Peter Gatonye

Experience

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  Sharnbrook Ltd-Ibonia Estate

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2014

  Accounts Clerk

  1. Fed raw data into the company’s information system (Ms. Navision Dynamic) 2. Updated account records and bookkeeping. 3. Prepared payrolls and labor allocations.4. Prepared daily, weekly and monthly operations reports. 5. Calculated perks and allowances.6. Maintained staff database and payroll system integration. 7. Conducted an assessment of risks in the workplace. 8. Conducted office management duties and any other duties assigned.

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  Mawara Investments Ltd- Maakiou Estate

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

  Accountant

  1. General ledger entries, financial statements preparations.2. Prepared monthly and annual budgets for respective cost centers.3. Prepared staff payroll by computing all earnings and deductions using Ms. Dynamic Navision.4. Bank reconciliations.5. Liaise with the external auditors and provide necessary documents during the audit process.6. Supervised clerks by ensuring they have adhered to the accounting principles and deadlines.7. Maintained M-Pesa organization portal for the firm, which includes LIPA na M-Pesa portal for milk sales payments and salary payments portal.8. Computed and filed statutory deductions such as PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, and Union Dues. 9. Prepared Monthly operation report (MOR) for the company. The report entails both agronomy and financial reports.10. Prepared and filed documents which included raising LPOs, payment vouchers and cheques waiting for appropriate approval by the necessary level of staff.11. Maintained cheques payment register which indicates all issued cheques as well as canceled and void ones. Show less

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  Coffee Management Services Ltd

  Apr 2017 - now

  Financial Accountant

  Key Achievements:1. Voted Company’s Employee of the year in 2022.2. Voted Company’s Employee of the year-Finance department in 2021.2. Successfully integrated financial activities and records of a newly acquired company as per the company policies and procedures which enhanced smooth take over.3. Developed a model where over 4,000 casual workers ceased being paid in cash and we started using mobile banking payment which reduced time wastage and saved company resources.Key Responsibilities:1. Responsible for managing and supervising the day-to-day finance activities in 7 large scale coffee Farms across the country amongst them, Eaagads PLC and preparing periodical financial reports.2. Preparation of Financial Statements of each of the 7 entities.3. Supervising all accounts payable role which includes and not limited to posting and payments of invoices as per the standard operating procedures of the company. 4. Preparation of monthly payroll, statutory deductions, and tax returns for over 600 employees. I.e. NHIF, NSSF, PAYE, NITA, PENSION, etc. 5. Preparing periodical management reports which entails analyzing actuals spend versus the budget of all the cost centers.6. Payment of over 4,000 daily casual workers via online banking platform valued at approximately $2,000 per day.7. Periodical budget preparation for each entity and consolidation. i.e., Annual, monthly & weekly budgets.8. Preparation and submitting taxes as appropriate. i.e. PAYE, VAT, WHT, Withholding VAT, etc. 9. Scrutinize supporting documents for completeness, accuracy, and validity of requests, and signing them off in line with the company’s policies.10. Stock reconciliation for farm produces for all the farms, particularly stock valuation and periodic stock count. 11. Bank reconciliation for local and foreign currency accounts.12. Preparation of annual external financial audits.13. Develop accounting and financial management system (Microsoft Dynamic Navision) and reports. Show less