Hr Manager Financial Reporting

IKHALO EBENEZER OSEHUNTUE, BSc, ACA (in view)

Professional Accountant

Location: Bariga, Lagos State, Nigeria Phone: +234**********, +234********** Email: ad5qrl@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Driven accountant with 5+ years of experience specializing in accounting, auditing, budgeting, and payroll for diverse organizations. Advanced knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and practices. Foster transparency, understanding, and application of financial policies and operational metrics across the organization with thorough knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, public finance, and external reporting. CORE COMPETENCIES

Financial Analysis Internal Controls Month-End and Year-End Reconciliation Financial Reporting Budgeting and Forecasting Inventory Management Audit Assistance Adaptability Attention to Detail Time Management Problem-Solving Good Communication Critical Thinking Analytical Skill Policy and Procedure Development Process Improvement Team Collaboration TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Excel, Word BusyWin Tally Internet Applications Ability to do research PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PolyStar Electronics Limited Lagos State, Nigeria

Position: Accountant Jul 2020 - Date

Key Responsibilities:

Audit all financial transactions and Assist auditors in conducting weekly/monthly stock counting at various retail outlets in Lagos, Benin & Onitsha.

Review & implement accounting concepts & conventions by ensuring practices are in line with International Accounting Standards (IAS).

Prepare weekly inventory reports on stock in production, in transit, and at the warehouse.

Prepare weekly sales reports and adjust prices in line with the company’s recosting parameters.

Prepare monthly reconciliation on over 25 bank accounts including P.O.S accounts.

Reconcile accounts receivable & payable of contractors, dealers, etc.

Maintain correspondence with bank account officers on issues requiring official letters for account opening & closing, clearing cheques, P.O.S settlements discrepancies, P.O.S concessions, Loan facilities, receipt & payment discrepancies, etc.

Post bills, payments, and stock transfers on the busy accounting software.

Monitor entries made by bookkeepers in journals, ledgers, etc. to ascertain and correct errors made.

Engage in debt recovery when due and make available credit facilities to dealers when needed. Key Achievements:

On multiple occasions, have requested for reversals, and chargebacks and placed timely liens on overpayments or double payments made unknowingly by the CEO to local & international suppliers, government agencies, etc.

Uncovered and rectified excessive monthly bank charges due to undisclosed minimum balance quotas which were always breached. I therefore set up payment ranges on our bank accounts & monitored them.

Secured ‘Zero charge’ concessions on unsustainable monthly P.O.S terminal charges on our numerous P.O.S machines with several banks by agreeing on average target inflows to be met monthly

Convinced management to partake in its first Trade Fair on the island in 2023. This engagement exposed the company to new and wider markets which led to an increase in sales and an increase in the company’s Goodwill.

Was part of a Team alongside 2 marketers that identified slow-moving items. Items that have spent years in the warehouse due to damaged packaging, depreciating compressors, etc; Discounted their prices within profitable cost parameters and made sales that ran into hundreds of millions. This led to the creation of more spaces in our warehouses and the re-ordering of new and fast-moving items from our international suppliers.

Introduced ‘Dropbox’ which is an online storage solution for senior management, to enable the CEO

& senior management access to the company’s information from any location Whitfield Ventures Limited Lagos State, Nigeria

Position: Account Officer Oct 2019 – Apr 2020

Key Responsibilities:

Reconciled complex piled-up bank statements of WVL, to clients, and partner companies and established a good working relationship with them.

Worked with the Tally ERP Accounting software and compiled Payroll, booked payments, receipts, and sales invoices and filled requisition vouchers of the company for booking purchases.

Prepared weekly reports on payments to suppliers and their balances, if overpaid, or when due.

Performed process analysis by analyzing, examining & interpreting account records, communicated findings & proffered recommendations to Management.

Conducted weekly stock-taking checks of DLK lubricants to ascertain the amount of goods at Ibadan and Benin to know stock sold, available stock, and stock in transit.

Was transferred for a month to Harvard Industries Limited which is a Transport/haulage company at Nigeria Ports Authority, Apapa, to mitigate discrepancies in a weekly report sent to WVL and introduce an easier format in Excel for better analysis of data containing TDOs, EIR’s, Barge’s, Container Numbers, etc.

Key Achievements:

Developed and implemented a new accounting control procedure, resulting in a 25% reduction in errors and a 15% increase in efficiency.

Compiled and analyzed financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.

Prepared trial balance, profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and other reports to summarize current and projected company financial position.

Audited contracts, orders, and vouchers and prepared reports to substantiate individual transactions before settlement.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Nigeria Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) final level

Project Management Professional Certificate (PMP) 2019 EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Ambrose Alli University Edo State, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Accounting Education 2013 – 2017 Festac College Lagos State, Nigeria

Senior Secondary Certificate Examination 2004 - 2010 National Youth Service Corp (NYSC)

University of Calabar Cross River State, Nigeria

Position: Administrative Assistant 2019

Key Responsibilities:

To maintain a flow of information from the H.O.D.’s desk to subsidiary and executive offices.

Managed correspondence with various faculties in the university, and kept bookkeeping records.

Performed office functions of recording, typing, and storing information in the department. Pharmatex Industries Limited Lagos State, Nigeria

Position: CCTV Supervisor Dec 2017 – May 2018

Key Responsibilities:

Managing a unit monitoring camera for security purposes.

Recruiting candidates supervising work packages, and coordinating security logistics.

Recorded daily activities of employee functions, citing problem areas & proffering solutions. REFERENCE: Available on request

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