Fekadu resume

Fekadu Demsses, BA accounting, MBA, LLB
Profile
Fekadu has a strong background in accounting, Grants Management, Administration, Legal
and Operation with leadership positions in International NGOs and provincial donor
projects. He has served in leadership positions for charity and development projects with
budgets ranging from $9 million to $75 million. He is experienced proposal level work,
visioning, costing and executing projects from inception to launch and is able to provide a
structured framework to analyze complex situations into simple strategic imperatives. As
accountant, lawyer, Grant person and Business manager, Fekadu is capable of work in both
responsive and traditional program and operations management.
Personal data
Permanent address: P. O. Box 1305 Code 1399, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Home telephone: +251 11 651 2480/+251 91 148 01 26
E-mail address: fekadudemsses@yahoo.com
Date of Birth: 01 April 1967.
Current citizenship: Ethiopian
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Languages: English very good
Local languages: Fluent in Guragigna (mother tongue),Oromiffa Good,
Tigrigna Good
Areas of Expertise
• Leadership and innovation
• Strategic thinking
• Project management
• Business analysis and process redesign
• RFA writing
• Proposal development
• Legal advises/ especially tax, labor, registration etc
• Grant management in all levels from pre-award to close out
• Accounting and financial management
• Office set up/start up
• Operation management
Education
MBA ST. Marry University College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 2013
LLB- Law Addis Ababa University School of Law, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 2011

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B.Th. Bachelor of Theology Evangelical Theological College, Ethiopia, 2004
B.A. Accounting, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1992
Employment
CNFA (Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, Acting Finance and administration Manager
September 1, 2012 to July 2, 2013
Major Donor: USAID Funded project
Award type: contract
Total budget: award amount $ 38 Million
• The Finance and Administration Manage is a key personnel position in the project and
manage all project tasks related to administration.
• Oversee financial management and grant administration, logistics, procurements, and
Develop and implement financial oversight and control mechanisms and procedures to
ensure that all program expenses are in accordance with CNFA’s financial policies,
procedures and rules and regulations;
• Oversee financial and administrative functions of the execution of subcontracts on all local
sub-implementing partners;
• Manage the Finance and Administration team, including the Innovation Fund Manager, the
Senior Accountant and the Office Manager;
• Develop and periodically update AGP-LMD’s policies, procedures, and guidelines, including,
but not limited to: procurement policies, accounting procedures and ensure that all
organizational policies and regulations are in line with relevant Ethiopian Government
policies and USAID;
• Review Action Memorandums and other approval request documents to ensure the
reasonableness of budgets, compliance with forward-funding guidelines, appropriateness
of the methods of financing/payment, and adequacy of financial reporting;
• Ensure the smooth implementation of all AGP-LMD’s financial and administrative activities,
including (but not limited to): timely and accurate bank reconciliations, invoicing,
monitoring of expenditure levels against budget and funding obligations, financial
projections, submission of monthly financial reports to CNFA HQs;
• Ensure that staff contracts and profiles (other than the ones managed directly by CNFA’s
Washington, DC Office), are in place and appropriately monitored and updated;
• Manage all personnel records in a confidential manner;
• Contextualize CNFA Field office manual with Ethiopian labour law and other law of the
country.
• Undertake other assignments or tasks at the request of the Chief of Party
Others
• Supervise the Grant Coordinators. Facilitate and follow up CNFA Ethiopia registration as
International NGO in Ethiopia with Agency of Charity and Society Ethiopia (CHSOE),
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facilitate having Tax payers Identification Number for newly under registered organization
• Advise the management on all legal matters including drafting all contracts considering
Ethiopian laws
• Assist writing Task Orders for consultants and local partners, guideline partners on financial
matters, check and review all financial works in CNFA Ethiopia including review of financial
reports and checking of all source documents to see eligibility with CNFA policies and donor
requirements. Acting any urgent or administrative issues required by the management.
CNFA (Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture) , Innovation Fund Manager
September 1, 2012 to Present
• Innovation Fund Manager, responsible for overseeing the Grant works of the project;
• Responsible for day-to-day administration of grants awarded under the USAID from
proposal phase through close-out.
• Responsible to ensure performance of grants monitoring to assure compliance with award-
specific requirements and applicable donor regulations as incorporated in awards and other
USG grant regulations.
• Coordinators and managing the Innovation and Investment Partnership Program.
• Design the Innovation and Investment Partnership Program in compliance with Agriculture
Growth Program- Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD’s) grants manual by
considering all USAID rules and regulations which governs grants processes from RFA to
clause out.
• Develop and provide to home office for their review PEPFAR Grant manual
• Developing grants manual for AGP-LMD grants procedure.
• Responsibilities include advising and assisting in the design, implementation, and oversight
of all activities and reporting associated with the AGP-LMD grants fund (Both IIPP and
PEPFAR)
• providing policy guidance and interpretation for program staff as well as sub-grantees
• Analysing and evaluating grant applications, proposals, and awards to ensure adherence to
grants management policies; ensuring proper negotiation of the terms and awards to
ensure reasonableness and consistency
• Write negotiation memo that shows the process and get approval from COP finally keep
filed for future auditing;
• Developing and maintaining grant management documents and reports and process and
procedures; and ensuring grants disbursement follows all USAID rules and regulations.
• Oversee the due diligence of grant applications and evaluate the grant application with
other grant evaluating committees
• Conduct organization capacity assessment as pre-award assessment and to recommend or
to be rejected, impose additional reporting requirement or arrange capacity building
trainings.
• In conjunction with the Deputy Chief of Party and Value Chain Managers, score grant

