CPA PERIS WANGARI MUHIKA
Mobile: 0729-028330
[email protected]
Career Profile
An accounting professional with over 10 years of experience in preparing financial reports, budgets and managing financial information offer advice on financial situations.
My passion is to continually challenge myself to solve financial/ accounting issues thus bringing value addition to the organisation. This hand-on experience on diverse preparation of financial reports challenges has given me confidence to term myself a specialist in the field.
My professional principles are guided by the world best practices and my conviction that every challenge has a solution if the right mind set is applied.
Education
1. B.com –Finance (second class upper)-KCA University
2. Certified Public Accountant –CPA Finalist
Professional Certification
1. Certified Public Accountant –CPA (K) ICPAK Membership number: 21603
Professional Skills Attained
 Competent in filing of statutory returns i.e. P.A.Y.E, VAT, NHIF and NSSF.
 Have a high aptitude for financial ratios and ratio analysis and interpretation
 Competent in the use of Accounting packages i.e. Syspro System 6.0 , syspro 7.0,QuickBooks , Pastel.
 Conversant with all levels of accounting from books of original entry to analyzing financial data and preparing financial statements
 Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication and advocacy skills
 Ability to work effectively in a diversified set up and in a highly collaborative team environment
 High level of attention to detail in all aspects of work responsibilities and demonstrated honesty and confidentiality
 Well versed in Ms Office Suite i.e. Ms Word, Ms Excel, Outlook Express
 Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
 Extensive business acumen, commercially aware and operationally wise
 Immense ability to prepare accurate plans, cost estimates, and reports
Work Experience
Accountant (2017-Present)
Promasidor kenya Ltd . (2012-Currently)
 Maintain fixed assets register, depreciation of fixed asset & preparation of fixed asset movement schedules in Syspro system.
 Responsible for company debtors & creditors both local and foreign.(Including reconciliation and credit control)
 Responsible for all bank accounts both local and foreign (Bank reconciliation, bank agent and signatory)
 Monitoring stock movements both raw material & finished goods in Syspro.
 Checking accuracy of all documents captured in to the Syspro system for easier preparation of the final accounts
 Input of all debtors transactions (local & foreign) into Syspro Accounting
 Preparation and input all journals necessary at the closure of every month (Deprecation, deferred interest, insurance, standing orders, recurring journals)
 Costing all the raw material imports and finished goods for export and local sale
Preparation of sales report on a monthly basis and reporting back to head officers in SA
 Preparation of monthly information pack constituting; trial balance, income statement and balance sheet every month end
 Timely and accurate reporting and ensuring proper records are maintained by reviewing general ledger accounts reconciliation and payment of vouchers
 Maximize cash flow performance of the company through controls on inventory, cash collection, disbursements, deposits and remittances
 Put in place, implement and enforce proper financial policies and internal controls
 Handle banking, cheque payments, and bank reconciliation statements and update the cashbook in Syspro system.
 Draft monthly financial statements and reports
 Record income and expenditure and control cash receipts and payments
 Prepare financial statements for audit, monthly accounts, interacting with external and internal auditors
 Computation and filing every month on a timely basis V.A.T, PAYE, NSSF, Withholding tax
 Add; integrate new branches, customers, product classes, GL codes in syspro.
Specific Undertaking
 2014-Due to company change of location ,I was delegated the tasks to move and setup the finished good warehouse , staff allocation ,systems design to enable invoicing and dispatch to our customers within 7 days . Achieved the same within 10days despite all unforeseen challenges encountered.
 2016-Main server crash, I was part of the committee that was put in place by the managing director to ensure that the data lost was retrieved and entered back to the system from raw information. Specifically I was delegated the task to ensure that we continue to sell in 2 days and I came up with a temporary invoice format with all the details of the company and ETR which are a requirement by the end of the 3rd day.
 Monitoring and reconciliation of all payments ensuring that payments are accounted for within stipulated time.
 Supervising monthly and daily stock take processes , presentation and reconciliation of all variance reports
 Monthly closure of all modules ensuring that all incomes and expenditure are captured as they occur by the 2nd day of the following month ie AP module , AR module , cashbook, inventory , Asset and the general ledger
 Preparing and presenting a reconciled trial balance by 5th of every month.
 Prepare and presentation of monthly naked margins reports by 7th of every month.
 Prepare and presentation of monthly OPEX by 9th of every month ensuring the costs are well controlled and all cost centers are within/ below the budget.
 Working on production warehouses of all the products to reduce losses during production (WIP) and ensure that all processes match with the BOM in the system.
 Lead the accounts department in achieving the ISO 9000-2015 Certification in 2018 by reviewing, drafting, training and implementing of SOPS derived from the best practices.
 Due to the excellence of health and safety status in the accounts department by was selected as a committee member from 2017 thus being company liaison with statutory and government bodies monitoring OSHA, fire safety, environmental safety etc. .
 2019-Company strategic plan –I was delegated with the the task of coming up with the big 5 agendas for the accounts department for the company strategic plan.
The postershop Ltd (2009-2012)
Title: Administrator /Accountant
Responsibilities:
 Schedule and coordinate meetings, interviews, appointments, events and other similar activities for General Manager
 Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff.
 Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations
 Devising and maintaining office systems, including data management and filing
 Preparation of reports and presentations
 Preparing of quotations and Local Purchase Orders
 Bank reconciliation
 Preparation of budgets.
 Preparation of payroll
 In charge of purchases and inventory
 Preparing of financial reports
 Preparing and filling VAT
 In charge of accounts payable /receivable.
 Float dispensing and reconciliation
Company: Muturi Ndungu Associates (2007-Dec 2008)
Office Administrator.
Responsibilities:
 Cash book postings
 Manage company documentation and filling system and prepare petty cash
 Preparing of Debtors list
 Preparation and compiling of reports
 Dealing with incoming email, faxes and post, often corresponding on behalf of their manager;
 Handling petty cash among others.
Additional Information.
1. Undertook my undergraduate research project titles “Effect of working capital management on firms financial performance of manufacturing firms” (2019).
2. Attended intensive training on first aid training and fire marshals by G4S Fire Services (2016/2017)
3. Attended a health and safety committee training by Industrial Health Consultants (2017)
4. Attended the supervisory skills training by Kenya Association of Manufacturers (2018)
5. Attended a training on ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management Systems Internal Auditor Training Course by Bureau Veritas(2019)
6. Attended tax compliance and management training skills by WAMALink Consultancy Ltd
REFEREES:
Mika Karanja
Promasidor kenya limited
Financial Controller
Tel: +254720606238
Email: [email protected]
M/s Joan Muturi
Human Resource Manager
Promasidor Kenya Ltd
Tel:+25472071273A
Email: [email protected]
Michael Kamanu Mwangi
General Manager
The Poster shop
Tel: +254724664262
NAIROBI.