DAVID ABEKU EVANS-AMOAH
Accra
Summary
Results-driven leader with extensive experience in project management and financial oversight. Proven ability to guide teams in delivering complex projects on time and within budget while enhancing compliance and operational efficiency. Committed to leveraging financial analysis and strategic planning skills to advance organizational objectives.
Overview
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Certification
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22
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Lead
STINERI MEDICAL WASTE SOLUTION
ACCRA
02.2024 - Current
- Led project teams and technicians to implement waste management solutions and installation of medical waste processing facilities at Accra rigional hospital,37 military hospital and Nuguchi reserch instituite in ghana
- Led project teams and technicians to implement waste management solutions and installation of medical waste processing facilities at Accra Regional hospital,37 military hospital and Nuguchi Research Institute in ghana
- Developed project plans, defining scope, resources, and timelines for successful execution.
- Oversaw integration of new technologies into waste disposal processes, enhancing operational effectiveness and compliance with safety standards.
- Identified, tracked and resolved critical path issues.
- Oversaw the integration of new technologies into waste disposal processes.
- Developed training programs for staff on medical waste handling procedures.
- Reviewed technical documents such as design specifications, test plans, user manuals.
- Mentored junior project managers by sharing best practices for project delivery, fostering development and improving team capabilities.
Property Manager
Private property ownership
Accra
09.2019 - Current
- Lease Management: Manage lease agreements, including renewals, terminations, and rent collection, Drafting of lease agreement, outstanding rent recovery ,And introduction of KyC.for prospective clients
- Financial Management: Prepare budgets, track expenses, and manage property-related financial records. Using my expertise in accounting and finance
- Lease Management: Managed lease agreements, including renewals, terminations, and rent collection, drafted lease agreements, recovered outstanding rent, and introduced KYC for prospective clients.
- Financial Management: Prepared budgets, tracked expenses, and managed property-related financial records, leveraging expertise in accounting and finance.
- Marketing: Advertised available properties to attract potential tenants and conducted property showings, researched and designed agent portfolio, and collaborated with Ghana Real Estate Association for online advertisements.
- Performed routine inspections to ensure adherence to safety standards and regulations.: Conduct regular property inspections to ensure compliance with safety and health regulations. Working with EPA and the Ghana fire service.
- Ensured property compliance with local laws and regulations, including tax and rent control.: Ensure that the property complies with local laws and regulations, including property rate and personal income tax as well as rent control regulations.
- Maintained accurate records of tenant information and maintenance activities for effective management.: Maintain accurate records of tenant information, maintenance activities, and financial transactions.
Advisory Consultant
Stineri Medical Waste Solutions
Accra
09.2019 - Current
- Market Analysis: Conducting research to identify new market opportunities, trends, and competitors within the medical waste management industry in Ghana.
- Business Development: Recommended strategies that expanded client base, enhanced service offerings, and facilitated entry into new regions.
- Regulatory Compliance: Advising on adherence to local and state regulations related to medical waste handling, treatment, and disposal (such as EPA,HEFRA etc.).
- Process Optimization: Reviewing and recommending improvements in collection, treatment, and disposal processes to ensure efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with regulations.
- Supply Chain Management: Analyzing supply chain operations, optimizing logistics for waste collection, and ensuring a smooth flow of materials and services.
- Regulatory Compliance: Advising on adherence to local and state regulations related to medical waste handling, treatment, and disposal (such as EPA,HEFRA etc.).
- Risk Assessment: Assisting in Conducting risk assessment with the team related to waste handling, transport, and storage to ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Cost Reduction Strategies: Identified opportunities that optimized resource allocation, improved waste treatment efficiency, and streamlined operations.
- Grants: Assisting in the application for grants by meeting all conditions and timely deliverables.
- Technology Integration: Recommending and helping implement new technologies (e.g., tracking systems, waste treatment technologies) that improve efficiency, safety, and compliance.
- Data Analysis: Using data analytics to monitor operational performance, identify inefficiencies, and suggest improvements.
- Staff Training: Advising on and assisting in the development of training programs for employees to ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
- Client Education: Offering educational services to clients on proper medical waste handling and disposal to reduce risk and liability.
- Client Education: Delivered educational services to clients on proper medical waste handling and disposal, minimizing risk and liability.
Financial Security Advisor
HOLLARD LIFE INSURANCE
Accra
09.2018 - 09.2019
- Needs Analysis: Meeting with clients to assess their financial situation, goals, and risks, identifying needs such as life insurance and retirement savings, or estate planning.
- Financial Goal Setting: Helping clients define short-term and long-term financial objectives, such as retirement income, children's education funds, or wealth protection.
- Insurance Products: Recommending appropriate insurance products (such as life, health, disability, or long-term care insurance) to mitigate financial risks and provide security.
- Policy Sales: Presenting insurance policy options, benefits, and terms to clients, and helping them select the best options to fit their financial security needs.
