Banking and Payment Services Data Analyst - Co-operative Bank of Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya
(2018-04 - 2024-02)
Appointed to collect, clean, validate, and analyze high-volume banking and donor-funded datasets to support financial and operational decision-making. Responsible for producing accurate, audit-ready reports, identifying anomalies and trends, and maintaining data integrity across multiple systems to enable reliable insights and process improvements.
- Collected and analyzed 500+ monthly vendor and staff payment records, implementing multi-level validation checks that identified discrepancies, reduced posting errors, and ensured dataset reliability for decision-making and reporting.
- Developed automated reconciliation workflows in Excel and ERP systems for 150+ mobile money transactions (M Pesa and Popote), reducing reconciliation time from multiple days to same-day completion while improving ledger accuracy.
- Built dynamic dashboards to track 40+ partner advance requests monthly, visualizing fund disbursement trends, highlighting anomalies, and enabling faster managerial decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Conducted trend analyses of withholding tax datasets for 90+ suppliers, identifying recurring inconsistencies, enabling corrective actions, and ensuring full compliance with KRA regulations.
- Managed a SharePoint-based repository of 2,000+ financial records, implementing structured indexing, metadata tagging, and retrieval protocols to improve audit readiness and operational efficiency.
- Generated predictive insights from historical transaction datasets to anticipate fund allocation needs, optimize liquidity management, and identify high-risk transactions requiring closer review.
Finance Data Operations Associate - Kenya Commercial Bank - Nairobi, Kenya
(2017-12 - 2018-04)
Appointed to oversee branch-level financial and operational datasets, including transaction verification, account reconciliations, and reporting. Responsible for maintaining high-quality, accurate data to support operational decisions, minimize errors, and ensure compliance with AML/KYC regulations.
- Verified and processed 300+ weekly financial transactions, performing detailed cross-checks of approvals, documentation, and ledger entries, significantly reducing posting errors and enhancing dataset reliability.
- Reconciled 500+ client accounts monthly, analyzing discrepancies between branch and central records, performing corrections, and documenting reconciliation workflows to ensure accurate reporting.
- Developed daily validation templates for deposits, withdrawals, and internal transfers, standardizing data capture, enabling quick error detection, and maintaining compliance with banking regulations.
- Maintained transaction logs and reconciliation schedules, tracking anomalies and corrective actions to strengthen internal controls and facilitate audit preparation.
- Conducted quality assurance checks on client datasets, identifying inconsistencies, correcting errors, and improving the reliability and completeness of branch-level financial data.
Data Entry and Analysis Clerk – Tax Department - Kenya Revenue Authority - Nairobi, Kenya
(2015-11 - 2016-01)
Appointed to manage tax data entry, validation, and digitization, ensuring fully accurate, audit-ready datasets for regulatory compliance. Responsible for maintaining data integrity, preparing reports, and supporting timely and accurate submission of tax records.
- Entered and validated 2,000+ monthly tax records, performing multi-level checks against payment confirmations and taxpayer documentation to ensure complete accuracy for compliance reporting.
- Prepared audit-ready documentation for 300+ taxpayer files, ensuring consistency, completeness, and standardization to improve audit efficiency and reduce queries.
- Implemented double-entry verification and error-checking processes, identifying and correcting inconsistencies prior to submission, ensuring high data integrity.
- Supported retrieval and analysis of digitized datasets for audits, compliance verification, and internal reporting, reducing response times and improving efficiency.
- Developed data cleaning procedures for incomplete or inconsistent records, improving dataset reliability and facilitating faster, more accurate reporting.
Data Research Assistant – Health Financing Project - Intra Health International - Nairobi, Kenya
(2015-03 - 2015-05)
Appointed to collect, validate, consolidate, and analyze financial and operational datasets from 40+ health facilities to support national health financing analysis. Responsible for ensuring dataset accuracy, standardizing reporting formats, detecting discrepancies, and generating actionable insights for project management and donor reporting.
- Collected and verified financial datasets from 40+ health facilities, reviewing expenditures, revenues, and fund utilization to ensure completeness, accuracy, and standardization across facilities.
- Digitized 500+ financial documents, creating a searchable, indexed repository for reporting, audits, and donor reviews, improving data accessibility and operational efficiency.
- Prepared weekly analytical reports, summarizing expenditure trends, fund allocations, and compliance metrics, providing actionable insights for project management and resource allocation decisions.
- Reviewed 200+ case reports for accuracy, performing recalculations, validating entries against source data, and identifying inconsistencies to ensure dataset reliability.
- Coordinated with field teams to track missing, delayed, or inconsistent data, ensuring timely submission and completeness for analysis and reporting to donors and project leads.