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applications
• Oversee the disbursement of funds to grantees approved by USAID/ETHIOPIA COR.
• In conjunction with the Agricultural Investment, Credit, and Finance Manager, leverage
financial investment opportunities between financial institutions and grantees
• Work with AGP-LMD’s monitor and evaluation team to assess the achievements of grantees
and identify challenges
• Conduct post award assessment and management for ongoing grants and sub awards
Others
• Supervise the Grant Coordinators. Facilitate and follow up CNFA Ethiopia registration as
International NGO in Ethiopia with Agency of Charity and Society Ethiopia (CHSOE),
facilitate having Tax payers Identification Number for newly under registered organization
• Advise the management on all legal matters including drafting all contracts considering
Ethiopian laws
• Assist writing Task Orders for consultants and local partners, guideline partners on financial
matters, check and review all financial works in CNFA Ethiopia including review of financial
reports and checking of all source documents to see eligibility with CNFA policies and donor
requirements. Acting any urgent or administrative issues required by the management.
Pastime Work
Surafel Import and Computer Service (SISC), Financial, legal, and administrative advisory
services
January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
• Technical lead of both administrative and legal matters
• Provide include preventive legal security for company through a study and prior
consultations on their affairs in an effort to avoid future setbacks and ensure, labour
law, tax and other legal compliances
• Arbitration and non-judicial dispute resolution are specialties of our team of
professionals.
• provide administrative services in the broadest sense informing tax issues,
• Organizing Human resource personnel files, advise action to taken for administrative
and other operational matters
• Advice tax and accounting department works and economic procedures easier for all
the people and companies that come to us by providing them with comprehensive
advice on the accounting processes

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Re-Natural Life Agro Processing Share Company (RELAP S.C) , Part time work in Legal officer
September 1, 2016 to present
• Initiate and pursue legal proceedings as required by the Company i.e., prepare
writs, defences, submissions and other pleadings in civil cases both “for and against” the
Company.
• Prepare, file and plead cases in Courts in pursuit of amounts owed to the
Company.
• Advise on civil matters that should be directed to external counsel.
• Liaise with and assist external Counsel in the discharge of their obligation
• File oppositions in matters where title is being passed or property is being
encumbered and there are arrears due and payable to the Company
• Advise on statutory compliances.
• Research and prepare legal opinions on various civil matters including claims for
compensation against the Company
• Draft and/or review legal letters, contracts and agreements and monitor legal
obligations under agreements to ensure compliance, as requested
• Submit all judgments to the Legal Officer supporting the Loss Reduction Division
diligently
• Prepare Personnel and Financial Manual based of labor law of Ethiopia , tax laws
and other relevant laws of the country and accounting and HR principles
• Review MOUs for research works to be signed by company to conduct
researches
• Represent the Company at Arbitration and other legal matters
Consultancy
Bread for the world, Evaluation consultant for sub-awardee
July 01, 2012- August 31, 2012
• Bread for the World (German based NGO) Financial evaluation, administrative and
compliance of the awardees both GAAP and Donor compliance evaluation, financial
healthiness checking and financial management investigative evaluation and advise the
donor to continue or terminate the donation and other recommendations (consultancy
work)
• Post ward assessment against accounting principles and donor requirement for Sub
awardee called Child Today Man of Tomorrow in Dessie.

