Professional Experience:
? August 2013 - Present: Senior Finance Expert at GFA Consulting Group (a German leading consulting firm in the development sector), Fiscal Agent for Global Fund in Cote d’Ivoire
• Regularly act as Team Leader for a team of 3 experts and 2 accountants
• Set the operating strategies of the fiscal agent team in Cote d’Ivoire and present it to all key stakeholders
• Review and approve three Public Principal Recipients’ transactions and assist them in reporting to Global Fund
• Build administrative and financial capacities of public principal recipients in Cote d’Ivoire through trainings
• Put in place necessary control mechanisms to protect Global Fund Investment in Cote d’Ivoire, to increase budget burning rate and avoid ineligible expenses
• Advise Global Fund team in Geneva for better decision taking
? January 2011 – July 2013: Director of Operations at WSA (Water & Sanitation for Africa), a Pan-African Organization, specialized in water and sanitation, present in 32 African countries with the head-quarter based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with 70 staff members (HQ) and more than 300 staff members for the global organization, 30 million USD as overall budget in 2012.
• Regularly acted Chief Executive Officer in the absence of the CEO
• Defined the strategic vision and goals of the operations directorate within the 32 countries of the organization and implemented them
• Put in place a strategic plan to strengthen the operational capacities of the country offices for better support to programs and search for cost-reduction
• Conducted capacity building visits in country offices to help in implementing their audit recommendations
• Overseen and set objectives to the heads of four shared services functions under my supervision and reviewed their annual performance (Finance, HR, IT, Administration)
• Scheduled and organized the statutory meetings of the organization (Board Annual Meetings, Counsel of ministers
meetings, donors’ review meetings etc.), presented the annual budget and financial report to the Board
• Leaded the organization of WSA annual world event, the High Level Forum, an international annual platform gathering key stakeholders in the sector of Water and Sanitation in the world.
> April – December 2010: Free-lance consultant, assisting international organizations & NGOs in setting their accounting
system, strengthening their financial management capacities, setting procedures, auditing their accounts and training staff in
accounting, donor procedures & reporting requirements (USAID, CDC, UNICEF, UNDP, EU etc.), NGO’s accounting software
(Peachtree, QuickBooks, SUNSYSTEM), cost-efficiency studies
> April 2008-March 2010: Director for Operations & Administration at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
(EGPAF), Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
> April 2005-April 2008: Chief of Operations (acting), Finance Administrator at UNICEF, Abi