MATHEW AYOADE ADEWALE

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define requirements for new initiatives.
• Developed and updated project plans to document objectives, technologies, schedules, and funding.
• Created project status presentations for delivery to customers or project personnel.
• Used control tools to update and monitor project schedules.
• Monitored performance metrics such as cost, timeline, quality control and customer satisfaction levels.
• Prepared status reports to communicate progress to stakeholders and management teams.
• Managed portfolio of projects to drive on-time deliverables within scope and budget.

Assisted in developing impactful business plans to guide strategic decision-making towards long-term goals.

• Provided strategic guidance for deploying IT-based Truck Transits management systems.
• Led the creation and coordination of IFRS-compliant forecast income statements.
• Oversaw current and prospective capital needs, periodically assessing financial objectives and policies.
• Among others, I managed enterprise risks sustainably.
• I raised the sum of US$2 million in debts and equity to fund the company’s untested projects successfully in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic.
• As the team chief strategist, I supported the board of directors by acting as the main advisor and strategist, providing needed support to the CEO, employees, and board on the identification of financial risk and the resolution of attendant issues.
• Communicate key information to the Board of Directors and other internal and external stakeholders regarding regulatory issues, marketplace needs, the competitive environment, business performance, and other pertinent issues.
• Examined business proposals from third parties to ensure suitability.
• Ensure the database of TTP is well protected and easily available to authorized users.
• Design and implement agreed strategies to ensure that information available is sustainable for the business of TTP.
• Champion strategies to implement mitigants for all enterprise risks, especially IT-related risks.
• Regularly contributed to the approval process of innovative IT strategies.
• Constantly determining organizational IT requirements with a view to designing solutions to bridge the gap(s).
• Manage all project administration: IT projects, construction projects, and strategic projects.
• Manage all projects from estimations, budgets, procurements, cash flows, milestones, contract negotiations, executions, commissioning, handover, and lessons learned (project database).
• Manage all subcontracts in relation to all company projects.

• I planned, directed, and conducted audits of accounting systems, procedures, financial statements, and operational processes.
• I applied the best practice methodology at all times.
• Constructing risk and control matrices.
• Identifying, managing, and reporting on corporate and enterprise-wide financial risks.
• Identifying, reviewing, and assessing corporate compliance with all systems of controls, financial and otherwise, of the company.
• Escalating issue of non-compliance with a recommendation to the Board of Directors.
• Attend and present a report to the audit or any other appropriate committee at the meetings of directors and shareholders.
• Providing practical advice and suggestions to organizations’ governing boards on matters concerning compliance with stock exchange listing rules, relevant legislation, and corporate practice.
• Providing sound reviews on equity management, debt management, securities, and tax planning issues to the management and the Board of Directors.
• Supporting Treasury and financial control on the interpretation of information on the financial statements, cost structures, and trading effectiveness of organizations.
• Devising, reorganizing, and establishing budgetary cost control, and other accounting systems, such as computer-based systems.
• Leading, conducting audits, and reviewing financial statements and reports for management, shareholders, and governing and statutory bodies.
• Assisting the team with the preparation of proposals.
• Assisting with the preparation and delivery of workshops.
• Identifying business development opportunities for the team.
• Authorized discounts and special actions to resolve customer disputes, and maintain satisfaction.
• Trained new team members in cash register operation, stock procedures, and customer service.

