Chibuna Muteto

Over 16 years of Financial Management experience working for International Organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) providing financial analysis, evaluation, and financial advisory services including budgeting, evaluating, and coordinating activities of the Development Objective Team/s and analyzing and advising on the complex financial aspects of developing, implementing, and evaluating USAID projects and programs. Specifically, I have provided leadership in priority tasks in areas such as: Financial Reporting - Preparing high quality financial and project specific reports that include quarterly pipeline financial reports, expenditure rate, accruals analyses and office-related budgets. Financial Risk Assessments - Conducting pre-award financial and compliance assessments for prospective award recipients and conducting Government to Government Public Financial Management Risk Assessments. Project Management - Analyzing and making recommendations on the overall financial feasibility of projects, adequacy of budgets, reasonableness of advance requests and project financial reporting requirements. Audit Management - Coordinating and facilitating between the USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Mission management and award recipients on audit issues and making follow-ups to ascertain when audit recommendations have been implemented. Capacity Building and Training - Explaining financial aspects of projects to grantees/contractors; advice and assist them to take necessary measures to meet projects financial control requirements. Providing training on interpreting and applying United States Government financial regulations throughout the financial management cycle of a USAID award. Payment Administration and Processing - Reviewing of funding advance requests and liquidations/retirements from Implementing Partners ensuring that they are adequately supported and are in accordance with United States Government (USG) rules and regulations. Asset and Bank Account Management - Maintaining and updating the project fixed assets register and ensuring that monthly bank reconciliation statements are prepared and check the same for timeliness and accuracy.