MARIUS JOSEPH MASHELLE
Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
Summary
Motivated Accountant with 3 years of experience in accounts payable and general accounting. Skilled in financial reporting, reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, actively pursuing CPA certification to enhance professional expertise. Known for accuracy, efficiency, and the ability to support financial operations that drive organizational success. Seeking to leverage my experience and accounting skills to contribute to a forward-thinking finance team.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Accountant
Fleet Express Ltd
Temeke Dar es Salaam
09.2024 - 12.2025
- Petty Cash Management. Manage petty cash requisitions, process payments, and compile petty cash report involving Petty Cash reconciliations on monthly basis to ensure Cash is properly utilized and day to day cash expenses are controlled
- Invoicing & Billing. Prepare accurate and timely invoices to customers, ensuring compliance with contractual agreements and company policies. Also resolve invoicing discrepancies and handle customer inquiries regarding billing.
- Issuing EFD receipts and perform EFD reconciliation. Issuing correct amount of EFD receipt as per the bill (invoice), performing EFD reconciliation to ensure that all sales transactions are correctly captured and reported in compliance with tax regulations. Maintain accurate records of EFD reports and ensure alignment between system generate invoices and Fiscal Device records
- Managing Statutory Payments. Filling of PAYE, SDL and VAT returns in the TRA portal. Overseeing Corporate tax submissions, ensuring compliance with tax regulations and deadlines
- Accounts Payable & Receivable Management. Oversee timely processing of Invoices and payments to vendors, suppliers, and sub-contractors. Manage receivables by ensuring timely billing and collection from clients and resolving disputes.
- Invoices Processing. Receiving, reviewing and processing invoices from Suppliers, vendors and Creditors. Also verifying that all invoices have necessary supporting documents.
- Vendor and Contract Management. Communicating with vendors regarding invoice discrepancies, payments inquiries and maintaining good relationship with Suppliers
- Payroll Management. Prepare and process monthly payroll, ensure accuracy in employee compensation, deductions and benefits. Ensure compliance with labor laws and tax regulations, handling payroll taxes and statutory contributions
- Bank reconciliation. Reconciling books of accounts and bank statements monthly basis reconciliations and yearly basis reconciliations.
- Team Leadership. Lead and mentor accounting team Assigning responsibilities and review work to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Account Payable
URBAN by CityBlue
Masaki Dar es Salaam
03.2023 - 09.2024
- Invoices Processing. Receiving, reviewing and processing invoices from Suppliers, vendors and Creditors. Also verifying that all invoices have necessary supporting documents. (like EFD’s, TIN no VRN etc.)
- Payments Processing. Ensuring timely and accurate payments to vendors and suppliers involving scheduling payments and preparing cheques or electronic transfers
- Accruals and prepayments. Maintaining all accruals and prepayments transactions
- Vendors Managements. Communicating with vendors regarding invoice discrepancies, payments inquiries and maintaining good relationship with Suppliers
- Record Keeping. Maintaining accurate records of all transactions, invoices, payments and other relating documents. This involves posting all transactions into the accounting systems
- Expense management. Tracking and reconciling expenses, ensuring expenses align with budgetary constraints and company polices
- Reporting. Generating reports related to account payable for internal use, including cashflow analysis, payable aging report and financial statements reports.
- Compliance. Ensuring compliance with company policies as well as regulatory and tax requirements related to payments and documentations (Like PAYEE, SDL, WCF and VAT return)
- Bank reconciliation. Reconciling books of accounts and the bank statements monthly basis reconciliations and yearly basis reconciliations.
Bank Ambassador
CRDB Bank
Dodoma Tanzania
10.2022 - 12.2022
- Representation. Representing and promoting the company profile to its customers
- Opening Bank account to its local customers
- Team leading. Leading a cluster group so as to achieve expected team goal
- Reporting. Preparing daily and monthly reports of what has been done for the day.
- Data analysis. Carefully analyzing the opened bank account if they are ready for use
- Assisting in proper arrangement of records
- Performing any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Education
BSC - Mathematics & Statistics
THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA
11.2019 - 12.2022
Form Six -
TOSAMAGANGA SECONDARY SCHOOL
11.2017 - 05.2019
Form Four -
RITALIZA SECONDARY SCHOOL
01.2013 - 11.2016
Skills
- Advanced knowledge in computer application (MS Excel, MS Word and Emailing) Excellent communication and Organizational skills (both written and spoken) in English and Swahili
- Advanced knowledge in accounting procedures, Bank reconciliation, financial statements preparation, Accounts Receivables & payables, account management, Petty Cash Management, Tax consulting and compliance Also, great ability to work with accounting software like Tally, and FX01
Personal Information
English
Fluent
English, Swahili
Fluent
Certification
CPA (Certified Public Accountant) - NBAA (National Board of Accountants and Auditors) May-2024 to date- (Final Level)
Reference
- Yusuf, Essaji, Managing Director, 0742608748, Fleet Express Ltd
- Gabriel, Mophat, Finance Manager, 0714219491, URBAN by CityBlue
- Machaku, Geni, Branch Manager, 0767051130, CRDB Bank
- Abiud, Bongole, Lecture, 0754823802, The University of Dodoma, PhD
Affiliations
- Interested much in financial related contexts
- Learning a new skill, Reading and Travelling
TRAINING/SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
- Computer Training - DAR ES SALAAM ENGLISH AND COMPUTING CENTER 09-Jan-2017 to 02-Apr-2017
- Data Collection, Management and Analysis Training - SUALISA (Sokoine University of Agriculture Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) 27-Aug-2021 to 15-Oct-2021
- JKT Training Course - 838 KJ Maramba- Tanga 17-Jun-2019 to 15-Sep-2019
- Seminar regarding education, Opportunities and Nationalism - University Of Dodoma 02-May-2021 to 04-May-2021
Timeline
Accountant
Fleet Express Ltd
09.2024 - 12.2025
Account Payable
URBAN by CityBlue
03.2023 - 09.2024
Bank Ambassador
CRDB Bank
10.2022 - 12.2022
BSC - Mathematics & Statistics
THE UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA
11.2019 - 12.2022
Form Six -
TOSAMAGANGA SECONDARY SCHOOL
11.2017 - 05.2019
Form Four -
RITALIZA SECONDARY SCHOOL
01.2013 - 11.2016