BENARD ORITA

I'm a self driven Kenyan with irreproachable level of integrity. A team player with measurable success in assigned duties. I have excellent communication skills, cultural competence, lateral thinking skills, proficient in Quick Books accounting system and Ms Excel, analytical skills, people skills amongst other skills. I pay great attention to detail to ensure efficiency. 

WORK EXPERIENCE
Finance Officer Eden Reforestation Projects (April 2021- To date)
Main Duties
• Maintain, manage and record day-to-day transactions.
• Prepare, maintain and manage general ledger accounting.
• Inspect, verify and reconcile accounts payable records and its balances.
• Coordinate with procurement team in collecting supply purchases.
• Assist in preparation of annual accounts and annual budget.
• Manage office expenditure within the expenditure budgetary limits.
• Assist with administrative role.
• Perform reconciliation of banking transactions.
• Prepare various financial statements and records periodically.
• Perform and provide analysis support for key departments in managing budgets.
• Prepare periodic accounting reports.
• Maintain advanced imprest expenditure records.
• Providing administrative support to the finance manager
• Manage petty cash.
• Performing any other task as maybe assigned
Credit Management Officer Metropol Corporation (April 2019- March 2020) 
Main Duties
• Keep track of assigned accounts to identify outstanding debts.
• Plan course of action to recover outstanding payments.
• Locate and contact debtors to inquire of their payment status.
• Negotiate payoff deadlines or payment plans.
• Handle questions or complaints
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Create trust relationships with debtors, when possible, to avoid future issues   Finance Intern. LAPFUND (November 2018- Feb 2019) 
Main Duties
• Handling customer/member enquiries
• Receiving and recording of monthly normal and voluntary member benefit 
contribution schedules of county Government Executives and County Assemblies
• Receiving and recording of monthly individual member benefit contribution
schedules
• Receiving and recording of monthly County Assembly Gratuity contributions 
schedule
• Handling of enquiries relating to claims payment status and issuing of benefits
payment statements.
• Managing of regional staff imprest surrenders
• Use of Navision ERP system
Front Office Cashier Aga Khan Hospital Kisumu (May 2017 – Oct. 2018) 
Main Duties
• Balancing patient accounts and taking patients records for services rendered
• Reviewing bill and claims for accurate information.
• Entering data into the company’s database
• Preparing billing reports and other documents
• Handling incoming and outgoing E-mail
• Identifying and solving inaccuracies in the data entries
• Maintaining and protecting all staff and patient files in the Company’s
database
• Invoicing patients for payments by health insurance schemes
• Maintaining patient’s ledger accounts and journals
• Receiving patients into the hospital facility
• Handling patients’ grievances
Stock Control Assistant Kenya Airways Ltd (June 2015 – May 
2017) Main Duties:
• Maintaining bin cards and stock control cards
• Monitoring stock movements and giving periodic stock movement reports to the 
line manager.
• Taking part in periodic stock count exercise and reporting any discrepancies
• Binning and Issuing stock to the respective sections as per documented requests
• Ensuring that stock items are properly arranged in the stores.
• Continual/Perpetual stock taking and updating records.
• Stock verifications and reconciliations
Audit assistant PS/KENYA (May 2013- May 2015)
Main Assignments:
• Conducting spot checks with clients to determine compliance of procedures with 
the PSI set standards.
• Conducting random audit checks on the client records to determine accuracy,
integrity on the procedures.
• Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of accounting records possessed by the 
clients.
• Preparing a draft report to be presented with the audit file for review by Audit Management

I have a background in Finance and Accounting having graduated with Bachelor of Commerce (Finance Option) degree from the University of Nairobi. I also have CPA Level Two qualification with KASNEB