Experience

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  BME, a Member of the Omnia Group

  • Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia

  • Financial Accountant

    • Dec 2023 - Present
    • Solwezi, North-Western Province, Zambia

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  Toyota Zambia

  • Zambia
  • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Branch Accountant

    • Sep 2022 - May 2024

  • Credit Controller

    • Nov 2020 - Aug 2022

    Responsible For the Following: 1. Responsible for updating the debtors accounts with payments to ensure correct customer account status at all times.2. Generating monthly customer account statements and dispatch to ensure timely communication to customers of their account status.3. Responsible for following up, reminding and collecting payments from credit customers.4. Work with the business departments to ensure collection of all the necessary documentation for proper record maintenance on credit customer files.5. Prepare report on debt collections and submit to the Branch Accountant.6. Handle all credit customer queries in time and ensure effective communication to all concerned parties.7. Send statements to customers bi-monthly8. Advise customers on account status9. Ensure timely resolution of customer queries.10. Circulate daily debtors reports to the General Manager, Chief Financial Officer, heads of departments and concerned personnel.11. Ensure all customer payments are allocated within 48 hours of receipt of funds

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  BIA Zambia Limited

  • Zambia

  • Accountant

    • Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
    • Zambia

    Responsible For the following1. Reviewing of all creditor invoice processing and ensuring the liability is correctly recognized.2. Processing creditors payments and performing reconciliations on their accounts, in conjunction with the Senior Accountant.3. Handle all queries relating to payments4. Support statutory and tax audits for all matters relating to Accounts payables.5. Review all Petty Cash payments and Bookings in the system.6. Perform Bank reconciliations on a monthly basis in conjunction with the senior Accountant.7. Maintain the Fixed Assets register and ensure all company assets are properly tagged and labelled.8. Perform month end reconciliations on certain balance sheet accounts to support the month end reporting.9. Prepare VAT returns and other statutory obligations each month.10. Responsible for Managing the Fleet of Vehicles for the Company.11. Any other duties as assigned by the Senior Accountant and Financial Manager.

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  Komatsu Zambia Limited

  • Chingola

  • Creditors Clerk

    • May 2013 - Apr 2019
    • Chingola

    Responsible For the Following:1. Vendor Invoice Collection: on a daily basis and ensuring invoices are processed timely and correctly.2. Supplier Reconciliation: on a monthly basis and to manage relationships withintercompany and third party vendors.3. Handle all queries relating to payments4. Perform bank reconciliations on a monthly basis and submit to Financial Manager.5. Perform month-end accounting activities such as passing journals and reconciliations on balance sheet and income statement accounts.6. Assist the Financial Manager in the preparation of monthly management accounts7. Attend to both external and internal audit activities by providing necessary information and preparing requested documentation8. Compute and prepare returns for Withholding Tax and payments for VAT and PAYE.9. Other duties as assigned by the Financial Manager.

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  U & M Mining Zambia Limited

  • Chingola

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Jul 2011 - Apr 2013
    • Chingola

    Responsible For the Following:1. Update exchange rates on SAP on a daily basis (ZMW/USD, ZAR/USD, ZMW/EUR, ZMW/ZAR, ZMW/GBP)2. Process all supplier invoices on the system (SAP) for payment. An average of 40 invoices per day3. Training and supervising intern to process supplier invoices and updating the exchange rates on SAP.4. Preparing the daily and monthly bank reconciliations involving eight company bank accounts.5. Preparing and submitting the monthly VAT returns6. Processing all import documents and ensuring that the import VAT portion is correctly posted.7. Assist with any other ad-hoc tasks as delegated by the Accountant or the Finance Manager.

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  Yellowquip Limited

  • Chingola

  • Accounts Payable Officer

    • Jun 2009 - Jul 2011
    • Chingola

    Responsible For the Following:1. Batching, coding and processing invoices in pastel2. Responsible for all statutory obligations (VAT, NAPSA, Personal levy and workers Compensation)3. Assisting in preparing monthly reports such as trial balance, income statement and statement of financial position.4. Obtaining statement of account from suppliers and ensuring reconciliations are done on supplier accounts.5. Preparing payroll using dove payroll and ensuring that weekly time sheets and other payroll inputs arecollected on time6. Issuing fuel and updating both in pastel and spreadsheet7. Raising cheques and cashbook maintenance in pastel including all bank reconciliations8. Receipting cash/cheques and banking.9. Ordering and purchasing office consumables including raising goods received notes.10. Updating cheque registers11. Debt collection12. Reporting to Accountant and liaising with Finance team members on all aspects of financial matters.13. Obtaining bank balances/rate of exchange for all major currencies on a daily basis and maintaining a record of this on a spreadsheet14. Filing15. Assist with any other ad-hoc tasks as delegated by the Management Accountant or in his absence, the Operations Manager/Finance Manager.