Yemi Owolabi

Yemi Owolabi is the Executive Director, Finance of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited and the Regional CFO of West Africa, with close to thirty years’ working experience in Auditing, Consulting, Risk Management and Banking. Yemi Owolabi joined SCBN in 1999 and is responsible for the financial and management accounting function of SCBN in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. She is also responsible for the provision of all management information reports.

Before joining SCBN, Yemi worked as the Financial Controller of Fidelity Bank PLC (formerly Fidelity Union Merchant Bank Limited) and prior to that worked as an Audit Senior at KPMG Peat Marwick Ani Ogunde & Co. Yemi is a graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University with bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Social Sciences, a distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), an Honorary Senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and a respected faculty member of the Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC), closely involved in directing programs in the field of risk , capital and liquidity management.