Experience

Food For Education

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

• Chief Operating Officer

  • May 2022 - Present

  My role entails designing and implementing policies to promote our organization's culture and overseeing operations to keep the vision of feeding 1M kids daily on track.

• Head of Finance and Operations

  • Jul 2021 - May 2022

  • Work with the Founder/CEO to define growth objectives and targets will be achieved with the knowledge of where the operations are currently.• Coordinate and execute operations in new areas which include opening of new kitchen sites and on-boarding schools.• Analyse and interpret data (from finance and operations dashboard, including Tap2Eat analytics) toprovide insight-driven recommendations on areas for improvement, and to address root cause issues.• Optimise our value chain, across the Food for Education operations.• Provide updates to the Food for Education Board and Investment Committee as required.• Optimise the earned revenue funnel (parents contributions).• Creating data and analytics infrastructure to optimise operations.• Aligning and driving the organisation’s key performance indicators.• Extracting customer insights to improve operations and delivery. Show less

• Finance Manager

  • Feb 2020 - May 2022

  • Managing all accounting functions, including bookkeeping/ledgering and financial transactions, and all asset, liability, and capital account entries.• Coordinate and execute growth initiatives which include opening of new kitchen sites and on-boarding schools.• Preparing regular financial management reports to the CEO (Founder), Management team, and Board of Directors, including monthly closes, quarterly reports, and annual reports• Managing the budgeting process, inventory and costings per meal.• Managing the audit process and work closely with the auditors and management to establish financial controls and procedures to meet stringent accounting standards• Providing financial analyses on operational costs and develop and recommend strategies to reduce unit cost of Food for Education’s core service delivery.• Reconciling financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.• Securing financial information by developing procedures for data backup and maintaining financial security by following internal controls.• Answering accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.• Complying with national and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.• Preparing special financial reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising account information and trends.• Analyse and interpret data (from various sources, including Tap2Eat analytics) to provide insight-driven recommendations on areas for improvement and to address root cause issues. Apply your insights and experience in this space to build out our data and analytics strategy as we scale our work. Show less



Metis

• Kenya
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Metis Consult

• Kenya

• Lead Consultant

  • Nov 2018 - May 2022

  • Accurate and timely financial reporting on management reports for Mètis client portfolio. • Lead in due diligence for investment portfolio for an East African Private Equity Firm. • Fund and investment management for part of an East African Private Equity investment portfolio worth over $4M. • Execution of commercial operations, audit plan by evaluating and providing assurance that risk management, control and governance systems are functional and will enable the organisation to meet its goals. • Performing internal quality assurance reviews for our portfolio of clients including internal audit on an annual basis to check its effectiveness against the set key performance indicators. • Leading Mètis portfolio in ensuring strict adherence to all local taxes and regulations including filing of all relevant taxes as provided for by the law. • Lead Mètis engagement with external parties e.g. auditors, suppliers, customers/donors, government etc. • Preparation of management accounts and annual budgets and carrying out reviews of the same by monitoring the actual vs the budget figures so as ensure proper utilisation of resources. • Supporting and supervising human resource function in the organisation to ensuring there is smooth operations and that there is compliance to the local provisions in addition to team management Providing real-time guidance and feedback on performance through regular performance reviews. • Monitor and advise on working capital management and carrying out business analysis. Show less



Pulse Healthcare Limited

• Financial Controller

  • Nov 2015 - Oct 2018

  • Spearheading of the day to day management of financial services including bought ledger, financial and capital accounting, income, credit control, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and other financial controls. • Ensuring all financial statements are accurate, complete and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (IFRS) and other industry standards. • Responsible for risk and contingency analysis and identifying areas of potential risk threatening assets, earning capacity and organizational success. Setting and meeting targets for organizational growth so enable the finance department aid in meeting the company objectives. • Preparation of financial reports, budgets, cost reports and financial forecasts to aid strategic decision making. • Working across departments to enable a collaborative decision making based upon financial data. Ensuring that the decision makers in the firm understand the financial implications of the missions they set. • Carrying out statutory audit preparations and lead assignment to completion (for accounting jobs), audit and reports preparation (for external audit jobs) and management reports (for internal audit jobs). Show less



Grandeur Consulting Limited / Geoffe & Associates

• Senior Accountant

  • Feb 2010 - Oct 2015

  • Preparation of the General Ledger accounting work to ensure that revenues and costs are correctly allocated and monitored including regular reconciliations of accounts. • Monthly reconciliation of income statement and balance sheet accounts, Extraction of trial balance, preparation of financial statements and writing of primary books of accounts. •Preparation of audits-Which included performing the full audit cycle including risk management and control management over operations’ effectiveness, financial reliability and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations; determining internal audit scope and developing annual plans; obtaining, analyzing and evaluating accounting documentation, reports, data, flowcharts. • Preparation of management accounts payrolls and filing returns, preparation of VAT 3 and filing returns and preparation of various tax returns and filing with Kenya Revenue Authority. • Implement financial systems, develop functional specifications for approved enhancements, document changes and updates to the system, and resolve technical problems • Updating daily & monthly transaction in the respective accounting systems (QuickBooks, Pastel or sage evolution). Show less