Danson Warui

Experience

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit-GiZ Kenya

Junior Finance Specialist - 2024/Up to date

Key Achievements:
▪ Assisting in maintaining records, documentation and files for admin, operations, and finance work.
▪ Travel Advance Calculation: Ensure travel advances are calculated correctly in accordance with the organization’s policies and guidelines.
▪ Supporting logistics during field visits by organizing transportation and proper costing are met.
▪ Payment of Withholding taxes for all projects on a timely basis
Responsibilities:
▪ Processing Approved Payments: Managing and Payment approved payments, including per diems, transportation expenses, Mpesa transfers, and bank transactions.
▪ Financial Transaction Posting: Support the accurate posting of all financial transactions, especially payments, into the organization’s accounting software, WINPACCS.
▪ Voucher Reposting: Correct and repost account vouchers when errors or discrepancies are found.
▪ Transaction Reconciliation Assistance: Aid in the reconciliation of financial records, comparing bank, cash, and Mpesa transactions with entries in the cashbook.
▪ Petty Cash Management: Ensuring that the petty cash is balanced at the end of each day, with all payments made promptly, accurately, and with proper approvals.
▪ Receivables Management: Assist in tracking, following up on, and clearing outstanding amounts owed to the organization.
▪ Handling the shipment of completed project finance documents, ensuring they are properly labeled and fully complete.
▪ Providing support in strengthening the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) for finance, Procurement and IT

GRiC Africa

Finance and Admin Assistant - 2023/2024

Key Achievements:
▪ Assisting in maintaining records, documentation and files for admin, operations, and finance work.
▪ Accurately recording accounts receivables and accounts payables in the company’s ERP.
▪ Providing administrative support during budget preparation.
▪ Supporting logistics during field visits by organizing transportation and proper costing are met. Responsibilities:
▪ Ensuring the accuracy of financial reports, budgets and narrative reports for Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya Partners, I analyze, keep track of, and make sure all they are properly expensed.
▪ Ensuring that our XERO accounts are up to date by accurately and timely booking bills and clearing them off when the actual payments are made.
▪ Training financial management to our East African partners to ensure effective financial policies, procedures, and bookkeeping.
▪ Processing payroll, statutory payments, VAT, and withholding taxes in time.
▪ Providing support in Annual Audits, by ensuring all payments are accurate, made on time and well supported.
▪ Conducted monitoring visits to the project sites where our partners are implementing the project for support purposes.
▪ Ensuring timely submission of travel-related expense claims, verifying the accuracy of expense reports, and processing transport reimbursement requests.
▪ Giving training on how to use accounting software’s such as QuickBooks, Oracle NetSuite, XERO and Navision to our East African partners to ease their audit processes.
▪ Ensuring that our XERO accounts are up to date by accurately and timely booking bills and clearing them off when the actual payments are made.
▪ Supporting in coordinating and organizing events, workshops, and partner travel.
▪ Filling of financial documents.
▪ Coordinate with the procurement team to ensure that each payment has its own pertinent document.
▪ Making sure there is adequate petty cash money in the office to fund operations.
▪ Reconciling the bank statements versus the account balances in Xero.
▪ Supported in logistics during field visits by organizing for transportation and proper costing are met.

Education

Economics and Statistics

Machakos University

2016/2021

Bachelors degree in Economics, Accounting and Statistics

Skills

• Accounting and Finance
• articulate communicator
• Excel Profirciency
• innovativeness
• QuickBooks
• SAP
• Xero