Reporting to the Managing Director, my roles include;• Leading and managing a finance team of 52 to ensure performance objectives are cascaded throughout the department• Developing and directing the implementation of the strategic business plan, operational plans, and ADHOC projects• Managing and coordinating all fiscal reporting activities• Coordinating the preparation of financial statements, financial reports, special analyses and carrying out detailed reviews of these files for accuracy/fairness before they are issued• Ensuring compliance with Government reporting requirements• Overseeing the approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, position control documents, department budgets, salary updates and account maintenance• Coordinating and approving changes/improvements in automated financial management information systems in the Company• Developing and implementing finance, accounting and billing procedures• Establishing and maintaining appropriate internal control safeguards• Tax planning and overall cash flow management (Working capital management)• Interacting with managers to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through providing effective financial analysis reports that offer recommendations for improvement• Identifying suitable financing options for the company• Any other duties assigned to me by the Managing Director

• Supervision and overall responsibility for the UTL accounting team that includes a Tax Manager, Creditors and Payments Manager, Cost Accountant, Fixed Assets Accountant, Financial Reporting Accountants (2), Payables Accountants (2) and Tax Accountant. • Preparation of the company’s strategic business plan in liaison with the CFO and Head of Business Planning• Preparation of the company budget in liaison with the Head of Business Planning• Liaising with other senior managers to identify short and long term targets which are in line with the company’s overall corporate strategy• Ensuring that month and year end financial reports are concluded in a timely manner• Cash flow forecasting• Ensuring Year End Audits are performed and Financial Statements issued in a timely manner• Facilitating reviews by the revenue authority• Carrying out performance reviews for the accounting team• Ensuring that audit queries raised by internal and external audit are resolved in a timely manner

• Month and Year end Financial Reporting (Financial Statement Close Process); • Mentoring Management/Graduate Trainees by assigning them tasks that enable them effectively understand the key finance operations whilst providing them adequate, timely and effective feedback to aid in the training process and facilitate business continuity/succession planning• Ensuring that cost and revenue interconnect journals are prepared on a monthly basis. This also involves actualization of interconnect balances when invoicing has been done.• Ensuring that site rent cost and revenue journals for the major local partners such as MTN, ATC, and AIRTEL are prepared on a monthly basis.• Ensuring that mast rent, site rent and tenancy clients are invoiced and follow up is done. • Ensuring bank reconciliations prepared by the trainees are reviewed on a monthly basis and adjusted entries detected by bank reconciliations are posted in a timely manner. • Ensuring intercompany reconciliations (Lap Green and UCOM) are performed on a monthly basis and that adjusting entries such as recharges to UTL and to Group are posted in a timely manner.• Management of loan balances in the GL. This involves ensuring Loan schedules are up to date and, agree to the GL and are reconciled by the 4th of each month, loan interest is booked by the 2nd of each month and loan statements are obtained from lenders and are reconciled to the GL on a monthly basis.• Insurance management. • Prepayments management. • Project management. • Ensuring that companies/contractors that damage our equipment, cables or infrastructure are invoiced• Ensuring non-core debt is collected in form of cash or offset against existing liabilities (Through DEBT SWAPS) in order to improve balance sheet position.

As Manager, MIS Compliance and ReportingRoles Include;• Generating figures and ratios of credit provisions, quality and volume changes such as IFRS provisions, Bank of Uganda provisions, KCB Group provisions, NPL and Loan loss percentages• Monitoring credit performance by department, product, credit analyst and carrying out sector analysis• Compliance; ensuring approval terms and conditions are met, independent audit of analysis section + collections & recoveries versus credit policy and the law. This is in addition to ensuring adherence to sector limits, renewal of limits and compliance to terms and conditions of approval• Reporting; Ensuring timely reporting for reports such as BOU reports, and Quarterly reports • Credit analysis• Assessing the financial implication of taking various courses of action for example in recoveries of bad debts

As ConsultantRoles included;• Reporting on a monthly basis of OUL financial results to the group (France Telecom). • Consulted on technical accounting issues as and when they arise. • Resolving queries raised by the external audit team.• Review of key processes in place, identifying controls in place to address fraud risks that affect those processes and recommending improvements where loopholes are identified. Fraud risks involved include ‘Telecoms Fraud’ that is fraud that arises from the company’s operation as a telecommunications company and ‘Non Telecoms Fraud’ that is fraud that can occur in any business and is not directly linked to the company’s role as a telecommunications network and service provider. • Ensuring processes in place are functioning as designed and that best practice controls as per the group fraud modules are in place.• Testing on a sample basis of transactions to check for instances of fraud, override of controls and other anomalies that could have occurred. • Reporting on results of tests carried out to senior management for action to be taken • As part of the finance department, my role also includes reporting on a monthly basis to the group (France telecom) in addition to being consulted on technical accounting issues as and when they arise.

As Senior Auditor/ AuditorRoles included;• Preparing audit plans, assessing audit risk, designing responsive audit procedures, preparing engagement time budgets and executing audit procedures as per audit plan. • Preparing and presenting audit reports and management letters including audit findings and recommendations to management • Conducting financial, compliance, information systems and operational audits resulting in improved controls and operating efficiencies • Provide leadership and guidance to audit teams, ensuring that client expectations are met within the framework of the firm’s quality and risk management systems, International Financial Reporting Standards, donor reporting requirements where applicable and International Auditing Standards • Evaluating the effectiveness of internal control policies concerning the preparation of financial statements and recommending areas of improvement • Testing the effectiveness of entities’ internal control systems to provide assurance as to ensure their appropriateness and compliance to sound business practices and company policies • Effectively resolve accounting issues • Conducting agreed upon procedures and conducting compliance audits for government contractual clients and not for profit organizations and reviews contractual agreements to ensure proper adherence to proper accounting principles and also ensure compliance to laws and regulations • Reviewing subordinates’ work, leveraging team work and coordinating the audit process Key achievements • Entrusted to run audit engagements within one year of hire • Improved internal control efficiency and risk reduction by presenting valuable audit findings • Entrusted to archive engagement files for the Assurance Department

Worked at Smsmedia, a Ugandan based company that provides state of the art sms based services, as an accountant. Responsibilities included preparation of management accounts, bank reconciliations and budgets for presentation to the management team.