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Position:  Assistant Accountant

Key Achievements:

• Improved the organization’s fiscal stability, introducing new accounting controls at all levels.
• Developed operational cost management policies that helped the office reduce its operational costs.
• Increased accuracy through frequent account review and reconciliation.
• Streamlined processes to make it easy to enter and process financial transactions such as invoices and payroll.
• Brought expenses in line with budget targets through improved tracking and trend monitoring.
• Evaluated operational and financial data and made actionable recommendations for cost-control improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial records, statements, and reports to enforce accuracy and conformance to standards.
• Reconcile invoices and identify discrepancies.
• Create and update expense reports.
• Process reimbursement forms.
• Prepare bank deposits.
• Enter financial transactions into internal databases.
• Check spreadsheets for accuracy.
• Maintain digital and physical financial records.
• Issue invoices to customers and external partners, as needed.
• Review and file payroll documents.
• Participate in quarterly and annual audits.
• Responsible for monthly close, preparing journal entries, reconciliation, and variance explanation.
• Timely preparations of the TB functions- ensuring all accounting transactions are performed correctly on time.
• Timely preparation of Cost accounting functions- Inventory reconciliations and signoff by relevant manager, Fixed Assets accounting.
• Validate and reconcile inventory and fixed asset accounts.
• Liaise with the department head to collect data for preparing budget and forecast.
• Compare actual with a budget and determine the reason for the variances monthly.
• Initial preparation year-end financial statement in readiness for the audit.
• Ensure weekly bank statements shared  are properly reconciled with the bank statement.
• Check cost center expenses and compare them against budget.
• Count petty cash weekly.

Position:  Credit Analyst and Finance Assistant

Key Achievements:

• Developed operational cost management policies that helped the office reduce its operational costs.
• Delivered first-rate customer service
• Planned and formulated recovery strategies and oversee its implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Formulated and updated, interpreted, and implementation of credit policies.
• Effectively managed the organization's service providers.
• Monitored corporate portfolio asset quality on an ongoing basis.
• Delivered a multidimensional perspective on the investment outlook in an accessible and informative manner.
• Liaised with risk analysts to evaluate portfolio decisions and forecast potential losses from investments eloped internal control measures that helped the organization safeguard its assets.

Position:  Assistant Credit Officer

Key Achievements:

• Successfully established client evaluation techniques which helped to identify credit risks.
• Timely and accurate compiling of credit analysis and report writing on branch loan book and non-performing loans.

Responsibilities:

• Ensured loan book growth and portfolio at risk reduction.
• Compiled and timely submitted regulatory returns.
• Ensured all defaulted loans are attached to collateral and guarantors.
• Initiated month-end or period-end closing activities aimed at growing loan book
• Recommend potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs
• Oversaw the company`s general account operations by strategically controlling and verifying financial transactions.
• Loans appraisal and processing and giving viability and creditworthiness report approval.
• Recommended potential products or services to management by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.
• Kept records of customer interactions, processed customer accounts, and filed documents.

• Mar 2012 - Feb 2014: Account Assistant at Kenya Women Micro Finance Bank
• Jun - Jul 2009: Account Clerk Intern at  South Imenti Tea Growers Sacco