Highly dedicated and result oriented Financial Professional with over 14 years’ experience in Auditing, Accounting, Office Administration, and Project Management in diverse sectors and industries.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Bookkeeper
Professional Yacht Crew, SPC
08.2023 - Current
Managed accounts payable and receivable activities, maintaining vendor relationships and positive cash flow.
Reconciled and corrected issues with financial records.
Prepared monthly bank reconciliations to ensure accurate representation of company''s financial position.
Handled payroll processing for employees, ensuring timely payment and adherence to tax regulations.
Monitored incoming payments from clients, ensuring prompt application of funds against outstanding invoices.
Completed payroll for employees and maintained detailed records of procedures.
Maintained accurate financial records, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.
Provided comprehensive accounting support to company by managing functions like payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and business expense processing.
KWwoodwork Ltd, Cayman Islands (Designer and Constructor of Interior Woodworks)
05.2018 - 07.2023
Preparing accurate and timely financial statements with accompanying schedules for management decision making.
Preparing client contracts, budgets, variance analysis, forecasts and tracking savings from initiatives for cost efficiency.
Managing and ensuring accuracy of revenue, receivables, payables as well as expense accrual accounts using QuickBooks.
Partnering with project managers to ensure accurate cost reporting, job costing and billing detail at a project level.
Enhancing operational efficiencies, reviewing, and processing sub-contractors’ applications while distributing funds accordingly and ensuring compliance by the vendors and the sub-contractors to contractual agreements.
General administration: Immigration filing, import, registration and licensing of company vehicles, preparing payroll, managing inventory, reconciliations and maintaining the fixed assets register.
Key Achievements
Created and streamlined accounting processes and controls to ensure efficiency, quality management, and integrity of financial reports.
Conducted inventory costing for projects and cleared a four-year backlog that existed at my joining of KWwoodwork.
Completed long outstanding reconciliation of unresolved account balances that were outstanding at my joining of KWwoodwork.
Established and supervised implementation of policies and procedures for recording keeping and retention.
Senior Auditor
JN Thindi & Company, Kenya (CPA Firm)
10.2014 - 04.2018
Supervising junior auditors assigned to engagements, providing guidance and overall review of deliverables.
Preparing tax reports, tax planning and tax computation for client companies.
Preparation of client’s financial statements and reports and presenting them to Board of Directors.
Restructuring, designing and supervising implementation of client’s internal controls and accounting policies and procedures for efficiency and effectiveness.
Performing financial analysis and providing recommendations to clients for decision making on financial performance and condition of their businesses.
Execution of risk-based audits to ensure key risk exposures are reviewed and material weaknesses in client’s financial system are detected and reported.
Developing risk-based audit programs and testing procedures to ensure relevant and adequate gathering of evidence for audit reporting.
Issued audit reports and management letters at conclusion of audit engagements and presented them to the client’s management and Board of Directors.
Communicating assigned tasks to engagement team in a manner that is clear and concise ensuring high quality, accurate, and efficient audit.
Liaising with clients on planning and time management on various assignments.
Coordinating office activities and operations to secure efficiency and compliance to company policies.
Key Achievements
Presented annual reports and financial statements to directors and shareholders and provided technical interpretation of the financial statements.
Compiled and presented audit findings, recommended controls, and guidance on best business practices to client’s senior management and Board.
Compiled and presented comprehensive analytical business performance reports and company valuation to aid client’s management and Board with decision making.
Actively planned, supervised, and executed audits, ensuring compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Auditing Standards (IAS), applicable laws and regulations, and corporate objectives.
Assistant Auditor
Wokabi Ngamate & Associates, Kenya (CPA Firm)
05.2010 - 09.2014
Examining client’s accounting and financial control systems and providing recommendations for improvement.
Assisting clients with assessment of financial risks.
Participating in audit engagements and assisting in preparation of audit reports.
Participating in presentation of audit findings and recommendations to clients.
Assessing client’s compliance with internal policies and procedures and relevant legislation and regulations and reporting on noted exceptions.
Project Accountant
Davestar Enterprises, Kenya
01.2008 - 04.2010
Preparation of periodic project financial reports, payroll, accounts for annual audit, bank reconciliations and assets register.
Management of company’s cash flow, processing of payments and analyzing, evaluating and controlling daily cash disbursements.
Matching order forms with invoices and recording the information in the organization’s accounting software (Quick books Pro).
Supervised automation of the organization’s record keeping and accounting systems.
Interacting with external auditors in completion of annual audits.
Preparing regular reports and summaries of accounting activities and making management reports.