Migunda Stephen, ACCA

Experience

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  Centsense CL

  Oct 2015 - Jan 2016

  Accountant

  Data entry and bookkeeping services for multiple VAT registered organisations

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  Nextcity Property Care Ltd

  Jan 2016 - Mar 2017

  Accountant

  Nextcity is one of the leading real estate services companies in Kenya.Roles and Responsibilities• Designed an automated utility billing system that improved efficiency a by over 80%.By forming partnerships with the stakeholders of the company, I commercialized the system that was scaled up to be used by other real estate agencies across Kenya. This is still in operation.• Implemented strategies that improves the company’s liquidity.• Reduced internal operations and improved efficiency using an accounting system. Show less

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  ACCA

  Feb 2016 - Nov 2017

  Brand Ambassador

  Managed to organise and lobby for ACCA Kenya to partner with the University of Nairobi Campus to conduct several career talks that were of mutual benefit to the school and ACCA. As a result of this, ACCA Kenya managed to recruit over 100+ new students from the campus and reached an audience of over 3000 students.

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  STANLIB

  Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  Project Imarisha - Investments Operations Officer

  STANLIB is a South African asset manager which is a wholly owned subsidiary of JSE-listed Liberty Holdings Limited. As of 2017 STANLIB operated in nine African countries including Kenya, and in key developed markets globally. The Kenya office had approximately $1.2bn assets under managementRole and Achievements:Contracted under ‘Project Imarisha’ an inter-company programme set up by STANLIB Kenya & Uganda businesses aimed to ensure that they turned around their operations to be effective and sustainable within the required governance frameworks of both STANLIB and Liberty Group. Achievements • Prepared East Africa reconciliation dashboard reports for the Africa MANCO (Management committee); • Successfully designed an excel automation tool for performing daily settlement reconciliations and reports. These reduced errors and reduced level of effort from 6hrs to about 5 minutes to generate reconciled reports; • Carried out monthly investment asset reconciliations; • Preparation of the net settlement analysis report and Asset Under Management (AUM) reports; • Preparation of the escalation items report;• Reports to Management Committee Show less

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  PwC Kenya

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2022

  Experienced Senior Associate

  Role and Achievements:• Identified and converted opportunities to additional work for PwC for both audit engagements and non-audit related services;• Only member, below senior manager level, who was part of the PwC Business Unit Strategic Committee that spearheads the achievement of the firm wide goals for each Business Unit in financial year. The committee led to superseding the FY 2020/21 budget of $6 Million; • Developed and maintained good relationships while influencing a diverse range of stakeholders, i.e., multinational clients, finance institutions, implementing partners, government agencies and teams while conducting financial audits, internal controls and corporate governance assessments across multiple countries; • Coordinating, coaching and managing large audit teams in delivering timely and quality projects conducted in multiple countries simultaneously, i.e., Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana and Namibia;• Creating business units’ performance dashboards, tracking action points raised and sharing presentations with the firms’ partners before presenting to the firm during meetings.• Active involvement in successful proposal writing, compilation, submission for new clients and additional engagements for existing clients; • Leading a diverse portfolio of audits and assurance engagements ranging from IFRS, IFRS for SMEs, NANA’s, AUPs, Value for Money Audits, Internal Control Assessments, ISA Audits, Micro assessments of organizations and Organizational audits. This involved the processes from planning, execution, coaching, client management, team management, billing and obtaining client feedback; • Maintained high quality deliverables resulting in the firm obtaining new assignments from satisfied clients;• Involvement developing concept notes for new assignments for the firm based on audit recommendations and COVID-19. Show less

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  Oneaccounte

  Jan 2019 - Aug 2022

  Business Analysis Consultant

  Oneaccounte is a software solutions company incorporated in Kenya with a focus on implementing business management solutions projects for entities. The company mainly implements ERPNext and other in house developed software tools, with clients in Kenya and Malawi.Roles and responsibilities included: (30 -35 hrs Per Week)Managed to plan and oversee implementation of business management solutions for medium sized entities with average annual turnover of £60,000 to £2,500,000 and 11 - 50 employees. This entailed processes from need requirements for client, business analysis, solutions design and customization, implementation and handover, and post implementation support. Achievements• Championed the software as a service model for the company, resulting into long term revenue generation for the business;• Client need assessment, Business analysis and Business process mapping;• Managed the team of implementors, i.e., link between client management, technical team, training team, data analysts. Show less

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  PwC Isle of Man

  Sept 2022 - Oct 2023

  Senior Associate
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  Standard Bank Group

  Nov 2023 - now

  Business Manager

  Finance, Governance and Project Management