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Beryl Shamala
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT
NAIROBI
Summary
Dynamic management accountant with expertise in budget preparation, compliance, and administrative oversight. Proven track record in enhancing organizational efficiency through strategic planning and effective resource allocation, resulting in improved revenue management and client satisfaction.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Management Accountant, Office Admin
Archers Tours & Travels Ltd
09.2023 - Current
- Prepare the company budget and continually track expenses, as well as make sure we're on track to hit revenue targets.
- In charge of external audit process, responding to queries and passing journals from auditor into the accounting system.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
- Keeping accurate records of all transactions.
- Managing petty cash to ensure proper use of the funds.
- Developing administrative procedures that are geared towards betterment of the organization.
- Posting sales, payments and reconciliation to the accounting system; PASTEL, CLIENT MAGIC.
- In charge of compiling tender documents.
- Managing staff issues to encourage individual growth and increase performance as well.
- Maintaining an effective and accurate reporting processes monthly, Quarterly, semi-annually and annually.
- Coordinate purchase, planning and implementing capital projects in the office to ensure proper allocation and use available resources.
- Managing and Supervising general administrative functions and practices.
- Coordinate proper performance of outsourced services such as tour vans, cleaning, taxis and security to ensure everything runs smoothly and well.
Personal Assistant to the Chairman /Office Manager
Coventry Holdings Ltd
01.2016 - 08.2018
- Managed diary and calendar of events, ensuring all documentation was current and accessible.
- Booking meetings with partners and investors and setting up appointments.
- Organizing travel itinerary - booking flights, organizing transfers to and from the airport both locally and internationally.
- Coordinated hotel reservations for business trips, prioritizing convenience and essential amenities.
- Oversaw email correspondence and banking transactions to maintain financial organization.
- Executed timely payments for subscriptions, maintaining continuity of services.
- Managing properties within the country and a few outside the country.
- Filing his returns, including his monthly rental income from his rental investments.
- Skills acquired: Organizational skills and ability to multitask, Strong leadership skills, High level of data management and accuracy, High level of confidentiality; discretion and trustworthy, Good oral and written communication skills, High level of flexibility and adaptability, Problem solving, Result oriented, A knowledge of standard software packages and ability to learn company-specific software if required.
Account Manager
Makozone Communications, E.A
01.2014 - 08.2015
- Responsible for overseeing provision of all services that the organization dealt in and making sure the organization is running as well as it possibly can with a smooth efficient service that meets the expectations and needs of the customers and clients.
- I was involved in setting up, monitoring and analyzing service provision systems and to checking those systems' effectiveness, and working out a strategy for improving them if necessary.
- Tracking and ensuring staff performance. I responded to customer enquiries and complaints, setting and reviewing budgets and managing cost and Planning and assisting in implementing change.
- Comfortably met targets which translated to increased revenue for the department and the Company.
- Sale of services to organizations.
- Supply of laptops, printers, computer accessories.
- Organizing special sales projects, such as new product introductions, sales promotions, advertisements, etc.
- Able to manage all aspects of sales to prospective and current customers, including providing highly technical and administrative product information.
Marketing Executive
CIC Insurance
02.2013 - 12.2013
- Selling insurance policies, both general and life.
- Creating awareness on benefits of investments to individuals.
- Tabulation of premiums payable by clients through filling in the necessary required documents.
- Collection of premiums and delivering policy documents to clients.
- Oversee customer service delivery through photocopy, scanning and sending out documents to clients.
- Maintenance and improvement of service through feedback from clients.
- Customer satisfaction and retention, being there for the customer at all times.
Assistant Head, Account's Receivables
WANANCHI GROUP (K) LTD - HQ
05.2012 - 01.2013
- Reporting to the Chief Financial Controller.
- Verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures through filling in standard financial documents for cheques, Wire transfers, and petty cash requisitions.
- Followed up on payment collections and allocations, ensuring accurate data entry for proper financial recording.
- Generating work order numbers from DTH (Direct to Home) dealer orders to be issued and invoiced.
- Executed adjustments in WINCABLE for incorrect account payments, addressing discrepancies in allocation and amounts.
