Experience

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  Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  • Uganda
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Financial Crime Compliance Officer

    • Sep 2021 - Present

    On secondment to the Tax Investigation Department on the financial crime investigation - construction sector task force charged with recovering lost tax revenue through investigating and facilitating the prosecution of players who carry out fraud by under declaring incomes, not paying taxes etc.

  • Change Management Officer

    • Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

    Focused on preparing, equipping and providing support individuals (both external and internal to URA) to adopt and use the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) during the transition from periodic information declaration to real-time information sharing with URA. Key activities and success points include: 1. Capacity building: overall training coordinator for trainer of trainers program, pilot project implementation, project launch and URA staff with over 5000 businesses and individuals successfully trained. 2. Communication, engagement and stakeholder management: work with the public relations and media teams to ensure timely, complete and accurate information to the public and staff of URA. This involved content development for multimedia platforms and purposes, quality assuring messages, publications and adverts, work with the project team to coordinate logistics and resources for stakeholder engagements with key partners etc. 3. Budgeting and procurement; work with relevant teams to develop and maintain a change management budget to cover all necessary procurements such as promotional items, required terms of reference, media related items, develop and maintain procurement reports etc. 4. Change management: coordinate the required activities to ensure smooth transition ranging from developing, updating and maintaining required plans such as the change management plans, resistance management plans, communication plans, stakeholder management plan, Lotteries, promotional and rewarding campaign strategies and criteria through to coaching related parties on their various roles before and after the implementation of EFRIS.

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  Uganda Revenue Authority

  • Kampala

  • Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution project team coordinator

    • Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Kampala

    Provide support to the EFRIS project manager by coordinating the day-to-day activities, work group teams and other related parties to ensure that the project is running according to plan, time and budget. Key activities and success points include;1) documentation and reporting: Develop and update the User requirement specification document for the Fiscal Document Management module in EFRIS, store and maintain project documents both online and physically, submit section monthly performance reports to the project manager, update and monitor the Risk register and issue logs etc. 2. communication and engagement: plan, schedule and implement required communication and stakeholder engagements such as project launch, meetings, requirement gathering sessions for the project. 3. budget, procurement and resource utilization: monitor resource and budget plans to ensure maximum utilization, work with the division budget liaison to procure necessary logistics, stationery, resources such as the design and creative personnel, travels etc. 4. planning and administration: coordinate work group teams for business process, change management, IT and monitoring and evaluation, work with work group leads to schedule activity plans according to priority.

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  National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

  • Tokyo, Japan

  • Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Partnership Program Scholar 2017

    • Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
    • Tokyo, Japan

    The program is comprised of two segments: an economics-oriented academic segment and a practicum segment at the National Tax Agency for a duration of 9 months. The academic segment of the program provides rigorous economics-oriented training aimed at developing an understanding of the theoretical, empirical, and institutional aspects of tax policy implementation and administration in the context of developing countries’ economic and social development. A practicum at the National Tax Administration or the Customs Training Institute provides an opportunity for students to enhance their learning with hands-on experience in a tax/customs-related work environment and to integrate this experience with their formal education.

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  Uganda Revenue Authority

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Domestic Taxes Officer

    • Aug 2011 - Aug 2017
    • Kampala, Uganda

    Domestic tax compliance officer focused on enhancing voluntary tax compliance, collecting and protecting tax revenue. Key activities and success points include; Mobile Enforcement Unit – Acting Supervisor | August 2016 – August 20171. Planning and supervision: This involved developing and overseeing the implementation of day -to-day operational activities based on the division strategic plans, appraise team members cycle performances, develop and oversee implementation of the procedures and guidelines for operation, assess training needs, files and document custodian. 2. Communication and stakeholder management: communicate to and implement field activities such as compliance check road blocks, attend and present at management meetings as required, share feedback and recommended action plans to other stations and leader. 3. Reporting, budgeting and procurement: Receive, analyze and quality assure weekly and monthly reports before forwarding to the Manager, Plan and develop budgets for the operational needs of the unit. Audit and Compliance | August 2011 – August 2016 rental project1. Profile tax payers to understand their businesses, identify and assess risk and ascertain compliance status using dynamic and 3rd party data reports, system data analysis etc. 2. Plan and carry out audits on tax payers to enhance compliance and deter revenue loss 3. Enhance voluntary tax compliance through refund management, follow-up action and compliance checks, tax education etc. 4. Collect revenue as ascertained from various audits, assessments, self-declarations etc. as per set targets. 5. Enhance communication within the office through timely response to communications, courteous visits etc. 6. Improve Business process management by completing tasks in time, attending trainings, completion of performance reports and knowledge sharing etc. in the office through