Experience

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  Martin coombs shah and associates limited

  Jan 2004 - Dec 2008

  Audit assistant

  Certified Public Accountant firm handling audit, tax, secretarial, bookkeeping & consultancy services.Duties performed:  Auditing - Handling Statutory Audits independently for Corporate & Partnership firms - carrying out audit assignments from planning to finalization. Corporate include Insurance Companies, Exporting Companies, Manufacturing Companies, Tour Operators, Partnerships & other small and medium enterprises (SME). Taxation - Computation of Tax Liability of Corporate, Partnership firms, Individuals and other tax assessments. Bookkeeping – complete books of accounts prepared for various corporate and partnership clients. Preparation of monthly management reports, draft management accounts, statutory computations such as VAT, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, withholding tax, etc. Other services: Preparing and filing of Annual Income Tax returns. Also performed various systems audits. Show less

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  Radbone clark kenya ltd

  Feb 2009 - Oct 2011

  Management liaison officer

  Distributors of Health Care products,Duties performed:  Preparation of daily cash flow analysis, monthly debtor and creditor analysis. Checking and analyzing of end month stock take reports on monthly basis. Carrying out reconciliation for purchases against goods received note. Analyzing sales invoices on daily basis. Analyzing monthly reports for distribution team. Conducting bank reconciliations, and updating cash and bank books in accounting system. Cash and bank management, including liaising with banks on regular basis. Procurements management – Quotations, Negotiations, Purchasing, Delivery handling, Credit terms. Importation - Preparing IDF (Imports declaration forms), obtaining insurance cover for imports, obtaining invoices, packaging list, bill of lading, certificate of conformity (COC), obtaining custom clearance from overseas vendors and clearing agents on timely basis. Preparing documents for Pharmacy and Poisons Board for approval of importation of Goods. Preparing consignment wise costing for all imports carried out. Show less

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  Spice world ltd

  Apr 2012 - Sept 2014

  General manager/administrator

  Manufacturers and distributors of processed finished ready to cook food items e.gButterfly Atta Mark 1(Wheat Flour) Duties performed:  Overview of Accounting & Finance function of the company. Attend to External Auditors on annual statutory audits. Ensure compliance of statutory obligations – VAT, Income tax, Withholding tax, etc. Monitor, assess, and analyze organizational risk and controls; and review and confirm compliance with company policies, procedures, and laws. Preparing the project reports and cost benefit analysis for projects. Reviewing bank reconciliation and handling cash accounts on daily basis. Liaising with Stores and Sales managers for logistical information for routing company deliveries. Liaising with factory managers for raw material requirements for productions and requirements of machinery parts. Maintaining relationship with financial institutions, customers, suppliers and liaising with farmers for direct purchase of raw materials. Importation - Preparing IDF (Imports declaration forms), obtaining insurance cover for imports, obtaining invoices, packaging list, bill of lading, certificate of conformity (COC), obtaining custom clearance from overseas vendors and clearing agents on timely basis. Procurements management – Quotations, Negotiations, Purchasing, Delivery handling, Credit terms. Debtor’s account management, collections of funds from debtors. Creditor’s account management, payments of funds to creditors. Show less

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  Aam resources

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2017

  Senior bookkeeping manager/ finance assistant/ internal auditor

  Certified Public Accountant firm handling audit, tax, secretarial, bookkeeping & consultancy servicesDuties performed:  Auditing - Handling Statutory Audits independently for Corporate & Partnership firms - carrying out audit assignments from planning to finalization. Corporate include Insurance Companies, Exporting Companies, Manufacturing Companies, Tour Operators, Partnerships & other small and medium enterprises (SME). Bookkeeping – complete books of accounts prepared for various corporate and partnership clients. Corporate include Insurance Companies, Exporting Companies, Manufacturing Companies, Tour Operators, Partnerships & other small and medium enterprises. Taxation - Computation of Tax Liability of Corporate, Partnership firms, Individuals and other tax assessments. Preparation of monthly management reports, draft management accounts, statutory computations such as VAT, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, withholding tax, etc.  Critically analyze financial records and documents and ascertain that all transactions are in conformity with company policies and procedures. Reviewing and reconciling banks and cash accounts on daily or monthly basis. Debtor’s account analysis, collections of funds from debtors. Creditor’s account analysis, payments of funds to creditors. Critically analyze financial records and documents and ascertain that all transactions are in conformity with company policies and procedures. Auditing suitable systems and procedures for all areas of organizations to check for any steps in SOP being missed out and suggest improvement for implementation to scrutinize in various areas across organization. Show less

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  Supra textiles ltd

  Jul 2017 - Jun 2020

  Financial controller

  Duties performed: Manage cash flows by tracking transactions and preparing the bank liquidity reports on daily basis. Coordinate with messenger for cheques for banking and following up with customers for collections. Supervise and manage financial department staff with all accounting operations including billing, accounts receivable & payable, general ledger, inventory accounting and revenue recognition, ensuring all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed and reported. This also includes statutory payments, VAT filing for the month for sales and purchases through KRA I-tax system.  Prepare the senior staff payroll at month end and re-check the junior staff payroll prepared by the HR manager for final staff salaries for the month for payment through the bank. Analyze debtors ageing and reconcile accounts outstanding for collections and creditors with statements from suppliers for payments on timely manner on due dates. Prepare Import Purchase orders for approvals before final raw materials, spares parts for machines are confirmed with overseas suppliers. Assist in preparation of Letter of credit documents through bank. Liaising with Overseas suppliers for import documents and clearing agents for timely delivery of container to factory. Coordinate with production managers of each division for end month stock reports for final valuation of stocks for the month and on quarterly basis for physical stock count with the accounts department team. Assist the CFO of the group in preparing the monthly MIS report for the company for presenting to CEO, senior executives and directors of the company. Collaborate with auditors in respect to the financial accounts for audit finalization and liaising with audit tax department for preparation of tax returns for the company at year end and ensure proper compliance with all regulations are followed. Show less

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  Sunflag group, kenya

  Jun 2020 - now

  Sunflag kenya group finance director