Catherine Wanjiru Muhia
Accounts Assistant
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Email:-A CPA 6 finalist and a graduate from the University of Nairobi, Bachelor of Science in
Agribusiness Management (Second Class Upper Division). Currently an Accounts
Assistant at Shortlist Professionals Ltd. Worked as an intern at Kenya Tea
Development Agency in the Operations and Finance Department. Was also an
intern at the Coffee Directorate in the Finance and Regulations departments.
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Financial reporting
Budget management
Data entry and analysis
● Assisted in coming up with a quick way of tracking outstanding payments
through online filing system.
● Implemented quick internal procedure for claiming reimbursements.
● Assisted in reducing administrative costs by 20% through preparing monthly
expenditure reports.
● Contributed to good customer service by solving 80% of suppliers’ complaints.
● Developed an in house budget tracker for cost analysis and forecasting for
special projects which helped in reducing expenses by 20%
Shortlist Professionals|Accounts Assistant
June 2019- Present
Duties & Responsibilities.
● Reconciliation of clients, suppliers and bank accounts and timely closing of
accounts at the end of every month.
● Information Management-Electronic and manual filing of finance support
documents.
● Client relationship management-Assisting in correspondences relating to
clients’ and suppliers’ queries.
● Posting financial data in QuickBooks and processing vendor payments.
● Client portfolio performance management-Invoicing clients, making follow ups
on outstanding payments due from clients.
● Filing all statutory returns.
● Handling petty cash and processing all payments.
KTDA |Operations &Finance Intern
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Duties & Responsibilities
● Performed weekly operations performance reviews for KTDA managed
factories.
● Data entry, analysis, interpretation and preparing subsequent PowerPoint
presentations, documents and spreadsheets
● Analyzing comparative factory performance drivers, auction price analysis and
conducted factory recurrent cost and budget analysis.
● Creating transportation contracts and logistics management.
● Assisting in preparation and interpretation of financial reports, supporting
internal audit process and compliance with administrative roles.
● Verifying petty cash vouchers and field expenses report.
Coffee Directorate |Regulations & Finance Intern
January 2017 - April 2017
Duties & Responsibilities
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Education
Stock taking office supplies and placed orders using the ERP system.
Assisting in the administration of electronic and physical data of office tasks
such as preparing weekly report, drafting memos, data filing, and printing.
Attending to customer queries on the new devolved agriculture system.
Processing invoices and petty cash, recording financial data using Sage
accounting software, posting journal entries, conducted bank reconciliation
and filing tax returns.
University of Nairobi | Degree
September 2014 - December 2018
Bachelor of Science-Agribusiness Management (Second Class upper division)
Vision Institute of Professionals | Professional Course
January 2015 - June 2019
Certified Public Accountants (CPA K)
Kahuhia Girls’ High School |High School
January 2010 - December 2013
KCSE Aggregate Grade A- (74 points)
References
Bernard Gichovi,
Interim Senior Officer,Coffee Directorate,
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Email;-Jeremy Muchunu Kariuki
Factory Accounts Assistant,Kenya Tea Development Agency
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John Mutura
Operations Assistant,KTDA
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Email;-Naomi Terer
Financial Accountant
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