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The Hague Area, Netherlands

 Advice management of Oxfam’s Country offices and head office management units, on various aspects of Financial and Risk management. Facilitate multi-annual forecasting and accountability of internal and externally funded programmes.  Support development, review and refinement of financial and administrative procedures, as well as enforcement of their compliance.  Support the consolidation of periodical (monthly, quarterly and annual) financial reporting process.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Advise, support and develop financial management aspects and risks, as well as the consolidation of monthly and quarterly reports, multi-annual forecasting and preparation of the annual accounts for the benefit of the International Department (including country offices).

Netherlands

Undertake induction training of new staff, advise the country offices on procedural aspects of the policy/project cycle, and develop new training materials.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Coordinate the decentralisation of 7 country programmes and 1 continental programme from the Head office in The Netherlands to the various countries in Horn, East and Central parts of Africa.

Nairobi, Kenya

As manger of the regional office, provide leadership to the field office by translating the annual plan to regional strategic decisions and implement the outcomes, manage the day-to-day’s human, program and financial resources, in line with the long-term organisational and Oxfam International objectives, policies and strategies.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Contribute to the formulation and implementation of Oxfam Novib’s Micro-finance policy with special attention to the partners’ programmes, from the identification phase to implementation and evaluation.Facilitated the creation and set up of over EUR 20 million loan portfolios over a seven-year period (2004 – 2010) in more than 8 MFIs at various stages of development in the Horn of Africa and West Africa regions.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Analyse financial aspects of project design, implementation and evaluation. This includes a review of progress financial reports and audited annual accounts of Oxfam Novib’s counterparts to ensure a proper accountability and transparency; assess, together with the Programme Officer, the organisational structure, capacity and management systems of counterparts as well as their external risks and communicate about these issues directly with the counterparts.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Assess the financial aspects of new project proposals and determine their feasibility and viability for financial support. Analysing financial reports from Cordaid’s partners (NGO’s) and advise on improvement of their financial management practises and reporting.

Provide advice on international joint venture project identification, development and management such as assessment of their economic, financial and operational impact, and develop their appropriate business plans. Carried out an investment appraisal of relocating floricultural production activities from The Netherlands to Tanzania: a value chain approach to a cost-benefit analysis of the joint-venture business partnership between, a Dutch floricultural company and its Tanzanian counterpart.

Kenya

Analyse and advise project and mission management on financial aspects of project design, implementation and evaluation of selected projects.Carried out financial management assessments on local and international based Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) and Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO’s) to determine their ability to manage USAID grants

Kenya

Provide direct supervision to 21 staff responsible for maintaining accurate and up to date personal accounts and handle all correspondences related to their status of account for roughly 50,000 clients spread all over the country.

Kenya

Prepare/plan, execute and complete audit programs for both interim and final audits of various parastatal (joint private/state owned) companies.

Kenya

Assist in maintaining general ledger and financial reporting for a Belgian affiliated international freight clearing and forwarding company.

Microfinance

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Financial Management

Budgeting And Financial Management

Certified Public Accountants Of Kenya (Cpa) Ii

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom.), Accounting Option