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JOY VANESSA WANJIRU KARANJA

JOY VANESSA WANJIRU KARANJA

Finance And Administration
Nairobi,30

Summary

A Finance graduate who seeks to be a professional with sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to contribute to the company, with good analytical and decision-making skills, strong customer focus, passion for excellence, willingness, and capacity to learn and work as a team with little supervision.

Focused administrator with experience providing top-notch clerical support and operational assistance to meet staff needs. Capable and highly organized when coordinating documents, supplies and project resources. Clear communicator and self-motivated worker with decisive nature necessary to manage independent work.

Reliable administrator with experience managing front desk operations and offering general office support. Detail-oriented specialist with background coordinating scheduling and record-keeping. Efficient typing and transcription skills.

Systematic Administrative Assistant with successful experience in fast-paced office settings. Hardworking team-player with expertise completing various clerical tasks and offering staff support. Responsible, punctual and productive professional when working with little to no supervision.

Accuracy-driven and successful at delivering key clerical support to internal teams, customers, vendors and other stakeholders. Demonstrated success in analytical problem solving and boosting operational efficiency. Bringing superior performance in office support and customer service.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Finance and Administration Assistant

Toolkit iSkills Limited
11.2019 - 08.2021
  • Handling financial transactions by auditing documents and updating accounts data.
  • Drafted agendas, recorded minutes and created documents for meetings
  • Offered office-wide software support and training, troubleshooting issues and optimizing usage
  • Computed taxes owed and tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment and reporting within stipulated timeframes.
  • Recorded expenses and maintained accounting records
  • Ensured filing systems were maintained and current and free from unnecessary duplication and also received electronic filing of reports, contracts, and presentations and ensured that were properly filed in accordance with group filing structure.
  • Managed accounts payable and receivable for office grossing five million shillings per year
  • Produced highly accurate internal and external letters and memoranda
  • Worked with supervisors and management to maintain status reports and update information for client projects
  • Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze and report on performance and sales data
  • Coordinated travel arrangements by booking airfare, hotel and ground transportation
  • Executed record filing system to improve document organization and management
  • Processed invoices and expenses using QuickBooks to facilitate on-time payment
  • Coordinated bookkeeping activities in QuickBooks and Lawson
  • Edited subcontractor proposals, project punch lists, transmittals and memorandums for organizational support
  • Created detailed expense reports and requests for capital expenditures
  • Consulted with manager on departmental policies and projects
  • Composed internal and external correspondence for senior management and reviewed documentation to eliminate errors
  • Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors
  • Maintained staff directory and company policy handbook for human resources department
  • Managed Access databases converting complex data into easy-to-interpret data

Accountant

Samba Ridge, Restaurant
07.2016 - 04.2019
  • Summarized, recorded & assessed accuracy, completeness of financial records, and conformance to reporting and procedures.
  • Prepared forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities.
  • Within the first year of joining Samba, I developed a detailed reconciliation system between bank entries and company record
  • I also proposed automation of company records to increase efficiencies.
  • Samba had outsourced tax returns and I was able to bring them in-house.
  • I developed and trained staff on a process to compute taxes owed and tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment and reporting within stipulated timeframes.
  • Analyzed business operations, trends, financial commitments, and obligations and projecting future revenues and expenses for management.
  • Monitored 50-employee team while handling day-to-day accounting processes and financial accuracy.
  • Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational success
  • Performed advanced reviews of business operational trends and expected obligations to prepare accurate forecasts
  • Enhanced budget administration by reviewing reports, leveraging knowledge to strengthen controls and improve transparency
  • Brought errors to near-zero in reporting, payroll administration and general bookkeeping
  • Improved efficiency of data collection, analysis and modeling to enhance practices and increase customer retention

Salt Bar and Restaurant
01.2016 - 06.2016
  • Assisted in processing of balance sheets, income statements, and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines.
  • Updated financial data in databases and ensured that information was accurate and immediately available when needed.
  • Posted and processed journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded.
  • Computing taxes owed and tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment and reporting.
  • Updated accounts receivables and issued invoices and also updated account payables and performing reconciliations.
  • Coordinated provision of information to external auditors at interim and annual audits.
  • Developed proposals recommending using Finance ERP systems to manage suppliers and use of PDQ settle with suppliers, presented to management, who implemented new approaches.
  • Managed team of employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
  • Oversaw daily operations to ensure high levels of productivity

P.C.E.A Kikuyu Hospital
09.2014 - 12.2014
  • Data Entry and Recordkeeping.
  • Accounts Reconciliation.
  • Preparing financial reports.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Data Science and Analytics

African Centre For Women Information And Communications Technology, Summit Institute of Professionals
Nairobi
11.2019 - 01.2020

Bachelors of Commerce - Finance

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology
Nairobi, 30
09.2012 - 01.2017

Some College (No Degree) -

Mary Leakey Girl's High School
Kiambu, 13
02.2008 - 01.2011

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - KCPE

Muthiga Academy
Kiambu, 13
01.1998 - 11.2007

Skills

Budgeting and finance expertise

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Accomplishments

Within the first year of joining Samba Ridge, I developed a detailed reconciliation system between the bank entries and company records. I also proposed automation of company records to increase efficiencies.

The company had also outsourced tax returns and I was able to bring them in-house. I developed and trained staff on a process to compute taxes owed and tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment and reporting within stipulated timeframes.

Work Availability

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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

Some College (No Degree) - Data Science and Analytics

African Centre For Women Information And Communications Technology, Summit Institute of Professionals
11.2019 - 01.2020

Finance and Administration Assistant

Toolkit iSkills Limited
11.2019 - 08.2021

Accountant

Samba Ridge, Restaurant
07.2016 - 04.2019

Salt Bar and Restaurant
01.2016 - 06.2016

P.C.E.A Kikuyu Hospital
09.2014 - 12.2014

Bachelors of Commerce - Finance

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology
09.2012 - 01.2017

Some College (No Degree) -

Mary Leakey Girl's High School
02.2008 - 01.2011

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education - KCPE

Muthiga Academy
01.1998 - 11.2007
JOY VANESSA WANJIRU KARANJAFinance And Administration