CHRIS KAUNDA

Profile

I'm an experienced Finance and Accounts Lead with a strong background in managing finance activities across multiple countries, including Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. I've Successfully implemented processes that reduced receivables from over 30% to less than 10% of sales, demonstrating strong financial management skills. Previously contributed to a cost-benefit analysis project published in a reputable journal, showcasing analytical expertise.

Outside of this, I like to engage in projects that challenge me, among them being:

  1. Creating the body of work that is this content, with the hope that it will be of help to someone out there.
  2. Creating this blog from scratch using <HTML> to host the content indefinitely.
  3. Programming a couple of small projects that are on my github and will be hosted here for you to try in the future.

Experience

Finance And Accounts Lead

Fuzu LTD

Jun 2021 - present

I head the Finance department, managing the company’s finance activities across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. This includes Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Cash management, and all other finance activities.

I helped create processes that have lowered the level of receivables from over 20% to less than 6% of sales over the last two financial years.

CBA Consultant

Iris Group International

Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

Collected the financial data needed to carry out the cost benefit analysis of the USAID WASHPaLS Menstrual Hygiene in the Workplace project being conducted in the country.

  1. The results were published in the Journal of Water and Sanitation. Link is below in the publications section.
  2. The cost benefit analysis results indicated a >120% benefit to businesses providing menstrual hygiene product to their employees - both men and women.

Customer Success Associate

Fuzu LTD

Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

Participated in the market research, product development and testing of customer facing products for the B2C end of the business.

Three of the products worked on now generate over 30% of the B2C revenue for the business.

Economics Regulation Attaché

Water Services Regulatory Board

Nov 2018 - May 2019

Performed financial analysis on water service providers and provided advice to ensure their continued viability.

Formed part of the small team responsible for the preparation if the economic section of the Impact Report (2019) for the Kenyan water sector.

Census Enumerator

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Aug 2019 - Sep 2019

Participated in the decennial census of 2019, collecting accurate data on individuals and families in my assigned area within a specified time period.

Education

Certified Public Accountant

Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examinations Board

Bachelor of Economics

University of Nairobi

CS50: Introduction to Computer Science

HavardX

Publications

Building a business case for workplace menstrual hygiene management programs: a social cost–benefit analysis

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

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Projects

Stock Analyzer

This is a web application that helps users analyze stock fundamentals for companies listed on US stock exchanges. It provides key financial metrics and ratios to assist in investment decision-making, and provides a description of the importance of each financial metric and ratio. This allows the user with little to no understanding of fundamental analysis to know why each metric matters.

It allows for the financial metrics to be dynamically inserted into the results of each search, allowing for relevant explanations for each metric.

Key Features include:

  • Real-time stock data retrieval.
  • Dynamic explanations to the stock's fundamental metrics.
  • User authentication system.
  • Historical search tracking, with allowance for updates to previous searches to check for new data.
  • Fundamental analysis metrics including:
    • Forward P/E Ratio,
    • Earnings Growth,
    • Profit Margins,
    • Price-to-Book Ratio,
    • Quick Ratios,
    • Current Ratios,
    • Free Cash Flow.
  • Check It Out