Joseph Muema

JOSEPH MULANDI MUEMA PERSONAL INFORMATION NATIONALITY: DATE OF BIRTH: RELIGION: MARITAL STATUS: ID NO: PERMANENT ADDRESS TEMPORARY ADDRESS MOBILE NO EMAIL Kenyan 17th April 1987 Christian Married- P.O BOX 74, 90132 SULTAN HAMUD P.O BOX 59857, 00200 NAIROBI -/ --- VISION To be part of a highly performing accounting, auditing and finance professional team where I can assume increased levels of responsibilities and complex assignments independently or as part of a team with a high level of performance. To have a fast management experience, to prove to be an asset by undertaking my responsibilities competently and diligently within the deadlines and target to exceed set goals PROFILE To obtain a meaningful and challenging position that enables me to learn the accounting and finance fields and allows for advancement. I am a fast learner, hardworking, understanding, result oriented, strong work ethic and commitment, good interpersonal skills, relationship management skills, a good team player; I have excellent communication and presentation skills and can grasp complex concepts easily EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Academic Qualifications JUN 2008 – MAR 2012 Professional Qualifications JAN 2008 – 2016 OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) ACCA Level 3 9 OCT 2010 DIMA COLLEGE Studied Computerized Accounting Packages Awarded a certificate in: Sage Accounting Pastel Accounting Quick - Books Accounting FEB Awarded an ACCA certificate in Professional ethics 2011 JUNE 2008 Awarded a certificate in Ethics 2003 - 2006 MUKAA BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 1995 - 2002 MATWIKU PRIMARY SCHOOL Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Page 1 of 5 COMPUTER SKILLS MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel Advanced, Outlook Express, Power point and Internet. ERP SKILLS; SAP and Oracle Financials E-Business Suite R12 WORK EXPERIENCE Jan 2017 – To date TOPAX SOLUTIONS LIMITED Title Director/Founder Duties and Responsibilities  Develop and execute the company’s business strategies in order to attain its goals of being a leading general supplies/contractor company.  Provide strategic guidance to attain accurate view of the company’s future  Prepare and implement comprehensive business plans to facilitate achievement by planning cost-effective operations and market development activities  Ensure company policies and legal guidelines are adhered to.  Communicate and maintain trust relationships with business partners and authorities  Oversee the company’s financial performance, investments and other business ventures  Delegate responsibilities and supervise the work of executives providing guidance and motivation to drive maximum performance  Act as the public speaker and public relations representative of the company in ways that strengthen its profile  Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth APR 2016 – Mar 2017 AIRTEL KENYA NETWORKS LIMITED Title: Payables Accountant Duties and Responsibilities  Ensure all invoices received in the company are delivered to Accounts Payable and maintain an updated register to track movement of all the invoices in the business until paid and filed;  Maintain an updated register to track movement of all the invoices received in the business until paid and filed;  Ensure posting of invoices in the allocated supplier accounts on an ongoing basis. This should involve staging of the payment date as per the agreed terms of trade with suppliers to enable scheduling of payments;  Prepare supplier accounts reconciliations on allocated accounts by 15th and 25th of the month and ensure all reconciliation items are cleared by 20th and 30th each month.  Prepare monthly reconciliation of creditor accounts and clear all issues by next period.  Prepare and submit a monthly forex exposure report for circulation to management;  Complete and compute accurate and complete revaluation of all foreign denominated creditors account and generate both realized and unrealized gains or losses for monthly reporting;  Preparation of Account Payables schedules for internal, interim and annual audits and timely resolution of matters raised from the audit;  Participate in the monthly physical stock take as instructed by the business and ensure signoff with stock controller/counting staff on completion of stock count;  Filling of accounts payable documents in an easily retrievable manner. Nov 2012 – March 2016 AIRTEL KENYA NETWORKS LIMITED Page 2 of 5 Title: Duties and Responsibilities Logistics Operations Coordinator  Support the effective and efficient planning and processing of all logistics, procurement and administrative activities and transactions for office operations in line with stated policies and procedures, delegation of approval authorities and existing software systems, related to:  Formulation, planning, budgeting, implementation and closeout activities  Monitoring, compliance and reporting activities  Review of, guidance on all leases and contracts  Preparation of requisition requests and purchase orders in line with approval authorities and availability of funds  Identify, mitigate on risks such as pilferage, obsolesce, etc and report  Customs clearance, warehousing, delivery, maintenance scheduling, consumption trends analysis and inventory monitoring  Managing the Airtel Logistics account.  