Bernard Ogabo (M.Sc, FCA)

Experience

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  University of Calabar International Demonstration Secondary School

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2013

  Subject Teacher

  •● Taught Financial Accounting to Senior Secondary Students● Taught Business Studies to Junior Secondary Students● Served as the Coordinator of extra-curricular activities from Marc 2011-● Won a competitive trip with Five of my students to the United States of America in April 2012 for a Youth Leadership Programme● Mentored 27 students to the student’s membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria with 6 of them qualifying so far as Professional Accountants.

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  CRSG/ICAN Study Centre Calabar

  Jan 2013 - Dec 2018

  Lecturer

  ● Co-taught Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting and Corporate Reporting to students● Served as head of FR faculty for the 2016 session and successfully planned and implemented the Faculty’s timetable and Lecture deliveries.● Produced the overall Best Graduating Student for Financial Reporting in May 2016 Nationwide with a score of 94%● Served in the Mock examination questions and scores review committee from 2013-2017● Participated in National students' special Projects committee post-examination review.● Contributed to the qualification of 225 Chartered Accountants as of the release of May 2018 results.● Mentored and referenced 78 students to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria students and Professional membership.● Achieved a minimum of 75% to as high as a 95% pass rate for every diet from 2013-May 2018. Show less

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  OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR- GENERAL, CALABAR, NIGERIA.

  Jul 2013 - Dec 2018

  Senior External Information Systems Auditor

  I was the team lead for the IT Audit team from 2013 to 2018. My team deployed technology and manual review procedures to ensure that adequate controls were in place for the protection of Information Assets as well as the evaluation of business continuity plans to test for adequacy with respect to benchmark systems downtime. We performed payroll audits using IDEA software and compared system configuration documentation with user requirements to ensure that they met the customers’ quality expectations.ACHIEVEMENTS:● Supervised the successful migration of payroll data from old to new systems while comparing outputs to ensure that the system was working as intended in the 2014 financial● Achieved payroll savings of £102,000 per month since August 2014 by discovering the wrong implementation of promotion benefits for Civil Servants in Cross River State.● Achieved 100% Payroll Audit per month by deploying the IDEA software.● Accomplished 6 Special fraud investigation assignments, achieving the recovery of a cumulative sum of £422,000● Led the successful implementation and review of the deployment and use of legacy tax software costing £650,000- a Government’s partnership programme for the digitization of tax collection in Cross River State, Nigeria in 2015 Show less

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  JOHN ETIM & CO CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA.

  May 2016 - Sept 2017

  Senior Auditor

  ● I led teams to Audit engagements. ● I reviewed Audit observations of team members.● I collated observations from the working papers for the writing of Audit report.● Participated in Entry and Exit meetings for all engagements

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  Thompson Obol & Co Chartered Accountants

  Oct 2017 - Jan 2020

  Assistant Audit Manager

  I coordinate the preparation of audit programmes, audit plans and the management of audit engagements adhering to relevant ISAs, IFRSs and other regulatory requirements. I supervise; train and mentor junior audit team members as well as review their working papers during audit assignments. Also, I provide insight to partners for clients’ advisory on tax and business development through research databases. I draft audit reports for all audit engagements for review by the managing partners.ACHIEVEMENTS:• Earned recognition for astute management of time and resources and achieved 15% average time saving on audit engagements from 2019 to date. • Achieved a performance rating of 97% from clients for the firm through consistent customer satisfaction Show less

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  Coventry University

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Volunteer Drop-in Seminar Tutor

  Provided voluntary tutorial in Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Advanced Management Accounting, Financial Risk management, and Econometric to Undergraduate and Master's degree students in the Faculty of Business and Law.

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  Superprof

  Sept 2019 - Nov 2023

  Lecturer in Accounting & Finance

  Provides a World-wide online paid tutorial to ACCA, ICAEW , Colleges and Universities students on Accounting and Finance modules.

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  Thompson Obol & Co Chartered Accountants

  Feb 2020 - now

  Audit Manager -External Audit

  Managing end to end Audit engagements in line with IFRS, ISAs, GAAP, IPSAs.

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  Mercia Group

  Apr 2024 - now

  Audit and Accounting Trainer - Students and Workshops