{"id":188,"date":"2018-10-10T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=188"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:51:52","slug":"obinna-ernest-nzekwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/obinna-ernest-nzekwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Obinna Ernest Nzekwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Nigeria \u2013 Africa<br \/>\nThe Kent MBA 2018<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cI hope to go back to the classroom someday as a lecturer to train younger accountants.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am a financial reporting specialist with up-to-date knowledge of IFRS and its dynamism. With over four years of excellent financial reporting skills developed within a group with seven subsidiary companies.<\/p>\n<p>I am now seeking to grow my career in the Finance space, to a point where I can occupy the role of Finance Director in a large conglomerate. I also have a passion to achieve some international certifications in the Finance world like CFA, ACCA etc.<\/p>\n<p>When I am not working or studying, I enjoy playing or watching football and listening to classic music socialising with friends.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I graduated as the best student in the Accounting department during my undergraduate study and I am an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).<\/p>\n<p>I championed the pioneer financial statements audit of the company\/Group where I currently work. I have over four years of audit experience working with Deloitte Nigeria, with specialisation in the audit of financial institutions. Moving back to the financial services industry was a notable move, as the experiences gathered in the audit of several banks it gave my career a leap.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aspirations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I aspire to advance my career in Finance, becoming a Chief Finance Officer\/Finance Director in a large conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to go back to the classroom someday as a lecturer to train younger accountants, I also want to move into consultancy where I can consult for private and public-sector organisations and eventually try my hands in politics in my home country.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Invest in people, processes and effective internal controls, stick to the right business ethics and ethos, and have an effective reward system for employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>To find out more and apply for the Kent MBA at Kent Business School, visit <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/291\/kent-mba\">The Kent MBA<\/a><\/strong><strong> webpage.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria \u2013 Africa The Kent MBA 2018 \u201cI hope to go back to the classroom someday as a lecturer to train younger accountants.\u201d I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/obinna-ernest-nzekwe\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199953],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}