As a Senior Management Accountant, I was involved in the new JV contract negotiation with KLM and Air France in matters relating to Joint venture governance, Joint venture settlement and joint venture growth. All this aimed at steering the partnership into profitability by;• improving efficiency by maximizing yield and minimizing costs• managing capacity and,• improving connectivity within, between Africa and the rest of the world.Another key achievement was managing the smooth integration of Air France financials into the joint venture accounting framework.My other key responsibilities are• Develop and maintain processes to ensure compliance with financial terms of Joint venture contracts.• Ensure preparation of year- end and preliminary audit schedules for the cost tie backs.• Conduct audits on JV partner financials.• Evaluate and monitor various inputs into Joint Venture routes, contracts, SPA’s and assess the impact of JV performance on overall network profitability and advise management.ReportingKey responsibilities were.• To ensure timely and accurate production of monthly management reports and operating statistics;• To ensure weekly route performance reports and analyses is shared with the business to track performance;• To ensure timely and accurate production of monthly management reports and operating statistics;• To advise management on the business performance by providing in-depth analysis of financials;• Monthly review of account balances to explain the movements;• Forecast business performance and provide gap analysis;• Manage process flows within the budget module to ensure group budgets and periodic forecasts are consolidated in line with inputs from various business units;• Coordinate and support the external audit process by ensuring provision of necessary information and providing the business overview

As a Management Accountant I was involved in the following business functions.• Preparation of monthly management reports and operating statistics• Preparation of the cost budget and consolidation of the group budget• Preparation and submission of forecasts and rolling forecasts• Variance analysis and explanation to the management for decision making• Preparing weekly and monthly route performance and analysis• Preparing business cases to aid decision making• Provide business insights to auditors during the end year audit• Prepare reports for the investor briefing and other stakeholders• Prepare monthly joint venture accounts and perform audits on joint venture partners.

As a fund management accountant in the Treasury division I was involved in.• Carrying out currency transfers across the vast KQ network• Provide information for cashflow monitoring• Funding imprest accounts throughout the Kenya Airways network• Monitoring collection accounts to fund main currency accounts to enable smooth running of operations• Funding main currency accounts from collection accounts• Forex trading• Online refunds• Bank reconciliation for multiple currencies

As a Tax accountant in Kenya Airways I was involved in;• Tax compliance for Kenya and outstations (East Africa, Europe, Middle East and Southern Africa)• Tax planning• Tax saving initiatives• Negotiations with government for tax exemptions• Carrying out tax audits pointing out weaknesses and proposing corrective actionsMy notable achievements as a tax accountant was the successful lobbying for exemption of Kenya Airways from paying the railway development levy and VAT on imported aircraft parts resulting to a cashflow saving of over KES 1.6B and successfully challenging a passenger tax assessment by the South African Revenue Services resulting in a KES 500million saving