• I joined the great institution with the mandate to resolve the age-long customers' balances and to coordinate the preparation of a reliable road map to serve customers sustainably with a 24-month challenge.
• I resolved this problem with the team on the ground in 6 months and modeled acceptable procedures to drive business operations.
• I led in transforming the preparation of financial statements for the organization and its subsidiaries in line with IFRS: monthly, quarterly, biannual, and yearly.
• With the team, I led in monitoring the present and future capital requirements of the organization.
• I led the re-engineering of the import processes with a focus on reducing the working capital cycle and still achieving a zero stock-out situation.
• I managed a major strategic refocus by working with extensive teams in Sales, Operations, Information Technology, and Finance.
• I achieved strategic business growth and stability by constantly.
• I acted as the main advisor and strategist, providing needed support to the CEO, employees, and Board on the identification of financial risk and the resolution of attendant issues. In the process, I also supported in:
• Communicating key information to the Board of Directors and other internal and external stakeholders regarding regulatory issues, marketplace needs, the competitive environment, business performance, and other pertinent issues.
• Overseeing the adequacy and soundness of the organization’s financial structure.
• Managing budgetary processes to ensure all budgets adequately reflect periodic resource requirements and revenue estimates for the business.
• Recommending finance and accounting transactions for approval, and ensuring processes and procedures are effective and comply with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Managing the company’s assets and liabilities position to ensure current knowledge of the company’s cost, funds, and product pricing requirements.
• Managing all cost functions to ensure cost controllers are in line with approved estimates.
• Managing information technology architectures of the company across its business locations (Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Senegal).
• Manage and direct all issues relating to taxes and regulatory issues.
• Designing and agreeing on IT audit requirements with the Audits department and IT team.
• Managing all project administration: IT projects, construction projects, and strategic projects.
• Managing all projects from estimations, budgets, procurements, cash flows, milestones, contract negotiations, executions, commissioning, handover, and lessons learned (project database).
• Manage all subcontracts in relation to all company projects.
• Teamed with sales managers and sales consultants to create a positive atmosphere, resulting in maximum profitability and customer satisfaction.
• Identified interest rates and loan terms by reviewing and analyzing client credit.
• Addressed ways to improve internal control processes, and accounting procedures.

• Manage finance, ICT, and other projects in Nigeria.
• Liaise with external financial services organizations to ensure operations are running smoothly.
• Act as the main advisor and strategist, providing needed support to the headquarters and employees on the identification of financial risk and the resolution of attendant issues.
• Design and manage payroll for different clients and consultants.
• Communicate key information to the Head Office and other internal and external stakeholders regarding regulatory issues, marketplace needs, the competitive environment, business performance, and other pertinent issues.
• Oversee the adequacy and soundness of the organization’s financial structure in Nigeria.
• Manage budgetary processes to ensure all budgets adequately reflect periodic resource requirements, and revenue estimates for the business.
• Recommend finance and accounting transactions for approval, and ensure processes and procedures are effective and comply with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Manage the company’s assets and liabilities position to ensure current knowledge of the company’s cost of funds and product pricing requirements.
• Manage all cost functions to ensure cost controllers are in line with approved estimates.
• Ensure all taxes and other statutory deductions are adequately deducted and remitted.
• Ensure invoices are promptly raised and dispatched.
• Ensure all receivables are promptly recovered.
• Ensure all company offerings are properly costed and accounted for.
• Coordinate the information technology system of the company in Nigeria.
• Evaluate IT needs, and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Ensure adequate security is maintained over the company database, monitor performance to ensure there are fast responses to all users, ensure periodic maintenance of database plans, and review these plans to ensure the conceptual design is sustained. It must be sustainable at all times.
• Ensure the database design is not significantly altered without prior approval.
• Manage the WTS Nigeria database, and ensure users have adequate, but sufficient, access to information.
• Manage all project administration: IT projects, construction projects, and strategic projects.
• Manage all projects from estimations, budgets, procurements, cash flows, milestones, contract negotiations, executions, commissioning, handover, and lessons learned (project database).
• Manage all subcontracts in relation to all company projects.
• Compiled, interpreted, and verified crucial financial data, both actual and projected.
• Accomplished revenue and profitability goals by applying extensive knowledge of bank and credit union programs, as well as factors that produced the best terms.

• Establish and control the budget.
• Act as the main advisor and consultant to the projects team.
• Enforce financial discipline on projects to ensure that projects are within budget.
• Responsible for the preparation of timely, accurate, and complete project cost and revenue information and reports.
• Manage and monitor commitments on the projects.
• Reconciliation of project transactions.
• Manage all subcontracts in relation to all company projects.
• Preparation of the certificate of work done and variation order.
• Preparation of cost and/or revenue cash flow forecast.
• Ensure the maintenance of the database of financial data and applicable statistics.
• Initiate Project Invoices.
• Assist in the preparation of the final chapter of close-out reports.
• Major projects worked on: I achieved 100% cost below baseline, and 100% of margin above projection.
• Delta South Living Quarters: Offshore Installation of Living Structure.
• Sonam Development Project - Offshore Installation of Pipelines.
• Oso-QIT Development Project: Preliminary Appraisal of Gas Pipeline Project.
• Worked with customers to define and develop business cases for new products.
• Communicated changes in project scope and timelines to the proper stakeholders.

