Dynamic Senegalese Senior Professional with over 13 years of professional experience in Accounting, Budget, Planning, Finance, Business Development, designing frameworks for managing financial resources and strategy, Administration, Procurement, Human Resources & Contract Management in Sub-Saharan region even in emergency situation.

• Expert in finance/digital finance, business Development, strategic decision support, financial resources, budgets, reviewing and/or implementing organizational change, reporting and cost transparency.
• Solid experience in contract preparation and management, due diligence and an eye for details to ensure maximum quality.
• Experienced Finance officer with sound knowledge of challenges faced by growth-oriented enterprises to scale up their business operations.
• 9 years of experience administrating development cooperation projects in West Africa with renowned institutions (PLAN, UN).
• Experience in managing donor-funded projects (EU, WORLD BANK, ECHO, USAID, DFID, UN, Global Fund and other international donor-funded projects).
• Experience working in the trade or economic development programs
• Expertise in Financial Planning and Strategy.
• Expertise in Result Based Budgeting (RBB) and Result Based Financing Approaches (RBFA)
• Expertise in Micro/Macro Financial Assessment and Benchmarking
• Expertise in promoting Process Improvement and Quality Management.
• Expertise in promoting investment and private and public partnership (PPP)
• Expertise in procurement process and contract management.
• Expertise in business development, project management and policy.
• Expertise in the management of government finances trough BMN and ADEPME (Senegalese government agency), and public policy.
• Expertise in managing profitability, strategic planning, tax advisors and vision.
• Expertise in forecasting, developing budgets, and dealing with complexity.
• Expertise in asset management, IFRS, IPSAS and SYSCOHADA (REVISED).
• Expertise in Humanitarian Cash Based Transfer Operation in West and Central Africa Region.
• Experience in assessment, training, coaching and oriented client in organizational management, and certification process (security, quality…)
• Experience in implementing digital solutions in inclusive digital finance.
• Experience in L3 humanitarian emergencies (Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Republic).
• Expertise in training and coach staff and partners in even in emergency case (ex: during Ebola Outbreak)
• Capacity to train people “on How to communicate”
• Knowledge in Climate Finance, Theory of Change, Circular Economy, innovative finance mechanisms and Sustainable Finance
• Knowledge in Banking rules
• Lead the landscape analysis for better strategy creation and decision making in SMEs - Political Economy Analysis (PEA) approaches
• Lead Micro-Finance case study in Africa: I evaluated prospective clients for business loans through financial, business and home evaluations. Trough GIZ project and BMN(Senegal), I am supporting MSME in Africa by “Micro-savings Scheme” as a sustainable complementary financial product. The thesis of this paper is that micro- savings can alleviate the vulnerability poor households face that cause them to disinvest in the efforts and endeavors that would improve their welfare.
• Excellent reporting skills demonstrated during past and current professional experiences.
• Ability to interact with innovators from all across the region thanks to strong multi-cultural communication skills and solid command of the English business language, native speaker of French and Wolof.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Access), Accounting and Finance (Saari, Oracle Applications, IRIS Finance, AS 400, Great Plains, Citrix).
• Proficient in Grant Tracking System (GTS), Business Plan Consolidation (BPC / SAP), SPSS et Wings II (SAP).
• Deployed in Emergency during Ebola Outbreak.
• Deployed in Emergency for preparing the WFP Cash Based Transfer scale up operation and the implementation of the Financial Cash Based Transfer Policy and the WFP Finance Risk Management in the North of Nigeria, increasing the financial inclusion of the beneficiaries