Accountant at Kakira Distillery Limited (2023-01 – 2025-12)
- Generate Efris invoices, issue and follow up on collections within reasonable time frames.
- Reconciled multiple accounts, including banks, debtors, and creditors, while maintaining accurate books of accounts.
- Following up on company annual license and Local Service tax.
- Reviewed employee reimbursement requests in alignment with company policies, optimizing the approval process and ensuring fiscal responsibility.
- Follow up any Finance and Administrative issues as directed by my supervisor.
- Carry out daily stock counts and prepare a report as per the procedures.
- Issuing out Cash for day to day running of the Company operations after approval by Finance Manager.
- Posting daily petty cash transactions in tally & file the Vouchers.
- Establishing and maintaining a comprehensive internal control environment that safeguards assets, enhances accuracy, and drives efficiency in financial operations.
- Coordinating and facilitating internal and external audits, ensuring full compliance with recommendations and strengthening the organization's financial governance.
- Supervised payroll processing through the approved system, ensuring accuracy in full and final settlements and enhancing employee satisfaction.
- Guaranteed adherence to statutory requirements (VAT, WHT, PAYE) through timely payments and careful filing of returns, mitigating financial risks and enhancing organizational integrity.
- Monitored daily accounting activities and managed month-end closing processes, including adjustment journals, to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Assisted in preparing monthly financial and management accounts with in-depth variance analyses, presenting findings to senior management to drive strategic decision-making.
- Reviewed intercompany invoices and conducted reconciliations to ensure transparency and accuracy in financial dealings.
- Assisted comprehensive annual and monthly budgeting and forecasting activities, supported by variance analysis to identify opportunities for cost savings and revenue growth.
Accounts Assistant at Nish Auto Uganda Limited (2018-01 – 2023-12)
- Preparing Pro forma Invoices for prospective re-export customers. Following up for payments for customers who have confirmed orders and ensuring all packing lists confirmed and paid for are the ones re-exported.
- Preparing a list of bikes sold month to date and balance outstanding customer wise as well as bikes pending delivery also customer wise to marketing team to enable them plan accordingly.
- Carry out monthly stock counts and prepare a report as per the procedures.
- Timely preparation of the re-export report issued to the marketing team.
- Addressing all re-export customer queries concerning their payments.
- Preparing Receipts, spares sales orders and Spares sales invoice once the spares payment is received.
- Working with 02 & 03-Wheeler departments on physical verification of stocks (both Vehicles and spares).
- Replying audit queries, scanning all required documents and send to Head Office.
- Issuing out Cash for day to day running of the Company operations after approval by Finance Manager.
- Posting daily petty cash transactions into focus system & file the Vouchers.
- Raising scrap sales Invoices both Focus and URA e-invoices & issue receipts to scrap customers.
- Reconcile cash that is petty cash, scrap cash 2 & 3-Wheeler spares cash to ensure physical cash reconcile with focus system balances.
- Ensuring bank balances reconcile with focus system balances.
- Preparing petty cash expenditure request more than $100 by scanning & attaching all necessary documents (bills, invoices) to send Head Office Audit for approval.
- Prepare weekly payments to suppliers & Clearing agents by reconciling Invoices with goods supplied or services rendered, and uploading them into Online banking system for Payment.
- Expenditure projection by coordinating with all departments to ascertain their weekly expenditure forecast to send to Head Office Audit department for petty cash request & approval.
- Deposit scrap, 2 & 3-Wheeler spare parts cash collected to Bank. Also pick cash from Bank after Head Office approval.
- Preparation & Filing Monthly Statutory returns (VAT & WHT) to Uganda revenue Authority.
Junior Accountant at Riley Packaging Limited (2013-01 – 2015-12)
To work with and support the finance team as a whole. Responsible for ensuring that front end is properly managed and finance team is supported in terms of information provision at their end, work closely with the team to process payments on time ensuring that all financial documentation is prepared correctly and filed properly, assist in the preparation of the annual audit.
- Monitoring daily sales and ensuring evidence is provided; say delivery and invoices are dually signed by clients.
- Preparation of Monthly Debtors Collection Report.
- Debtors Reconciliation on quarterly Basis.
- Assist Daily, monthly Bank Reconciliation.
- Verifying of Daily dispatched Schedule, and Daily order copy.
- Checking and Signing of Sales Tax Invoice.
- Ensuring that sales department sells according to the terms & conditions set by Management for our clients.
- Coordinate Finance & Marketing mostly collection.
- Circularization of debtors balances quarterly and following them up.
- Ensuring safe custody of all documents especially invoices.
- Preparation & submission of VAT/PAYE/NSSF Return.
- Preparation of Salary & Wages for Payments.
- Preparation and submission of E-Banking to the Financial Controller for approval.
- Verifying Journal Vouchers and Signing and forwarding for Authorization.
- Keeping and maintaining links with URA and Bank.
- Preparing Debit Notes & Credit notes.
- Keep in touch with Stores and Customers for Query if any.
Banking Officer at Stanbic Bank (2011-01 – 2013-12)
- Exceeded processing daily transaction target volume of 120 that improved branch deposit portfolio.
- Improved transaction processing turnaround times by offering fast, accurate and friendly transaction processing to customers.
- Operated daily, accurate and prompt reconciliation of transactions processed against all instructions received.
- Account for all the funds disbursed from Vault to the and supervisor from time to time.
- Oversaw daily performance of money transfer transactions especially Western Union, MoneyGram and express money, effectively reported on suspicious transactions minimizing risk appetite.
- Built and maintained good customer relationships by making follow up calls to recent customers, to cross sell other bank products like telegraphic transfers, utilities payments, URA payments.
- Identified sales opportunities most especially with walk-in customers opening new accounts, this boosted the branch profitability.
- Executed proactive customer complaints handling, while identifying and taking appropriate corrective action that sparked customer retention ratio.
- Telling, attend to change transaction.
- Routine; ensuring that duty of care requirements are adhered to.
- Reactive selling; identify cross selling and migration opportunities and sell products/services reactively.
- Participate in tactical sales/marketing activities as required.
- ATM custodian ensure that ATM is standby.
- Reports; transaction reports prepared.
- Attend to cashing of cheques according to laid down policies and deposits.
