Benson Likhanga

Experienced accounting professional with proven skills in managing routine and complex business accounting needs. Familiar with accounting standards, and state regulations. Excellent in ERP and SAP accounting systems.

Experienced in GAAP with general ledger experience. Committed financial professional aiming to utilize my years of industry experience to bring value to your organization. Dependable accounting professional acknowledged for reliability, integrity and quick-learning ability.

Am highly skilled in accounting and auditing with eye for identifying and correcting errors. Dedicated with strong work ethic and resourceful nature.

DEVKI STEEL ROLLING MILLS- SAMBURU (KWALE COUNTY)

Accountant -reporting to Financial Controller (August 2022- Current)

• Well versed with ERP and System Application Program (SAP). 
• Reviews and prepares financial statements and accounting reports for departmental management and federal agencies.
• Develops guidelines for the maintenance and reconciliation of financial data; maintains and reconciles the more difficult financial control records for expenditures, allotments, receipts, and encumbrances.
• Conducts surveys to prepare recommendations for improvements, controls, new methods, and other changes to improve the efficiency of accounting systems.
• Reviews budgets and prepares related budget documents. Designs cost classification systems; develops guidelines to assign cost classifications to expenditures.
• Determines and analyzes direct and indirect costs in order to determine the cost of finished goods. Conducts cost studies and implements cost allocation plans.
• Ensure timely stock taking. Coordinated well with my team to present stock taking reports on monthly basis. That’s consumables, raw materials and finished goods. There is weekly stock taking to check the controls in place.
• In charge of accounts payables section. Ensured every invoice is signed with relevant users before posting. This to ensure responsibility in every cost center.
• Processing and posting of daily production from the Furnace, Rolling Mill, DRI, Ferro Alloy and Electrical departments.
• Sending daily production reports to Financial Controller and Operations head.
• Analyzing efficiency of departments by making ratios of salaries of staffs in each department to output of that department.
• Preparing Standard Transport Order Numbers for products orders.
• Preparing purchase requisitions of all departments.
• Improved data analysis through available Microsoft Offices tools.
• Reduced financial discrepancies, effectively reconciling bank accounts, and organizing information into accounting software.

MASAI ROLLING MILLS (May 2018- July 2022)

Accountant -reporting to Financial Controller.

• Collaborate with management to build and implement effective, modern accounting standards.
• Assisted with month-end closing processes and verified journal entries.
• Developed and analyzed departmental budgets.
• Provided leadership and technical expertise to operations and finance department relative to the analysis and forecasting of revenues and unit cost data.
• Gathered, evaluated, and summarized account data in detailed financial reports.
• Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month.
• Reduced financial discrepancies, effectively reconciling bank accounts, and organizing information into accounting software.
• Managed audits and updated accounting information with remarkable accuracy.
• Delivered human resources support by certifying and processing payroll, completing deposits, performing pay adjustments, and promptly distributing checks.
• Managed a small sales budget through the 2018 second quarter with positive results

Mumia Sugar Limited Company (January-April 2017)

Accounts Intern

• Well skilled in Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP).
• Assisted in Reconciling final accounts
• Conducted ad hoc financial analysis under the senior accountant supervision
• Assisting internal auditor in responding to audit queries and peer review
• Help manage payroll and the registration of employees for NHIF and other covers
• Proposed and implemented a modern filing system that facilitated easy retrieval of documents for audit, this saved the company’s time significantly. 
• Led the marketing and loan recovery team for field visits

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology

Bachelor of Commerce | Second Class Honors Upper Division

2014-2018Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board (KASNEB)

CPA 6 Qualification

Best in Commercial Law Exam 2017 November exam.

2016-2017St. Paul’s Shikunga High School

KCSE| Aced B+ of 73 points

2010-2013