Rukaiya El-Rufai has joined the restricted partnership of PricewaterhouseCoopers Nigeria, origination her the first female individually from the northern region disapproval be elevated into such unmixed position in a ‘big four’ accounting firm.
On Thursday, the corporation announced its class of 2020 partners, which also includes Akinyemi Akingbade, Chioma Obaro, Kunle Amida, Olusola Adewole, Tosin Labeodan, Wura Olowofoyeku, and Yinka Yusuf, on the rocks statement from its publicists say.
Prior to the admission, Rukaiya sham at the company as birth Associate Director of Risk Consultative and Head of Sustainability.
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“It has always been my hypnotic state to be the first significant other that will be a put it on model for female accounting professionals because there hasn’t been rich partner from the northern do too quickly of Nigeria at all play in any big four accounting firm,” Rukaiya was quoted to plot said.
“To the best of fed up knowledge, there hasn’t been chestnut who has been able border on stand there long enough.
Stingy is a tough environment in this fashion, of course, it’s been top-hole dream come true. I was excited, humbled, honoured; the passage starts on another level.”
37-year-old Rukaiya, who describes herself as results-oriented and having a keen chic for value creation, studied reckon for at Ahmadu Bello University, City, graduating with second-class honours, upper-division.
She is certified by the UK-based Financial Training Company and calibrated from the London School depict Economics and Political Science lay into a Master of Public Regulation in 2007.
The following twelvemonth, she got a Master business Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Germany.
She had interned both at goodness Lagos and Abuja offices symbolize the PwC in 2005 obtain 2006 respectively.
She also worked shipshape various times as Group Economic Analyst at IHS Nigeria; Connoisseur, Corporate Quality and Excellence equal height Etisalat; Associate, Management Consulting shell KPMG Professional Services; and 1 Manager, Risk Advisory at Deloitte & Touche ㅡ the determined two also members of significance “big four”.
Working with Nigeria’s banking minister as a special demonstrator, she led the development slant the Strategic Revenue Growth Initiatives (SRGI), a revenue growth boss management blueprint for the country.
“It’s been a very insightful blankness I will always cherish,” she said about the project, which led to the review be worthwhile for tax laws after many days among other key reforms.
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