Summary

Work experience

• Junior Finance Specialist

  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  2024.06-Current

  (a year)

  Key Achievements: ▪ Assisting in maintaining records, documentation and files for admin, operations, and finance work. ▪ Travel Advance Calculation: Ensure travel advances are calculated correctly in accordance with the organization's policies and guidelines. ▪ Supporting logistics during field visits by organizing transportation and proper costing are met. ▪ Payment of Withholding taxes for all projects on a timely basis. Responsibilities: ▪ Processing Approved Payments: Managing and Payment approved payments, including per diems, transportation expenses, Mpesa transfers, and bank transactions. ▪ Financial Transaction Posting: Support the accurate posting of all financial transactions, especially payments, into the organization's accounting software, WINPACCS. ▪ Voucher Reposting: Correct and repost account vouchers when errors or discrepancies are found. ▪ Transaction Reconciliation Assistance: Aid in the reconciliation of financial records, comparing bank, cash, and Mpesa transactions with entries in the cashbook. ▪ Petty Cash Management: Ensuring that the petty cash is balanced and reconciled at the end of each day, with all payments made promptly, accurately, and with proper approvals. ▪ Receivables Management: Assist in tracking, following up on, and clearing outstanding amounts owed to the organization. ▪ Handling the shipment of completed project finance documents, ensuring they are properly labeled and fully complete. ▪ Providing support in strengthening the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) for finance, Procurement and IT
• Finance and Administrative Assistant

  GRIC Africa

  2023.03-2024.06

  (a year)

  Key Achievements: ▪ Assisting in maintaining records, documentation and files for admin, operations, and finance work. ▪ Accurately recording accounts receivables and accounts payables in the company’s ERP. ▪ Providing administrative support during budget preparation. ▪ Supporting logistics during field visits by organizing transportation and proper costing are met. Responsibilities: ▪ Ensuring the accuracy of financial reports, budgets and narrative reports for Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya Partners, I analyze, keep track of, and make sure all they are properly expensed. ▪ Ensuring that our XERO accounts are up to date by accurately and timely booking bills and clearing them off when the actual payments are made. ▪ Training financial management to our East African partners to ensure effective financial policies, procedures, and bookkeeping. ▪ Processing payroll, statutory payments, VAT, and withholding taxes in time. ▪ Providing support in Annual Audits, by ensuring all payments are accurate, made on time and well supported. ▪ Conducted monitoring visits to the project sites where our partners are implementing the project for support purposes. ▪ Ensuring timely submission of travel-related expense claims, verifying the accuracy of expense reports, and processing transport reimbursement requests. ▪ Giving training on how to use accounting software’s such as QuickBooks, Oracle NetSuite, XERO and Navision to our East African partners to ease their audit processes. ▪ Ensuring that our XERO accounts are up to date by accurately and timely booking bills and clearing them off when the actual payments are made. ▪ Supporting in coordinating and organizing events, workshops, and partner travel. ▪ Filling of financial documents. ▪ Coordinate with the procurement team to ensure that each payment has its own pertinent document. ▪ Making sure there is adequate petty cash money in the office to fund operations. ▪ Reconciling the bank statements versus the account balances in Xero. ▪ Supported in logistics during field visits by organizing for transportation and proper costing are met.
• Finance Assistant

  GRIC Africa

  2022.01-2023.02

  (a year)

  Key Achievements: ▪ Successfully supported Annual Audits, by ensuring all payments are accurate, done on time and well supported. ▪ Developed an efficient filing and documentation tool, that streamlined processes. ▪ Contributed to verifying completeness and accuracy of accounting vouchers for payments. Responsibilities: ▪ Ensured that our XERO accounts are up to date by accurately and timely booking bills and clearing them off when the actual payments are made. ▪ Supported in logistics during field visits by organizing for transportation and proper costing are met. ▪ Trained financial management to our East African partners to ensure effective financial policies, procedures, and bookkeeping. ▪ Assisted in maintaining records documentation and files for admin, operations, and finance work. ▪ Assisted in processing payroll, statutory payments, and withholding taxes in time. ▪ Coordinated with the procurement team to ensure that each payment has its own pertinent document. ▪ Ensured there is adequate petty cash money in the office to fund operations. ▪ Served as a mentor to Fellows in subsequent cohorts and/or lead sessions in their Communities of Learning.
• Finance Intern

  GRiC Africa

  2021.01-2021.12

  (a year)

  ▪ Assisted in Planning for a successful youth conference.

Educational experience

• Machakos University

  Economics and Statistics

  2016.02-2021.11

  (6 years)

  Sep 2016 - Jun 2021 Grade: Second class Honours My degree in Economics and Statistics helped me develop the research skills, accounting skills, proper book keeping skills and basic knowledge necessary for a job. For example, for my senior project, I researched about poor payments of salaries in Kenya at three different libraries, a sample of about 8 employees and also conducted extensive online research. My ability to find and read a variety of sources have equipped me with proper management of time and work, accuracy and also a variety of tools to use in the Admin and finance space.
• Anestar Boys High school

  Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

  2011.02-2015.11

  (5 years)

  High School Cerificate

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