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FRANCIS LUBERENGA

Kampala

Summary

Experienced and highly skilled accomplished finance and accounting professional with a proven track record of over 8 years of experience in diverse financial roles. Possessing a strong foundation in accounting, finance, and auditing, and have consistently demonstrated the ability to provide valuable insights, drive process improvements, and deliver accurate financial reporting. Detail-oriented and focused on improving company financial operations and streamlining processes using effective leadership, planning, and decision-making abilities.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

senior accountant

Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA & WQS RECRUITMENT SERVICES LIMITED
2022.07 - Current
  • Leadership and Supervision; Managing the whole accounting department, of 5 people overseeing its functionality as per the company policies, responsible for the efficiency of the department and making sure that the personnel in the department are performing and executing their tasks very well
  • Top Management reporting; Preparing monthly management reports and presenting them to the CFO that is end month financial reports, monthly cashflow projections, Budget-variance reports and others by the 5th day of the following month
  • Business Analysis; Developing various business analysis models to help management to clearly and further understand the various dynamics of the company’s operations and to facilitate better decision making about various company projects
  • Budgeting; I have the responsibility of developing the budget template then communicating and distributing it to the various cost center managers while overseeing the whole process and after consolidating the whole Budget and then communicating and sending it to the CFO to present it to the B.O.D for approval
  • Statutory Compliance; Responsible for ensuring statutory compliance through ensuring that all taxes, NSSF and other statutory obligations are filed and paid on time
  • I also make sure that I keep myself informed with the new developments in the taxation whelm
  • Working Capital & Cashflow Planning; I always keep a watchful eye on the working capital of the company through preparing weekly working capital reports to make sure that the company is liquid enough run its operations and also to monthly cashflow project to track the monthly movement of cash and to make sure that cash will be available to run the company operations
  • Approvals; Responsible for payments approvals and confirming that they are within the budget and also invoices approval to make sure that every activity or service rendered within a specific period has been invoiced
  • Account Reconciliation & Audit Planning; Reviewing and making sure that every item of the financial statements is correct and fairly presented
  • Incase of errors or wrong posting, I investigate the errors and reconcile the errors
  • I am also responsible for preparing and presenting financial statements for auditing
  • Debt Collection; Making sure that invoicing is done on time and invoices are dispatched to the clients on time and that they are received and acknowledged by the client
  • After invoices I keep track of the receivables aging, sending reminders and statements to clients reminding them of their balances and also singling out those clients that are past their payments days and then following them up to establish the reasons for the late payments and finding out when they are planning to settle their outstanding balances.

accountant

WQS RECRUITMENT SERVICES LIMITED
2021.10 - Current
  • Set up and build the accounts department of the company from scratch, proposed and set up all the accounting systems, procedures and policies that are being used today
  • Tasks
  • Top Management reporting; Preparing monthly management reports and presenting them to the CFO that is end month financial reports, monthly cashflow projections, Budget-variance reports and others
  • Taxation and statutory compliance; preparing, filing and paying all statutory taxes and NSSF on time with zero compliance issues
  • Invoicing; Billing and Invoicing clients on time with zero tolerance to delayed invoicing in order to collect on time
  • Debt Collection
  • Making sure that no receivables go passed their due date and making sure all those pass due are quickly followed up and collected
  • Payments; Preparing payrolls and payment summary for all due payments so that all payments are done on time
  • Weekly reporting; Preparing weekly reports like working capital reports, payables and receivable reports and presenting them to the CFO and the management team
  • Reconciliations; Carrying out bank, supplier and client account reconciliations and also the ledger reconciliations so that they are free from errors
  • Financial Analysis; Using various models to do carry out company financial analytics and communicating them to management for them to better understand the company’s state of affairs
  • Budgeting; Drawing the budget templates and sharing them with the managers and after consolidating the budget for approval, entering the budget in the system for monitoring and reporting
  • Data Entry; Entering data into the accounting system, reviewing the data in the system for errors, mis-postings and mis-allocations.

