Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

I have a Masters in Business Administration, majoring in Finance from the University of Zimbabwe

ACCA

BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting

Senior Finance Officer

• Prepare periodic financial reports for submission to SMT and the funder as required. • Provide support to the Finance and Operations Director in budget forecasting, budget monitoring, and financial reporting. • Analysing budget patterns and project expenditures and inform senior management of any anticipated budget overruns. • Manage the operational cash account and develop cash flow projections for cash funded activities and ensure availability of cash. • Monitor receivable accounts and prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations. • Review expenditures to ensure that they are accurately recorded, adequately supported and are in line with ZHI policies and funder regulations ensuring that data integrity, internal controls, and audit trails are maintained throughout all transactions. • Assist HR in the preparation of monthly payroll, tax, pension, and other statutory remittances. • Review budgets and financial reports for sub-recipients. • Build the capacity of finance staff in financial management support and reporting and provide professional support to them. • Ensure availability of funds for program activities through timely submission of request for funds to the funder. • Support the process of developing cost proposals in response to RFA’s, RFP’s and unsolicited proposals for new funding opportunities as needed.

Finance and Administration Manager

• Develop, review, recommend updates to, and maintain policies and procedures relating to financial and operations management in alignment to grant agreements, donor rules and regulations. • Leading the setup, customization, and maintenance of the electronic and manual financial management processes (chart of accounts, document flow, document stewardship, filling, retrieval, and disposal process). • Leading the preparation of advance cash requests to donors, based on program projections, and oversee the correct and accurate treatment of donor income, including disbursements for internal implementation. • Oversee organizational expenditures/payments processes to ensure correct, accurate, timely and compliant treatment of all expenses/payments. • Lead the tracking and control of expenditures within donor approved obligations and budgets and make recommendations for timely corrective action. • Oversee the training of staff on accounting, finance and administration related hardware and software to support efficient and effective operational management of resources. • Develop templates for operations reporting and provide timely and accurate reports on all operations management processes to support efficient and evidence-based decision making by senior management.

Finance Specialist- Program and Operations

Achievements • Created the expenditure monitoring tool that increased efficiency significantly. • Successfully managed the UNICEF Systems audit with a clean report. Duties & Responsibilities • Rolling out grant management policies and procedures and ensure adherence by all stakeholders. • Reviewing budgets for new grant and contract documents before further review and signing. • Conducting grant start-up and close-out procedures/meetings etc. to ensure adherence to VSO policies and donor rules. • Maintaining files for each grant which includes comprehensive information such as signed contracts/ agreements, approved budgets, financial reports, contract modifications, funds requests and any other communications with the donor. • Review and ensure sub-grantee budgets are effectively managed and expenditure monitored on a regular basis. • With support of the cluster manager, establish effective reporting tools and templates for sub-grantees. • Analysing all sub-grantee expenditure documentation and invoicing to ensure compliance with donor rules and that expenditure is within budget. • Rigorously follow up on pending accountabilities for all partner advances • Regularly monitor all local partners’ capacity and coming up with trainings to equip them with necessary skills. • Timely processing of all grants and financial transactions ensuring accuracy and completeness. • Complete month close procedures with high accuracy • Maintaining the donor reporting timetable and ensuring timely reporting. • Prepare the budget verse actual variance analysis reports for each individual grant in the portfolio. • Keep track, monitor, and reconcile all invoices/funds requests to donors and ensure follow up is done. • Review to confirm the authenticity of purchases of goods and services. • Posting all invoices, claims, advances, and liquidations on a minimum of weekly into SUN • Timely preparations of monthly payroll, making sure all statutory payments are submitted to appropriate authorities.

Senior Finance Officer

Achievements • Crafted the motor vehicle, cash on hand policy and the finance manual. • Crafted the Grants Management Manual for ALZ • Successfully mentored sub-grantees and provided guidance to avoid disallowed costs. Duties and Responsibilities Budget Performance Management • Creating donor budgets during proposal development • Reviewing sub-grantee budgets and cash forecasts • Attending to donor queries during budget formation and revision processes. • Performing budget variance analysis and providing solutions to SMT Financial Management and Reporting • Designing a spending tracking tool to align implementation and spending. • Capturing journals into the QuickBooks • Producing monthly management reports for senior management team meetings • Assisting the Finance Manager with financial reports and dashboards for meetings. • Reviewing and consolidating the partner financial reports and submitting to the donor on a monthly basis • Reviewing bid analysis documents during procurement to ensure reasonability, allowability and allocability. • Ensuring that all financial transactions are in accordance with ALZ financial policies. • Reviewing monthly payrolls before payment to ensure accuracy. • Staff supervision, mentoring and capacity building to ensure their technical capability. • Participating and guiding the tender processes in terms of budget availability and sourcing requirements according to the donor rules Risk Management • Advising SMT on regulations changes that can affect the operations of the organisation. • Interfacing and managing audits and any follow up issues needing clearing before closure of the process. • Performing monthly cash flow forecasts for the organisation and partners • Mitigating financial risk Grants Management • Providing financial leadership to all grants implemented by ALZ. • Managing grants to comply with reporting, audit, compliance, budgetary and closeout requirements. • Maintaining oversight on Sub Recipients’ financial management and compliance

