Japhet Abuki

I am a highly skilled, result driven and self - disciplined accountant with 7+ years experience working as an accountant in the accounting, credit control and finance departments. I am committed to achieving objectives through ethical practices, diligence, and a focus on delivering value to my employer, society, and myself. With a strong customer - focused approach and methodical work ethic, I am a dept in preparing financial reports, journal entries, general ledger, monthly financial statements, reconciliation and maintaining balance sheet accounts, payroll processing, and budgeting.

My expertise also extends to accounts payable and receivable management, cash flow optimization, and cash management. Skilled in time management, critical thinking analyzing situations and making critical decisions while leading teams for organization on goal attainment. I am seeking a role where I can leverage my expertise and skill to drive business growth and financial success.

GENERAL ACCOUNTANT - ISAT AFRICA KENYA & TANZANIA - Nairobi, Kenya

(2023-01)

• Receivable (A.R) Management: Ensuring monthly, Quarterly and Annuity billing in accordance with customer contracts, timely collections from customers, receipts, reconciliation of debtors' accounts and maintaining an updated MRR report.
• Payables (A.P) Management: Ensuring all the costs and expenses in relation to the business are booked well in the system. Approving all the payment vouchers, ensuring all supplier accounts are reconciled and suppliers are paid on time.
• Statutory Compliances: Ensuring all the statutory deductions are well computed and deadlines are adhered to. (SHIF, NSSF, PAYE, HELP, NITA & Housing Levy).
• Treasury Management: Reviewing cash and bank balances daily, ensuring that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements.
• Procurement Management: Ensures competitive pricing has been arrived at before approving the purchase requisition, ensuring that any capex procured is in accordance with the approved budget and approving all LPOs and ensuring that the procurement procedure is adhered to.
• Inventory Management: Ensure stock take is conducted by 30th of every month and agreed to our stock ledger, ensuring that we don't have stock out at any given time, maintaining reorder levels and ensuring we don't tie cash in stocks, and we only have fast moved items.
• Fixed Asset Management: Ensuring fixed asset register is maintained in an orderly manner, safeguard company assets by taking appropriate insurance covers, Ensures regular physical verification of all the assets and approval of Capex in line with approved budgets.
• Business Planning & budgeting: Development of company budgets in liaison with departmental heads, comparing actual performance with budgets and variance analysis of the same and developing a reforecast based on the change in business dynamics and economic conditions and comparing with the budgets.
• Financial Analysis: Interpret the company's financial results to management and recommending on improvement activities. Analyse the profitability of services offered by the company, and computing and advising on return on investment of various investments done by the company.
• Audit Support: Coordinating internal and external audits through preparation of final accounts for annual audits and making subsequent follow - ups with external auditors, addressing audit findings and implementing recommended improvements.

ACCOUNTANT - SAIGAR AND COMPANY - Nairobi, Kenya

(2020-01 - 2022-12)

• Payroll management, processing and administration in line with government laws and policies.
• Accounting, bookkeeping. Prepared and maintain accurate accounting records and financial statements
• Tax computations, planning and compliance: Preparation, filing and submission of accurate tax returns in compliance with the Kenyan tax laws.
• Statutory computation and deduction and submitting to the relevant bodies.
• Monitored outstanding balances and followed up on collections from customers
• Cash management: Managing client's petty cash, Bank/Mpesa reconciliations, cash flows, including payments and disbursements.
• Reconciliations: Did bank, payroll, receivables/payables reconciliation and reconciliation of sub ledger to general ledger account balances.
• Financial reporting: Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and management reports.
• Audit Support: Coordinating internal and external audits through preparation of final accounts for annual audits and making subsequent follow ups with external auditors, addressing audit findings, and implementing recommended improvements.

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT - MINERAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED - Athi-River, Machakos, Kenya

(2017-05 - 2019-12)

• Processed supplier invoices and payments, reconciled supplier payments and maintained records of all purchases and expenses.
• Prepared customer invoices and receipts, followed up on outstanding payments and reconciled customer accounts and maintained accurate sales reports.
• Assisted in payroll processing, ensured statutory deductions were properly computed and submitted to relevant bodies.
• Assisted in tracking production costs, and in analyzing labour, material and overhead costs.
• Assisted in Taxes & Compliance through preparing and filing of tax returns and assisted in tax assessments and audits.

ACCOUNTANT TRAINEE - NATIONAL TREASURY PENSIONS DEPARTMENT - Nairobi, Kenya

(2026-06 - 2026-09)

• Answered pensioners queries on status of their pension claims.
• Prepared, examined, and authorized payment vouchers in the cash office.
• Prepared monthly reconciliation statements.

CPA - Section 3 & 4 - Strathmore University (2025-01)

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE - FINANCE - Kirinyaga University (2013-09 - 2017-10)

KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION - Nyambaria Boys High School (2009-01 - 2012-12)

KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION - Riakimai Primary School (1998-01 - 2008-11)