Gloria Kirimi

Results -driven Accounting and Finance Professional with over 5 years experience offering stellar financial support to outstanding organizations in the region. A strategic and conceptual thinker with the ability to maximize customer relations by utilizing positive problem-solving techniques to meet organizational goals. Beside possesses a proven track record for streamlining and strengthening financial operations while providing quality customer service.

Accountant.

 Regis School Runda; November 2019 to date

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing, analyzing and recording daily financial transactions, posting the transactions in accounting system.
• Verifying accuracy of documents and transactions to ensure financial compliance, accuracy and completeness of data for inclusion into statements of accounts and budgets.
• Maintaining financial records, monitoring systems to record and reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other day to day transactions and reports. 
• Reviewing Expenditures against supporting documents and stipulated guidelines, carrying out daily banking, reporting of cash collections to finance manager
• Selecting, entering data from variety of documents, verifying accuracy of  sources, and ensuring inclusion of relevant data
• Preparing approved payments for staff, vendors, suppliers through bank transfers and other payment modes.
• Preparing recurring reports, bank reconciliations, cost estimates as required for budget and audit purposes.
• Preparing and processing monthly payroll, staff benefits to comply with current statutory

taxation, employment law while maintaining employee records.

• Maintaining  petty cash, prepared petty cash management reports.
• Reconciliation, verification data, answering queries, obtaining additional information on accounts, and financial transactions.
• Managing office inventory and working with vendors to ensure regular supply of materials.
• Maintaining relationship and liaisons with officials of local banks to obtain daily exchange and interest rates, maintenance of office bank accounts
• Routing of telephone calls and communication of messages within the office.
• Prepared month-end and year-end reports as per the Accounts payable and receivable, prepayment and, deposits accounts.
• Providing support to internal and external auditors.

Finance Assistant

Global Education Management System Africa Region); January 2018 to November2019                              Duties and Responsibilities

Accounts Payables & Accounts Receivables

• Received and reviewed invoices to ensure that all information appearing on them is accurate and complete for posting.
• Resolved accounts discrepancies by reconciling processed work, verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
• Facilitated smooth auditing of the finance department by maintaining timely and accurateprocessing of all transactions receipts and invoices into the Accounts Receivable and accounts payable system and cash books 
• Processed vendorand staff paymentsby raising vouchersfrom accounting system
• Prepared monthly vendor aging report and other accounts payable reports. Supporting the procurement process by ensuring timely payments to vendors and suppliers
• Ensured confidentiality and security of all the financials files.
• Supported monthly financial reporting by ensuring that all utility expenses have been appropriately posted and Participation in budget preparation and variances explanation.
• Ensured that all monthly and annual statutory payments to respective authorities are paid in time.
•  Reviewed travel claims, salary advances, allowances for experts  by ensuring that all are fully accounted for; updated and carried out and reconciled .

Finance Intern:

Destination Agencies Limited: May  2016 to November 2017                                                                                                              Duties and Responsibilities

• Aided the finance manager with financial tasks including payroll and record keeping.
• Offered outstanding administrative supportduring budgetpreparation processes.
• Assisted Procurement department in seekingproper approvals of invoice from suppliers and end user Department
• Provided inventoryaccounting support,posted journalentries, and reconciled major inventory accounts.
• Ensured timely filing of statutory deductions and performed other duties as required.

• Bachelor of Economics and Finance – Kenyatta University; Graduated 2019
• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education – St Mary’s Girls Highschool; A-;2013