UBA CFO, Finance Team Sweep Awards

United Bank for Africa Plc, pan-African financial services group, had an excellent showing at the maiden edition of Nigeria CFO awards when its Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) and the Finance Team emerged as double winners at the awards night in Lagos.

Ugo Nwaghodoh, UBA CFO, beat other nominees in the banking category, including Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan CFO, FirstBank, Stanley Amuchie, CFO Zenith Bank, Oluseyi Kumapayi, CFO Access Bank, and Oyinkan Adewale, ED/ Chief Financial Officer, Union Bank to emerge as the CFO of the year.

The Finance team of the year was also given to finance division of UBA for their exceptional handling of the bank’s finances in the last one year, which has resulted in the bank emerging as one of the top performers in the Nigerian banking industry.

Receiving the awards, Nwaghodoh thanked the organisers for the recognition, adding that he was proud to be working with the best finance team in the Nigerian banking industry. He dedicated the awards to his team that he said had worked tirelessly to ensure that the bank’s operations run smoothly.

Also speaking at the awards night, Akin Naphtal, chief executive officer of Instinct Business magazine, organisers of the CFO awards, explained that the awards is borne out of the need to recognise the achievements of financial executives who have been outstanding in their profession and have contributed in no small measure to the growth of their organisations and the economy at large.

Mr. Nwaghodoh, UBA’s GCFO is a seasoned financial analyst and accountant with about two decades experience spanning assurance, advisory, financial control, strategy and business transformation, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, business integration and project management. Prior to his appointment as Group Chief Finance Officer of UBA, he was at different times, Group Financial Controller, Group Chief Compliance Officer and Head – Performance Management in UBA. Before joining UBA in 2004, he had almost one decade experience with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.