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CHALWE HARRINGTON KANAMINA

KITWE

Summary

Dynamic Finance Manager with extensive experience at TATA INTERNATIONAL – JOHN DEERE, adept at financial reporting and strategic planning. Proven track record in enhancing profitability through effective budget management and financial analysis. Strong leadership and communication skills, coupled with expertise in SAP, drive successful team performance and compliance with regulatory standards.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

FINANCE MANAGER

TATA INTERNATIONAL –JOHN DEERE
Lusaka, Zambia
09.2024 - Current
  • As Finance Manager am responsible for the financial health of the organization, including:
  • Financial reporting: Preparing financial statements, business activity reports, and forecasts
  • Financial analysis: Analyzing market trends and financial details to maximize profits and ensure compliance with legal requirements
  • Financial planning: Developing business strategies and plans for long-term financial goals
  • Financial management: Managing cash flow, investments, and monetary risks
  • Financial guidance: Providing financial guidance to other departments, such as collaborating with marketing to develop budgets or working with HR to establish employee benefits
  • Financial policy: Developing and implementing policies for finance and accounting departments
  • Financial team management: Supervising employees who do financial reporting and budgeting, and providing adequate support to finance and accounting teams
  • External relations: Liaising with external auditors and banks
  • Accounting System SAP
  • Analyzed financial data to support operational decision-making processes.

FINANCE OFFICER

RIGHT TO CARE (USAID) PEPFAR
Lusaka
06.2024 - 08.2024
  • The major remit was to undertake a physical verification of all the assets under the USAID Action to HIV epidemic control project in all of the supported facilities in Northern, Luapula and Muchinga provinces and reconciling these to Fixed Asset Register.

ACCOUNTANT

INTERLINK FREIGHT SERIVES LIMITED
Lusaka
01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Responsibilities and expectations included:
  • Ensure staff adherence to current financial systems and processes
  • Manage budgets, regularly match expenditure against all budgets
  • Oversee cash flow management, prepare payment requests and purchase orders
  • Update cash books every month
  • Prepare monthly financial reports and bank reconciliation
  • Review all procurement documents
  • Prepare monthly payroll
  • Ensure statutory compliance – ZRA, NAPSA, NHIMA, W/H Tax, Workers Comp
  • Maintain relationships with vendors
  • Liaise annually with external auditors and HR department
  • Continually improve efficiencies and provide cost-reducing solutions
  • Additional tasks based on organization needs
  • ACCOUNTING Package QuickBooks and Palladium

ACCOUNTANT

FLUID MANAGEMENT SERVICES (LINCOLN SA)
Solwezi
08.2014 - 11.2020
  • Responsible for managing day to day financial transactions for the Company and all accounting functions to ensure proper use, tracking and accountability.
  • Responsibilities and expectations included:
  • Ensure staff adherence to current financial systems and processes
  • Manage budgets, regularly match expenditure against all budgets
  • Oversee cash flow management, prepare payment requests and purchase orders
  • Update cash books every month
  • Prepare monthly financial reports and bank reconciliation
  • Review all procurement documents
  • Prepare monthly payroll
  • Ensure statutory compliance – ZRA, NAPSA, NHIS, W/H Tax, Workers Comp
  • Maintain relationships with vendors
  • Liaise annually with external auditors and HR department
  • Continually improve efficiencies and provide cost-reducing solutions
  • Additional tasks based on organization needs
  • Manage PASTEL PARTNER accounting system.

ACCOUNTANT/IT

CROSSLOADING ZAMBIA LIMITED
Chingola
02.2013 - 07.2014
  • Company Overview: IN ASSOCIATION WITH Ka Go 2 Go, Cargo 2 Congo and HAULOADS ZAMBIA LTD Chingola
  • Worked as an accountant and IT assistant for the Group as mentioned above, responsibilities included
  • -Banking and processing of related entries.
  • -Payroll processing
  • -Taxes and submitting to relevant authorities
  • -Creditors
  • -Debtors
  • -Provide support in all IT related functions.
  • Accounting system: PASTEL PATNER

CREDITORS CLERK

CREDITORS CLERK CHINGOLA MOOLMANS KCM CONTRACT
11.2009 - 05.2011
  • As payables accountant was responsible for all the payments made by the Company. Among duties is to ensure accurate and timely management of the Suppliers’ and statutory Payments
  • (A.) SUPPLY: Receive purchase’ orders from procurement and invoices from stores.
  • Capture invoices in the system and post to creditors accounts.
  • Raise Cheques for authorisation and do allocations of payments
  • Make authorised payments to suppliers with reconciled statements and accounts
  • (B)STATUTORY: Compile Reports for payments of VAT, NAPSA, PAYE and with Holding Taxes (W/T)
  • Trained as a Comprehensive User of ACCPAC

