Judy Njuguna

Lead financial planning, reporting, and risk management for a $267 million women’s empowerment project funded by the Mastercard Foundation.
Oversee financial operations across 7 African Country Offices (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Liberia, Ghana and Sierra Leone), ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Provide strategic advisory support to the Regional Management Team, ensuring efficient and compliant finance operations across African Country Offices.
Collaborate with the Head of Finance Africa Region and the management team to develop organizational-level budgets and financial plans.
Lead in designing and execution of actionable training for project staff on accounting policies, ensuring uniformity in understanding and application.

Develop organizational-level budgets and financial plans
Monitor and analyze budgets
Provide strategic advisory support
Drive continuous improvement
Lead preparation of financial reports

Deployed to the New York Advocacy Office to support the $14.9 M annual budget development and financial forecasting for global advocacy initiatives.
Contributing to financial analysis for grant proposals, ensuring alignment with donor requirements.

Managed a $29 million annual portfolio across 9 field offices In Kenya and Madagascar across various donors.
Lead the fleet service charge sustainability initiative, resulting in monthly recovery of $25,000.
Spearheaded TIMS reconciliation, setting transactions to zero.
Collaborated with head of finance in budget forecasting and expense tracking.

Managed portfolio across field offices
Budget forecasting and coordinating
Budget monitoring

Supported the Finance department in developing the annual organizational budget for AU Addis Advocacy Office.
Spearheaded training and coaching of new finance staff on proposal budgeting and reporting quality.

Develop annual organizational budget
Training and coaching of finance staff

Deployed to the New York Advocacy Office to support the $14.9 M annual budget development and financial forecasting for global advocacy initiatives.
Contributing to financial analysis for grant proposals, ensuring alignment with donor requirements.

Master budget development
Monitoring of award budgets
Grant budgeting in proposals

Designed and implemented training for finance staff on budget management.
Supported in consolidating and updating the non-thematic funding distribution for Kenya country program.
Liased with HR to ensure timely timesheet completion and salary allocation.
Conducted cost allocation methodology and donor reporting code mapping.

Proposal budgets preparation
Donor financial report reconciliation

Cashflow management
Payroll preparation and reconciliation

Data quality
Cash forecasts