Richard ongoto

I am a detail-oriented and hardworking professional with a progressive career who can follow given instructions. I am self-driven, ambitious, innovative, analytical, and a fast learner and I pride myself as a true team player with good interpersonal skills. I possess a great desire and drive to prosper in all work that I venture into. I desire to work in a challenging and rewarding environment that will allow me to utilize my acquired skills, and apply my academic knowledge, leading to both personal and organizational growth. I am a good Audit, Tax & Accounts Professional whose main area of experience is in, tax consulting, cash flow and audit management, general accounting, and customer service. I have 5 years of experience in accounting, Auditing, and tax consulting as acquired over my professional career handling various activities.  

NJORO & ASSOCIATES AUDIT SENIOR JAN, 2021 – TO DATE

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and Implement annual audit plans for clients in liaison with the Audit manager and managing partner.
• Worked as a tax compliance officer
• Responsible for monitoring and carrying out compliance checks
• Advising my supervisor and management on revenue collection progress
• Educating taxpayers on all tax matters.
• Tax Computations and filing on iTax (Income Tax for individual & companies, Value Added Tax, Advance Tax, Withholding Tax, Capital Gain Tax, PAYE, and Monthly Rental Income),.
• Auditing and preparing auditor’s report
• Audit Assessment
• Payrolls Management System
• Accounting and Bookkeeping (Quick Books)
• Filing NSSF and NHIF
• KRA PIN application for clients and individuals (Resident and Nonresident), N.H.I.F. registration, N.S.S.F. registration, N.I.T.A registration, and Occupational Health Safety Certificate for workplace and renewal.
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KAXTON CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS LLP JAN 2020- DEC 2020

Responsibilities

• Tax computation and filing on itax (PAYE, Advance tax, WHT vat, income tax individual and company)
• Audit assessment
• Accounting and Bookkeeping ( Quick Books)
• Filing NSSF and NHIF
• Reconciliation
• Invoicing
• Payroll

BATA SHOE COMPANY LIMURU INTERNSHIP APRIL 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2016

Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting Section

• Controlling of utility bill invoices
• Booking of cash receipts
• Booking of travel expense claims
• Bank reconciliation.

Payables Section

• Compiling supplier’s invoices and verifying their accuracy.
• Booking payments.
• Performing reconciliation and updating creditors accounts
• Generate accurate and timely weekly report to assist in decision making i.e creditors reports, letters of  credit maturing reports
• Ensuring that accounting records and documents are kept in order
• Reconciling the intercompany transactions relating to the company outside the country.
• Receive and verify payment claims and supporting documents
• Raising letters of credit and updating them in the cash flow

Credit Control Section

• Recording and filing daily banking
• Posting and reconciling of payments to customer’s’ accounts
• Opening new customers accounts
• Verification of manually prepaid credit notes
• Customers’ cash discounts preparation.

Commercial Accounting Section

• Profitability analysis of various sales outlets
• Preparation of the exception report
• Controlling of the point of sales expenses
• Preparation of daily sales margins and low analysis margin report
• Posting factory receipts and other inter-department stock transfers

Factory Accounting Section

• Booking charges from purchasing material used in the department on a daily basis
• Reconcile with purchasing before the close of the period to ensure bookings are done accurately
• Prepare monthly variance reports for the respective departments
• Monthly reconciliation of ledger balances to physical stock

• CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ( Currently Enrolled section 3)-(2021-to date) 
• KENYATTA UNIVERSITY {Bachelor of Commerce (ACCOUNTING OPTION)}-(2015-2020). 
• GIANT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ( Computer certificate)- (2013)
• ROCK DRIVING SCHOOL ( Driving License) -(2014)
• KERONGORORI HIGH SCHOOL (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education)-(2012) 

          MATAGARO PRIMARY SCHOOL  Kenya Certificate of Primary Education-(2008)