Seasoned, goal-focused auditing and accounting professional with 21+ years experience ensuring successful completion of engagements, from start to finish. Proved instrumental in developing risk and control concepts, leading a team of accounts and preparing reports and recommendations for management and director. Well versed in preparing management accounts, funds position, financial reports and communicate identified issues to address potential concerns in a timely manner. Successful in defining business strategies, leading teams, improving operational efficiencies, developing procedures, creating and improving processes, cultivating strategic relationships, resolving complex issues, mitigatating risk, and directing initiatives to grow revenue and drive profitability.
• Supervise and Monitor the Monthly and Annual submission of Accounts to Director.
• Streamlined financial processes and introduced process improvements to reconcile internal reports for director information.
• Supervise and strengthened Monthly stock taking process and prepared reconciliation and costing of orders.
• Supervise and Monitor the Income Tax and Sales Tax matters.
• Supervise and Monitor the Monthly and Annual submission of Income Tax and Sales Tax Returns.
• Supervise and Monitor the company Finances (Receivables, Payables, Banks Reconciliations, Funds Flow etc.).
• Supervise and Monitor the company Costing process and finalization of rates of product after discussion with MD.
• Supervise and Monitor the Monthly and Annual submission of Accounts to Director.
• Streamlined financial processes and introduced process improvements to reconcile internal reports for director information.
• Supervise and strengthened Monthly stock taking process and prepared reconciliation and costing of orders.
• Supervise and Monitor the Income Tax and Sales Tax matters.
• Supervise and Monitor the Monthly and Annual submission of Income Tax and Sales Tax Returns.
• Supervise and Monitor the company Finances (Receivables, Payables, Banks Reconciliations, Funds Flow etc.).
• Supervise and Monitor the company Costing process and finalization of rates of product after discussion with MD.
Exercised effective control and hands on approach to analyze financial data, identify irregular trends in numbers which led to proposed adjustments and prepared annual & monthly accounts for management to restate the financial position and performance of business.
Manager Accounts and Finance
Managed significant challenges associated with emerging business through delivering value adding recommendation to clients to improve and strengthen internal control and gaining an in depth understanding of operations.
• Streamlined financial processes and introduced process improvements to reconcile internal reports for director information.
• Supervise and strengthened Monthly stock taking process and prepared reconciliation and costing of orders.
Facilitated Head of Internal Audit in order to complete agreed audit plan and allocate resources to individual audit assignments, having due regard to relative risk profile, cost of resources, relative strengths of team members and training.
Senior Manager/Internal Audit
Proficiently produce and deliver high quality documentation and reports to Head of internal audit to facilitate audit process. Examine actions taken by auditee to correct audit comments properly and keep evidence in the folder for further references. Deliver excellent first rate support to the Head of Internal Audit in identifying all instances of significant risk or lack of control, reporting all findings, addressing root causes for underlying causes, and delivering reports in a very quick time.
• Designed and executed audit assignment plans and comprehensive audit programs for all planned and unplanned audit engagements to facilitate audit profile, sampling, and testing strategy.
• Spearheaded risk based audit and business understanding workshops for identifying business risk and controls and following agreed actions to secure audit comments in an agreed time frame.
• Assured audit testing in accordance with risk based audit or agreed audit methodology, including the production of working papers and audit governance.
• Generated and retained accurate and up to date audit governance work papers to reflect final report issued and record reports/working papers and databases properly for completing assurance assignments.
Offered exceptional support to the budgeting & planning division by producing projections, trends, revenues, cost analysis, and other financial planning and management accounting reports as per the specified metrics.
Assistant Manager Finance and Accounts
• Checked bank reconciliation, party’s balances, stock tacking, and accounting transactions, organized accounts, bills, schedules for insurance policies and quarterly and annual income tax statements, and recovered amounts from debtors.
• Analyzed and created reports on department expenses and followed variances from budgeted costs. Contributed in department level improvement initiatives in order to improve effectiveness of the finance department.
• Recommended and championed enhancements to internal controls surrounding accounting processes which resulted in reducing overall process time and reconciliation efforts.