Grants Accountant

Achievements • Participated in budget development and proposal writing for 2 successful projects. • Successfully led a Finance Technical Working Group managing an EUR 1,67 million project. • Successfully trained partners on donor funding and rules. Duties and Responsibilities A. Financial Planning, Management and Reporting • Work with SO manager and officers to come up with grant budgets that support program designs, and are in line with the WVZ budgeting guidelines, specific donor guidelines and formats and Support office recommendations. • Translate donor budget formats to LEAP budget format (or any future standard budget that WVI may recommend) and post the full budget into the planned budgets screen of Sunsystems for donor reporting purposes. • Report Consolidation- Preparation of the financial report to the donor and this includes reviewing and consolidating financial reports from partners for submission to the Support Office/Donor. • Communicate with the Support Office on PBAS commitments and, as soon as possible, advise the Finance Manager of any challenges in getting the commitments on PBAS for his/her support and follow up. • Design and implement a spending tracking system to make sure all expenses are within budget before signing any requisition. • Participate in FFR review meetings with SO manager and Program staff giving advice of any deviations from planned spending, with recommendations for corrective actions to avert variances that are outside of the donor flexibility rules. • Review monthly balance sheet ledger reconciliations and analysing and follow up for clearance, any balance sheet items (for example, employee150 accounts, sub grantee accounts, amounts in accruals account, prepayments/deposits and any program receivables) that relate to the assigned grant. B. Donor Compliance Management • Advise the Finance Manager, Grant Coordinator, officers and key stakeholders of key grant contractual clauses, and ensure that all transactions and business processes do not violate those clauses. • Maintain a file of all key sub-grantee documents, and make sure they are easily accessible whenever needed. • Facilitate internal and external audits and donor compliance visits/assessments as may be required in any grant agreement. • Monitor sub grantees, if any, and ensure that they meet all conditions of the sub agreement and the general donor requirements, including timeliness of reports, quality of reports, sound business processes and adherence to own policies and procedures. • Participant in National Office and GC audits as may be required. C. Administration, Supply Chain • Maintaining a program specific asset register and ensure that it agrees with both the ledger and the master assets register. • Conducting quarterly asset reconciliations.

Finance and Logistics Officer

Achievements • Trained SNV Zimbabwe colleagues on the new SAP ByDesign system in 2017. • Trained and successfully managed 36 Rural District Councils' finance departments that were implementing the Rural Water Information Management Systems (RWIMS) Project on Donor Regulations. • Completed the UNICEF certificate on Prevention Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse • Led the Country Council as the Chairperson in 2017 that was working on employee welfare adjustments. • Designed the Petty cash reconciliation template that is still being used by the organisation. Duties and Responsibilities • Preparing monthly project reports (Finance and Time) and coordinating other finance officers • Coordinating the rest of the Project Finance Administrators to prepare monthly reports in the agreed format, check for errors in booking through checklists and file the reports. • Handling procurement and logistical requirements for the Mutare office • Supporting proper filing of documents for ease of reference and audit purposes • Supporting the design of and implementation of effective process flows • Ensuring compliance with SNV’s policies and procedures and various donor regulations. • Providing guidance and capacity building support to Rural Districts finance officers on financial accounting and management of donor funds • Designing and executing sub-grantee monitoring processes, including conducting assessments and site visits • Preparing grant budget-to-actual reports and partnering with program and development staff to ensure restricted funds are used in accordance with donor guidelines. • Ensuring proper preparation of Financial Statements, cash books, list of expenses, bank accounts reconciliations • Preparing accurate and timely quarterly, annual, or other financial reports as required by each contract to meet reporting requirements. • Advising management on regulations that may have an impact on organisational programs and policies. • Report to management on variances from budget and the reasons for the variances.

Audit & Accounting Supervisor

Achievements • Designed the Audit Memorandum for the Firm • Designed the Financial Reporting template that was being used for client audits. • Designed the audit templates for the manual audit process. Duties and Responsibilities • Conducting risk analysis of clients' business to develop appropriate audit plans to address identified risks and to ensure accurate reporting. • Assisting the audit manager in the preparation of the audit strategy and business plans, setting and monitoring budgets, scheduling audits. • Performing all pre-engagement activities (this includes, performing client take on procedures for new clients, performing an engagement evaluation, preparing engagement mandates, etc.). • Examine and evaluate the organization’s financial and information systems, management procedures, and managerial and internal controls to ensure records and controls are accurate. • Contributing to the development of assistants through on the job and in house training and performance evaluation. • Carry out a quality assurance role on the work of each member of staff through supervisory review of work done, and co-ordinate any other quality assurance/peer review processes that will give assurance to clients and the firms’ management on the quality of the products and services provided. • Drafting and discussing the Audit reports with Management that cover a detailed description of internal control weaknesses, the risks and recommendations for improvement. • Promulgating correcting journals to clients’ financial statements as and when there is need. • Audit of Schools, private businesses, NGOs and Councils. • Reviewing clients’ Annual Financial Statements for compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). • Review of interim results in preparation of the year-end audits. • Preparation of monthly management accounts for clients.

Audit and Accounting Clerk

• Preparation of audit programs, attending audit entrance meetings. • Carrying out statutory audit work in schools and local councils. • Writing up of cash books for clients. • Computation and remittance of statutory payments to statutory bodies • Carrying out systems audits and designing internal controls for clients’ systems

Bookkeeper

• Banking of daily income received from farmers • Analysing revenue expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels and ensure expenditure control • Writing up the cash book • Preparation of monthly management accounts • Debtors and creditors reconciliation • Computation of all statutory requirements • Remittance of all statutory dues • Filing of all statutory returns • Preparation of payroll • Ensuring sufficient availability of working capital