Accounts Assistant - 5+ Years Finance Experience - Kenya/Ghana (Kenya)

Location:

Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Posted:

January 20, 2026

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GEORGE KIMANI NJOROGE

Nairobi ****************@*****.*** 071******* /070*******

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Highly skilled accounting professional with 5 + years of practical experience in finance, management accounting, and internal controls. Experienced in managing cost and variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, inventory and stock control, production reporting, risk analysis, accounts receivable and payable, bank reconciliations, and preparation of accurate financial reports. Proficient in Microsoft Power BI, Quick books, Sage, and Advanced Excel for transaction recording, reporting, and reconciliations. Poised to apply this expertise to maintain accurate financial records, ensure timely statutory compliance, support management decision-making with reliable financial data, and handle end-to-end accounting tasks in fast-paced business environments with cross-functional collaboration.

EDUCATION

2019-2023:

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY.

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE –ACCOUNTING OPTION

(FIRST CLASS HONORS)

2015-2018:

KIAMBU HIGH SCHOOL

KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE) GRADE ATTAINED B+

2006-2014:

ST MARY’S SPORTS VIEW ACADEMY

KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION (KCPE) ATTAINED

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

2022

NAIROBI INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS STUDIES

KASNEB - CPA PART 5(ADVANCED LEVEL)

2023

SONEK DATA SCHOOL

•BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (QUICKBOOKS AND SAGE).

•SPSS AND ADVANCED EXCEL.

EXPERIENCE

BROADWAYS BAKERY LIMITED Attaché /Intern Thika, Kenya MAY 2022 – SEPTEMBER 2022

The roles in the position I held:

•Generating invoices for customers upon receipt of billing information and tracking collection progress in Hansa ERP thus promoting efficiency.

•Aiding in credit control by conversing with customers over their due credit limits and to aid in their payment.

•Organizing data into multiple spreadsheets on excel to streamline data and generate reports.

•Working with a 3-person team that maintained clean and organized files/invoices by keeping accounts receivables records up-to-date.

•Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service hence improving customer relations with the organization.

•Assist in identification of reconciling items in bank reconciliation by using excel to produce accurate reconciliation reports.

BROADWAYS BAKERY LIMITED Thika, Kenya SEPTEMBER 2022 – FEBRUARY 2024

Job Title: ADMINISTRATIVE/ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT

Roles/Duties/Responsibilities

•Aiding in credit control by conversing with customers over their due credit limits and to aid in their payment. This way minimizing order blocks.

•Managing and reconciling accounts receivables and basic reconciliation of account payables.

•Organizing data into multiple spreadsheets on excel to streamline data and generate reports.

•Working with a 6-person team that maintains clean and organized files/invoices by keeping accounts receivables records up-to-date.

•Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service hence improving customer relations with the organization.

•Reconciling items in bank reconciliation by using excel to produce accurate reconciliation reports

•Backtracking previous years’ accounts and reconciling.

•Generation of invoices and “fiscalisation” for taxation purposes.

•Basic on the job learning of payroll taxation.

•Continuous monitoring of labor work force expenses and accounting for various costs involved in the supply and distribution of the company products (short/more system).

•Intermediate level expertise in expense tracking and fraud control thus aiding internal control of the company by denoting fictitious payments or transactions with questionable codes or untraceable payments.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AT BROADWAY BAKERY LIMITED

Aided and was part of the team in the company that backtracked previous year accounts and enabled in the recouping of millions of unclaimed customer debt. This led to the creation and adjustments of credit limits.

Was able to rearrange order of work flow of invoices during my crate reconciliation and invoice work role to enable the team members to have different work patterns that they can adjust their duties over.

Part of the team that came up with a new system of tracking invoices from ton boys and reducing their loss and malicious altering of the invoice data.

Part of the new team that aided in adapting the newly adjusted Hansa ERP system at Broadways Bakery limited where payments were to be attached to the invoice and helped in training fellow colleagues in its adoption.

JAGUAR PETROLEUM LIMITED:

Upperhill/Westlands, Nairobi Kenya FEBRUARY 2024-AUGUST 2024

TRAINEE- COMPLIANCE AND RISK DEPARTMENT

ASSISTANT FINANCIAL PLANNING AND FINANCE MANAGER

Worked with the CFO to coordinate the operations of the stock accountants and invoicing team to ensure variances such as stock adjustments and inventory transfers are conducted as per the company’s S.O.P.

Created audit reports for each day and month on the revenue and actual cost of goods and reconciled the pending items and cited explanations as to why deviations have occurred and how to solve them.

Delivered daily, weekly and monthly customer profitability reports for review by the CFO and the Financial planning and analysis manager and this entailed: Revenue and C.O.G.S evaluation and denotation of deviation and analysis of current company sales standing.

Delivered weekly and monthly budgetary managerial reports. Whereby the company’s target quantity’s, revenue and costs are analyzed and compared with the actual weekly output and feedback is delivered to the CFO and Financial planning manager in regards to the SOP/Management approved template for review and approval by the Managing Director.

Conducted previous year 2023 audits to current year 2024 audit Year to date audits in collaboration with the Management Accountant and Trade and Operations manager where discrepancies in accounts such as forex revaluation, loan schedules, landing costs provisioning and general errors were denoted and adjustments were made to match the current bank standings.