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION CLERK

J V CIVILS LTD
Kitwe
01.2008 - 09.2009
  • Worked as Finance and administration accountant for J V Civils ltd on permanent basis with a summary of duties as follows:
  • - Receive and capture supplier’s invoices.
  • - Raise cheque requisition for payments of suppliers and petty cash reimbursement.
  • - Record and post petty cash entries for Kitwe, Mufulira and Chingola accounts.
  • - Reconcile fuel used on our four operational sites i.e. Nkana haulage, Open pit, Cobalt and Oxide haulage.
  • - Stores job costing and cost allocation to actual cost centres.
  • - Assist in cash handling e.g. payments of casual workers and cash receipts from debtors.
  • - Trained and successfully attained the SAGE pastel certification as a comprehensive basic user of PASTEL EVOLUTION package

PAYMASTER (TELLER)

G4S SECURITY SERVICES CASH CENTRE
Kitwe
07.2007 - 01.2008
  • Worked as a paymaster on Contract basis that is
  • - Receipt and verification of salaries vouchers from different clients on behalf of G4S security services.
  • - Received and verified cash from the bank on behalf of G4S security services.
  • - Did the pay packing and verification on behalf of G4S security services
  • - Went to clients premises and made the payments of salaries and other related payments
  • - upon personal identifications.
  • - Reconciled the cash drawn from vault and receipts on a daily basis.
  • - Banking system, micro-baker
  • Reported to the ATM team leader and the Vault custodian

STOCKS CONTROL CHECKER

ZAMBIAN BREWERIES GROUP-COPPERBELT BOTTLING CO
Kitwe
08.2006 - 07.2007
  • As a stocks checker I was responsible to a summary of duties as follows:
  • Daily : stock count from 06:00 hrs to 07:00 hrs
  • : Monitor stock movements from the warehouse and from trade.
  • : Ensure that stock to trade is correctly loaded as per loading slips002E
  • : Monitor stock shelf life of products and updating the stock age analysis.
  • : Control the daily casuals for manual work done in the warehouse.
  • : Compile the list for casuals and submit it for payments.
  • Weekly: Complete the stock age analysis and submit report to warehouse manager.
  • : Count stock for total stock as for out trade and in wards from trade
  • Monthly: Participate in monthly stock counting.
  • : Monitor aged products and bad stock.
  • Warehouse stock control system, systems profession (SYSPRO)
  • I was reporting to the warehouse manager and plant accountant.

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

VIEWED INVESTMENTS
Kitwe
09.2003 - 07.2006
  • -Advised the director on performance of debtors and bad debtors.
  • -Recorded credit transaction and all goods supplied on credit.
  • - Ensuring receipts of payments from
  • -Monitoring credit limits and periods for clients and ensuring credit reports and cost related reports were done for completion of final accounts.
  • Monthly: completed all entries for final accounts.
  • Ensured all returns were done on time.
  • Conducted stock counts for stock valuation.
  • Maintain all control measures in place.
  • Reported to the company director

Promoted to position of Accountant Lumwana Site

MOOLMANS MINING ZAMBIA (AVENG GROUP OF COMPANIES)
Lumwana
05.2011
  • As contracts accountant responsibilities included:
  • -Prepare and post Journals
  • -check and post cash book batches
  • -prepare and maintain weekly cash flow
  • -prepare and submit monthly returns VAT, PAYE, NAPSA and W/H TAX
  • -do balance sheet accounts reconciliations, monthly management accounts and reports.
  • -do creditors reconciliations and prepare accounts for payment.
  • -do inter company loan accounts

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY
KITWE
11-2024

Financial Accounting -ACCA Level II

Zambia ICT College
Ndola
01-2020

Some College (No Degree) - Financial Accounting -ACCA Level I

Zambia Institute of Management
Chingola
12-2003

ACCA CERTIFIED ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (CAT) - Accountancy

Zambia Institute of Management
Chingola
12-2002

COMPUTER BASED EXAMS - Office Practice & Procedures

British Council of Zambia
Lusaka
08-2002

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Seniour Secondary Certificate

