cath.kimengele

• Managed donor compliance and internal controls, delivering monthly budgetary and financial reports for key programs to assist month-end and year-end closings.
• Verified grant milestone payments against DANIDA donor conditions and recorded related journal entries for expenses and liquidations.
• Participated in external donor audits and internal financial reviews, ensuring full compliance with EU,DANIDA and GCA grant financial terms.
• Tracked and reviewed deferred income balances and ensured accurate reporting of restricted income in accordance with donor expectations.
• Perform POC donor grants monitoring and closure ensuring that final reports have been submitted, all funds are received, and contractual obligations are met.
• Worked with multi-currency grant portfolios and ensured FX fluctuations were tracked and managed.
• Developed donor-specific financial reports in line with contractual requirements and ensured reports were submitted on time for Danida, GCA, and EU-funded projects
• Coordinated with timely and accurate upload of documentation to central systems (Google Drive) of grant and project finance data.
• Making payments i.e receiving invoices, preparing payment vouchers, inputting single payments on online bank portal/creating CSVs for BULK bank upload
• Management and reconciliation of staff: Monitoring liquidation and accounting of the staff travel advances and passing appropriate journals in the books of accounts
• Provides capacity building training, guidance, and direction to project and program staff and clients on planning, implementation, and compliance of grants policies and procedures

• Managed accounts receivable and payable, including correct recognition of funds and confirmation of invoices to vendors and donors.
• Processed and maintained all contractual payments and remittance of statutory deductions to the relevant authorities
• Made month-end closings easier by preparing monthly reconciliations for payroll, general ledger, and fixed assets.
• Prepared bank reconciliations, investigated uncleared items and clear all outstanding reconciling items
• Provided cross-functional support to program staff in budget preparation, monitoring, and forecasting aligning with donor requirements.
• Participated in internal audits, external and donor project audits by providing reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting documents

• Acted as financial lead on EU-funded projects, overseeing full grant lifecycle from proposal budgeting to final audit
• Prepared donor-specific EU financial reports kept restricted income recognition and donor conditions compliance.
• Supported ERP transition and finance team training on donor-specific financial controls and reporting templates.
• Coordinate month-end close procedures like financial entry postings, account reconciliations, and reclassification journal entries.
• Led the implementation of internal financial controls, minimizing risks and ensuring compliance with donor and statutory requirements
• Given routine EU budget vs. actual variance analyses, staff timesheet analysis and data integrity
• Ensured accurate and timely month-end and year-end closures with strong documentation in preparation for annual audits.
• Supported the creation and monitoring of the yearly master budgets, developing budget holder capacity building.