Bilher Atieno Obadha
Accountant
Summary
Experienced accounting professional with a strong track record in financial management. Recognized for exceptional analytical skills and precision in handling financial matters. Adept at driving results through effective team collaboration and adaptability to evolving needs. Demonstrated expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance, prioritizing accuracy and efficiency. Known for reliability, dependability, and full commitment to achieving organizational goals.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Finance Officer
Education Empowerment for Rural and Urban Slums In
Eldoret, Uasin Gishu
03.2024 - 12.2024
- Optimized cash flow management, ensuring timely payment of invoices and reducing outstanding debts.
- Prepared monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and took corrective actions on deviations.
- Collaborated with team leaders to define standards, policies and procedures to meet company revenue goals.
- Established strong relationships with key vendors, negotiating favorable terms to benefit the organization''s bottom line.
- Streamlined financial processes for increased efficiency and accuracy in reporting.
- Enhanced internal control systems and procedures to mitigate risk and support opportunities.
- Payroll management ensuring employees are paid in time boosting staff morale.
Assistant accountant
Kenya Women Microfinance Bank
02.2023 - 02.2024
- Assessing clients' loan ability and processing the loans on the NLS platform.
- Booking of product loans on the EDMS platform and following up on the orders to ensure that they are delivered to the clients.
- Assisting Business Development Officers on assessing the various groups assigned to them in their portfolios and ensuring that the various groups are not in arrears.
- Assisting clients by checking their customer positions, any loan dues and shares queries.
- Opening accounts for new clients who wish to have accounts with the bank.
- Performing KYC on all clients so as to ensure thorough checkup has been done before admitting clients into the bank.
- Performing accounts reactivations, funds transfers, client update as well as other functions ordered by the clients.
- Maintaining proper records of ATMs and pin mailers and ensuring that they are all managed in the system before issuing to the clients.
- Preparing daily reports for Business Development Officers and the Unit manager on the sales made as well as arrears status.
- Processing livestock insurance forms, and ensuring that the data has been captured on the Rapid Vets platform.
- Receiving and managing petty cash for the office.
- Being the first point of contact for clients and attending to their various queries.
- Receiving all mail, products and items sent to the unit.
- Ensuring neatness and cleanliness of the banking hall and the entire office at large.
- Assisting the unit manager in ensuring that all unit operations are run smoothly.
- KWFT is a medium-tier financial services provider in Kenya. As of December 2013, it was the largest deposit-taking microfinance bank in the country, with an asset base valued at about US$220 million (KES: 21.75 billion).
Accountant
Branded Communication Agency
07.2022 - 12.2022
- Payment of Suppliers, verification and approval of invoices.
- Preparing the cash summary report and analysis of the zed report.
- Banking of Cheques, bank reconciliation and maintenance of cheque registers.
- Analysis of accounts payable and receivables.
- Supervising of cashiers and ensuring that they are productive and work towards the company's goals.
- Reconciliation of cash at the end of the day and ensure all books balance and updating cash-books.
- Monitoring all company expenses including petty cash.
- Formation and overseeing implementation of cost reduction strategies.
- Preparing budgets, ensuring implementation and variance analysis at period end.
- Liaising with staff to get their expenses booked.
- Carrying out expense reconciliation to ensure all expenses are posted in the system and following up on identified pending expenses.
- Conducting daily sales analysis of all branches comparing phone, airtime and accessories sales to monitor the performance of all branches.
- Giving monthly targets to each branch and monitoring the performance of the branches against the target.
- Conducting brand performance analysis to determine the number of pieces sold for each brand available in the company, comparing sales for the previous month against the current month's sales.
- Conducting daily analysis of DSAs sales from all branches to keep track of their performance.
- Liaising with the BA team leader to get individual BA sales from all branches.
- Comparing the sales for the previous month against the current month's sales to assess the progress of all BAs branch wise.
- Monitoring the corporate client's sales for each branch to monitor how the company is doing regarding corporate clients.
- Inventory management and monitoring stock movement for timely reorder of stock for all the branches and conducting monthly stock takes.
- Receiving of stocks and generating internal branch invoices for movement to branches.
- Asset management and enhancing compliance, tracking and asset transfer.
- Counter checking supplier products against invoice/delivery.
- Remittances of tax and other statutory deductions such as withholding tax, VAT, PAYE, NSSF, NHIF and NITA.
- Attending to program technical meetings and give professional advice, feedback and updates on financial aspect.
- Training, managing and advising sales people and preparing branch sales targets.
- Ensuring proper filing of accounting documents and safe custody of company documents.
Finance and administration officer
Trace Kenya
08.2021 - 06.2022
- Improved stakeholder relations by providing transparent and accurate financial reports on a consistent basis.
- Collaborated closely with auditors during annual reviews ensuring smooth process execution while addressing any potential issues proactively.
- Managed payroll processes accurately ensuring all employees were paid on time without errors leading to high employee satisfaction rates.
- Negotiated favorable terms with vendors, securing cost savings without sacrificing quality or service levels.
- Co-ordinate continuous monitoring and evaluation of the program activities and track financial expenditures.
- Timely preparations of monthly, quarterly and annual donor reports and review the same with management.
- Strictly adhering to budgets and ensuring expenses do not go over the budget lines.
- Paying and filling statutory returns due from the organization that is PAYE, NHIF, NSSF and NITA.
- Ensuring all internal controls have been met and acting as the organization's internal auditor.
