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The first and largest dialysis chain across Sub-Saharan Africa, providing high-quality, life-saving dialysis at affordable cost. • Support the Country Director and CFO in overseeing the financial management of the various clinics, including monthly cash flow and financial reporting, audits, cash allocations, and budgeting forecasting and planning. • Ensure that billing for all dialysis centers is compliant with the company standards and the standard of our hospital and insurance partners. • Monitor account receivable and liaise with relative partners to minimize payment time. • Ensure that the company is compliant with taxation and statutory requirements, including preparing and generating the necessary statutory filings for PAYE, NSSF, NHIF and any other statutory requirements to ensure compliance with all tax law. • Constantly reviewing work practices and financial procedures for better operational efficiency, minimizing and mitigating risk of fraud/leakage and proactively raise management attention potential issues in accounts, financial processes and controls. This includes doing audits at country level on a regular basis. Led the accounting department, enhancing financial frameworks and controls that ensured accurate reporting and infirmed strategic decisions. • Work with the Country Director and CFO to assess the financial impact of strategic initiatives. • Develop financial and non-financial key performance indicators and the appropriate reporting to assess financial and operational performance across the Company. • Support fundraising efforts, proposal and concept note development and budgeting. • Work with the Country Director and CFO to assess the financial impact of strategic initiatives. • Develop financial and non-financial key performance indicators and the appropriate reporting to assess financial and operational performance across the Company.

Lexo Energy is a new and fast-growing network of technology-led roadside retail stations in East Africa that offer the highest standards of fuel, lubricants, tire repair, food and beverage and more • Led the accounting department, enhancing financial frameworks and controls that ensured accurate reporting and infirmed strategic decisions. • Collaborated with the CEO and CFO on strategic, expansion, financial and commercial projects. • Led the preparation of monthly financial reporting business packs for presentation to the Group CFO and CEO. This also involved updating the Investor report and modelling dashboard. • Transfer pricing management of investment and capital needs sourced investors and holdings company. • Directed the collaboration with teams including Operations, Treasury, and Tax to optimize financial processes. • Managed end to end financial closing processes, ensuring compliance and timely delivery of financial statements. • Provide interaction and support for the year-end audit, quarterly reviews, and other ongoing audit and compliance work performed by the Company’s internal and external auditors • Interpret and communicate financial information to teams across the business. • Compliance management of business with all statutory and regulatory requirements Accomplishments • Streamlined Financial reporting processes which reduced monthly reporting time by 20%. • Recognition on improved financial reporting transparency by conveying complex financial information in a concise manner across the organization

East African Breweries PLC (EABL) is East Africa’s leading branded alcohol beverage business with an outstanding collection of brands that range from beer, spirits and adult non-alcoholic drinks (ANADs), reaffirming our standing as a total adult beverage (TAB) company. • Developed robust financial policies for the commercial department to synthesize information on financial and commercial performance. • Delivery of the Group Finance Profit &Loss to illustrate performance and analysis between planned and actual budgets, last year and rolling forecast. • Collaborating in the preparation of the Group and Markets Board papers, AGM & Investor relations documents and presentations. • Actively supporting the business markets in orchestrating the end-to-end annual operating plan in country for both Profit & Loss lines and cash flow management • Ownership of the Annual operating plan data submissions in an accurate and timely manner. • Go-to person for preparing performance outlook review for the Group Managing Director that captures the risks and recommendations. • Collaborate with the East Group Finance Director in advising the Global Finance team at the company headquarters on the risks and opportunities affecting the business and recommending solutions. Accomplishments • Led the training and adoption of Micro-Strategy Business Intelligence tool to improve financial reporting visibility within the business and reduce reliance on excel sheets by 10%. • Developed a dashboard that consolidated financial data for each Country/Market that reduced the reporting cycle by 60% month on month.

Established over 100 years ago, they are one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. They are known for our great brands and our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. • Coordinated month end activities for the East Africa finance team that resulted in prompt journal posting and resolution of any matters arising in time leading to smooth closure of the general ledger. • Maintained General Ledger integrity by reviewing all journals posted in SAP system including conducting periodic checks to correct inaccurate transactions and to verify the trial balance for all countries. • Led the financial and management reporting for East Africa which resulted in timely submission of information for the Senior Leadership team. • Took charge of performing Standard Chart of Accounts (SCOA) compliance testing before accounts were created and quarterly reviews of all accounts which included advising on compliance issues such as creating new accounts, reconciling and closing dormant accounts. • Led the business financial reporting for the Southern Africa region which composed of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. • Collaborated in preparing and submitting Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss and Cash flow on a monthly and quarterly basis using Budget control System (BCS) reporting tool to the Head Office in London. • Prepared financial and statutory accounts, Monthly reconciliations of General Ledger accounts. • Facilitated Internal and External Audit process. • Reviewed Intercompany reconciliations for Southern Africa.

• Prepared accurate daily treasury reports including Daily Trading Income, Trading Reconciliation and SAP Profit & Loss reconciliations, Calypso-T24 Interface reconciliations and position Reconciliations. • Prepared and submitted the Product Control Monitoring Dashboard weekly and verified the Global Market balance sheet. • Monthly preparation and submission of the Trading Income Report and Business Commentary on global market performance. • Reconciled data from T24, Calypso and SAP for data integrity checks purposes. • Responsible for the accounting and financial reporting of the bank’s global markets desks. • Managed the overall integrity and accuracy of the General Ledger as a basis for the preparation of financial and management reports for Kenya and Sudan. • Full reconciliation of local group inter-company account for assets and suspense accounts using SAP and Excel. • Responsible for staff travel advances accountability. • Performed capital expenditure Budgeting and monitoring for Kenya and South Sudan.