Finance Manager

• Jul 2021 - Present

Chief Executive Officer at Port Florence Group of Hospitals

• Sep 2018 - Present

Consultant

• Oct 2010 - Oct 2019

Head of Finance and Operations

• Jan 2012 - Sep 2018

Omega Foundation is a civil society organisation in Kenya. The organisation aims to strengthen the capacity of communities to live meaningful lives through integrated health and innovative livelihood solutions. Major areas of focus include reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, Institutional strengthening and Water and Sanitation. In Kenya it sought to improve the health systems of the civil society organizations and build their capacity to be able to receive direct funding from the USAID. Through the grant, a health portal was created to be managed by the government through the ministry of health. In this role Maher provided oversight over a USD 15Million (2012-2014). Individual sub grantees were awarded between USD 800,000 – USD 1,000,000. Maher was responsible for providing strategic and financial oversight to 20 civil society organisations by establishing financial and sub-grant policies and procedures. Maher also developed the fund risk register covering all aspects of program and organisational risks. Management of disbursements and funds transfers, review and approval of requests from sub grantees, monitoring of fund balances, grant expenditure and on- going performance of awards(grants tracking) to the specification of the grant agreements. When implementing this grant, Maher was responsible for the review of commodities (such as supplies, materials, vehicles, equipment, etc) procured by the recipient or directly procured by USAID for the recipients use. My roles in this assignment was to confirm whether the commodities existed or were used for the intended purpose in accordance with the terms of the agreements, and whether control procedures existed and have been placed in operation to safe guard the commodities. My review reports resulted in the development of water tight procurement policies which have been adopted by the various organizations. Other key audit processes Maher carried out included determination of adequate documentation for advances of funds, Show less

Finance and Administration Manager

• Jun 2010 - Dec 2011

Sustainable Aid in Africa International (SANA) supports the government’s role in planning, monitoring and evaluation by encouraging the continuation of the District Water and Sanitation Development Committee co-ordination meetings and by sharing the baseline with the relevant government departments. SANA International works in over 150 schools covering over 4 counties in Kenya. The water and Sanitation projects were largely funded by UNICEF, Cordaid and the Un-Habitat and aimed at supporting school health programmes by constructing latrines for boys and girls and also water tanks/shallow wells and water for credit concept which targeted communities in hard to reach areas. Paul Maher initiated the concept of credit for water in 10 community water organisations. In this role, Maher provided oversight to USD 5Million (5 year grant) to 10 communities as a revolving fund and 50 primary schools in hard to reach areas prone to waterborne diseases. Maher developed contracts for the revolving fund (credit for water) with the communities and financial controls to ensure money collected by the groups are banked and reported accurately. Besides the achievements stated above, Maher was also involved in the audit of close out activities. In this assignment Maher was responsible for review of unliquidated advances to the recipient and pending advances by Sana International. My role ensured that the recipient returned excess cash to Sana International. Also ensured that all the assets (inventories, fixed assets and commodities etc) procured with program funds were disposed in accordance with the terms of the agreement. At the end of this audit Maher presented as an annex to the fund accountability statement, the balances and details of final inventories of nonexpendable property acquired under the agreements. Show less

Audit Senior

• Sep 2007 - Jun 2010

While at PKF, Maher was the senior in charge conducting a tax health audit at Agro Chemical and Food Company Limited (ACFC). This is an applied industrial Biotechnology plant owned jointly by the Government of Kenya through the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation and Agricultural Development Corporation on the one hand and the International Investment Corporation on the other hand. My role was to check compliance with the regulatory frameworks on the various tax points. In particular, corporation tax, taxation of employee salaries and other payroll by products, compliance with actual submission dates of the various taxes (Pay As You Earn, NSSF, NHIF etc), Value Added tax compliance, Organization compliance with the local labour laws. Maher designed audit procedures to be used by the audit assistants in assessing the controls around the payment of taxes, identification of taxable and non taxable expenditures, qualifying and non qualifying costs for capital deductions and additional tests for verification of the payroll computation and applicable taxes. Maher also prepared the final report of findings which was used by the organization to obtain tax compliance certificates and qualify for certification by ISO 9001:2008. In another assignment Maher was involved in the financial audit of Nyanza Reproductive Health Society. NHRS Operates programs under voluntary medical male circumcision Test and Treat, Sustainable Health and Peoples Environment Program. The engagement was to audit a VMMC program funded by CDC. In this assignment, Maher developed an audit program aimed at checking compliance with the engagement contract with CDC, review of systems and postings to the ledger, compliance with procurement procedures and best practices, use of funds disbursed and material supplies. The report of the audit report was used to secure additional funding to cover 3 additional years. Show less