This document is a curriculum vitae for Dinah Saisi Amwayi. She has over 10 years of experience in finance, grants, and project management. Her most recent role was as Finance and Administrative Manager at CREAW Kenya, where her responsibilities included financial reporting, budgeting, and facilitating audits. She has a Master's degree in project planning and management and is proficient in financial software and Microsoft Excel.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
DINAH SAISI AMWAYI
P.O BOX 2737-00200, Nairobi
Mobile: 0723912769
Email: Damwayi2000@gmail.com
Skype: Dinah.Amwayi
PERSONAL STATEMENT
A Finance and Grants Manager with a Masters in Project Planning and Management from University of
Nairobi with 10 years experience working in Project Finance and Administration, 5 years as in a senior
position in Finance, Administration and Grants Management. I have training in USG Finance and Grants
Management. I have capacity to work in demanding, high stress and fast paced environments, I work
under minimal supervision. I believe my skills in-depth Financial Management, Project planning
,budgeting, reporting and project communications to provide a flexible, pragmatic and proactive project
support service to programmes and projects.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCE
 Possess expert Knowledge of USG Donor, DFID and EU requirement and 10 years of
extensive Grant management processes and Health care financial management.
 Strong management , organization and coordination skills
 Experience in developing capacity of both Senior and Junior teams in Health Financing
through on-the- job training ,Coaching, and Mentoring
 Proficient in use of financial management software; Sage Evolution and Quick Books
 Strong computer literacy and expert knowledge of spread sheet applications such as excel
 Internal and External Audit experience.
 Experienced in project management with strong conceptual and analytical skills
 Proficient in written and oral English
 Excellent communication skills ;Interpersonal and teamwork skills
 Ability of Working to deadlines, to multi-task and adapt to new environments fast
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sept 2016- Date CREAW Kenya
Duties: Position: Finance and Administrative Manager
 Reviewing of documents and transactions in the organization to
ascertain compliance, accuracy, relevance and reasonableness of
the transactions. These include monthly operating reports,
financial statements, audit reports, inventory and capital
purchases.
 Planning, forecasting and budgeting – Budgetary controls –
Monitoring monthly expenses in accordance with authorized
budget levels and review of travel reports to ensure correctness.
 Facilitate the quarterly review by the appointed Auditors.
Oct 2014 - To Dec 2015: PHDA GEOMAPS Center, Nairobi
Position: Finance and Administration Manager
Duties:

2. Administration department: 30 % time
 Working with program leads to develop appropriate consultant
agreements
 Negotiating , Safe keeping of partners’ agreements and managing
lease agreements, donor agreements and consultants/business
contracts
 Capacity building, retaining and leading an effective finance and
administration team of 6 finance and administrative assistants and
10 clinic assistants’ respectively
Finance department: 40% time
 Directing and Coordinating all the accounting and financial
services of PHDA
 Establishment and maintenance of procedures, systems and
accounting for office and financial systems monitoring
 Ensuring a good audit rating is achieved in all financial processes
by pro actively identifying control weaknesses and
recommendations
 Liaising with project directors in preparation, tracking and
monitoring of program budgets and support in the implementation
of health care programs
 Preparation of monthly, financial reports based on program budget
utilization (variance reports) and timely submission to the donors
and UOM (University of Manitoba); yearly expenditure
analysis/cost-benefit reports for donors.
 Management of Institutional donor contracts and reporting to
donors
Project Management: 30%time
 Ensuring that organization Projects are well managed from
inception to project closeout.
May 2006 - Sept 2015: SWOP – University of Manitoba.UNITID, Nairobi
Position: Finance Administrator
Collaborating Institutions: NASCOP, NACC, University of Manitoba
(UOM), University of Nairobi (UON), KAVI (Kenya Aids Vaccine
Initiative), PIPS Thika, University of Washington (UW)
Clinics: Mathare North Hospital, Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Baba
Dogo, Majengo CCC in Nairobi County and Malindi District Hospital
in Kwale County
Subcontract and Grants:
CDC PEPFAR approximate USD.3.9M; Subcontracts: NOSET and
NORTHSTAR
Gates approximate USD.1.2 M; Subcontracts: ICRH and SWOP
Duties:
Project and Grant management: 30% time
 Maintenance of Project cash flows, preparation of grant reports and
submission to UOM and Donors
 Sub awardees management of contracts and funds
 Financial Quarterly reviews and assessments of sub awardees
Financial Management: 40 % Time

3.  Took lead of the procurement of project resources based on the
organizational laid down procurement procedures and
maintenance of their records and incorporating them in the
financial records
 Maintenance of daily ledgers, petty cash, bank transfers, currency
conversions, payments and recording all cash movements
 Management of accounts payable and inventory reconciliation and
fixed assets register.
 Preparation and maintenance of project cash flow for facilitation of
program activities
Budgeting and planning functions: 20%time
 Planning and budgeting functions and proposal writing, Allocating
expenses to specific budget lines and maintaining the approved
program budget expense allocations
Administration management: 10% Time
 Responsible for leading and managing the administrative function
with 15 accounts administrative and clinical staff.
2004 - 2005: KICOSHEP Kibera, Nairobi
Position: Welfare Officer
Duties:
 Accounting ,book keeping and preparation of reports
 Convened credit committee welfare meetings for loan approval.
 Prepared welfare deduction sheets.
 Reviewed welfare policy with the members of the community to
suit the members of the loaning system.
 Disbursed loans to members.
 Designed welfare joining, contribution forms, payment sheets,
withdrawal forms and review of loans forms.
 Declaration and payment of welfare dividends to members.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2010/2011: JEC /UON Secretary
2014: PHDA policy formulation and documentation committee
2015: PHDA Procurement and tender Committee
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Aug 2013: University of Nairobi
Masters in project Planning and Management
Jul 2011: African Nazarene University
Bachelors of Commerce- Accounting Option: Second Upper Class
honors
Apr 2005: Strathmore University
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

4. Nov 2015: Certificate in Managing Effective Partnerships, Ede
Netherlands
Sep 2014: Centre for Industrial Studies, Milan Italy
Certification Cost benefit Analysis of investment Projects
Nov 2013: Mauritius Institute of Health & Empower Institute, Papilloni
Certificate in International Procurement and Supply Chain
Management
Aug 2013: Hammond and TUTU
Certification in Enterprise Risk Management
Dec 2012: Dolphins Consultants
Certificate in Excellent Communication Skills
ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION
 Strengthening of the Finance and Administrative function :Spearheaded the development of
organization service charter which addresses the existing gaps in service delivery to the
projects where the lead time for payments to staff and suppliers has reduced drastically from
10 days to 3 days and staff complaints have reduced.
 Led in the streamlining of the Procurement function through the establishment of an internal
control system that separates purchasing function from the inventory function.
 Successfully led the organization in the adoption and implementation of the international
public accounting standard (IPSAS) and SAGE Evolution a Financial ERP software .
 Successfully led in the Introduction and implementation of grant management tool s for
managing for Sub Awardees
 Project management: managed to spearhead procurement and establishment of 10 PEPFAR
Project sites within two years of the Project period in Nairobi Province.
 Spearheaded the Startup and renovation of 10 SWOP Sites ;worked with NACSOP in
renovating the Malindi District Hospital in preparation for the IDU’s Program
 Played a key role in the determination of cost per patient for the Prep project Study
conducted by Harvard University and funded by Gates Foundation
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of ICPAK, Jun 2015
AVAILABILITY
1 Month Notice.
EXPECTED SALARY
Open to negotiation.
REFEREES
Available on request