- Ongoing Client Support: Reviewed financial plans regularly with clients, adjusting strategies based on changing circumstances (e.g., job changes, family growth) to enhance financial security.
- Client Retention: Offered continuous support and proactive risk management advice to clients, ensuring high satisfaction and loyalty.
- Risk Evaluation: Assessing the financial risks that clients face, such as loss of income, healthcare costs, or premature death, and recommending ways to mitigate these risks through appropriate insurance products.
- Insurance Gap Analysis: Identifying gaps in existing insurance coverage and advising clients on how to enhance their protection.
- Adhering to Regulations: Ensuring all financial and insurance advice complies with industry standards, legal requirements, and regulatory guidelines (such as those set by the Hollard life and national insurance commission or other insurance regulators).
- Cross-Selling Opportunities: Identified and presented additional services or products to existing clients, enhancing their insurance coverage or investment portfolios.
- Policy Claims: Assisting clients or beneficiaries with the claims process, guiding them through paperwork and ensuring they receive the benefits from their policies.
- Lead Generation: Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities by reaching out to potential clients through calling, networking events, or referrals.
- Sales Goals: Meeting sales targets by developing new client relationships and expanding the customer base through strategic prospecting.
Account Bookkeeping Consultant
Freelance/Self Employed
Accra
10.2016 - 09.2018
- Loan Documentation: Assisting market women in organizing their financial records to apply for microloans or small business financing, ensuring they meet the requirements of lenders.
- Loan Repayment Planning: Assisting in creating structured plans for repaying business loans or other forms of credit, ensuring they maintain a good credit standing.
- Tax Filing Assistance: Helping them prepare and file tax returns (flat-rate) or ensure they are compliant with personal income tax, often simplifying the process by organizing records.
- Budget Creation: Developed practical budgets with clients to reflect income and expenditure patterns, enhancing understanding of cash flow and future business planning.
- Developed savings plans to help clients prepare for unexpected expenses and invest in their business.: Encouraging the development of savings plans for unexpected expenses, reinvestment in their business, or personal financial security.
- Taught market women effective inventory management techniques to track purchases and sales.: Teaching market women how to keep track of inventory (goods purchased, goods sold, and remaining stock) to ensure they are buying and selling efficiently and without losses.
- Assisted clients in analyzing inventory costs to determine effective pricing strategies.: Helping them understand the costs of inventory and how to price their products to cover costs and earn a profit.
- Educated market women on local tax regulations to ensure compliance with legal requirements.: Educating market women on any local tax requirements they may face, such as small business levies or income tax, and guiding them on how to comply.
- Cost Analysis: Helping them understand the costs of inventory and how to price their products to cover costs and earn a profit.
- Stock Control: Teaching market women how to keep track of inventory (goods purchased, goods sold, and remaining stock) to ensure they are buying and selling efficiently and without losses.
- Ledger Maintenance: Assisting with the creation and maintenance of ledgers for tracking income and expenses, even in a simple, cash-based business environment.
- Transaction Recording: Helping them organize and record every business transaction systematically (e.g., goods sold, rent, transportation costs) to ensure accurate records.
- Assisted market women in organizing financial documents for microloan applications.: Assisting market women in organizing their financial records to apply for microloans or small business financing, ensuring they meet the requirements of lenders.
- Taught clients how to effectively manage credit with suppliers to maintain good relationships.: Teaching them how to properly manage credit from suppliers, ensuring they pay on time and avoid falling into bad debt.
- Guided market women in developing strategies to repay loans without harming their financial stability.: Assisting in creating structured plans for repaying business loans or other forms of credit, ensuring they maintain a good credit standing.
- Provided personalized financial advice to individual clients for better business management.: Providing personalized advice and hands-on support for individual market women on managing their business finances.
Senior Finance Officer/ Compliance
Express Funds Intl
Accra
11.2007 - 10.2016
- Financial Oversight: Overseeing the company's financial operations, including managing cash flows, budgeting, and ensuring that all remittance transactions are properly accounted for.
- Financial Reporting: Preparing and presenting regular financial reports to senior management and stakeholders, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow analysis.
- Reconciliation: Conducting regular bank and account reconciliations to ensure that all transactions are accurately reflected in the company's financial systems.
- Audit Coordination: Liaising with external auditors to ensure accurate financial audits and compliance with accounting standards.
- Budget Development: Collaborating with management to create and monitor annual budgets, ensuring that the company's financial resources are allocated effectively.
- Forecasting: Developing financial forecasts and projections to guide long-term strategic planning and business decisions, taking into account market trends and regulatory impacts.
- Expense Management: Monitoring and controlling expenditures to ensure they are within budget and align with the company's financial objectives.
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance: Ensuring the company adheres to AML laws, which include monitoring, detecting, and reporting suspicious activities in financial transactions.
