Experience

Vi-skogen/Vi Agroforestry

• Sweden
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Finance Manager

  • May 2023 - Present

• Regional Finance Officer

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Financial and Budgetary reportingo Review of financial reports and budget utilization of country offices in Eastern Africa.o Carry out periodic budgets and workplans reviews and analysis for projects within the Eastern African region and provide timely corrective advise to budget holders.o Donor financial reporting for projects implemented in the Eastern African region.o Coordinate funds requests from donors within the required timelines for continuous flow of Project activities.o Liquidity Management for regional and country offices.o Review month end processes have been carried out by country offices.o Support to Audit Management teams both internal and external.Technical support to Country offices and partner organizationso Carry out periodic country Offices and partner Organization Monitoring in East Africa – Systems and controls compliance checks.o Capacity Building of country offices staff and partner organization on financial management and compliance.o Budgeting and budgetary control for country office projects.o Ensure compliance to Vi Agroforestry financial and procurement procedures by country offices.o Review of partner organizations funding proposals.Support to Vi Agroforestry teamso Support to resource mobilization teams in proposal development.o Support to procurement teams to ensure value for money. Show less



ActionAid

• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Accountant

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2017

  Duties and Responsibilities:Financial Management• Providing effective and efficient financial oversight role on the finances; • Reviewing of bank reconciliation, payments and financial statements. • Participating in the implementation of the country strategic paper • Ensuring effective implementation of ActionAid finance and accounting policies and procedures;• Coordinating cash remittances between Head office, project offices and Partners • Preparing, processing and consolidating necessary budget information in line with the planning guidelines;Donor Projects Management• Management of donor funded projects as assigned, and submission of timely donor funded projects reports.• Monitoring compliance to donor conditionalities before reporting• Generating exchange gain and losses tabulations and advising the Head of Finance appropriately Capacity Building• Conducting quarterly partner’s needs assessment.• Developing training materials to be used for capacity building of the partners.• Capacity building Partners in the following areas: Budgeting, Forecasting and Variance .• Undertaking scheduled Partners visits and provision of necessary capacity building Support• Constant monitoring of partners grants and expenditures on a regular basisSupervisory or Staff Matters• Supervising the accountant-PSU on a day today basis and whenever necessary update the Head of Finance on emerging issues pertaining to the staff; • Performing appraisals and facilitation of training for the staff supervised in line with the AAIK’s human resources policy;Internal and External Audit Matters• Ensuring implementation and clearance of internal and external audit issues and recommendations;• Ensuring compliance with statutory obligations; Show less

• Finance and Administration Officer

  • Jan 2014 - Feb 2016

  o Provision of effective and efficient financial and administrative supporto Preparation of Management reports and analysis as required from time to timeo Support project managers in project budgeting o Ensuring that all transactions are in line with AAI policies and comply to donor requirements as per the donor MOUo Facilitating institutional and donor external auditso Donor financial reporting o Ensuring that expenditures are well within the stipulated budget lineso Processing and posting of transactions to the SUN Systemo Acting as a bank agent and maintaining the bank correspondence file to ensure compliance with AAIK banking guidelineso Undertaking bank reconciliations on a monthly basiso Undertake partnership assessments to identify capacity gapso Management of grants awarded to partner organizationso Carry out capacity building trainings on finance to implementing partners organizationo Carry out finance trainings to non-finance staff on AAIK finance policies and procedureso Procurement of goods and services in accordance with the procurement policies and regulationso Levying and remitting statutory deductionso Asset management with the LRPo Arrange local and international logistics for staff travellingo Handling procurement decisions within the thresholds approvedo Overseeing maintenance and acquisition of statutory vehicle licenses o Overseeing routine office maintenanceo Provision human resource support in the LRP including maintenance of employees files and management of leave dayso Provision of logistical support to ensure effective flow of information and activities Show less



ACROSS-SSd

• South Sudan
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• ACCOUNTANT

  • Feb 2010 - Dec 2013

  o Preparing donor financial reports as per the donor requirements o Support project managers and project staff in preparing project budgets o Facilitating project and institutional external audits o Preparing cash forecasts and monthly financial projections for projects o Ensuring that all transactions are in line with organization’s policies and procedures o Work closely with project managers to monitor budget utilization and communicate on variances o Reviewing and posting monthly financial reports from the field to the SUN system o Offering support to field accountants o Ensuring full verification and reconciliations of bank statements o Checking all transactions are coded correctly o Making utility payments and receipting suppliers o Maintaining creditor accounts o Reconciling staff advance accounts o Responsible cash management and banking and ensuring petty cash is managed efficiently o Receipting all donor incomes and posting them accordingly o Coordinated activities at the field level and executed project budget expenditures in line with the approved budgets o Ensured program expenses were charged against their required cost centers and donor accounts o Ensured timely request of funds from the head office and made disbursements of the funds according to the planned activities o Maintained complete records for all financial transactions such as payment vouchers ,receipts and other documents in accordance with the accounting procedures o Trained program sector heads and staff on the organization’s accounting finance policies and procedures o Prepared payrolls and processed statutory deductions and remittances as per the set guidelines o Recruited and oriented new staffs joining the organization o Did place flight bookings for staff travelling in and out of the locations Show less



Kenya National Library Service (KNLS)

• Kenya
• Libraries
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Finance Intern

  • Jan 2008 - Mar 2008

  Handling Petty Cash Payment processing Filling of payment vouchers Handling Petty Cash Payment processing Filling of payment vouchers