Dennis Mwalimu

one of the leading Pharmaceutical Distributor in Kenya build on its commitments to professionalism, integrity and service to the community with a local and regional presence.
Responsibilities:
•Identification of market placement of the new healthy energy drink
•Listing of the energy drink in the general trade markets
•Identification of strategic partnerships to help push the product penetration
•Set up and management of team to work in unison country wide
•Prepare route maps for team members
•Plan activations and promotions to push the brand and prepare reports of the same

a leading importer and distributor of processed tomato paste from the Tiangin Province of China. They are the main appointed distributors to East and Central Africa with a target volume of about 100 tons of the product per month.
Responsibilities:
•Identifying new market penetration strategies including last mile shop to shop mapping and establishing relations.
•Developing and executing annual work plans, budgets and analysis of key variances of actuals to budgets and agreed forecasts so as to establish the causes of deviations and advise on corrective measures to be taken.
•Driving sales revenue, sales volume as per agreed targets and managing a positive gross marginal income.
•Ensure accurate and timely reporting to meet tight deadlines (reporting to Tiangin China), building financial capabilities in the department and answering queries raised by external parties.
•Leading and supervising audit teams to ensure an effective and efficient audits are carried out whilst ensuring timely and effective feedback to the company
•Supervision of stock taking and balancing carried out by the accountant

leading telecommunication, communication, entertainment and internet service provider has subsidiaries in east Africa and growing to cover Central and South Africa.
Project, Clean-up of Creditors Ledger & Set up Best Accounting Practice: Reconciliation, restructuring, clean up, recommendation and balancing of the entire ledger.
Responsibilities:
•Creditors ledger clean up
•Streamline supplier payment cycle
•Aging debtor analysis
•Preparing Financial statements (P& L, B.S, S.O.C.E, C.F) and notes thereof for the group’s companies
•Work hand in hand with external auditors for the years audit process
•Pass audit adjustments and recommendations
•Tie intercompany accounts
•Internal training of the team of the accounting processes across the group entities

Scangroup is Kenya’s leading advertising agency with over ten subsidiaries spread over the region.
Project, Hsenid HR payroll : I was charged with the implementation of the new system. Assignment involved a system change from the current excel payroll system to a whole new internet based HR system, Hsenid.
Responsibilities:
•Help in strategy and implementation of a new payroll software for the group
•Backdate the system and tie to existing one for comparison purpose
•Analysis of HR budgets
•Generation of all payroll related reports

Strutts EA Ltd
Strutts EA Ltd is a start up company that was involved in building telecommunication infrastructure including mast and tower erections and other structural works.
Responsibilities:
•Develop the company entry strategy to an otherwise volatile telecoms construction industry
•Market analysis of industry players and trend analysis
•Revenue forecasting and budget preparation
•Business growth strategy by identifying potential markets and clients
•Relationship building and maintenance with existing clients
•Competitor analysis

KPMG Kenya is an affiliate of KPMG Switzerland one of the world’s leading and top four audit forms.

•Payroll processing and analysis for clients including

Bank reconciliations
•Debtor billing and analysis
•Work In Progress evaluation and valuation
•Petty cash handling and disbursement
•Creditor reconciliations and payments
•Business Unit Champion : Involved being the liaison for a specific department in the company, mine being audit ensuring the department head was facilitated with all the numbers in terms of costs and revenue and constantly evaluating variance from budget and the cause and how to change the variance.