Richard Ongoto
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About
I am a detail-oriented and hardworking professional with a progressive career who can follow given instructions. I am self-driven, ambitious, innovative, analytical, and a fast learner and I pride myself as a true team player with good interpersonal skills. I possess a great desire and drive to prosper in all work that I venture into.
I desire to work in a challenging and rewarding environment that will allow me to utilize my acquired skills, and apply my academic knowledge, leading to both personal and organizational growth. I am a good Audit, Tax & Accounts Professional whose main area of experience is in, tax consulting, cash flow and audit management, general accounting, and customer service. I have 5 years of experience in accounting, Auditing, and tax consulting as acquired over my professional career handling various activities.
Experience
NJORO & ASSOCIATES AUDIT SENIOR JAN, 2021 – TO DATE
Key Responsibilities- Prepare and Implement annual audit plans for clients in liaison with the Audit manager and managing partner.
- Worked as a tax compliance officer
- Responsible for monitoring and carrying out compliance checks
- Advising my supervisor and management on revenue collection progress
- Educating taxpayers on all tax matters.
- Tax Computations and filing on iTax (Income Tax for individual & companies, Value Added Tax, Advance Tax, Withholding Tax, Capital Gain Tax, PAYE, and Monthly Rental Income),.
- Auditing and preparing auditor’s report
- Audit Assessment
- Payrolls Management System
- Accounting and Bookkeeping (Quick Books)
- Filing NSSF and NHIF
- KRA PIN application for clients and individuals (Resident and Nonresident), N.H.I.F. registration, N.S.S.F. registration, N.I.T.A registration, and Occupational Health Safety Certificate for workplace and renewal.
Responsibilities
- Tax computation and filing on itax (PAYE, Advance tax, WHT vat, income tax individual and company)
- Audit assessment
- Accounting and Bookkeeping ( Quick Books)
- Filing NSSF and NHIF
- Reconciliation
- Invoicing
- Payroll
Responsibilities:
Financial Accounting Section
- Controlling of utility bill invoices
- Booking of cash receipts
- Booking of travel expense claims
- Bank reconciliation.
- Compiling supplier’s invoices and verifying their accuracy.
- Booking payments.
- Performing reconciliation and updating creditors accounts
- Generate accurate and timely weekly report to assist in decision making i.e creditors reports, letters of credit maturing reports
- Ensuring that accounting records and documents are kept in order
- Reconciling the intercompany transactions relating to the company outside the country.
- Receive and verify payment claims and supporting documents
- Raising letters of credit and updating them in the cash flow
- Recording and filing daily banking
- Posting and reconciling of payments to customer’s’ accounts
- Opening new customers accounts
- Verification of manually prepaid credit notes
- Customers’ cash discounts preparation.
- Profitability analysis of various sales outlets
- Preparation of the exception report
- Controlling of the point of sales expenses
- Preparation of daily sales margins and low analysis margin report
- Posting factory receipts and other inter-department stock transfers
- Booking charges from purchasing material used in the department on a daily basis
- Reconcile with purchasing before the close of the period to ensure bookings are done accurately
- Prepare monthly variance reports for the respective departments
- Monthly reconciliation of ledger balances to physical stock
Education
- CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ( Currently Enrolled section 3)-(2021-to date)
- KENYATTA UNIVERSITY {Bachelor of Commerce (ACCOUNTING OPTION)}-(2015-2020).
- GIANT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ( Computer certificate)- (2013)
- ROCK DRIVING SCHOOL ( Driving License) -(2014)
- KERONGORORI HIGH SCHOOL (Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education)-(2012)
