Joan Mutashi

Skills:

·        Leadership and Financial Management: Experienced in; handling budget controls, ensuring the financial reports are accurate, analysis of month-end financial statements and streamlining the financial processes and operations.

·        Strategic Planning and Execution: Led and executed an effective institutional strategic plan; developed focused unit planning processes and assessed strategic and operational business risks to enhance resource allocation decision making.

·         Regulatory Compliance and External Relations: I always ensure the maintenance and establishment of effective financial and accounting policies, procedures and systems in compliance with GAAP, IFRS, statutory and other regulatory requirements

Experience:

• Reviewing and establishing financial policies for enhanced internal controls in finance and streamlined operations.
• Assessment of staff competencies training needs assessment and rationalization of staffing levels for finance units.
• Reviewing finance data to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Preparation and monitoring of budgets
• Oversight over the compliance of policies and statutory requirements
• Coordinating with external auditors to ensure timely Audits
• Advising management on a key decision based on the financial position of the organization
• Regularly checking on financial data in the system to ensure its captured in relevant accounts
• Project appraisal advisory to management

Payables;

• Writing cheques
• Updating and maintaining accounts payables
• Proposing payments to the suppliers 
• Responding to calls and email from clients
• Preparing Monthly supplier statement
• Negotiating with the supplier on payment terms on contracts

Receivables:

• Raising invoices
• Making follow-ups on payments
• Updating and maintaining accounts and receivable
• Preparation of clients monthly statements,
• Updating the management on monthly collection projection
• Responding to any queries arising from the client
• Negotiating with the clients on payment terms on contracts

Finance

• Preparing and submitting statutory payment
• Preparation of payroll
• Daily reconciliation of card payments
• Keeping track of the bank balances
• Bank reconciliation
• Preparation of management accounts
• Posting all the accounting transactions into the system        
• Preparation of monthly financial report
• Preparation of clients budgets
• Petty cash management.
• Managing cash flow.
• Preparation and ensuring smooth audits