Uche Agorua

Experience

• 

  Fedex Red Star Express Plc

  Jul 2010 - Sept 2010

  Business Development Assistant

  • Researched the food & beverage sector to identify haulage opportunities and key success drivers to deliver top of the class transportation services.

• 

  Procter & Gamble

  Sept 2011 - Jan 2016

  • Designed, led and executed a project which delivered >$2Million Savings on Plant overhead cost with PS leaders’ support.• Co-led loss elimination exercise leading to the delivery of > $2Million Savings on detergent business.• Led cost bench-marking analysis vs competition, identifying >$3Million opportunities to reduce production cost and improve shareholder returns.• Organized and delivered training to the manufacturing team which built their budget management capability. • Developed financial reports and models to enable manufacturing team understand cost drivers and trends, enabling the right, and timely actions to reduce plant spend.• Led and ensured all Financial reports and budgets are delivered on time, with the right quality.• Led and delivered financial Analysis (NPV) to ensure all investments decisions pay out prior to investing.• Actuals and Variance analysis and reconciliation. Show less • Developed financial models which aided expansion into four markets in West Africa.• Led annual financial planning for 7 major brands across Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroun, Sierra-Leone, Ivory Coast, Congo, Gabon and Benin in line with Share growth and profitability targets for each business and country.• Led quarterly business forecast delivering forecast accuracy of >97%.• Delivered macro-economic analysis to the leadership team, leading to better understanding of business outlook and a review of revenue commitment to the region.• Delivered a five year revenue glide path to deliver regionally deployed brand gross margin targets.• Led competitive bench-marking, identifying opportunities to enhance the competitiveness of P&G brands.• Led strategic revenue improvement by driving sales activity focused on higher revenue products. • Coordinated local and regional alignment to address critical business issues such as pricing, profitability margins, devaluation, etc. Show less

  • Plant Finance Manager

    Oct 2014 - Jan 2016

  • Financial Analyst-Product Supply

    Nov 2013 - Sept 2014

  • Financial Analyst-Commercial Operations

    Sept 2011 - Oct 2013
• 

  Procter & Gamble Ghana

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  Country Finance Manager

  Finance Manager for the start up of P&G business in Ghana. I led cash management ensuring the business was cash sufficient, led cost savings, delivering more than 40% savings over two years.

• 

  Procter & Gamble

  Feb 2020 - Jul 2022

  Fraud Investigator EIMEA
• 

  Procter & Gamble Nigeria

  Aug 2022 - now

  CFO