Babatunde Oluwafemi Dada

I am a highly organized and self-driven individual, passionate about developing my career. My commitment can be gauged from the fact that I am an accredited holder of an MBA degree with Accounts specialization from University of Lagos.

I possess more than 14 years of experience working with diverse finance departments with multiple companies. I have gained an extensive insight within this field. My key accounting and financial competencies include, but are not limited to ensuring all revenues due to the company in the region are gotten, ensure all company invoices are duly signed, obtain all necessary documents needed to submit invoices, participate and report on all audit exercise, liaising with relevant tax authorities on the directive of head office, maintaining financial records of the region, managing budgets, risk assessment and non-routine request review, Engage in monthly Advance Bank reconciliation supported with bank statement but to mention a few.

In my current position as the IHS Regional Finance Specialist, I am accountable for carrying out a wide range of support for all finance departments in the head office.

During my career, I have gained a specialist’s understanding of financial instruments and accounting software and I have also been effective in explaining complex information in a comprehensible manner.

As a Regional Finance Specialist, I am an accomplished communicator, with excellent organizational, decision making, and time management skills and I have a proven track record of consistently meeting and regularly surpassing demanding performance goals with awards to show for brilliant performance.

Preparation of Maintenance Proforma Invoice (PFI) and Final invoice for Abuja Region.

Obtain all necessary documents needed to submit invoices.

Ensure all company invoices are duly signed.

Ensure all revenues due to the company in the region are gotten.

Participate and report on all audit exercise. 

Identify the need for non-routine maintenance work and provide detailed information on site status.  Follow up on non-routine maintenance work being carried out and ensure compliance with quality and schedule.

Monitor execution of non-routine Work in Progress in the region.

Civil work supervision and facilitation of shelter repairs.

Sign off Job Completion Certificate (JCC).

Support the Rollout team in Diesel purchase for RFI sites and Sites in riverine areas and ensure proper retirement is done in due time.

Adhere to the monthly calendar for providing support on all Shared Services Centre (SSC) related activities pertaining to regional finance, including transition of in-market activities, processes, and systems knowledge. 

Support the fleet department in fueling the OPV for mobility to sites.

Prepare and update daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports on routine maintenance and circulate to Senior Manager operation.

Random site visits and diesel dip.

Ensure all on-site snags are duly identified and fixed.

Managing budgets and risk assessment.

Engage in calculating sites profitability and loses.

Provide support on all internal audit and engage in quality audit and assets verification exercise with PWC Auditors.

Ensure compliance with applicable company policies, processes, and procedures by reviewing all other regional expense retirements, approval mails, supporting documents, raise query where necessary.

Review all regional bank reconciliations, check the correct cut-off dates, compare bank statement balance with GL bank ending balance before posting.

Follow-up with the regional team and ensure all reconciling items are closed on time for posting. 

Manage the regional bank account. 

Scrutinize all expense requests for accuracy and authenticity before disbursing cash. Obtain copies of original receipts for all monies expended at the region-level and submit retirement details on time in the prescribed format to head office. 

Update MT940 statement from the Bank daily to be uploaded on D360 for reconciliation by month end.

Engage in monthly Advance Bank reconciliation (ABR) supported with bank statement for Lagos Region.

Support the automation of workflows to maintain compliance and achieve efficiency. 

Support employees on raising cash advance, expense report, reimbursement, and retirement.

Follow up with staff to ensure they retire cash advances obtained. 

Prepare weekly Staff payment proposal sent to SSC in Dubai for cash advances and reimbursements.

Updating cash advance retirement template.

Preparation of Monthly cash advance/retirement reconciliation.

Collate list of cash advance retirement defaulters monthly for all entities for HR for deductions from salaries.

Follow up with HQ for final closure of retired advances so that employees can raise new Advances

Follow up on and resolve aged reports on unretired cash advances. 

Coordinate all ad hoc requests from user functions pertaining to use of regional floats. 

Carry out all finance and control-related duties assigned from head-office, including invoicing, tax regulating and audit, fixed asset management, treasury management, risk, and compliance. 

Master’s in business administration (MBA).

2008; University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

B.Sc. Accounting.

2003; University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

Chartered Institute of Financial and Investment Analysts, Nigeria. CIFIAN (Fellow) 2018.

Nigeria Institute of Management NIM (Chartered) Sept. 2004.
Certificate of Achievement; Dale Carnegie Course. July 2018

Certificate of Achievement; High Impact Presentations. Sept. 2018

Certificate of Participation in Intermediate /Advance Microsoft Excel Course. 2014