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LAWAL Yewande

LAWAL Yewande

Abijo, Lagos

Summary

Dedicated to maintaining excellence and uplifting existing standard, self-motivated with strong desire to contribute and add value to growth and development.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work history

Head Fixed Assets, Finance &Administration

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
Lagos, Nigeria
02.2021 - Current
  • Fixed Assets Management:
  • Administration of the fixed asset of the bank to ensure integrity of the financial reports
  • Co-ordination of activities to ensure that all finance functions surrounding the recording and handling of financial transactions are processed timely and accurately
  • Ensures that the fixed assets register is updated to reflect all fixed assets of the bank Consolidates and manage the fixed asset register for the bank
  • Ensure adherence for the management of fixed assets in line with the fixed asset policy of the bank
  • Monthly report on fixed asset verification and tagging exercise
  • Ensures that all assets identified as obsolete/redundant are disposed in line with the bank's policy
  • Acts as secretary to the fixed asset disposal committee
  • Financial Control:
  • Preparation, consolidation and presentation of the annual budget and revised estimates of premises spend for all departments and branches in the bank network
  • Water-falling of Head Office costs to various occupying departments
  • Ensure that all outstanding payments are reflected in our books through accruals on monthly basis
  • Responding to issues and report requests emanating from payment requests processed through SAP
  • Serving as intermediary between GRES and other departments in the processing of all payments as it relates to New builds, Revamps, Leases, and Purchases of Items such as Furniture & Fittings, Office Equipment and Building Materials
  • Monitoring of budget spend against actual expenditure and investigation of variances on an ongoing basis
  • Payment management through reporting on vendor payment
  • Develop and submission of the annual Budget in accordance with communicated timelines
  • Monthly HO allocation report Monthly accrual report Mid-month review of postings Report on payment of vendors
  • Warehouse management:
  • Ensures warehouse monthly reconciliation
  • Supervision of warehouse activities
  • Quality Management
  • Ability to implement operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfil requirements for quality including; improvement, control, management or assurance of quality
  • Have knowledge and ability to implement all quality management policies and procedures
  • Ability to promote and maintain high standards of quality at work
  • Understand, implements, manages, and maintains quality management systems and provides a support service to the organisation
  • Have knowledge and understanding of the formal international frameworks for measuring and monitoring quality
  • Have the knowledge and application of techniques that can be applied to determine the cause of process or control failures Measures; Satisfactory ISS rating Satisfactory Audits (Internal & External) and no repeat audit finding Nil loss from all identified and closed gaps
  • Operational effectiveness
  • Ensure effective management of expenditure with emphasis on the containment of controllable costs
  • Optimise and streamlines existing systems, processes, and controls for cost-effective service delivery
  • Coordinate the activities of all project stakeholders to ensure proper alignment with plans, processes, and governance
  • Provide an effective administrative function for the team members Ensure overall operational readiness and efficiency of the branch infrastructure prior to operations
  • Ensure overall staff complement is in line with workforce measurements
  • Ensure the effective roll-out of change initiatives through tracking and reporting on projects as well as conducting readiness assessments
  • Risk Management
  • Ensure that laid-down instructions are adhered to by all areas under control
  • Ensure the maintenance of an effective control structure, with control activities defined at each level and duties appropriately allocated
  • Leadership:
  • Focus attention and efforts on understanding business strategy and proactively addressing business needs Makes organisational changes or innovates when needed to address the Bank's needs
  • Believe in oneself, own judgement, skills and experience, and using this self-confidence to challenge others for the benefit of Standard Bank
  • Actively curious, seeking a deeper, broader and more objective understanding, upon which to base commercial acumen, strategic decisions, and actions
  • Understands the line-of-sight between strategy and organisational implementation
  • Translates the organisational strategy into specific decisions and actions to ensure the strategy implementation
  • Align resources to effectively execute against the strategic direction
  • Set clear performance standards and expectations, and holds others accountable when these are not met
  • Take accountability for team delivery against the expectations and contribution to results
  • Enable and empowers the team to implement/execute a strategic vision or change for the better
  • Effectively and strategically influences across the organisation, based on previously established credibility and respect, as well as understanding the organisational dynamics, politics and interpersonal context
  • Understands and leverages the dependencies across the organisation and the impact of own actions on the rest of the organisation to create organisation alignment for decision-making and delivery of quality outcomes
  • Taking responsibility for identifying, developing and retaining capability for the benefit of the broader business, based on a genuine intent to foster the long term learning or development of others

