• Supervision & mentoring: Leading accounting team of 3 in financial operations and in month & year-end closing; mentoring and training in career growth.• ERP migration from Quickbooks to Zoho• General Ledger & Reconciliation: Maintenance of general ledger to ensure transaction accuracy; monthly and annual bank and balance sheet reconciliation.• Financial Analysis: Budgeting, financial planning & analysis, grant & donor funding management and monitoring financial performance of projects.• Financial Reporting: preparing monthly and annual balance sheet, statement of activities/P&L, statement of functional activities and cash flow statement.Ensure accuracy of financial reports as per IFRS• Tax Management & compliance: Filing of statutory tax obligations including VAT, PAYE, WVAT, WTAX, Income tax; Strategic tax planning to achieve tax savings.• Internal Controls and Compliance: Ensure compliance with internal control framework & policies; managing and supporting audit process with external auditors.

• Accountancy & Bookkeeping, Statutory Tax management & Compliance, Financial planning & Analysis, Forecasting and Budgeting, Final accounts preparation & Financial reporting

• Trade Finance Credit Management (TFCM): Maintaining and Implementing Credit Policy, credit management, prescreening customer’s KYC documents for system set up, yearly review of customer credit terms and pricing review and analysis.• Management & Sales Reporting: Daily and monthly analysis of Sales, Last plan budget and sales forecast analysis, rebates.• Budgetting,Financial Modelling and Planning• Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement.

Financial Accountant | Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria & Ethiopia• Accounts Receivable Manager: customer order management, account reconciliation & credit management and bad debt provision analysisAchievements: Meeting and surpassing collection target of kes300m resulting in Bad debt provision write backs. • Accounts payable: Intercompany Reconciliations and Invoice posting, travel A/C management, supplier invoice postings, payments & reconciliations, cash management and statutory payments.Achievements: Digitizing travel management system through implementation of SAP Concur and Citibank credit card system.• Tax Management: VAT, WVAT, WTAX, PAYE tax return management and filing.Achievements: Successful VAT claim and payout of kes150m and pending Vat claims of kes300m. Timely submissions of tax returns with nil penalties.• Balance Sheet reconciliations• Financial reporting: Month end close management and preparation of financial statements.• Audit Management & support.• Inventory management: Quarterly stock take management and Inventory reconciliations.• Bank reconciliations: daily and monthly review of bank accounts• Derivative management: Journal postings & reconciliations as per IFRS 9• Fixed Asset Management: Asset register management and journal postings as per IAS 16.• Cash flow analysis• Lease Accounting: Modelling and Journal postings as per IFRS 16.

• Bookkeeping & accountancy, bank reconciliation, stock management and tax compliance.

• Safaricom IPO share processing: Document Receipt & Quality Control, Cheque Payment Authorization & Processing, Rejection & Exceptions Unit, and Manual Application processing• Safaricom IPO Reconciliation process• Funds Transfer Department: Printing & Mailing of dividend cheques (Mumias Sugar Company, Kenya Airways, Kenya Re & Kengen)• Clearing Department: Post Bank Cheque Reconciliation, Cheque callbacks data entry and Foreign & Local cheque validation & archiving• Citi Business Service: Asset reconciliation and data entry.

• AIESEC, Vice President Outgoing Exchange, Sept 2006 - May 2009: Facilitating process of cultural exchange and international internships. Involved in Promotion, Recruitment, Talent Management and Selection.• AIESEC, Promotions & Communication Coordinator, Microfinance & Entrepreneurship Program (Funded by Citigroup Kenya): Trained 20 participants from Rongai Youth Group and Catholic University., Realized 3 management trainees from Cameroon, India and Netherlands.• AIESEC, Organizing Committee Member/Catholic University representative, Engineering Students Exhibition 2008: Recruited 7 participants from Catholic University for the Exhibition.