MAMADOU MAREGA DIALLO
Mermoz, Dakr,Senegal
Summary
Over 15 years experiences in Emergency and Development program in Budget and Grant Management, Sub grant Management, Internal Controller, Program Management, Finance and Accounting). I have demonstrated an ability to meet deadlines and provide excellent donor reporting, auditing, budget analysis in Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Haiti Yemen, Mozambique, USA, DRC Congo and Niger.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Budget/HR and Finance Officer
UNICEF West
Dakar
03.2020 - Current
- Republic of Senegal
- Responsible in managing polio resources from donors including the development of donor proposals and reports, and effectively and efficiently developing, monitoring and reporting on grant-specific budgets in line with program, UNICEF and donor requirements
- Supports effective management of all Health grants and assists in the development of budgets and technical reports when necessary
- Support effective management of human resources & administrative related matters, recruitment of surge staff, deployment plan of staff
- Provides key support to the Rapid Response Team in outbreak and budgetary monitoring, compliance with donor and internal UNICEF rules and regulations and other key functions as required’
- Provide support to the Rapid Response Team and West and Central Africa Regional Office in the collation of data and analysis of polio grant information and progress reports
- Support to financial monitoring and reporting
- Examine transactions (transfer, adjustments, reprogramming and liquidation) supporting documents to ensure the expenditure is broadly reasonable and in accordance with policy
- Contribute to capacity building of CO staff and partners, particularly in budget management by facilitating training, following the growth in the staffing structure and partners, providing one-on-one follow-up support and knowledge sharing.
Budget and Finance Officer
UNICEF
09.2016 - 02.2020
- In Democratic Republic of Congo
- Responsible for polio grants management, includes contributions review, timely allocations of funds to right outputs and field offices, monitor and complies DRC country office planned and outbreak grants expenditures report and conduct variance financial analysis of grants utilization at national and field office level for senior management review and timely submission to Polio finance team in HQ
- Monitor field offices’ budgets and workplans based on donor approval and approved allocation, assess implementation using data reflected in VISION and other sources for increased financial transparency
- Prepare detail budget in coordination with country office technical team for donor proposals and finalization, incorporating financial gaps and cash flow analyses (if required), to prioritize funding approval
- Support field offices to improve grants management and efficient administrative system
Financial Analyst
West &Central
06.2014 - 09.2018
- Save the Children US
- Responsible for the financial accuracy of SCUS managed funds for the Africa region
- Performing a careful review and analysis of expenditures to ensure they are in line with approved budgets, ensure donor compliance and address any miscoding or mapping errors
- In addition, build a strong relationship with CO financial managers and provide training and onsite technical assistance
- Support SCI Country Offices wherever there is a gap (Field position, Maintaining ERCAM dashboard and Analysis)
Interim Finance Manager, Change Manager
Children International, Covering Cambodia
01.2002 - 01.2017
- In Niger
- Responsible for supporting the management and development of SCI Niger Country Office work through providing effective and efficient support, advice, expertise and training to the Finance, Award and Program teams as well as the Country SMT team members as required
- Maintaining financial, accounting and grant management in order to meet Donor requirements and Save the Children internal requirements to support organizational operations
- To ensure the accurately and timely completion of month end financial processes including balance sheet account reconciliation and analysis
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- Prepare donor financial reports for timely submission
- Lead Country Office Budget planning and forecasting process and assists with the preparation and revision of program and grant proposals and budgets
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed monthly and on a timely basis and review final reconciliations and trial balances with the Country Director
- Nterim Asia
05.2016 - 09.2016
