Oluyinka Adesiji

Siji Adeyinka is the Head of Compliance and Financial Crimes Risk Department for Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria. He joined the bank in 2011 as Head of Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance. He is also an Executive Director and sits on the Board of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria. He also sits on the Board of Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC).

In this role, Siji provides leadership, strategic support, and direction to the Compliance and Financial Crimes Compliance team and also guidance to the local board in Nigeria on Regulatory and Financial Crimes Compliance issues.

Siji has over 30 years of extensive banking experience spanning various areas such as Finance, Trade Operations, Domestic Operations, Technology, and Internal Control. His working life began in 1988 in Coopers and Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers) where he trained as a Chartered Accountant before migrating into the banking industry 5 years later. He worked in Citibank Nigeria in the Finance department before joining First City Monument Bank and rising to become the Group Head of Operations and Technology and later the Chief Compliance Officer.

He holds a first degree in Economics from the University of Wolverhampton, UK (1987) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA). He is also a Fellow of the Compliance Institute of Nigeria (FCIN), an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACIN) and an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered institute of Bankers (HCIB).

Siji is married to Olayinka a consultant Orthodontist and they have two grown up children.