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Daisy Chebet Ruttoh

Summary

Dynamic finance professional with extensive experience at Good Neighbors International, excelling in financial reporting and compliance. Proven track record in optimizing budgeting processes and enhancing internal controls. Adept at training teams and fostering collaboration, ensuring accuracy in financial management and strategic planning. Strong analytical skills complemented by effective communication abilities.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Coordinator

Good Neighbors International
01.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: Africa Regional Coordination Office
  • Ensuring Accuracy: Oversee and validate financial reports from Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Chad, Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Mozambique, and Niger, ensuring alignment with grant agreements and maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and integrity.
  • Compliance Oversight: Regularly evaluate financial activities and reports to ensure adherence to grant agreements, international financial reporting standards, and local regulatory requirements.
  • Monthly Financial Review: Conduct comprehensive analyses of monthly financial reports from country operations, identifying discrepancies, unusual transactions, or budget variances, and collaborate with Overseas Finance teams for prompt resolution.
  • Monitoring/Internal Audit: Maintaining precise and current records of grant funds and expenditures while ensuring expenses are appropriately categorized to comply with grant guidelines and reporting requirements.
  • Capacity Building, Policy Training and Standardization: Design and deliver specialized training programs for Finance staff and partners in supported African countries, focusing on grants management, financial reporting, and compliance with grant terms. Provide scheduled training on organizational financial policies and procedures, promoting standardized practices across countries to enhance efficiency and compliance.
  • Financial Support and Guidance: Act as the main point of contact for Finance teams, addressing inquiries related to bookkeeping, budgeting, and policy interpretation.
  • Strategic Financial Planning: Support country Finance teams in creating budgets that align with program goals and grant requirements, offering strategic insights for effective financial management and sustainability.
  • Process Optimization: Drive improvements in financial reporting processes and systems by adopting best practices in financial management and analysis and sharing knowledge across teams for enhanced organizational performance.
  • Africa Regional Coordination Office

Finance Manager

Good Neighbors International
01.2018 - Current
  • Company Overview: Kenya
  • Financial Reporting: Record, prepare and submit financial and analytical periodic reports to the management, donors and regulators.
  • Training: Providing training for both finance department personnel and non-finance staff.
  • Coordination: Coordinate with other departments regarding the financial matters and advice accordingly.
  • Compliance and Internal control: monitor income and expenditure of the organization and ensure that the transactions are within the Budget lines.
  • Payments Approvals: Review and approve all payment requests, payment vouchers and related supporting documents i.e., ensuring that procurement procedures are well followed where applicable.
  • Audit: Support in both internal and external audits for statutory audits and tax health check for the organization.
  • Procurement: Support in evaluation of procurement documents and advise on best suppliers/service providers.
  • Taxation: Support the organization on tax matters and advice accordingly. Also ensuring that all tax matters have been adhered to where applicable and tax submitted to Kenya Revenue Authority.
  • Budgeting: Support the departmental heads in preparation of the annual budgets and reviewing the budgets ensuring that they are following the stipulated guidelines.
  • Monitoring: Perform Internal audits for implementing partners and satellite projects.
  • Kenya

Finance Consultant

GET Group of Companies
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Facilitated and coordinated activities of the Company's Finance Department and ensured that there were adequate resources to effectively undertake planned activities.
  • Provided leadership by overseeing the staff undertake their daily tasks in accordance within the terms of reference.
  • Guided the Directors with budget preparation for proper business returns.
  • Generated timely and sound financial reports on monthly, quarterly and annual basis and gave financial advice accordingly.
  • Strengthened financial systems and internal controls and ensured that transactions were adequately captured, reviewed and recorded accordingly in the system.

Accountant

Women Educational Researchers of Kenya (WERK)
06.2010 - 12.2014
  • Supported partners in the development of sound financial systems, internal controls and capacity building.
  • Prepared the organization's annual budgets and supported the management in reviewing project proposal budgets.
  • Monthly Bank reconciliation for KES & USD accounts.
  • Posted transactions in accounting system and managed filling system.
  • Prepared staff payrolls and payments of staff statutory deductions.
  • Prepared monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports. Both organizational report and donor reports.

Accountant

Youth Consortium-Kenya
01.2008 - 05.2010
  • Responsible for maintaining cash expense spreadsheet on daily basis that reflects all receipts, payments and running balances of cash account as per the policy.
  • Maintained and prepared cheques payment for suppliers and carried out bank reconciliation on monthly basis.
  • Confirmed that all procurements procedures were followed before any payments.
  • Posted to accounting system all the procurement documents that included purchase orders and corrected all the errors.
  • Prepared staff payroll and ensured that salary was paid and statutory deductions submitted to respective institutions.

Education

Bachelors of Commerce - Finance

Kenyatta University
01.2014

Certified Public Accountant of Kenya-CPAK -

Kenya College of Accountancy
Kenya
01.2012

Skills

  • A/P & A/R
  • General Ledger
  • Cash Management
  • Record / Book keeping
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • Budgeting
  • Procurement
  • Asset management
  • Financial reporting
  • Journal Entries
  • Taxation
  • Internal & external Audit
  • Quality Assurance
  • Depreciation

Languages

Excellent oral and written proficiency, Excellent oral and written proficiency, Varied Local Kenyan Dialects

References

  • Jackline Maeba, Administration & HR Manager, Kenya Good Neighbors, +254 704 227 906, jackieylynne@gmail.com
  • Daniel Wesonga, Research and Advocacy Consultant, Women Educational Researchers of Kenya (WERK), +254 722 632 451, dmwesonga@gmail.com
  • Mokhtar Abdi Ogle, Secretary, Strategic Initiatives, Cabinet Affairs, Executive Office of the President, +254 720 231 367, mukhtarogle13@gmail.com

Personal Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: Kenyan

Timeline

Finance Coordinator

Good Neighbors International
01.2020 - Current

Finance Manager

Good Neighbors International
01.2018 - Current

Finance Consultant

GET Group of Companies
01.2015 - 01.2018

Accountant

Women Educational Researchers of Kenya (WERK)
06.2010 - 12.2014

Accountant

Youth Consortium-Kenya
01.2008 - 05.2010

Bachelors of Commerce - Finance

Kenyatta University

Certified Public Accountant of Kenya-CPAK -

Kenya College of Accountancy

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