mentor
Babagana Bakare
Finance Director, Chartered Accountant (ACA)
Logistics group · Milton Keynes
Every business runs on numbers. I help young people learn to read them — and their own potential.
About Babagana
I run the finance function of a large logistics group. I care about practical ambition: clear goals, good habits and understanding money long before your first payslip.
Ask me about
- 01Accounting apprenticeships straight after A-levels
- 02Becoming a chartered accountant
- 03Budgeting your first pay cheque
- 04Setting goals and actually keeping them
- 05Leadership when you're the youngest in the room
My story
I started as an audit trainee carrying files up and down stairs. Nineteen years later I sit on the board.
I mentor because I wish someone had told me at fifteen that the boring-sounding jobs are often the ones with the most freedom.
Small habits, compounded, beat big talent left alone.
Education
BSc Accounting & Finance
University of Kent
ACA Chartered Accountant
ICAEW
Trust & safety
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Identity verified
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Works with ages
14–16 · 17–18
Session length
45 minutes
Response time
within a day
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