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Nana Kwame Agyare

Accounting, Tax, and Process Improvement
Petaling Jaya

Summary

Results-driven Fellow Chartered Accountant with over seventeen years of multidisciplinary experience in audit, accounting, tax compliance, finance, and process improvement. Proven track record of delivering accurate reports and providing high-quality service. Possess an extensive understanding of financial reporting, taxation, and financial planning, ensuring compliance and driving strategic decision-making. A dedicated leader with a passion for leveraging automation and digitalization to optimize financial operations and enhance efficiency. Committed to continuous professional growth and advancement in the finance value chain.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Finance Process Manager | OS

Schlumberger PSS S/B
10.2023 - Current
  • Approve Balance Sheet Reconciliation.
  • Set priorities, plan, and organize actions for the assigned process.
  • Manage process delivery to ensure timely data input for business partners and first-time-right accounting operations with a focus on the quality of deliverables.
  • Act as the key contact for service delivery and be accountable for the performance of the team.
  • Maintain communication with internal and external stakeholders within the area of responsibility.
  • Contribute to process improvements in collaboration with the team's recommendations.
  • Make sure that process-related activity is performed seamlessly, value and volume are at target levels, business continuity is in place, and lessons are captured from control incidents.
  • Develop networks to drive best practices and standardization across the organization and keep a strong external perspective to understand technology solutions available for process improvement.
  • Monitor the team's training progress; encourage and provide the necessary tools for continuous development.
  • Mentor team members to ensure engagement and proficiency within the team.
  • Understand and comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

OS Process Lead

Schlumberger PSS S/B
12.2021 - 09.2023
  • Defines, designs, and maintains end-to-end processes, ensuring alignment with strategy and business objectives while ensuring that the processes help the business deliver the required performance.
  • Collaborates with the Value Stream Digital Owner to digitally enable the process and drive improvement.
  • Ensures that the relevant process training material exists and remains updated.
  • Lead multiple cross-functional and cross-department process improvement projects and initiatives.
  • Monitors and analyses process adoption and performance at the global level, collaborating with the Geomarket and PL Process Owners to identify and act on areas for improvement.
  • Collaborates with the PL Operating Model Integration Leads and OS-Performance organization to help ensure the processes remain aligned with business needs.
  • Approve Balance Sheet Reconciliation.
  • Communicate process improvement project status and metrics to stakeholders.
  • Implement actions to continuously reduce wasted time, money, and resources.
  • Alignment of standard work instructions to the “New Way of Working”.
  • Champion and facilitate in adoption of digital tools from the transformation process and the “New Way of Working”.
  • Developed automation tools to improve efficiency, eliminate waste and free up labour hours for other needs.

Statutory & Tax Compliance Manager

Schlumberger PSS S/B
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
07.2019 - 12.2021
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by building digital project monitoring tools and implementing engagement platforms for collaboration across departments on compliance and reporting priorities, functions, and common goals.
  • Cross-trained extended teams in allied Finance Hub Towers to maximize team agility and increase performance.
  • Implemented compliance to reporting process improvement initiatives within department.
  • Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on best practices, procedures, and performance strategies.
  • Managed Tax Analysts to perform periodic closings, maintained clean, accurate and accessible balance sheet notes and kept close eye on transaction updates throughout each quarter.
  • Managed team to prepare, review, and file on timely basis returns for corporate income tax, withholding taxes, value added tax, payroll related taxes and statutory deductions in accordance with applicable legislations within Sub-Saharan Africa region.

Statutory Accounting Manager

Schlumberger PSS S/B
11.2018 - 06.2019
  • Facilitated statutory audits in line with departmental procedures, working with internal managers to communicate periodic progress reports as well ensuring timely closure of audit and filing requirements IFRS, Portuguese GAAP, and French GAAP entities across Sub-Saharan Africa region.
  • Managed statutory compliance team to gathered financial information, prepared statutory packs, and closed fiscal books.
  • Supported change management by redefining process maps and standard work instructions, addressing impacts of new accounting processes, automation initiatives, and relationship with outsourced agent.
  • Implemented sustainable continuous team training on ERPs (SAP, Lawson, and Oracle), financial reporting standards (IFRS, Portuguese GAAP, and French GAAP), and accounting policies (US GAAP) to ensure adoption of efficient and compliant work practices within team.

