Amarachi Elizabeth Emeruwah

AMARACHI ELIZABETH EMERUWAH EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Detail-oriented personality, with four years of experience in finance, business management, customer service, and project coordination. Quickly builds relationships with both new clients and business audiences. Offering goal-oriented initiatives through; quick- learning with excellent multi-tasking skills and mastery of new systems. ORGANIZATIONAL CORE SKILLS • Resilience, flexibility, & agility • Empathy & compassion • Adaptability & flexibility • leadership • Critical thinking • Multi-tasking • Analytical thinking • Team management • Team player • Problem solving PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE Finance Assistant | International NGO Safety Organization (INSO) Apr. 2024- present ▪ Asset Management: Ensured assets and equipment listed on the financial transaction list matched the Fixed Asset Register (FAR), liaising with Logistics monthly to update donor details and finance payment references, achieving a 98% accuracy rate. ▪ Cash Management: Followed security protocols with respect to cash management. Keep a physical cashbox, cheque books, prepaid cards and documentation in a secure place. Perform witnessed cash counts and bank reconciliations as scheduled. ▪ Financial Documentation: Maintained a secure filing system for financial documentation, and performed translation, photocopying, and scanning responsibilities, improving document retrieval time by 30%. ▪ Cashbook and Bank Book Management: Recorded daily transactions in EXCEL bankbooks and cashbooks, assigned standardized account codes and analysis codes for direct import to SUNSYSTEM, cross- referenced documentation with Excel, and submitted books and documents for month-end review, streamlining financial reporting by 25%. ▪ Petty Cash Management: Process petty cash transactions. Daily reconcile petty cash and submit replenishment requests to meet the cash needs. Issue cash advances to personnel as authorized. Set a proper record system for the sums advanced. Efficiently track the open advances and collect the supporting documents to close all outstanding advances before the month-end. ▪ Payment Processing: Ensure timely process payments based on completed and authorized documentation including suppliers, payroll and taxes, staff expenses claims or operational advances. ▪ Statutory Remittance and Filing: Ensure Payment of local taxes such as WHT, PAYE, PENSION, NHF, NSITF as per the timeline set by the Nigerian Government. ▪ Audit: Support the Finance Manager and the team in coordination of external and internal audits, provide required support document. ▪ Carry out any other Task as assigned by the Finance Manager. State Finance Assistant | Malaria Consortium, Kano (Global Fund-GF Project) Feb. 2023 – Mar. 2024 ▪ Reviewing over 3,700 sensitized personnel data on Kobo Collect and ICT4D E-attendance viz-a-viz approved Database and prepared payment schedules for participants of SMC personnel. ▪ Prepare payment vouchers and ensure the correctness of cost classification and coding in line with Budget. ▪ Use the corporate I-banking platform to receive payment advice and prepare relevant documents for periodic filing and archive. ▪ Prepare Payment schedule to the tone of NGN26.1 million each cycle for all kano state supervisors and LGA team, SMC Adhoc personnel’s meetings, workshops and training participants and consultants. ▪ Work with the Finance Officer on the arising financial matters and sharing areas of concern with suggested solutions on financial correspondence. ▪ Maintain Excel journal template, compliance risk adherence for recording of all payments completed and share with Finance Officer weekly for posting. ▪ Assist the Finance officer in transaction posting on PS Financials, preparing the month end report, tracking, and receiving all invoices from suppliers/vendors and prepare the Invoice authorization forms. ▪ Providing finance functions including clerical work and accounting services of maintaining proper financial records of all transactions in accordance with MC financial procedures. ▪ Keep a tracker for all payment documents to ensure they are sent/ received to/in Abuja. Finance Officer | Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation, Abuja July. 2022 – Jan.2023 • Booking of documents (payments and other GL transactions) on SAP. Process advances once budget holder and supervisor has approved. Run finance procedures for Staff/Vendor payments for Advances to the tonne of NGN500,000. • Review documents to check for completeness and accuracy before booking on SAP. Seek validation for expenses to the tonne of NGN1.3Million monthly. • Processing staff travels - advance and retirements to the tonne of NGN1.73Million quarterly. Develop payment schedules with information from SAP. • Archiving of financial documents on share point. Prepare bank reconciliation monthly for end of month reports for budgetary checks. • Prepare payment schedule and upload payment on bank platform. • Prepare General Ledger expense report on SAP for document validation. • Work with the Finance Officer on the arising financial matters, audit checks and share areas of concern with suggested solutions on financial compliance. Account Officer | Eclipse Power Nigeria Ltd, Abuja Dec. 2021 – Jun. 2022 ▪ Handling basic book-keeping tasks. Track daily expenses and prepare weekly, monthly, or quarterly reports. Process purchase orders, expense claims etc. for Manager’s office. ▪ Petty cash management (forms, processes, disbursement, retiring), expense claims management. ▪ Prepares bank accounts reconciliations, financial dashboards, cost tracking, invoice processing (reconcile, code, approval, pay, track status) ▪ Prepare financial reports, memos, invoices, letters, and other documents. Liaise with auditors, and process tax clearance. Finance Intern | Raphigreat Institute of Technology, Abuja Mar. 2021- Sep.2021 ▪ Providing administrative support to sales reps. Property managers and senior management. ▪ Data entry (sales figure). ▪ Arranging both internal and external events. General office management. ▪ Maintain polite and professional communication via phone, email, and mailing address. ▪ Handling office tasks such as filing, generating reports and presentations, setting up meetings and reordering supplies. Customer Service Advisor | Tekra Global Concepts Limited June. 2019 - May. 2020 ▪ Prepared daily reports. Handled customers' reports and complaints. ▪ Send emails and confirm clients’ appointments. Kept records of clients for follow-ups. ▪ Kept detailed records of services carried out. Planned daily movements of the fleet. ▪ Make sure all vehicles are operational and in good and safe condition through daily checks and the management of maintenance. ▪ Provided logistical support to NGOs both local and international. Account Trainee | Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation – Abuja Feb. 2015 – Jan. 2016 ▪ Ensured all documents are dispatched to the appropriate offices. ▪ Prepared ESTACODES payment for foreign travel. ▪ Ensured that all dispatched documents are properly signed by the director in charge. ▪ Assisted my supervisor in other office activities such as typing, photocopying, receiving mail, and other office duties. Monitored and paid vendors in foreign currency EDUCATION Bayero University Kano State, Nigeria Major | B.Sc. Accounting 2016 – 2019 National Diploma | The Federal Polytechnic Bida Niger State, Nigeria 2012 - 2014 Hard skills: Experienced in MS word | Power Point | Excel | SAP | Zoom | MS Teams | Trello | QuickBooks PS Financials | Google Suites Languages: English (fluent) TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ▪ The use of click up (A project management software) - Eclipse Power Nig Limited ▪ ICT capacity building and online entrepreneurship skill development - Amadurs Technology ▪ Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Design and Installation (SPVDI) - Ashdam Solar Academy ▪ Working as a Virtual Assistant – Alison Learning ▪ QuickBooks – Bookkeeping Software for Freelancers and Sole Proprietors - Alison Learning ▪ Virtual Assistant Program – Vsavvy Academy INTEREST Healthy lifestyle | Entrepreneurship | Tourism | Cross-cultural Behavior. REFERENCE(S) Available on request