Emmanuel Wanyama

Finance and Grants specialist with over 8 years of experience managing national and regional projects across health, education, disability rights, and conservation sectors.

Adept at pursuing operational excellence and implementing projects as per donor guidelines among them USAID, CDC, EU, and DfID.

Excellent team worker with an enthusiasm for continual learning and growth.

Senior Finance and Administration Officer (06/2020 - Present)
Birdlife International (BL) Nairobi Kenya
Responsibilities
 Reports to Regional Finance Coordinator.
 Leads the planning and execution of financial processes for the Nairobi office.
 Drafted the Partner Risk Assessment Tool for African Secretariat.
 Recommended innovative alternatives to reduce costs and increase value for money.
 Generated monthly and quarterly budget reports.
 Leading the team and supporting them with functional and cross-functional processes and procedures including not least Payroll, Monthly Management Accounts, Reporting, Inventory Management, and Reconciliation.
 Liaising with both internal and external auditors and fully managing the end year audit.
 Regularly provides project updates to the Project Managers and Regional Finance Coordinator.
 Participates in proposal writing for grants, especially in budget preparation.
 Prepares the projects’ annual budgets in liaison with all the Project Managers.
 Prepares the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for various donors.
 Reconciles Donor funding and BL’s grant accounts.
 Handles treasury management and bank relations.
 Handles internal and external audit processes.
 Supervises three team members.

Project Accountant (05/2019 – 05/2020)
Leonard Cheshire (LC) Kisumu Kenya
Responsibilities
 Reported to Program Manager.
 Calculated, set up, and modified grant budgets for partners in compliance with grant agreements, and
donor requirements.
 Prepared and analyzed financial reports.
 Prepared quarterly fund revenue reconciliation of LC’s to Donor Account records.
 Financially in charge of project funding to the tune of £ 3,800,000.
 Reviewed direct payment (travel & expense reimbursement) vouchers and reconcile accounts, and
deposits, cash receipts, grants, and funds.
 Conferred with sponsors and contract officers in resolving budgeting and compliance issues.
 Periodically compared activities to calendar and expenditures against total allocation to ensure that
projects remained on schedule and within budget. Monitored awards to ensure that all activities met
funding agency standards and expenditures conformed to both the grant agreement and allowable items detail.

Finance and Admin Officer (05/2018 – 04/2019)
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Lodwar, Kenya
Responsibilities
 Reported to Operations Manager.
 Reviewed adequacy of supporting documentation for all documentation forwarded for payment.
 Reviewed all Mobile payments to ensure completeness and accuracy.
 Developed a monthly payment tracker for Invoices and Mobile Payments
 Pro-actively addressed identified monthly compliance issues regarding payables from HQ and between
Nairobi & field Offices.
 Maintained the field office Aged Advances report and ensured follow up of any outstanding amounts/recovery from Payroll.
 Provided monthly analytics on advances liquidation compliance trends.
 As custodian of the checkbooks, ensured safety, sequential check writing, counterfoil controls, and application of new checkbooks as appropriate
 Monitored field office bank account balances and advised on funds transfer periods and amounts.
 Ensured all statutory remittances are submitted on time, and that accurate amounts are paid.
 Performed accurate bank reconciliations at least monthly for the field office accounts.

Finance Associate (01/2016 – 04/2018)
PATH Kenya Kisumu Kenya
Responsibilities
 Reported to the Finance Officer.
 Supported the successful implementation of a five-year USAID-funded APHIAPLUS II Western project
with a cumulative budget of US$216 million.
 Processed and reviewed invoices for suppliers’ payments travel advance requests and other payment
requests. Tracked outstanding advances and followed up to ensure that all are cleared on a timely basis
according to PATH’s financial policies.
 Reviewed travel expenses reports, workshop expense reports, and any other reconciliations for
authorization, accuracy, allowable expenses, charge codes, and accounting for advances.
 Supported with responding to suppliers’ inquiries, reconciled the suppliers’ statements with PATH’s
records, and updated the Finance Officer on any discrepancies.
 Supported with monthly Bank Reconciliation.

Grants Associate (02/2015 – 12/2015)
PATH Kenya Kisumu, Kisumu County
 Reported to Senior Contracts and Grants Officer.
 Conducted monitoring including site visits to sub-grantees and prepared reports.
 Reported all compliance findings to the Senior Contracts and Grants Officer and assisted in the development of
possible corrective actions.
 Documented financial management and budget procedures, regular review, and trained sub-grantees on
the grant operating procedures that governed awards.
 Developed capacity-building plans based on the capacity gaps identified in the assessments and tracked
progress against capacity improvement indicators.
 Participated in the pre-award review assessments of new implementation agencies and other new
partners.
 Worked closely with the Senior Grants and Contracts Officer as well as the Office of Grants and Contracts
to support the processing of sub-agreements or subcontracts.
 Supervised all aspects of subaward compliance issues including branding and marking, procurement,
property administration, and subaward amendment processes.

MSc Commerce – Finance
KCA University, Kenya
09/2019 – 11/2022.

BCom - Finance
KCA University, Kenya
01/2016 – 11/2018.

Certified Public Accountant
KCA University, Kenya
08/2010 – 06/2015