SIMON MURIUKI NJAGI

· Manage strategy, provide guidance, and develop collaborative relationships.

· Oversee project financial management, monitoring, and reporting.

· Ensure compliance with financial rules and regulations of Search and donors.

· Recommend and implement improvements to financial systems and processes.

· Ensure efficient financial systems for program implementation and guide cost-effective practices.

· Collaborate with Finance and Program teams to enhance data quality and internal controls.

· Prepare financial reports and conduct budget vs actuals reviews.

· Develop, manage, and oversee budgets and financial transactions for sub-awards, ensuring compliance, analyzing grants for irregularities, and coordinating pre- and post-award activities and audits.

· Ensure alignment of financial milestones with project deliverables.

· Infuse organizational values into financial operations.

· Adapt to changes, provide ethical solutions, and use project management tools effectively.

· Set performance standards and provide coaching and mentoring to staff.

• Tinmur Limited has been providing Logistics services in the East Africa region since 2018
• Cultivate sales leads and establish service contracts to maintain a consistent workflow for the truck fleet
• Oversee the recruitment and management of all personnel within Tinmur Ltd
• Maintain accurate financial records and generate comprehensive financial statements for the company
• Execute various administrative responsibilities integral to the company's operations
• Manage the procurement of vehicle parts and stationary supplies essential for the company's functioning
• Develop and manage service and repair schedules for the vehicle fleet, coordinating necessary maintenance and repairs effectively.

• Engage in and support the annual planning and review processes to identify both short term and long term resource needs and translate these into objectives and priorities for changing and emerging DRC context in the region
• Contribute to the development of the Regional Strategic Programme Document, Country plans and Results Contracts in accordance with the DRC Global Policies and guidelines
• Actively engage and potentially lead the development implementation of new systems throughout the region
• Review internal controls and continually recommend improvement from compliance visits, Internal Audits, External Audits and all other compliance reviews
• Coordinate Financial planning to support the Regional Director, including budget monitoring and financial spending strategies
• Check the integrity and robustness of financial procedures and suggest corrective actions to minimize losses, institute system and processes to ensure financial regulations, procedures and documentation requirements
• Ensure transparent, timely and quality delivery of supply chain HR, IT, SC and grant services at all levels of organization hierarchy
• Ensure that effective support services and grant management policies are in place and implemented
• Lead and manage the Heads of department in the HR, IT, Supply Chain and Finance.

• Ensures coherence with DRC financial procedures as well as with local legislation
• Further, the Head of Finance is responsible for maintaining efficient controlling mechanisms within the area of responsibility
• Participates in improving of structures, systems and routines that enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of programme implementation in general
• Ensure a constant capacity building of finance staff in the field on various finance issues
• Participate in the preparation of budgets for new project proposals in close collaboration with the Senior Management Team, CDs/PMs and Grants Manager
• Liaises with headquarters Desk Finance Officers regarding Regional financial matters
• Performs site visits to provide financial control, field finance oversight and staff training
• Ensure accurate Financial data is entered in the system at the Regional office, budgets are fully utilized and in accordance to donor requirements
• High quality and timely reporting to donors, headquarter etc
• Maintenance of a transparent and consequent cost-allocation system for common costs
• On-going training and support to Country Directors/Program Directors and relevant project managers
• Supervision of eight Regional finance staff and provide technical oversight to ten countries in the Horn of Africa Region.

• Provide a suite of financial reports to assist in strategic planning, including a top line reporting system by area, a master budget and funding gap analysis by area on a monthly basis
• Develop and maintain historical trend analyses regarding programmatic and operational costing's per office
• Ensure that relevant operational costs are included into each proposal to achieve full cost recovery
• Maintain an overall consolidated budget database system in Agresso Financial Management System
• Ensure correct level of budget authority exists within Country Office through the Scheme of Delegation
• Train budget holders and other stakeholders on financial issues
• Produce multi-area donor financial reports, monitoring accuracy and timely submission of financial reports and attachments to members, donors and government regulatory agencies
• Lead the annual financial operational planning and budgeting process and quarterly forecasts in close collaboration with the Director of Finance and senior management team.

• Responsible for donor compliance in Consortium budgets and sub-budgets
• Prepare consortium donor budgets by liaising with financial staff in member agencies
• Prepare joint financial donor reports where requested
• Respond to donor queries on budgets and financial reports
• Keep current any financial / contract management documents or information relating to the consortium
• Monitor on a quarterly basis expenditure of all Consortium budget lines and report to the Consortium Coordinator
• Oversee budget versus actual, liaising with the Lead Agency finance department in the preparation of the CCT budget, in coordination with the Consortium Coordinator
• Support External Auditor in conducting compliance checks and audits of the secretariat and Consortium members
• Update monthly asset register of Consortium management office
• Keep all records in an appropriately and logically labelled filing system.

• Preparation of regional office budgets, statutory financial reports and donor reports
• Monitor and manage budgets versus expenditure, prepare for audits and implement audit recommendations
• Liaise with the Head Office, other World Vision offices and external stakeholders on finance related issues
• Manage the Fixed assets database
• Conduct orientation for new staff and Lead/manage a team of Accountants
• Review procurement of goods to be in line with organisation's policies and procedures
• Supervise the treasury management function at the Regional Office, consolidate funding requests from the countries
• Ensure integrity of data entered into the Sunsystems Financial management system by confirming the completeness of all data fields and accuracy of transactions.