ANNASTASIA W NDUNG’U
Summary
Accomplished Financial & Treasury Accountant with ten years of expertise in cash flow optimization, accounts payable management, and financial reporting.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Treasury Accountant
AMREF Health Africa
05.2024 - Current
- This role specializes in treasury operations and ERP management within Microsoft Dynamics Navision, managing high-volume disbursements via EFT, mobile money (Mpesa), and cheques, while maintaining strict data integrity for supplier records.
- It also entails overseeing liquidity through daily bank monitoring, FX conversions, and complex interledger reconciliations, ensuring full compliance for internal and external audits.
- Payment & Cash Operations: Executing multi-channel disbursements (EFT, Mpesa, Cheque) for suppliers and staff advances across AMREF HQ, Kenya Country office and AMREF International university, including the management of country call-downs and fund transfers.
- Treasury & Liquidity: Monitoring daily bank balances to ensure operational liquidity; executing approved foreign exchange (FX) conversions.
- Financial Control: Streamlining the month-end closing process by preparing comprehensive bank and interledger reconciliations and promptly resolving outstanding reconciling items.
- Audit Compliance: Acting as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors, providing documented evidence and ensuring adherence to financial controls.
- ERP Administration: Maintaining the integrity of the Microsoft Dynamics Navision database by accurately inputting verified supplier bank details and posting all cash receipts.
Financial Accountant-Payables and Treasury
AMREF Flying Doctors
10.2021 - 04.2024
- Overall Responsibility: Processing of supplier invoices and creditors payment in an accurate, timely and efficient manner, keeping the AP ledger updated and reconciled to support month end financial reporting.
- It also involved petty cash management, Bank reconciliations, payroll and statutory deductions and payment support for locum staff, computing staff overtime claims, and debit cards and credit cards monthly reconciliations as well as Audit support.
Finance Operations Specialist
Mars Wrigley Confectionery Kenya Ltd
08.2017 - 09.2021
- The role mainly entailed all activities revolving around Purchase to Pay management of around 1,200 suppliers-both local and foreign.
- It also involved offering support to other finance operations such as preparing inputs for tax filling, stock take as well as audit support.
- While at Mars, I supported fully the transition of major finance operations from Kenya to a shared service centre in Cairo in March 2018, and continued offering full support to the finance team in Egypt to ensure that operations ran smoothly.
- Doing the three way match for all Invoices i.e PO,GRN,Invoice Accurate posting of supplier invoices on SAP.
- Flag and clarify any unusual or questionable invoice items or prices.
- Generate monthly accounts payable aging reports.
- Preparing and processing of payments to suppliers within agreed timelines.
- Monthly reconciliation of Key Supplier accounts. correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.
- Support Internal and external audits by producing the required data and support documents.
- Scanning of all supplier invoices and other financial documents and digitally filling them.
- Maintaining an organized physical filing system for all supplier invoices and other documents.
General Ledger Accountant
GENERAL ELECTRIC
01.2015 - 12.2017
- Responsible for compiling and posting general ledger information and summaries concerning various financial transactions in order to ensure accurate and timely maintenance of accounting records in accordance with prescribed financial policies, standards and taxation requirements.
- Duties Included: Prepare and upload correcting journal entries using the standard format ensuring that all required dimensions are completed and balanced.
- Review the Trial balance for completeness at all dimension level once the manual journal has been posted.
- Check and confirm that fixed assets are capitalized at the correct entered/original currencies.
- Reconcile the Fixed Assets register to GL Ledger.
- Performing monthly accounts reconciliations of various types; Payroll, Fixed assets, Bank, Tax etc.
- Prepare input data for filling taxes for 18 sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Assistant Accountant
ACME CONTAINERS
01.2013 - 12.2015
- Managed daily bookkeeping functions with attention to accounts receivable, accounts payable, banking reconciliation and disbursements.
Education
Bachelor of Economics -
University of Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya12.2012
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Mean Grade A(-) minus
Loreto High School
Kiambu11-2006
Skills
- Financial reporting and analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Effective communication
- Accounts payable
- Intercompany transactions
- Interledger reconciliation
- Supplier relationship management
- Cash management and liquidity
- Software proficiency and tools
- Statutory compliance and processing
Timeline
Treasury Accountant
AMREF Health Africa
05.2024 - Current
Financial Accountant-Payables and Treasury
AMREF Flying Doctors
10.2021 - 04.2024
Finance Operations Specialist
Mars Wrigley Confectionery Kenya Ltd
08.2017 - 09.2021
General Ledger Accountant
GENERAL ELECTRIC
01.2015 - 12.2017
Assistant Accountant
ACME CONTAINERS
01.2013 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Economics -
University of Nairobi
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Mean Grade A(-) minus
Loreto High School