• Providing support in planning, directing, and conducting audits of accounting systems, procedures, financial statements, and operational processes.
• Providing support in identifying, managing, and reporting on corporate and enterprise-wide financial risks.
• Providing support in identifying, reviewing, and assessing corporate compliance with all systems of controls, financial and otherwise, of the company.
• Supporting the lead internal auditor in compiling issues of non-compliance for escalation, with recommendations to the Board of Directors.
• Attend and present the report to the audit or any other appropriate committee at the meetings of directors and shareholders.
• Providing practical advice and suggestions to organizations' governing boards on matters concerning compliance with stock exchange listing rules, relevant legislation, and corporate practice.
• Providing sound reviews on equity management, debt management, securities, and taxation planning issues to the management and the Board of Directors.
• Supporting Treasury and financial control on the interpretation of information on the financial statements, cost structures, and trading effectiveness of organizations.
• Devising, reorganizing, and establishing budgetary cost control, and other accounting systems, such as computer-based systems.
• Leading, conducting audits, and reviewing financial statements and reports for management, shareholders, and governing and statutory bodies.
• Evaluating the cost-effectiveness and risks of operational processes, activities, policies, and systems.
• Reporting to management on the existence and effectiveness of the system of internal controls.
• Establishing audit objectives, designing and implementing audit methodologies, processes, and audit report criteria.
• Manage budgetary processes to ensure all budgets adequately reflect periodic resource requirements, and revenue estimates for the business.
• Conducted thorough evaluations of financial control systems.
• Collaborated with management to address all major risks.
• Worked with external audit professionals, and prepared documentation of process evaluations.

• Manage accounts payable to ensure invoices are comparable with LPOs, and materials and services provided.
• Manage the invoicing of all jobs in conjunction with the Project Control Department, Cost Controller, and Project Managers.
• Manage account receivables and credit control management to ensure clients pay as and when due, and ensure amicable resolution where there are differences with clients, like Project Master Limited, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Delta Afrik Engineering, WECO Engineering Limited, Globester, Eiffel Nigeria Limited, and Mobil Producing Unlimited.
• Ensure proper reconciliation of all projects.
• Cash flow planning is essential to ensure the management of debt, receivables, and accounts payable for the funding of projects and the overall cost of project management.
• Liaise with all cost controllers to ensure invoices are issued on time, with the highest level of accuracy.
• Relieving the cost control manager and account manager in the event that the cost control manager or account manager is on leave.
• Handle all foreign payments and correspondences.
• Review all business contracts to recommend amendments to the management before the contract is concluded with prospective clients.
• Represent the Finance Department in all operational and business meetings with the clients.
• Handle all finance issues with clients like Mobil Producing Unlimited, Chevron Nigeria Limited, Delta Afrik Engineering, Seametric Engineering, Weco Engineering Limited, Dorman Long, Globestar, Pressure Control System Limited (VETCO), FMC Technologies Limited, and Eiffel Nigeria Limited.
• Manage all project administration: IT projects, construction projects, and strategic projects.
• Manage all projects from estimations, budgets, procurements, cash flows, milestones, contract negotiations, executions, commissioning, handover, and lessons learned (project database).
• Manage all subcontracts in relation to all company projects.
• Major projects worked on include Onshore, Total Nigeria Limited, Eiffel Nigeria Limited, and Aveon.
• Onshore - OAGM Onshore Assets Gas Management - Dibi and Olero CNL/Aveon;
• Onshore: Fabrication of Delta South Quarter’s Sub-Structures - CNL, WECO, Aveon.
• Onshore - Oyot Jacket, Manifold, & Piping - CNL/Aveon
• Onshore - SFDP1 - Project Masters Nigeria Limited / MPNU / Aveon.
• Onshore - SFDP 2 - Delta Afrik/MPNU/Aveon.
• Onshore - OSORE, 4th Compressor - Globestar/Aveon.
• Onshore - Bonga North West - FMC/Aveon
• Onshore - USAN deep waters DMA/MUDMATS - Saipem/Aveon.

