Momodou Lamin Trawally

• Enable people we support to access a full range of chosen activities, ensuring their personal choices and preferences are supported.
• Contribute to and follow person-centred care plans, ensuring individual needs and wants are always met.
• Assist with personal care, daily living tasks, and maintaining a safe and clean environment.
• Accurately complete key daily documentation, including care records, fluid and nutrition charts, and incident reports.
• Administer and record medication safely and accurately.
• Support individuals with meal preparation, domestic duties, and general household tasks.
• Provide psychological, emotional, and physical support to service users.
• Enable access to the community, support with appointments, and encourage meaningful social interactions.
• Identify and report any concerns, ensuring a safe and safeguarding-compliant environment.
• Maintain positive relationships with family members, friends, and external professionals.
• Encourage and support independent living skills where possible.
• Keep up to date with all required training to ensure best practices.

Financial Control & Reporting

• Lead the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy, robust controls and adherence to deadlines.
• Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts and reports.
• Prepare budgets and reforecasts, partnering with budget holders to ensure alignment with business plans.
• Maintain and improve balance sheet reconciliations and supporting documentation, including tax-related balances.
• Oversee reporting to the central government, working in close collaboration with the ministry of finance team.

Statutory Reporting, Tax & External Advisors

• Manage the relationship with external accounting and tax advisers, acting as the primary point of contact for statutory reporting, tax compliance and advisory services.
• Oversee the preparation of statutory annual accounts, local statutory books, tax and pension compliance and the external audit process via external advisers, including review, challenge and approval of outputs.
• Ensure all Corporation Tax obligations are met accurately and on time.
• Maintain and update risk registers for Corporation Tax and PAYE, escalating issues as appropriate.

Operations, Controls & Governance

• Maintain and enhance internal controls to safeguard company assets and mitigate financial risk.
• Provide direct line management of the Accounts Payable and Procurement teams, with significant focus on performance, controls and process efficiency in these areas.
• Maintain financial oversight of payroll and pensions, ensuring payroll data is accurately reflected in financial systems and aligned with HR records.
• Lead and support finance-led system implementations, enhancements and process changes relating to accounts payable, procurement and associated financial systems.
• Ensure procurement activity aligns with internal governance, and company policy.
• Support internal and group audit requirements, including internal controls reporting.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and development of the Finance and Procurement teams.
• Work closely with the other departmental manager to ensure clear ownership, strong collaboration and alignment across reporting, forecasting and month-end processes.
• Act as a senior finance contact for stakeholders across the business, particularly in relation to cost control, tax and operational finance matters.
• Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, locally and within the wider group.
• Drive continuous improvement in finance processes, systems and reporting.
• Oversee the Corporate Service department which comprises of Finance, Procurement, IT, Logistics, HR and Records for over a year.
• Liaised between finance department and other departments fostering inter-departmental collaboration.

• Collaborated with other lecturers to share best practices in teaching methodologies.
• Lectured on complex subjects for better student understanding.
• Supervised postgraduate students' research for high-quality dissertations.
• Implemented innovative teaching methods, improved student engagement rates.
• Enhanced learning outcomes with engaging lesson plans.
• Managed administrative tasks related to coursework, streamlined evaluation process.
• Served as personal tutor for struggling students, increased pass rates.
• Ensured up-to-date subject knowledge with continuous professional development.

• Plan and execute an annual internal audit plan of ministries, departments and agencies (MDA).
• Ensure that audits are carried out and documented in accordance with the government internal audit programme, gathering robust evidence to support findings.
• Conduct specialist audits in areas such as donor and loan funded projects, suspected ministry/department/agency mismanagement of funds or corruption, and money laundering ensuring that these audits are thorough and align with the MDA engagements.
• Draft user-friendly internal audit reports, identifying key risks and controls, and clearly communicating findings to responsible (MDA).
• Discuss internal audit findings with Head of MDA, agreeing on practical and effective recommendations for improvements.
• Follow up on audit actions identified in reports, preparing concise reports of outcomes for the Internal Audit Committee (IAC).
• Ensure that The Government of The Gambia internal audit and risk management processes are robust and fit for purpose.
• Work closely with MDAs to ensure Audit Committee reporting is compiled in line with engagements where necessary
• Ensure continuous professional development and keep abreast of legislative changes and developments
• Improved corporate governance by conducting regular risk assessments.
• Provided continuous monitoring and post-audit follow-up reviews – a key factor in improving overall performance.
• Identified process improvements during routine audits, leading to significant cost savings.
• Performed detailed testing of internal controls; led to improvement in error detection rate.
• Communicated audit findings effectively, fostering a culture of transparency within the organisation.
• Led audit team, ensuring high standards of accuracy and professionalism.
• Investigated suspected cases of fraud and theft involving small numbers of transactions or complex systems.

• Plan and conduct monitoring visits, to all the branches of company all over the country conducting system/operational auditing, in accordance with defined procedures; identify and communicate any necessary improvements in the branch's work to ensure that it is complying with relevant standards, the company's National Practising Regulations and the Code of Ethics and Conduct.
• Consider and recommend further regulatory action, where appropriate.
• Prepare and issue on a timely basis a detailed report to the branches after each monitoring visit which confirms the findings and any required or recommended future action.
• Provide information as necessary to other departments in accordance with defined procedures to ensure that the company is able to discharge its services responsibilities effectively and efficiently.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and review of regulatory procedures and systems to ensure efficient and effective performance of the Compliance team as a whole.
• Strengthened internal controls through thorough analysis of financial transactions.
• Conducted surprise checks on cash handling, reduced incidence of thefts and discrepancies.
• Developed robust audit plans for successful execution of audits.
• Implemented new auditing procedures, increased efficiency in the process.

• Conducted bank reconciliations regularly to maintain accurate records.
• Managed client accounts to ensure timely payments.
• Managed petty cash transactions, safeguarded company resources.
• Liaised with clients regarding overdue payments, facilitated swift resolution of issues.
• Processing invoices, payments, and receipts accurately and in a timely manner
• Managing purchase ledger and sales ledger transactions
• Reconciling supplier statements and bank accounts
• Assisting with payroll preparation and CIS submissions
• Preparing financial reports and supporting month-end processes
• Liaising with suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams regarding account queries
• General administrative duties to support the finance department