Community Involvement
Ann Wangari
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Nairobi,30
Summary
Goal-focused Senior Accountant with record of accurate reporting and budget management. Offering 12 years of experience handling finances for 5 locations. Processed payroll, budgets, reports, audits, journals, expenditures and payments. Diligently maintains latest training on tax regulations and legal issues impacting financial operations.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Accountant
Synergetic Development Group
Nairobi
01.2023 - Current
- Updated general ledger with latest entries.
- Completed year-end closing processes with controllers and external auditors.
- Reviewed documents and accounts for discrepancies and resolved variances.
- Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
- Participate in building forecast and budget of entity.
- Oversee financial accounting and reporting functions, including month-end and year-end closing processes.
- Develop and maintain financial reports and analysis to support business decisions and strategic planning.
- Manage budgeting and forecasting processes, including revenue and expense forecasting.
- Monitor and analyze financial performance, including revenue and expense variances, and provide insights to senior management.
- Develop and maintain relationships with banks, auditors, and other financial partners.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulations, including tax laws and regulations.
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations.
- Preparing tax provisions schedules, returns, payments, reports and maintain a company’s tax database
- Finding tax solutions to complicated tax issues or errors from incorrect tax filings
- Identifying legal tax savings and recommend ways to improve profits
- Making sure that clients comply with state and local tax regulations
- Advising management about impact of tax liabilities and corporate strategies or new tax laws
- Coordinating outsourced tax preparation work
- Accurately preparing quarterly and annual tax reports
- Keeping up-to-date with tax changes and industry trends by participating in educational opportunities
- Participating in professional organizations and keeping up with professional networks and reading professional publications
- Contributing to hiring, training and development of accounting teams.
- Liaising with clients regarding financial plans and objectives.
- Reviewing budgets and communicated discrepancies to senior management.
- Handling month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
Grant Accountant( Part Time)
Patinaai Osim Organisation
Nairobi
02.2021 - Current
- Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
- Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.
- Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, budgeting, donating, and cash, and banking reconciliations.
- Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
- Prepares accurate project budgets and sufficiently detailed budget justifications incorporating all relevant cost components while ensuring consistency with proposed activities
- Ensures that project budgets are in conformance with organizational and donor requirements/formats and that these are timely prepared for necessary reviews/checks prior to submission
- Undertakes rigorous budget management and monitoring over period of project implementation by ensuring proper tracking of expenditures against approved budgets.
- Ensures that all project cost expenditures are supported by adequate documentation in line with statutory, organizational and donor requirements.
- Maintains safe custody of project-related expenditure – receipts, vouchers, contracts and all project records in neatly filed and easily retrievable manner.
- Develop annual and quarterly project budgets, liquidity forecasts.
- Monitor budget spending for project, ensure that budget expending is in line with project deliverables, and provide monthly updates on financial status including cash flow and variances, and institute corrective measures where necessary.
- Ensure compliance with EU financial rules and regulations.
- Prepare and submit financial reports per donor and organizational requirements within stipulated time frame.
- Organize regular funds reconciliations.
- Ensure timely invoice payment and processing.
- Ensure timely closure of grant agreement.
- Maintains financial management files for grants and ensures audit trail for all necessary grant documentation.
- Where necessary, carry out investigations of alleged fraud, mismanagement, loss of assets or any other investigation.
General Accountant
Synergetic Development Group
Nairobi
05.2019 - 12.2022
- Created and introduced updated processes for accounts receivable sub-ledger and customer attribute reporting.
- Coordinated with clients to improve accounting, payroll and tax operations.
- Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues.
- Examined, reviewed and gathered financial statements.
- Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, budgeting, donating, and cash, and banking reconciliations.
- Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
- Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.
- Reviewed business operations and obligations to help organization function at acceptable level.
- Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports, and presentations.
- Modified comprehensive reporting to reflect changing financial structure.
- Conducted technical and analytical reviews of tax returns to check for accuracy and qualified deductions.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge on professional accounting standards to manage financial recordkeeping.
- Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
- Prepared and filed tax forms to meet needs of customers.
- Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
- Evaluated and improved financial records to make important business decisions.
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
- Leveraged finance knowledge to strengthen controls and improve transparency.
- Detected and corrected mistakes early on and implemented systems to avoid recurring issues.
Accounts Executive
The Nairobi Hospital
Nairobi
08.2011 - 04.2019
- Organized data into multiple spreadsheets to streamline data.
- Processed payments and documents such as invoices, journal vouchers, employee reimbursements, and statements.
- Maintained clean and organized files by keeping accounts payable records up-to-date.
- Communicated and resolved disputes with clients regarding outstanding invoices, payments and adjustments.
- Coordinated with external auditors to resolve discrepancies.
- Supervised daily bookkeeping operations of various accounts, processing payments and documents such as invoices, journal vouchers, reimbursements and statements according to company policies.
- Maintained up to date creditor’s status (matching invoices to LPOs and GRNs, checking correctness and accuracy of invoices preparation of payment of creditors).
- Assessed new and existing customers in order to know their credit worthiness and minimizing bad debt
- Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month.
- Prepared itemized statements, bills or invoices and recorded amounts due for items purchased or services rendered.
- Followed up of un-posted amounts with relevant credit officers and companies, Liaising with doctors on accounts and refunds.
- Implementation of credit policies and procedures to facilitate prompt processing, prevent significant errors and identify adjustments.
Education
Masters In Tax And Customs Administration - Taxation
Kenya School of Revenue Administration (KESRA)
NAIROBI, KENYA 05.2023 - Current
Bachelors In Commerce (Finance Option) - Finance
KCA University
Nairobi, Kenya 08.2015 - 04.2017
Certified Public Accountants (CPA-K) - Accounting
Technical University of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya 02.2009 - 06.2011
Skills
Financial statement review
GAAP proficiency
Expense tracking,Cash Flow analysis,Payroll
Tax law understanding,Tax accounting specialization
Profits and losses tracking,Risk mitigation strategies
Account reconciliation specialist
SAP expertise,Intuit QuickBooks specialist
Financial Management,Debt management,Budget Analysis
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 30 members in the development of Construction projects.
- Coordinated month end close and year end activities. Streamlined processes and procedures to support 36% reduction in month end close activities from 5 to 2 days.
- Performed accounts payable, receivables, payroll, and all scheduled financial tasks related to the operation of the company and researched variances with a 100% accuracy rate.
- Initiated QuickBooks program for company, installed software, created company file, designed bookkeeping procedure for a new business, and trained co-workers on data entry.
- Completed external and internal operational audits, improving control efficiency and risk reduction by 70% presenting valuable audit findings.
Interests
Travelling
Doing Sports
Timeline
Masters In Tax And Customs Administration - Taxation
Kenya School of Revenue Administration (KESRA)
05.2023 - Current
Senior Accountant
Synergetic Development Group
01.2023 - Current
Grant Accountant( Part Time)
Patinaai Osim Organisation
02.2021 - Current
General Accountant
Synergetic Development Group
05.2019 - 12.2022
Bachelors In Commerce (Finance Option) - Finance
KCA University
08.2015 - 04.2017
Accounts Executive
The Nairobi Hospital
08.2011 - 04.2019
Certified Public Accountants (CPA-K) - Accounting
Technical University of Kenya
02.2009 - 06.2011