Yona Sikapundwa

Duties and responsibilities include:

Revenue Management

• Ensuring that all the revenue due to the council is collected timely in order to finance smooth operations of the council.

Expenditure

• Ensuring that all the expenditure is monitored and is in compliance with the the approved council budget and other relevant financial regulations.
• Ensuring that Constituency development Fund (CDF) is expended within the approved project allocation amount and contract price.

Financial Reporting

• Ensuring that management reports are prepared timely and within the right framework in order to support management decision making.
• Assisting in ensuring that quarterly reports are prepared timely and within the right framework in ensuring the finance and general purposes committee and council makes well informed decisions.
• Assisting in ensuring that Constituency Development Fund (CDF) reports are prepared timely in order to support the Constituency Development Fund committee (CDFC) decision making.
• Preparation of Financial statements in order to give the position of the council's past performance and current position.
• Ensuring that NAPSA, ZRA, NHIMA, PSPF, LASF and other statutory returns are submitted timely.

Payroll Management

• Monitoring of the payroll in order to ensure that expenditure on personal emoluments is accurate and contained within the budget and other relevant financial regulations.

Personnel Management

• To effectively oversee and manage the human, financial and material resources to enhance the operations of the department.

Added responsibilities includes:

Project Accountant

Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Basin-(SCRiKA)

• Project expenditure retirement and ensuring the funding is secured for smooth project operation.
• Reviewing payment vouchers for supporting documents to ensure completeness.
• Ensuring that that project grant is expensed as per the project financial guidelines and regulations.
• Coordination of annual internal and external audit .

• Ensured the accurate capturing of invoices in the accounting systems in order to effect payment on time and accurately to Creditors.
• Verified vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
• Utilized talents and expertise to complete on-time and accurate monthly closing processes, journal entries and accruals.
• Trained and mentored new team members and managers on accounts payable systems and policies to build cohesive groups and promote operational performance.
• Reported financial data and updated financial records in ledgers and journals.
• Reviewed account documentation for over 60 accounts, rectified issues and contacted vendors about account changes.
• Verified accuracy of accounts payable payments, resulting in reduction in payment errors and check reissues.
• Tracked business revenue and expenditures and reconciled accounts to maintain high accuracy.
• Reconciled processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balance.
• Kept vendor files accurate and up-to-date to expedite payment processing.
• Reviewed vendor invoices for appropriate documentation and validity prior to payment.
• Ensured sending Remittance Advices to suppliers after completion of the Payment Run.
• Generated financial statements and reports detailing accounts payable status.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.