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LMI HOLDINGS LIMITEDCheif Financial Officer
Jun. 2024Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
LMI HOLDINGS LIMITEDGeneral Manager
Mar. 2024 - Jul. 2024Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Decorplast LimitedFinancial Business Controller
Mar. 2023 - Apr. 2024• Developed a rolling forecast budget for the business to ensure the business meets both it’s financial and production targets.
• Improved revenue by 20% due to highlighting key insights from the business.
• Set multiple KPI’s for all parts of the business to ensure that the team continues to improve it’s operational efficiency and sales.
• Designed daily, weekly and monthly reports providing insights on the state of the business and the recommended strategy moving ahead.
• Designed and led management meetings pointing out highlights on the state of the business and immediate issues to be addressed.
• Designed a long-term sale, financial and operations strategy for the firm based on the data collected and analyzed from the business.
• Implemented the use of tableau to visualize key data points for the business.
LMI HOLDINGS Head of Corporate Development and Treasurer (M&A)
Mar. 2019 - Apr. 2024London, England, United Kingdom• Conducted market research and led due diligence to build and strategically create a universe of 1000 potential viable acquisitions per transaction, which will then be shortlisted to 5 based on strategic and financial criteria.
• Originated, led and completed 5 industrial acquisitions with an EV averaging 15 – 20 million USD.
• Led integration for the newly acquired businesses with specific strategic guidance to prepare each businesses
achieve immediate revenue and cost synergies once newly acquired.
• Built and led an investment committee to review potential acquisitions and once approved presented these
opportunities to the board for further review.
• Structured the legal and financial portions of the LOI’s to potential acquisitions after pre-liminary DD.
• Originated and completed the acquisition of a solar company expected to generate 50MM USD in returns annually due to synergies with other portfolio businesses.
• Built and maintained a potential acquisition list of organizations/projects and built an internal origination, acquisition, and integration process for the business.
Goldman SachsClient implementation and Due diligence
Jul. 2017 - Mar. 2019London, England, United Kingdom• Conducted KYC onboarding on over 500 companies by relying on firm KYC and AML procedures to determine how prudent each company was in maintaining its financial and regulatory obligations.
• Managed all fixed income onboardings from MENA by taking into account aspects such as credit, risk, previous due-diligence and compliance in order to ultimately on-board over 200 clients for the firm. • Managed 150 clients by monitoring daily transactions in order to maintain up-to-date diligent KYC information.
data communicationsCorporate Development Manager
Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2017Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana• Initiated outreach and growth activities to potential clients by relying on technologically innovative sales channels to increase annual revenue by over 50%. • Sourced and implemented a business development partnership with Google by relying on deep dive research and corporate financial analysis which led to 15% incremental monthly cost savings for the firm.
• Created a financial model to determine the efficient pricing rate for our clients in order to increase profits.
• Maintained client relationships with multiple industrial clients in order to increase opportunity win rate by 15% from 20% to 35%.
• Implemented the use of a strategic framework and monitoring of key KPI’s for group portfolio businesses.
• Implemented a strategic initiative to change the scope of services provided in order to include I.O.T services.
• Implemented a strategic initiative to align portfolio internet services with trends in customer demand in order to increase revenue by relying on service provision analytical data and customer interviews/questionnaires.
• Provided strategic and financial guidance to all portfolio businesses in order to drive growth within businesses
Merchant LinkHuman Resources Intern
Feb. 2016 - Jun. 2016Silver Spring, Maryland, United States• Designed a quality feedback performance appraisal system that improved transparency and promote growth within the firm. • Worked with project management to complete a project that required coordinating over 500 shipments of goods to multiple locations. • Developed a policy guidebook for over 100 employees in Canada in order to ensure a smooth transition into the firm.
John Murphy Construction LtdCorporate Finance Analyst Intern
May. 2015 - Jul. 2015• Analysed financial statements to implement financially based strategic insights which led to a reduction in operational costs by 12%.
•Coordinated with department heads to gather insights in order to create 40% of the annual budget with recommendations to ensure the corporation achieved its financial objectives for the year. •Created financial models in order to value over 300 prospective acquisitions for the firm.
Career Vision Collegiates LLCCo-Founder
Aug. 2014 - Jul. 2016United StatesImplemented a strategic growth plan that ensured the firm expanded to over a 1000 users.
Led fundraising for the firm to ensure the continuous operational activities of the firm.
Drove innovation to ensure content provided by the platform was up to date.
Hired a team of employees whilst determining strategic growth directives for the firm.
Ghana International Bank Public Limited CompanyInternational trade and finance analyst
Jul. 2013 - Sep. 2013London, England, United Kingdom• Analysed cash flows in order to execute the completion of over 450 domestic and international trade transactions in a diligent manner. • Processed over a hundred international corporate purchases by analysing the costs associated to the transfer to ensure the bank maintained profits from these transactions.
• Generated 500,000 USD in revenue from fees for the bank.
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