I keep the books straight for an international coffee organization and a global church network — and I build the web tools those teams need too.
Moses Zegbah Zimay (Moses Zimay) is an accounting assistant based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), focused on audit, internal control and fraud prevention, and building a career in forensic accounting and financial fraud investigation. Since 2022 he has worked in the Finance Department of the Inter-African Coffee Organization (IACO), a 25-member-country coffee producers' organization: multi-currency bank reconciliations (XOF, EUR), preparing the annual statutory audit (MNG Audit & Consulting) and the external audit of a GIZ-funded project (BDO), and bookkeeping on SAGE 100. He has 7+ years of finance and accounting experience (SAGE 100, QuickBooks, Xero, SYCEBNL), and has trained in open-source intelligence (OSINT) with the Basel Institute on Governance (ICAR) and in cybersecurity (penetration testing, brute-force attacks). He is also a full-stack web developer (Django, WordPress/WooCommerce, Shopify). Bilingual in French and English.
Goal
Becoming a forensic accountant and financial fraud investigation expert.
What already prepares me for it, day to day:
Certified external audits: prepared IACO's audits by MNG Audit & Consulting and the GIZ project audit by BDO — supporting evidence, auditor requests, accounts certified true and compliant.
Monthly multi-account, multi-currency bank reconciliations (XOF, EUR) — the first line of defence for spotting anomalies and misappropriation.
Physical stock counts and fixed-asset verification with formal reports — matching what is recorded to what actually exists.
Monitoring compliance with financial rules and procedures, cash and per-diem handling, and a full paper trail for every transaction.
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) training with the International Centre for Asset Recovery of the Basel Institute on Governance — the investigative method used to trace financial flows and recover stolen assets.
Cybersecurity training (penetration testing, brute-force attacks) to understand digital fraud and how access is protected.
7+
Years in finance & accounting
16
Professional certifications
2
Languages — French & English
My story
Numbers and code.
I'm an Accounting Assistant at the Inter-African Coffee Organization — bank reconciliations, audit preparation, closing the books. Seven years of this work taught me one thing that stuck: numbers only mean something if the process behind them is airtight.
Alongside that, I build full-stack web applications and automate the systems small businesses run on — websites, WordPress and Shopify stores, financial dashboards. Two disciplines, one standard: nothing goes out until it's right.
Experience
Where the discipline came from.
Jan 2024 — Present
Accounting Assistant — Finance Department (permanent contract)
Inter-African organization of 25 coffee-producing member countries that promotes domestic coffee consumption in Africa.
Accurately recording financial transactions in the accounting system (SAGE 100).
Helping prepare financial statements, budgets and reports.
Preparing the annual audit of IACO's accounts (XOF, EUR, asset depreciation) by MNG Audit & Consulting — accounts certified true and compliant for coffee years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.
Preparing the external audit of the GIZ project 'Facilitation of the implementation of the living prosperous income commitments', conducted by BDO — accounts certified true and compliant.
Preparing the financial documentation for the Annual General Meeting (coffee years 2022-2023 / 2023-2024).
Monthly multi-account, multi-currency bank reconciliations (BICICI XOF & RECA, ECOBANK EUR & XOF, GIZ and ICO accounts) and cash-flow monitoring.
Bank journals and petty-cash entries on SAGE; handling invoices, payments and expenses; filing and archiving supporting documents.
Cash management: bank withdrawals for petty cash and per-diem allowances for staff missions.
Stock counts of office and hygiene supplies three times a year, with the official year-end inventory report (procès-verbal).
Monitoring compliance with financial regulations and policies.
Basel Institute on Governance — International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR)
Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)
Online course — Basel LEARN
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) course from the International Centre for Asset Recovery of the Basel Institute on Governance: finding, cross-checking and verifying public information to support financial investigations, anti-corruption work and asset recovery.
Open-source research (OSINT)
Verifying and cross-checking information
Supporting financial investigations and asset recovery
ISO 9001 - Quality Management System Internal Auditor
Occam Consult — 2.5 hours
ISO 9001 quality management system internal auditor training: planning, conducting and documenting an internal audit, and following up corrective actions.
