Jesse Kimani

Inventory management

Financial consultancy

Process costing

Commercial operations

CAREER PROFILE SUMMARY A multi-skilled professional with over 8 years excelling in inventory management and accounting, management accounting, fixed asset accounting, inventory control, warehouse management, procurement, operations management, and commercial analysis and route to market. Throughout my work, I have successfully acquired skills in; inventory and supply control, supply planning and management, warehouse operationalization and control, procurement and sourcing, logistics, finance management, warehousing, stock management, and negotiation skills. Highlights of my experience include; facilitating demand forecasts for all the central warehouses, controlling receiving and dispatch areas, optimizing stock for warehouse and selling stores, generating stock handling procedures and enforcement, organizing and coordinating stock-takes for all the company warehouses, reconciling Inventory records and reporting them to the board as well as operationalizing back-office restructuring.

I am now seeking for an Inventory manager position where my skills and experience and expertise in Inventory management and accounting will contribute not only contributing to cost-saving and accountability but also contributing to company growth.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• Masters of Tax and Customs Administration: Kenya School of Revenue Authority; 2020 – To Date
• Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Finance Option) – Chuka University; 2013
• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education: Kieni Secondary School; 2007

PROFESSIONAL COURSES

• Certified Public Accountant – CPA (6) – KASNEB; 2018

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES ACQUIRED

• Procurement and Sourcing: Acquired knowledge on how to source for cost-effective suppliers hence saving on cost, preparation of tender and quotation documents. Ability to examine suppliers before signing them up to ensure they meet his organization’s needs
• Supply Planning/Inventory Management: Competent in ensuring timely sourcing and delivery of goods from suppliers, preparing detailed quotations and LPOs, and making sure that the procurement process is accurate and efficient.
• Stock Management and Control: Experienced in initiating purchase requisition for the replacement of stock of regular stores items and controlling inventory levels by conducting physical counts and inventory reports.
• Warehousing: Experienced in offloading inventory from trucks or shipping and delivery to proper location, ensuring the safety of aisles, storing and inventory appropriately and documenting stocks, and preparing inventory for audits.
• Detail Oriented: I value accuracy and ensure that every duty I undertake pays close attention to details and captures all the valuable data in terms of cost monitoring and compilation of detailed financial reports.
• Analytical skills: Successfully developed a rigorous analytical mind that leads to thoughtful and careful decisions for the benefit of ensuring accuracy.
• Accounting Skills: Experienced in handling general accounting principles such as reconciliation of account receivables and payables, the general ledger, and balancing of accounts, petty cash management, and profit and loss.
• Financial Management: Experienced in handling financial reporting, budgeting, analyzing revenues and budget variances, monitoring the cash flow position, and streamlining the financial processes and operations.
• People and Management: Adept at leading large teams, coaching and developing personnel.
• Training and supervisory skills: Adept in training and supervising stores and warehouse staff in daily accounts and processes for continuous improvement.
• Problem-solving skills: Ability to jolt into action, especially in emergency cases that need quick action and expert attention.
• Communication Skills: I possess excellent communication skills and a solid interaction with key stakeholders while making presentations.
• ICT Competence: Good command of Microsoft Office tools and Inventory Systems such as ERP (SAP, IVEND, Ms Dynamics, RMS, and Vortex).

WORK HISTORY

Management Accountant-Inventory, process costing and fixed assets.

Mastermind Tobacco Kenya 2022 to date

• Production costing and accounting
• Stock optimization.
• Sale and route to market analysis.
• Sales projections and planning.
• Monthly stock take planning and execution.
• Stock reconciliations, reporting and end month closing procedures.
• Check on all stock adjustments and their impact on the financials.
• Production planning to ensure enough raw materials for both local and exports.
• In conjunction with payable team and head of finance, assist in working capital analysis.
• BOM setups in the SAP system.
• Fixed assets accounting, depreciation and assets movement
• Obsolesce control and advising on disposal and write off for idle assets.
• Accounting for by products.
• Management reporting cost of sales and company GP.
• Fuel consumption control and reporting for company fleet as well as fuel consumption for 3pls fleets used by sales team.
• Parts accounting and control for the workshop.
• Tracking on repair, wear and tear for all fleets.
• Sales analysis for commercial department to assist drive revenues.
• Sales rep productivity analysis and route to market fulfillment reports.

