Responsibilities:
Coordinated month-end financial reconciliation processes.
Supported the compliance of financial information with required accounting standards.
Updated financial procedures and manuals to ensure effective control of the company's finances.
Reviewed expense reports for accuracy prior to submission for payment processing; identified areas of cost savings or improvement opportunities.
Assisted in the development of annual budgets, forecasts, long-term plans, and other special projects as required by senior management.
Responsibilities:
Project management and finance advisor under HQ Shared Services Center
Project and financial risk management and compliance coordinator
Knowledge management coordinator for project and finance personnel
Provided expert guidance to country offices, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and donor requirements.
Supported project and finance teams to ensure the completeness of project budgets, expenditures, and financial reports.
Conducted financial analysis and risk assessments for ongoing projects, offering timely advice on budget reallocations or cost-saving measures.
Developed custom tools for project closure and operational risk assessment across country offices.
Conducted and supported the conduct of best practices training to personnel in country offices.
Providing custom project finance reports to top donors such as USAID, EU, UN, and KOICA, among others.
Research-based degree in Finance and Econometrics.
Business Administration in Accounting (with research)
CPA PREP Courses
Journal Publication (Co-author)
Corporate governance structures and bank risk taking behaviour: Evidence from Africa using income bracket approach. (access here)
Master's Thesis
Does non-interest income make banks more risky? Retail vs Investment banks in Africa. (access here)
Responsibilities:
Optimized cash management for country offices, ensuring precise replenishments based on forecasts for enhanced financial resilience.
Maintained impeccable financial accuracy through monthly reconciliations, guaranteeing flawless records of HQ and other cash accounts.
Maximized efficiency in financial operations by overseeing ERP-driven payroll processing and vendor payments.
Enhanced financial record accuracy by promptly addressing discrepancies through necessary accounting ledger corrections.
Instrumental in seamlessly integrating bank accounts into the corporate ERP system, significantly improving data accessibility and system compliance.
Formulated and implemented standardized operating procedures for banking and Treasury operations, optimizing processes and ensuring consistency.
Responsibilities:
Provided geographic analyses to support the change management process
Undertook HR data cleanup, and maintained data free from errors and material misstatements
Implemented HR and change management dashboards
Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Achievement:
Supported the timely cleanup and migration of people's data for the organization.
Responsibilities:
Taught corporate finance and investment courses for undergraduate levels on our different campuses
Provided tutorials for post-graduate investment courses.
Conduct financial analyses in Excel, STATA, E-Views, and R to support the research of faculty members.
Possess experience in conducting financial analyses of various firms across various contexts
Safeguard informational assets
SOPs, PQMS, Knowledge Management
Compliance and best practices trainer
Initiation to reporting workflow mastery
Designed and managed engineers in building SaaS products
Econometrics, Data collection, Analyses, and reporting
Budgeting, Monitoring, and Financial Reports
AP, AR, Payroll, General Ledger, Reporting, Reconciliation, and Analysis
Banking, Reconciliation, and Treasury management
UNIT4, Netsuite, SAGE300
Excel, Sheets, Python
Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Trello, Jira, Slack, Confluence
Looker, Power BI, Tableau
Sheet, Docs, Slides, Looker
IBM-SPSS, STATA, E-Views