- Provided expertise to enable Country Directors and their senior management teams to lead a structured approach to implement the changes in country for effort reporting and cost allocation in the SEEA region
- Coordinated and guide the development of robust implementation plans following the kickoff meeting to enable timely transition to the new methodologies and systems
- Facilitated the embedding of the new effort reporting culture throughout the organization including the recording of actual hours
- Echnical Assistance to DRC Congo Country Office
Acting Finance Director
Save the Children
04.2015 - 07.2015
- International in Mali: Responsible and accountable for the oversight all aspects of CO finance function in line with SCI policies and procedures
- Management responsibility for finance and accounting functions, supports and strengthens the integrity of SCI finance systems at CO level and ensures smooth financial operations for supporting program work (including staff training, management, treasury and budgetary functions)
- Ensured balance sheet reconciliations are completed monthly and on a timely basis and review final reconciliations and trial balances with the Country Director
- Ensured that all policies and procedures are in compliance with Save the Children and donors policies, procedures, and requirements
- Directed the preparation of and approval of all donor financial reports in respect to accounting, legal and contractual requirements and ensures the review of such reports by the Country Director and Award Management team prior to submission
- Overseen Finance related training and technical support to country program, and non-finance staff
- Supervised the preparation of Cash Transfer Requests to Regional Office and ensures that appropriate balances are maintained to facilitate grant implementation
- People management (recruitment, coaching, supervision, performance review)
SMT
09.2014 - 03.2015
- Provided training to key finance, award management, and as needed, other, members and program staff on USG rules and regulations, including embedding on-going training into new staff on-boarding procedures in Kinsasha and field offices (Goma, Beni, Bunia, Bukavu, Massisi, Kishanga, Mbuji-Mayi)
- Facilitated the development and roll out of a cost allocation methodology, in alignment with regional and global efforts on cost allocation and including a thought-through transition/implementation plan to ensure no unnecessary cost coverage gaps
- Ensured policies and systems are in place to meet timekeeping and effort reporting requirements
Deputy Director, Grants Manager
Save the Children
12.2012 - 05.2014
- International in Mozambique
- Responsible for ensuring efficient and effective management of grants, contracts and other funding agreements from the time of development and submission of proposals to meeting of donor reporting requirements in Save the Children International in Mozambique (SCI).Ensured financial and grants managerial capacity building of sub-granted partner organization, and monitoring and evaluation of sub-grantee managerial performance
- Supported the development of proposals budgets
- Provided regular reports to Country Director & Program Development and Quality Director on Awards status (opportunity, proposals, agreement, and closeout)
- Maintained regular contact with donor representatives to exchange information on status of awards
- Facilitated negotiation of sub-grant agreements between SC members and Save the Children International in accordance with the “Home donor’s” principles and frameworks
- Ensured in collaboration with Program Operations Directors good quality of progress reports for submission to donors
- Udget and
Save the Children
- 11.2012
- International-Yemen
- Responsible for the Management of overall budgets, grants and contracts administration; Ensures compilation and documentation of accurate and updated information for all budgets, grants and contracts; Helped in the preparation of new project budgets, grant/contract applications and proposals; Prepared budgets, grants/contracts reports; Provided
- Age 3 timely and accurate grant information to budget holders for the purposes of monitoring expenditure with overall budget of $16 millions from multi donors (OFDA, BPRM, UNHCR, EU, DFID, WFP, USAID)
- Responsibilities include:
- Managed Grants, Cooperative Agreements and Contract development, approval, implementation, and close-out processes
- Ensured compliance with SC and donor policies and procedures with regards to budgets and grants management
- Ensured organization, documentation and tracking of all grant and contract documents
- Monitored individual grant, cooperative agreements and contract, budgets and overall expenditures.
