Gloria wanjiku

An accomplished, detail-oriented, team-driven, and versatile certified Senior Reporting Analyst with 10 years of demonstrated expertise and experience in managing accounts receivables and payables, policy development, and organization requirements compliance. Possesses advanced knowledge and exceptional skills in regulatory compliance with proven track record of partnering with executives and clients to identify vulnerabilities, create corrective actions, and interpret and summarize regulations to drive organization-wide compliance. Collaborative, quality-driven professional with excellent auditing skills, including preparing Management Accounts, executing, and monitoring auditing processes, and implementing audit recommendations. Holds Bachelor of Commerce and Certified Public Accountant certification.

• Drive the rolling forecast, annual budgeting, and long-term forecasting analytics activities for a targeted segment of the organization plan on behalf of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function in Finance. In accordance with the Organization Polices.
• Drive activities that support ongoing planning/forecasting efforts for operational expense planning, headcount planning, and other activities as defined.
• Assessing the company’s performance and position through the statement of Management accounts to aid the management in strategic planning and informed decision making. 
• Prepare various monthly actual vs. budget (vs. forecast) reports and produce variance analyses for operational management; effectively communicating key takeaways.
• Analyzing sales force reports as and when logged in by the sales team to deduce financial performance and standing of the organization. 
• Monitor and report on key financial analytics and operational metrics for target departments and sites.
• Preparing for internal and external audit by working with the team,
• Extract data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identify financial discrepancies and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Lead efforts to capture forecasting assumptions and leverage them to produce short- and long-range financial projections for both budget cycles and ad-hoc reports.
• Preparing financial dashboards as and when required by the Management.
• Partnering with People and Culture Department to develop a comprehensive working knowledge of current and projected headcount across the Dimension Data organization.
• Calculating employee commissions and uploading the employee salaries into the bank portal and posting the monthly journals into the system.
• Tasked with creation and extraction of dashboards from Power BI to show the performance of the Organization.
• Performs other duties and ad hoc analytics as assigned.

Bachelor Of Commerce-Finance  

Start Year: 2010

Graduation Year: 2013

Graduation Grade: Second Class Upper