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Employee
Nederland development Organization (SNV), Financial Administrator and controller for
Business organizations and their access to Market (BOAM)
July 2010 to June 30, 2012
Accounting software: SAP
Major donors: Dutch Embassy, UNICEF, USAID (pass though Care International and
Mercy corps)
Total grant/Budget amount handled: Above EURO 9 million
Major area of responsibilities:
• Prepare, check financial reports and forecasts and responsible for the financial
management of BOAM leverage
• Provide information costing aspects of proposal development, prepare proposal budget
to donors
• Manage on going Sub grantees (clients in SNV term) funds and Review concept notes
and proposal submitted by potential clients, see and evaluate the financial system of
clients compliance with accounting principles BOAM Fund manual
• The total number were 80 sub grantees( Clients)
• Prepare and submit financial administration and reports to portfolio, country office,
donors and concerned government bodies
• Control system deficiency and advise the remedies and devise internal control
mechanisms procedures.
• Asses, including pre-awarded assessment though Organization Capacity Assessment
(OCAT), conduct training, conduct monitoring and evaluation to clients and programs
during close out, in selection process or in mid-term evaluation.
• Guide, supervise, couch and monitor subordinates and client finance staffs
Led: Team with people 2 (General support officer including& cashier, 1Portifolio administrator)
Save the children USA Ethiopia country office (SCUSA), a. Donors compliance specialist
b. Grants and contracts specialist c. Grants unit head
September 2008 to July 2010

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Accounting software: Sun system with vision
Major Donors: USAID, UNOCHA, ECHO (pass though Save UK), UNIFE, Other
foundations (Bill Get foundation, American Idol etc.) and sponsorship programs
Total grant/Budget amount handled: Above $ 75 million
- Oversee grant managements and insuring donors compliance was
emplaced, give support in financial activities aspect. See payment before effected against
budget line and donor rules and regulations.
- Involve in proposal writing of new grant (especially fully responsible for
budget part and assisting the sub recipients in proposal development), on requesting for cost or
no cost extensions for grants
- Review and update budget records in the system with all revisions made on
every grant
- Pre-award assessments, monitoring and evaluation, conduct training and
capacity building for sub recipients and sub office and country office staffs.
- Review and update budget records in the system with all revisions made on
every grant.
- Timely submission of monthly, quarterly, etc. grants reports to management, donors, GOE
concerned bodies and other stakeholders as per required schedule
- Grant controlling for availability, followed cost principles, right coding etc.
- Capacity building training both staff and sub grantees.
- Monitoring program and sub grantees in periodic interval.
Led: Team with people 5 senior grant officers
Food for Hungry International Ethiopia country office(FHIE), Grants controller
December 2004 to September 2008
Major Donors: USAID, FHI national offices (FHUS, FH Canada, FH Korea, FH
Japan etc.), and Sponsorship programs
• Check all payments, financial data processing, both for head office and sub
offices before uploading.
• Assist Program departments in budget preparation
• Approve petty cash and fuel coupon requests and payments

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• Prepare and submit reports to donors, Embassies, management and other
appropriate organs.
• Conduct pre-award selection assessment, regular monitoring and evaluation,
trainings for sub recipients and Organization’s staffs (Absenteeism, be
Faithfull for Youths(ABY) PEPFAR fund)
• Conduct trainings and capacity building to staff (donor rules and regulations,
internal control etc.)
Led: direct supervision 4 staffs and functional super vision for seven staffs
ORBIS International Ethiopia country office, Grants officer
July 2002 to December 2004
Accounting software: MIP
Major Donors: National ORBIS Offices (ORBIS USA, Canada, UK etc.), Vision oversea,
International trachoma incentive, Christopher Blind Mission (CBM) etc.
• Check, record, post financial data
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and semi annual and annual financial
statements;
• Replace and carry out the duties and responsibilities of the Admin. &
Finance Head when he is not in the office;
Led: Direct supervision 4 staffs and functional super vision for seven staffs
WORLD Vision Ethiopia, Area development programs Tigray and Amhara regions, Finance
& Administration Team leader
April 1998 to July 2001
Major donors: USAID, CIDA, WFP, AIDA, World vision national offices- National offices
(USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Korea etc.) And different sponsorship programs

