Anthony Gichobi, Assistant Accountant

Anthony Gichobi

Assistant Accountant

Fairmont The Palm

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Higher diploma, Human Resource Managemnet
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

Assistant Accountant at Fairmont The Palm
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2012

 Performing accounts payable functions for suppliers.
 Managing vendor accounts, generating weekly on demand checks.
 Preparing journals, T-accounts and Ledger books
 Managing financial departments with responsibility for Budgets, Forecasting, Payroll, Accounts Payable and Receivable.
 Assisting in preparation of budgets and forecasts for the management group.
 Ensuring compliance with accounting deadlines.
 Coordinating monthly payroll functions for employees.
 Maintaining all accounting voucher entry
 Maintaining bank reconciliation and reconciliation of debtors & creditors statements
 Maintaining Petty Cash Book & Internal Audit store and Accounts Book
 Maintain day to day Accounts & reporting to senior accountant on time to time

Assstant Accountant at Safaricom ltd
  • Kenya
  • December 2009 to August 2012

 Managing accounts payable and accounts receivable,
 Assisting in generating budgets and forecasts on a quarterly basis
 Reporting on variances in quarterly costing reports.
 Assisting in preparing annual company accounts and reports.
 Reduced credit period from 90 days to 60 days.
 Assisting in payroll function for employees.
 Monitoring and recording company expenses to maximize profits
 Maintaining day to day books of Accounts in tally
 Preparing journals, T-accounts and Ledger books
 Maintaining bank reconciliation statements and reconciliation of Debtors & Creditors,
 Maintaining Internal Audit: Store and accounts books

IT Help Desk at Ministry of Information
  • Kenya
  • April 2007 to October 2009

 Provide analytical and technical solutions to service desk calls raised by users within the ministry
 Receiving and recording technical and /or application support from users
 Providing investigation, resolution and recovery for hardware/soft ware problems, when unable to resolve escalate to second or third level in accordance with Help Desk escalation process
 Ensuring that users receive resolution within a reasonable time frame.
 Providing initial assessment of urgency and business impact on all support calls
 Recording incident resolution in the Help Desk tool to IT
 Monitor daily backups
 Working independently and in a team environment
 Assist in documenting internal procedure and processes in order to maintain consistency

Education

Higher diploma, Human Resource Managemnet
  • at Kenya institute of Management
  • September 2011

During my study i did the following subjects: -Financial and cost accounting -Financial management -Business communication -Customer care service -Labor economics -Employee resourcing -Front office management -Industrial labor laws -Economics -Practice of management -Business laws -MIS -Principles of management -Employee relation& counseling -Filing skills -Practice of HRM consultancy -Business statistics -Strategic HRM -Leadership skills -Principles of marketing