Experience

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  Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Director-Procurement

    • Mar 2020 - Present
    • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Main Duties & Responsibilities: • Guides and coordinates the overall activities under her/his discretion;• Manages administrative support areas, including specification, sourcing, evaluation and Contract Administration functions;• Manage procurement policies, procedures and programs with a focus to enhance organizational value and efficiency; • Assesses the departments performance and proposes changes & enhancements to improve the results;• Synchronizes the work and communicates constraints and problems with the Vice-President;• Ensures timely preparation and approval of corporate procurement strategic plan in line with the Bank’s corporate strategic plan;• Process purchase orders; develops bids and proposals; ensure all procurement requests are timely addressed;• Conducts procurement progress follow up and ensures quality of goods and services procured to provide periodic follow-up and reports to the Vice President;• Signs contract and ensures its implementation;• Approves and co-signs payment within discretionary limit;• Maintain strong working relationships with suppliers to assure cost, quality, and delivery targets;• Monitors the development and approval of key performance indicators and ensures that the procurement performance is evaluated based on the developed KPIs.

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  Finance and Economic Development Bureau

  • Addis Ababa

  • Bureau head

    • Jan 2012 - Feb 2020
    • Addis Ababa

    Duties and Responsibilitieso Supervise and ensure the appropriate utilization of the City Government finance and instruct to audit public bodies, if it deemed necessary;o Establish planning, equitable resource and budget allocation system that ensure proper utilization of public resources;o Effect the disbursement of the City Government based on the budget appropriated;o Govern the internal audit functions of public bodies and develop appropriate work standards and code of conduct applicable throughout all public bodies internal audit functions; develop internal control standards, build the capacities of the internal auditors;o Evaluate the quality of internal audit report against the set standard ; submit to the City Cabinet annual report indicating key findings of internal audit; follow up the implementation of decision of the City Government;o Monitor and evaluate the execution of budget and submit bi-annual report to the City Government Cabinet on the performance of city’s budget;o Enhance the awareness of public on City Government’s budget administration and implementation;o Establish a system that makes the cash management of the city government effective and economical;o Maintain the accounts of the government; submit financial report of the City Government to the Cabinet annually and whenever necessary;o Build the capacity of sector bureaus and Sub City public bodies in administration of public finance.

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  Ethiopia

  • Deputy Head, Finance and Economic. Development Bureau

    • Jul 2008 - Jan 2012

    Duties and Responsibilitieso Supervise the compliance of the operations of the city administration with the financial policies, regulations, and directives of the country in general and the city administration in particular; o Prepare and submit to the city administration cabinet together with its recommendations a consolidated annual budget of the city after reviewing budget proposals; o Submit periodic general statements to the city administration cabinet, on the financial operation and situation of the city, prepare and submit supplementary budget proposals, when found necessary; o Manage the central treasury of the city administration and provide monthly financial performance and fund balance report to the mayor office;o Supervise the program implementation and proper utilization of funds provided by UN agencies (UNDP, UNFPA, WFP, CEF) ;o Esure the proper assessment, collection & recording of revenues of the city administration, facilitate conditions for the expansion of revenue bases & the application of equitable system of revenue collection; o Pepare, on the basis of the country's development strategy long, medium and short term development plans to be executed by the city administration and upon approval, follow up the implementation of the same; o Suervise the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of capital projects executed by the city administration organs in collaboration with the concerned organs of the city administration; o Reiew the physical and financial performances of budgetary organs against their plan and provide the report along with the issues and recommendations to the cabinet;o Spervise economic studies and research activities being conducted with the view to assisting the preparation of long, medium, and short term development plans and to provide an input for policy makers that assists them in policy formulation;o Oersee the follow-up and support provided to the NGOs or Charity organizations operating in city;

  • Head, NGOs, Multilateral and Bilateral Development cooperation department

    • Sep 2007 - Jun 2008

    Major duties and accomplishment:• Developed and implemented new governmental and non-governmental organization guideline and built strong relationship.• Committed to gender equity and undertake gender responsive planning and execution.• Demonstrated analytical, reporting and monitoring and project management skills. • Reduced donors complain by identifying key problems with all stakeholders and make appropriate decision. • Consistently contributed leadership skill in a corporate setting, managing the creative process, motivated and empowered team members and juggling multiple administrative tasks.• Coordinated, monitor and evaluate PBS, WASH, GEQIP, USAID and PSCAP funded project and prepare reports to development partners/.• Appraised and Signed project agreement with NGOs and monitor and evaluate the performance of projects.

