GABRIEL TAMBA KOROSA

• Guides overall financial compliance and quality control of the project;
• Monitors financial management, compliance and reporting of implementing partners;
• Conducts partnership capacity assessments in liaison with the project team and in accordance to International IDEA standards.
• Builds capacity of project implementing partners on the project finance requirements, standards, policies and procedures;
• Analyses and presents monthly project financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicates monthly and annual reports; collates financial reporting materials for all donor segments, and oversees all financial and project accounting;
• Oversees the processing of payments and activity budget reconciliations, and ensures all transactions are accurately recorded in the financial management system;
• Provides support and guidance to the Programme Manager on preparation and revision of project/activity budgets in conformity with the applicable policies and procedures; Prepares the budget breakdown and budget monitoring for the project;
• Prepares project expenditure reports and analysis and assists the Head of Finance and Operations in tracking financial progress of the project as required;
• Performs all duties related to the Supplier’s Ledger including processing of invoices, payments, maintenance of supplier accounts and recording of transactions, ensuring that transactions are properly authorized in accordance with delegated authority;
• Manages daily cashier activities ensuring adherence to International IDEA’s policies and procedures, accounting principles and best practices; establishes and maintains cash controls;
• Monitors cash flow and ensures adequate cash levels are maintained;
• Sets up grant financial schedule and aligns grant budget with UBW budget;
• Works with the regional Procurement and Compliance Officer on matters related to project procurement; Develops partnership agreements and consultant/supplier contracts; ensures compliance with International IDEA policies and procedures and ensures the Institute’s financial and commercial interest are protected;
• Advises project staff on internal financial related policies and procedures and their use (e.g. travel policy, reimbursement policy, etc.);
• Monitors adherence to donor agreement requirements within the framework of International IDEA’s internal policies and procedures, ensuring focus is on delivery of reporting, invoicing and disbursement timelines;
• Arranges the project’s independent audits, manages pre-audit preparations and prepares responses to audit inquiries in consultation with the Head of Finance and Operations;
• Collaborates with project partners on project closure ensuring best practices are followed

The following are my achievement so far since I joined Sightsavers

• Sierra Leone
• Structured filing system is in place
• We now have an improved filing system now
• Ensured both 2020 and 2021 year end audits were done successfully with all issues raised by the auditors addressed accordingly
• There is strict adherence to organizational regulations
• This includes compliance with all organization's policies with key focus on the Financial Management Framework and procurement
• This was challenging to achieve, especially when you met senior staff that havespent more than 10 years with the organization and have been seeing noncompliance issues as normal
• However, with the help of African Finance Team I was able to ensure staff do comply with keyorganizational rules
• The Finance Team was able to finalize key donor reports throughout my time with the organization
• These donor reports include IAPG 2 -Irish Aid, Later Days Saints - Eye Health Project
• People'sPostcode Lottery - Education Project and Zochonis - Eye
• Health
• These reports were reviewed and accepted by the
• Programme Finance Team in the UK
• Lead in the support services to the country office through managing logistics, procurement of goods and services, delivering and overseeing administrative functions i.e., payroll and ensuring IT equipment functions effectively all in line with
• Organizational policies and procedures
• Work collaboratively with programme and finance teams to support and strengthen the financial management, accountability and capacity building of partners
• This we do through conducting capacity building training during monitoring visits and partners meetings
• Support finance and programme team with joint review of project reports, planning and analysis
• We do organize budget vs actuals meetings on a monthly basis to assess the progress made in project implementation and also to ensure that our spending is in line with donor rules (Also addressing under/overspending)
• Before I arrived at Sightsavers, the Sierra Leone Country Office was under the high-risk category based on previous internal audit reports produced by both UK and the Africa Region
• With my arrival there has been improvements in key areas such as financial management, internal controls, general office operations (Including fleeting management) and other key issues related to HR documentation
• I can confidently say that we moved away from a high-risk country office to a medium risk based on the just concluded internal audit report
• We now have a centralized payroll system that do comply with local tax laws
• Undertake assessment of new & potential national partners, using
• Sightsavers' tool, on a timely and comprehensive basis
• Summarize findings, ensure assessment is signed off by all relevant staff and maintain documentation on each partner file
• We've also ensured Partner Reports and findings are circulated to allinterested parties within Concern and the Partner
• Ensure all documentation relating to Sightsavers' financial relationship with the partner is filed correctly and updated where necessary
• Ensure fund requests are submitted on a timely basis so that project funds will be transferred on time from the UK
• During this process
• I coordinate closely with the Treasury Team in UK to ensure all feedback is responded to and that we always have sufficient cash for project implementation.

• Development Sierra Leone staff, including from time to time in programme, research, monitoring and evaluation, people and performance, partnerships
• This was successfully achieved before leaving Restless Development
• None finance staff were able to understand and interpret finance information
• These include
• Management Account, Donor Financial Reports, Transaction List
• Budget etc
• I was able to maintain the financial integrity of Restless
• Development operations in Sierra Leone
• This helped improve the confidence of stakeholders and donors
• Ensured full compliance with policies & procedures, particularly around cash, advances, banking and assets
• I was the primary source of expertise for staff in Sierra Leone on financial best practice, internal controls and compliance issues
• Monthly reporting was provided in a timely manner to the
• Director ofFinance in the London office providing fully reconciled reports
• Considering we were working with thousands of youth volunteers;
• I was able to ensure that payments to these volunteers were made using mobile money instead of moving around with physical cash around the country
• Collated key financial outputs, reporting on labor utilization, delivering management accounts and presenting regular forecasts to the UK office in order to enable funds to be transferred to the Sierra
• Leone Hub
• Simplified technical financial concepts to appropriately inform and engage staff and stakeholders of varying backgrounds.

