Experience

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  Panafrican Equipment Group

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Group Sales & Shipping Officer

    • Oct 2012 - Present
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Achievements:▪ Seamlessly operated in the pandemic with team, without a break or a single delivery hold during these months. Effectively mitigated all pandemic induced crises. ▪ Instrumental in competency development and staff performance management, motivation functions.▪ Sole person handling and entrusted with managing all matters pertaining to Letters of Credit.Key Responsibilities: ▪ Managing a concurrent mandate spanning across logistics management and sales functions. ▪ Administering the entire commercial lifecycle of preparing offers, quotations, proforma’s to direct customers on spare parts and heavy Equipment. ▪ Responsible for sending Purchase Orders to Suppliers and maintaining the Equipment order reports. ▪ Responsible of handling all In-ward LC’s and Out-ward LC’s for Equipment and Parts.▪ Responsible of preparing LC documents as per the Letters of Credit requirements, check list preparation and review and dispatching of documents to respective banks.▪ Verifying terms of credit, such as amount, Incoterms, insurance coverage, and shipping conditions to determine compliance with established standards.▪ Responsible for handling Cross Trade Imports and Exports shipments. ▪ Tracking flow across the entire logistics lifecycle right from arranging the shipments booking, shipping arrangements, shipping instructions and all other documentation as per the customer requirements.▪ Responsible for preparing the customer clearing documentations, for Imports shipments for Equipment and Spare Parts making sure necessary documents all fulfilled as per the customer logistics regulations in East and West Africa. ▪ Serving as a custodian for the entire whole goods billing, receipts, inventory, and credit notes process, ensured receivables are promptly collected. ▪ Maintaining the Sales Tracker, Equipment Tracker, Logistics Tracker, and Inventory report▪ Maintaining records of customer contracts and agreements.

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  Inchcape Shipping Services

  • Credit Controller

    • Apr 2007 - Oct 2012

    Key Responsibilities:▪ Conducted follow-ups and managed collection activities of credit customers of the assigned region. ▪ Supervised the collection plan and reconciled monthly receivables to prepare management reports.▪ Negotiated payment plans, making monthly provisions against bad debts and visiting key clients for collection.▪ Coordinated with the legal department to initiate remedy, issuing legal notices as well as taking appropriate action against bounced cheques, such as filing civil cases with relevant authorities of DCCI and Dubai Police.▪ Reviewing the branches’ monthly collection and outstanding cases with business units as well as evaluate each team’s quarter performance and KIPs.▪ Scheduled and coordinated legal proceedings local & international on high-risk accounts when all other recovery measures failed.▪ Contributed to department wide staff development initiatives through coaching, training, mentoring and managed the performance of the collection department staff under purview.▪ Scrutinized transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance to quality parameters, performing reconciliation, mitigating all account issues and reporting all possible delinquent trends.▪ Focused on maintaining a stringent control procedure that gradually reduced risk exposures and thereby eliminateddefault chances.▪ Worked on financial budgeting, Cheque(s), bank transfers, credit notes issuance, foreign-exchange dealings, invoices, cash flow and allocating payments of the liners and cargo customers. ▪ Responsible for posting Journal entries, issuing Refund cheque’s, arranging bank transfer payments to suppliers and settling any issues that deals with clients. ▪ Responsible for handling international processes surrounding the daily billing, management, collection, settlement, general ledger, month end closing and many more official duties.

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  GOTHONG SOUTHERN GROUP

  • Pier 4, Cebu City Philippines

  • Accounts Payable/ Receivable

    • Jan 2005 - Apr 2006
    • Pier 4, Cebu City Philippines

    Starting off my hopefully long career in accounting, I started working alongside a Senior Accountant who would be able to teach me best practices. This meant lots of shadowing and understanding different processes from someone who had been doing it much longer than I had.