Benedette Kabera, Finance Manager

About

Results-oriented finance specialist with diverse experience in budget planning, accounting and financial management and operations, project finance, and control of cash and bank accounts and payments. A strategic thinker with knowledge of audit and compliance with the ability to identify problems, formulate opinions, and offer recommendations. With a good understanding of Microsoft Office, Oracle NetSuite, Google Suite applications, SAP, Sage ERP, and accounting software. With experience of international tax laws, proficient at working independently on multiple tasks simultaneously, maintaining calm and consistent performance under pressure, and always embracing continuous improvement. Self-motivated and easily adaptable to change, with experience working in a multicultural environment.

Experience

Employment Africa

Oct 2023 – Oct 2024

South Africa

Finance and Payroll Manager

• Preparing monthly payroll for all the company members as per the regulations. • Devising risk management strategies that might come from mismanagement and currency exchange. • Interpreting the human resource policies to the staff and responding to their queries. • Preparing and monitoring budget expenditures and maintaining a proper record of the approved project budgets and their revisions. • Managing and mitigating risks that may occur as a result of currency exchange. • Providing strategic planning support to the international and national trustees on all aspects of financial matters and calculating payments due for claims and services. • Analyzing the general ledger to ensure integrity and compliance with legal standards about the statutory requirements of the company. • Implementing the internal controlling system, ensuring all the employees were correctly paid their dues. • Maintaining financial records and reconciling expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for day-to-day transactions and reports.

Majestic Furniture Plc

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Finance Manager

Responsibilities • Overseeing and managing all the financial resources to ensure operational efficiency and compliance with the policies and procedures of the company. • Preparing, analyzing and maintaining the budget, identifying the shortfalls and advising the senior management accordingly. • Ensuring financial reports including cash flow, income statement, trial balances and balance sheets for the projects are prepared and presented on a timely and accurate manner. • Reviewing and analyzing financial data and budget proposals to maintain consistency with the company's goals. • Overseeing the opening and closing of bank accounts ensuring that internal controls and confidentiality is maintained about the bank signatories. • Optimizing staff performance through training and capacity-building programs about finance and projects. • Preparing year-end account closures and presenting them for both external and internal audits and addressing any recommendations given. • Cost management procedures reviewing requests for payments and tracking the amount of money allocated to various operations and departments. • Establishing and implementing accounting principles and interpreting them to the finance team members.

Kenya Private Schools Association

Oct 2017 – Jun 2022

Nairobi, Kenya

Senior Accounts Officer

Responsibilities • Developing project budget against work plan in collaboration with the staff of the programs to ensure donor data accuracy. • Preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets and financial closure reports for funders and reviewing them with operations and senior management. • Ensuring that requests for payments are reviewed and disbursed effectively and timely and ensuring all lease agreements, vouchers and documentation is completed. • Ensuring that all financial reports comply with the law and standards, internal control systems, policies and procedures of the organization. • Coordinating the workflow in the finance department including preparation, review and analysis and reporting of project budgets and preparing their terms of reference. • Reviewing proposals and implementing strategies for cost-saving as per the policies of the organization. • Overseeing the entire lifecycle of grants and donations, conducting due diligence during the grant award request, grant agreement and amendment, disbursements, and closure. • Conducting weekly, monthly and yearly reviews with the project managers to understand the progress of the projects and offer solutions where needed. • Continuous monitoring of the financial transactions and reporting anomalies to the senior management for decision-making.

Education

Kenyatta University

Aug 2021 – Oct 2024

Master of Business Administration, Strategic Management

Kenyatta University

Jan 2011 – Jul 2015

Bachelor of Commerce, Finance

Benedette Kabera

Finance Manager

Skills

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