Candidate Profile

Mitanda John

Finance  Uganda, Kampala Member from 4 years

PROFILE:

I am an accountant with over 6 years’ experience in providing comprehensive high quality accounting and audit services to businesses in Uganda in the sectors of agriculture, pharmaceuticals and Energy/ petroleum.

Using my expertise, i am able to work alone with less supervision and as part of a team. I posse leadership skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives. My analytical skills and dedication coupled with quality ethical standards.

Which help me to deliver value to my employers.

 

Date of birth: 4TH JAN 1983 Nationality: Ugandan Marital status: Married

Career Objective

Seeking to leverage my financial capabilities and expertise to foster growth through Verifying the authenticity and validity of transactions.

 

Educational Background

 

Year Institution Qualification
2017 – 2018 Glory Consultants and Professional Trainers CPA; Public Sector and Audit
2007 – 2011 Financial Training College Ltd Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business
2006 – 2007 Zenith College of Business ACCA stage II (Fundamental level)
2005 – 2006 Makerere University Business School ACCA Certificate ( Stage I)
2002 – 2003 Manchester High School UACE
1996 – 1999 Mengo Senior School UCE

 

 

Computer Literacy/ Core Skills
Knowledgeable in Sage ERP
ACCPAC
Basic Knowledge on Sunsystem and microsoft office

 

CRITICAL SUCCESS AREAS

  • Ability to work under pressure and self-driven
  • Able to meet set deadlines
  • Innovative
  • Dependable
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proficient in computer use
  • Performance and Result oriented
  • Ability to learn quickly and implement the best

 

Career Summary

 

Position Period Organization/Company
Payables Accountant Feb 2017 to date. Oryx Energies

 

Duties:

  • Invoicing stocks received from the Stocks Accountant, checking accuracy of supplier, costs, locations, quantities as well as ensure proper description is attached to each invoice
  • Receiving and capturing all service invoices received from service providers
  • Reconciling and filing all intercompany transactions
  • Opening and maintaining vendor accounts and ensuring appropriate parameters are set names, limits, terms
  • Capturing daily forex rates in the system
  • Weekly stock reconciliations with the Stock Accountant to ensure all products are in line with physical
  • Maintaining an ordered filling system ensuring that all documents are retained and can be easily located and accessed
  • Assistance to functional Support Teams (Sales, Ops, Admin, )
  • Follow up on stocks received but not invoiced as per pending GRNs received
  • Preparing Weekly and Monthly payable reconciliations
  • Preparing Weekly and Monthly Aged Reports when required
  • Passing supplier Credit note and Debit notes as approved
  • Assist in stock taking and stock
  • Ensuring Oryx HSSEQ standards are enforced and maintained at the customer site in liaison with the HSSEQ Officer
  • Staff accountability follow up
  • Reconcile supplier statements
  • Bank reconciliation for gas accounts
  • Maintaining historical records on the vendors
  • Reconciling staff advance accounts before advancing more funds to them
  • Paying vendors by scheduling and responding to all vendor inquiries regarding finance and their

 

  • Continuing to improve the payments process
  • Reconciling transporter statements and their invoices before making a payment
  • Reconciling the payable clearing account

 

 

Position Period Organization/Company
Project Accountant 2015 to 2017 HANNS R. STIFTUNG AFRICA LTD

 

Duties:

  • Prepare a correct Project Accounting reports with correct entries, and cost categories in consultation with the Regional Finance and Accounting
  • Ensure that the correct accounting ledger accounts are posted in the journal section of Q&A as per the working
  • Ensure that all project accounting reports, supporting documents and controlling files prepared in time e before the 15th day of the subsequent month, check accurately the completeness of all documents to be sent to Head Office in Hamburg received as well as the voucher numbering and order.
  • Ensure that the accounting month on the journal is correct, the numbering and dates on the vouchers and in the journal match, the descriptions are appropriate and the incomes and expenditures are
  • Check the correctness of the balances of the bank accounts, the petty cash and the Transit
  • Ensure that all the controlling files do match with the i.e the Bank
  • Ensure that the journal account balance file is balanced at the end of every month and is reconciled with the project accounting report of every month
  • Ensure that the cost categories are coded correctly with the help of the project responsible and the Regional Finance and Administration
  • Should there be any cancellation, correction and/or reallocation of already booked
  • Ensure that the original version, the corrections and the version revised by the Head Office are properly marked and can clearly be distinguished from each
  • Ensure the completeness of documents couriered to HRNS AF by presenting a checklist to the Regional Finance and Administration

 

VAT/ PAYE/Income Tax and NSSF Returns Payments and Receipts to Suppliers Advances/ Accountabilities

  • Ensure that all accountabilities for any advance given out is accounted for within two weeks from date of .
  • Ensure that all field accountabilities are reviewed and approved by the authorized accounting
  • Ensure that in case of any balance from these advances should be receipted and banked
  • Ensure that the accountabilities are filled in the correct accounting report file and booked in the correct month to correspond with the advance issued

 

Position Period Organization/Company
Acting Finance Supervisor Aug – Sept 2011 GNLD INTERNATIONAL (PTY) LIMITED

 

  • Reconcile cashbook to bank
  • Prepare cash report on a weekly
  • Prepare cash flows on a weekly
  • Managing daily financial activities of the
  • Preparing weekly and monthly performance
  • Management and collection of foreign
  • Management and payment of foreign trade and freight
  • Liaison with bank in ensuring compliance with the related rules and
  • Resolve any bank

 

 

Position Period Organization/Company
Accounts Assistant DEC ‘09 – SEPT ‘11 GNLD INTERNATIONAL (PTY) LIMITED

Responsibilities

  • Keeping and updating all the Accounting Records of the Company
  • General office administrative roles, which involves records’ keeping, communicating to customers/clients and responsible for the smooth running of the daily activities in the
  • Online compiling and filing of statutory returns g VAT, PAYE & NSSF.
  • Preparation of daily and monthly bank
  • Supervision and Participation of monthly stock

 

 

Position Period Organization/Company
Audit Assistant JUL 2008 – NOV 2009 PIM +CO Certified Public Accountants

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in developing audit programs for work assigned by the Manager for
  • Participate in carrying out audit assignments with guidance from the audit supervisor. This includes using audit programs provided to execute assignments as per those programs, clearly documenting work done and making logical
  • Preparing draft accounts and management letters pointing out key issues identified during the course of the executing the assignment, or any other reports required by the client for review by the
  • Prepare weekly progress reports to the supervisor on assignments being handled by me accompanied with my weekly time
  • Any other duties assigned that ordinarily falls within the above scope of

 

Additional skills:

  • A thorough education and experience in the e-banking, auditing
  • A thorough understanding of banking and financial accounting
  • A comprehensive knowledge of computer systems as they apply to banking
  • Demonstrated analytic ability
  • Good communication skills both written and oral
  • Good interpersonal
  • Ability to communicate in local language (s) and in English
  • Computer

 

 

REFEREES

Ms. Nabasirye Aidah.

Human Resource Manager UgaCof

Tel: 0772 630 238

aidahnabasirye@yahoo.com

 

Mr. Farouk Ssemwanga

Project Manager- Child &Youth Development

Project Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung

Plot 44/50, 7th Street, Ind. Area Kampala, Uganda

Tel: 0753984598 / 0772 750643/

0772984598

 

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