- Confirming payments made by Satellite clients through EQUITY bank and updating the same in WINCABLE.
- Posting cheques received by the sales department into PASTEL.
- Investigated and resolved customer and inter-departmental queries via KAYAKO, enhancing communication across the organization.
- Processing client refunds by using the correct financial documents in the organization that have a template to be followed.
- Record all cheques from the sales department and ensuring they are banked and are correctly addressed.
- Resolves valid or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries.
- Coordinating contact with cash collection offices.
- Updating Prime Bank Payments into WINCABLE on a daily basis.
- Printing, photocopying and maintaining a record for cash received at the available Cash offices; reconciling banking on a daily basis.
Accounts' Assistant/ Office Manager
WANANCHI PROGRAMMING LIMITED - HQ
08.2010 - 04.2012
- Maintained and reconciled petty cash using accurate documentation.
- Performed bank reconciliations to ensure accurate financial records.
- Preparing payments both locally and internationally through the standard financial documents like bank transfer documents, cheques, vouchers.
- Writing cheques and arranging them in order for signature from the signatories.
- Prepared procurement analysis and LPOs, ensuring timely delivery of goods.
- Ensuring documentation of inventory through accurate data entry.
- Assist in ensuring that all the company resources are accounted for.
- Keeping a register of all the fixed assets of the company and maintaining them.
- Coordinated domestic and international travel arrangements for staff.
- Taking minutes of the weekly meetings done in different locations depending on arrangements.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management, Marketing
St Paul's University
Diploma - Marketing
Kenya Institute of Management
Skills
- Financial Planning
- Budget Management
- Financial Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Initiation
- Strategic Leadership
- Communication
Accomplishments
- Class representative in 2014, 2015 and 2016 Semesters.
- Participation in 'Entrepreneur in Making' 2009.
- Publicity Coordinator 10th Miss University May 2016.
- Committee member Friends of Thomas Barnado's Children's Home.
Core Values
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Just
- Team player
- Excellence
- Uphold high integrity and moral standard
- Listening to others
- Courageous
- Industrious
- Working under pressure with minimum supervision
Additional Coursework
- Certificate of Proficiency - College of Insurance
- ACCA - Part 1, 2 & 3 (Accountant in Business, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Corporate and Business Law, Performance Management, Taxation, Financial Reporting, Audit and Assurance, Financial Management)
- Customer Care Training - Wananchi Group (K) Limited
- Proficiency in Windows, Ms Office, Ms Excel, Ms Access, Pastel and Quick Books
- Certificate of Social work - Kenya Children's Home
- Certificate on COVID -19 awareness - Kenya Red Cross Society
Personal Qualities
- Ability to lead and manage teams
- Ability to work under pressure
- Hold high professionalism in written and verbal communication
- Ability to work under minimum or no supervision
- Interpersonal skills
- High level of professionalism
- High customer care, customer retention and customer satisfaction
- Honest
- Accountable, responsible and disciplined
- Full of integrity and discrete with information
- High level of accuracy
- Great team player
Summary Of Experience
- Management Accountant; Accounts management, inventory control, data analysis, and taxation and organization skills.
- Staff Development; Hiring, training and coaching, motivation/empowerment and employee relations - teamwork.
- Business improvement/development; Marketing, client retention, quality assurance and customer care.
- P & L management; Budget management, cost control and financial management.
Timeline
Management Accountant, Office Admin
Archers Tours & Travels Ltd
09.2023 - Current
Personal Assistant to the Chairman /Office Manager
Coventry Holdings Ltd
01.2016 - 08.2018
Account Manager
Makozone Communications, E.A
01.2014 - 08.2015
Marketing Executive
CIC Insurance
02.2013 - 12.2013
Assistant Head, Account's Receivables
WANANCHI GROUP (K) LTD - HQ
05.2012 - 01.2013
Accounts' Assistant/ Office Manager
WANANCHI PROGRAMMING LIMITED - HQ
08.2010 - 04.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management, Marketing
St Paul's University
Diploma - Marketing
Kenya Institute of Management