Kitwe Boys High School
Kitwe
12.2000

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Junior Secondary Education

Kitwe Boys High School
Kitwe
11.1997

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Primary School Education

Buntungwa Primary School
Kitwe
11.1995

Skills

  • Responsible to make and record payments
  • Account for cash and bank transactions
  • Collect and collate information for the completion of final accounts
  • Monitor and control the collection of debts and record and analyse direct costs
  • Prepare standard cost reports for the recommendations to reduce cost and enhance value
  • Using information technology (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, ERPs) by way of accounting systems in planning, monitoring and evaluating the provision of services and resources
  • Financial reporting
  • Financial analysis
  • Budget management
  • Network Administration and IT Support, familiar with VSAT system, MITEL Savers and proper Backups
  • Drivers licence class CE (heavy goods vehicles)
  • Cash flow management
  • Accounting software
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Attention to detail
  • Effective communication
  • Team management
  • Strategic planning
  • Credit analysis
  • Working capital management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Investment analysis
  • KPI development
  • Customer relationship development
  • Coaching and training
  • Financial management
  • Skilled in [software]
  • Variance analysis
  • Budget forecasting
  • Hedge accounting
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Capital budgeting
  • Tax compliance
  • Financial budgeting
  • Human resources
  • Cost accounting
  • Business forecasting
  • Performance analysis
  • IFRS expertise
  • P&L tracking
  • Debt management
  • GAAP
  • Staff training
  • Controls system maintenance
  • Internal controls
  • KPI management
  • Financial risk manager (FRM)
  • Business relationship management
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Risk mitigation

Certification

  • 1.1 MONEY LAUNDERING
  • Trained on money laundering and its portraits, Bank of Zambia (BOZ) training program I now practice by the Bank of Zambia directives.
  • 1.2 CASH HANDLING PROCEDURES
  • Trained on cash handling procedures as lead by the Bank of Zambia (BOZ) Directives I now practice by the Bank of Zambia directives.

References

  • NOEL C, MARAIS, DIRECTOR, +260 9771214, LINCOLN LUBRICATIONS (PTY)SA, Solwezi
  • GLENDA, SIDDALL, FINANCE &ADMINISTRATION MANAGER, +260 968 569582, J V CIVILS LTD
  • ESAU, PHIRI, WAREHOUSE MANAGER, +260 965846753, ZAMBIAN BREWERIES GROUP. COPPERBELT BOTTLING COMPANY LTD.
  • GLENDA, SIDDALL, CONTRACT ACCOUNTANT, glenda_siddall@yahoo.com, +260 0968 86958, MOOLMANS MINING ZAMBIA
  • NORMAN, SHIEL, +260966996940, CROSSLOADING ZAMBIA LIMITED, PO BOX, CHINGOLA

Affiliations

  • ACCA- Association of the Chartered Certified Accountant’s, student
  • ZICA –Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants, student

Timeline

FINANCE MANAGER

TATA INTERNATIONAL –JOHN DEERE
09.2024 - Current

FINANCE OFFICER

RIGHT TO CARE (USAID) PEPFAR
06.2024 - 08.2024

ACCOUNTANT

INTERLINK FREIGHT SERIVES LIMITED
01.2022 - 06.2023

ACCOUNTANT

FLUID MANAGEMENT SERVICES (LINCOLN SA)
08.2014 - 11.2020

ACCOUNTANT/IT

CROSSLOADING ZAMBIA LIMITED
02.2013 - 07.2014

Promoted to position of Accountant Lumwana Site

MOOLMANS MINING ZAMBIA (AVENG GROUP OF COMPANIES)
05.2011

CREDITORS CLERK

CREDITORS CLERK CHINGOLA MOOLMANS KCM CONTRACT
11.2009 - 05.2011

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION CLERK

J V CIVILS LTD
01.2008 - 09.2009

PAYMASTER (TELLER)

G4S SECURITY SERVICES CASH CENTRE
07.2007 - 01.2008

STOCKS CONTROL CHECKER

ZAMBIAN BREWERIES GROUP-COPPERBELT BOTTLING CO
08.2006 - 07.2007

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

VIEWED INVESTMENTS
09.2003 - 07.2006

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY

Financial Accounting -ACCA Level II

Zambia ICT College

Some College (No Degree) - Financial Accounting -ACCA Level I

Zambia Institute of Management

ACCA CERTIFIED ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (CAT) - Accountancy

Zambia Institute of Management

COMPUTER BASED EXAMS - Office Practice & Procedures

British Council of Zambia

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Seniour Secondary Certificate

Kitwe Boys High School

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Junior Secondary Education

Kitwe Boys High School

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES - Primary School Education

Buntungwa Primary School

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