Ugo Chikelu has over 16 years’ experience in providing risk advisory and financial management support in diverse industries within and outside Nigeria.

Over her career, she has worked with public and private sector clients, including NGOs with international and local donors.

She is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW), with an MSc in Finance from EDHEC Business School, France.

Passionate about quality service delivery and sustainable operation of clients, Ugo brings a professional approach in designing and delivering training and facilitation sessions to clients.

Over the course of her career, she has trained a number of team members, client staff and participants in the KPMG Academy programs in both Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire; in both soft and technical skills, a few of which are listed below:

· Technical Trainings

- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) technical trainings

- Accounting manual trainings

- Internal audit trainings: process, documentation and reporting trainings on internal audit as they relate to internal audit standards, such as the Institute of Internal Auditors’ (IIA’s) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards), the IIAs guidelines on Quality Assurance audits, etc.

- Internal control trainings as they relate to internal control guidelines, such as The Internal Control – Integrated Framework, the COSO ERM Framework, etc.

· Soft Skills Trainings

- Business writing

- Qualities of a Good Internal Auditor

- Time management and Personal Effectiveness

- Emotional Intelligence

- Team Management and Giving Feedback

Ugo’s mission is to influence and inspire growing enterprises to deliver sustainable, quality services to their customers and investors.