Chief Accountant
The Royal Senchi Hotel and Resort
Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months
Responsible for prompt processing of monthly payroll activities, ensuring that it’s reconciled with the general ledger.
Ensuring that all employee, travel and salary and imprest advances are retired properly and reconciled.
Ensure compliance with accounts/internal control systems, procedures, policies and reliability of accounting records.
Review all accounts reconciliations including bank, supplier accounts and following up on outstanding items with the banks on the bank statements.
Perform month, quarter and year end accounts closure processes including accruals, prepayments, depreciations and inventory taking.
Educate all HODs about budget and cost control processes and review expenditure versus budgets.
Responsible for maintaining computerized accounting system, updating or posting all journal entries in the system and records.
Coordinated the annual audit process, lead the audit and have all audit queries and recommendations implemented.
Safeguarding of assets and supervise inventory taking at month end and ensure monthly update of fixed assets register.
Fully in charge of preparation of monthly financial reports income and expenditure, profit and loss accounts
Direct responsibility for day to day management of company’s resources by forecasting cash requirements and expenditures.
Ensures supervision of statutory filing VAT, SSNIT, PF and PAYE and are in compliance with the law.
Assist the Financial Controller in the preparing annual budgets and cost estimates
Review all accounting and financial documentations prepared for accuracy, completeness and compliance with payment policies and ensuring that payments for all insurance policies are up-to-date
Manage accounting and financial reporting functions ensuring consistency, timeliness and quality of all data and information in accordance with policies and procedures of the organization.
Supervise and coordinate the finance team members to ensure that all tasks and assignments are well discharged and executed.
Perform any other assignments from time to time from my superior.
- Responsible for operational audits and put in place proper and adequate internal control systems of the service
Carried out risk based audits for the service and departmental audits as well
Validate and process vendor invoices related to direct operating costs
Ensuring resolution of issues with vendor complaints related to invoices and payments
Crosschecks all document relating to purchases payments from the Cost Controllers.
Prepares payment schedules for suppliers according to credit terms.
Crosschecking of reconciled supplier accounts and other reports.
Assist with outstation regulatory requirements, setting up processes and vendor payments in time
Preparation of VAT returns and other withholding taxes and IRS returns
Coordinate with cost control regarding payables and business teams to achieve business objectives
Investigates all invoices received without purchase orders.
Proficient in the use of SUN system
Preparation of monthly, quarterly and yearly accounts for clients
Reconciliation of bank and suppliers accounts
Filing of statutory Returns Vat, WHT tax and PAYE deductions on behalf of clients
Managed office petty cash and other payments
Payments for vendors and suppliers
Worked closely with the Senior Officers and all other members of the team to ensure all disciplines work in a cross-functional manner
Assist with cash management processes, including cash calls and monitoring cash balances
Constructively challenge assumptions, etc. with the aim of improving processes and final business outcomes
Proactively communicate any financial or procurement issues to management such that they can be resolved in a timely manner
Develop and/or implement new processes as approved through local or global business process improvements
Preparation of daily, weekly and monthly reports for management decision.
Preparation of monthly expenditure report
Responsible for writing of cheques and pay vouchers
Responsible for updating the Cash Book.
Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statement.