• I was able to maintain the financial integrity of BBC Media Action's operations in Sierra Leone, and also ensured full compliance with policies & procedures, particularly around cash, advances, banking and assets
• I was the primary source of expertise for staff in Sierra Leone on financial best practice, internal controls and compliance issues
• Monthly reporting was provided on a timely manner to London
• Project Finance Officer providing fully reconciled reports detailing income, expenditure and cash and bank reconciliations
• Cash forecasts were also prepared to identify monthly funding requirements
• I was the main point of contact on financial and administrative matters with relevant donor organizations in which good working relationships with donor staff was built
• I ensured expenditures were incurred and reported in line with donor agreements
• Operation of payroll for all staff in Sierra Leone and compliance with Sierra Leone tax legislation and National Social Security and
• Investment Trust (NASSIT)
• Helped managers donor budgets based on forecasts and available resources.

• I was able to supervise and support development of accounting & grants/contracts/budgeting staff in the CO finance unit
• This includes provision of accounting and financial training to CO finance staff including sub-offices and Grants Coordinator; goal development and monitoring of performance through CARE's
• APAA process
• Reviewed all expenses, ensuring spending remained within approved budgets and that the correct codes were used
• Regularly trained finance team to guarantee comprehensive knowledge of accounting processes
• During my time with CARE, I ensured that there was compliance with CARE's accounting policy and procedures and generally accepted accounting principles; Ensured alignment of the CO's accounting systems and procedures with CARE's global procedures;
• Supervised the protection of the organization's assets & inventory through internal control and auditing procedures; Facilitated all internal and external audits
• Provided oversight to day-today operations to assure efficient process flows and controls over accounting functions; where currency of a grant was different from the operating currency of the programme, I was able to track periodic fluctuations of currency that would negatively impact planned budgets
• Appropriate actions to minimize huge exchange rate losses to the program were taken for all projects that were having different reporting currencies
• I was responsible for the review and submission of complete, accurate, reliable and timely financial reports to CO managers, local entities as relevant, regional office and headquarters; Supervised and controlled the quality of the data entry and supporting documentation for the monthly closing process and preparation of financial reports to include: bank reconciliation reports, intra- company reconciliation, payroll reconciliation
• Ensured quality review of balance sheet, income statement, grants and contracts receivable/payable accounts, etc at least monthly.

• Created and maintained a comprehensive timetable for grant financial reporting
• Prepared complete, accurate, reliable and timely, Donor format financial reports
• These were submitted to the Finance Manager for review as appropriate
• He was responsible for flagging key issues for attention and action
• Internal monthly donor format financial reports were also submitted to the Finance Manager for review as appropriate
• Ensured all costs posted in PeopleSoft were included in the donor financial reports for the period of reporting
• All mis-posting identified in the report review were noted, reported to Finance and adjusted in the next reporting period
• Work with Finance Manager and RMCU to facilitate internal/external audits for the programme as they relate to provision of contractual information, donor reports, accounting schedules to support the PAMODZI system, locating the supporting document and explanation of variances where necessary
• With support from the Finance Manager ensure that donor regulations and policies are available in hard copy and in electronic copy and are easily accessible by all staff
• Perform the reconciliation of award's (and sub award's as appropriate) balance sheet, income statement, grants and contracts receivable/payable accounts vis-a-vis awards at least monthly and report any exceptions to the Finance Manager for action
• Perform follow up on errors related to project transactions or project closeout discovered
• Follow up on all donor receivables and ensure that all funds' receipts are timely recorded by SSC under the appropriate FC/PID

• I was able to establish and implement financial procedures in line with the organizational requirements
• In addition to the above I was also able to establish and prepare accurate and timely information for budget monitoring and progress reporting for programme funds and grants
• Timely recording of financial transactions were done in line with the organization's policy
• This prevented us from under reporting during a specific donor reporting period
• Monitoring bank and cash balances was another key role as a Finance and administrative Manager
• This enables me to maintain sufficient cash and bank balance based on programme and operations need In collaboration with the Acting Director, we were able to develop
• HR planning strategies which considered immediate and long-term staff requirements
• I was able to also establish and manage all procurement, outsource services and logistics activities including management of assets more premium to SLaDA vehicles.

• Account Payables: Ensure that the documents reviewed are in compliance with IRC policy and procedures
• Ensure that accounting information is accurately presented on source documents submitted to finance for review; this includes ensuring accounting codes and analysis codes are correctly recorded
• Perform review on Purchase Requests (PRs) ensuring the necessary approvals have been obtained; correctness of coding and availability of funds
• Perform financial review on Bid Analysis and other procurement document; to ensure conformity with IRC policies and procedures as well as donor regulations
• Perform financial review of payments requests; ensuring adequacy of supporting documents and compliance with IRC policies and procedures
• Perform financial review of national staff Payroll; ensure accuracy of the pay details; ensure changes in status are adequately supported
• Provide financial orientation for new staff on financial processes
• Perform scheduled and surprise cash count
• Contribute to the overall proper functioning of the Finance Department by taking on any duties assigned by supervisor