About

Am CPA Abdirashid Ali Abdi, have Over 10 years of experience as an accounts and finance professional with a successful career in the banking industry as well as the public sector organizations (County Governments) I bring on board a history of creating strategic financial growth plans, making financial projections and directing the staff for attaining financial goal while effecting compliance with laid down procedures. Equally, I am well accustomed at assisting organizations in developing short term and long term finance strategies, maintaining operating budgets, ensuring adequate cash flow, and monitoring financial activities coupled with being an expert in executing team-driven process improvements to determine risks, monitoring expenditure, reduces cost and increase revenue growth while ensuring high operational efficiency

Skills

  • ERP system platform experts-IFMIS and others
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  • English
    9
  • Kiswahili
    9
  • Kisomali and Borana Language
    9

Experience

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • October, 2021 - November, 2021
  • Fulltime
  • Strategic Leadership development programme-SLDP For 2 months

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • Senior Management Course-SMC

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • Certified public accountant of Kenya-CPA K

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • Master in Business Administration- Finance

Abdirashid Abdi

Work experience
  • September, 2014 - November, 2023
  • Fulltime
  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Head of Accounts –Assistant Director- Accountant General
  • Ministry of Social Development-November 2022- to Date
  • Duties and Responsibilities
  •  Monitoring and ensuring budget implementation;
  •  Analyzing budget performance and advising on appropriate measures to be undertaken;
  •  Preparing timely and accurate quality reports for management consumption;
  •  Assisting in presentation of financial information
  •  Collecting and collating budgetary information from various sources for analysis
  •  Maintaining relevant statistics on public revenue and expenditure figures
  •  Monitoring of expenditure and projects through vote controls, including program implementation on a periodic basis and ensuring that timely corrective action is taken
  •  Ensuring safe custody of government assets and records (Accountable documents).
  •  Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) returns on monthly and quarterly basis to county treasury.
  • Head of Accounts –Principal Accountant
  • Ministry of Water, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, February 2017 to October 2022
  • Duties and Responsibilities
  •  Monitoring and ensuring budget implementation;
  •  Analyzing budget performance and advising on appropriate measures to be undertaken;
  •  Preparing timely and accurate quality reports for management consumption;
  •  Assisting in presentation of financial information
  •  Collecting and collating budgetary information from various sources for analysis
  •  Maintaining relevant statistics on public revenue and expenditure figures
  •  Monitoring of expenditure and projects through vote controls, including program implementation on a periodic basis and ensuring that timely corrective action is taken
  •  Ensuring safe custody of government assets and records (Accountable documents).
  •  Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) returns on monthly and quarterly basis to county treasury.
  • Accountant 1
  • Mandera County Government Treasury- September 2014 – February 2017
  • Duties and Responsibilities
  •  Prepare and process all payment vouchers for both suppliers & employees allowance.
  •  After every payment, i prepare all pending bills in treasury for facilitation of fund request from exchequer to determine expenditure report.
  •  Charge line itemized budget to respective items in recurrent and development account in IFMIS.
  •  Facilitate department imprest once warrant is raised and approved.
  •  Defined all suppliers and update each supplier to respective ministries in IFMIS (integrated financial management information system).
  •  All other duties assigned by head sections
  •  Does the role of examinations of vouchers, invoicing process, validation, importing and to G-PAY for payments of voucher via Central Bank to their respective accounts in commercial banks.
  • Enforce full compliance of audit documents in all payment vouchers as required by public procurement Act as follows:
  •  Notification and awarding documents
  •  Agreement Letter from legal department for construction project that clearly specifies clauses to be followed like 1st payment, 2nd payment, 3rd payment and 10% retention that is paid after defect period.
  •  Completions letter by engineers supervising project.
  •  Local service and local purchase order triplicate
  •  Procurement committee minutes confirmed awarding and payments of the projects.
  •  Inspections and acceptance committee reports confirming supply and delivery of items procured in good condition, quality and full quantity with recommended specification.
  •  Invoice & delivery of purchase the suppliers fully presented.
  •  Payment voucher well narrated and authorized by authority to incur expenditure holder (A.I.E) by chief officers in respective departments.
  •  IFMIS expert in the county government correcting all errors in payments.

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • Bachelor Degree-Business Administration- Accounting and finance

Abdirashid Abdi

Work experience
  • February, 2009 - October, 2014
  • Fulltime
  • Equity Bank Ltd, February 2009 - 2014
  • Operation (Account Opening, Alternate Business Channel Champion)
  • Duties and Responsibilities
  •  Generating customer details Id in the finacle system
  •  Opening of various types of accounts at branch level and sent for verification by the management team.
  •  Uploading images by merging with the respective specimen signatures into clientele respective accounts.
  •  Pulling daily reports of account opened and batch proofed after authorization done by management team.
  •  Chronological filling of the account opening forms as per the policies and procedures.
  •  Facilitation of account transfer from other sol branch to Mandera and from Mandera to another branch.
  •  Welcome clients and introduce the entire product under alternate business channel like various types cards and other products like:-
  • Visa Electronic cards
  • Local equity cards known as auto branch
  • Hunger safety cards
  • Visa classic cards and many others
  • Mobile banking like Eazzy 247 & electronic banking known e-banking.
  •  Guide the client on the application charges and the requirements of the product like cards and give the client the application form to be dully filled by the client.
  •  Receive the dully filled forms, certify the true copy of national Identity card, verify the signature and input the details of the customer into the system for applications thus availing for verification to the managements and the same applies to Mobile banking.
  •  Does daily reconciliation for the cards (local card & visa electrons) & pins mailing to operations monitoring team head office.
  •  Inform & assist customers the usages of cards into the automated teller machine.
  •  Final responsibility, I does filling for the application forms in the respective file daily,
  • Branch clearing officer
  •  Receive and post inwards cheques after verifying details, signatures & doing callbacks to the respective account and outward cheques into the payees account for clearing center to follow up for callbacks.
  •  Pull and batched proof daily outward cheques reports and archive it for future retrieval.
  •  Receive all bounced cheques and issue back to the cheques payees.
  •  Maintains all clearing files & reconcile all clearing general ledger.
  • Branch Stores and Procurement Officer
  •  Requisitioning all the inventory and asset required by branch from the main store
  •  Issuing all the materials required by staff from the store in the branch.
  •  Receive, issue, mover order and transact the order of the stock through enterprise inventory request system that debits the balance sheet of the organization.
  •  Balance stock in & out control registrar
  • Branch accountant
  •  Charged with branch intra-day cash dual custodian with the help of cash officer.
  •  Prepares and pull branch performance (positions) report everyday (Financial statement and profit & loss account) and discuss with the members of staffs.
  •  Does accurate and timely reconciliation of branch returns & branch compliance toolkit submission every end month to operations monitoring team,
  •  Reconcile all expense general ledgers and monitor all income general ledgers and spearhead income collections and strategies in reduction of expenses.
  •  Prepares letter heads for institution account balance and the deceased account balance upon the request by organization or the district Commissioner Estate.
  •  Maintain all files of branch accountant (General Ledger’s expenses files)
  •  Managing the ATM's, outside marketing of the company products, involvement in various in-house

Abdirashid Abdi

Education
  • January, 2004 - December, 2007
  • Fulltime
  • Kenya certificate of secondary Education-KCSE

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