ACCOUNTANT RECEIVABLES & DEBT COLLECTION OFFICER Q

SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2019.10 - Current
  • Improved invoicing and collection time by 60% through early accurate invoicing and hence early payments
  • Reduced the cost of capital by collecting on time and reducing over reliance on bank debt
  • Brought down the receivables by 70% through being able to collect overdue outstanding receivables that were over 210days and also not allowing receivables to go 30 days beyond their due dates
  • Tasks
  • Invoicing and Billing; Billing and invoicing clients upon successive completion of work or stage in a work
  • Receipting client payments; Processing, verifying and updating clients’ accounts with recent receipts and sharing statements with them
  • Account Reconciliations; Researching and resolving accounts receivable discrepancies
  • Performing administrative and clerical tasks, such as data entry, preparing invoices, sending bill reminders, filing paperwork, and contacting clients to discuss their accounts
  • Reporting; Generating and preparing weekly, monthly & annual receivable reports for internal use by the top management
  • Financial Analysis; Carrying out receivable analysis and sharing the data with top management for decision making
  • Debt collection; Running daily receivables age analysis and following up with clients with due invoices for payment, sending payment reminders to clients for due and overdue invoices, working with the legal department to renegotiate payment plans and deadlines with overdue clients
  • Assisting the Finance manager with general financial management and analysis
  • Cashflow projections; Working with the payables accountant to draft monthly & Quarterly cashflow projections
  • Support the Finance Manager with the preparation of Monthly management accounts
  • Support the Finance manager in the Budgeting process and tax planning.

ACCOUNTANT PAYABLES

Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2018.08 - 2019.09
  • Data Entry; Calculating, posting business transactions, processing invoices, verifying financial data for use in maintaining accounts payable records
  • Document Verification; Reviewing & verifying that invoices and requisitions have complete documentation and satisfactory approvals
  • Reconciliations; Reconciling Bank statements every month
  • Reconciling supplier accounts to make sure that there are no duplicate invoices in the systems or there are no duplicate payments made
  • Investigating and resolving invoice discrepancies and issues
  • Supervising the accounts assistant to make sure that data is accurately entered into the accounting system
  • Timely Payments; Ensuring that staff, suppliers and other expenses like utility bills, statutory are paid on time
  • Payment Preparations; Preparing payment schedules and sending them for approval before payments are made
  • Reporting; Preparing weekly & monthly payable reports, cash reports, cashflow projections and other
  • Filing and record tracking; Keeping track of all payments and expenditures, including payroll, purchase orders, invoices, statements, etc
  • Statutory Compliance; Filing monthly tax returns i.e., VAT, PAYE, WHT and other statutories like NSSF and paying them on time to avoid any penalty
  • Budgeting; Monitoring the budget lines while making payments and making sure that all payments made are within the Budget
  • Asset Management; Maintaining, updating and verification of assets in the asset register and making sure that depression is accurately calculated against them.

INTERNAL AUDIT OFFICER

Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2016.06 - 2018.07
  • Carried out Enterprise Risk Mapping for the company and drafted the first risk register for the company
  • Oversaw and spearheaded the first comprehensive financial audit for the company with a creditable audit firm
  • Tasks
  • Working with external auditors to carry out an ERM (enterprise risk management) for Q sourcing
  • Working with external auditors to audit final accounts
  • Presenting final accounts to the B.O.D
  • Auditing finance to see that the accounts are well maintained and prepared
  • Risk management where I carry out risk analysis, assessment, risk capturing and mitigating risks
  • Inspecting and maintaining efficient internal controls
  • Financial analysis and inspection of financial reports
  • Preparing effective audit plans
  • Assisting external auditors in their work for effective and efficient audit designs
  • Advice management on various projects and on a way forward on those projects
  • Provide management with an opinion on the internal controls
  • Execute company internal audits, special investigations, compliance with policies and rules
  • Design the audit program routine
  • Analyse operations and propose value added recommendations
  • Carrying out Quality checks and Compliance audits

MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2016.12 - 2017.10
  • Helped the company (Q sourcing) achieve ISO certification after 2 attempts and losing over 15000 US dollars
  • I achieved this on a small budget and saved the company a lot of funds of over 70% of the budgeted 10000 US dollars
  • Tasks
  • Drafting company policies & procedures and revising the old policies and procedures
  • Drafting standardized company forms, templates and reports to be used for various operations
  • Working with the ISO certification auditors to implement the Quality standards
  • Working with the ISO auditors during the certification audits
  • Ensuring that the company operates as per the ISO guidelines
  • Carrying out regular audits to ensure compliance to the ISO regulations.

