This experience includes, but is not limited to: accounting, financial reporting, procurement, budgeting, contract negotiations, performance measurement, human resources management, internal audit, and activity-based costing/management. He is also experienced in developing financial and procurement policies and procedures, human resource development, training, and administrative systems and policies.
On the trail to gathering these extensive experiences, Banks worked with Cowater International Inc. a Canadian International Development Agency, programme Implementing Partner, in the Community Water Project (COWAP). While with Cowater International Inc. he played the role of an Accountant/ Administrator where he led a team of accountants to develop the accounting policies and procedures.
Banks served as the International link in finance and administration in the execution of the USD$8.0 million (7 years) project that ultimately transformed part of the Ghana Water Sector into the Community Water and Sanitation Agency.
Banks joined CARE International, at the expiry of the COWAP project, in the Gwira Banso Forest Management Project as the Accountant Administrator in the CARE Takoradi Office. He was a member of a strong team in this 5 year project that, within 2.5 years, worked to achieve all the results required and ¾ of the workers lost their job as a result of ‘victims of success”. He was the finance and Administrative hub of the project and played a key role in budgetary execution, smooth inflow of project funds, training of farmer groups in farm management, developing contracts and Service Level agreements in Soil suitability research, hybrid cocoa seeds and germinated palm nuts trial and pilot farm development and case studies; and planting of rejuvenating forest trees.
In his recent job environment, Banks joined IBIS West Africa Tamale office as an expert in setting up new office administrative and finance systems. He later assumed the position of the Financial Controller for IBIS West Africa and played leading roles in setting up of IBIS new offices in Liberia and Sierra Leone and provided training to accountants and Administrative staff in these offices.
As the Financial Controller in IBIS, he led audit teams in auditing Small and Medium Enterprises and NGOs throughout Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. He participated actively as a key team member in the review and development of finance and administrative policy manuals, audit guidelines, IT policies, HIV/AIDS policies, Security Policies, travel policies among others.
Currently, Banks works as a Finance Manger with DSC, where he plays an oversight role in accounting and supporting his colleagues as a financial analyst in the DSC/ADF project.
Further in his cup of experiences, Banks in partnership with other experts, through JMACS Consult, provided Management Consultancy, financial and administrative training, Baseline surveys, Project evaluation and appraisal to organizations that include; Village Infrastructure Project ( VIP), Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), SOFIDEV, Kaleo Baptist Women Group, Plan Ghana (Tumu), ActionAId, Tumu; and IBIS Good Governance programme in Wa West.
Banks in his leisure times, taught Financial and Costing accounting to Level 100 and 200 students at the Pan African Christian University College (PACUC), Wenniba and provided guidance to students in academic research proposals and writing.
Banks holds Diploma in Accounting, Lego; LCCI (group diploma in Finance), CIMA III and MA Human Resources Development.
Banks is committed to creating and building opportunities for Self-Development of the under privilege and the youth especially women and currently oversees a project in Women Development and Girl-Child Education in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region Of Ghana. |
