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KADIATOU CISSE

Burtonsville,MD

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Consultant/Temporary assignment as Financial Accounting Management

09.2021 - Current
  • Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain records of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities
  • Provide overall financial oversight to assigned portfolio at all stages including timely preparation and review of budgets, budget narratives, budget modifications, subawards and/or FAAs, as well as invoices and financial reports
  • Assist field staff to prepare budgets and budget narratives ensuring accuracy, reasonability, consistency with the work plan, and adherence to donor policies
  • Maintain strong financial controls to guarantee compliance donor regulations
  • Ensure budgets and other financial information are correctly represented in financial and project management systems
  • Maintain the hard and electronic file for each project
  • Track and report consolidated project expenses, burn rates, and manage cash flow
  • Perform project variance analysis and provide updated projections to support internal management and/or donor requirements
  • Maintain primary financial relationship with donors, partners and/or sub-recipients and serve as the liaison to program teams as it relates to the financial management of the assigned portfolio
  • Support the Director of Accounting to manage the timely monthly closing process using a monthly checklist
  • Ensuring that all recurring and one-time accounting entries are posted each month
  • Prepare, approve journal entries; and review subsidiary ledgers and reconcile to the general ledger
  • Maintain monthly accounting records with all supporting schedules in an organized manner
  • Demonstrate technical competence in planning and managed work product, provided input to procedures, process reports and other documents
  • Assist Project Audit and Compliance Manager with managing project audits performed in the field and/or at headquarters by local auditors for projects
  • Coordinate with Finance grants, and Contracts teams to perform substantive testing (i.e., invoice and procurement testing) related to project audits and internal reviews.

Field Accounting Support Manager (FAST)

Chemonics International
Washington, DC
05.2018 - 09.2021
  • Supported PMU and field offices (Mali, Haiti, Senegal, Mauritania, Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Guinea, Vietnam, & Burma) for all matters related to accounting
  • Provided support and training to both field staff on USDAID/DCAA and chemonics policies and procedures, emphasizing the importance and value of compliance
  • Review field office monthly financial reports and submit to A/P for payment
  • Review field office supporting documentation to ensure regulatory compliance, allowability, and reasonableness
  • Provided training to program staff on grant financial management issues such as effective budgeting, preparing expenditure forecasts, cost allocations and reading and analyzing monthly job cost reports of grant expenses
  • Assisted with audits conducted by Finance Compliance review unit and third parties, and provided required information related to projects within one’s portfolio of projects
  • Provided ABACUS support consisting of project profile setup (pin activation, general ledger accounts activation)
  • Reviewed and completed monthly expenses incurred by overseas project offices to establish the allowability of costs, and manage closeout expenditures and administration of files for approval
  • Worked closely with projects managers and country teams to closely monitor expenditures and identified financial trends and risks as they arise
  • Reviewed and approved field office’s wire transfer request daily
  • Completed monthly reconciliation of home office and field office project accounts, research variances and recommended resolutions for un-reconciled amounts
  • Performed duties consistent with full understanding of chemonics requirements, policies, and procedures
  • Demonstrated technical competence in planning and managed work product, provided input to procedures, processed reports and other documents
  • Approached problem solving collectively with senior staff, internal and external clients to achieve a mutually beneficial result
  • Field office trial balances and bank statement balances to home office trial balances monthly; identified problems and recommended solutions
  • Worked with field projects in optimizing financial and cashflow management.

Accountant, Fixed Assets

American Diabetes Association
Arlington, VA
08.2016 - 05.2018
  • Improved accuracy of financial reporting with enhanced monitoring of financial forecasting and budgeting for assigned divisions
  • Supported division, immediately notified Director & Associate Director of any financial developments
  • Reviewed assigned divisions YTD actual income and expense and ensured YTD actual tie to the financial statement, all needed adjustments and re-class are sent to Oracle via journal entry for correction in timely manner
  • Prepared accruals for assigned divisions as provided by the divisions and submitted by 2nd close
  • Ensured timely and relevant reporting through monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
  • Completed all Census Bureau returns, quarterly and annual surveys are filed prior to deadlines
  • Researched and identified new state requirements related to Property Tax Exemptions
  • Performed frequent searches related to the Association Unclaimed Properties in different states
  • Signed and filed with the states, follow up with the states and track payments status
  • Ensured timely, accurate and relevant capital project reconciliation, forecasting, and reporting which enabled strategic management decision
  • Prepared monthly schedules and account reconciliations of equipment rental, maintenance, non-capital equipment and software
  • Ensured all capital assets were properly reflected and entered Oracle Fixed Asset including all new and additional assets, and cross references with the appropriate capital project
  • Performed monthly and quarterly verification of all active in Oracle Fixed Assets, listing is provided to Administration Services and Information Technology departments
  • Recorded all Fixed Assets disposals in Oracle with the appropriate approval from VP department and Association Vice President of Financial Services
  • Completed Monthly Fixed Assets Roll-Forward to be reviewed by Associate Director, Financial Reporting.

Education

11.2010

Intermediate/Advanced accounting courses -

USDA Graduate School
06.2008

02.2007

BA/BS in Business /Accounting -

Strayer University
09.2003

Bachelor of Arts - Business Admin/Accounting

Strayer University
Washington, DC
06-2003

Skills

  • Budgeting and expense tracking for USAID, and privately funded donors
  • Experience Finance and Accounting professional with a demonstrated history of working in international Non-Profit organizations
  • Skilled in Grants Accounting, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Budgeting, GL account Reconciliation, Internal Audit, Internal controls, French, USAID, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from strayer University
  • Analyzing accounting data to recommend solutions
  • Tracking all active grants for compliance regulations
  • Fluent in written/spoken French (native speaker)
  • Proficient in Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, Oracle Fusion, Costpoint, Solomon, Great Plains, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive

Languages

French
Professional

Timeline

Consultant/Temporary assignment as Financial Accounting Management

09.2021 - Current

Field Accounting Support Manager (FAST)

Chemonics International
05.2018 - 09.2021

Accountant, Fixed Assets

American Diabetes Association
08.2016 - 05.2018

Intermediate/Advanced accounting courses -

USDA Graduate School

BA/BS in Business /Accounting -

Strayer University

Bachelor of Arts - Business Admin/Accounting

Strayer University

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