Contact, Address
Email : ***************@*****.***; *********@*****.**
**** ******** **, *********, ** 61822 (USA);
Phone +1-217-***-**** +1-217-***-**** USA
Skills
Accounting and financial analysis software for small and mid-size businesses (Peachtree, Quick books, Catapult, Digital Dining, and SBT pro)
Taxes analysis software (Wise tax, TurboTax, Slayer tax)
World Bank computerized system in managing project
Microsoft (PowerPoint, Excel, word processing, Outlook, Access)
US General Agreed on Accounting Principles, DRC GAAP, IFRS,
Fluent in English and French.
Education
1985-1990 :
University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa DR Congo, BA, Financial Management, and accounting
2002-2004:
Parkland College, Champaign Illinois USA, Accounting Certificate
Fall 2005:
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois USA, Advanced Audit class (SOX Act)
2004-2006:
University of Phoenix, Chicagoland, Illinois USA, MBA, Accounting
2007-2008:
University of Phoenix Chicagoland, Illinois USA, Postgraduate Certificate in Global Management.
Areas of concentration
International Financial Reporting Standard, focuses on IFRS 6.
International Accounting Standard (IAS).
United Sates-General Agreed Accounting Standard (US-GAAP)
Financial management and Audit (SOX Act).
Payroll
Account payables
Account receivables.
Awards received
Excellence Dean’s list, Spring 2003 Parkland College.
Bill Byers Accounting scholarship.
William D. Yaxley Memorial Scholarship.
Professional membership
Membership certificate (ID # 001640075) from American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers, Rockville, Maryland.
SOX Institute member, Manhattan, New York.
IRS Tax Professional PTIN P00758228.
American Accounting Association member
Work Experiences
1993-1995
Junior Expert at the Ministry of Finance/Democratic
The Republic of Congo.
Reviewing reports of agencies of the Ministry of Finance.
Participating in the development of the budget.
Bringing financial indicators to feed the economic framework.
Planning activities of agencies.
1995-2001
University of Kinshasa-Democratic Republic of Congo, Lecturer and accounting teacher at School of Economy and Business Administration.
Taught financial accounting, management accounting, cost accounting, financial reporting, closing works, and closure fiscal year.
Provided students’ knowledge on the main reporting tools, balance sheets, cash flow management, financial statement closure, and opening.
Intermediaries and advanced accounting.
Taxes issues and financial statements.
1997-2001
Accounting Instructor/National School of Finance
Financial accounting and reporting.
Managerial accounting.
Knowledge of the link between accounting and finance administration.
1996-1997
Mandate term
Financial advisor/ the Minister of the economy, Kinshasa /DRC
Developed and managed Ministry’s budget.
Planned ministry’s financial need.
Provided financial inputs to the country’s budget.
Supervised and followed audit works.
Reported Ministry’s yearly results.
2006-2007
Trillium Accounting Staffing Champaign, IL, USA, Accountant, and financial staff
Main tasks :
Segregated client accounting tasks (nonprofit and for-profit business) which reduced the risk of cash misappropriation.
The improved organizational flow of financial information and documentation for auditing purposes.
Filled small business income tax and caught up in previous non-filled taxes.
Improved businesses’ financial procedures and policies which set safeguard and transparency in responsibility.
Followed up on some daily activities to identify waste time and duplication of roles in finance and accounting tasks.
Monitored the business’s accounting system by posting some transactions to check-up over the general journal.
Participated in monthly and yearly closing accounting activities.
Processed accounts payable and receivable transactions in a manner to catch up during peak time.
Processed bank reconciliation to catch up on closing tasks.
Reviewed the business’s financial statement according to the supportive documents.
2007-2008
Sun singer Wine Ltd Champaign, IL, USA, Financial Accounting Manager
Main tasks:
Installed a chart flow of financial supportive documents which made it easy for the auditor to work.
Enforced the accounting policy and procedure which specified each department’s responsibility in reducing conflict of tasks.
Assessed weaknesses and strengths of internal control according to COSO’s framework which helped businesses recover from past misappropriation of businesses cash and inventories by employees.
Processed Accounts receivable and payable for supervision purposes.
Processed Payroll for supervision purposes.
Tested the accounting system to detect any abnormal operation.
Organized the management of monthly, quarterly, and yearly reporting and payment of taxes, which avoided businesses to pay late fees and penalties as done prior.
Installed a cash flow management sheet that I updated each week with the President-owner.
Scheduled specific tasks to produce the financial statement on time.
April 2010-June 2022
Tax professional and accounting freelancer
Main tasks:
Payroll.
Account payables.
Account receivable.
Reconcile bank accounts.
Managing and filing 1099s.
Solved business Issues on Finance and accounting grounds.
Developed strategies and business plans as a freelance.
Worked on the closing fiscal year.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
05/21/2022
Hans André Lohayo Djamba