Jane Nyaga

As part of the KPMG Local Fund Agent (LFA) team in Sudan for the Global Fund, I:

• Assist in aligning key programmatic and financial drivers for optimal performance and impact.
• Help in understanding and documentation of funds recipient's internal control mechanisms and fraud-related triggers.
• Monitor financial management capacity building in-country.
• Ensure quality deliverables, actionable recommendations, and consistency through the promotion of quality assurance processes and sharing best practices.
• Plan, organize and execute program activities in accordance with the strategy of the firm and business unit.
• Manage communications with partners and stakeholders.
• Compile field reports and make debrief presentations on key findings and recommendations.
• Support proposal and bid coordination, opportunity tracking, and pipeline management.

My accomplishments as an audit in-charge included:

• Successfully taking charge of audit engagements from planning phase to completion.
• Liaising with clients and audit managers and partners on engagement progress and deliverables to ensure timely and high-quality engagement delivery.
• Continual risk assessment to ensure all risk factors are identified and appropriate audit procedures performed.
• Overall audit of clients' General Ledgers.
• Review of junior team members' work and coaching to encourage continuous learning.
• Review of clients' financial statements to ascertain that they present a true and fair view.
• Preparation of final management letters, letters of representation and audit reports.
• Managing engagement costs and following up on settlement of fees by clients.

As an audit associate, my achievements included:

• Testing the design and implementation of internal controls and drafting recommendations to address control deficiencies and issues of non-compliance.
• Preparing thorough work papers on the results and conclusions of audit procedures, which facilitated the issuance of audit reports.
• Coaching new team members on the applicable methodology and on how to document meticulous work papers and files.
• Assisting audit seniors on tasks such as monitoring the teams' disbursements.

My achievements included:

• Creating and amending grants.
• Reviewing and monitoring donor contributions.
• Analyzing financial data using Excel.
• Liaising with Project Management Officers on project financials.
• Prepared accurate and meaningful reports on ad hoc basis for senior management.
• Reviewing project documents, budgets, reports, assessments and evaluations.
• Performing project closure account reconciliations.
• Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.