ACKSON NYIRENDA
Lusaka
Summary
I am a member of the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA) and the Zambia Institute of Marketing with experience gained from Workers Compensation Fund Control Board, World Bicycle Relief and Thofu Diagnostics Zambia Limited . Have in financial analysis and reporting. am accomplished in identifying weaknesses in design, implementation and operation of systems and making value adding recommendations, training and motivating team members to produce work and reports that demonstrate vigilant analysis of truth and fairness of information available. I have good working relationships with supervisors and subordinates who have never had reservations on competence levels in their performance assessments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Sales and Marketing Manager
Thofu Diagnostics Zambia LTD
01.2023 - Current
- Promoting the company's existing brands and introducing new products to the market
- Analysing budgets, preparing annual budget plans, scheduling expenditures, and ensuring that the sales team meets their quotas and goals
- Researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans, understanding consumer requirements, identifying market trends, and suggesting system improvements to achieve the company's marketing goals
- Gathering, investigating, and summarizing market data and trends to draft reports
- Implementing new sales plans and advertising
- Recruiting, training, scheduling, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams to meet sales and marketing human resource objectives
- Maintaining relationships with important clients by making regular visits, understanding their needs, and anticipating new marketing opportunities
- Staying current in the industry by attending educational opportunities, conferences, and workshops, reading publications, and maintaining personal and professional networks.
Subject Teacher - Commerce and Accounts
Ministry Of Education
01.2019 - 01.2022
- · Deliver high quality lessons in the spirit of the vision for learning set out by the Leadership Group of the school and the Learning and Teaching principles of the school.
- · Plan effectively for high quality teaching, learning and assessment through the creative design and effective implementation of Assessment Schedules and Schemes of Work.
- · Engage in a collaborative approach to planning as far as possible.
- · Engage in or deliver appropriate Continual Professional Development opportunities to enhance the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
- · Maintain a high awareness of current pedagogical and subject specific developments and adopt as appropriate.
- · Assist in, and engage with, the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of teaching, learning and assessment within your Subject Area, in line with school policy, through the frequent use of learning observations, drop ins, works samples, student/parent/staff voice and assessment moderation.
- · Ensure homework is used effectively to enhance and develop student learning.
- · Accept and use regular feedback from monitoring and evaluation exercises.
- · Plan and lead high quality educational trips and events that will enhance learning.
- · Create a high quality learning environment in the Subject Area through learning focused displays and resources.
Assistant Accountant
World Bicycle Relief
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Cash Management and filling adequate accounting source document
- Processing Cheques payments and correctly code expenditures
- Banking of cash and cheque receipts in a timely and acceptable manner
- Petty Raising invoices and posting in accounting
- Prepare and submission of statutory obligations such as VAT, Workers Compensation returns NAPSA etc
- Bank reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation
- Assistant in the preparation on payroll inputs using dove payroll
- Processing travel expense and posting them on the system
- Review and verify invoices and check requests sort, code and match invoices set invoices up for payment
- Enter and upload invoices into system
- Prepare and process electronic transfers and payment
- Post transactions to journals, ledgers and other records
- Reconcile accounts payable transactions
- Prepare analysis of accounts
- Maintain vendor files correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
- Provide supporting documentation for audits.
Acting Financial Accountant
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
07.2012 - 10.2013
- Preparation of the Board’s statutory financial statements and annual report
- Coordinates the preparation of audit schedules and external audit
- Accounts for fixed assets and maintenance of the fixed assets register in order to keep an accurate record of the Board’s fixed assets
- Bank reconciliations for the main account
- Maintain the chart of accounts, i.e
- Review of relevance and adequacy of existing account codes in order to ensure transparency and relevance
- Review postings to sun systems to ensure accuracy of the trial balances as these feed into the monthly and quarterly reports
- Review and approve expenditure returns and subsequently re-imbursements to branches
- Check the petty cash vouchers, supporting receipts and reimbursement in full view of laid down financial regulations
- Review and approve payment vouchers for onward payment
- Checking payments above ZMW50 thousand
- Keeps updated record of the Board’s financial obligations i.e
- Gratuity payable to contract employees not covered by the in house pension scheme as per generally accepted accounting practise but also to assist the Board in cash-flow planning and management
- Performs cash flow analysis to determine available funds for payments and investments
- Coordinates preparation of Vat schedules and return, reviews schedules and ensures submission by ZRA deadline
- Review weekly report on payments raised being a cash-flow management tool
- Prepare monthly payment schedules for ex employee’s pension payments
- Maintaining supplier accounts
- Supervision of subordinates.
