CFY PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Partner
- Associate Partner, CFY Partners, the Gambia
Alieu Awe is an associate partner at CFY Partners, The Gambia .He is a fellow of Association of Certified Chartered Accountant Fellow (FCCA) and MBA Candidate and also a member of the Gambia Institute of Chartered Accountant (GICA) with impressive multi-country leadership history and demonstrated track record for providing strategic financial direction, launching enterprise-wide operational control processes, increasing reporting/compliance integrity, and reducing corporate liability and risk.
Until recently , Alieu Awe was the Director of Finance & Administration for Sub-Saharan Africa for Global voice Group, South Africa, Overseeing finance and administration operations, training, motivating, and supervising 10 Africa-based country directors, implementing operational procedures and protocols, and assuring the financial viability, taxation, and labor-law regulatory compliance of 10 international sites.
Alieu's experiences and exposure is also credited with wealth of knowledge and understanding of the Gambian business environment working in the financial institutions. He has worked at Ecobank, Gambia and Guaranty Trust Bank as Chief Finance Officer & Head of Business and Group Head of Financial Control respectively
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Partner, Assurance Services
Daniel is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience in assurance, financial and project management services. He is a member of ICAG, Liberia Institute of Certified Public Accountants (LICPA) a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) with an MBA in Project Management from the University of Ghana Business School.
He is the lead partner for CFY Partners Assurance services. Prior to his partnership with CFY Partners, Daniel was the Managing Partner of DeTris Consult, a licenced accounting firm with the ICAG offering the full range of accounting services. Daniel was also formerly the Head of Internal Audit unit of the West African Gas Pipeline Project (WAPCo) responsible for reviewing project activities across Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. Daniel worked as the head of the Final Accounts Department of Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited.
Daniel had previously been a manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers providing assurance services to top Ghanaian companies and MNCs. He has also been involved in various financial management projects and audit reviews in Ghana, Liberia and other West African countries including:
Office of Financial Management of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia;
SSNIT, Unilever, Ghana Commercial Bank , Various audits of SMEs; and
Information Systems Audit engagements for UBA Bank, and National Trust Holding Company (NTHC)
Job Titles:
- Audit Associate, CFY Partners, the Gambia
Fatoumatta Jallow is an intern in our firm experience in audit and assurance services. Fatoumatta Jallow holds a degree from Marshall University. She has been a team member in numerous audit and assurance services to clients in diverse operations including:
Spinal Clinic Limited
Coffey Management Consultant
M and B Agriculture Service
FATCA review for Enterprise Group
JDC Micro Finance
Finlite Company Limited
Her role in the firm includes the following:
Prepare management accounts from information and documentation received from clients, ensuring that all relevant deadlines are met.
Ensuring that all work for clients is completed to the firms highest standards minimizing partner review time.
Job Titles:
- Accounts Assistant, CFY Partners, the Gambia
Fatoumatta Suno is a confident, multi skilled and capable assistant accountant with excellent knowledge of finance and accounting procedures. She holds Bachelor of science in Accounting from the university of the Gambia she also holds AAT(Associated Accounting Technician) Certificate -Level 2 and 3 from Management Development Institute (MDI).
Fatoumatta suno in her current role has acquired in-depth accountancy skills and knowledge which includes: Receive invoices or bills from vendors, get them sanctioned and arrange for payments through cheques or bank transfers.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner, Business Advisory Services
Felix has more than 35 years experience in Financial Management and Accounting in both the Public and Private sectors. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), an associate member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (UK) and holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Manchester (UK). Felix was also the partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers responsible for Advisory services (financial management consultancy) in their Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia markets until his retirement in August 2011.
Some of the key relevant assignments he has recently been involved in include the following:
Categorisation of Subvented Agencies into two broad categories for the Public Sector Reform Secretariat
Design of Public Financial Management Reform Programme(PUFMARP now GIFMIS) and implementation of Budget and Public Expenditure Management Systems (BPEMS) for the Government of Ghana
Business Process Re-engineering and implementation support of Oracle ERP solution for Volta River Authority and GRIDCo;
Review of Immigration Policy and Legal Environment and Development of Management Information System for the Ghana Immigration Service;
Establishment of the Office Financial Management in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia; and
Trainer in financial management and internal audit for public and private sector businesses in more than 18 African countries.
Job Titles:
- Associate Audit Partner, CFY Partners, the Gambia
Gabriel Francis Antobam is seasoned accountant. He holds a diploma in Business and degree in Accounting from Takoradi Polytechnic and is on the professional stages of AccA. He is a certified QuickBooks Premier Tuition provider as well as system installations and set up. Gabriel has worked with in numerous companies both in Ghana and Gambia. In Ghana, Gabriel worked at Ghana Audit Service as an audit assistant where he gained experience in the field of audit.
