NIGERIA – Honeywell Flour Mills Plc (HFMP), one of Nigeria’s leading milling companies has appointed of Mrs Oluseye Sandey to its Board in a bid boost the profile of the Board, and expand its capabilities.

Mrs Oluseye Sandey brings to the HFMP Board over 30 years of experience in auditing, budgeting and reporting, business development and taxation, notes the company in a statement.

The company says that it is certain that Mrs Sandey’s comprehensive experience will further enhance the Board’s ability in its role of leading the company and guiding the management team in the achievement of the company’s vision to become Africa’s leading food company, with a diverse portfolio of leading products and brands preferred by its consumers.

Mrs Sandey started her career with Akintola Williams Deloitte & Co where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988.

In June 1994, she joined Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited as Budget Manager for the Nigeria Region and served as the Nigeria Region Treasury Manager and Accounting Manager between March 1996 and July 2002.

In August 2002, she was appointed Region Finance Manager for Coca-Cola West Africa Region based in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire. In this role, she had responsibility for end-to-end Finance Operations for 23 Countries in West and Central Africa. 

In August 2003, she moved to Coca-Cola Export Corporation, based in Casablanca Morocco as Region Finance Manager for 24 Countries in North and West Africa.

In 2005, she was appointed to The Board of Coca-Cola Nigeria and Equatorial Africa as the Division Finance Director for 10 Countries in West Africa, including Nigeria.

She moved to a Strategy role in 2009 as Business Development Director for the North and West Africa Division of Coca-Cola where she had responsibility for implementing new business opportunities, in Nigeria and the Equatorial Africa Countries.

In 2010, she moved to Coca-Cola South Africa as the Finance Operations Director for Africa responsible for providing Financial Services to all Coca-Cola Business Units in Africa, Middle East and Pakistan. She held this position until August 2014 when she returned to Nigeria after 20 years of service with Coca-Cola.

Before her Board appointment, Sandey had joined Honeywell Flour Mills Plc as Finance & IT Director in September 2015 and has been responsible for managing the Finance and IT teams.

Her key focus areas are Strategy, Organization Design and Process, Planning, Business Partnership, Risk Compliance and People Development.