The expert has over fourteen years of extensive experience in the development sector, emphasizing financial and administrative support within organizations partnering with diverse international donors, including USAID, DFID, and Norway MFA. This has cultivated a breadth of expertise in financial management, procurement controls, and compliance with donor requirements. A key area of strength lies in the experts mastery of budgeting, reporting, and managing sub-awards, grants, and contracts, ensuring alignment with financial controls and compliance standards.

Notably, the expert has been pivotal in overseeing multi-functional teams, leveraging strong leadership to guide logistics, operations, human resources, and finance divisions, ensuring cohesive functionality and success. Through roles such as Finance & Administration Manager with Palladium International and Senior Administrative Manager with the National Democratic Institute, they have demonstrated the ability to fulfill responsibilities at senior management levels. This includes leading financial oversight, ensuring compliance with award requirements, preparing and tracking project budgets, and facilitating timely, accurate financial information for strategic decision-making.

The expert's achievements are underscored by successes like enhancing reporting timeliness and accuracy, managing multimillion-dollar budgets with minimal variance, and navigating complex audits resulting in clear statutory and project audit reports. Through these endeavors, they've spearheaded initiatives reinforcing statutory, donor, and internal compliance across projects, thereby bolstering operational integrity and financial stewardship within the organizations served.

Moreover, the professional's consultative roles for entities such as the National Democratic Institute and Divine Caterers Limited reflect an agility in adapting expertise to diverse operational contexts, providing strategic insights into financial assessment, HR systems development, and risk management. Fluent in English and Swahili, with Kenyan citizenship, the experts diverse linguistic skills and regional insights further benefit collaborative international efforts.

Overall, the expert showcases a wealth of technical and professional skills in finance, procurement, HR, and leadership, contributing to a measurable impact in projects across regions and sectors, with a consistent track record of promoting efficiency, compliance, and strategic outcomes.