CPA Julius Mulati

♦ Providing oversight of all in-country financial matters ensuring formulation, implementation and continuous review of the company’s financial plans. ♦ Providing leadership, advice and support to the Country Manager & Head Office and developing an in-country finance team to support the company’s goals. ♦ Ensuring accurate and timely consolidation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports to the group and local management. ♦ Ensuring accurate and timely Joint Venture, Government (PSC), and Group accounting and reporting to track performance progress, compare against original plan and identify risks. ♦ Coordinating in financial management through managing treasury activities, budgeting and forecasting processes to help in financial planning and management of funds. ♦ Managing Kenya tax matters to avoid payment of interest, penalties, prosecution, and ensuring compliance and risk management. ♦ Ensuring implementation of an appropriate internal control framework in support of the business and providing assurance on proper operation of the same. ♦ Streamlining the routine finance operational roles to address the overload identified in the finance department through a collaboration with the admin department to uptake the non-technical finance functions. ♦ Identifying and eliminating inter-company tax exposure gaps by coming up with better ways of structuring them.

♦ Prepared annual financial statements for statutory audit and tax filing to help prevent errors and fraud in business, and provide information about the company’s revenue. ♦ Managed compliance tax audits by the Kenya Revenue Authority, identified and reviewed areas of uncertainty posing threat to the integrity and longevity of the company. ♦ Provided regular project and operations updates to upper management and corporate Joint Venture partners to aid management in decision making. ♦ Managed the external reporting to the group and joint venture partners of monthly billing reports, budget to actual analysis, and periodic forecast reports. ♦ Oversaw accounts payables and fetched maximum discounts from vendors to save costs, improve margins and increase on company profit. ♦ Streamlined the vendor onboarding system to ensure compliance with the group KYC policies.

♦ Oversaw the modelling, planning, and execution of all financial processes & policies and completion of the reporting requirements to provide direction to the goals and dreams. ♦ Prepared and presented financial reports to provide information about the company’s revenue and expenses, interpreted financial information to managerial staff, and recommended further courses of action. ♦ Advised on investment activities to engage in to expand, meet other financial goals, and provided strategies that the company would take. ♦ Analyzed costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company actual performance compared to its projected plans. ♦ Contracted external service providers for auditing, tax, banking, insurance, and other identified needs as necessary to provide solutions and services within the scope of work. ♦ Sourced and secured debt funding from commercial banks for high level investments & capital expenditure. ♦ Designed, development and implementation of SAGE accounting system and migrated the company from manual accounting system.

♦ Set up robust financial systems and processes for assigned clients to facilitate the flow of funds and allocation of resources. ♦ Prepared clients’ management reports and financial statements for internal and external purposes to help oversee operations and performance. ♦ Executed payroll tasks to ensure that employees receive their salaries on time with the correct statutory deductions. ♦ Implemented a concise and standardized approach for correspondence to clients to ensure uniform quality of treatment of all customers, both internal and external. ♦ Prepared and filed monthly & yearly tax returns for clients to avoid losing future refunds and added interests and penalties.

♦ Guarded the company’s investment in receivables through the implementation of limits and prompt debt collection ♦ Ensured compliance with internal controls and procedures in relation to receivables. ♦ Posted daily and monthly debtors' transactions in a timely manner and promptly ensured debtor’s balances were correctly stated and statements submitted. ♦ Oversaw key accounts including retail and distributors and ensured all sales invoices were promptly dealt with.

Completed course work and successfully defended a Research thesis on the effect of local content policies on sustainable local development by upstream oil & gas companies in Kenya.