Financial Planning Finance Specialist
Resume:
NYABUTO ESTHER MACHANA
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Current Role: Financial Planning and Analysis Associate at Open Capital Advisors Telephone Number: (+254) 070*-******
Career Summary
I am an experienced Accounting and Finance specialist with a demonstrated history of working in accounting, audit, and finance. I am a strategic and results-focused individual with 5 years of successfully working in various accounts, and finance departments in the public and private sectors. My professional track record encompasses the ability to constantly implement departmental strategies to achieve organisational goals.
Technical Proficiency
o SPSS, and Stata, SQL.
o Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Outlook, Google Suite.
o Python and Javacript (Typescript)
o SAP
o QuickBooks (Online +Desktop), SAP
Professional Experience
1. Financial Planning and Analysis Associate at Open Capital Advisors - (September 2020 – Current) Open Capital Advisors is a management consulting and financial advisory firm committed to Africa’s growth. The company was founded in 2010 and has Prescence in over 20 countries currently, spread across Africa. The company has over 200 staff working across the different countries around the world.
Key Responsibilities
• Financial reporting and analysis - preparing management accounts for purposes of helping to secure funding from investors and advise the management on strategy.
• Normal day to day accounting tasks including credit control, setting the credit period for customers and debt collection, Bank reconciliation (During Covid 19) in the absence of junior staff, processing statutory deductions and filing of returns as required by law (VAT (R)+ WHVAT+WHT)
• Supporting the CFO with the preparation of annual consolidated accounts and the external statutory audit by producing reports, supporting documentation and explanations as required.
• Preparing interim and final donor financial statements, cumulative summaries, and periodic forecasts for review by finance managers, ensuring that these are accurate, that they are consistent with reported programme activity and that they are produced in accordance with agreed deadlines.
• Ensuring that donor/Grantor reports and forecasts comply with grant contracts, particularly for those donors with very specific detailed information requirements.
• Ensuring that transactions and cost allocations charged to grants are compliant with expenditure restrictions specified within donor agreements, and with donor requirements for allowable expenditure.
• Checking and closing donor grants that have reached their completion date, ensuring that final reports have been submitted, all funds are received, and contractual obligations met.
• Monitoring the operation of Open Capital Advisors financial processes including procurement and payments, ensuring that published procedures are followed, reporting any significant breaches and approving transactions in line with delegated authority.
• Drawing on observations and analysis of processes and procedures for financial management and donor accounting to provide suggestions, recommendations, and observations for improvements to finance managers.
• Accounts receivable and payable - invoicing customers, closing invoices, and paying suppliers.
• Track business funds and grants from donors, reporting profits and losses with consideration of taxes, creating financial reports and tracking costs for a business.
2. Supply Finance Analyst – Assist Role– East African Breweries Limited - DIAGEO (September 2019 – August 2020)
Key Responsibilities
• Support with factory inventory control and recording of procurements.
• Supporting the local procurement process from end-to-end, in coordination with the Finance & Operations, Project/Technical Teams; including but not limited to communicating with vendors, conducting market data research relative to suppliers and prices, and supporting with the solicitation of requests for quotation (RFQ), purchase requisitions
(PRs).
• Assisting with tracking all key financial details on procurement, past, current, and forecasts, inventory, and logistics in compliance with DIAGEO policies.
• Increasing the filling line and processing capacities through capture and analysis of operations data.
• Identifying new sources of data and as appropriate suggest new tools for analysis.
• Identifying channels of reducing inventory levels without decreasing customer service levels
• Responsible for identifying the cost impact of change requests that have been proposed within a project. NYABUTO ESTHER MACHANA
*************@*****.***
Current Role: Financial Planning and Analysis Associate at Open Capital Advisors Telephone Number: (+254) 070*-******
• Support the Solution Delivery Lead in identifying and evaluating the financially measurable benefits in a project. • Support project managers and Engineers in certifying the delivery of information services provided by IS vendors for payments to be released to the vendor for project work. 3. Auditor Audit Corporate Department – Deloitte East Africa (January 2019 – August 2019) Key Responsibilities
• Establishing working relationships with client personnel.
• Developing understanding of auditing methodology and tools.
• Performing analytical reviews of audit and assurance documents in compliance with IFRS regulations.
• Identify accounting and auditing issues and performing research to solve those issues Applying concepts of risk assessment.
• Reviewing client accounting and operating procedures and systems of internal control
• Providing recommendations for improved controls and enhanced business efficiency
• External Corporate Audit: Undertook audit in different entities including and not limited to Airtel LLP, Izwe Loans Kenya, Ecobank, Scan Group LLP among others.
• Training: Trained new attaches on accounting principles and company procedures.
• Reconciliations: Carried out monthly VAT and withholding tax reconciliations, ensuring that information is accurately collated & entered into the SAP system.
• Invoicing: participate in the input, match, batch, and code of invoices, preparing sales invoices updating accurate accounts filing system.
• Record Keeping: Ensured all invoices were correctly entered into the SAP system, duly stamped, and properly filed after payment. Helped internal auditors retrieve documents and put them back in the correct files after the audit process. 4. Intern National Oil Company –September 2015 – November 2015 Key Responsibilities
• Daily, weekly, and monthly assessment people, projects, systems, and equipment Performance Biometric analysis, report writing and Balance Score Card evaluation.
• Monthly update of the truckers and driver’s performance dashboard
• Data entry for Work ticket and Casual tracking engagement Analysis
• MS Visio, MS Project MS Word, SPSS, and MS Excel reports in the department Finishing up on data entry and analysis and writing weekly departmental reports.
• Development of questionnaires for the cleaning contract data entry using SPSS 5. Cashier – Gilanis retail and Wholesale Supermarket (Post High School – 2013 January to 2014 January) Key Responsibilities
• Accounting: Processed payments for customers, balancing the point-of-sale system at the end of each shift and ensuring that any discrepancies were properly managed.
• Inventory Management: Assisted with stock taking and inventory management; carried out general bookkeeping assignments.
Education
• Bachelor of Economics and Statistics – University of Nairobi
• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education – Mary Mount Secondary School (A 82 Points)
Professional Certification
1. Machine learning with Python for finance professionals 2. Solo learns – Achievement Advanced JavaScript
3. CPA 4 Certification
Referees
1.Cindy Mwenderani 2.Caroline Muthama
Group Finance and Accounts Manager, Finance Manager, UDA East African ***********@*****.*** Breweries
+254-********* ********@****.***
4. James Madegwa Etyang
Corporate Planning Manager
Geothermal Development
Company
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