Kerns Joseph Jean

• Monitoring availability of funds, allocation and appropriation of funds
• Ensure that the budget execution aligns with activity plan, program management plan, and compliance of the USAID’s procurement guidance and spending guidance of U.S

Department of State

• Work with large governmental databases to produce all types of reporting by sectors, by program, by offices and bureaus using Access, PowerBI, Abacus and Excel Pivot tables
• Monitor use of BHA program funds through Phoenix and Abacus by overseas USAID Fields' offices to ensure that resources are fully accounted for and utilized in accordance with the BHA disaster assistance mandate and consistent with the accounts/appropriations provided to BHA
• Coordinate and monitor the Accruals and the de-obligation processes on a quarterly basis to provide information and guidance as necessary to the CFO and all the BHA offices including upper Management
• Making funds available in Phoenix and Abacus for program teams to commit and obligate
• Support the annual formulation of supplemental program budget requests, narratives, and document supporting materials for IDA funds
• Support the annual BHA budget allocation process and help facilitate the allocation of budgets to divisions and teams once budgets are approved
• Provide limited technical support to BHA staff on the use of BHA program management and reporting system and Agency financial and procurement systems; develop written procedures and guidelines for users specific to BHA unique business process needs
• Coordinate the quarterly and annual reviews of unliquidated balances, including confirming de-obligations of unliquidated funds balances as appropriate

• As the head of the USAID/Haiti Local Solutions team I was also the Program Manager and as such I managed the APS portfolio of projects, a 22.5-million-dollar program with 9 axes of development.
• As Project manager, I managed a $7.5 million Technical Assistance project called Konbit, I provided financial and programmatic oversight of all aspects in managing this agreement; including but not limited to reviewing invoices, requests for approvals, program/project deliverables (work plans, annual reports, monthly status reports), travel requests, key personnel hiring, and financial/budget reports
• As a member of the Democracy and Governance office team I assisted other colleagues with the management of 3 Technical Assistance projects to help the government of Haiti
• As such I also established and maintained liaison between the USAID/Haiti and the Government of Haiti (GoH) throughout the execution of these projects
• As the POC of USAID Forward in Haiti, I became the face of USAID/Haiti on Local Advocacy and Capacity building of local NGOs awards
• I gave interviews to prominent national TV stations (Radio Tele-Metropole, Radio Tele-Guinen) I spoke at several annual conferences and Development summits throughout different regions in Haiti, I represented USAID at Haitian Banking Association corporate board, at the national Mayor’s Associations conferences and American Chamber of Commerce of Haiti

• Conducted over 50 Consultations with NGOs, private Sector actors, during a 3-month span to raise interest in the potential Local Solutions (LS) APS that was being crafted
• Conducted consultations at Government level, National and Regional level among Civil Society actors to inform a new Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS)
• With the LS team’s help, we also planned, created, designed, and implemented 2 different projects: 1 Advocacy project (TFIF) Fiscal Transparency project with the State Department in Haiti and 1 Capacity Building project (Konbit) with the Program office to accompany all local NGOs APS winners
• Organized and conducted sessions with AOR/CORs and Financial Analysts on how to create and manage financial reporting via the Microsoft software called ACCESS
• Organized and conducted sessions with AOR/CORs and Financial Analysts on 'End Use Checks' of USAID’s depreciable Assets
• Organized and conducted DEVRESULT sessions to teach colleagues how to use Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) platform

• Company Overview: Commercial Banking Institution
• Perform Quarterly Budget Review and Analysis through KHALIX system
• Manage Quarterly, Performance Scorecard analysis on financial products (business risk insurance, business credit, small business loans)
• Create Account Payable Journal entries through an Oracle system weekly
• Review of monthly, quarterly, and yearly review of small business loans, credit insurance products portfolio
• Reconcile Fixed Assets books, Tax & Payroll Accounts and GL Accounts
• Analyze, review, and produce monthly cost Statements for clients and dept
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• Commercial Banking Institution

• Coordinate the Billing Department, providing weekly and monthly sales reports
• Resolve all customer service issues with Clients regarding invoices
• Use large food products databank to create meal/food pricing menu per person
• Make Quarterly Adjusting and Closing Entries to the General Ledger through MAS90
• Make monthly Budget Forecasting, Budget Analysis, and variances examination
• Report on monthly Cost control and product pricing variance analysis
• Collaborating with IT Department for database maintenance, files update and maintenance