About Us
Gabriel Irabor& Co. (G.I & Co.) is a firm of Chartered Accountants and authorized by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) to practice Accountancy, Audit, Financial & Management services and Taxation in Nigeria, in line with the statutory provisions and all regulatory frameworks governing the practice of accountancy in Nigeria. Our strength is drawn from the rich experience of our partners who have been in practice over twelve years now and were all trained both locally and internationally. To ensure quality service delivery, we allow other reputable firms to carry our “peer review” of our work without jeopardizing the “confidentially” requirement of the profession. Our Clientele base is drawn from active players in both public (Government) and private sector especially within the Oil and Gas sectors. We have maintained the highest performance standards within diverse range of accountancy practice, auditing & assurance, taxation and other professional advisory services.
We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions and deliver the sustainable success they desire. Over the years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients—results that go beyond financial and are uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic and enduring.
As we all know, Corporate players will need to harness better business models to overcome shortcomings of the past and current challenges. Gabriel Irabor & Co. draws on deep experience across industries to help Corporate institutions in every region find innovative ways to optimize processes, reduce back office costs, align IT, manage risks, capture the economic benefits of building loyal customers, and plan for evolving competitive and regulatory landscapes.
We work with leading Institutions and Government agencies in all major areas, including:
- Private banking and wealth management
- Stock and Capital markets business
- Transaction banking
- Asset management
- Life and property Insurance/Reinsurance
- Government Agencies/Regulatory Permits
- States Internal Revenue Service
- Federal Inland Revenue Service
G.I & Co has deep expertise in Corporate Management and Financial Services, but we also look beyond the industry average and draw upon our enormous capacity and experience. We tailor these offerings to the needs of our Clients to help them solve problems or pursue opportunities in many areas, including:
- Growth strategy
- Organisational effectiveness
- Operational excellence
- Compliance
- Information technology
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Change management
- Private and Public equity listing
- Performance measurement and improvement Customer loyalty and insights
- Improved internally generated revenue strategies
Mission
Values
Pursuit of Excellence | We continually strive to exceed the expectations of our people and our clients.
Accountability | We take responsibility for individual and collective actions. Collaboration | We work together to achieve collective and individual goals.
Passion | Our energy and enthusiasm are contagious. We are inspired to make a lasting impact.
Our Approach
We work with our Clients as partners. Together we develop clear, practical action plans, and support or run the implementation of those plans to ensure real and sustainable performance improvement. We have worked with leading corporate organizations including financial services companies in many strategic and operational areas, such as:
Customer orientation to drive organic growth:
We have worked with banks and insurance companies locally and internationally to strengthen their customer focus in all their operations. We have redesigned processes at all customer touch points with the organization and installed feedback loops to ensure the voice of the customer is heard and acted on. G. I & Co. developed a tool that focuses companies on developing levels of customer loyalty that lead to growth— and pioneered its application in the financial services industry.
Understanding and fulfilling your needs
Expect a teaming approach in which we work with you to understand your management and stakeholders needs and to customize service delivery to those needs. This shall reflect in our consultancy approach and strategy.
Client needs Assessment
Through interactive personal surveys, our Client needs assessment process gives your people the opportunity to define their needs and clearly articulate what benefits they desire from the services we provide. We shall also discuss the degree of satisfaction with our service delivery and any areas of concern (i.e. changes in people, processes and technology). Client needs assessment establishes the base for high levels of satisfaction throughout the relationship.
Business process analysis:
Business process analysis is conducted to establish appropriate parameters for gauging our client’s strategy and business needs. Understanding our clients business is important in obtaining a preliminary understanding of the principal features of your management system and internal control procedures; determining the appropriateness of the management system in place and to what level they do suit the company’s business processes. Our consultancy approach is only determined after a careful understanding of the business, and risk of material misstatements.
Reducing costs and complexity to improve performance:
Organizations that consistently marry greater efficiency with higher productivity in serving customers generate the highest shareholder returns. We work with leading service providing firms to strip complexity out of products and processes, and reduce costs as a way of bolstering or rebuilding margins.
Harnessing and sourcing information technology:
Today’s Organizations must have a technology strategy that’s both sophisticated and efficient if they are to compete successfully. We help our Clients decide how best to source technology and ensure that information technology is aligned with business growth objectives and delivers effectively on its promise.
Integrating acquired companies to realize the most value:
Successful merger integration lies in a few, powerful guiding principles: Tailor the integration thesis to the deal thesis; integrate where it matters; and act with deliberate speed. We have worked with Organizations around the world to integrate acquisitions quickly and accelerate the delivery of expected value. Increasingly, we support clients that absorb acquisitions in the developing growth markets at all level.
Making and Executing key decisions better and faster to fuel unprecedented financial performance:
Organizations’ ability to react nimbly to mounting industry pressures—changing regulatory demands, diversifying product lines and markets, and increasing industry risk and uncertainty—depends on how effectively they make critical decisions. We work with our Clients to identify the highest value decision opportunities, establish clarity about decision accountabilities, and build enduring behaviors, measures and incentives throughout the organization to continuously produce faster, better decisions, faster action, and improved efficiency.