Inventory Manager/ Inventory Analyst

Afrinova Consulting; 2021– 2022

Duties and Responsibilities

•  Facilitating demand forecasts for all the central warehouses, production areas and all branches.
• Controlling receiving and dispatch areas.
• Food costing.
• Responsible for raw material, wrapping and costing of different production processes.
• Assets capitalization, depreciation and disposal accounting.
• Projecting material and accounting for production areas through the BOM, postings and accounting.
• Accounting for all warehouses and the branches, report and follow up on deviation from the budget.
•  Optimizing stock for all 10 stores.
•  In charge of Inventory management, reconciliation, reporting and SOPs.
•  Generating stock handling and enforcement procedures.
•  Carrying out Inventory training.
• Coordinating with payable head to ensure payments are done for converting stocks.
• Coordinating with Business planning head to ensure only performing SKUs are procured.
• Processing improvement in warehouse management.
• Receiving and dispatching spot checks and reconciliation for assurance purposes.
•  Carrying out back-office operations.

Key achievements

• Achieved lowest shrinkage level of 0.3%
• Mapping production process in the SAP ERP.
• Successfully overseeing the creation of the fully functional back office in the 3 retail companies.
• Introduced 3 fully functional Inventory departments.
• Developed stock standard operations procedures for retail.
• Led teams that successfully transitioned a merger process.
• Transitioned three ERP systems.

HOD Inventory Control/Back Office Operations

Tumaini Self Service/ Quick mart Ltd; Feb 2019 to December 2020

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinated all the back-office operations for the company.
•  Rationalized categories and Inventory analysis and optimization.
• Developed catalogues and projections for new outlets.
•  Carried out stock liquidation plans and execution.
•  In charge of purchases projections and advising the procurement teams.
• Analyzed order fulfillment for both direct supplier and central distribution to avoid stock-outs in the outlets.
• Organized and coordinated stock-takes for all the company warehouses.
• Stock optimization, turnovers, ageing etc.
•  Reconciled Inventory and reported to the board.
• Developed audit schedules and reconciled them with the General ledger.
• Processed improvements and developing SOPs.
•  Carried out staff training and succession planning.
• Controlled company expenses to maintain a healthy bottom line.
•  Tracked budget and ensured targets are met GL reconciliations.
• Scheduled audit generation.
• Inventory /shrinkage and expenses GL reconciliation and reporting
• Ageing/turnover/purchase/Dead stocks /turnover reporting/expenses trends and analysis etc.
• Consigned postings and reconciliations.

Inventory Controller

Naivas Supermarkets Ltd; January 2016 to 2019

Duties and Responsibilities

• Produced various Inventory reports and issued them to the management.
• Reconciled Inventory, controlling and investigating shortages and discrepancies.
• Developed procedures and processes in harmony with the company’s mission to address causes of variances and implement process improvement.
•  Kept abreast of changes in inventory control best practices to train staff and issue policy changes.
•  Organized and executed quarterly Inventory stock take in the company’s outlets.
• Produced sales margins and cost of sales reports, stock ageing report, dead stock/stock-out reports, cutoff valuations et. c and issued them to the management.
• Carried out Inventory reporting and reconciling with the ledger while ensuring that the necessary transactions are correctly posted.
• Worked with the internal and external auditors on areas of inventory and sales reporting.
•  Oversaw training and technical support to operations and administrative staff for skills improvement in the areas of Inventory, reporting and internal control.
• Monitored all Inventory activities of the organization and ensure they are following the company’s policy and processes.
•  Trained and complied with audit processes.
•  Assisted in developing schedules for external auditing.

OTHER PAST EXPERIENCE

• Buyer/Purchasing Manager: Naivas Supermarket Ltd; 2015 
• Management Trainee; Naivas Supermarket Ltd; 2014

REFEREES

Available on request

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• Masters of Tax and Customs Administration: Kenya School of Revenue Authority; 2020 – To Date
• Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Finance Option) – Chuka University; 2013
• Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education: Kieni Secondary School; 2007
• Certified Public Accountant – CPA (6) – KASNEB; 2018