Cecilia Mwatha Francis

Personal data Name: Cecilia Mwatha Francis Email-Mobile: +254 - Languages: English Swahili Professional Skills • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Data entry proficiency MS Office expertise CRM Management Quickbooks Online ZohoOne Monday.com Google workspace Zoom Calendly Expensify Hubspot Salesforce Slack Pipedrive Personal Skills • Ability to learn quickly • Ability to work independently under minimum supervision • Effective communication and presentation skills • High degree of accuracy & attention to detail • Ability to build and maintain relationship with clients • High level of Discretion • Excellent time management skills Interests & hobbies 1 .Research enthusiast- I am passionate in conducting and assisting in research work 2. I regularly attend professional CECILIA MWATHA FRANCIS Profile I am a confident and action oriented professional accountant and Bookkeeper with over 5years of experience who has developed good problem solving skills, analytical skills and numeric skills as well as thorough understanding of popular Accounting softwares. I've gained experience in managing and motivating others while serving as a Finance Trainee, Internal Auditor Trainee, Data analysis and as an Accountant. I’ve work experience with tools such as Quickbooks, ZohoOne, Sage, SPSS, Microsoft Office, Monday.com, Calendly, Google workspace, Outlook, Zoom, Mailchimp, Salesforce & Slack. I’m a fast learner with high energy and zeal to exceed expectations with outstanding academic training in financial and management accounting. Work experience and Professional Skills 1/6/2024- 30/9/2025 Company: Unique Furniture Kenya Role: Accountant (Retail) Responsibilities: My tasks included supervising receivables, managing payables and making timely payments to our suppliers. Preparation of monthly financial statements in addition to budgeting as well as performing all reconciliations and any other admin related work given as well as assisting in CRM management. Date: 1/4/2021- 31/3/2024 Company: Ama Industries Limited Role: Accountant(Real Estate) Responsibilities: As an accountant I was involved in:Invoicing clients on a monthly basis, preparation of client statements, Processing payroll and ensuring timely filing of statutory deductions, Following up on payments from clients as well as processing timely payments to our suppliers. Preparation of financial statements as well as reconciliations, Following up with company lawyers to ensure that all the lease agreements between our clients and our company are upto date as well of those of our sister companies, Nyanjo Limited & Travis E.A Limited Date: Nov 2018- 31/3/2021 Company: ARJ Capital Ltd Role: Accountant Responsibilities: As an accountant I was involved in doing supplier and bank reconciliations as well as processing payments on time, processing payroll and ensuring timely filing of statutory deductions (PAYE, Nhif, Nssf as well as Vat) invoicing, credit controls and preparing monthly financial statements in addition to costing and budgeting. From time to time I helped sales and marketing team to meet their quota and logistics department for smooth flow of operations and any other management duties assigned to me. Date: July- September 2018 Company: Sarova Panafric Role: Finance Trainee Responsibilities: I was tasked with invoicing, credit controls, cashiering and drafting conferences to gain more knowledge regarding my career income statements using micros and opera as the company's main software's. I also gained knowledge in stock taking as I was involved in receiving stock both physically and in the system. 4 .I have an active interest on travel and voluntary aid Date: Feb 2018- June 2019 Company: Cloudfactory Kenya. Role: Data Entry & Transcription Accomplishments: I was doing data entry & transcription for cloudfactory Kenya Using Expensify. This was a remote and Part time job Clodfactory has different clients all over the world but mostly dealing with US clients Professional Certificates 1. Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting Major, The University of Nairobi Professional and Academic Qualifications ACCA 2. SPSS I have done ACCA up to F6 (taxation (UK)) and I’m passionate about completing the rest 3. Computerised Accounting Computer packages (Quickbooks, Sage, Pastel, Tally, Peachtree & Systematics) 4. Microsoft Excel 5. Microsoft word I have computer basic proficiency as well as professional proficiency(Accounting packages, advanced excel and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS)) Bachelor of Commerce I graduated from The University of Nairobi with a degree in Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting option major) on 2nd Dec 2016 REFEREES Dennis Muthoka Financial controller – Sarova Panafric Email address:-Cellphone: - Postal Address:-, Nairobi Kevin sang Chief communications officer: The Kenya Power &Lighting Company (KPLC) Email address:-Mobile : - Postal address:-, Nairobi Noel Musya Lawyer: Musya and Co. Advocates Email address:-Mobile: - Nairobi