SAMWEL KIMARI

Experience

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  Kenya Red Cross

  Apr 2013 - Dec 2013

  Account Assistant

  Preparation of Payment Voucher.• Reconciliation of Bank Statement.• Updating of Financial Records. (QuickBooks)• Inventory taking and Updating.• Payment to Suppliers.• Preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reports.• Preparation and Validation of cheques. • Compiling of returns for HQ/Donor funded Projects, Eg, TOWA• Receiving and issuing of receipt from customers• Perform all Banking issues, Cash Deposits, Withdrawal.• Petty cash management• Processing and recording routine accounting transactions• Preparing Journal entries to correct Errors in cashbook/GL Show less

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  Africa Towers Services Limited

  Jan 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Timely preparation and review of the daily Cash flow and rolling cash flow forecasting• Preparation and review of periodic Bank Reconciliation statements• Ensuring timely payment of V.A.T, W.H.T and Custom duties to Revenue Authority while ensuring 100% compliance.• Reviewing cash balances and preparing consolidated cash position reports.• Negotiating treasury transactions involving foreign currency sales/buying.• Working closely with Accounts Payables and Account receivables teams to ensure internal control requirements are met.• Reviewing bank balances and initiating fund transfer to all the seventeen subsidiaries across Africa.• Management of all intercompany transactions to ensure that the intercompany policies are met.• Working with Financial Systems team to ensure fully implementation of Bank Portal (Straight2Bank) in all our subsidiaries. Show less 1.To ensure compliance of all accounting bulletins as released by the Accounting Development Group (‘ADG’) and Process Excellence (‘PE’2.To ensure compliance of all tax bulletins released for Africa Towers NV – Employee tax rules (Expat and residents by country)3.To ensure payments are released as per DOA (review of Financial DOA and Invoice level certification DOA)4.To ensure that internal control requirements are met whilst delivering payables process as reported for AP through SVCCL and DTR schedules5.To ensure closure as per Central FR calendar for AP Sub ledger closure, related DTR schedules and reconciliations as applicable6.Timely and accurate processing of payroll each month alongwith HR7.Ensuring timely deduction of taxes Timely payout to employees as per defined SLA / TAT Employees to be engaged for timely reconciliation of outstanding and pending issues as a cross functional team alongwith HR Timely preparation and review of daily Cash flow and rolling cash flow forecasting Preparation and review of periodic BRS  Ensuring no long overdue items in BRS Coordinating with Auditors along with HR to ensure timely closure of all pendancies and no open issues. Provide relevant functional and technical AP Training  Constant interaction and guidance to Invoice processing team through on-line training sessions and class room sessions Show less

  • Treasury Accountant

    Dec 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Accounts Payable Accountant

    Jan 2014 - Sept 2015
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  Gestalt Gild LTD

  Oct 2015 - Apr 2019

  Oracle Application Functional Consultant

  IFMIS ProjectMinistry of FinanceGovernment of KenyaCounty Government of Kakamega Oracle Public Sector Revenue Management (PSRM)ERP Requirement Study and Implementation.

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  SOFGEN

  Apr 2016 - Dec 2017

  Project Lead - Oracle Application Implementation

  Project Lead for Implementation, training and support of Oracle R12 applications..Modules implemented;1)Financials-Payables-Receivables-Cash Management-Fixed Assets-General Ledger2) HRMS-Core HR-Absence Management3)Integration - Oracle Apps with T24 core banking Applications 4)Training and Process development.

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  Transnational Computer Tech

  Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

  Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
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  ADK Technologies

  Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

  Senior Oracle Functional Consultant

  Implementation, Enhancement and Support Oracle EBS.

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  Kobby Technologies Limited

  Jun 2020 - now

  I. Assist in managing contracts and relations with customers, vendors, and otherstakeholdersII. Participate in the mentoring and motivating all technology teams to achieve productivityand engagementIII. Assist in reporting on overall technical operational performance and suggestimprovementsIV. Assist in providing leadership, support and advice on new potential businessopportunities across the technical domains.V. Maintaining excellent working relationships with clients to ensure their needs are metVI. Assist in ensuring that all technical projects are delivered on-time, within scope and withinbudgetVII. Assist in developing all technical project scopes and objectives, involving all relevantstakeholders and ensuring technical feasibilityVIII. Ensure proper project budgeting, resource availability and allocationIX. Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, scheduleand costsX. Assist in performing risk management to minimize project risksXI. Lead in different projects assigned to you from time to time.XII. Any other duty that may be assigned to you by the company. Show less

  • Assistant Head - Technical Operations

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Senior Oracle Functional Consultant

    Jun 2020 - now