Delivering actual comprehensive cash flow reports for use by management on demand and for acquisition of credit facilities from banks and company bank accounts opening.

Provision and designing of adhoc documentation for management purposes such as customer credit limits after thorough analysis by sales team for approval.

Provision of Accounts payable and receivable cash flow reports on a weekly basis for use by the management.

Provision of cash flow projections for the company based on AR, AP, loan schedules, LC margins and preparing comparison reports with actual year to date reports and providing reason for deviations.

Carried out project funding and analysis and administrative management functions under the financial planning and analysis manager.

Preparation of adhoc budgetary reports for use by the management.

Preparation of summary reports for use by audit firms such as summary for balance sheets, income statements and granular data for particulars entailing sensitive asset holdings such as properties, lease liabilities and payables/receivables accounts.

Valuation of quotations of suppliers for purposes of internal audit and provision of management feedback.

KENCHIC LIMITED- HEADQUARTERS Nairobi, Kenya AUGUST 2024 TILL DATE

Job Title: ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

Roles/Duties/Responsibilities :

.Ensuring that any differences in chicks transferred and sold is accounted for and a gassing form signed by the DOC manager and checked by you done for any gassings / dead chicks.

.Ensuring that a signed copy of the daily sales summary ties with the daily postings and that a hard copy signed by the depot manager is filed daily.

Confirming the number of chicks sent for gassing daily and ensuring that such have been approved by the depot manager and a copy of gassing certificate filed.

In conjunction with the Management Accountant, organising periodic physical counts / verifications and analysing of the variances resulting thereof. Quarterly takes and management reports on the variances between the system balances and the physical balances both in inventory quantity and cost with supporting narratives for variances.

Ensure consumption of stationery issued from the Exsan stationery via the service module and that physical balances tally with Navision balances at the end of each week.

Monitoring the vaccine consumption through release orders and reconciling the same with the issue vouchers.

Reconciliation of consumption (quantities) of packaging material consumed through release orders with that on the store issue vouchers.

Reconciliation of hatching eggs produced at the farms/procured from third parties and follow up through the hatching process.

Monitoring One stop shops stock ensuring zero losses from expired products or missing products.

Reconciliation of the DOC transferred to the depots with the sales daily for DOC Nairobi and on a weekly basis for other depots. Ensuring that no balances are carried forward in the system at any day.

Monthly Reconciliation of closing eggs physical versus the system and investigating any variance.

Creating weekly release orders for breeder farms and inputting production and consumption data into Navision and investigating any discrepancies in feed consumptions per flock unit.

Consumption of feed, vaccines, disinfectants of broiler farms on a weekly basis and reconciliation with the weekly report. And variances investigated on a weekly basis and sorted.

Monthly reconciliation on vaccines, chick cartons, hatchery spares and fuel.

Monthly accurate statistics on cost reports of consumptions, cost centres and depot losses.

Monthly revenue reports to be available to the management accountant for reporting purposes per sales category: OSS and DOC sales.

Ensuring timely and accurate invoicing of commercial eggs and manure.

Inventory costing of new inventory both local and foreign to be used in the company cost centres(depots, hatchery, farms and HQ ) and assigning of codes to the items and assigning KRA Codes and costs to provide accurate profit values.

Ensuring supplier costs/invoices matches system costs and updating incase of variances.

Variance analysis between budgeted revenues and costs and actuals realized to provide an overview to management on current performance status of the company using tools such as Microsoft power BI.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AT KENCHIC LIMITED

oTook a lead in business planning in depots with emphasis on medium- and long-term plans and alignment to companywide business strategy such introduction of reduction of F.O.Cs in certain regions such as Central Kenya to increase revenues.

oManagement reporting and analysis with a key focus on understanding and explaining variances in production cost.

oPerformance management working with the various departmental heads within operations with a view to developing action plans to improve performance.

oProjection forecast with special focus on sensitivity analysis and identifications of risks and opportunities and identification of mitigating factors.

oEnsuring that internal controls in depots have been instituted around major business processes and are reviewed for effectiveness on an ongoing.

oCreated communication controls to ensure validation of inter-depot trasnfers are made with both depot managements aware of stock movements and reduce the constant instances of neglected liability/responsibility by the expected parties.

SKILLS

Software skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word & excel).

QuickBooks.

Proficiency with zoom, google meet and google suite applications.

Proficiency in Microsoft Teams and Outlook and One Drive.

Proficiency in NetSuite Oracle.

Accounting

Accounts Payable and receivables, management accounting, Cost & Variance analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting, Inventory & Stock control, Internal Controls, Production reporting, Risk analysis, costing, forecasting,

Fixed asset scheduling

Appropriate excel skills.

Communication & Interpersonal. Attention to detail and analytical skills

Effective communication. Ability to work well with others. Problem solving & decision making.

Employee centric, Focused, Self motivated, Achievement/objective oriented, Fast paced and prompt.

Team player and leader when need arises.

REFERENCES:

SUPERVISOR BROADWAY BAKERY LIMITED

MARGARET NJERI

P.O.BOX 157-01000

TEL. N.O 072*******

ASSISTANT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER BROADWAY BAKERY LIMITED