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Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Name: Naftaly M. Karingithi

Address: P. O. Box 18081, 00500. GPO,

Nairobi.

Current Residence: Zanzibar

Mobile No: +255-*********

Email address: ady29j@r.postjobfree.com

Career objective:

Contribute positively towards enhancing a competitive edge, where my fifteen years of progressive knowledge, skills and experience in the service and product industries can add value to a client-centric team, overall organization’s mission and the community. Summary of professional qualifications & skills:

Accounts receivables (Credit control) & payable management, Ledgers management, Accounts reconciliations, financial reporting & analysis, cost accounting and budgeting, client service management, strong teamwork skills and corporate communication skills are some of the key qualities developed from my training and experience. This is from having worked as a Credit Controller, Hotel accountant, company’s cost accountant, bank operations supervisor, cash services manager and bank cashier. In addition I have the ability to carry out programs/duties under established policies and timelines. Work History:

Credit control Manager (Plan Hotel - Mapenzi Beach Resort, Zanzibar) December 2021 to June 2023

Roles:

Compiling & issuing of Proforma invoices to tour agents for prepayments.

Issuing invoices for clients with credit facilities and ensuring timely payments as 1per credit terms in place.

Follow up overdue payments through emails and telephone calls with the help of sales team in case of difficulties.

Investigating and responding to client queries in a timely manner.

Preparing monthly statements and sending to tour agents for reconciliation and payment follow up.

Preparing and maintenance of the debtor’s ledger for monthly aging analysis and monthly management reports.

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Daily Supervision of cashiers, daily cash collection reconciliation, validation of daily room charges posting and other extra sales from other departments.

Daily posting and reconciliation of sales ledger, credit card ledger and cash ledgers.

Bank ledger maintenance, allocation of payments and bank reconciliation.

Review of rates inserted by the reservation/sales team and raise queries in case of discrepancies.

Assistant Accountant: (Hotel Verde Zanzibar)

Sept 2018 to January 2020

Roles:

Account payables management – Receiving invoices & updating creditors’ records, making creditors payments & end month reconciliation.

Daily revenue auditing and reconciliation of all receipts from accommodation, restaurant and other hotel amenities.

Ensuring statutory payments compliance: Preparing and submission of monthly statutory returns. VAT, PAYE/SDL, ZSSF/NSSF & Withholding taxes, including end of year government annual returns.

Petty cash issuing, monitoring, reconciliation and capturing in AccPac/SAGE accounting software.

Monitoring, posting and reconciliation of bank statements (monthly). Company bank agent for cash banking & withdrawals plus other banking instructions.

Daily preparation of cash flow statement for the owners and management.

Supervising procurement and monthly store stock taking through Procure.Net system.

Month end cost and expenses calculation and analysis

Debtors ageing analysis and follow up for payments through weekly meeting and contacting debtors for payments.

Payroll management: Reviewing of monthly payroll from HR Dept, making bank and cash salary payments, preparing statutory deductions and posting ledgers.

Maintaining fixed asset register through continuous updates, annual physical verification of fixed assets and reconciliation with General ledger.

Preparation and submission of month end & year-end financial statements to management as per set guidelines in the accounting standards Manual.

Assisted in Preparation for audits and coordinating with both external financial auditors and Government auditors - ZRB/TRA/ZSSF.

Assisting in establishment of Standard Operating Procedures for Accounts Dept. Management Accountant - Cost accountant (Omar Packaging Ltd)

(Sept 2014 to Sept 2018)

Roles:

Collecting data on the printing material and ink use per department with special focus on percentage controllable waste.

Determine per unit cost for various customer product and advise the General Manager on the setting the price.

Determine the profit per unit for completed products Curriculum Vitae – Naftaly Mathai Page3

Follow up on Imports from the suppliers overseas and coordinate with clearing agents to ensure timely delivery of raw materials

Monitoring production from raw materials issued, production waste & quantity of final products sold.

Input VAT recording, Computation and record keeping.

Monthly stock takes and analysis

Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya. (Period March 2005 to June 2012) Position: Teller services Manager:

Responsibilities:

Cash/ Vault management & reconciliation.

Front office supervisor (Cashiers).

ATM cash Management & reconciliation.

Sales management.

Handling customer queries and complaints relating to telling and ATM services

Customer floor management

Cash collection & repatriation

Training and scheduling of new cashiers

Position: Operations Supervisor:

System administrator and Custodian.

Custodian of branch stationery, renter’s safe lockers.

Reconciliation of branch suspense accounts.

Alternate Teller Services manager.

Custodian of branch customer accounts records

Handling corporate customer queries, requests and complaints.

Achievement: Recognized as the 2nd runners up in operations for the year 2009 and also by the Corporate Service Dept for exemplary service and timely client requests resolutions.

Position: Teller:

Provided customer and personnel assistance.

Handled cash deposits and withdraws, inventory control and cross selling of bank products.

Position: Support clerk

Provided customer and personnel assistance.

Handled cash intake, inventory control and cross selling of bank products..

Processing local and international funds transfers, cheques clearing.

Corporate loans management and

Foreign exchange dealer.

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Education:

Post graduate studies (2013 - 2014):

Pursued Masters in Economics at Jomo Kenyatta University. Successfully completed the first year and then deferred to get into employment.

Graduate studies (1198 - 2002):

Completed Bachelors degree in Business Management where I attained 2nd class – Upper Division). Main units covered included Accounts, Marketing, Economics and general Management.

Secondary school (1993 – 1996)

I Attended Nyeri high School where I completed secondary school education and attained a B+ in KCSE exam.

Computer proficiency

Achieved high proficiency in computer applications including, all Ms Office applications, PeopleSoft (HR), Sage Accounting, Tally accounting, Protel (front office software), Procure.Net & ResortStock (Stock Management) Jarrison (Time & Attendance HR)). Also attended training on Sunsystem for accounting.

Currently self studying HTML/CSS /java languages, for web design. Languages: Fluent in Kiswahili and English:

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Referees:

1. Seif Said

Chief Accountant,

Azam Group of companies,

P. O. Box 2517,

Dar es Salaam,

Tanzania.

Cell: 065*******

Email:ady29j@r.postjobfree.com

2. Karama J Karama

Accountant,

Hotel Verde Zanzibar

P. O. Box 992

Mtoni Zanzibar.

Tanzania

Cell: 077*******

Email: ady29j@r.postjobfree.com

3. Mohammed Ali

Managing Director,

Omar Packaging Limited

P. O. Box 2517,

Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania.

Cell: 076*******

Email: ady29j@r.postjobfree.com

4. Ruwan Dermatagolla

Finance Controller

Planhotel - Mapenzi Beach Resort

P. O. Box 100

Kiwengwa, Zanzibar

Tanzania.

Cellphone: +255-***-***-***

Email: ady29j@r.postjobfree.com

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