Summary
Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Interests
Languages
Referees
Timeline
Generic
JOSPHINE NYAWIRA MIGWI

JOSPHINE NYAWIRA MIGWI

Summary

Dependable Accounting professional offering four years of experience in accounting roles. Skilled in account reconciliation, report drafting and collections. Industrious and meticulous with strong history of integrity and reliability. Strong QuickBooks and Sage Accounting Software proficiency with precise and accurate nature. Expertise in financial data entry and record-keeping. Fantastic mathematical skills with proven history of accuracy. Trained in major financial tasks, quick learning and highly professional. Adept at analyzing complex situations and finding creative solutions to challenging problems.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Accounts Assistant

Kam Pharmacy (Wholesale) Ltd
05.2023 - Current

May 2023 to date- Accounts Assistant at Kam Pharmacy (Wholesale) Ltd
Responsibilities  Manage petty cash disbursement  Posting supplier invoices in the system  Perform monthly bank reconciliations and reporting to the company’s Financial Controller.  Liaise with internal and external auditors: availing accounting information as and when requested by the internal and external auditors when executing their duties.  Statement delivery coordination: Ensure all the customers statements are dispatched on time on a monthly basis.  Filing of finance departments: all accounting documents are properly filed on their right and respective files.  Assist with filing of VAT: Provision of documents required to file the VAT and all other statutory deductions

  • Prepared Excel spreadsheets to track banking transactions and financial performance.

Accounts & Finance Officer

Pioneer Group of Schools
07.2020 - 03.2023
  • Receipted and reconciled business transactions
  • This included recording and banking of cheques
  • Prepare and generate financial statements and reports for management meetings
  • This included themanagement accounts that are prepared quarterly
  • Performed monthly bank reconciliations for the accuracy and timeliness
  • Assisted the accountant in the formulation of a financial policy document and better credit control procedures thus reducing bad debts by 50%
  • Ensured that cheque book requisitions are authorized by signatories, and that they are availableand well- kept/stored safely
  • Verified invoices against purchase orders and ensure goods or services were received before issuing payment to vendors
  • Maintained clients' accounts and attend to complains and concerns
  • This included reply to clients' emails and calls to the best of my knowledge
  • Assisted in the preparation of school budgets
  • This is a requirement by the management
  • Involves the finance team and the projects team
  • Writing all the cheques and ensuring that they are signed by the signatories
  • Processed payment of all the utility bills, telephone and internet bills, and of all the local purchasing orders daily
  • Participated in the preparation and filing of statutory deductions such as NSSF/NHIF/KRA/HELB
  • Maintained and reconciled petty cash on a weekly basis
  • I learned and advanced my knowledge in using Sage Evolution 200 for the mentioned period.

Accounts Clerk

Eastern Africa Supplies
06.2019 - 03.2020
  • Prepared and generated estimates, sales orders, purchase orders, invoices, and statements for the sales people as well as the customers.
  • Received payments and banked cheques in a timely manner
  • Operated at the front office as well as recording and filing financial documents
  • Managed petty cash efficiently
  • I learned and advanced my knowledge in using QuickBooks for the mentioned period.May

Finance Intern

Swisscontact Worldwide
- 08.2017
  • Assisted the branch accountant in preparation of bank reconciliation reports
  • Edited project proposals as requests from various project managers
  • Handled telephone calls at the front office in the absence of the receptionist
  • Prepared cheques for depositing and filing of related documents
  • Recorded and analyzed data collected by the program managers as feedback from their ongoingand completed projects.

Education

B.A - Economics

Maasai Mara University
Kenya
09.2014 - 04.2018

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - KCSE

Kabare Girls High School
Kenya
02.2010 - 11.2013

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - KCPE

Kiboti High Hope Academy
01.2001 - 11.2009

Certificate in Financial International Reporting with ACCA. - undefined

Completed a British Council offered course: IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD: LEADING CHANGE THROUGH POLICYMAKING - undefined

BMGA Fellow Graduate -

BMGA Foundation
Nigeria
05.2022 - 10.2022

Yenching Global Symposium Delegate -

Yenching Academy of Peking University
China
04.2022 - 04.2022

Skills

  • Sage Evolution 200
  • Data collection, sampling and analysis
  • AR/AP expertise
  • QuickBooks
  • Data entry and Recording
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Credit control
  • Project budgeting
  • Reasonable decision making

Accomplishments

  • July 2022 to Dec 2022: Acted as Interim head of Account Receivables Team. Collected 25% more as revenue from debtors by implementing credit control measures with accuracy and efficiency.
  • February 2018 to date: Youth Chairlady at Miracles of the World Ministry. The youth group has seen a 50% increase in terms of participants.
  • September 2018: Attended the second annual Harvard Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program (CELP) in Dubai. Managed to network with impeccable young leaders from all over the world as well as learn from them.
  • Collaborated with a team of six in the development of school budgets as well as a financial policy to guide the decision making in the finance department.
  • Managed to master two accounting softwares through my years of experience i.e Sage Evolution 200 and Quickbooks.

Interests

HOBBIES , Reading business news on Business Daily Newspaper, travelling, learning, Youth Mentorship,Volunteering.

Languages

English
Fluent
Swahili
Fluent

Referees

Available upon request.

Timeline

Accounts Assistant

Kam Pharmacy (Wholesale) Ltd
05.2023 - Current

BMGA Fellow Graduate -

BMGA Foundation
05.2022 - 10.2022

Yenching Global Symposium Delegate -

Yenching Academy of Peking University
04.2022 - 04.2022

Accounts & Finance Officer

Pioneer Group of Schools
07.2020 - 03.2023

Accounts Clerk

Eastern Africa Supplies
06.2019 - 03.2020

B.A - Economics

Maasai Mara University
09.2014 - 04.2018

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - KCSE

Kabare Girls High School
02.2010 - 11.2013

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - KCPE

Kiboti High Hope Academy
01.2001 - 11.2009

Finance Intern

Swisscontact Worldwide
- 08.2017

Certificate in Financial International Reporting with ACCA. - undefined

Completed a British Council offered course: IDEAS FOR A BETTER WORLD: LEADING CHANGE THROUGH POLICYMAKING - undefined

JOSPHINE NYAWIRA MIGWI