Maricel Achas

Businesses: Real Estate, Trading, IT Solutions and Events in Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
Supporting the Businesses by assisting to produce accurate financial and management accounting information on which financial decisions are based.

Duties and Responsibilities as Senior Accountant
 Setting of Accounting System such as QuickBooks online plus, integration of QB in SOS Inventory, Tally ERP 9 for Trading Business and QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory using cloud services.
 Daily Cash flow, weekly and monthly forecast in a timely manner.
 Design and implement changes or SOPs to existing process to higher proficiency.
 Handles Petty cash fund & transactions and making sure that receipts are accurate and complete.
 Process Financial Statements; from posting of journal entries, daily sales to monthly schedules/ accrual/ depreciation, up to finalization and ensure on-time submission to Top Management.
 Consolidation of monthly financial for all business unit.
 Inventory- tracking of Inventory, assigning SKU codes and Inventory transfer from warehouses to shops.
 Costing- computation of COGS according to expenses incurred for a particular product/s.
 Allocation- ensuring that Revenue and expenses are allocated according to project/ business unit.
 Payroll- reviewing of monthly timesheet and preparing payroll and obtaining approval from HR before paying out thru TT, cheque and/ petty cash.
 Accounts Receivable- reviews Contract against Invoices issued to customer. Monitors payment and send follow up email for pending invoices to ensure invoices are paid within the agreed period/ day rule. Posting of AR and allocating revenue according to project and period covered into the system.
 Accounts Payable- ensuring that Accounts payable SOPs are followed.
 Reviews and sends approval of all accounts payable.
 Franchise of Pizza Hut- Setting up QB online plus for Pizza Hut Uganda. Building of COA. Tracking and implementing of SOP for AP.
 Accrual and prepayments- preparing of schedule for accruals and prepayments. Ensuring release of monthly prepayments as well as accruals.

I was the Assistant Team Leader that was responsible for ensuring that the flows of costs and revenues between projects, Camps, and people are accurately accounted for and managed.
Duties and Responsibilities
 Setting up QuickBooks Payroll (2013) and transition information into the system.
 Encoding and monitoring daily transaction such as AR, AP, payroll and bank disbursements.
 Accounts Receivable- cross checking of AR against time sheets and sending to OM for review and approval.
 Encoding of AR and AP into the system.
 Debtor and creditor reconciliation.
 Payroll tracker and generating of cheques from QuickBooks payroll system (QB13)
 Processed bi-weekly payroll, verifying timecards, generating excel summary spreadsheet and entering employees data, deduction and direct deposit.
 Preparing payment voucher and cheques or TT for Supplier and/ Vendors
 Daily and monthly bank reconciliation report.
 Updated and sustained financial tracking records, including Budget vs. Actual.
 Monthly Financial and consolidation of company report with comparison against previous month and budget.
 Assisting on preparation of Budget against actual expenses of previous events/ months.
 Daily cash flow report.
 Encoding of Daily sales, daily expenses and Inventory for 82 Diner.