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  Bureau of Finance and Economic Development

  • Hawassa, Ethiopia

  • Head, Finance and Human Resource Administration Department

    • Jan 2007 - Aug 2007
    • Hawassa, Ethiopia

    Major duties and accomplishment:o Developed and implemented new guidelines and manuals for financial management, procurement, project monitoring and evaluation and improved public finance management system of the region. o Developed and Implemented new employee training program that dramatically increased productivity and morale in key business unit. o Designed and coordinated the execution of regional and national financial management training and meetings, trained and guided team members and national counterparts.o Managed and provided direction on the procurement processes to the regional procurement entities and improved the procurement system of the region. o Led cross functional team to evaluate decreasing customer complaints. Identified sources of dissatisfaction and recommended new workflow process that greatly enhanced employee morale and customer retention. o Reviewed and controlled various stages of accounting, procurement and mechanisms to eliminate deficiencies and/or minimize risks.

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  South Ethiopia Regional State

  • South Ethiopia Regional State; Dawro Zone, Tercha

  • Dawro Zone Chief Executive

    • Jan 2002 - Aug 2005
    • South Ethiopia Regional State; Dawro Zone, Tercha

    Major duties and accomplishment: o Demonstrated strategic ability through successfully implementing localized development strategies and awarded ‘’The Best Performer’’ award. o Coached and supervised five district and 20 department heads of the zone and improved the service delivery.o Directed, coordinated and represented the Administrative Council.o Insured the proper implementation of the State and Federal Regulations and Directives.o Formulated development policies/strategies that are consistent with State policies/strategies.o Draw up budget and submitted it to the zonal council and implemented upon approval.

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  Trade and Industry Department

  • South Ethiopia Regional State; Dawro Zone

  • Head, Trade and Industry Department

    • Jan 2001 - Dec 2001
    • South Ethiopia Regional State; Dawro Zone

    Major duties and accomplishment: o Identified and analyzed staff development and career support needs and designed programs to meet identified needso Demonstrated analytical, reporting and monitoring skills. o Prepared and implemented strategic and annual plano Managed, monitored and evaluated the performance of eight sections.o Provided timely financial and physical reports to administrative council. o Established and implemented adequate internal control system and efficient utilization of resources.o Administered employees according to government human resource management policies.

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  Wolayta, Gamo, Gofa and Dawro Development Association

  • South Ethiopia Regional State, Aribamich

  • General Manager

    • Jan 1999 - Dec 2000
    • South Ethiopia Regional State, Aribamich

    Major duties and accomplishment:o Planned, organized, managed and supervised the work of four branch managers. o Managed, monitored and evaluated budget and project implementation of four branch office. o Developed new project monitoring and evaluation guideline/framework in close collaboration with branch managers.o Ensured payments made are in accordance with the financial regulations and directions.o Developed new guideline for accuracy and timeliness of budgets, cash-flow projections, contracts, payment requests, monthly invoices, and other project financial documents and ensured its proper implementation.o Developed and implemented accounting, financial management and internal control system.

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  Trade and Industry Department

  • South Ethiopia Regional State, Aribaminch

  • Technical Expert

    • Jul 1998 - Dec 1998
    • South Ethiopia Regional State, Aribaminch

    Major duties and accomplishment:o Prepared and implemented short and long term plan, project proposals for small and medium enterprises.o Prepared physical and financial report timely and submit to department head;o Designed and delivered capacity building training to small and medium enterprise.o Analyzed the impact of small and medium scale enterprise in creating job opportunity.