Charles Makwangwara

Experience

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  ZIMBABWE REVENUE AUTHORITY (ZIMRA)

  Sept 2009 - Sept 2010

  ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT ATTACHE'​

  3. ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT ATTACHEE’: ZIMBABWE REVENUE AUTHORITY (ZIMRA) SEPTEMBER 2009 – SEPTEMBER 2010 ACCOUNTABLE TO THE GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTANT RESPONSIBILITIES: • Posting transactions to the ledger accounts • Manual uploading of Bank Statements• Bank Reconciliations• Preparing financial management reports • Debtors and Creditors reconciliations• preparing Remittance Schedules for client banks• receipting and banking of cash• facilitating payments to suppliers• facilitating travel and subsistence allowances• invoice verification• petty cash float maintenance using the imprest system Show less

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  HCOC

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  FINANCE OFFICER

  DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Develop, manage and regularly review HCOC’s finances and Administration procedures to ensure compliance and efficiency to Donors’ expectations.• Serves as the Primary Custodian of all financial transactions, establish and manage Financial Systems to ensure transparency, accountability and accuracy of all financial data as well as establishing and maintaining Financial Procedures.• Develop and Monitor budgets across grants, in accordance with pre-established United States African Development Foundation (USADF) and other Donors’ requirements.• Prepare forecasts of programmatic and operational costs, ensuring the availability of funds to meet financial needs.• Conduct periodic pipeline audits of actual expenses, and budget-to-actual expenditure comparisons, present relevant reports to internal and external audiences to facilitate programmatic and financial planning, monitoring and evaluation.• Establish and maintain banking relationships, ensuring transactions are processed timely, accurately and adequate balances are maintained and ensuring timely financial reporting.• Negotiate contracts, develop budgets and provide technical assistance to the Chief Executive Officer and the Administrator, to ensure effective use of funds and financial reporting. Show less

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  M-Tron Africa Group

  Feb 2016 - Apr 2018

  Project Management Accountant

  RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES• Accountable to the Chief Executive Officer, to lead the Resource Mobilisation Unit (RMU), develop Resource Mobilisation Strategy and lead its implementation with regard to active projects of the organisation• Participate in developing and implementing the Organisation’s Fund Raising Strategy within the overall strategic plan of the organisation• To provide active leadership in all the organisation’s projects in terms of strategic planning, organising, leading and control and capacity development support for the overall organisation strategy• Develop Funding proposals, in line with the organisation’s projects, scan for project related grants in the market and tailor grant proposals in line with the organisation’s specific projects• Coordinate and supervise corporate engagement activities with strategic alliance partners • Developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation strategy for the organisation’s projects and producing monitoring and evaluation reports for the Board and Management to aid in Projects and Investment decision making• Prepare forecasts of programmatic and operational costs, ensuring the availability of funds to meet financial needs, as well statutory requirements • Conduct periodic pipeline audits of actual expenses for specific projects, and budget-to-actual expenditure comparisons, present relevant reports to internal and external audiences to facilitate programmatic and financial planning, Risk analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and guide credit policy and strategy,• To promote systematic program review/evaluation to ensure that lessons learnt are documented and shared for cross-program learning for future references. • Negotiate contracts, develop budgets and provide technical assistance to the Chief Executive Officer, to ensure effective use of funds and financial reporting.• Oversee procurement of office and programme related equipment Show less

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  Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) Official

  Apr 2018 - Feb 2020

  Accounting Assistant
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  Zambezi River Authority

  Mar 2020 - now

  Accountant

  I am a Finance and Impact Investments professional with at least 8years progressive experience in Projects Accounting, Development Financing, Grants Management and Community Development Work, Financial and Management Accounts,working with NGOs, Private and Public Sector Organisations.Further, I possess functional knowledge on World Bank Client Connection, SAP, Sun System, possessesanalytical, leadership and problem-solvingskills.ACCOUNTS OFFICER Reporting to Manager Finance & AdminMarch 2020 -Present–Zambezi River Authority(ZRA -Kariba)Duties and responsibilities▪Authorising paymentsaccording to approved budget, processing journals, posting to the ledger, inventory management for ZRA Kariba main stores,pettycashsupervision and bankreconciliation, accounts analysis and generation of Financialreport for the Kariba Stationand partcipating in Finance Policy reviews.▪General Ledgerréconciliations, producingmonthly Cash-flow analyses, Performingmonthly accrualsas well as Leadingin budget formulation and trackingof KaribaDam RehabilitationProjectcounterparty funding expenses, monitors performance and quarterly reviews of staffand overseeing efficient operation of the SAP system.▪Payroll administration for ZRA Zimbabwebased employees,preparing and posting of payroll journals,leading in Financial Audit preparation, Supervisingday to day operations of the Accounting OfficeStaffat Kariba Offices, responding to emergency requestsfrom financiers (Ministry of Finance Zimbabwe, The World Bank and African Development Bank), problem solving as well as ensuring compliance with statutory regulationsand ensuring adherence tointernal controls. Show less