Mr Samuel Amankwah is an experienced Financial Executive with a pleasant personality that is accredited with unique abilities to resolutely manage and execute projects pertinent to financial solutions and innovative business ideas. His extensive skill-set strongly correlates with an expertise in problem solving, identifying operational inefficiencies, and organizational skills. He values hard work and is diligent and result driven with an appreciation for team and team orientation.
He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom (FCCA), and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ghana and possess MSc Accounting and Finance from De-Montfort University , UK. In addition to his educational qualifications , he attended several Professional Development Training in areas such as Corporate Governance and Capacity Training and Strategy, Risk and Reputation.
Samuel Amankwah served in various capacities at GCB Bank Limited, Ghana between 2000 and 2020 ranging from Consultant (Operations) in which his duties and responsibilities included advising and updating the Board on the strategic workflow of the Bank and throughout the organizational structure , providing advice on improving upon established Bank Standards and Procedures.
He served as Deputy Managing Director (Operations), and Deputy Managing Director (Finance) in which he assisted the Managing Director on regular delegated management issues , formulate and recommend strategies to enhance policies and procedures pertaining to operations to ensure effective service delivery and attainment of business goals. He was also Chief Internal Auditor, General Manager , Treasury Division respectively at GCB Bank Limited, Ghana. He worked as an Accountant at JSA Accountancy Services in Watford (UK), and Adomako Basoah & Co, Norbury, UK. He worked as Internal Auditor with UAC Group of Companies (Ghana) and Production Accounts Manager , Guinness Ghana Limited.
Samuel Amankwah served on various Board of Directors namely, GCB Bank Limited (Executive Director), GCB Securities Limited, National Insurance Commission (Ghana), Vivo Ghana Limited, Chairman of Activity Venture Finance Company, (Ghana) and Chairman Acherensua Senior High School.