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• Budget preparation and submitted to donors and country office
• Follow-up timely preparation of appropriate payment voucher and journal entry,
check entries and approve payments.
• Verifying payments in accordance with budget limit, financial rules and procedures
established by the organizations, check their accuracy and appropriateness. Verify
and Sign prepared checks for withdrawal and payments.
• Supervise journalizing of transaction and posting to the ledger.
• Prepare periodic budget comparison and other reports to donors, management and
other concerned bodies.
• Monitoring, evaluating and follow up various types of financial transactions and
reports and take accurate action for better financial information.
• Financial analysis such as Variance analysis, financial trend analysis for different
years, financial feasibility analysis, vertical financial analysis, project feasibility such
as pay back, IRR NPV etc. for credit schemes
• Keep personal history of the area development program staff, Follow up and
updating annual leave of the staff.
• Follow up and guide the actives in store, general services and campsites,
maintenance service and overall logistic matters, lead different ad-hoc camp
committees
• Conduct trainings for community based organizations, churches and other partners
on financial matters.
Led: team of 56 people including 5 to 6 full time more than 50 casuals
Ethiopian Evangelical church Mekayesus Country office and Gondar Amhara region, a. Project
accountant (Gondar) b. senior accountant ( Home office -Addis Ababa)
April 1994 to March 1998
Accounting software: Scala
Major Donors: Various Lutheran missionary organization (NLM, SLM, DLM, etc.), LWF,
Norwegian church Aid (NCA), Danish Church Aid (DCA) etc.
• Preparing annual budget for the project based on prioritized on bases of community
need assessments.
• Authorize all payments, checking, coding payments against line item of the budget and
co-sign checks for payment

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• Prepare financial report, Government, donors and Central office monthly quarterly and
annually
• Handle all personnel and administrative matters of the project.
• Working with financial strategic working group in Ethiopian evangelical church
mekaneyesus in the process on self-reliance.
• Supervises the work of accountants and evaluate for annual performance evaluation
Led: team of 10 people including guards, secretary, accountants, store men
Selam Children’s village, Addis Ababa, junior accountant
September 1992 to March 1994
Accounting software: Quick book
Major donor: Tsehay Richly foundation
• Coding transactions journalized and post to ledger and subsidiary lagers.
• Controlling all agricultural product sales, which are products, produced by the
organization for sales & summarizes, prepare journal entry and post to ledgers.
• Prepare payroll and submit to senior accountant for checking.
• Assist senior accountant in financial statement preparation.
• Store ledger recording and check against physical inventory regularly)
Other capacities
• Preparing Administration, Human resource, Financial and procurement manuals
• Providing legal advises to management, help NGOs in CSO registration and
execute other legal services
• Providing training on finance, administration , USAID rule and regulations ( both
for cooperative agreement and contract) and legal matters
• Grant concept note and full proposal writing
Led: team of 3 people including sales man, storekeeper and accounting clerk
Certifications
• “Training in Tax system and tax Law of Ethiopia” organized by Alliance professionals’
consultancy Ethiopia PLC with Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce.01-21 April 2003,
Addis Ababa Ethiopia

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• “Training in Quality management system” Organized by Ethiopian Quality and Standard
Authority, April 22-23,2000, Mekele Ethiopia
• “Training USAID Rules and Regulation”, Organized by The association of PVO Financial
Managers, April 16-18,2007, Nairobi Kenya .
• “Financial management For NGOS” Organized by GS Graduate school USDA, March 28-
April 1, 2005, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• “Financial management” Organized by save the children USA, December 15-16, 2008,
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• “Wellness at work place and efficiency” Organized by save the children USA, May 22,
2009, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• ’Training in Advanced communication skills(Written): including report and proposal
writing, Advanced writing skills”, organized by The Windsor school of English and
sponsored by Nederland development organization(SNV), July 28 -28,2010, Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
• ‘’Grants and contracts Management’’, Organized by Institute of International
Education(IIE), February 24-28,2014Project Management Professional (PMP), Project
Management Institute
Computer skill
• Accounting software trainings: “Training in Scala Accounting system Ver. 3.1.5 General
Ledger and System Management” Organized by Ethiopian Evangelical Church
Mekaneyesus, 20 days, March October 1996, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• “Training in Scala Accounting system Ver. 3.1.5 General Ledger and System
Management” Organized by Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekaneyesus, 20 days, March
October 1996, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
• “Sun System accounting system workshop”, Organized by World Vision Ethiopia, May
10- 15,1999, Addis Ababa
• “Sun System accounting system workshop”, Organized by World Vision Ethiopia, May
10- 15,1999, Addis Ababa
• MS Windows (MS word, MS excels, MS access)
• Accounting soft wares ( Peach tree, Scala, Navation, MIP, Sun system with vision
REFERENCES
Marc Steen, CNFA-USAID-LMD
Chief of Party
Direct Supervisor
Tel: 251-912-639097
msteen@cnfaethiopia.org

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Meskerem Shiferaw , Former SVN Senior value chain advisor, Now Pro poor Senior advisor at
Livestock market Development (CNFA-USAID-LMD)
mshiferaw@livestockmarketdevelopment.com
Yoseph Sulito, finance officer, World Food Programmed
Colleagues
+251-911-676-191
yoseph.sulito@wfp.org

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