Yingabvem Etienne Kewir, MBA

Experience

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  TOPROC Finance Plc (Start-up Micro Finance Institution)

  Dec 2007 - Nov 2008

  Chief Accountant

  - Managed the financial accounting and financial management teams across the network of branches - Assured high quality financial reporting and piloted financial performance - Drove the budgeting and forecasting agenda and overall realization of business targets - Maintained a strong control environment across P2P, O2C and R2R

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  Community Credit Company Plc

  Dec 2008 - Jun 2014

  Financial Controller

  - Financial Accounting, financial control, financial reporting, budget control and variance analysis.- Business strategy contributor resulting in double digit EBITDA growth.- Finance operations P2P, O2R, R2R with mastery in cost optimization.- Budgeting and budget control. - Tax returns, settlement and tax controls.- Statutory financial reporting to the banking commission COBAC (SESAME reports).

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  Viettel Telecom

  Jul 2014 - Dec 2016

  Accounts Payable Manager

  - Forecasting, budgeting and budget control.- Financial control, reconciliations and compliance with P2P, R2R, O2C and Treasury, - Financial modelling, analysis and financial reporting. - Business planning, performance review and evaluation.

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  Vodafone Cameroon

  Jan 2017 - Feb 2018

  - Business strategy formulation participant.- Financial reporting, management reporting pack preparation with high impact commentary and variance analysis.- Assessment and appraisals of new product offerings, marketing and sales activity impact assessments, pricing decisions, new investments and performance reporting of different revenue drivers.- Budgeting, planning and forecasting for P&L, Cash and CAPEX.- Driving business performance, P&L and cash through partnering.- Led Finance related transformation projects around ERP updates, reporting tools & implementation of new reporting standards Show less

  • Interim Finance Manager

    Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

  • Financial Planning and Reporting Manager

    Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
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  Vodacom Business Africa

  Mar 2018 - Oct 2019

  Senior Accounting Manager

  - Full mastery of IFRS & OHADA accounting standards.- Financial reporting & financial statements vertical & horizontal reviews.- Planning, budgeting & Forecasting P&L & BS- Tax returns, filing, tax audits and settlement of tax disputes.- Finance operations owner on P2P, R2R process compliance. - Project manager for finance projects around Financial Systems, ERP & reporting standards

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  Orange Cameroun

  Nov 2019 - now

  - Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting for P&L, Cash, CAPEX and KPIs. - Financial control and Reporting, Variance Analysis for P&L, KPIs, CAPEX.- Analysis, improvement levers, cost optimization initiatives and decision support.- Lead business partnering: strategic and operational support, monitoring the implementation of business strategy.- Evaluate business cases, build financial models and perform decision support analysis.- Develop BI dashboards for reporting automation and integration in Big Data to monitor and evaluate business performance and KPIs. Show less

  • Head of Financial Planning & Performance

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

    Nov 2019 - Mar 2024