• Review and redesign the company's whole systems of Controls—Financial, IT, and Productions.
• Sourcing funding for the company's operations.
• Recover excess bank charges to renegotiate company loans.
• Renegotiate indebtedness to third parties.
• Preparation of the company-wide budget and ensuring costs are disbursed in line with the approved budget.
• Manage the liquidity of the company to ensure continuity.
• Managing company-wide financial risks by evaluating the cost-effectiveness and risks of operational processes, activities, policies, and systems.
• Reviewing financial statements daily, weekly, monthly, and annually to identify risks that need to be mitigated.
• Managing stakeholder relationships, including government organizations, financial markets, corporate bankers, and all relevant areas within the company.
• Manages all tax matters, e.g., VAT, WHT, income tax, educational tax, and PAYE.
• Establish and manage the information technology architecture of the company.
• Design and implement sustainable IT infrastructures.
• Responsible for the installation and testing of all versions of the agreed and approved database management system.
• Maintain and synchronize the factory and office database management system to ensure all information is online in real time.
• Communicate key information to the Board of Directors and other internal and external stakeholders regarding regulatory issues, marketplace needs, the competitive environment, business performance, and other pertinent issues.

• Managing company-wide financial risks by evaluating the cost-effectiveness and risks of operational processes, activities, policies, and systems
• Reviewing financial statements daily, weekly, monthly, and annually to identify risks that need to be mitigated.
• Managing Assets and Liabilities Committee meetings.
• Generating bank-wide liabilities and funding optimum for the size of the company's operations.
• Supervising the reconciliation of bank statements.
• Managing external audits, CBN audits, and tax audits.
• Monitoring information on the financial standing, cost structures, and trading effectiveness of organizations to ensure enterprise risk is well managed.
• Overseeing all company activities related to debt management, investment portfolio, and funding options while delivering effective cash and liquidity management.
• Maintaining strong financial governance functions and an effective risk management process.
• Managing the company's financial analysis and modeling aspects of the long-term financial sustainability plan.
• Providing strategic and analytical advice to the Board of Directors on financial, economic, and governance issues.
• Leading, motivating, and developing the Financial Analysis and Treasury Management team.
• Managing stakeholder relationships, including government organizations, financial markets, corporate bankers, and all relevant areas within the company.
• Preparing and presenting submissions and updates to multiple internal and external committees, as well as the Executive Management.
• Design and develop sound financial plans and budgets for the bank.

• Managing end-to-end recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Managing Quality, WH&S, and Risk Compliance.
• Reviewing and implementing HR policies and procedures, and formulating an effective HR strategic plan.
• Developing and updating HR manuals and budgets.
• Providing ongoing advice to managers and clients, and keeping up to date with the latest HR legislation.
• Promoting teamwork, developing and maintaining positive work relations, and appropriate organizational culture.
• Ensure all training aligns with the intended purpose.
• Providing leadership in creating, managing, and evaluating human resource management strategies, policies, and plans to meet business needs.
• Providing support to other managers in applying sound recruitment and selection practices, and appropriate induction, training, and development programs.
• Managing staff performance.
• Creating and leading performance management systems to plan, appraise, and improve individual and team performance.
• Managing all union issues on behalf of the management.
• Ensure all redundancy and retrenchment issues are properly managed.
• Managing all staff resumption with the organization’s resources needed to support staff and the business.
• Managing Quality, WH&S, and Risk Compliance.
• Champion occupational health and safety programs, equal employment opportunity programs, and ensure compliance with related statutory requirements.

• Reconciliation of all four divisions of downstream marketing operations.
• Reconciliation of bank statements and inter-company accounts of all Oando’s subsidiaries.
• Manage all the loans and investment portfolio of Oando Plc for the Forex and Investment unit.
• Review of all charges and rates on all debt instruments, and correspondence with foreign suppliers.
• Negotiate credit facilities with banks to finance projects, and manage projects throughout their economic cycles.
• Negotiate investment terms with banks.
• Work capital to maximize shareholders' wealth, and total quality management, which I believe is the central focus of a forward-looking organization.
• Reconcile Oando balances with oil major marketers, like Mobil Nigeria Limited, Total Plc, and Texaco.
• Prepare a letter of credit (LC) and other documentary credits.

• Analyze customers' financial records.
• Package credit facilities and relationship management.
• Provide technical assistance and some sort of financial advisory services on loans and advances, and on investments, to customers.

• Providing support to network engineers.
• Assisting with the procurement of IT hardware.
• Providing support by assembling PCs (cloning was acceptable in Nigeria in the early 2000s).
• Assisting with planning hardware installation projects.
• Providing support for the installation of WAN/LAN.
• Submitted budget estimates, progress reports, and cost tracking reports.