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CHRISTINE MUTHONI NDUTA
Chief Accountant | Finance Professional
Nairobi
Summary
Experienced financial professional with strong track record in driving financial strategies and managing budgets. Adept in financial reporting, analysis, and compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Known for adaptability and reliability. Skilled in forecasting, risk management, and financial planning. Highly valued for strategic thinking and effective problem-solving. Skilled in uncovering opportunities to improve financial growth, risk management and internal controls when managing all accounting functions. Prepared to bring talent and expertise to organization offering opportunities for advancement.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
22
22
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Financial Controller
Elite Digital Solutions
07.2019 - Current
- Improve financial reporting accuracy by streamlining processes and implementing efficient financial controls.
- Oversee all aspects of the month-end close process, ensuring timely completion of accurate financial statements for executive review.
- Plan budgets, authorized expenditures, monitored accounting processes, established service rates and coordinated financial reporting to oversee all fiscal procedures.
- Maintain strong relationships with external auditors, facilitating smooth annual audit processes and addressing any concerns promptly.
- Conduct regular variance analyses between actual results and budget projections to identify trends or issues requiring further investigation or action by management staff.
- Prepare accurate financial reports and monthly statements for accounts receivable.
- Manage payroll data entry and processing for 50 employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements by conducting thorough internal audits and implementing necessary corrective actions.
- Prepare balance sheets, cash flow reports and income statements.
- Mitigate risk by implementing internal controls and safeguards for revenues and expenditures.
Chief Accountant
Fuelkem Company Limited
09.2017 - 01.2019
- Preparing customer invoices for data entry using appropriate codes.
- Performing month-end activities such as preparing monthly journal entries, payroll, statutory and reconciliations.
- Oversaw all aspects of the month-end close process, ensuring timely completion of accurate financial statements for executive review.
- Processing company's payments including incentives, profit share and other supplier payments within the proper procedures to minimize risk.
- Managing petty cash of several branches as well as that of the head office.
- Posting all the transactions entries, accruals, and other end month adjustments/ closing entries for the various entities.
- Performing analysis to assist in the preparation, maintenance and verification of accounting and financial records.
- Filing of PAYE, withholding tax, rental tax as well as VAT returns on imports, exports, zero-rated as well as exempt persons and items.
- Preparing monthly reports i.e. Profit and loss accounts, statement of financial position, budgets and cashflow and presenting to the board of directors.
- Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
- Handled month-end and year-end end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
- Prepared accounts for industry audits and supported audit process.
- Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
Junior Accountant- Industrial attachment
Milimani Commercial Court
02.2017 - 07.2017
- Prepared and processed bank reconciliation statement.
- Processed payment vouchers as well as revenues and posted them in the Judicial financial management information system.
- Processed the legal deposit refund.
- Conducted verification of decree and plaints.
- Ensured full adherence to revenue collection policies.
- Issued court receipts; court fees, fines and deposit receipts.
- Ensured timely surrender of revenue to the head office.
Education
Certified Public Accountant -
KASNEB
Accounting Technician Certificate- Level 2 - undefined
KASNEB
01.2014 - 01.2016
Certificate - Data Analytics
Cousera
04.2001 -
Skills
Financial planning
Certification
Accounting Packages (Quick books, Sage, Pastel), Summit Institute of Professionals, 06/16
Accomplishments
- Successfully managed and oversaw a team of 15 employees through constant training & capacity building, rewarding accomplishments, encouraging teamwork and settling disputes.
- Built good and lasting relationships with all clients and ensured there were resources and systems in place to deal with all their queries within 24hrs.
- Developed new and complex Excel sheets that quickly generated monthly accounts, reducing the turnaround time from 5 days to 3 days.
- Analysed and reconciled clients' accounts through establishing a risk-based approach and identifying the accounts that inherently had the greatest risk of error.
Expertise
- Bookkeeping
- Accounts reconciliation
- Preparation of financial reports
- Financial statements preparation
Industry Expertise
Budgeting and Financial Planning
Executive Strengths
- Communication skills
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills
- Strong Work Ethics
- Organizational Awareness
- Operational Excellence
- Problem-solving capabilities
Passions
- Mentoring
- Reading Books
Awards
Recognition Award, I was voted as the accountant of the year by my colleagues at Elite Digital Solutions.
Training
- Legal Management Training, Diamond Trust Bank
- Marketing and Business Communication, Elite Digital Solutions
Software
Timeline
Financial Controller
Elite Digital Solutions
07.2019 - Current
Chief Accountant
Fuelkem Company Limited
09.2017 - 01.2019
Junior Accountant- Industrial attachment
Milimani Commercial Court
02.2017 - 07.2017
Accounting Technician Certificate- Level 2 - undefined
KASNEB
01.2014 - 01.2016
Certificate - Data Analytics
Cousera
04.2001 -
Certified Public Accountant -
KASNEB
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