Assistant Accountant Finance
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Responsible for accuracy of organisation’s financial records
- This work included but is not limited to: Review, processing and approval of re-imbursements to branches in full view of approved budget
- Prepare periodic report on payments raised
- Review of bank reconciliations prepared
- Coordinate the preparation of audit schedules and facilitate the external audit process
- Approve and raise journal vouchers depending on values involved
- Check and approve the retirements of business advances
- Maintaining the fixed asset register
- Maintaining the gratuity schedules for contract employees
- Maintain and review the chart of accounts and postings to sun systems to ensure accuracy of the trial balances which feed into the monthly and quarterly reports
- Check on petty cash vouchers submitted to ensure they comply with procedures
- Prepare monthly payment schedules for ex employee’s pension payments
- Prepare/facilitate preparation of the yearend Financial statements for audit purposes
- Maintaining supplier accounts
- Supervision of subordinates.
Assistant Inspector
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Align local Accounts Receivables processes with all branches with Ways of Working with bias towards internal controls
- Assessment of annually returns
- Inspection of companies for compliance
- Oversee customer reconciliations
- Conduct and Lead weekly revenue collections employers accounts evolution meetings
- Participate in Credit review process
- Ensure employers payments are timely credited to employers accounts
- Ensure employers accounts are reconciled and statements distributed to the employers every month
- Visit and manage critical major employers accounts
- Liaise with Credit Control in managing employers accounts regards Trade Finance Credit Management(TFCM)
- Responsible for the Accounts Receivable Sub Ledger and from it, ensure it reconciles with the General Ledger every month
- Responsible for the computation of the aging of receivables and respective suggested bad and doubtful debts.
Education
Master of Science -
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing -
Kwame Nkrumah University
Kabwe12.2023
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Methodology -
Kwame Nkrumah University
Kabwe12.2018
Diploma in Accounts -
Zambia Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants
Lusaka06.2011
Certificate - Eneral Agriculture
Zambia College of Agricultural Science
Monze12.2000
Grade Twelve Certificate -
Naboye Secondary School
Kafue12.1997
Skills
- Excellent analytical skills, self-starter, dependable team leader but also excellent team player, fast learner, good people skills; goal oriented, carries out given responsibilities effectively, able to produce results even under pressure without compromising quality and upholds integrity
- Very good computer skills (excellent at Microsoft Word, Excel, Sun accounting systems and pastel accounting)
- Good interpersonal, leadership, analytical, problem solving, teamwork and negotiating skills
- Fast learner
Affiliations
- Zambia Institute of Marketing (ZIM)
- Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA)
Languages
English
Bemba
Availability
Immediate
Goals
Development of my professional career with greater exposure to entity, corporate investment analysis and management, digital marketing corporate recovery, financial management, general managerial and analytical skills enabling an organization to excel regardless of the size or sector within which it operates., To grow and strengthen my corporate business skills via application of creativity, experience, information acquired from studies and exposure gained through the profession and association; to own and manage businesses on an international level with an indubitable contribution towards social, economic and political development.
Other Positions
Secretary, Zambia Financial and Allied Workers Union (ZUFIAW) Workcom branch
Personal Information
- Profession: Accountant/Marketer
- Hobbies: Watching and playing soccer, Listening to music, Reading, Keen interest in farming and hopes to develop and own a large commercial farm
- Date of Birth: 09/05/79
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Zambian
- Marital Status: Married
Contacts Address
Compensation House, Kafue, ZAMBIA, 360111
References
- Mr. Brian Musonda, Manager Investment, National Pensions Scheme Authority, Lusaka, +260955959411
- Mr. Brian Moonga, Country Manager, World Bicycle Relief, Lusaka, +260950784959
- Mr. John Mapulanga, Country Manager, Abbott Diagnostics International, Lusaka, +260969055279
Timeline
Sales and Marketing Manager
Thofu Diagnostics Zambia LTD
01.2023 - Current
Subject Teacher - Commerce and Accounts
Ministry Of Education
01.2019 - 01.2022
Assistant Accountant
World Bicycle Relief
01.2014 - 01.2017
Acting Financial Accountant
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
07.2012 - 10.2013
Assistant Accountant Finance
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
01.2011 - 01.2012
Assistant Inspector
Workers Compensation Fund Control Board
01.2008 - 01.2010
Master of Science -
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing -
Kwame Nkrumah University
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Methodology -
Kwame Nkrumah University
Diploma in Accounts -
Zambia Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants
Certificate - Eneral Agriculture
Zambia College of Agricultural Science
Grade Twelve Certificate -
Naboye Secondary School
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