Honeywell Nigeria appoints Rufai as director

An accountant and finance expert, Mr Sikiru Rufai, has been appointed into the board of Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.

A statement issued by the flour maker yesterday said Mr Rufai joined the board of directors of Honeywell as a non-executive director on December 13, 2017.

Mr Rufai is the Group Chief Finance Officer at Honeywell Group who, before joining Honeywell Group in 2005 as Group Head of Portfolio Management, had worked with United Bank of Africa Limited (now UBA Plc).

He also had a stint at Oyelami Soetan Adeleke and Co. (Chartered Accountants, Baker Tilly Nigeria), Profund Securities Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

At PwC, Mr Rufai was a pioneering staff and only Nigerian manager of the corporate finance and strategy group in Africa Central.

Rufai is a graduate of universities of Jos and Lagos, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees respectively.

He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and also that of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and the Certified Institute of Cost Management of Nigeria.

He is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and has over two decades of work experience in teaching, consulting, finance, strategy, business process restructuring, audit, training and human resource management.