PAULINE AHERO

Career and Programme Orientation - Strategic Programme Leadership - Leveraging the world's largest repository of agroforestry science and information, ICRAF develops knowledge practices, from farmers' fields to the global sphere, to ensure food security and environmental sustainability. Proactive Finance with strong background in financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting. Develops and implements financial plans and delivers strategic financial advice. Forward-thinking team leader skilled at operating departments efficiently to meet goals. Successful background matching employees with roles for maximum performance. Proactive and hardworking individual focused on continuous operational improvement. Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 22 years of expertise overseeing transactions and reconciling monthly financial reports. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills. Results-driven Finance Manager experienced in financial statement review, auditing and reporting. Well-versed in producing reports, evaluating department operations and handling month- and year-end closings. Meticulous, conscientious and methodical in approach.

• Business Continuity Plan - Part of the team tasked with processes involved in creating a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats
• Restructure of Cost recovery - Ensuring we have a full cost recovery model
• Proposal Evaluation Committee - approves the budget before signing off by the Director General.

• Budgeting using business books (Agresso) - Led the team in coming up with business user requirements for the organization budget system. Also led the implementation of the new budget system in Agresso and conducted training for all staff (including 34 countries with ICRAF offices) and where this has been implemented.
• CGIAR Research Mapping (CRP)
• Developed system of how grants would be mapped to CRPs in Agresso (ERP)
• Worked with management information system to develop a system allocation tool.
• Developed guidelines used by project leaders on how to allocate funds to countries while ensuring milestones are captured.
• Pre-Award Budgets - Developed templates that can be used in pre-award stage for proposal budgets by our research teams when developing funding proposals.
• Budget section team - Built the team from scratch with great improvements in grant management.
• Mentoring - Involved in the formal mentoring programme for CIFOR-ICRAF.
• Humentum IFR4NPO Focus Group - Participate in the Humentum focus group which is tasked with looking at international financial reporting for not-for-profit organizations.