Save the Children
12.2011 - 03.2012
- Sweden, Yemen and from April 1st, 2012
Grant and Contract Manager
Save the Children
06.2010 - 06.2011
- US in Haiti
- Responsible for the financial and grants management of the Save the Children program, supporting the Haiti Emergency Team to facilitate the most effective and efficient use of a diverse range of funding sources arising from the Save the Children emergency response in Haiti with overall budget of $66 millions from multi donors USAID, ECHO, DFID,
- U, OFDA, Global Funds, BPRM, Alliance members (SC Canada, SC Italy, SC Sweden, SC Netherlands, SCUS, SCUK), MSH, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP)
- Provided the Haiti management team with updated Funding Tracking information, including status of donor proposals and contracts, funding status against budget requirements
- Updated the Emergency response budget, detailing donor funded budget lines, unfunded costs
- Reviewed and liaise with budget holders and Finance Director on revisions and funding gaps
- Produced and reviewed Budget vs
- Actual monitoring reports on a monthly basis
- Review with budget holders, Finance Manager and support them in revising and monitoring
Grants Manager
Save the Children
11.2009 - 05.2010
- Unified Presence
Grants Manager
Save the Children
03.2009 - 10.2009
- US in South Sudan
- O support and strengthen the integrity of finance systems, ensure smooth financial operations for supporting program work and responsibility for updating and generating timely financial information to management and other levels within the managing member and participating members with an overall budget portfolio $20 millions from multi donors USAID, ECHO, DFID, EU, OFDA, BPRM, Alliance members (SC Canada, SC Italy, SC Sweden, SC Netherlands, SCUS, SCUK), MSH, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP, CDC
- Prepared sub grant agreements and when necessary, amendments to the agreement to be concluded with implementing partners
- Developed and update the finance diary that covers all the required activities on a monthly basis and lead staff to ensure that the diary is strictly adhered to
- Ensured that all financial transactions are fully supported and that they are all captured in SUN Accounts on a daily basis; make sure that regular backups are taken and stored off site
- Prepared monthly and quarterly financial diaries for both SUN Accounts and sub-office finance systems and ensure its strict adherence to the HQ deadlines
Subgrant Manager
06.2007 - 03.2009
- SKILLS Consortium project (The South Kordofan Infractructure Learning and Livelihoods support) with five components: Health, Education, and Livelihood, Water
- Anitation and Mine action
- Kadugli Locality Recovery and Rehabilitation Project - South Kordofan State
- Esponsible for establishing and monitoring Consortium financial systems and ensuring contractual compliance with UNDP/EC requirements with a total budget of Euro 4 900 000 for three years
- The program has four members of the consortium, Save the Children as lead Agency-SC (Health and Livelihood sectors), DanChurch Aid-DCA (Mine action sector), Dioces ElObeid-DOE (Water and Sanitation sector) and Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation and Development-NRRDO (Education sector)
- Responsible for ensuring sound administrative management and compliance in both financial and program reporting across the impact area, and have specific responsibility for the administration of SC/US sub-grants signed agreement with implementing partners
- Supervise senior staff in each of the sub-offices including the Senior Accountant, the Office Manager, the Information Officer and the Procurement Officer
- Sahel Internal Auditor covering Guinea, Mali and Burkina, Save the Children US
Humanitarian Response and International
09.2005 - 06.2007
- Responsible for financial management reviews and conducting internal audit reviews of Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso programs
- Provided independent assessments, analyses and recommendations based on reviews and examination of processes and information
- Identified significant risk to economic resources and operations of field office, sub-office and sub-recipient and assign risk rating to each of them
- Provided assistance to external audits if necessary
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- Evaluated adequacy of internal control system, verify existence and effectiveness of internal control system
- Drafted accurate observations for areas reviewed and recommendations that incorporate corrective, detective and preventive measures to address risks.
Acting Program Manager
Save the Children, International Development
11.2004 - 08.2005
- Children in Emergency and Crisis, US- Guinea
- Umanitarian Response and
Deputy Program Manager
03.2003 - 11.2004
- Responsible for project management and coordination of programmatic, administrative, managerial and financial operations in multi-sites in response to Liberian, Sierra Leonean and Ivorian refugees in camps and for internally displaced Guineans with a total budget of US $1.4 million
- Provided leadership, managerial and technical assistance to ensure humanitarian response activities are sound and in compliance with donor and Save the Children rules and regulations
- Ensured project and approaches are in conformity with host government policies and strategies
- Ensured project are developed and implemented in partnership with government and local NGO partners
- Supervised the financial administration of project ensuring conformity to standards required by donors and submission of monthly and other financial reports as required.
Chief Accountant
Save the Children US
01.2002 - 02.2003
- Assisted with the preparation and revision of program and grant proposals and budgets
- Implemented, and monitored systems, procedures and reporting necessary to maintain on current basis accurate forecasts of cash requirements for meeting future spending, including commitments entered into and which obligate Save the Children to future spending
- Overseen the timely preparation, review and approval of all monthly bank account and cash reconciliations
- Supervised and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely performance feedback, and providing documented annual and mid-year performance reviews
- Oversees the protection of the country’s assets (cash, inventory) through the enforcement of internal control policies and procedures
- Managed finance activities and schedules to meet the financial reporting requirements and deadlines specified by SC rules and regulations and donors
- Maintained finance policies, systems and procedures and direct the development, implementation and documentation of such
- Ensured that all policies and procedures are in compliance with Guinean laws and / or funding source requirements and that all such laws and requirements are respected and consistently followed
- Maintained appropriate accounting records and ensured timely backup of computerized accounting data
- Ensured that expenditures and advances are cleared and have a correct support document.