Sourcing Specialist/Category Manager

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
Lagos, Nigeria
08.2018 - 02.2021
  • Ensure that Total Cost of Ownership targets are met and/or exceeded
  • Drives for early Strategic Sourcing involvement in the project lifecycle to better influence strategy and results through the establishment of a commodity specific Category Advisory boards
  • Develops and implements effective category strategies across the appropriate lines of business and/or the entire enterprise
  • Develop sourcing strategies and market approach, negotiating “best in class” commercial solutions aligned to business drivers or delivering specified components thereof
  • Undertake defined aspects of key commercial activities necessary to support delivery of the commercial solution (e.g., Contract Due Diligence) - undertake relevant analysis as required at key stages of the sourcing process
  • Manage the handover of commercial arrangements into live operation post contract award
  • Develops presentations and presents recommended commercial and sourcing solutions in a clear, concise, and effective manner to leadership to gain understanding and support
  • Researches, identifies, and analyzes current supplier and market trends
  • Benchmarks new processes, approaches, and technology that will continually drive improvements on performance and business results
  • Contributes to the development of the strategic sourcing vision (strategic 5-year plan) and annual operating plan
  • Sets and re-evaluates priorities in accordance with business needs and expectations
  • Builds and leverages strong working relationships with internal customers and key suppliers
  • Assist in developing supplier scorecards that measure performance against key requirements and obligations
  • Assist in the development of Supplier Diversity opportunities by identifying new and/or alternative suppliers
  • Develops and leads implementation of supply chain process improvements
  • Knowledge sharing with sourcing colleagues, supporting new ways of working and assist with the development and implementation of new tools and techniques
  • Work cross-functionally to establish and maintain working relations with other parts of the Group, influencing as needed to deliver role outputs
  • Work with Head, Procurement to plan approach to market, drawing up timelines and personal task management sheets to achieve agreed objectives
  • Report on project status while maintaining all management activities on a day-to-day basis
  • Ensure sourcing is in line with organizational and external governance (i.e., FICA)
  • Support and contribute to team building and team dynamics through personally displaying leadership and team attributes
  • Embrace new ways of working with Sourcing Colleagues and wider community, helping to embed new ways of working and cultural changes.
  • Maximised category turnover through proactive management strategies.
  • Assessed current supplier database, seeking continued opportunities for growth and development.

Team Lead Buying Specialist

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
03.2015 - 07.2018
  • Directs and controls the sourcing and general movement of goods and services
  • In and out of the bank
  • The position also manages key materials and related functions such as planning, scheduling, purchasing, material flow through the branches
  • Job functions and responsibilities
  • Oversees the procurement functions of the bank
  • Manages supplies processes of goods and services and integrated sub- processes to ensure supplies are in the right time to meet commitments and deliver required levels of customers service in the head offices and branches operations
  • Understands the input and components of inventory planning models to derive stock policy for warehoused materials
  • Develops and implement long-term procurement strategies designed to reduce costs and improve quality and service while meeting bank's goals and objectives and works closely with bank's staff to ensure these measures and achieved
  • Derives the influences planning parameters, material stock holding policies and assumptions
  • Develops and communicates the bank's stock supplies schedules, material requirements plans and consequences to the business
  • Develops internal and external feedback processes to measure effectiveness of supervised customer satisfaction and proposes methods for continues improvement
  • Creates rough out capacity plans, executes agreed stock run strategy, manages and communicates exceptions
  • Evaluates risks, opportunities to creation of costed contingencies plans and scenarios with the support of the operations support and finance team.

Procurement Officer

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
03.2012 - 03.2015
  • Charged with implementing the necessary controls and providing support to the business/subsidiaries for all expenditures with third parties
  • Job functions and responsibilities
  • Actively participated in initiatives as part of the team to cement a common purpose
  • Attended and contributed to discussion forums e.g
  • Operation meetings, departmental meetings, business feedback meetings
  • Participated in formulation of business plans and strategies
  • Provided professional advice to assist in planning and decision making (financial planning)
  • Tracked requests from various business units and ensure compliance with approved internal SLAs
  • Ensured the cost are controlled and maintained
  • Ensured the cost are controlled and recoveries made from staff for unauthorized costs
  • Coordinate process of suppliers “evaluation
  • Ensured compliance with sourcing and procure to pay processes for all business expenditure
  • Maintained the database of approved suppliers and agree terms and conditions to ensure the smooth running of the procurement to pay process
  • Coordinated, organize training, appraise, assign and control activities of all other procurement members
  • Monitored and evaluated supplier performance in terms of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Prepared reports on the Bank's spends for efficiency and administrative cost reduction
  • Solicit for proforma invoices, make competitive pricing selection.

