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
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