Benjamin Sowah Adjetey is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years post qualification working experience. He has skills in finance, accounting, auditing, risk management and project management, including managing donor funded projects.
He has supported private and public sector organizations in designing new and improved financial management procedures and facilitated the development of practice framework documents for use by public sector internal auditors.
He was the team lead in the project that introduced Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) into the Public Sector of Ghana. He has also facilitated integrated risk management workshops to heads and senior managers in public sector institutions of Ghana, Botswana and Gambia. Benjamin has offered training, facilitated workshops, and provided hands-on training to staff of Internal Audit Units, managers of donor funded projects, and Management of public institutions in the areas of governance, risk management, internal control, internal audit, and fraud prevention.
Benjamin made country presentation on internal audit to practitioners in Canada and Gambia, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
He was part of the team that developed GoG’s 2022-2026 PFM Strategy. He was the internal audit team-lead in the design of the current PFM for Service Delivery Program and developed the Technical Notes.
Benjamin is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants – Ghana (ICAG), Advanced Commonwealth Thematic Fellow in Internal Audit & Risk Management, member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Benjamin holds a Master of Science Degree (MSc) in Accounting and Finance from the London South Bank University (UK), Post Chartered Diploma in Forensic Audit from the ICAG, accreditation in Quality Assessment/ Validation from the IIA (USA) and certification in Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation from the Uganda Management Institute.