ACCOUNTS & ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

BRIDGE GROUP (U) LIMITED
2013.06 - 2015.01
  • Tasks
  • In charge of entering data into the accounting software
  • In charge of client invoicing and debt collection
  • In charge of managing the payroll of the staff i.e., updating & making monthly payrolls
  • In charge of petty cash management
  • In charge of filling and organizing accounting records
  • Provide administrative support to the accounting department
  • Maintain and manage office administrative expenditure
  • Filing taxes and other statutory obligations like NSSF
  • Check and verify supplier invoices before making payment vouchers
  • Inventory management and control
  • Making bank deposits and maintaining payment records
  • Reconciling bank statements.

Education

MBA - Accounting And Finance

Amity University, India
11.2024

Professional Accounting Course - Accounting And Finance

CPA Uganda, Uganda
12.2024

Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting

NDEJJE UNIVERSITY

High School Diploma -

Rock Foundation Secondary School, Nsambya, Kampala Uganda
2006

UACE

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UCE, Nile Secondary School
2004

Profe -

CPA - Uganda, Uganda

Skills

  • Financial Analysis and Reporting
  • Cash and liquidity Management
  • Debt Collection
  • Budget Planning &Forecasting
  • Performance management & measurement
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Administrative support
  • Relationship building
  • Statutory Filing
  • Risk Management
  • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Balance sheet item reconciliation
  • Banking Operations
  • Records management
  • Operations management
  • Payroll Management
  • Expert in GAAP and statutory reporting
  • Inter control systems
  • Asset Utilization Analysis
  • Regulatory Filings
  • Auditing and Attestation
  • Prepare Budgets
  • Payroll Oversight
  • VAT Returns
  • Accounting System Design
  • Finance and Accounting Operations
  • Cash Flow Forecasting
  • Intercompany Reconciliations
  • Accruals and Provisions
  • Payroll Processing
  • Journal Entry Posting
  • Budget Administration
  • Client Representation
  • Extravagance and Fraud Detection
  • Financial and Regulatory Consulting
  • Financial Projections

Affiliations

Julius Atenda

Accountant

ATC Uganda

+256 772 560082 jatenda@gmail.com


Balugambire Wilber

Branch Supervisor

Pride Microfinance

+256 701 314892

wbalugambire@gmail.com


Musisi Peter

Accountant

NIRAS

+256 784 031937 petermusis2@gmail.com

Languages

Luganda
Native language
English
Proficient
C2

Additional Information


I hereby declare that all the information provided in this Curriculum Vitae (CV) is true, complete, and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that any false or misleading information given may lead to the rejection of my application or termination of my employment if discovered at any point in time.

I further affirm that the experiences, achievements, and qualifications mentioned in this CV are genuinely my own and have been obtained through legitimate means. I take full responsibility for the authenticity of the documents and certifications submitted as evidence of my qualifications.

Timeline

senior accountant - Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA & WQS RECRUITMENT SERVICES LIMITED
2022.07 - Current
accountant - WQS RECRUITMENT SERVICES LIMITED
2021.10 - Current
ACCOUNTANT RECEIVABLES & DEBT COLLECTION OFFICER Q - SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2019.10 - Current
ACCOUNTANT PAYABLES - Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2018.08 - 2019.09
MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE - Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2016.12 - 2017.10
INTERNAL AUDIT OFFICER - Q-SOURCING LIMITED UGANDA
2016.06 - 2018.07
ACCOUNTS & ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER - BRIDGE GROUP (U) LIMITED
2013.06 - 2015.01
Amity University - MBA, Accounting And Finance
CPA Uganda - Professional Accounting Course, Accounting And Finance
NDEJJE UNIVERSITY - Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting
Rock Foundation Secondary School - High School Diploma,
UCE, Nile Secondary School - ,
CPA - Uganda - Profe,
FRANCIS LUBERENGA