John Gicheru

CPA(K) and finance professional with 10+ years of comprehensive experience across financial accounting, financial consulting, corporate reporting, complex reconciliations, audit coordination, and internal controls optimization. Proven track record of delivering high-accuracy financial assets, driving management decisions, and upgrading financial operations.

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Excel user adept at structured, independent execution tailored for distributed, deadline-driven remote corporate environments.

Financial Consultant at BEWA Certified Accountancy Firm

• Deliver strategic accounting and financial consulting support to clients, enabling executive leadership to interpret complex corporate finances and structurally mitigate financial risk.
• Orchestrate preparation, data cleansing, and strict quality control verification of critical financial records, ledger schedules, and end-of-month management reports.
• Analyse financial trends, isolate transactional discrepancies, and deploy systematic corrective workflows to elevate reporting precision and ledger health.
• Strengthen operational audit readiness for client portfolios, designing comprehensive documentation files and optimizing internal accounting compliance structures.

Senior Accountant at Caritas Nairobi (2020 – 2022)

• Directed end-to-end ledger and accounting workflows, maintaining rigorous control over daily transactions, balancing schedules, and bank statement reconciliations.
• Synthesized timely and audit-defensible financial statements for management review, protecting organizational governance and supporting budget execution analysis.
• Investigated general ledger variances, tracked balance sheet discrepancies, and instituted targeted corrective accounting routines across distributed teams.
• Spearheaded operational audit preparation, compiling clear working papers, compliance schedules, and transactional proof to ensure seamless external reviews.

Operations Manager (Finance & Operations) at Caritas Nairobi (2021 – 2022)

• Coordinated across financial and operational frameworks to optimize cross-departmental resources and enforce strict adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Monitored key variance thresholds, delivering unified operational reports to executive teams to optimize daily financial and administrative adjustments.
• Supervised internal verification systems, maintaining data integrity across administrative structures and supporting strict regulatory alignment.

Head of Section / Lecturer at Thika Technical Training Institute (2014 – 2015)

• Chaired section-level administrative and academic goals, managing staff workflows, progress schedules, and departmental reporting compliance under aggressive timelines.
• Created instructional and performance metrics documentation, establishing auditable student and course records while exceeding rigorous institutional targets.
• Leveraged deep accounting and financial domain experience to instruct and train advanced student profiles in applied financial operations.

Part-Time Audit Staff at Njoro & Associates CPAs

3 Years (Combined)

• Executed risk-focused audit assignments, scrutinizing transactional evidence, financial disclosures, and multi-tier bank reconciliations.
• Isolated systematic accounting inaccuracies and internal control deficiencies, summarizing findings cleanly within formal audit working papers.
• Delivered accurate audit work under accelerated seasonal timelines while preserving supreme confidentiality and attention to compliance details.

Certified Public Accountant of Kenya — CPA(K) – Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) (2014)