CURRICULUM VITAE
SOULEYMANE BALDE
Email: *****************@*****.**
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Mobile: 347-***-****
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AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Accounting, Auditing, Financial
Analysis
TRAINING
July 2010: Executive Certificate in Management & Business Administration
(Accounting and Finance), Accra.
2002-2005: Master's Degree in Economics (Management option), Kofi Annan
University of Guinea.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 6, 2012 to October 3, 2013: Finance Manager, Winrock International
Guinea
. Manage financial and administrative functions of the project following
USAID and Winrock
policies and procedures, including preparing monthly projections, tracking
and reporting
monthly field expenses, procurement, managing project human resources,
. Maintain the general ledger and coordinate the preparation of monthly
trial balance and
reconciliation of project accounts
. Ensure the safe, efficient, and transparent handling of all accounting
and cash transactions
. Maintain cash books and other financial records
. Maintain deposit and check register
. Prepare the monthly bank reconciliation
. Prepare and submit monthly financial reports following USAID and
Winrock policies and
procedures
. Make sure all supporting documentation is prepared and filed according
to Winrock
procedures
. Prepare and submit monthly projections
. Coordinate and oversee procurement and financial transactions
. Manage project human resources functions, including drafting and
filing staff and local
consultants' contracts in consultation with the project lawyer and
complying with USAID
and Winrock policies and procedures as well as Guinean Labor Law.
. Manage payment of salaries and benefits to staff, including updating
staff leave records, and
ensuring that the project complies with Guinean laws regarding employment,
taxation, and
other relevant issues
. Examine procurement documents for goods purchased
. Completes payments of vendors and other services or goods in accordance
with USAID and
Winrock policies and procedures
October 4, 2010-July 29, 2011: Finance Officer, OIC International Ghana
December 1, 2008-December, 31 2009: Chief Accountant OICI "Opportunities
Industrialization Centers International Guinea (food security project
funded by USAID).
. Control entered transactions and bank reconciliation statements
. Account Analysis
. Preparation of payrolls and monthly newsletters
. Preparation and submission of monthly financial report to the
Philadelphia office
. Setting project accounting in the new "Quick Books Accounting"
software.
. Preparation of budget estimates
. Preparation of end of year financial statements (balance sheet,
income statement and statement schedules)
April 1, 2007-November 15, 2008: Assistant Financial Officer of AGBEF
(NGO):
. Imputation of accounting documents
. Recording of accounting transactions (general, cost and budgetary
accounting) in the SAARI software
. Preparation of workshops' budget
. Preparation of DRF in the client connection system of the World Bank
. Preparation of bank reconciliation statements
. Preparation of statements of wages paid in the SAARI software
. Preparation of annual budget from the operational action plan
. Introduction of budget estimates in the integrated IPPF "ims"
International management system
May 22, 2006-March 30, 2007
Internship, Ernst & Young (Audit Department)
SKILLS
Language: French (very good), English (Good)
Computers: Internet, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point.
Softwares: Sage saari (general, budget and payroll accounting), QuickBooks
Accounting,
INTERESTS
Regular reading of weekly newspapers, electronic media, football,
television.
REFERENCES
M. Leon Sakho: Regional African Director of OIC International Tel: 233
240668422s
e-mail: *****@*********.***
M. Bald Ahmadou Oury : Finance Office ECOWAS Abuja Tel : 234 816-***-****
e-mail: ******@****.******.***
Mr. Dwane M Deppe Senior Program Officer
Winrock International 2121 Crystal Drive, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22202,
USA www.winrock.org
office 571-***-**** cell 319-***-**** fax 730-***-**** e-mail
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