- Preparing monthly reconciliation of bank, cash, accounts payable and receivables.
- Preparing and maintaining cash-book to assist in reporting.
- Preparing and maintaining asset register to keep track of all the organizations assets as well as their conditions.
- Preparing and maintaining an updated asset register and ensuring all assets of the organizations are properly tagged.
- Ensure all financial records (Final accounts and supporting documents including for all past years) are properly filed and stored and avail the same as when required for audit by Government departments like KRA during the required retention period.
- Management of payroll processing by ensuring employees are paid and statutory deductions relating to payroll are adhered to and paid to the relevant government bodies.
- Participating in meetings and conferences to which Trace Kenya is invited by its partners.
- Providing support to program teams and administration team through well thought out advisory and adherence to statutory and organizational policies.
- Overseeing leave taken by the employees i.e. annual, compassionate, sick.
- Coordinating all program activities with the different program officers and coordinators.
- Overseeing the procurement team to ensure that all procurement done by the procurement team are as per the organization's guidelines.
- Ensuring goods are received as per the Local Purchase Order.
- Liaising with program officers and service providers to ensure timely purchase of materials.
- Liaising with suppliers to ensure timely payment according to the set budget line.
- Marketing Trace Kenya to the public and stakeholders in the region and mobilize resources for the success of its programs and initiatives.
- Attending to matters raised by donors and audit reports and letters.
- Performing any other duty assigned by the management from time to time.
Finance intern
Legal Resources Foundation
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Interacting with accounting software Sage Pastel by posting transactions on the accounting system on the general ledger, the accounts receivables and the accounts payable.
- Processing payments to be made by the organization.
- Assist in paying and filling returns for statutory payments including PAYE, NHIF, NSSF and NITA.
- Filling withholding tax on management, professional, contractual, consultancy and civil fees on the ITAX platform.
- Transaction listing in the cash-book workbook that assist in production of reports.
- Assist in ensuring all the organization's internal controls have been met.
- Assist in ensuring that all payments made by the company do not go above the budget.
- Mileage costing to determine the amounts to be paid after the organization's vehicles return from a trip.
- Assisting in asset register maintenance asset tagging and safety of all organization's assets.
- Assisting in inventory management and all records pertaining to it.
- Ensuring all necessary materials are current, properly filled and stored.
- Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) Trust exists as a national civil society organization to promote access to justice among vulnerable, indigent and marginalized groups.
Attached at Finance Department
Doinyo Lessos Creameries Ltd
05.2019 - 09.2019
- Assist in accounting for the company's expenses that fall under fixed asset costs, variable costs and marginal costs.
- Assist in computation of sales reconciliation statements.
- Assist in creation and issuing of invoices and delivery notes.
- Route costing to analyze viability of the route before departure to sale.
- Assist in processing of credit notes and posting them against specific invoices.
- Banking of both cash and cheques.
- Analysis of sales and physical stock count.
- General book keeping and filling of records.
Data entry clerk
Aquasan Limited
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: Rwanda
- Entering production and sales report data in excel.
- Entering and compiling sales data from invoice register to excel.
- Assisting the sales team to generate daily sales report.
- Rwanda
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce- Finance Major
Masinde Muliro University of Science And Tech
Kakamega 01.2016 - 01.2020
CPA -
Kings College of Accountancy
Eldoret, Uasin Gishu, Kenya 01.2016 - 01.2019
High School Education - K.C.S.E
South Tetu Girls High School
01.2012 - 01.2015
Skills
Budget development and implementation
Fixed asset management
Tax compliance
Payroll processing
Bank reconciliation
Financial statements
Accounts payable
Budget development and implementation
Affiliations
- Legal Empowerment Network
- Associate member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), ASSOC/3959, 2022
Attributes
- Ability to handle multiple tasks
- A quick and willing learner
- Ability to work under demanding situations
- Goal oriented, hard-working and determined to succeed
- Ability to work independently
- Confident and positive thinker
Awards
- Best student in Business Education
- Certificate in best performance in Football and Handball games
- Certificate in Music
Additional Information
Mrs. Christine Kamau
Finance Credit and Administration Manager, KWFT, Eastern Nyanza Region Cell Phone +254720132395
Email ; cnkamau@kwftbank.com
Ms. Shamim Sehel
Finance Officer, Trace Kenya Cell phone: +254758041818
Email; sehelshamim@gmail.com
Mrs. Lucy Barongo
Finance Officer, Legal Resources Foundation Trust Cell Phone: +254726141009
Email: lbarongo@lrf-kenya.or.ke
Timeline
Finance Officer
Education Empowerment for Rural and Urban Slums In
03.2024 - 12.2024
Assistant accountant
Kenya Women Microfinance Bank
02.2023 - 02.2024
Accountant
Branded Communication Agency
07.2022 - 12.2022
Finance and administration officer
Trace Kenya
08.2021 - 06.2022
Finance intern
Legal Resources Foundation
12.2020 - 08.2021
Attached at Finance Department
Doinyo Lessos Creameries Ltd
05.2019 - 09.2019
Data entry clerk
Aquasan Limited
01.2016 - 12.2016
Bachelor's Degree - Commerce- Finance Major
Masinde Muliro University of Science And Tech
01.2016 - 01.2020
CPA -
Kings College of Accountancy
01.2016 - 01.2019
High School Education - K.C.S.E
South Tetu Girls High School
01.2012 - 01.2015
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