OLUGBENGA A. FALONA

Company Overview: HMD Global; a mobile phone and technology start-up with 7+ years in bringing back the Nokia nostalgia to over 120 countries. The company design, develop, manufacture, distribute, market and sells mobile devices and soft-lock software

Sub-Saharan Africa is a regional office within the Asia, Middle East & Africa market (AMEA), with about 30 key market core operations managed from Lagos, Nigeria, Nairobi, Kenya, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa office

• SSA senior leadership team member, with focus to drive Entrepreneurial culture, people development and multi-year business growth across key markets
• Provide SSA General Managers and Functional Leads timely business insights in making business decisions
• Responsible for financial leadership of HMD Global – SSA region: This includes overseeing financial and business performance (sales, revenue and people performance), Opex management, Internal controls and compliance
• Focused on SSA region overall revenue reporting, planning cycles, P&L management and investment planning and execution
• Engage with partner and distributor Finance leadership in ensuring win/win business partnership through investment management, credit and payment management
• The Chief Control officer to maintain, update and communicate internal policies to support business operations

• Recognized for driving month on month Smart Phone growth across West & East African markets within first 18 months of product launch through business partnerships and improved operational efficiencies via benchmarking, analyzing and effective partner negotiations
• Execution – have demonstrated successful completion of projects and learning circle initiatives critical in a start-up environment; by applying Change Management competencies developed in consulting work environment to ensure seamless business operations
• Transition more than four ERPs for Financial Reporting, Planning, Supply Chain and Logistics in a span of three years

• Company Overview: Microsoft is a technology company, it develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services
• The Nigerian business thrives with the sales of up-to-date Enterprise Agreements, consulting and provides technical after sales supports to ensure market growth and relevance
• Coordinate and lead the revenue analysis and story development for each monthly and quarterly review cycle – support the CFO, M&O lead and GM in their key deliverables including the preparation of insightful, concise commentaries and formal presentation of revenue results as required
• Reports directly to the subsidiary CFO and regional Business Controller, taking ownership for the overall revenue planning, reporting and insights processes within the subsidiary
• The oversight and coordination role of the revenue controller give it a unique left-to-right view of the business across all segments; with significant senior management exposure through close business partnership and executive support of the CFO, Marketing & Operations (M&O) lead and Country Managing Director
• Rated as top performer consistently; and awarded Microsoft Nigeria Finance MVP for year 2016
• Microsoft is a technology company, it develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services
• The Nigerian business thrives with the sales of up-to-date Enterprise Agreements, consulting and provides technical after sales supports to ensure market growth and relevance

• Responsible for end-to-end accounting, taxes and reporting of the subsidiary’s statutory financial statement in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS guidelines
• Manage employee spend management and the implementation of credit card migration for the subsidiary in more than 6 locations across Africa without disrupting business flow; and, developing new card guidelines in sync with global best practice and company policy
• Re-design Cash management reporting workflow, procedure, governance and structure; leading to significant drop in the occurrence of cash-out experiences at key moments

• Company Overview: The Company is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company helping clients in Nigeria become high-performance businesses to achieve sound and sustainable growth
• In the team that bagged the rare all-green COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Tradeway Commission) rating for the company for two consecutive years
• Managed renegotiation of vendor contracts in view of tax compliance
• Collaborate with global rewards and compensation team on annual plan review process to determine charge out rates
• Led the implementation of a procurement tool essential to manage over $4m spent for the local office annually
• Led the team that implemented the Nigerian GAAP to IFRS conversion for Accenture Nigeria
• Rated as top performer consistently
• The Company is a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company helping clients in Nigeria become high-performance businesses to achieve sound and sustainable growth

• Managed the deployment of automated Procurement and treasury tool for four countries
• Providing direction, and training of Business Process Outsourcing team to support local RTP process
• Monthly Tax reviews, filing and reporting to regulatory authority Withholding Tax, Value Added Tax and Annual Income Tax filing
• Co-ordinate Requisition to Pay, procure to pay and Record to Report process that includes – end to end vendor setup, online requisition management, approval threshold management, invoice review, approval and invoice payments
• Review documented Internal Controls in line with Finance procedures so as to ensure operating effectiveness of controls

• Initiated and implemented company’s end-to-end procurement process in line with global standard and policy; and also put in place standard procedure for local office Travel Management
• Review and approval of Vendor Invoices for payment in compliance with Organizational policies, best accounting practices and local regulations
• Responsible for vendor/subcontractor contract setup, account registration in ERP and maintenance
• Testing and Reporting of vendor payment process in compliance with designed Internal control
• Design and managing internal procurement process for effective vendor payment; and resources expense reporting/analysis
• Retained accurate data and prepared periodic financial statements and related schedules for fixed assets, initiated and monitored asset registration and numbering
• Monthly Fixed Assets reconciliation using Peachtree and SAP as tools for assets registration and management
• Analysis and reporting of Sub-Contractors and Vendor VAT/Withholding Tax Accounts
• Computation and reporting of Employee Project based Allowances and Reimbursable
• Monthly Employee vendor account reconciliation in line with Treasury statement
• Liaise with Tax Auditor & FIRS in Withholding Tax Certificate recovery
• Monthly review of Income and Expense Statements geared towards Accounting Year End reporting
• Reporting of Internal Control policy in adherence to Sarbanes Oxley

• Spearhead the reporting and billing of project expenses for a National Oil company of about $3.9 million for period of 10 months; with over 95% billed expense recovered
• Performed Project Management officer’s role in ensuring cost management for over a large project with over 100 resources traveling around 10 states of Nigeria
• Development of expense reporting and analysis tool consistent with client’s invoicing policy
• Design work plan for vendor reconciliation; lead team for reconciliation of over 2 year’s outstanding vendor account reconciliation in Abuja and Lagos

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