Team Lead

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
01.2009 - 03.2012
  • Cheque and Card issuance:
  • Job functions and responsibilities
  • Responsible for an efficient and cost-effective process designed to position the bank towards excellent service to the its customers through an online integrated end to end MICR process in compliance with the banks policies and government regulations
  • Coordinated cheque production and Master cards distributions within the stipulated Service Level Agreement with the Business
  • Custodian of the Cheque stocks, monitor, issuance and reorder of blank cheque leaflets
  • Prepared the periodic report on production and stock levels to the management
  • Ensured that cheque books are produced in line with Central Bank of Nigeria guidelines and standards
  • Motivate team members to driving high levels of performance
  • Enhanced process efficiency leading to minimized wastage of cheques leaflets.

Transactional Officer

Integrated Corporate Services Limited, Access Bank Plc, Simbiat Abiola
06.2008 - 12.2008
  • Job functions and responsibilities
  • Handled day to day transactions such as Cash and cheque withdrawal, Cash and cheque deposit, Bureau de change
  • Reconciliated Branch's general ledger accounts
  • Handled the Salary and payroll posting for our corporate clients
  • Monitored and coordinate the tax remittance for our customers
  • Processed local money transfers
  • Managed and reconciled internal general ledger accounts.

Oredo Local Government Benin
02.2007 - 02.2008
  • Functions and responsibilities
  • Prepared employees' payroll
  • Processed payment vouchers for contractors
  • Created and tracked invoices
  • Projects

Education

Developing a Competitive Strategy Programme -Lagos Business School -

Master's - business administration

University of Lagos
2023

BSc - Accounting

Babcock University
2013

Higher National Diploma - Banking and Finance

Federal Polytechnic Ede
Nigeria
2006

Ordinary National Diploma (OND) - Banking and Finance

Federal Polytechnic Ede
Nigeria
2004

Skills

  • SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
  • Proficiency in the use of System Applications and Products (SAP)
  • Proficiency in the use of computer applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Power point
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proficiency in the use of banking software such as SAP, Flexcube, Equinox and Finacle
  • Self -motivated and target-oriented
  • Cooperative and possess good interpersonal skills with ability to work in a team
  • Negotiating Skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Customer-focused

Accomplishments

  • Quality service:” Feelings, quality service, first time, Every time.” Organized by Access Bank plc in conjunction with service Quality institute, 2008
  • Technology Competence initiative organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in conjunction with A.J
  • Silicon financial information Technology consulting firm 2008
  • Lagos State E-payment system: organized by Alpha Beta Consulting Limited
  • 2008
  • Other post held
  • Secretary Asset Disposal Committee 2021 till date

Affiliations

Associate of Accounting Technicians (AAT). 2006 Associate of Chartered Accountant (ACA). 2010 Chartered International Procurement and Purchasing Manager (CIPPM). 2018 Chartered Purchasing Professional (CPP) 2018 Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply UK (Advanced Diploma stage) 2020 Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) 2021, Member Procurement & GRES department (ProGres) CSR committee 2019 -2020 Secretary, Procurement Committee Stanbic IBTC Bank, 2014 Member Diesel task Force Stanbic IBTC Bank, 2012 Member Audit Review Team 2010 Treasurer, WOTCLEF Club Benin (NYSC). 2008 Classified as Internal use only

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Quote

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Timeline

Head Fixed Assets, Finance &Administration

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
02.2021 - Current

Sourcing Specialist/Category Manager

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
08.2018 - 02.2021

Team Lead Buying Specialist

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
03.2015 - 07.2018

Procurement Officer

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
03.2012 - 03.2015

Team Lead

Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc
01.2009 - 03.2012

Transactional Officer

Integrated Corporate Services Limited, Access Bank Plc, Simbiat Abiola
06.2008 - 12.2008

Oredo Local Government Benin
02.2007 - 02.2008

Developing a Competitive Strategy Programme -Lagos Business School -

Master's - business administration

University of Lagos

BSc - Accounting

Babcock University

Higher National Diploma - Banking and Finance

Federal Polytechnic Ede

Ordinary National Diploma (OND) - Banking and Finance

Federal Polytechnic Ede

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