Yusuf Ibrahim Newland

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Fort Washington, MD 20744

Cell: 301-***-****/Home: 301-***-****

acvggt@r.postjobfree.com

PERSONAL SUMMARY

Result driven, self-motivated, critical thinking and experienced Finance and Administration professional. Fifteen Years’ experience in management, accounting, auditing and reporting of Donor Funding/Project Finance Management, from operational to managerial level. Proven ability to effectively lead a team within a wider geographical span (north/west Africa) with regular travels across Africa/Europe for trainings, meetings and workshop participations. 10+ Experienced on end user trainings on Dynamic Nav and implementation of organizational procedures and policy standards. Chartered administrator and finalist on the ACCA/MBA dual certification program. Looking for a challenging opportunity as I have just moved to the United States to join my family

AREARS OF EXPERTISE

Financial Management

Dynamic Nav ERP Applications

Project Proposal & Management

Not-For-Profit Expertise

Capacity Building/Internal Trainings

Cultivating & Soliciting Major Donors

Microsoft Office Applications

Public Funding Management & Reporting

Internal Audit & Review

Regular Travel to international Meetings/workshop

Budgeting & Budgetary Controls

Financial Accounting, GAAP, IFRS, CAS

System Change Implementation

Strategic Planning & Corporate Reporting

Governance, Compliance & Ethics

Redesigning of systems, processes and policies

Teambuilding & Staff coaching

Business law and Contract Management

CAREER EXPERIENCE

SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES INTERNATIONAL (Not-for-profit organisation helping vulnerable children around the world), REGIONAL OFFICE WEST/CENTRAL AFRICA

Regional Finance and controlling Advisor, Jun 2014 – May 2016

SOS Regional Branch office oversees the operations of six countries as we try to reach out to vulnerable children’s in the areas of family based care homes, family strengthening programs in the community, schools, medical centres, vocational centres and emergency response programs. These programs have an approximate Total annual budget of USD 20m, 1,900 staff and 18,200 beneficiaries. Donors comes from across various strata like public/government funds, individual and corporate giving

Contributed to the transition of the global wide organisation restructuring by successfully taking over the finance & Controlling leadership role at the Regional Branch office based in Banjul with a cluster finance team of six core and twenty extended co-workers

Review and Investigate external audit issues from annual audit report in the Countries national operations and build co-workers capacity to improve on the issues reported to avoid recurrence

Successfully lead the budget team of six core co-workers in 6 countries in the preparation of the 2016 budget of total value of about USD 20m for initial donor approval

Vigorously pursue actions and strategies to ensure that countries operation meet data quality requirements for the accounting and reporting for Donor Funds. This is achieved by regular data quality verifications checks, follows up on recommendations and redesigned of funds requisitions and applications reporting template

Regional Finance and Project Coordinator, Apr 2008 – Jun 2014

Key member of the organisation’s global system support team. Successfully oversee the system change over from SOS Global to Dynamics Nav Accounting Application and also the upgrade from Nav 5.0 to Nav 2013. The Go-To person on system issues

Effectively worked with co-workers at the national level for the completion of regular external audit that meets stringent donor requirements and international standards. This is done by coordinating accounts/documents preparation, liaise with external auditors, review and verify draft audit report for accuracy and completeness and further endorsement for final publishing

Conducted capacity building of a total of about 30 co-workers at the various countries after thorough skill gap analysis to identify areas that needs improvement and training. This is done so as to enable the team to meet the challenges of donor and regulatory requirement in the accounting and reporting activities

Successful designing of a complete set of reporting templates to meet the various public donors reporting requirement. This is done by understanding the expectations of donors from as per agreed framework and look at how this can be retrieved from our system database with 100% accuracy and completeness. This resulted with a an expressive satisfaction from the side of many donors and help to secure further funding agreements

Accountant, Apr 2000 – March 2008

As a program unit accountant responsible for all accounting of the program including maintaining the bank/cash register, payroll, and fixed asset. Maintenance of risk register, revenue recognition and measurement, accounts receivable and accounts payable ledgers and prepare monthly and annual budget and cash flow forecast

Managerial and financial accounting support, execution of period end closing processes, project financial analytical support, Revenue and cost variance analysis and implement internal financial controls.

SHYBEN A. MADI & SONS LTD- (Import/export and commercial trading company)

BANJUL, THE GAMBIA

Accountant - September 1997 – March 2000

Responsible for the accounting of the Motor Vehicle department managing payroll, bank reconciliations, Updating & monitoring accounts records including cash register and banking transactions, payable and receivables, monthly/yearly profit or loss account, budget and cashflow amongst other tasks

I took over this position after the previous person left for four months, I successfully studied the system, updated all records and produced the profit and loss accounts for the last four months in two three weeks

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONALISM

London School Of Business & Finance, UK

MBA – Global Finance, Feb 2015 – December 2016 (ACCA/LSBF Dual Certification Program)

>Marketing and Business Environment [core] >Accounting and Managerial Finance [core]

>Systems and Operations Management [core] >Strategic Management and Leadership [core]

>Performance Management and Control [elective] >Advanced Corporate Reporting [elective]

>Final Management Project [dissertation]

Association of Chartered Certified Accountant, UK (accaglobal.org)

Post Graduate Level Diploma In Accounting, Financial Management & Auditing, Jun 2008 – December 2016

> Accountant in Business >Management Accounting > Financial Accounting

>Financial Reporting >Corporate & Business Law >Business Analysis

> Advance Financial Management >Taxation >Audit & Assurance

>Financial Management >Corporate Reporting

>Governance, Risk & Ethics >Advance Performance Management

Institute Of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, UK (icsa.org.uk)

Post Graduate Level Diploma in Governance, Compliance, Business Administration, Corporate & Business Law, Strategic Planning, Dec 1997-Nov 2005

>Business Economic >Quantitative Technique >Organizational Behavior

>English & EU Law >Accounting >Management Principles

>Business Law >Managing Information System >Strategic & Operations Managt

>Financial Accounting >Management Accounting >Corporate Administration

>Corporate Financial Managt >Corporate Governance >Corporate Secretaryship

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