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SOWEMIMO BABAJIDE

Apata,Nigeria

Summary

An experienced information analysis/accountant with vast hands-on experience in business administration, financial management, business prospecting, information system security. I am self-motivated, teachable, insightful, problem solver with an aptitude for excellent customer service.

Professional project management specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Branch Operations Head

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
Ibadan, Oyo State
02.2022 - Current
  • Creating and maintaining healthy risk asset portfolio and deposit mix
  • Ensuring day-to-day administrative and clerical operations are done efficiently and in line with the bank's policies, interests and goals
  • Customer acquisition and efficient relationship management aimed at increasing liability generation
  • Balance sheet and portfolio management to increase the bank's revenue and profit
  • Managing all customers in my cabal to ensure that they all have excellent and satisfactory banking experiences with the organization., Ogbomosho Branch
  • Creating and maintaining healthy risk asset portfolio and deposit mix
  • Customer acquisition and efficient relationship management aimed at increasing liability generation
  • Balance sheet and portfolio management to increase the bank's revenue and profit
  • Managing all customers in my cabal to ensure that they all have excellent and satisfactory banking experiences with the organization.
  • Analyze and resolved complex resource management issues for optimised scheduling.
  • Maintained smooth-running business operations by delegating priorities to staff abilities.
  • Monitored health and safety measures for guaranteed compliance.

Head, Financial Transaction officer

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
Oko, Oyo State
02.2020 - 02.2022
  • Effective cash management to reduce insurance cost on cash holding against
    branch.
  • Minimal reduction of idle cash in the branch vault to enhance proper cash mix within region.
  • Prompt reconciliation of cash transactions to prevent distortion of records
  • Revenue improvement for the branch through availability of cash for the ATM
  • Improving customers' confidence by building customer centric environment
  • Managed marketing budgets with data and results-driven decision making.

Head Quick Service Point

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
Ogbomosho, Oyo State
04.2018 - 02.2020
  • Creating and maintaining healthy risk asset portfolio and deposit mix.
  • Customer acquisition and efficient relationship management aimed at increasing liability generation.
  • Balance sheet and portfolio management to increase the bank's revenue and profit.
  • Managing all customers in my cabal to ensure that they all have excellent and satisfactory banking experiences with the organization.
  • Handled queries and complaints responsibly and professionally, seeking mutually-beneficial resolutions for maintained customer satisfaction.
  • Provided first-class customer experiences through friendly, efficient and accurate services.

Head Financial Transaction Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Plc
Oko, Oyo State
02.2017 - 04.2018
  • Effective cash management to reduce insurance cost on cash holding against branch
  • Minimal reduction of idle cash in the branch vault to enhance proper cash mix within region.
  • Prompt reconciliation of cash transactions to prevent distortion of records
  • Revenue improvement for the branch through availability of cash for the ATM
  • Improving customers' confidence by building customer centric environment
  • Prepared month-end reports for both futures and foreign exchange.
  • Monitored daily corporate transactions for trade errors and performed corrective action.

Head Non Financial Transaction Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Plc
Ogbomosho, Oyo State
03.2014 - 02.2017
  • Acting in a supervisory role on all customer service request and obligations.
  • Display of empathy in a customer centric manner without prejudice to bank's stipulated policies and procedures
  • ·Prompt rendition of all statutory reports to appropriate government bodies and parastatals.
  • Vending of debit cards instant pins and all other one-time passwords for online transactions
  • Booking and terminations of all term deposits.
  • Oversee effective management and deployment all members of the team to forge strategic business alliances that will shoot up the profitability of the branch
  • Reconciled inconsistencies between front and back offices.

ATM Custodian

First bank of Nigeria Limited
Ogbomosho, Oyo State
12.2013 - 03.2014
  • Prompt response to all customers complain on ATM related issues like cash dispense error, POS transactions error and all other web related transactions.
  • Cross-selling of e-products to generate Non-interest income for the bank.


