My duties are to manage the financial and tax reporting obligations, build and maintain government relationships, manage statutory compliance of the exploration and mining licenses; procurement of goods and services, human resource and administrative management.• Accounting duties include: ensuring all financial reporting is completed in a timely and accurate manner including monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of cashflow reporting, financial performance, ledger management; reviewing of supplier invoices against the contract and authorising invoices for payment. Review and reconciliation of the contract expenditure to ensure adherence to contract services and prepare monthly cumulative expenditure reports to make sure contract value is not exceeded. Annual financial audits are completed in a timely and accurate manner and lodged with relevant government departments on time.• Tax Management: ensuring the company is compliant with all statutory tax obligations. Managing the company’s direct and indirect taxes including income tax, employee taxes, Value Added Tax, Withholding Tax, payroll tax.• Government and related compliance reporting in relation to maintenance of the mining and exploration licenses and general statutory requirements; Maintain company awareness of domestic and international legislation changes relevant to the company’s activities and make the organization aware of them; • Procurement duties include reviewing tenders, commercial and on occasion technical analysis of tenders received, negotiations, review of contracts prior to submission to legal team and strict adherence to the internal procurement procedures. Contract management to ensure Contractors are providing services and invoicing as per contract requirements.• Human Resource management entails being constantly updated with the labour legislation, management of personnel issues, overseeing applications for work permits.

My core duties are to support the organisation with the financial management, procurement of goods and services as well as human resource management.• My accounting duties include: overseeing, reviewing and the preparation of monthly and annual management reports; providing forecasts of monthly and annual expected expenditure, to headoffice, for monthly cashflow management and annual budget preparation; provision of monthly expenditure and various analysis reports; maintenance and reconciliation of nominal and purchase ledgers. Review of the VAT return prior to submission; management of VAT audits and receipt of VAT refunds from Zambia Revenue Authority; reviewing of supplier invoices against the contract and authorising invoices for payment. Review and reconciliation of the contract expenditure to ensure adherence to contract services and prepare monthly cumulative expenditure reports to make sure contract value is not exceeded. • My procurement duties include preparations of tenders, commercial and on occasion technical analysis of tenders received, negotiations, preparation of the contracts and strict adherence to the internal procurement procedures. Contract management to ensure Contractors are providing services and invoicing as per contract requirements.• Human Resource management entails being constantly updated with the labour legislation, management of personnel issues, recruitment of employees, applications for work permits, assisting foreign personnel to settle into the country.• Management of Company Secretarial matters and ad-hoc administrative duties.

• My accounting duties included: balance sheet reconciliation; job costing; processing, maintenance and reconciliation of nominal, sales and purchase ledgers; debtor and creditor management; customer invoicing and supplier payments; bank reconciliation; cash flow forecasting; various financial analyses; maintenance of fixed asset register; preparation of annual operating budget; management of petty cash and expenses claims; processing staff timesheets and wage payments.• I led consistently timely and accurate production of statutory accounts, available just 2 weeks after year end. Liaised with an audit firm and dealt with any queries they had.• I designed management accounts to meet the board’s needs and produced monthly and quarterly reports on time. I worked with the directors on strategic planning and pricing.• I introduced Sage Line 50 in 2005, planning the change project, from manual accounting to computerised, and driving it to completion; including new time sheets to support the introduction of job costing and processing supported by all team members.• I prepared the annual operating budget and helped strengthen internal controls, including updating the delegated limits of authority. • We complied on time with new legal and regulatory requirements, such as the working time regulations e.g. annual leave, for which I helped inform policy formation. • I ensured client services were delivered to individual contract specifications.• I liaised with Her Majesty Revenue and Customs (HMRC) inspectors, successfully completing an on-site audit.• Oversaw the administration of the business including ad-hoc secretarial duties,• Managed a team of up to three accounting and administrative staff, including career and performance management. Deputised for the Care Manager of a 32-strong staff team.• I assisted the Care Manager with staff recruitment process.