Arthur Okothwaga

Dedicated and Skilled Accountant & Analyst with more than 10 years' working experience in modelling, interpreting, and reporting in finance, accounting & data analysis. I am proficient in statistical analysis and data visualization techniques & accounting systems to generate the desired reports. I am reliable, skilled and creative man in dealing with problems in a resourceful manner to recommends possible solutions in line with organizational goals.

LEAD ACCOUNTANT AND ANALYST - DESSRA VENTURES LTD

(2026-01)

Finance & Accounting

• Oversees the preparation of Monthly & Annual financial and other management reports.
• Perform daily & monthly reconciliation of bank, ledger accounts, account receivable and account payable.
• Maintain the general ledger and Control accounts, and ensure that Journals, AP & AR invoices are correctly posted.
• Creation new ledgers and support in GL account determination.
• To ensure of AR /AP queries & discrepancies are resolved timely and payments are in line with company policies.
• Support in setting up tolerance (limit) quantities and amounts for business partners.
• Creation, editing and correction of various group products BOM s in the SAP B1 system.
• Creation and maintaining both item masters and business partners' masters in the SAP system.
• Fixed Assets management: F/assets master, Capitalization, depreciation, grouping and retirement.
• Support in preparation and filing of tax returns and other statutory obligations.
• Support in stock count, stock reconciliation and stock adjustments.
• Lead and guide in Analyzing Various Company data for insights & improvement: Sales, Purchases and production.
• Design, regulate, and administer Finance, Sales and production dashboards reports.
• Support in budgeting by forecasting future financial performances based on trends and plans strategies.
• Support in the interpretation of various reports: Financial reports, sales reports, production reports and process reports.
• Ensures that power BI reports are accurate and correct (Material, Transfers, production, Sales report & Ageing report)
• A team leader in SAP Business One implementation and improvements.

DATA & COST ANALYST - DPL FESTIVE LTD

(2014-01 - 2025-12)

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, transform and model data for analysis and future reference.
• Prepare, analyze and Report Monthly Products costing reports, Distribution channels costing and recommendations possible profit and sales volume maximization fields.
• Compiling, analyzing, and reporting sales data in form of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports.
• Analyze and make recommendations of potential distribution channels or routes as proposed by Marketers.
• Analyzing and reporting of Market survey reports: competitors Market shares, market price, Consumers feedback.
• Interpret and Provide insights on market gaps based on the sales reports & feed backs to marketing team.
• Monitor and evaluate Customers sales on any strange/irregular trends: order stoppage, low orders & fluctuation.
• Participation in setting up of Monthly & Annual Sales Targets for Routes, Routes managers and salesman.
• Evaluate and assess Customers risks and recommend credit limits, revaluation of credit terms or stoppage.
• Support the management in price decision. (customer groups and individual customers).
• Distribution Vehicles fuel consumption analysis: Fuel consumption per product, per km mileage, and comparisons.
• Support in bank statements reconciliation and financial reporting documentations.

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT - AKIYDA 2000 LTD

(2011-01 - 2014-12)

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports. (production and sales reports)
• Summarizing daily transaction of the bakery transactions in the cash flow book. (prod., purchases, sales, expenses)
• Analyzing bakery efficiencies. (Production work, routes, packing workers, machines)
• Ensuring that cash and credit invoices are produced correctly.
• Counterchecking daily sales loading vs system's invoices. (Tally system)
• Follow up payment of credit sales and ensure daily cash sales remittance
• Guide and train new clerical personnel on branch/Invoicing operations.

PACKAGING & DISPATCH MANAGER - DEVKAN ENTERPRISE LTD

(2009-01 - 2011-12)

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing daily report of sales and production
• Daily stock taking (finished goods and raw materials)
• Counterchecking daily sales loading vs system's invoices. (Tally system)
• Calculate and Prepare Packers wages (piecework) for payment.
• Stock Control (planning daily production vs sales orders)
• Manage dispatch and packaging activities.
• Guiding packing supervisors on their daily tasks and duties.

CLERICAL SUPERVISOR-OPERATIONS - MINI BAKERIES LTD (SUPALOAF)

(2004-01 - 2008-12)

Key Responsibilities

• Guiding /supervising operation department clerical team (10 clerks).
• Preparation of daily, weekly, monthly and annual sales & production reports
• Market survey analysis reports.
• Production, routes, and units/branch costing
• Management of branches casual workers (recruitment, posting, muster roll & casuals' data)

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting concentration - Africa Nazarene University (2015-01 - 2018-12)

Diploma - Computer Application - Rahabel Commercial College (2002-01 - 2002-12)

KCSE - St. Mathias Busia Sec School (1994-01 - 1998-12)