Geomarket Tax Lead

Schlumberger PSS S/B
12.2016 - 10.2018
  • Managed team of employees, overseeing coaching/mentoring, training, and professional growth of employees.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by filing statutory reports, submitting all periodic reports, and resolving issues in timely and efficient manner.
  • Used coordination and planning skills to achieve compliance KPOs according to schedule and ensured that there were no audit over-runs.
  • Worked within applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
  • Worked with team of six analysts to achieve 100% statutory and CIT on-time filing compliance.

Geomarket Assistant Tax Manager

Schlumberger Seaco
02.2012 - 12.2016
  • Prepared internal and regulatory financial reports, balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
  • Prepared and reviewed tax returns for corporation incomes, withholding taxes, value added tax, payroll related taxes and statutory deductions in accordance with applicable legislation within West African sub-region.
  • Supported Financial Controller with special projects and additional job duties including new entities setup, closure of dormant entities, and financial planning simulations.
  • Assisted Tax Director with accounting and maintain appropriate backups for income tax provisions and contingencies for in line with US tax requirements and for International subsidiaries and branches.
  • Collaborated with Operations and Financial Controllers to comply with governing bodies and limit regulatory risks especially on foreign exchange and local content legislation.

Senior Audit Associate

KPMG
10.2007 - 01.2012
  • Assessed internal controls by identifying variances and deficiencies and recommending critical changes for clients across banking, mining, construction, manufacturing, airline, shipping and port operations, consumer market and entertainment industries.
  • Led extensive audit programs based upon prior approved audit plans to evaluate management of institutional activities including compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and foreign exchange controls for some clients.
  • Performed extensive assessments of assets, liabilities and equity to verify accuracy in financial reports.
  • Trained and mentored audit associates on best practices in audit standards and leveraging on CAATs and other analytical tools for efficient and impactful audits.
  • Managed strong client relationships to deliver exceptional service and maintain repeat business.
  • Experienced in conversion of Local GAAP to IFRS and subsequent reporting in IFRS for banking, mining, construction, manufacturing, airline, shipping and port operations, consumer market and entertainment industry players.
  • Used CaseWare and several ERPs (including SAP, Sage Accounting, varied banking ERPs) to generate financial statements and facilitate financial statement audit closing procedures.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Administration, Finance & Banking

University of Ghana
Legon, Accra, Ghana
09.2003 - 05.2007

Skills

Training and Development

Software

Power BI

MS Office 365

Oracle Finance BI

Tableau

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management

SAP ERP and Web Intelligence

Certification

Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana)

Interests

Reading, Gardening, Data Analytics & Visualization

Timeline

Finance Process Manager | OS

Schlumberger PSS S/B
10.2023 - Current

Certified Black Belt, Council of Six Sigma Certification and Aveta Business Institute

05-2023

OS Process Lead

Schlumberger PSS S/B
12.2021 - 09.2023

Statutory & Tax Compliance Manager

Schlumberger PSS S/B
07.2019 - 12.2021

Statutory Accounting Manager

Schlumberger PSS S/B
11.2018 - 06.2019

Geomarket Tax Lead

Schlumberger PSS S/B
12.2016 - 10.2018

Certified Tax Accountant, Certified International Tax Accountants (UK)

06-2015

Chartered Certified Tax Accountant, Chartered Institute of Certified Tax Accountants (Ghana)

06-2014

Geomarket Assistant Tax Manager

Schlumberger Seaco
02.2012 - 12.2016

Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana)

04-2011

Senior Audit Associate

KPMG
10.2007 - 01.2012

Bachelor of Science - Administration, Finance & Banking

University of Ghana
09.2003 - 05.2007

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