Abuja | Nigeria
Principal Consultant/ CEO | Sanrighton Consults Ltd
My Summary
Mr Abdulqadir Jeli Bello
• Work Experience – Over 30years broad experience in financial and banking industry, an experience which spans Audit, Tax advisory, Credit Control, Credit Risk Assessment and Enterprise Risk Management.
• Key Responsibilities – Executive Director-Risk Management, Executive Director-Business (North), Chief Credit Officer.
• Professional Leaning – Accountancy, Corporate Banking, Risk Management
• Key Strength – Corporate Governance, Business Development, Credit and Financial Analysis & Deal Structuring.
Mr. Bello retired as an Executive Director from the United Bank for Africa Plc. in 2013, with very robust working experience of about 30 years which started with an accountancy and audit internship at the Deloitte, Haskins & Sells/ Adetona, Isichei & Co Sokoto office between 1985 and 1988. He later joined the then Gamji Bank of Nigeria Plc., and rose to become the bank's Head of Credit Control and Policy and later Area Manager, North.
Mr. Bello joined United Bank of Africa PLC in 1996 as part of the turnaround team that shaped the bank's future post privatization when he served as Senior Manager, Credit Assessment. He was later a part of the team that set up the Risk Management structures and processes of United Bank of Africa PLC in 2003. He grew to become that bank's Chief Credit Officer and later Executive Director, Risk Management/ Chief Risk Officer. Abdulqadir Bello was also at different times the Executive Director in charge of UBA's business in the North.
Abdulqadir holds a B Sc in Accounting from the Bayero University Kano and became an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 1991 and was awarded a fellowship of the same institute in April 2015. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration. His key area of interest is to champion the enthronement of world class Enterprise Wide Risk Management structures, processes and culture in our local institutions that will constitute the foundation for financially strong and healthy institutions and a robust national economy.
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