KATO RONALD
Mobile: +256789488454/0753551488
Email: ronaldkato039@gmail.com
Date of birth 27/09/1993
Professional summary
Adept at managing budgets, payroll, invoicing and all other general accounting functions in diligent and quality-driven manner. Instrumental in keeping business operations fully compliant and working within budgetary guidelines. Fastidious in tracking all expenses and reconciling accounts.
Skills
- Account reconciliation processes
- Financial management and grants management
- Audit ,receivable and payable management
- Tax planning knowledge, tax accounting and statutory reporting
- Advanced bookkeeping skills
- Budget analysis, variance analysis and forecasting
- Financial reporting, Audit coordination
- Accounts payable and receivable management
- MS Office Suite
- Superior attention to detail
- Self-motivated professional, strong analytical and conceptual skills
Work history
Accountant
Save the children international July 2017 to 17/01/2020
- Reviewing company financial records, reports, and other information to check for accuracy and ensure details align with company goals and procedures.
- Analyzing budgets, financial reports and projections for accurate reporting of financial standing.
- Statutory reporting like Filing income tax like WHT, PAYE, VAT and NSSF on monthly basis and making sure tax clearance certificates are share with suppliers and sharing pays lips to staff at the end of the month.
- Payroll management and sharing pay slips on monthly basis
- Performing account reconciliation for bank, mobile money, petty cash and acting as bank agent on the bank.
- Generating financial statements, staff advances ageing lists, general leader, budget vs actual reports and facilitating account closing procedures each month.
- Reviewing partner’s expenditures and reports and preparing consolidated financial report for donors.
- Participate in the procurement committee meeting and together with members agree on items and service providers to use.
- Generating periodic reports comparing budgeted costs to actual costs and coming up with actions points for the variances and overspends identified.
- Working with Project Managers whenever assigned to prepare Phased budgets and populate them in the budget loaders, supporting project managers in extracting periodic budget Vs Actuals reports for the various projects for review and decision making and making necessary adjustments from the reviews done by project managers/Budget holders within the month.
- Supporting staff in Analyzing and reviewing budgetary monitoring tools like general ledger transactions, BVAs, Procurement plans, DIPs plus budget trackers.
- Supporting in the development of budgets and forecasts for different projects, reviewing them and making sure that they are uploaded in the system •
- Ensuring grant/project implementation and reporting follows donor rules and regulations
- Working closely with the procurement department to ensure compliance with grants procurement guidelines. •
- Reviewing expenses charged to ensure accuracy and completeness in capturing the expenses and respect of cutoff date. •
- Reviewing audit management responses for special projects and grants and following up on recommendations. •
- Performing any other duties as requested by the supervisor.
Accounts Assistant
Highness Enterprise limited June 2016-july 2017
- Reviewed and processed supplier’s payments.
- Performed monthly bank reconciliation, receivable and payable general ledger reconciliation.
- petty cash management.
- Reconciled supplier’s statements with the general ledger.
- Updated debtors and creditors accounts upon receipt and payment.
- Performed statutory reporting like filing PAYE, WHT, NSSF
Education
- ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANT (ACCA) 2017-PRESENT LEVEL 2
- BACHELORS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BBA (ACCOUNTING) 2017 MAKERERE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
- KASAWO SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL 2007-2012 BOTH O AND A LEVEL
Referees
NTALE STEVEN
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATONAL
TEL +256777 024198
Email steven.ntale@savethechildren.org
MAWANDA ARTHUR
MANAGER AIRTEL UGANDA
TEL+256752600794
BETTY NAKITANDWE
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT SAVE THE CHILDREN INTERNATONAL
TEL +256783312863
Email Betty.nakitandwe@savethechildren.org
Skills
Account reconciliation processesFinancial management and grants managementAudit receivable and payable managementTax planning knowledge tax accounting and statutory reporting Advanced bookkeeping skillsBudget analysis variance analysis and forecasting Financial reporting Audit coordination Accounts payable and receivable managementMS Office Suite Superior attention to detail Self-motivated professional strong analytical and conceptual skills