BAHATI MAWONDO CHAO

Senior Accountant with extensive experience in financial reporting, cost management, and compliance. Demonstrated success in evaluating financial documents, preparing audit papers, and managing bank reconciliations. Proficient in budgeting, financial statement preparation, and leading finance teams. Expertise in tax computation, audit coordination, and payroll management, driving efficiency and accuracy in accounting operations.

Available upon request

• Professionals Accountants Students Association Moi University, 09/01/15, 06/01/16
• Moi University Christian Union- main campus, Executive Vice- Chairperson, 05/01/15, 09/01/15

· Successfully led the end-to-end migration of financial data to a new system, ensuring 100% data integrity and zero operational downtime

· Spearheaded Tax compliance e.g Etims compliance by updating internal systems and staff training, ensuring 100% adherence to KRA requirements ahead of deadlines.

· Consistently met strict payroll deadlines, achieving a 100% on-time payment record.

· Oversaw multiple bank accounts across different projects, safeguarding organizational funds and achieving zero cases of unreconciled.

· Successfully invested surplus funds in secure financial instruments, generating an additional income annually to support ministry programs and strengthen long-term sustainability.

· Ensured 100% compliance through timely filling and remitting of statutory deductions

· Seamlessly performed monthly reconciliations of bank accounts by 5th of every month without a miss

· Improved access to financial information by the field ministry partners through preparing and sharing detailed statements and donor lists within 2 days after closing books every month.

· Reduced cost of wages by 10% by advising repair works and to be done within the organizations working hours

· Successfully cleared a 6 months backlog of bank reconciliations within the 1st month of my assignment.

· Improved safety of financial records through filing one-year records within the first 3 months of my service.

· Reduced paper work by 10% by introducing electronic ways of saving accounting records as opposed to printing them.

· Introduced claiming of VAT inputs which resulted to a 20% reduction of VAT payments

· Performed daily deposit of undeposited funds to their respective accounts and managed timely clearance of the undeposited funds account which was a recurring audit query before my tenure.

· Administered foreign accounts, securing favorable bank exchange rate deals that reduced transaction costs by 15% and maximized donor funding value.