Micheal Olumuyiwa Adesuyi elected Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria

Micheal Olumuyiwa Adesuyi, a Chartered Accountant and senior audit and compliance professional with First Bank of Nigeria, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria (IMC). The election was confirmed under membership number JIMC.ABI.0503.17 and entitles Micheal to use the post-nominal designation F.IMC.

The Institute of Management Consultants is the professional body approved and registered by the Federal Government of Nigeria to regulate the standards and practice of management consulting in the country. It is a full member of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI), the global body that sets minimum ethical and technical standards for the profession and that holds Consultative Status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Through ICMCI, the IMC has authority to assess Nigerian practitioners for the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation, which is reciprocally recognized across more than forty countries.

The Fellow grade is the highest membership category of the institute and is not granted by examination alone. Under the IMC’s published framework, admission is by application and is assessed by the institute’s governing council. Candidates are expected to hold a university degree or equivalent professional qualification, to demonstrate suitable experience in management consulting, and to meet the ICMCI minimum code of ethics covering confidentiality, independence, realistic client expectations, and disclosure of financial interests. The fellowship cadre is specifically reserved for accomplished professionals whose length and nature of practice justify recognition at the senior end of the profession.

Micheal meets the institute’s academic and experience thresholds through more than a decade of progressive work in banking audit, credit risk, and internal controls. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial and Business Management from the National Open University of Nigeria, and a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy from the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti. He is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

His professional record with First Bank of Nigeria, one of the country’s largest financial institutions, spans three distinct functions. Micheal began his career at the bank as a Branch Operations and Service Officer in Ekiti, where he monitored compliance with internal control policies and supported service delivery standards at the branch level. He was subsequently redeployed to Lagos as a Credit and Marketing Auditor, with responsibility for evaluating risk assets, customer retention practices, and budget compliance across the bank’s corporate portfolio. He then moved into the bank’s Audit and Strategic Resource Functions as an Internal Auditor, conducting enterprise-wide audits to verify transaction reliability, control effectiveness, and regulatory compliance, and reporting findings that informed executive decision-making.

Micheal now serves as Head of Audit and Compliance at FBN Mortgages Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria, having been cross-posted to the subsidiary to lead its internal audit and compliance function. In that role he reports to the Board Audit Committee and is responsible for audit reporting, operational risk assessment, and the strengthening of institutional controls for mortgage lending. The position sits within the category of senior professional responsibility that the IMC considers in assessing candidates for the Fellow grade.

The FBN Mortgages posting, combined with his earlier audit work at the parent bank and his standing as a Chartered Accountant, formed the basis of the institute’s assessment. His election places Micheal within a professional community whose members are expected to continue meeting the institute’s Continuing Professional Development requirements and to observe the ICMCI code of ethics in all client engagements.

For younger professionals in banking, accounting, and consulting, Micheal’s professional trajectory shows that the Fellow grade is reachable through disciplined in-career study, steady advancement, and sustained adherence to the ethical standards the institute asks of its members. For Nigerian graduates entering the finance and audit profession — particularly those who begin on non-traditional academic pathways — his induction signals that the country’s senior-most professional bodies assess candidates on the substance of their work and the consistency of their conduct, rather than on the prestige of their entry point. That message, more than the designation itself, is what gives the election its weight for the upcoming generation of consultants and auditors.