Management

Abimbola A Opaneye

Managing Partner

Abimbola is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. She started her professional career with the Firm of Coopers & Lybrand now PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1986 where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989 and stayed on till 1998.

While at Coopers and Lybrand she worked in the business support, audit and training divisions and was the firm’s training manager. Outside the professional services industry she held senior management and executive positions in the telecommunications and financial services sectors at Intercellular, Airtel (Econet Wireless, Vmobile, Celtel and Zain Nigeria) and FITC (Financial Institutions Training Center)

As procurement manager at Vmobile, she obtained a post graduate diploma in purchasing and supply and later became associate member of both The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (CIPSMN) and The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply UK (CIPS) . Abimbola is an Affiliate of the Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM). She holds a B.Sc. degree in accounting from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a Masters degree in International Accounting and Finance from the University of Liverpool.

She is presently the Managing Partner of A.O. Opaneye & Co. (Chartered Accountants). She brought to the firm over 28 years’ experience in the areas of Audit, Accountancy, Taxation and Business / Financial advisory services. Abimbola was a member of the Professional Practice Monitoring Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria