Harold Odhiambo Muganda

Ibex Consulting Limited is a boutique financial advisory practice. The firm’s services span book-keeping, preparation of financial statements, analysis of financial statements and tax advisory services.

My key achievements thus far are as follows:

• Helped a myriad of Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises with financial accounting, financial modelling, budgeting, treasury management and tax advisory services.
• Helped businesses resolve tax disputes amicably during audits, objections to tax assessments, and at the Tax Appeals Tribunal through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
• Assisted businesses in managing their outsourced payrolls and ensuring compliance with the declaration and remittance of employees' statutory deductions.
• Provided guidance to businesses and organizations looking to invest and establish operations in Kenya on their statutory obligations and sought written opinions from relevant government bodies to clarify ambiguous areas.
• Supported a Tanzanian logistics services provider in formulating a transfer pricing policy and drafting agreements for related party transactions.
• Advised Kenyan petroleum companies on product costing, financial reporting, implementation of financial controls, tax compliance, and planning.
• Guided an Export Processing Zone (EPZ) enterprise in Kenya through regulatory requirements and provided tax and financial advisory services.

Unilever is a global leader in the manufacturing and marketing of fast-moving consumer goods.

My key achievements in this role were:

• Ensuring tax compliance across all tax heads for all Unilever entities in the East Africa cluster.
• Successfully concluding long-standing tax audits with relevant revenue authorities and efficiently managing ongoing tax audits and assessments.
• Conducting research to identify tax savings and planning opportunities, and guiding relevant entities to implement them.
• Advising finance, treasury, legal, human resources, internal audit, and commercial teams on legislative changes and developments with tax implications and helping them adapt business operations to remain compliant.
• Playing a key role in monthly and annual financial reporting and analysis, including reconciliation of tax accounts and ensuring accurate deferred tax and other disclosures in financial statements and management reports.
• Leading a project to update transfer pricing policy documentation and related inter-company agreements for all entities across East Africa, ensuring proper transfer pricing practices.
• Managing external tax and legal advisors to ensure efficient service delivery and maintaining good working relationships within the wider business.

Gulf Energy is a locally owned integrated energy company with operations spanning bulk and retail oil trading, as well as power generation, across East and Central Africa.

My key achievements included:

• Establishing the tax department to enhance tax compliance and planning across all group entities.
• Ensuring compliance with all tax regulations.
• Training team members to improve tax compliance within the group.
• Achieving tax savings by leveraging available tax incentives.
• Collaborating with the management reporting team to ensure accurate tax disclosures in financial statements and management accounts, facilitating informed decision-making by management.

Alistair James Company Limited specializes in road freight, source-to-site logistics, and equipment rental and operation, with offices in Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa.

My key achievements in this role included:

• Ensuring tax compliance and effective tax planning across all group entities in Tanzania and Mozambique.
• Efficiently managing revenue authority audits.
• Preparing monthly management accounts and annual financial statements.

Rubis Energy Kenya is one of the leading oil marketing companies in the East Africa region.

My key achievements in this role included:

• Ensuring tax compliance across all tax heads for the company's operations in Kenya.
• Resolving long-standing revenue authority audits.
• Facilitating the settlement of long-pending tax refunds and ensuring prompt settlement of new tax refunds.
• Collaborating with the management reporting team to ensure tax reporting aligns with overall financial reporting.

Deloitte is a global leader in professional consultancy, offering services in audit, tax, and financial advisory.

My key achievements included:

• Providing practical and actionable tax advice to clients.
• Training clients' staff on various taxation matters to enhance compliance and identify tax planning opportunities within their businesses.

The Kenya Revenue Authority is legally mandated to administer tax legislation and collect taxes on behalf of the National Treasury. It also serves as a revenue collection agent for other government bodies.

The Kenya Revenue Authority is legally mandated to administer tax legislation and collect taxes on behalf of the National Treasury. It also serves as a revenue collection agent for other government bodies.

I participated in the organization's graduate trainee program, which aims to develop well-rounded tax administrators.