Nkiru is a seasoned financial services industry leader, who is known for her visionary leadership style that inspires people around her to embrace change, push boundaries, and strive for excellence. She has a strong finance background which has provided an edge in her career, her experience spans financial management, risk management, taxation, and operations management, gained through about a decade of experience in the financial service industry including Banking, Insurance, Asset management, and Pensions.
Nkiru has a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives to improve performance and generate sustainable growth. She has led organizational transformation through change management and stakeholder engagement and is known for her drive for operational excellence and process optimization.
She started her career in KPMG, where she rose to the position of Manager, Audit, and Business Advisory, and has functioned in several senior and executive leadership capacities including Head of Financial Control at ASO Savings and Loans Plc, Chief Financial Officer at Abuja Leasing Company, CFO and ED Finance responsible for strategic direction and operation of VBank and VFD Tech and Director and CFO at Norrenberger Financial Group. While at KPMG She served on the firm’s technical desk as well as represented KPMG on the Insurance Industry Technical Committee of NAICOM.
She has a BSc. in Microbiology from the University of Benin. She is an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), and has undertaken the CFO programme at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
She is a Director at Transkredit Finance Company Limited where she serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee.