RESUME SOLOMON KINUTHIA

SOLOMON KINUTHIA

FINANCE OFFICER

P. O. Box 28740 - 00200 – Nairobi, Kenya

Tel. 072*******: Email: adtenb@r.postjobfree.com

HIGHGLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 years of work experience in accounts payables, accounts receivables, credit control, bank reconciliation, budget, donor funded projects management and cooperative management with reputable organizations. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

I am innovative, performance oriented, with good leadership, inter-personal and communication skills; strict to deadlines, keen to details, committed to excellence and an impeccable work ethics. CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENT

ASA INTERNATIONAL KENYA LTD, Microfinance,

Assistant Branch Manager, (September 2021 – to date Duties and responsibilities

1. Coordinate all accounting activities to ensure smooth running of activities within the branch 2. Provide leadership, supervise and manage a team of 10 employees in the branch 3. Review bank reconciliation statements, monitor daily bank transaction and ensure that liquidity balance is maintained at the desired levels.

4. Verify and approve loans for SMEs

5. Control fraud and misappropriation at the branch level 6. Track various statistics and keep detailed records to support the human resource department 7. Coordinate the generation of financial reports and statements 8. Responsible for formulation and implementation of debt recovery strategic plan 9. Supervise the monitoring, filling and presentation of client’s loan forms for disbursement. 10. Train both clients and credit officers on our new products and collect briefs on possible opportunities and emerging trend

11. Head recovery team within the whole of Embakasi ASA International Kenya Ltd, (Jan 2018 – Sep2021)

Credit Officer

Duties and responsibilities

1. Maintain a portfolio of not less than kshs.50 million RESUME SOLOMON KINUTHIA

2. Recruit, asses and disburse loan to new clients 3. Maintain and update clients’ records

4. Marketing of the company’s new and existing products 5. Head recovery team within Umoja, Kayole and Comarocks Viking Consult Ltd: Team Leader, (Jan 2017 to Jan 2018) Viking Consult, an integrated marketing agency was contracted by KBL to recruit and list Keg Retailers (Project Nafasi) within Western and Central regions on their behalf in line with the projected production growth of Keg regular and black in Kisumu. We were also contracted by Diageo (EABL) to roll out and monitor Project lighthouse in their outlets and grow the on-trade brand visibility.

-As a team leader I was to align the routes to be followed by the keg outlet recruiters within the western region and identify the areas with higher concentration of potential clients. Also liaise with the KEG TMRs within the region to identify new outlets and list them Work hand in hand with the foot soldiers to directly participate in the recruitment process and assist in areas that may seem to be of a challenge to the team. 1.Do a weekly report of number of outlets visited, number of potential clients, outlets closed and future follow ups. (Triangle report) and send to the team leader. 2.As an Account Executive in project lighthouse, I had been tasked with coming up with regional marketing and branding budgets in outlets (Bars) for the 3 core brands i.e., Tusker, Guinness and Kenya cane (UDV) for project light house roll out.

3.Setting up a Project Management team to roll out the Project Lighthouse campaign in the Bars and doing End to End management of the project. That entails cost management, staff recruitment, training and reporting feedback on status of the project.

4.Evaluating the impact of the project and justification of ROI on the outlets, and whether they have been converted from low selling outlets to Key accounts within the region (Beacon outlets). 5.Keeping track of competitor marketing strategies and providing feedback to various stakeholders within the organization and the client in general and also presenting the project status to the client. 4

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Red Hot Branding.:

Account Manager, Coca Cola (Jan 2013 to Dec 2016)

Accounting Duties and responsibilities

Red Hot a design, branding and experiential marketing agency had been contracted by Coca Cola to come up with unique campaigns for Coca Cola and execute them. Other than executing, set the executional standards that other agencies were to maintain.

1. As an account manager I kept tabs with Coca Cola marketing team and unlocked potential branding projects that were likely to kick-off

2. Reviewed & tracked project expenditures and allocations against budget 3. Did trade visits with Coca Cola marketing team and collected briefs and reviews thereafter sit with creative team and came up with topnotch mock ups for clients 4. Followed up on release of LPOs and payments from client’s procurement and finance team 5. Conducted regular client project status meetings and issued weekly reports on work in progress 6. Carried out installation crew recruitment through face-to-face meetings EDUCATION INFORMATION

Zetech University 2019: - Diploma in Information Technology (ongoing) Summit Institute of Professionals, Jan2010: - Certified Public Accountant 1 PASS Nyang’iela Secondary School, 2009: - Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination, (B MINUS) Agoro Sare primary School,2005 Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination, (B PLAIN) REFEREES

Available on request

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