP
01.2020 - Current
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
Associate from Taxation
02.2019 - 01.2020
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
MBA from Financial Management
02.2018 - 11.2019
HEAD
TRIEDENT GROUP
01.2017 - 12.2019
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
Associate of Arts from Accounting And Finance
10.2014 - 11.2016
INTERNAL AUDITOR
TRIEDENT SUITES LTD
03.2012 - 12.2016
ACCOUNTANT
CASTORAMA GLOBAL CONCEPT LTD
06.2011 - 03.2012
Audit Executive
BABAJIDE ENITAN & CO
06.2010 - 05.2011
Institute of Chartered Management Accountant (ICMA)
Associate of Arts from Management Accounting
01.2009 - 10.2010
AUDIT EXECUTIVE
ABOVE & BEYOND TRADING CO. LTD
09.2007 - 05.2010
Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM)
Associate of Arts from Accountancy
05.2007 - 08.2007
Federal Polytechnic
Bachelor of Arts from Accountancy
02.2003 - 08.2006
Our Savoir Institute of Science, Technology
High School Diploma
02.2000 - 08.2002

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JOSEPHINE IFEOMA EZE-UBAHChartered Accountant| Data Analyst| Financial Analyst| Business Analyst |Tax Practitioner| Internal Control Specialist