Senior Accountant
M & W Associates I Nairobi
Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months
I had a responsibility to oversee the day today running of the finance department, through supervision, coordination, enhancing teamwork within the finance team and with other players from the branches, reviewing and improving services to other functional departments. Enhancing relationship with the external stakeholders i.e. Banks, Suppliers and Auditors and ensuring timely presentation of reports to the top management.
Achievements
•Managed to successfully set the students records to present credible information.
•Set a smooth system for the tracking of school fees receipts and enhanced debt follow-up process.
•Integrated into the system the most convenient way of filing of statutory deduction both payroll (NHIH, NSSF & PAYE) and Vat which has been maintained to date.
•Was able to do banks reconciliation which say the bank statements and books balances tie to date. This then brought the organization to ability of daily bank reconciliation of eight banks hence giving an actual bank position for liquidity control.
•Was able to reintroduce and maintain the automated system of online salary transfer hence saving the company up to Kes 50, 000 per month as amount charged by bank for doing the transfers on the company’s behalf.
•Was able to spearhead the finance team in cleaning the records in the Navision system to a more credible position hence maintaining the proper capturing of information by centralizing the data capture and approving of the data to be captured and where to be posted. This enhanced the reliability of the information.
•Was able to enhance a healthy relationship between the Finance departments and the branch clerks which promoted the smooth working environment.
• Ensured that the management accounts and weekly reports were presented right on time as stipulated in the company policies.
I had the responsibility to ensure that; all the information is captured into the accounting system appropriately, the company complies with all the statutory requirements and analyzing the company performance and advising the management on the way forward.
Achievements
•I was able to bring data capture to up to date position
•I was able to do bank reconciliation of four banks to the correct position as it was on the bank statement which was maintained through time.
•Ensured timely online filing of statutory deductions.
•Ensured timely presentation of reports including financial statements for external audits.
Was promoted to the position of an accountant where I had the responsibility of; monitoring the progress of IGAs, handling various donors reports, guiding the departments on budgeting processes, reviewing and improving the internal controls and working with the external Auditors
Achievements
•Strengthened the internal controls especially on cash flows.
•Ensured that the IGAs were clear in terms of reporting and resource management.
•Ensured all the designated donor funds were easily trackable.
•Ensured timely budget and reports were timely presented to the donor.
•Ensured that the organization complied with both legal and donor requirements.
I had the responsibility of Instructing Students on Computer Applications i.e. MS Office and Desktop publishing, assessing students’ practical progress, setting Exams for the students supervising students do exams to measure their level of understanding and classify them as per performance.
Achievements
•Was able to enable several students accomplish their course within a short time.
•As an alumni of the institution, I inspired more students especially those who found the course complicated to them, hence they always had a motivation to work hard and eventually accomplish the course.
•Through a positive word of mouth from the student, the institution was able to experience high number of enrollments over time.
•The institution was able to expand in terms of space and resources to cater for high demand which in the end increased returns for the institution.
•More students who proved to perform well were offered internship in the same institution to enhance their practical skills which gave them an edge whenever they sought for employment with the skills.
