Michael Mbotu

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Senior Accountant at Kenyatta Universiy

since April, 2014

mi***tu@gmail.com

About

Finance and accounting professional with 20 years’ experience with the ability to lead teams while demonstrating high standards of integrity and ethical practice. Adept in making financial forecasts, budgeting, and managing risk of financial loss. A Certified Public Accountant with proven ability in application of sound financial reporting principles, systems, and techniques for effective and efficient resources use.

Skills

Accounting
Administration
Finance

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Michael Mbotu

Work experience

Senior Accountant at Kenyatta Universiy

April, 2014 -
Fulltime

Liaise with corporate institutions with respect to students’ fee disbursement, scholarship awards, and refunds.
Prepare and manage budgets for the student finance section.
Prepare audit schedules for both internal and external audit, engage the external auditors, and implement audit recommendations.
Collaborates with the University management to plan, organize, and achieve corporate financial goals.
Spearheads identification, development, and implementation of effective internal control systems.
Drives consistent improvements in financial processes and routine operations in the section.
Leads the section’s month-end closing processes and prepares quarterly financial forecasts for presentation to the University Council.
Validates and verifies payment vouchers for accuracy and accountability.
Key Achievements:
Successfully set-up a verification unit to improve the internal control systems in the section.
Recommended and together with the Director, ICT, implemented a new students’ online clearance system for improved efficiency for students exiting the University.
Recommended the adoption of a new ICT students’ self-invoicing system for improved and accurate recording of revenues (implementation in progress).
Achieved unqualified audit reports for the section in the last three financial years.

Michael Mbotu

Education

Certified Public Accountant – Kenya at Royal Business School

January, 2010 - December, 2012
Fulltime

Accounting

Michael Mbotu

Education

MBA at University of Nairobi

May, 2007 - December, 2010
Fulltime

Finance

Michael Mbotu

Work experience

Accounts Relationship Assistant at Higher Education Loans Board

January, 2007 - March, 2014
Fulltime

Conducted credit analysis for non-performing loans portfolio and prepared reports for management use.
Prepared monthly and quarterly loan recovery forecast reports.
Conducted inspection visits to employers’ premises to enforce the loan recovery policies in line with the HELB Act (1995).
Working in a team of 8 people we reconciled a long-standing suspense account, reducing it from KES 457 million to KES 249 million between January, 2007 and June, 2007.
Accurately updated the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers within 24 hours after data input.
Prepared monthly bank reconciliation statements by the 5th day of each month.
Key Achievement:
Increased monthly loan recovery in the allocated Government Ministries sector from KES 14 million (July, 2010) to KES 29 million (July, 2012).

Michael Mbotu

Work experience

Audit Assistant at Laico Regency Hotel

September, 2002 - December, 2006
Fulltime

Performed data backup procedures to ensure safety of company’s data and records.
Verified all account entries and balances, audited, balanced, and closed out accounts.
Analyzed, evaluated, developed, and implemented new control systems that optimized company revenue collections.
Prepared an accurate daily summary of cash, cheques, and credit card activities for management use.
Key Achievements:
Automated generation of revenue and cost statistics reports which reduced the time required to generate reports by 60%.
Successfully introduced internal control systems in the areas of cash management and promotional programs optimizing revenues and maintaining excellent client relations.