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Krishma Rahimi

Fairfax,Virginia

Summary

Resilient FInancial Manager successful at working with technologies and organizational structures. Well-versed in aligning technological resources with established processes and personnel strengths to achieve operational and continuous improvement objectives. Experienced in offering analytical insights and decision-making support focused on operational development and sustained growth.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Financial Manager

Global Refugee Center
Baltimore, MD
10.2022 - 02.2025
  • Oversee budget development for new programs within Children, Family Services, and update budgets for existing programs.
  • Ensure that financial reports are prepared according to Global Refuge and the Office of Refugee Resettlement requirements.
  • Oversee sub-recipient budget development, and work with partners to ensure compliance with the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Global Refuge requirements.
  • Overseeing the budget tool system for foster care budgets.
  • Conducting training, providing technical assistance on iPortal and the Budget tool.
  • Perform monitoring of grant contracts and ensuring full compliance with grant requirements.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Financial Analyst

Global Refugee Center
Baltimore, Maryland
02.2022 - 10.2022
  • Verifying the completeness and accuracy of invoice submission at the stage of data received. Liaise with affiliates to ensure completeness, correctness, and accuracy of financial reports.
  • Providing ad hoc reports as needed.
  • Updating and maintaining an effective tracking system of affiliates' invoices.
  • Analyzing sub-recipient budgets and budget adjustments as needed.
  • Ensuring the invoice amounts are within the contractual budgets, and the correct per capita and indirect rates are being applied.
  • Analyzing affiliate monthly data by preparing forecasts and reviewing spending patterns.
  • Communicating with affiliates regarding issues of late submission of invoices, and other issues regarding financial reports, such as indirect rates and per capita rates.
    • Inputting data into Excel spreadsheets, keeping them up to date, and reconciled.
  • Providing current affiliates' financial information to relevant program managers, as needed.
    Bringing all significant financial issues to their attention and providing analysis that would facilitate their management of the program and optimization of the award.
  • Work with affiliates to identify opportunities to improve financial operations via compliance and/or efficiencies. Work with affiliates to develop and implement resolution plans within reasonable timeframes.
    Processing monthly reimbursement requests from affiliates in a timely manner. Assist in the review and prepare partner cash requests, ensuring tracking and matching of advance payments and expenses reported.
  • Identify opportunities to provide value to affiliates by learning about their challenges and working with them to resolve their issues through one-on-one coaching, making connections between other affiliates, and/or providing or recommending appropriate training. Inform the supervisor and program managers of relevant issues.
  • Assist the finance team leadership in the creation, maintenance, and ongoing evaluation of tools to measure the affiliates' overall financial viability and grant-related performance.

Financial Management Analyst

U.S. Department of State
Kabul, Afghanistan
12.2019 - 11.2021
  • Public Diplomacy (PD) FY2020 budget execution/monitoring, review, reporting, Accounting and funds control.
  • Oversee financial planning and budget preparation for the FY 2021 Public Diplomacy (PD) budget, which was the largest and most complex budget worldwide, with more than $40 million to manage in multi-year appropriation.
  • HR focal point for reviewing personal actions, awards, TDY cost estimates, and training reimbursement for LE staff, and coordinating awards with the financial analyst for the appropriate funding source.
  • Voucher examiner responsibilities through transitions.
  • Providing funding support for more than 80 TDYers (temporary duty) who served at Embassy Kabul from various embassies around the world. and developed a comprehensive spreadsheet that captured the many costs associated with these TDYs, and following up with each post to ensure that the TDYers filed their final travel voucher.

Voucher Examiner

U.S. Department of State
Kabul, Afghanistan
11.2017 - 12.2019
  • Processing complex vouchers with two hundred lines each, and these vouchers were included: travel voucher, employee claims, Citibank travel card, cellphones, moving expenses, employee parking, and DHL.
  • Checking the fiscal data and entering the vouchers in RFMS and 1LMS system.
  • Processing Citi banks and purchase card payments, while also working with service and non-service agencies' fiscal data.
  • Working and following up with customers on their advances and voucher submissions.
  • Processing medical claims for all local employees' staff of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
  • Processing grants payments, and keeping track of the installments each time, checking the amounts and signatures.
  • Responsible for the Office of Residence Expenses (ORE) staff time sheets, leave records, and salary preparation and payments.

