Patrick Gitahi

Tech-Savvy Financial Management Professional adept at increasing work efficiency and profitability through functional and technical analysis. Possess 15+ years of experience in successfully optimizing frameworks and cultivating cohesive teams to meet and exceed business financial goals. Result-oriented and visionary leader with vast prowess in re-engineering financial reporting procedures and devising workflow optimization techniques that increase productivity, reduce costs, and maintain business integrity and service quality. Relishes at managing financial teams, allocating budgets, completing financial reports and statements and conducting financial forecasts. Successful at advising multi-billion corporations, small businesses and individual clients. Deciphered a reduction in the number of personnel at Kenya Revenue Authority in the expenditure unit by 40%, financial reporting unit by 60% and budgets section by 70%, translating to increased revenue generation for the organization.

Career Highlights

• Successfully implemented SAP, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for all the financial processes, controlling and funds management processes at Kenya Revenue Authority as the lead component leader.
• Full automation of a completely manual process in the finance department to a total "paperless" process.
• Allocation of outstanding audit issues to team members and contracting the same through the use of performance contracts. Reduced the time required to process payment documents in the expenditure section from 10 to 12days to less than 4 days.
• Orchestrated automation of the financial reporting unit, resulting in a reduction of the annual reporting period by 1 month and the quarterly reporting period reduced from 26 days to the current 3 days.

Professional Strengths:

• Professionalism and Integrity: Holds deep knowledge of administrative, budgetary, financial and human resources policies and procedures and keenly applies various administrative rules and regulations in all work.
• Internal Procedures Compliance: Apt in identifying non-compliance issues, enforcing adherence to regulations, liaising with key stakeholders and providing guidance whilst providing open reporting channels.
• Risk Identification and Mitigation: Transformational leader and astute risk manager with a proven track record of performance in managing diverse regulatory environments in the financial sector.
• Business Strategy: Plans and manages multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with financial solutions to provide process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Fervent Team Player: Possess top-notch people capacity to handle a diverse set of segregated multicultural teams and clientele base, to provide a holistic reliable, and unbiased support base.

Certified Public Accountant Kenya (CPA-K)

• -AWARDS , Recognized by KRA management as a subject matter expert in automated financial reporting systems
• Recognized by KRA management for innovative processes.
• Transitioned the Authority's financial report from "Qualified Reports" to "Unqualified Reports” by the Auditor General's office - Kenya.