Kenya
With a genuine enthusiasm for innovation, I specialize in resource management and optimization to provide valuable support to individuals and businesses in reaching their goals. My professional journey encompasses both corporate and non-profit sectors, granting me invaluable hands-on experience across multiple continents. Drawing upon my extensive background in finance management, I've honed my project management skills, enabling effective coordination, efficient resource allocation, and timely execution in pursuit of strategic objectives. Fueled by a customer-centric mindset and well-versed in change management, I ensure a smooth client transition during transformative phases, regardless of geographic boundaries. This approach fosters positive relationships and high satisfaction levels throughout the evolution process. What I appreciate the most is the strength of teamwork, collaborative learning, and unified efforts to achieve noteworthy milestones. This guiding principle not only empowers me but also enables me to support teammates in discovering their innate potential.
As a Global Finance Advisor for Commercial Contracts and Funds, I support the development and implementation of new commercial initiatives, ensuring they are financially viable and deliver the necessary marginality and profitability to strengthen the organization’s investments and humanitarian programs. In parallel, I contribute to the creation and governance of humanitarian funding mechanisms, ensuring financial integrity, transparency, and regulatory compliance. My work bridges commercial acumen with social impact, aligning contract governance and fund management with the organization’s strategic and ethical objectives.
I lead a team of experts to help DRC legal entities achieve their goals by providing targeted support in finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Project Management. With a focus on meeting customer needs, we assist countries and regional offices in aligning with the global DRC framework, ensuring accountability to beneficiaries and donors. We also engage in creating new project proposals for donors and carefully manage fund allocation throughout projects.
I helped founders and teams to set their strategic goals, plan for the resources and implement their vision to profitably develop their value propositions. I assisted in creating long-term growth strategies and planning capital increase rounds. As a business partner, I drove change, enhanced corporate governance, optimized resources, and mentored key stakeholders in building cross-functional operations.
Thorough supervision of financial and administrative matters in the designated region, involving people management, coaching teams, and collaborating with external stakeholders. Specifically, I improved the efficiency of resource usage, oversaw the onboarding of new finance team members, managed investment projects at the ICRC Logistic Centre, and successfully led the relocation of the Nairobi office. I assisted internal stakeholders in crafting accurate and high-quality budgets and reports, offering substantial assistance to finance and administration teams across different countries. Additionally, I maintained strict financial oversight over ICRC operations, implemented sturdy internal control systems, and handled various ad hoc projects upon request.