In the Gambia, He spearheaded and is the co-founder of Trimex Business Solution, He worked with various companies such as : Syben Marbi , Grupo Tragsa , Bimex Company limited.
Gabriel Francis Antobam is seasoned accountant. He holds a diploma in Business and degree in Accounting from Takoradi Polytechnic and is on the professional stages of AccA. He is a certified QuickBooks Premier Tuition provider as well as system installations and set up. Gabriel has worked with in numerous companies both in Ghana and Gambia. In Ghana, Gabriel worked at Ghana Audit Service as an audit assistant where he gained experience in the field of audit.
In the Gambia, He spearheaded and is the co-founder of Trimex Business Solution, He worked with various companies such as : Syben Marbi , Grupo Tragsa , Bimex Company limited. Over the years Gabriel has develop the necessary skills such as:
Experienced in quality review and continuous improvement processes.
Demonstrated high level of integrity and ethical behaviour and a good Team player.
A track record of timely delivery of required outputs that meet stakeholder expectations.
Demonstrated ability to maintain objective independence in challenging client service environments.
Adept communication, presentation, interview and listening skills.
Ability to think laterally and analytically, applying innovation to IA challenges.
Manage and implement projects that aim to develop and expend the firm's Audit and Assurance Services
Manage a portfolio of Audit and Assurance Services assignments
Job Titles:
- Assurance Partner
- Partner, Assurance Services
Nii Akwei is an assurance partner at CFY Partners. He was a manager at PwC Ghana and assistant manager at Ernst and Young Ghana. Nii, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) has over 10 years' post-qualification working experience specialising in assurance, SOX 404, tax compliance, training and capacity building for senior staff in both the public and private sectors. Nii Akwei is the Chairman of the Technical Evaluation Committee supporting the Implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) at the University of Ghana. He was also a consultation member on the revised Architect Act of Ghana.
Nii Akwei Tetteh was a Manager, Audit Quality Monitoring Department at the Institute of Chartered Accountant. He assisted the Head of Audit Quality Monitoring to create an enabling environment for licensed auditing firms to comply with International Standards of Auditing (ISA) and International Standard on Quality Control 1 (ISQC1).
Nii Akwei developed ISQC1 policy manual for registered license auditing firms, the Whole Firm Review checklist to licensed auditing firms to comply with ISQC1, provided training in Ghana and Liberia for licensed auditing firms to effectively use the Private Company Audit Software (PCAS) to conduct efficient and effective audit, conducted Initial assessment visit and full monitoring assessment visit for registered license auditing firms. Nii is an accomplished assurance practitioner in both the private and public sectors.
Nii has been involved in several strategic planning and reviews, and in leading teams to undertake specialised audits such as forensic assignments or investigations.
Job Titles:
- CEO of CFY
- CEO, CFY Partners, the Gambia
Ross Owusu is the CEO of CFY partners The Gambia. He holds Ba(Hons) in Banking & Law from the London Metropolitan University, He has completed Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) and MSc. Finance and Accounting from the University of Wales. Ross is currently on the professional stage of the Association of Chartered Certified accountants and is a member of the Gambia Institute of Chartered Accountant (GICA).
He has over nine years in the accounting profession in the public, service and Accounting practice. Ross has worked with numerous hotel chains in the United Kingdom and audit clients in the Gambia. He was part of team tasked to do a due diligence assignment in collaboration with EY Nigeria on Fibank for (5) countries He has gain quality experience over the years and in his current role:
To continue to develop the high quality provision of audit and accountancy services provided by the firm
To provide operational leadership to the Audit and Business Services teams
Ensure all personal targets are met or exceeded
Ensure clients are always kept up to date with relevant technical and industry developments
Ensure the firms agenda and goals are achieved and promoted
Provide sound technical and commercial advice to clients and be required to identify value adding business opportunities through existing and new clients.
Emerging relationship building and networking skills
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Partner, Tax
Yaw, a Chartered Accountant, has over 27 years experience in tax practice and basically handles, International Tax Services, Business Tax Compliance Services, Human capital Tax Services for both international and local assignees, Transaction Tax Services, and VAT Services.
Yaw practised the above tax disciplines throughout his entire work life currently as Tax Partner for the CFY Partners practice firm and also as former employee of Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ghana's Internal Revenue Service. He has managed numerous tax advice and reform programmes across Africa.
His advisory services to such persons span the success and spread of their investment initiative, corporate set-up, tax advisory, expatriate payroll, and VAT. Yaw dealt extensively with Ghana's Double Tax Treaties and with -residents who have business interest in Ghana as well as those intending to do business in Ghana.
He worked for many tax clients including expatriate firms in the extractive sectors - mining, petroleum; mining services, petroleum services, and banking, manufacturing, agriculture, housing, commerce, insurance, construction, and in the communication sector.