| Experience |
| Confidential |
- Founder EEAD a Fast Moving Consumer Goods distribution agency for American brands in Nairobi, KE.
- Founded Express E Africa Distributors as a distribution agency for fast moving consumer goods specializing in hair care products, perfumes and cosmetics. Profitable from the first quarter of operations.
- Created and executed go-to-market strategies, future forecasting, marketing penetration and expansion
- C-suite negotiations with companies to get goods on consignments and allow rights for representation and brand building in East Africa. Successfully secured representation rights for over 10 American brands in the East Africa region.
- Created a distribution network and spearheaded successful brand awareness campaigns earning a substantial market share.
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| Confidential | Confidential |
- Led consulting teams to build clients' financial software capability, business process improvement, treasury operations, project coordination, audit preparation and governance in North American, European and Middle East Markets.
- Led 15 implementations of strategic finance systems at large medium size universities USD 220K-3Million . Achieved adherence to GAAP and IFRS, exceptional customer satisfaction rating, generated unsolicited revenue > 250K
- Consult with clients on financial statements preparation and presentation
- Consult with clients on financial software needs and help in quantifying return on investment for financial software and ERP systems
- Managed and led teams of 5 to 7 technical and functional contributors , mid-level managers client staff to deliver process re-engineering and software deployment at 100 on time/budget
- Consult with clients to implement strong internal controls and eliminate gaps in internal controls
- Consult with clients on and spearhead change management from legacy systems into new financial systems
- Developed and deployed strategies for process improvement, business development and customer retention, and receivables collection.
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| Confidential | Confidential |
- Organized knowledge transfer workshops train-the-trainer sessions for new ERP systems, easing transition from legacy for end users and finance team. Improved accuracy efficiency of treasury operations, earning 100 K unsolicited revenue
- Participated in product development workshops and new product launching
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- Lobbied for cross-functional team feedback in final stages of product development for software with numerous end user problems and limitations. Immediate market/customer feedback improved product and increased customer adoption
- Managed employer/client/third party relationships to extract maximum value for employer and clients
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| Confidential | Confidential |
- Monitored and reported trade activity on 1.1B portfolio.
- Developed and deployed dash board to simplify communication of trade activity within portfolio between accountants and fund managers. Increased accuracy of trade activity reporting eliminated email bloat thus increasing productivity
- Delivered daily investable cash balances to fund managers , accurate reports of trade activity to fund custodian, and reviewed market quotes for acceptable fluctuation, reasonableness and accuracy
- Assisted senior bankers and fund managers in trade executions, marketing presentations and analytics
- Calculate fund NAV Net Asset Value daily, and report to market
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| Additional Skills |
- Skills: Strategy development and execution, project management, change management, financial analysis, financial accounting, Ms Office suite, Visio, Oracle based financial platforms, SAP FICO, Cognos, PL SQL, Oracle databases, Share Point
- Volunteer: Founding member and secretary general of The Circle of Friends for Kids a charitable foundation that assists in funding tuition needs of academically gifted but underprivileged girls in the republic of Kenya.
- Interests: Travel, soccer, golf, youth mentoring
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