I am currently working with two small grassroots organisations as a volunteer accountant in Burundi for one month in order to build their financial management capacity. This includes providing impartial, non-judgemental one-to-one support; coaching local people on all financial matters such as budget preparation and analysis, the review and implementation of controls, internal and external reporting, the creation of financial procedures manuals and audit preparation.
Far from the coziness of my £1,000 seat on the trading floor of an investment company watching multiple blinking screens, or even before that, the vast amount of access to knowledge and resources I had at a Big 4 firm, I now feel like I’m a shrimp on a plank in the middle of the […]