John

January 2021 to date

Company: Sanjoes Limited

Position: Senior Accountant

Sanjoes deals with logistics, material supplies and dairy farm and this is a role I coordinate all the financial aspects of the company. I keep management updated on the affairs of the company and recommend areas of improvement in controls.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and Presentation of monthly financial reports.

• Maintaining general ledger.

• Preparing and monitoring budgets.

• Preparing and Coordinating Audit processes.

• Data Analytics.

• In Charge of Finance Department.

• Advising management on financial aspects of the business.

Position Senior Accountant

Company: Cheli and Peacock Ltd & Land and Life Foundation

Duration: November 2016 – September 2020

The company is involved in Tours and travel across East Africa. My role entailed coordinating all accounting aspects of the organization and advising the Finance Manager on matters accounting.

The foundation addresses social issues in communities the organization operates .In addition to corporate resources of Cheli and Peacock, the foundation received donations from external sources that required ensuring donor requirements were met and timely reporting was necessary to satisfy the donors.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing of monthly Group financial reports and foundation financial reports.
• Performing audits on organization systems both limited company and the foundation.
• Preparing Cash flows reports and Managing Cash flows.
• Maintaining general ledger and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Leading and Managing Audit processes for the organizations.
• Preparation and monitoring of budgets.
• Performance of business process reviews.

Achievements:

• Managed to reduce audit time by 60% due to proper audit planning and cooperation with auditors.
• Managed to setup a monthly reports system for Land and Life Foundation. This helped the management as well as donors to make sound financial decisions.

Position General Ledger Accountant

Company: KK Services Ltd (GardaWorld)

Duration: January 2011 – October 2016

KK Security (GardaWorld) is involved in provision of security services both manned and unmanned across East and Central Africa. My role at KK involved being in charge of the general ledger reconciliations and inventory accounting and project accounting.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining general ledger and Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintaining and production of monthly stocks reports for management review.
• Payroll preparation.
• Maintaining and preparing of project records for audit and verification of costs.
• Coordinating and supervising monthly and annual stock count.

Achievements:

1. Managed to have a streamlined General Ledger for the organization and also reduced audit time by 50%.
2. Managed to setup project accounting for the organization.
3. Managed to establish proper inventory controls and procedures which resulted in reduction of inventory losses by 95%.

Position: Payables Accountant

Company: KK Services Ltd (GardaWorld)

Duration: July 2008 to December 2010

Responsibilities:

• Making payments to suppliers and resolving queries from suppliers
• Preparing and filing statutory deductions.
• Preparing, maintaining assets and inventory registers
• Preparation of bank reconciliations.
• Reconciliation of Petty cash and personal imprest accounts.

Achievements:

• Managed supplier accounts and successfully reduced aging for supplier accounts by 40%.
• Part of team in the transition of the programme from Quick books to Microsoft Dynamics Navision.