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Nairobi County, Kenya

San Francisco, CA, US

-Led Site Operations and Growth Strategy for the largest Strategic Account: Directed overall site operations, growth strategy, and external communications, ensuring seamless integration and execution.-Managed Budget and Generated Significant Revenue: Managed budgets effectively and generated revenue in excess of $15 million.-Build C-cuite and Peer.

New York, NY, US

• Drive Strategic Finance- Develop, manage and operationalize greater than $5M annual budgets- Have developed and yearly growing single-year and multi-year budgets linked to ambitious growthKPIs- Manage and oversee.
• Lead the People Function- Build a solid HR management team as well as best in class people management practices- Develop and roll out an enhanced performance management framework- Developed and rolled out a new.
• Restricted Grant Management and Reporting- Manage restricted grant reporting and adherence- Preparation of proposals
• Spearhead organizational excellence- Define and consistently measure organizational KPIs- Improve and maintain internal processes- Culture bearer in operating systems
• Procurement and Logistics Lead- Lead the development of Annual Procurement Plans- Coordinates and facilitates the procurement requirements of the local and regional offices on the basis of the procurement policy.

New York, New York, US

- Optimized budget allocation of the increased Travel and Entertainment spend of $2M across 6 African countries.- Achieved $200K reduction in department overspend by establishing ROI metrics and budget controls to improve prioritisation of the $3.2M department budget.- Managed a cross-functional team of 6 in 3 locations (Nairobi, Kampala and Lagos).

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

- Defined greater than 45 user stories to augment the transformation journey designed by McKinsey.- Led multi-disciplinary 29 person team to design, develop, and pilot online account opening and loan origination; prioritized and resolved 60+ new features and bug fixes.- Defined an innovation management framework that saw staff engagement rise by 20% in.

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

Key Achievements:- Created a five-year transformation strategy covering customer segmentation and product initiatives: Strategy approved by Board of Directors and projected to achieve 21% YoY growth.- Defined customer journeys using industry data for 5 distinct customer segments highlighting the value the bank can offer at different stages of the journey..

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

- Launched Kenya’s first smart branches that offered 24 hours of banking services through digital platforms and progressively brought down set up costs by 40% in subsequent branches.- Championed and implemented a cost saving initiative ensuring the organisation received daily news digitally saving sh 4M per year.- Increased staff engagement by 30% by.

KE

• Develop applications used by all the KQ staff both in head office and outstations (approximately 4200 staff).
• Develop and maintain application used by external job applicants.
• Develop and maintain applications used by KQ external customers.
• Developing reports which are used by management for decision making
• Integrating companywide systems.

Mombasa, Coast, KE

• Learn and understand all business processes in relation to the Supply chain.
• Identify all weaknesses in the Pwani business processes.
• Learn and understand all Oracle “Best Practice” business processes in relation to Supply Chain.
• Identify the gaps between the 2 business processes and try to bridge it or alternatively adopt Best Practice.
• Configure and set up Oracle E-business suite according to agrees processes with management.

Mombasa, Coast, KE

• Maintenance of the current custom made applications in VBA & MS Access /Ms Excel.
• Maintaining of IT Infrastructure in the organization.
• Ensuring security of data using ESST Antivirus Throughout the organization.
• Troubleshooting of hardware/software related issues so as to have minimum downtime.
• Ensuring content on the intranet is updated within the set deadlines.
• Managing the backend of the intranet in Joomla.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Project Planning And Management

Bsc Information Technology, Information Technology

Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education(Kcse)