BookkeeperBookkeeper

Key Achievements:

• Own full-cycle bookkeeping (transaction coding, invoicing, AP/AR, bank reconciliations, and month-end close) for multiple concurrent clients across retail, hospitality, agriculture, and services, meeting parallel close deadlines independently in a 100% remote, cloud-based setup. • Restored reconciled, audit-ready ledgers in QuickBooks Online by correcting legacy coding errors and back-filing prior periods. • Built budget, cash-flow, and AP/AR dashboards in Excel (PivotTables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS) with hundreds of interlinked formulas and zero errors at handover, giving owners decision-ready monthly reporting. • Guide clients through KRA tax filings ahead of deadline, eliminating back-filing exposure and strengthening documentation and internal controls. • Serve as primary finance contact for each business owner, translating accounting findings into plain-language status updates, cash summaries, and next steps.

Key Achievements:

• Processed high-volume vendor invoices and payment remittances, verifying, coding, and matching each to formal approval matrices before disbursement, sustaining a zero-fraudulent-payment record across 8+ years. • Posted and reviewed 400+ journal entries monthly across 100+ GL accounts with complete supporting documentation, keeping records audit-ready at all times. • Reconciled 40+ bank and balance-sheet accounts every month to zero outstanding variances, producing audit trails that cleared statutory and internal audits without adjustment. • Cut month-end close time by 20% and lifted reconciliation efficiency by 25% by re-sequencing tasks and standardizing working papers and close checklists (accruals, prepayments, adjusting entries). • Reduced aged receivables by 20% by rebuilding the aging analysis and running structured, proactive collections follow-up on overdue balances.

Key Achievements:

• Managed the full AP cycle for 300–500 transactions monthly, including invoice verification, coding, and vendor statement reconciliations that caught missing and duplicate invoices. • Prepared reconciliation schedules and supporting documentation for month-end close and audit review; supported payroll functions.