Georgina Bwango, FCCA, MBA

Experience

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  Homeserve Property Repairs Ltd

  May 2008 - Jan 2010

  Purchase Ledger Co-ordinator / Finance Administrator

  Following my promotion to this role, I was responsible for overseeing intercompany invoice processing activities and analysing financial programme data using V-lookups and pivot tables. I also managed the matching, batching, nominal coding and posting of up to 2,000 purchase invoices per month onto the payment system.Finance AdministratorHomeserve Property Repairs LtdMay 2008-January 2009I was hired to generate sales ledger invoice bordereaux reports, run SQL queries and reconcile monthly supplier statements. ✔ Optimised financial administrative procedures.✔ Accelerated purchase ordering by 50%, improved efficiency and provided a better audit trail through automating the process and implementing electronic records. Show less

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  Nations Healthcare

  Apr 2010 - Jun 2011

  Purchase Ledger Assistant

  During this tenure, I provided assistance with reporting requirements, management accounts, purchase ledger, cashier functions and month-end closures. I also performed cost versus benefit exercises, presenting findings to the Finance team as well as prepared / posted month-end accruals, petty cash journals and pre-payment schedules.✔ Ensured the accurate weekly recording of £3k in cash from the hospital car park machine.✔ Met all reporting and month-end targets.✔ Reduced administration costs by negotiating more flexible payment terms, thereby eliminating late payment fees previously incurred by the organisation.✔ Slashed personnel hours by 10% through introducing automated invoice processing, thereby optimising departmental performance.✔ Reduced risk by 2% through raising awareness of non-financial risk as well as implementing new processes such as outsourcing to a specialist. Show less

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  Santander UK Corporate & Commercial

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  Quality Assurer

  I was engaged by Santander Bank to perform quality checks and ensure high standards of complaint resolution as I reviewed approximately 50 complaints per week. I also proposed appropriate monitoring activities after evaluating complaints.✔ Improved customer service by providing feedback to customer-facing staff and Managers.✔ Recognised for consistently realising established quality targets.

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  Seventeen Group

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2014

  Assistant Accountant

  I was hired to assist the 5-member Accounts team and oversee credit control, budget reporting and variance analysis activities. My role also includes helping the teams prepare budgets and 5-year forecasts in addition to analysing and reporting on variances between budgets, forecasts and actual results. ✔ Enabled more accurate capture of client costs to the organisation based on staff hours and overhead by developing a timesheet-based platform.✔ Led credit control functions to collect debt from 50 debtors worth approximately £60k which reduced variance, increased efficiency and drove business growth (forecasted 8% in 1st year of rollout). Show less

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  KBM Chartered Accountants

  Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

  Assistant Accountant part time

  During this part-time position, I provided assistance with bookkeeping requirements and managed accounting assignments, ensuring completion within established budgets and timeframes.

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  Alexander Wood Accountants & Co (UK) ltd

  Apr 2012 - Oct 2014

  Accountant (part time)

  Carried out all accounting requirements for my set of clients.

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  Europcar UK Group

  Nov 2014 - Mar 2015

  Assistant Management Accountant

  My scope of responsibilities included overseeing month-end activities, such as calculating and posting journals and performing reconciliations for income and expenditures.✔ Enabled the organisation to expand operations whilst remaining profitable through justifying £1m in capital expenditures to senior staff members.✔ Successfully eliminated a major 2-year backlog of revenue audits amounting to £1m.

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  UNEP

  Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

  Finance Consultant

  Achievements• I transformed the delayed data reconciliation process for an ERP transition, in addition to analysing the portfolio of data on projects for the system conversion.• I controlled a US$2m budget and am responsible for analysing project expenditures to ensure sufficient allocation of funds.

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  One Acre Fund

  Feb 2016 - Feb 2017

  Audit Consultant, Head of Finance and Business Operations

  Duties• Cross-Functional team Management: Led the team of bookkeepers and auditors, came up with strategy for input delivery; the busiest period in the department• Auditing Fixed Assets, Leases and Payroll.• Reporting on district, country and organizational wide budget performance

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  SimGas

  Mar 2017 - May 2017

  Finance & M&E Officer

  Financial management, Financial Reporting, Budgeting and budget controls, establishment of strong internal controls and managing donor-funded programs and projects.

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  Icolo.io

  May 2017 - Sept 2020

  Corporate Financial Analyst

  I have analysed investment termsheets, business plans and presented these findings to Senior Management teams and business owners, allowing them to make the difficult but necessary decisions, sometimes to close operations. I have created processes and procedures in Organisations and trained staff on these to improve departmental efficiency. I have always strived to inspire my team to have a result-oriented culture, I am motivated by results and always proud when a target is met. Known for working till midnight to beat that very important deadline and working tirelessly under very stressful moments to deliver high standard work.Achievements• Work with the CEO to create strategic growth plans and raise finance to implement these plans. • Successfully raised $7.94M from European sources and assisted with project implementation ensuring completion on time and in budget.• Lead the Finance department. Manage the cash planning process.• Spearheaded Financial restatement to ensure compliance with IFRS standards. Review of Audits and address of management issues raised• Created long-term Financial strategy for Financial instruments; Debt vs Equity, analyzed term sheets and recommended decisions to management Show less

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  UN Environment Programme

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2022

  Associate Budget and Finance Officer

  My current role involves analysing collections, cash balances and programme delivery and presenting these analyses to the Multi-Lateral Environmental agencies who work so hard to protect the environment. In promoting a shared knowledge repository, I have documented processes and procedures to ensure ease of continuity and following best practice.Duties▪ Extraction of invoice and payment details from Umoja to obtain payment trends of parties across different funds▪ Reconcile with MEAs finance staff extracted data and resolve any differences that may arise▪ Update web repository with resolutions of common interest to the MEAs and UNEA where necessary▪ Assist in the preparations of COPs and MOPs and follow-up on the implementation of administrative and budgetary resolutions▪ Maintain a repository of tasks assigned during MOPs and COPs for implementation before next COP/MOP or any other established deadline. Show less

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  UN Convention to Combat Desertification

  Aug 2022 - now

  Associate Administrative and Finance Officer