Finance Officer and Cashier

Equality for Peace and Democracy
Kabul, Afghanistan
01.2012 - 11.2017
  • Preparing receipts and payment vouchers, withdrawal vouchers, fund transfer vouchers, fund receipt vouchers, and filing them properly based on the Equality for Peace and Democracy (EPD) filing system.
  • Translation of the Dari version of provincial documents into English to meet donor requirements.
  • Helping the admin staff in preparing the payroll and preparing the transfer sheets for the disbursement of the salary.
  • Calculating the permanent staff and consultants' salaries tax and following up on clearing the tax on a monthly basis with the Ministry of Finance. Keeping records of all tax clearances.
  • Follow up with advance transactions and liquidations.
  • Training of the assistant on cash and bank handling, and completing supporting documents.
  • Handling cash and bank. Safe custody of cash in hand, checkbooks, and other financial instruments.
  • Opening, closing of bank accounts, and changing authorization when required.
  • Keeping daily cash counts and reconciling physical cash with the cash book on a daily basis.
  • Reconciling monthly bank books with payments, and cash books.
  • Transferring funds and dealing with vendors, companies, and organizations about their claims.
  • Updating cash books and bank books on a daily basis.
  • Ensure the internal procedures on financial transactions are defined and followed, especially those for approval, signing rights, transaction limits (financial or technical), and safe-keeping of cash in hand.
  • Making a backup of the cash book and bank book on a daily or weekly basis, or when needed.
  • Adopt proactive action for the organization's annual audit.
  • Assist program staff in preparing provincial budgets. Any other duties assigned by the line manager.

Skills

  • Budget analysis
  • Financial statement preparation
  • Financial reporting and analysis
  • Fraud prevention
  • Payroll administration
  • Grant management
  • Customer relationship development
  • Budgeting expertise
  • Cash flow management
  • Financial planning
  • Budget forecasting
  • Financial audits
  • MS Excel expert
  • Financial data reporting
  • Budgeting and financial management

Languages

English
Full Professional
Persian
Native/ Bilingual
Pashto
Limited
Urdu
Professional
Hindi
Professional

Accomplishments

  • For outstanding performance in handling additional projects while improving customer service and reducing costs. Date: May 2019

Certification

  • In recognition of successful completion of PR123 Managing Customer Service - February 12, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of PR273 Communication Skills for FSNs - February 14, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful participation in Appropriations Law - April 21 to April 24, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful participation in Payroll and Allowance Training - April 24, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of Travel Policy - October 22 to October 25, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of the Basic Voucher Examination - August 17 to August 31, 2018 - CGFS Bangkok, Thailand.
  • In recognition of successful completion of the Accounting I - February 25 to March 1, 2019 - CGFS Bangkok, Thailand.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Financial Manager

Global Refugee Center
10.2022 - 02.2025

Financial Analyst

Global Refugee Center
02.2022 - 10.2022

Financial Management Analyst

U.S. Department of State
12.2019 - 11.2021

Voucher Examiner

U.S. Department of State
11.2017 - 12.2019

Finance Officer and Cashier

Equality for Peace and Democracy
01.2012 - 11.2017
  • In recognition of successful completion of PR123 Managing Customer Service - February 12, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of PR273 Communication Skills for FSNs - February 14, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful participation in Appropriations Law - April 21 to April 24, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful participation in Payroll and Allowance Training - April 24, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of Travel Policy - October 22 to October 25, 2018 - Kabul, Afghanistan.
  • In recognition of successful completion of the Basic Voucher Examination - August 17 to August 31, 2018 - CGFS Bangkok, Thailand.
  • In recognition of successful completion of the Accounting I - February 25 to March 1, 2019 - CGFS Bangkok, Thailand.

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