Eric Maina

Driven Finance Professional with 7+ years of progressive experience in finance operations, strategic budgeting, and multinational tax planning. Skilled in setting up scalable financial structures for expanding businesses. Proven expertise in leveraging technology to drive efficiency, including automated banking integrations and AI-driven tools. Adept at optimizing intra and cross-border operations, and assisting leadership to achieve sustainable, tech-forward growth.

Finance Manager - Coamana Market Limited

(2023-11)

• Oversaw grant financial management and reporting in compliance with requirements.
• Prepared and presented monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, including projections and budget vs actuals variance analysis.
• Managed payables, cashflow, and liquidity, ensuring liabilities were properly managed and prioritized.
• Reviewed and approved QuickBooks postings, reconciliations, payroll, and statutory payments.
• Liaised with external auditors for annual audits (2023–2025).
• Directed tax planning and compliance across the Kenya, Nigeria, and USA entities.
• Partnered with tech and product teams to automate finance processes such as trade finance and incentives disbursements, KYC verifications and credit scoring on the company's SaaS platform.
• Introduced robust credit scoring & KYC verification, reducing loan default rates below 5%.
• Prepared financial projections and analysis that assisted in securing various funding for the company.
• Ensured successful onboarding to ETIMS and VAT registration in 2024.
• Corrected some financial statement items misclassifications, mitigating tax risk.
• Achieved optimal payment prioritization during cash constraints in 2026.

Finance Officer - Coamana Market Limited

(2022-11 - 2023-11)

• Assisted in grant financial management, reporting, and audits.
• Processed trade financing payments and reconciliations.
• Supported payroll processing, statutory filings, and vendor payments.
• Enhanced analytics with new formulas in monitoring sheets.
• Created communication channels between finance and communications teams to enhance collaboration.

Accountant - Eastzone Distributors Ltd / Merchant Shopping Arcade Ltd / Merchant Hotel Ltd

(2019-05 - 2022-10)

• Managed payroll, invoicing, receivables, payables, and statutory filings.
• Prepared management accounts and liaised with auditors.
• Implemented ERP/POS systems and automated receivable follow-ups.
• Automated accounting processes, integrating Mpesa into ERP systems.

Accounting Intern - Nairobi City County Government

(2018-07 - 2018-08)

• Recorded financial transactions in IFMIS.
• Prepared audit responses and revenue reports.
• Processed bursary cheques.

Certified Public Accountant - Accounting - Strathmore University & KCE College (2017 - 2024)

Bachelor of Commerce - Finance - The Co-operative University of Kenya (2015 - 2019)

Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst - Financial Modelling - ALX/CFI (2023 - 2023)

Quickbooks Online International Certification - Accounting Software - Intuit Quickbooks (2022 - 2022)

Certificate of Secondary Education - Dagoretti High School (2011 - 2014)