VERONA SHAU
Dar es Salaam,Tanzania
Summary
Detail-oriented Accountant with 2 years of experience in accounts payable and general accounting. Expertise in financial reporting, reconciliations, and regulatory compliance, with ongoing pursuit of CPA certification. Proven ability to enhance financial operations and contribute to organisational success within a collaborative finance team.
Overview
2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience
Work history
Assistant accountant
Fleet Express Limited
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2024.09 - Current
- Petty cash management: Process petty cash requisitions, payments, and monthly reconciliation reports to ensure proper utilization of cash and control of daily expenses.
- 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 performing 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
- Statutory payments management: File PAYE, SDL, and VAT returns in TRA portal, oversee corporate tax submissions, and ensure 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.
- 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: Conduct monthly and yearly reconciliations of books of accounts and bank statements.
- Worked closely with the auditing team during yearly audits to guarantee full cooperation from accounting department.
- Cooperated with the team on annual forecasting efforts to provide accurate predictions.
Bank Officer -Internship Programm
Tanzania Commercial Bank
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2023.07 - 2024.08
- Manage a portfolio of existing clients and cross selling of bank's products to enhance relationship as per the assigned targets.
- Identify and acquire new clients in order to grow the liabilities portfolio Delivered high-quality banking services to clients.
- Recommend new services and products which may be suggested from customers and a team in general.
- Ensured growth of loan portfolios aligned with annual targets while maintaining portfolio quality.
- Collaborated with colleagues to improve loan portfolio performance and profitability.
- To facilitate the loan approval process by reviewing and verifying loan applications and ensure that they align with the lending procedures and process prior sending to higher level / specific approves.
- To ensure customer complaints are handled within 24 hours or coordinated to higher authority.
- Keep close attention to market trends and identify trends to the customers.
- Build confidence in our customers by solving the queries and complaints which have been escalated to us in a professional manner
- Identify new SME and business opportunities in various areas including monitoring and closing of all pending duties at an agreed time
- Promoted deposit mobilization strategies to increase customer engagement and create strong relationships with customers
- Cross selling of the bank's products including business accounts, loans, trade finance, and bank-assurance with customers both existing and potential.
- Monitor progress of existing loans (follow up with customers to make payments). Comply with operational risks and legal requirements such as YC and Anti-money laundering regulations (AML)
- Maintained detailed records of transactions, ensuring transparency.
- Recommend new services and products which may be suggested from customers and a team in general.
- Completed additional tasks as directed by the manager.
Education
Bachelor Degree in Banking and Finance -
Institute of Finance Management
Dar es Salaam 2019.11 - 2022.11
Diploma in Business Administration -
National Institute of Transport
Dar es Salaam 2014.07 - 2017.07
Skills
- Invoice Coding, processing and Reconciliation
- Bank Reconciliation
- Accounts payables, receivables and petty cash management
- Tax Compliances
- Accruals Management
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Advanced knowledge in RUBICON Banking System
- Expense Tracking
- Financial Reporting
- Client relationship management
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Problem-solving skills
Certification
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Authority)
NOSHIC 1
CPA (Certified Public Accountant)NBAA
Intermediate Level
Languages
English
Advanced
Swahili
Native
Affiliations
- Networking & community volunteering
- Learning new software and automation tools
- Continuous professional development
Referees.
Mr Abbas Shabani Juma
Branch Manager
Tanzania Commercial Bank
Mobile: +255 787 442 905
Email: abas.juma@tcbbank.co.tz
Mr Athuman Abdallah Mkoma
Planning and Design Engineer
TANESCO
Mobile: +255 715 631 392
Email: athumanmkoma@icloud.com
Mr Louis Elias Shau
Teacher
Uru Secondary School
Mobile: +255 716 160014
Timeline
Assistant accountant
Fleet Express Limited
2024.09 - Current
Bank Officer -Internship Programm
Tanzania Commercial Bank
2023.07 - 2024.08
Bachelor Degree in Banking and Finance -
Institute of Finance Management
2019.11 - 2022.11
Diploma in Business Administration -
National Institute of Transport
2014.07 - 2017.07