9mobile appoints Phillips Oki as new CFO

mobile has appointed Phillips Oki as its new chief financial officer (CFO).

The company says Phillips Oki, who has already resumed duties, emerged through a meticulous process that sought to identify the best fit for the towering requirements of the critical position, given the new phase of the business as it moves to explore new grounds of success.

The new CFO brings to 9mobile over two decades of cognate work experience in functional areas across financial accounting and management, audit, business and project management, financial reporting, and budgeting.

With robust experience cutting across private and public sectors, including the academia, Oki possesses a rare blend of invaluable insights and working knowledge in the vast field of finance. Prior to joining 9mobile, Oki’s career progressed steadily over time across organisations where he played strategic roles resolving challenges innovatively andcreatingcommendablesolutions.

From a successful audit role at KPMG Nigeria and consulting experience with Price Water Coopers (PWC), he joined Royal Marchant Bank and moved on to other organizations including Pepsico International, TBIC Nigeria Ltd and Babcock University.

He joined Visafone Communication Ltd from 2007 to 2015 as Financial Controller where he gained extensive experience in Treasury, Commercial, Reporting and Planning operations.

An Economist and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (FCA), Oki is an astute project manager having delivered projects across multidisciplinary organisations like Adam Smith International, UK, Departmentforinternationaldevelopment (DFID), UK and Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Nigeria.