Lawrencia Asamoah Asiedu

As an Assistant Economic Planning Officer at the Ministry of Finance in the Climate Finance space I was tasked and undertook the following duties;

• Assisted in organising of stakeholder workshops and engagement for the review and development of Ghana’s Green Finance Taxonomy for attracting green investment.
• Assist in facilitating the timely delivery of a draft Green Finance Taxonomy Framework by coordinating with a Policy consultants and strategically connecting them with key sector leaders to ensure integration of sector-specific criteria and insights for the 1st and 2nd phase of the taxonomy.
• Assist in research and coordination of stakeholder workshops for the development of the climate finance strategy and conservation frameworks.
• Assist in drafting of climate finance related policies and briefing materials.
• Support in compiling and organizing data for climate investment needs across sectors such as energy, agriculture and transport.
• Assist in proper record keeping and reporting writing for Unit/Division activities.
• · Perform any other task assigned by the Unit Head/ Director of the Climate Financing Division

• Sales of Perkins generating sets of various sizes to industries, hotels, households and public institutions with an annual target of $1,000,000.
• Telemarketing of Perkins Engines and parts and other associated departmental machines (e.g. Dozers, pumps, wheel loaders, light towers) with a call target of a minimum of 125 minutes of daily solid calls with the aim of generating at least 10 prospective leads per week.
• Ensures effective sales and customer satisfaction is achieved by determining individual customer needs and providing solutions to meet them.
• Successful preparations of tender documents preparations and presentations to win government contracts for the company.
• Address customer questions and concerns in a professional manner in order to resolve issues to the satisfaction of the customer.

• Planning day-to-day route to cover new leads and existing customers
• Working to have a personal understanding of customer needs, by probing with relevant questions. This helped me to suggest the most relevant apps/products which fulfill their company’s needs.
• Training customers on use of Hubtel products and software.
• Taking ownership of the customer’s point of sale/service (set-up, branding, relationship).

• Creating quotation for customers for review, invoicing and signing off on purchases.
• Assisted Sales Representative in tender preparations and reporting on the outcomes of the company’s bids to superiors.
• Cold calling existing and new clients to follow-up on purchase deals and contracts.
• Assessing customer purchasing orders for processing using available software; MANPRO, Salesforce and SAP
• Back orders report to customers who have place requests for items not in stock.
• Filing copies of all Purchasing Orders(POs), invoices and customer notes appropriately, procurements contracts, while relieving sales team of about 500 hours per year of quarter to pursue other clients.
• Trained 2 interns within the period for which they worked with Mantrac.
• Preparing expense claims and procuring stationery for office operation.
• Providing after-sales customer services and support.

• Review of customer’s financial history and data entry of client credentials using the ETHIX software.
• Assisted client in filling out their forms (cashforms/ cheque forms/ account opening and closure forms/ e-zwich registrations)
• Providing details of new and existing products and services of the bank to clients.
• Process and forward clients’ application for Automated Teller Machine(ATM) cards, debit and prepaid cards, e-zwich cards, cheque books, deposits books, bank statements of account and many more for clients.
• Administrative roles such as issuing bankers’ draft, ATM card pin codes and Master Cheques to customers as per request.