Assistant Accountant
Save the Children US
11.1999 - 12.2001
- Monitor cash flow and request top-ups from Finance Officer
- Make Payments after ensuring that all transactions are supported by appropriate documentation eg receipts, invoices, and authorized according to the Authorization Procedures
- Ensured financial transactions are recorded on SC vouchers in accordance with standard financial procedures
- Ensure that the cashbook is reconciled on a daily basis and signed off by the Chief Accountant on a weekly basis
- Prepare payroll each month, ensuring all monthly statutory deductions are calculated correctly, deducted and remitted to the appropriate bodies within appropriate timeframe
- Administered the payment of salaries and allowances of local staff, including payment of taxes, insurances and benefits, and ensured the maintenance of proper payroll records;
- Ensured that all staff settle advances and loans in line with established policies and procedures and that outstanding accounts are settled at the point of termination of service;
- Ensured that expenditures and advances are cleared and has a correct support documents.
Internal Audit
Istanbul, Jordan, Turkey
04.1999 - 10.1999
- Researched data on businesses and drafted comments on financial reports including recommendation for action
- Participated in plenary sessions on audit preparation and reported on specific tasks
- Liaised with businesses on issues regarding auditing of their accounts
- Orkshops and Trainings
- DG ECHO regulations and general training, Port au Prince from February 21st to 23rd,2011
- USAID Rules and regulations workshop in Kampala, Uganda from August 11th to 13th, 2009
- Internal Audit Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey from January 8th to 10th, 2007
- Save the Children/USA Malawi Country Office (Lilongwe office, Dedza sub-office, Blantyre sub-office, Mangochi sub-office) Internal Audit from October 30th to 17th of November 2006
- Global Sub-Grant training in AMMAN, , July 18th to 21st, 2005
- Conflict transformation/Global relations, Professional practices in Peace building and Fundraising training at SIT(School for International Training) in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.), 30th of May,2005, , 16th August to 18th, 2004
- Basic security in Field-Staff Safety, Health, and Welfare, Guinea, 9thNovember to11th, 2004
- Emergency Planning and Preparedness workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15th September to 19th, 2003.
Intern
Coopers and Lybrand International, Office of Coopers and Lybrand
11.1997 - 09.1998
Education
Master’s - Economics and Management, financial management
University of Conakry
Skills
Budgeting and finance specialist
Budgeting and finance
Accounting and finance
Operations and finance expert
Additional Information
- Sex: , Male Nationality:
Timeline
Budget/HR and Finance Officer
UNICEF West
03.2020 - Current
Budget and Finance Officer
UNICEF
09.2016 - 02.2020
05.2016 - 09.2016
Acting Finance Director
Save the Children
04.2015 - 07.2015
SMT
09.2014 - 03.2015
Financial Analyst
West &Central
06.2014 - 09.2018
Deputy Director, Grants Manager
Save the Children
12.2012 - 05.2014
Save the Children
12.2011 - 03.2012
Grant and Contract Manager
Save the Children
06.2010 - 06.2011
Grants Manager
Save the Children
11.2009 - 05.2010
Grants Manager
Save the Children
03.2009 - 10.2009
Subgrant Manager
06.2007 - 03.2009
Humanitarian Response and International
09.2005 - 06.2007
Acting Program Manager
Save the Children, International Development
11.2004 - 08.2005
Deputy Program Manager
03.2003 - 11.2004
Interim Finance Manager, Change Manager
Children International, Covering Cambodia
01.2002 - 01.2017
Chief Accountant
Save the Children US
01.2002 - 02.2003
Assistant Accountant
Save the Children US
11.1999 - 12.2001
Internal Audit
04.1999 - 10.1999
Intern
Coopers and Lybrand International, Office of Coopers and Lybrand
11.1997 - 09.1998
Save the Children
- 11.2012
Master’s - Economics and Management, financial management
University of Conakry