  • Ensure cash availability and maintenance of the automated teller

machines(ATM) to ensure better uptime.

Customer Front Desk Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
Ogbomosho, Oyo State
03.2013 - 12.2013
  • Resolving customer complaints and attending to customer inquiries.
  • Account opening, processing of standing instructions, processing of debit cards, cheque requisition and so on.
  • Acting as the face of the organization to all walk-in customers and prospects and ensuring that current customers
  • Maintained tidy reception area to provide visitors with positive first impression of company.
  • Automated office operations, managed client correspondence and supervised data communications.

Resident Auditor

Enterprise Bank Limited
Lagos, Nigeria
11.2008 - 05.2013
  • Ensure Policy/Procedure/Regulatory Compliance on transactions or activities initiated by or to the assigned branches;

· Build strong KYC compliance environment in the assigned business units

  • Ensure capturing of all KYC documentation into all customers' accounts in the Core Banking applications through the regular review of Account opening and documentation both on the file and on the system.
  • Daily Independent Call Over of all transactions within 24 hours of posting and where practicable online same day and as may be advised to you from time to time
  • Carry out other verifications as outlined in the Independent Verification Proof Chart of Internal Control.
  • Conducted verification inspections to verify implementation of corrective actions and minimise risks of future audit failures.
  • Prepared comprehensive audit reports, facilitating accurate measurement of audit findings against set KPIs.

Education

MBA, Masters - Business Administration (Finance

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Nigeria
06.2012 - 06.2014

Post Graduate Diploma - Accounting

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Nigeria
03.2009 - 04.2010

HND - Accounting

Moshood Abiola Polytechnic
03.2004 - 12.2006

Senior Secondary School Certificate - Senior Secondary School Certificate

Loyola College
Nigeria
09.1994 - 07.2000

Skills

  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • COBIT, FISCAM, NIST SP 800-Series, SSAE 18, SOX, SOC, COSO, HIPAA, OMB Circular A-123, ISO Standards, ACL and IDEA
  • Skills/Competencies
  • Strong Leadership and supervisory skills
  • Negotiation skills
  • Communication skills (written/oral)
  • Excellent people management skills
  • Strong networking, marketing and relationship management skills
  • Team building/conflict management skills
  • Reasoning and analytical skills
  • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite
  • Creative ability to think outside the box
  • Strong commitment to excellence and personal growth
  • Supply negotiation
  • Facility management
  • Financial risk analysis
  • Strategic planning
  • Reporting familiarity
  • Bank security expert
  • Familiar with account coding

Affiliations

Associate member, Institute of chartered Accountant of Nigeria(ACA) 2012Professional Member ISACA(CISA) 2022, Graduated with Upper Credit, in Accountancy Associate Member, Institute of chartered Accountant of Nigeria(ACA_ Professional Member of ISACA(CISA Certified)

Interests

Creative writing/Motivational Speaking Reading Avid fan of football

Languages

English
Advanced

Timeline

Branch Operations Head

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
02.2022 - Current

Head, Financial Transaction officer

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
02.2020 - 02.2022

Head Quick Service Point

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
04.2018 - 02.2020

Head Financial Transaction Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Plc
02.2017 - 04.2018

Head Non Financial Transaction Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Plc
03.2014 - 02.2017

ATM Custodian

First bank of Nigeria Limited
12.2013 - 03.2014

Customer Front Desk Officer

First Bank of Nigeria Limited
03.2013 - 12.2013

MBA, Masters - Business Administration (Finance

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
06.2012 - 06.2014

Post Graduate Diploma - Accounting

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
03.2009 - 04.2010

Resident Auditor

Enterprise Bank Limited
11.2008 - 05.2013

HND - Accounting

Moshood Abiola Polytechnic
03.2004 - 12.2006

Senior Secondary School Certificate - Senior Secondary School Certificate

Loyola College
09.1994 - 07.2000
SOWEMIMO BABAJIDE