Washington Ouma Ochanda

OCHANDA WASHINGTON OUMA
P.O Box 41476 – 00100, Nairobi
Tel: +254 712 723 391/ +254 737 091 092
Email: [email protected]

CAREER PROFILE SUMMARY
I am a Certified Public Accountant professional, excelling in developing business plans, analyzing financial data, making recommendations to improve business performance, forecasting future trends, mitigating financial risks and finding ways to reduce cost. With experience providing direction to the finance and accounting team, I have successfully ensured both accountability and put in place controls that have contributed to the mitigation of risks and cost-saving as well. As a visionary leader, I am a highly capable change- agent who consistently refines and revitalizes strategies initiates change and facilitates solutions-driven in team collaboration work environment My expert skills includes accounting, financial management, financial control, auditing and financial forecasting. My focus is to secure a position as a finance manager in a dynamic organization that requires creative thinking, problem-solving, and efficiency in the accounting and finance departments.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Bachelor of Commerce in Finance: The University of Nairobi; 2017 to 2021
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education: Butula Boys Secondary School; 2005 to 2008

PROFESSIONAL COURSES
Certified Public Accountant: KCA University; 2013 to 2017

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES ACQUIRED
Financial Management: Experienced in matters of finance such as preparing cash flow statements, financial reporting, monitoring expenditures, preparing, analyzing and managing budgets and financial transactions.
Financial Control: Excelled in ensuring quality control of financial reports, liaising with auditors, verifying the correctness of the cashbook and bankbook and monitoring budgets concerning the set standards.
Financial Analysis: Competent in handling fiscal analysis which includes; Financial Modeling, Planning, and Forecasting, Financial Statement Analysis and analyzing revenues.
Accounting: Efficient with expertise in inventory control and processes, managing payroll, general ledger management, handling bank reconciliations and preparation of cash advance payments.
Auditing: Excelling in facilitating internal and external audit work, supporting the planning of internal and external audits, follow-up and closure of audit issues and authenticating of proper internal control systems.
Leadership and Supervising Skills: Excellent leadership skills with experience supervising teams, training them on how best to carry out their roles and ensuring they do so accurately.
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Able to visualize and solve complicated problems in the best way possible and make accurate and informed decisions.
Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills with the ability to relate with all the staff working in the department and taking time to listen to staff inquiries and complaints, identifying their needs and working through any issues that might be concerning them
ICT Competence: Good command navigating Microsoft Office suites, email and the internet.

WORK HISTORY
Business Controller
Bring Global Kenya Limited; 2021 – 2022
Duties and Responsibilities
Producing accurate financial reports and information
Developing cash flow statements.
Providing advice in making financial decisions.
Administering all business units and analyzing financial risks recommend effective solutions.
Establishing and maintaining financial reports and business plans.
Preparing financial budgets and plans and analyzing various outlooks for the same.

Accountant/Auditor
Onukho and Associates; 2018 to 2021
Duties and Responsibilities
Planned, studied and collected data to determine the extent of data accuracy.
Prepared accurate audit and financial reports.
Analyzed actual costs and prepared periodic reports comparing standards cost to actual costs.
Bookkeeping using Quick books.
Prepared and filed VAT returns, withheld taxes and all monthly statutory deductions (PAYE, NHIF and NSSF) for various companies.
Filed company returns and rental incomes.
Executed and employees return.
Offered tax planning and advisory services.
Utilized computer accounting packages for auditing.
Analyzed business performance accounting QuickBooks.

Auditing and Accounting Clients:
(Bring Consulting (Ke) Limited, Hakken Consulting (Ke) limited, Pinkej Company (Ke) Limited, Agri-Green Consulting Limited, Pelican Haulage Contractors Limited, African Legend while my taxation and financial budgeting clients include Urgent Cargo Limited, Travel Associates Limited and Wood venture (Ke) Limited)

Cost Accountant
Premier Food Industries Limited (PEPTANG); 2015 to 2017
Duties and Responsibilities
Conducted daily production costing.
Monitored consumptions of materials and variances thereof for adjustments to reflect the actual usage.
Monitored and verified raw materials costing to ensure the correct material prices and product costs are maintained and updated in the system for correct and timely management reports.
Prepared monthly production costing summary report.

Data Entry Clerk
EBZ Oracle; October 2014 to June 2015
Duties and Responsibilities
Processing payments and making payments to suppliers.
Reconciling bank and banking payments.
Maintaining financial records and sales invoices.
Inputting text and data from documents into spreadsheets and databases.
Inputting all sensitive data and accounting information into the databases.
Crosschecking and verifying data keyed into the databases for accuracy.
Correcting incorrectly entered data.