Group Financial Controller

Chibuzor Philip Duru

A Chartered Accountant with over 23years experience spanning from Audit, Taxation, Business Strategy, Banking & financial Control. He began his career with Messrs. Olusola Adekanola & Co, Chartered Accountant as an Audit Senior and later joined LB Securities Ltd, a member of Nigeria Stock Exchange as Head, Accounts Admin. He started his banking career with Broad Bank Nigeria Ltd (Union Bank Plc) as a senior supervisor 1999 and joined Zenith Bank Plc in 2001. During his Banking career, he traversed internal Control, branch Supervision, Loan review /mediation to branch operations, credit & marketing and Branch Management. He developed SME Business model for Edo Zone.

Group Financial Controller

Chibuzor joined Masters group in 2011 as Head, Group Risk Management and was seconded Olive MFB as Managing Director in 2013. He was recalled back in 2018 to assume the current role of Group Financial Controller of Master Energy Group. 

He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria and Fellow, Institute of credit Administration of Nigeria and also an associate member of Nigeria Institute of Management, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Certified Microfinance Practitioner by the chartered Institute of bankers of Nigeria. 

He obtained his HND & B.Sc. in accounting from the prestigious IMT Enugu and Ambrose Alli University respectively in 1996 and 2006 with an MBA from University of Benin 2010, and has attended various courses in financial modeling and strategy, credit administration & management & human resources. 

A consummate change manager and with great bias in staff mentoring and development, he is currently the Group Financial Controller Masters Energy Industries Limited.