Business Development Officer
Business Development Officer
Summary of Qualification
4 plus years working in a customer focused environment with direct contact with customers.
8 years’ work experience in office administration.
Skilled in Accounting and Finance (Bank reconciliation, Account payables and receivables, and financial
statements drafting.
Great in analysing structured and unstructured data with excellent presentation skills
Ability to use regression models to analyze consumer behaviour and firm productivity
Experienced with business start-up and coaching students in business start-up.
2nd year MBA Student at Thompson Rivers University
Analyzing information and experienced preparing weekly financial analysis
Strong background in economic principles, business planning and financial management
Experienced with developing global and international business plans with project evidence.
Organization, attention to details and vendor relationship.
Proven record of strong command over all forms of English.
Self motivated business professional with entrepreneurial mind set.
Proven record of strong command over all forms of English.
Studied International Business at Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
Strong interpersonal and communicative skills to work efficiently in a collaborative team environment
Committed to building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Ability to accurately analyze information and deal with ambiguity
Experience working in a dynamic and challenging environment, and adaptable to changing priorities
Ability to multi-task effectively, with strong organizational and time management skills
Reflective and committed to continuous improvement and personal development
Education
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
Associate degree of Commerce and Business Administration. January 2013-July
2014(Graduated with First Class honors).
Bachelor’s degree in International Business and Marketing. January 2013–
April2015(Graduated with First Class honors).
Master of Business Administration (2nd Year). May 2020 – May 2021
Relevant Courses: Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, International Business, Financial Management
Bowen University Iwo, Nigeria.
BSc Hons. Chemistry November 2002 – May 2007 (Graduated with honors)
Relevant Courses: Statistics and Mathematics
Academic Research and Projects
Global Entrepreneurship group project
Goal was to build a business plan on how to export Canadian made local tea to the USA.
Applied strong business and financial experience in helping the team build a strong financial plan for
the business
Achieved and learnt various ways of entering a foreign market (FDI, directing exporting etc.)
International Marketing Plan for NRI Distribution (Kamloops) Group Project
Goal was to build an International marketing plan for NRI distribution Kamloops: went there and
interviewed and collected data needed from NRI office in Kamloops.
Applied Strong knowledge of SWOT and PESTEL analysis for both Kamloops Bc and Australia where
the company is trying to set up their warehouse.
Achieved a very strong international marketing plan for the firm and was given recognition also learnt
how to work as a team.
Class Project (Global Management) “Doing Business in China”
Led the project team in research and putting together data.
Used google online doc to keep track of team members contributions in real time.
Used references and sources like CANSIM, EY.COM and BC statistics
Work Experience
Sprott Shaw College Kamloops.” Business and Accounting Instructor” October 2019 to present
Instruct curriculum using pre-authorized Sprott Shaw approved materials.
Leading discussion periods, tutorials and seminar.
Marking exams, tests, and assign.
Spreadsheet engineering.
Helped in creating a database for laptop inventory that includes fields like makes, faulty or not and
programmed recently run.
Tests system changes and upgrades.
Office hours with students via web conferencing/phone
Attend staff meetings.
Organizes and responsible for instructor materials.
Distributes textbooks and materials at the beginning of the course.
Participates in grad function.
Defines daily objectives and begins with an overview of daily lesson plan.
Teach managerial accounting and responsible for its evaluation.
Teach MS excel.
Association for Reproductive Family and Health (NGO) (Director of Programs Office) “Researcher” April 2015-
Present. (Online Part time)
Collected data on Socio-economic factors and demography related to reproductive health in Nigeria
Finding statistical relationship between data collected.
Interpreted the statistical relationship between data collected.
Expressed result of data collected in graphs and charts.
Experienced in selecting research methodology, determining resource requirements, providing advice,
preparing reports and forwarding results to the manager for review.
Writing grant proposal for NGO.
Thompson Rivers Veneer Products, Canada. “Department Supervisor (Clean Up)” April 2015- February
2019
• Fill payroll spreadsheet of employees on the shift
• Oversee dispute between employees.
