Tabitha Wagithi Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Nairobi, Kenya

Key Achievements •Ensuring that established metrics are met throughout the execution of the planned audit work by effectively managing, developing, training and mentoring team members on assigned projects•Utilizing exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to proactively interact with, build and foster excellent client relationships•Leveraging outstanding planning and organization abilities to run and coordinate teams on different assignments taking place concurrently •Substantively reducing the audit risk to an acceptable level by designing appropriate procedures after assessing an entity’s controls to determine their reliance on the said controls •Recommending areas of improvement by reviewing the adequacy of client’s systems of accounting and internal controlsResponsibilities include: effectively planning for audit engagements, allocating tasks and budgeting for time and costs, updating engagement partners and managers on assignment progress, assigning audit tasks to engagement team members as per their respective technical know-how and experience, performing audit procedures, identify significant accounting and auditing issues, identifying and communicating internal control weaknesses, review of financial statements to ensure compliance with IFRSs and assisting clients in the preparation of year-end financial statements.

Nairobi, Kenya

Responsibilities •Examining a company’s financial statements and testing their reliability and compliance with the set financial and accounting standards and other relevant regulations, both locally and internationally.•Understanding businesses and assessing the set processes/controls used to produce the financial statements•Understanding business drivers, associated risks and their potential effect on financial statement accounts•Preparation of audit work papers•Identifying Internal control weakness and communicating the same to my seniors

Nairobi, Kenya

Responsibilities included: conducting training on global, regional, industry and company analysis, report writing and presentation, reconciliation of production inflows and outflows of funds on a daily and weekly basis, providing exceptional client engagement experience and managing client relationships, offering advice on available company products and filing both physical and soft-copy files into the system.

Kenya

Responsibilities included: maintaining and processing the USD and petty cash, maintaining the receipt books and issuing receipts once money/income was received, checking the relevant supporting documents before payment process commences to ensure authorization by the sanctioned authorities, raising requisitions and generating LPOs in the serenic financial system, capturing supplier invoices in the serenic system and forwarding the invoices to the line manager for approval, performing bank reconciliations on a monthly basis, preparing and maintaining a schedule to monitor the utility bills’ payments on a monthly basis and dispatching cheques in a timely manner to ensure prompt payment of suppliers.

Kenya

My roles in this capacity included: generating daily reports from the accounting system and submitting them to the finance manager for verification, preparing cheque payment vouchers and bank reconciliation statements, disbursing loans using the accounting principle of double entry, writing cheques for the loans, filing and arranging documents both in the system and manually in an orderly manner for easier retrieval and preparing and retrieving documents as required by the external auditors.

Kenya

Some of the key highlights in this position included: working under the guidance of the County Development Officer to participate and contribute in writing and submitting both financial and narrative reports of developmental projects being implemented in the county, conducting feasibility studies to determine project viability and set project priorities, conducting economic/statistical analysis, proposing and recommending attainable and sustainable developmental strategies, contributing in the development of monitoring and evaluation tools of specific county Projects, collecting, collating, computerizing and analyzing data and participating in field project monitoring visits.

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