Experience

ORIBI

• South Africa
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations and Finance Lead

  • Jun 2022 - Present



Brightest Young Minds

• South Africa
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Alumni

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  BYM identifies, connects and mobilizes Africa’s most innovative and socioeconomic responsible young people. Every year BYM identifies 100 new young people to join its network. Aobakwe had the honor of being part of the 2017 100 delegates of brightest young minds of Africa and as such he is now an Alumni. BYM identifies, connects and mobilizes Africa’s most innovative and socioeconomic responsible young people. Every year BYM identifies 100 new young people to join its network. Aobakwe had the honor of being part of the 2017 100 delegates of brightest young minds of Africa and as such he is now an Alumni.



Fast Fluency Africa

• South Africa
• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  Assisted in over business strategy development of the overall business operations systems and financial management approach.

• Head Of Finance And Administration

  • Nov 2018 - Feb 2019

  Management of the Legal, Human Resources, Information and Technology, as well as Finance Departments. The Fixer that Keeps the office in order.



Ninety One

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Associate

  • Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  Sales Support for the SA Unit Trusts team. Offered support with Morning Star portfolio modelling, fund performance reporting and analysis, competitor analysis, providing financial market insights and day to day client query resolutions. From the role I learned more about client relationship building and management, professional client engagement and the overall unit trust fund industry. Sales Support for the SA Unit Trusts team. Offered support with Morning Star portfolio modelling, fund performance reporting and analysis, competitor analysis, providing financial market insights and day to day client query resolutions. From the role I learned more about client relationship building and management, professional client engagement and the overall unit trust fund industry.



YOUTUT

• Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

  • Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

  Exposed myself to different divisions of developing a business. From the bookkeeping and financial management, to doing marketing and sales generation and overall business administration operations and people management. Exposed myself to different divisions of developing a business. From the bookkeeping and financial management, to doing marketing and sales generation and overall business administration operations and people management.



Ninety One

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• YIP Graduate

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

  I sat at the dealing desk of Ninety One, assisting with Money Market Trading and Execution, while gaining exposure to credit and sovereign bond trading and assisting the equity desk with daily cash management for settling trades. Other focus areas included daily reports on financial markets activity and mark to market changes in credit bonds, monthly reports on SA government bonds flow and investor holdings activity, issuance monitoring, trade volumes and activity analysis as well as assistance on Best Execution reporting. As an additional value add I provided weekly technical analysis and price action outlooks on multi-asset benchmark assets, to inspire a more technically focused analysis outlook on the different assets. Show less



University of Pretoria Business Incubator

• South Africa
• Higher Education

• Ecosystems Manager

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Facilitate collaborations, synergies and integration of different Entrepreneurial support focused silos in and around the University with the aim of establishing all rounded effective support for young entrepreneurs and further Establish an entrepreneurial culture within the University Environment.

• Co-Founder and Investment Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

  My role as an Investment Manager was predominantly aimed at seeking Investors for Incubatees of the UPBI whom are investor ready. Above this, I would also task myself with further assist those young entrepreneurs through helping them prepare them for Investor Funding. This sort of assistance was done through valuing their businesses and critically analyzing how much they would need using cash flow forecast techniques, market analysis and other measures that were to our disposal.



University of Pretoria Consulting Society

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Treasurer

  • Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

  My role was aimed at Signing off on Expenditures for the Society, Managing the Sponsorship Funds and Maintaining these funds to ensure that the entity remains in a healthy cash position throughout the year. My role was aimed at Signing off on Expenditures for the Society, Managing the Sponsorship Funds and Maintaining these funds to ensure that the entity remains in a healthy cash position throughout the year.