Ade Ahmadu linkedin.com/in/adeahmadu
Aqsa Ahmed linkedin.com/in/aqsa-ahmed
■ Career history: Legal Project Manager, Meta, UK Finance Transformation Programme Manager, GSK, UK Project Manager, Anglo American, UK Project Manager, Barclays, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, International Banking and Finance, London Metropolitan University, UK BA (Hons), Media and Cultural Studies & Business, Kingston University, UK
■ Career history: Senior Global FP&A Specialist, Collins Aerospace, UK Operational Finance Business Partner, Collins Aerospace, UK Qualified Financial Accountant, Collins Aerospace, UK Financial Reporting and Tax Analyst, Collins Aerospace, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
ACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Finance, Coventry University, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native) Urdu (native) French (basic)
English (native) Yoruba (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Delivered and implemented a centralisation project, worth more than £40 million, to move Sarbanes-Oxley controls testing from over 75 local markets to the Finance Risk Management & Controls (FRMC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the UK, outsourcing the testing to a third party. Programme managed a change and finance transformation portfolio (more than £50 million) to centralise all financial services, including P2P, O2C and R2R. Performed activities from local markets to a central hub for three regions: APAC, LATAM, and the Americas during a demerger. Project managed a project (worth more than £120 million) for over 120,000 accounts within the ‘Collections & Recoveries’ department that incorrectly kept a credit balance. Corrected the business-wide error to remediate customers back to the correct position.
■ Career achievements: Initiated ERG programmes across the business to encourage diversity and raise awareness of cultural differences. The innovation was implemented to further foster an inclusive work environment and build a support system that aligns company goals with wider culture. Co-ordinated cost reduction programmes across multiple departments within the business unit to further sustain and support reduction in overhead expenses. Succeeded in exceeding targets with costs being cut by over 10% for a US$26 billion revenue generating organisation. Redesigned cash forecasting models to further enhance effective financial performance against budget. The initiative improved financial results, consistently closing out variance between actual and forecast data by only 10%, comparative to large fluctuations previously recorded.
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