Coordinating logistics Services/duty Invoices account operations and payment of customs duties  Managing of invoice processing and payment in conjunction with Airtel’s Treasury for payments as per credit terms  Posting Logistics invoices in the system and ensuring it is within the agreed contractual credit term days.  Ensure payments are paid to suppliers consistently, accurately and within credit terms.  Verify invoices against contract rates and other agreements.  Management of all customs documentation for both internal and external audits  Review transactions for completeness and accuracy including proper authorization for payment processing.  Confirm accuracy of declaration and authenticity import and export entries.  Liaising with all relevant departments within Airtel to ensure timely payments  Liaising with Finance team to facilitate reconciliations  Managing the processing of logistics services Invoices, requesting for BPA releases ,acknowledgement and entry into a data base  Maintain import/ exports and account reports/trackers and reports for logistics client Invoices and Airtel management.  Coordination of customs clearance of all Airtel imports by:  Ensuring timely duty/tax payments  Ensuring proper Documentation of customs clearance of Airtel imports  Tracking of all import purchase orders from placement, shipment to delivery  Tracking imports from source to warehouse/freight collect  Ensure all relevant documents required by pre-shipment bodies are processed i.e. IDF application, and COC issuance.  Prepare an up-to date order status report of all pending imports.  Coordinating all Airtel exports in liaison with respective logistics clients staff and other stakeholders  Coordinating all Airtel repair and return network spare materials  Maintain and update weekly data base for Airtel bonds and ensure timely processing of exemption letters to Treasury in consultation with Bollore/ Rapid Kate Services, follow up on perfection of entries and cancellation of bonds Achievements: Ensuring timely clearance of all Airtel import and Export shipments, improving on TAT for payment of all Customs duties to ensure consignments do not incur demurrage costs and ensuring timely cancellation of bonds. I have been instrumental in keeping track of all CAPEX purchase orders and updating delivery times by comparing target delivery dates and actual delivery dates thus keeping leadtimes with the agreed SLAs. Participation in ensuring that there is compliance with Airtel systems and procedures as well as other government statutory bodies. Page 3 of 5 MAY 2012 – OCT 2012: AIRTEL KENYA NETWORKS LIMITED Title: Tax Assistant Duties and responsibilities  Assisting in KRA audits  Analyzing and reconciling withholding tax payments  Analyzing and making judgments of whether input tax on taxable goods and services should be excluded / included for deductions  Payment of all statutory dues  Tax GL accounts clean up  VAT on bad debts refund claim-provision of information  Tax documentation/record retention process  Liaising external and internal auditors in carrying out tax audits  Reconciling tax accounts  VAT on bad debts refund claim-provision of information  WHT certificate issuance to clear backlog, tax documentation/record retention process  Daily sales and cash collections, bank reconciliations needed to be up-to-date  Prepare Tax reconciliation, investigate and close all reconciling differences in tax accounts.  Perform account allocations to clear all hanging debits / credits  Investigate and close all old outstanding balances  Processing of withholding tax certificates  General duties as assigned by the Tax Manager Achievements: I ensured there was proper documentations on bad debts that needed for a refund claim to be lodged with KRA , I participated in ensuring that all tax accounts with balances that needed to be investigated, analyzed were reconciled and closed. I identified mispostings and established correct balances for input and output VAT-validation support documents for Airtel to lodge claims on output VAT which appeared as paid yet it had been netted off against input VAT. I ensured all outstanding issues in the KRA audits that required additional documentation were closed within the audit timelines. I closed on Kshs.27M claims on ETR machines documentations that were required. And Approx.Kshs.2.8 billion in customs duty investigation and finally I worked on numerous historical invoices and other import documents that needed to be checked by customs from our archived records FEB 2011-MAY 2011: NEW KENYA COOPERATIVE CREAMERIES Title: Accounts Attachee Duties and responsibilities       Performing daily and monthly bank reconciliations Posting of rebates, invoices and credit notes Posting of bank deposit slips in SAP. Tracking transfer of inter-creamery stock movement Verifying of produce returns and variance analysis Any other duties as assigned by the Senior Accountant. Achievements: I was very instrumental at reconciling their bank statements and bringing their major bank account to agreeable balances. I ensured timely payment of supplier invoices and reconciling of inter-creamery stocks. PERSONAL INTERESTS Page 4 of 5 1. Reading 2. Creative Thinking and Creative innovation 3. Meeting and making new friends REFEREES 1. Mr. Jones Kimeu Managing Director Gamax Limited Cell Phone- Email:-2. Mr. Martin Jowi Director Supply Chain Management Airtel Networks Ghana Limited Cell Phone - Email:-3. Mr.Cephas Kavoo Imports and Inventory Manager Airtel Networks Kenya Limited P.O BOX 73146 - Nairobi Kenya Cell Phone- Email:- Page 5 of 5