About

Bagonza Babiiha Alex is an experienced accounting and financial manager with expertise in financial management, analysis, planning, reporting, tax and audit processes. He has demonstrated skills in business and financial operations, accounting, payroll, presentations, client relations, and human resources. Alex has worked at Mbarara University of Science and Technology as a Senior Business Development Specialist since 2021, where he assesses financial projections, evaluates business expansion needs, contacts potential clients, plans marketing initiatives, and develops goals for business growth. Prior to this, he served as a Part-time Assistant Lecturer at Makerere University from 2014 to 2021, delivering lectures, assessing student work, and supervising research projects. He also worked as an Accounts Assistant at World Vision Uganda from 2005 to 2008, handling tasks such as preparing statutory accounts, reconciling finance accounts, and payroll management. Alex holds an MBA in Accounting from Makerere University and a BBA in Accounting from the same institution.

Skills

  • Financial management and planning
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Experience

Alex Bagonza

Work experience
  • Assess financial projections and business plans of the Incubation center,
  • Evaluate the business expansion needs and start-up for the incubation center,
  • Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange business meetings.
  • Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.
  • Researching organizations and individuals to find new opportunities.
  • Increasing the value of current customers while attracting new ones.
  • Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.
  • Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.
  • Developing quotes and proposals for clients.
  • Developing goals for the development team and business growth and ensuring they are met.
  • Training personnel and helping team members develop their skills.
  • Make recommendations to management regarding necessary changes to the incubation centre’s policies that can affect how clients accept products,
  • Track service outcome and delivery in the database prepared for each client,
  • Record appropriately time expended on communication with client in the database for the particular client,
  • Work together with customers and members of staff of the incubation center in promoting the centre’s values and ethics,
  • Get involved in all projects of the centre for the accomplishment of centers’ strategies and goals .
  • Get involved in meetings involving the business technical team of the centre

Alex Bagonza

Work experience
  • Teach as a member of a teaching team within an established programme of study.
  • 2. Teach in a variety of settings from small group tutorials to large lectures, ensuring
  • content, methods of delivery and learning materials meet the defined learning
  • objectives for individual teaching sessions.
  • 3. Develop own teaching materials, methods and approaches taking into account
  • established or agreed practices where necessary.
  • 4. Supervise the work of students, provide advice on study skills and help them with
  • learning problems.
  • 5. Set and mark assignments and set examination questions as well as assessing the
  • work and progress of students by reference to defined criteria and provide
  • constructive feedback to students.
  • 6. Seek ways of improving performance by reflecting on teaching design and delivery
  • and obtaining and analysing feedback.
  • 7. Supervise student projects under guidance and supervision.

Alex Bagonza

Education
  • Accounting

Alex Bagonza

Work experience
  • January, 2005 - December, 2008
  • Fulltime
  • Allocate various expenses to cost center accounts made on vouchers in compliance with WV Cost Allocation Methodologies
  • Prepare and file supporting documents for all accounting transactions in compliance with WVU financial guidelines and manual
  • Accuracy of expense coding and cost allocation
  • Clean Balance Sheet items, no account to be overdue more than 30days- ( Account allocation)
  • 100% transactions filed on daily basis
  • Financial management:
  • Initiate and prepare Mobile Money transactions (using Voucher Interface) and submit to the cluster Program Accountant for upload to Share point daily
  • 100% approved mobile money transactions initiated on daily basis for disbursements
  • Financial planning & budget management:
  • Assist in developing programme/AP/cluster budgets in compliance with the programme / cluster/APs’ Plan
  • 100% Projects Budgets in Horizon and Sun systems
  • Zero project with True Overspending at end of the FY.
  • Financial reporting:
  • Prepare and participate in discussion of the financial report with programme/AP team on 12th every month.
  • Monthly financial reports and minutes of FFR discussions signed off by all staff
  • 100% completion of LDR.
  • Risk management:
  • Support the Programmes /cluster during the internal and external auditing
  • Maintain completed/updated stores records and items (stock cards, bin cards, good received notes, stores requisitions and returns books, delivery notes and way bills in accordance with WVI/WVU policy.
  • No Repeated Audit Findings
  • Quarterly AP monitoring visits
  • Well management Inventory system in place
  • Capacity building:
  • Train and upgrade skills and knowledge of the programme/cluster staff and partners on accounting policies and procedures.
  • Hands on support to non-finance staff.

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