- Know Your Customer (KYC): Overseeing KYC procedures to verify the identity of customers, ensuring the remittance company does not facilitate illegal activities like money laundering or terrorist financing.
- Reporting to Regulators: Preparing and submitting regulatory reports to relevant authorities such as central banks, financial intelligence units (FIUs), or financial regulators. This may include suspicious activity reports (SARs) or currency transaction reports (CTRs).
- Sanctions and Blacklist Screening: Implementing policies to ensure transactions do not involve sanctioned individuals, entities, or countries, in compliance with global sanctions lists (e.g., GIABA, EU sanctions).
- Internal Controls: Designing and overseeing the implementation of internal control systems to protect the company's assets, prevent fraud, and ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Transaction Review: Implementing systems and processes to monitor transactions in real-time, detecting unusual patterns or activities that could indicate fraud or money laundering.
- Fraud Investigations: Leading or supporting investigations into potentially fraudulent transactions, working with the legal or compliance team to resolve issues.
- AML Software Management: Overseeing the operation of AML software used to screen and monitor transactions, ensuring it is up-to-date and effective in detecting high-risk activities.
- Policy Development: Drafting and updating compliance policies to reflect new regulatory requirements, changes in the business environment, or updates in international standards.
- Training and Awareness: Conducting regular training sessions for staff on compliance topics such as AML, KYC, fraud prevention, and risk management.
- Compliance Audits: Organizing internal compliance audits to ensure all business processes align with regulations, and addressing any gaps or weaknesses.
- Currency Exchange Monitoring: Managing and monitoring foreign exchange (FX) transactions, ensuring that all cross-border remittance services comply with local and international regulations.
- Correspondent Banking Relations: Working closely with correspondent banks or financial institutions that handle cross-border payments, ensuring compliance with their regulations and reporting requirements.
Accounts Officer
UPTIMUM & HEVANS CONSULT
Accra
01.2005 - 10.2007
- Preparation of final reports to management.
- Preparation and payment of statutory expenses.(SNNIT, PAYEE etc.)
- Training for new stuff in the account office.
- Monitoring and ensuring controls have been followed in operations.
- Reconciliation of accounts.
- Preparation of payment vouchers.
- Extraction of trial balance and bank reconciliation.
- Keeping and maintenance of fixed asset register.
- Petty cash.
Education
MBA DEGREE -
K.N.U.S.T(ACCRA BUSINESS SCHOOL)
ACCRA, GHANA09-2024
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ACCOUNTING DEGREE -
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST ( ETI)
ACCRA, GHANA12-2013
DIPLOMA -
ACADEMY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ACCRA12-2005
Skills
- Leadership
- Team player
- Adaptability & Innovation
- Business strategist
- Excellent communication (oral and written)
- Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking
- Client Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning & Decision Making
- Project management
- Budget control
- Cost management
- Scope management
- Collaborative mindset
Certification
- National Service Certificate
- Introduction to Securities - Ghana Stock Exchange
- Fundamentals to Financial Markets - Ghana Stock Exchange
Accomplishments
- As a coordinating officer for the Apex Rural Banks at Express Funds, I was able to bring on board eight new rural banks as part of our payment outlet, as well as sign an agreement and develop operational pathways with Ghana Post as pay partners in 2008 in ghana.
- I was awarded a promotion to the Finance Department as an Accounts Officer, I was able to restructure the record-keeping process and make periodic filing of documents a part of the department's duties.
- I supervised the finance team of the company in the 2012 and 2013 financial year audit assessment of the Bank of Ghana successfully in the absence of a Financial Director.
- I was the coordinating officer for the National Risk Assessment 2014, representing the remittance institutions in Ghana on the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing working with the financial intelligence center (FIC) and the world bank.
- I successfully delivered projects working with various teams on the installation of medical waste management facilities in regional hospitals in ghana on time and within budget, improving overall project efficiency by implementing streamlined processes.
- I established effective communication channels with stakeholders, resulting in an increase in stakeholder satisfaction.
- I developed a risk management plan that reduced potential project risks.
- I implemented cost-saving initiatives that reduced operational expenses by enhancing overall profitability.
Timeline
Project Lead
STINERI MEDICAL WASTE SOLUTION
02.2024 - Current
Property Manager
Private property ownership
09.2019 - Current
Advisory Consultant
Stineri Medical Waste Solutions
09.2019 - Current
Financial Security Advisor
HOLLARD LIFE INSURANCE
09.2018 - 09.2019
Account Bookkeeping Consultant
Freelance/Self Employed
10.2016 - 09.2018
Senior Finance Officer/ Compliance
Express Funds Intl
11.2007 - 10.2016
Accounts Officer
UPTIMUM & HEVANS CONSULT
01.2005 - 10.2007
MBA DEGREE -
K.N.U.S.T(ACCRA BUSINESS SCHOOL)
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ACCOUNTING DEGREE -
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST ( ETI)
DIPLOMA -
ACADEMY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION