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Ibrahima Pathé DIOP

Ibrahima Pathé DIOP

Dakar

Summary

Financial executive with 15 years of solid and progressive experience in banking and leasing, having managed teams of 12 people and led strategic fundraising operations to finance credit activities (1.8 billion XOF).

I have also participated in the drafting of the project "support the development of inclusive agricultural financing mechanisms" which obtains a grant of 1.4 million USD from USAID.

Rigorous, versatile, and committed, I now wish to put my expertise to work in development financing within a multilateral institution.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Chief Financial Officer

Banque Atlantique Sénégal - BASN
12.2024 - Current
  • - Coordination and development of the Bank's multi-year business plan and budget in accordance with the strategic choices of the Board of Directors and Senior Management;
  • - Preparing and drafting comments on the Bank's results for financial communication to entities outside the Bank;
  • - Contribution to the preparation of documentation for Board of Directors and General Assembly meetings;
  • - Participation in fundraising operations with international lenders to finance the business, ensure that equity capital is adequate for lending activities, and mitigate liquidity risk.


Chief Financial Officer

Compagnie Ouest Africaine de Crédit-Bail - LOCAFRIQUE
10.2020 - 09.2024
  • - Participation in the drafting of the project "support the development of inclusive agricultural financing mechanisms " which obtains a grant of 1.4 million USD from USAID;
  • - Improved profitability thanks to better control of the net operating ratio, which fell from 68% in 2018 to 65% in 2019 (optimization of overheads) against a backdrop of weak growth in net banking income (+1.8%);
  • - Improved reliability of net financial income following an audit of the completeness of revenues and commissions charged to customers, with a positive impact of 5% on net banking income in 2021;
  • - Management and completion of fundraising in 2024 with international partners (1.8 billion) to finance lending activities, with the portfolio pledge as the sole guarantee;
  • - Renegotiation in 2022 of refinancing lines for a cumulative amount of 8 billion at preferential rates with our partner banks;
  • - Drafting of the 2024-2029 business plan taking into account the gradual recovery of activities following exogenous shocks (COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict);
  • - Management of the professional mobility of the Credit Operations Manager to the position of Commitments Manager thanks to the quality of mentoring and his skills development plan;
  • - Implementation of an account closing procedure with a schedule that reduced the time required to complete the audit and issue the report to the Board of Directors from four to two months.

Chief Financial Officer

Banque de Dakar, BDK
01.2019 - 09.2020
  • - Participation in strategic summits with shareholders to establish the accounting organization and annual action plans;
  • - Implemented accounting settings for securities transactions, market transactions, and FX for the deployment of the Calypso software package;
  • - Creation of relevant allocation keys for the allocation of overhead costs paid by headquarters in order to improve the reliability of analytical results by branch, market segment, and business unit;
  • - Improvement of the solvency ratio by 5 points in 2019 compared to 2018, by managing the adequacy of capital to risks (credit, market, operational);
  • - Establishment of revenue and volume budgets by product or service, by agency, by market segment, and by business unit;
  • - Participation in the implementation of performance evaluations based on budget achievement rates for commercial functions and progress percentages on annual activity programs for support and control functions.

Accounting Manager

Banque de Dakar, BDK
03.2015 - 12.2018
  • - Set up the bank's accounting system when it began operations in 2015, with unqualified certification of regulatory financial statements;
  • - Awarded the Excellence Prize as Accounting Manager, then promoted to the position of Administrative and Financial Director;
  • - Supervision of a team of six employees in the accounting and finance department;
  • - Analysis and drafting of accounting correction memoranda following computer intrusions.
  • - Oversaw tax reconciliations and produced additional analysis documents that reduced the bank's tax adjustment confirmation to 700 million, compared to the initial notification of 6 billion;
  • - Project manager for the migration to the revised PCB with the steering committee composed of all members of the management committee.

Financial Controller

Diamond Bank Senegal, DBS
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • - Ensured the reliability of financial information by clearing old outstanding items and keeping the accounts up to date;
  • - Preparation of monthly performance review documents and transmission to the Group Financial Controller;
  • - Presentation to senior management of net banking income and revenue or expenditure lines that need to be optimized to meet budget targets;
  • Recommendations on products and services with high added value and on cost reduction strategies;
  • - Ranking of all branches in the network according to budget achievement rates;
  • - Establishment of revenue distribution keys for agencies based on their participation in collecting the resources that financed the jobs (TCI).

Accounting assistant

International Commercial Bank, ICB
10.2009 - 11.2013
  • - Management of investments and loans on the secondary market;
  • - Reconciliation of customer and supplier accounts, ensuring the reliability of accounting data.
  • - Reconciliation of invoices with purchase orders and delivery notes.
  • - Assisting colleagues with closing tasks and the annual financial statements.
  • - Checking supplier invoices.

Education

MBA - General Management And Strategy

French Institute of Management (IFG)
Paris
12-2025

University Diploma in Technology - Finance and Accounting

Polytechnic Higher Education School
05.2007

Skills

  • Project evaluation according to donor methods
  • Public-private partnerships (PPPs)
  • Climate finance and sustainable development financing
  • Corporate financial diagnostics
  • Bank negotiations
  • Employee supervision
  • Cost and budget analysis
  • Writing standards
  • Fundraising
  • Due diligence
  • Project structuring
  • Complex loan analysis
  • Institutional portfolio management

LANGUAGES

French - Fluent
English - Operational

Timeline

Chief Financial Officer

Banque Atlantique Sénégal - BASN
12.2024 - Current

Chief Financial Officer

Compagnie Ouest Africaine de Crédit-Bail - LOCAFRIQUE
10.2020 - 09.2024

Chief Financial Officer

Banque de Dakar, BDK
01.2019 - 09.2020

Accounting Manager

Banque de Dakar, BDK
03.2015 - 12.2018

Financial Controller

Diamond Bank Senegal, DBS
01.2014 - 01.2015

Accounting assistant

International Commercial Bank, ICB
10.2009 - 11.2013

University Diploma in Technology - Finance and Accounting

Polytechnic Higher Education School

MBA - General Management And Strategy

French Institute of Management (IFG)

Hobbies and Interests

Playing soccer, Travel: France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast

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