• Prepare work order reports.
• Recommend personnel actions like hiring
• Resolve work problems and recommend work actions to improve efficiency.
• Train staff in job duties, safety and company policies.
Thompson Rivers University, Canada “Research Associate “May 2015 – August 2015
• Analyzed data collected into specific groups and categories
• Expressed result of data collected in graphs and charts
• Finding statistical relationship between data collected.
• Interpreted the statistical relationship between data collected.
• Collected data using CANSIM (Canadian socio-economic information management system).
Victory Cabs International, Nigeria. “Financial and business Manager “December 2012 to November 2019.
Helped reconcile company’s accounting book against bank books
Helped the company to analysis, review and improve on existing business practice by creating new
routes for taxis to ply.
Used business analysis skills and tools like SWOT and PESTLE analysis, I helped the company to
gain fair advantage over competitors.
Used research results derived through primary research to help company improve on its
business practice
Helped in imputing and verifying data on Microsoft office suites and Sage 50
Helped to balance account.
Managed daily operational activities of drivers.
Excellent understanding of vehicle mechanical processes and maintenance.
Integrated Microfinance Bank, Ikeja, Nigeria. “Financial control officer “April 2008 – Dec 2012
• Developed and implemented efficient accounting, financial and operational systems.
• Experienced in preparing weekly financial report using the required module
• Helped bank and customers to identify and manage their risks to reduce the negative impact it can
have on them.
• Helped banks customers in the formulation of sound business practice so that their payments wont
default.
• Helped the bank in investment banking by creating and monitoring new products to help diversify the
banks investment.
• Provided customers and bank with analysis, review and improvement on their existing business
practices.
Sage 50 software Experience
Using sage 50 accounting software to record daily journal entries and perform bank reconciliation.
Used sage to record receivables including generating receipts and bank deposit.
Using the tax bar in the receivables and payables modules to set up GST and HST for purchases and
sales and remit to the remittance general.
Using sage to create accounts based on properties.
Decision Analysis and Modelling
• Be able to fix errors in spreadsheet (Spread sheet engineering)
• Predicting future using historical data (Time series), single and multiple regression.
• Building a simulation model from scratch (Creating, Modifying and analyzing models)
• Creating a discounted cash flow model, analyzing the model, and providing insights.
• Resource allocation and optimizing models (using excels solvers).
• How to build decision trees and analyze them.
• Review files to eliminate duplication of data.
• Group decision making using the AHP (Analytical hierarchy process) and Data envelopment analysis.
• building Dashboards used to summarize and communicate various performance metrics
• Finding data, extracting it, transforming it and cleaning and getting it ready for pivot table.
• Defining the situation and the clarifying the issue to address
• Sourcing data, extracting it and loading it into Excel
• Transforming or wrangling the data to prepare for pivot table analysis
• Constructing and applying a decision analysis (DEA) model
• Create a series of charts and other visualizations to support recommendations.
• Prepares source data for computer entry by compiling and sorting information.
Volunteer Experience
Voluntary Teaching, Ebonyi state, Nigeria “Tutor” April 2008 – August 2008
• Certificate of National service from the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
• Communicated effectively and addressed peculiar requirements of each student.
• Ensured students were adequately proficient in all forms of English
• Tutored less privileged student in preparing for their Senior Schools certificate exams
Volunteer Registry, TRU, Canada
• Helped in cleaning the kitchen where food was prepared.
• Helps Nigerian student to access transcript before applying to schools out of Nigeria and to Canada.
(June 2013 to Present)
• Joined the PIT Stop to prepare hot meal at the Kamloops United Church.
• Served and gave the guests a treat.
Big Little Science Centre, Kamloops “Volunteer” July - Present
• Helps in arranging tools and apparatuses.
• Helps in welcoming tourist and showing them around.
References
Adegoke Adeyemi
supervisor and colleague at Victory city general trading.
+1 908-630-8007 (USA)
email: [email protected]
Marty Tazelar
Director,
Sprott Shaw college,
Kamloops.
(250) 300-1372