Ken Beckloff

Bookkeeping, Financial analyst.

Tax Consultant (Part-Time) - Tuya and Kariuki Associates

(2022-06)

• Corporate Compliance & Strategy: Advise mid-to-large scale commercial corporate clients on Income Tax, VAT, and Withholding Tax (WHT), protecting financial health across complex portfolios.
• Fiscal Health Audits: Conduct comprehensive corporate tax health checks, transaction audits, and structural risk assessments to identify cost-saving tax efficiencies and prevent non-compliance penalties.
• KRA Dispute Resolution: Represent corporate entities directly in Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) audits and legal assessments, successfully resolving complex disputes and significantly reducing tax exposure.
• Regulatory Horizon Scanning: Monitor shifting statutory obligations and East African tax laws, providing proactive mitigation strategies to defend businesses against regulatory risks.

Finance & HR Manager - Afyafrika

(2021-01 - 2024-06)

• Corporate Financial Modeling: Engineered complex, scalable financial models for long-range forecasting and provided deep-dive quarterly performance reports to executive leadership to guide resource distribution.
• Power BI Dashboard Architecture: Built custom Power BI dashboards to track operational KPIs, labor costs, and revenue trends, converting raw transactional data into immediate, actionable insight for stakeholders.
• Internal Audit & Governance: Headed end-to-end month-close operations, complex ledger reconciliations, and journal entries, maintaining flawless data integrity and audit-ready accounts.
• Consortia Portfolio Management: Exercised strict fiduciary oversight, budget monitoring, and compliance tracking over multi-million shilling international portfolios (including USAID/IREX, ForumCiv, Hivos, and World Vision), establishing rigorous, leak-proof internal financial controls.
• Full-Cycle Accounting Workflows: Managed centralized corporate accounting operations and annual statutory audit preparation, dramatically increasing financial reporting accuracy through multi-tiered review systems.
• ERP System Migration & Launch: Spearheaded the end-to-end custom migration, setup, and deployment of QuickBooks, designing tailored internal cost centers to track departmental expenses and delivering intensive staff training.
• Operational Team Management: Aligned Human Resource management with financial performance metrics; restructured employee evaluation workflows and designed incentive frameworks to drive operational efficiency.
• Procurement & Waste Reduction: Collaborated across internal departments to streamline vendor workflows, refine procurement procedures, and tighten internal controls to eliminate structural operational waste.

Finance Officer - Linda Arts

(2021-12 - 2024-06)

• Full-Cycle Accounting Workflows: Managed centralized corporate accounting operations and annual statutory audit preparation, dramatically increasing financial reporting accuracy through multi-tiered review systems.
• ERP System Migration & Launch: Spearheaded the end-to-end custom migration, setup, and deployment of QuickBooks, designing tailored internal cost centers to track departmental expenses and delivering intensive staff training.
• Operational Team Management: Aligned Human Resource management with financial performance metrics; restructured employee evaluation workflows and designed incentive frameworks to drive operational efficiency.
• Procurement & Waste Reduction: Collaborated across internal departments to streamline vendor workflows, refine procurement procedures, and tighten internal controls to eliminate structural operational waste.

Consultant - Hijabi Mentorship Program (Kwale County)

(2025-01 - 2025-12)

• Grassroots Financial Governance: Structured and managed the comprehensive financial lifecycle for the KIOS-funded project, enforcing strict accountability, cost-tracking, and complete capital transparency at every execution level.
• Procurement Optimization: Conducted operational audits on third-party supply chains and procurement processes, implementing cost-saving initiatives that maximized budget efficiency.
• Executive Advisory & Liaison: Acted as the primary financial liaison between cross-functional program directors and the KIOS Foundation board, ensuring strategic alignment between funding lines and operational milestones.
• Compliance Capacity Building: Designed and delivered targeted corporate financial literacy and risk compliance workshops, embedding strong internal accounting practices and financial controls within local project teams.

Bachelor of Science - Accounting - USIU Africa (2015 - 2020)

Certification - Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) - Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

Professional Development - Corporate & Business Strategy - Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)

Technical Specialization - Data Analysis (Power BI & Advanced Financial Modeling) - Kaggle / DataCamp