Sharon Onyango

Well-organized, versatile and reliable Professional with 5+ years of work experience in managing day-to-day Accounting, Financial management and Administration tasks while ensuring compliance to IPSAS, IAS, IFRS, GAAP's, Internal Controls and Donor processes. Possesses the requisite skills, technical know-how and knowledge required to perform financial management and Administration tasks to perfection in the Profit and Not for Profit making organizations.

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT - Jenga Feeds Ltd.

(2021-03 - 2025-08)

Recorded all financial transactions accurately, completely and in a timely manner in line with the Chart of Accounts through the accounting system.

• Assisted the Accountant in performing cash flow forecasting, budgeting and worked closely with the operations teams in monitoring expenditures, analyzing revenue & margins, variances and cost analysis.
• Maintained a system of accounts and kept books and records on all transactions and assets.
• Assisted the Accountant in preparing and analyzing accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement, balance sheet, budget and variance, projections and forecast, and cash flow.
• Negotiated prices and payment terms with key suppliers taking into account the company's working capital requirements and cash flow projections.
• Kept stock of raw materials and finished products.
• Prepared bank reconciliations and resolved reconciling items within set timelines.
• Petty cash management.
• Ensured completeness, integrity and accuracy of the general ledger through reconciliations, asset verification & monthly reviews.
• Managed the fixed asset register; run depreciation, amortization, disposal, and related postings.
• Captured all financial data in Quick Books with 100% accuracy and maintained up to-date, accurate and complete records for all financial transactions.
• Reduced cash outflow significantly by negotiating for credit limit extension and partial payments.
• Conducted periodic physical verification of assets and ensured all assets were tagged correctly.
• Prepared payroll, computed taxes owed, withholding tax, withholding V.A.T, statutory returns using I-Tax ensuring compliance with all stipulated deadline dates of submission.
• Timely retrieval of documents for audit assignments, recording them and ensuring they were returned to archives properly.
• Assisted the accountant with payroll and statutory deductions.
• Set up a user-friendly filing system for all accounting records which considerably improved record keeping, document retrieval time and optimal accessibility of information.

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT - Oasis Healthcare Group Limited - Siaya - Siaya

(2020-01 - 2021-02)

Prepared error-free and timely periodic Financial and Management reports while ensuring their accuracy, completeness and conformance to the reporting standards.

• Monitored expenses in relation to budgets and ensured expenses were booked in the correct expense lines.
• Prepared accurate and timely monthly management report and accompanying schedules, worksheets, and narratives, including 'Budget vs. Actual' variance reports.
• Made projections on cash inflows and cash out flows to ensure healthy working capital for day to day running of the Hospital.
• Managed the Hospital petty cash i.e. reimbursements, daily reconciliations and processed the entries into QuickBooks.
• Posted invoices, payments expense accruals and other expenditure journals into the accounting system in QuickBooks while ensuring 100% accuracy.
• Verification of the insurance eligibility before treatment or admission of cooperate clients.
• Validated, updated and filed statutory returns and ensured tax compliance on all statutory obligations; including management of the facility's payroll.
• Timely and accurate reconciliations of Receivables and Payables on a regular basis.
• Ensured recurrent administrative expenditures was regularly captured and allocated as per budgeted figures in QuickBooks.
• Streamlined petty cash process by introducing controls that had a positive impact on its management leading to a decrease on audit queries on the same.
• Minimized credit risk exposure, improved cash flow and working capital by ensuring accurate and timely processing and payments of accounts receivable.
• Managed the banking process including reconciliations of the Bank Accounts and all controls around the entire cash and bank process.
• Processing of insurance claims and submission to the various insurance companies.
• Preparation of inpatient bills both for the cash and cooperate clients.
• Ensured that control accounts and cash books were reconciled, duly balanced and outstanding items fully accounted for in their rightful ledger accounts.
• Minimized overdrafts and loans by preparation of timely and accurate cash flow forecasts.
• Eliminated tax penalties through accurate and timely preparation & submission of statutory returns.
• Substantially reduced audit adjustments by recording transactions correctly.

ACCOUNTS AND ADMIN ASSISTANT - Sauti Kuu Foundation

(2018-06 - 2020-12)

Responsible for all aspects of accounting and financial reporting, cash management, setting budgets and monitoring spending funds requests, donor reporting and managing general administrative processes.

• Assisted in preparing and reviewing Project budgets to ensure only eligible costs were budgeted for, and all activities budgeted for were in line with the approved work plan / implementation plan.
• Timely and accurate preparation and submission of financial reports related to projects to donors based on the contractual expectations.
• Produced and regularly updated cash flow forecasts and ensured availability of sufficient funds to meet program commitments.
• Guided Budget holders on how to monitor their Budget Vs Actual expenditures resulting to minimized request for re-classing expenses to near 0%.
• Supported programs with continuous monitoring of actual spend and projected spend against agreed budgets to ensure all donor and internal requirements were met.
• Received and reviewed field activity accountability documents for consistency, completeness and accuracy of documentation for purposes of ensuring proper posting to the correct project budget item.
• Verified completeness, accuracy, validity and legitimacy supplier documents before making payments.
• Recommended budget realignment where there was budget savings as well as overruns which minimized variances and unspent balances at the end of the project.
• Updated Projects expenditure into Quickbooks, ensuring it was properly and accurately coded and captured into the correct budget lines.
• Fixed assets register management i.e. recorded fixed asset acquisitions, depreciation and disposal.
• Ensured a smooth audit process by preparing audit schedules and availing all the documentation required (timely retrieval of documents for audit assignments).
• Provided a comprehensive, proactive and confidential administrative support in the Office to secure efficiency and optimize Office operations.
• Prepared and submitting statutory reports and tax returns related to the Projects on a timely manner.
• Maintained safe custody of project-related expenditure – receipts, vouchers, contracts and all project records in a neatly filed and easily retrievable manner.

Accounts Intern - Omollo H and Associates

(2017-01 - 2018-03)

Community Interviewer

KEMRI CGHR

Certified Public Accounting - Accounting - KASNEB Examination

Kenya Accounting Technician Certificate (KATC) - Accounting - KASNEB Examination (2018-05)

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - Sinaga Girls Secondary School (2000 - 2003)