Keziah Njoroge

Freelance

Provide strategic finance and accounting leadership to early-stage and scaling technology companies. Build and manage comprehensive accounting operations to ensure financial integrity, support growth, and deliver audit-ready reporting. • Full-Cycle Accounting & Operations: Build and manage the complete accounting function for clients. This includes overseeing the General Ledger, revenue, managing the full accounts payable cycle, and establishing robust financial controls. • Payroll Oversight & Local Statutory Compliance: Manage the complete local payroll function with 100% accuracy, ensuring precise salary disbursements and full compliance with statutory obligations, tax regulations and reporting deadlines. • Strategic Financial Management: Execute a thorough month-end close, including accruals and complex reconciliations for bank and balance sheet accounts. Enhance financial statement accuracy by 35% through cleanup projects that reconcile transactions and refine master data. • Compliance & Audit Leadership: Serve as the primary audit liaison, preparing all documentation and managing inquiries. Maintain a 100% record of clean audit opinions with no material adjustments for clients. • Project & Intercompany Accounting: Optimize project accounting by implementing strict controls over expenses to reduce billing inaccuracies. Ensure accurate execution and monitoring of monthly intercompany recharges and related-party transactions.

ATOMOS • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spearheaded global financial operations for subsidiaries across USA, Germany, Japan, and Australia, ensuring compliance, accurate reporting, and financial integrity. Leveraged multi-entity GL expertise to support strategic decisions and organizational growth. • Expense Management: Directed expense framework using Weel and NetSuite, approving staff expenses, ensuring policy compliance and accurate GL coding to streamline reimbursements and strengthen controls. • Global Payments: Achieved 100% on-time execution for ACH, EFT, wires, and ABA payments through streamlined workflows, enhancing efficiency and cash flow management. • Multi-Currency Reconciliations: Managed complex reconciliations for 200+ monthly transactions across bank accounts, credit cards, and digital wallets (PayPal, Weel) for international entities. • Accounts Payable: Led full-cycle AP for 50+ vendors across four countries via NetSuite, from setup to payment, maintaining vendor relationships and cross-border operations. • Month-End Close: Drove closing processes with oversight of prepayments, accruals, and fixed assets, conducting GL reviews and variance analysis to ensure accuracy. • Financial Partnering: Collaborated with department heads on budgeting and expense tracking, providing insights for cost-saving and financial alignment. • Cash Flow Optimization: Managed foreign currency AR, improving turnover ratio and reducing overdue balances to support healthy cash flow. • Audit Leadership: Served as primary audit contact, preparing documentation and addressing inquiries to ensure compliance with controls and standards.

Viamo • Canada

As a General Ledger Accountant at Viamo, I spearheaded critical financial operations that significantly enhanced the company's reporting accuracy and efficiency. I conducted month-end closing activities by posting journal entries for accruals, depreciation, and other adjustments, which improved overall efficiency by 22%. My expertise in Oracle NetSuite enabled me to reconcile high-value transactions with precision, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and alignment with internal policies for accurate reporting. I successfully led the financial data migration from QuickBooks to NetSuite, ensuring 100% accuracy of opening balances and a seamless transfer of over 95% of historical financial data with minimal operational disruption. This project demonstrated my technical adaptability and attention to detail, while my creation of specialized templates for financial data tracking increased accuracy by 25% and enabled seamless cross-departmental usage. I also streamlined workflows by partnering with remote finance teams to optimize reporting processes, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions that reduced turnaround times by 15%. I also prepared and submitted accurate monthly donor financial reports, ensuring strict adherence to donor compliance requirements and deadlines. My responsibilities extended to payroll management for ESA and MENA regions, where I efficiently managed salary distribution for over 100 employees while ensuring compliance with diverse local tax laws. I meticulously prepared comprehensive general ledger reconciliations to ensure consistency between sub-ledgers for accounts payable and receivable, effectively mitigating discrepancies. Through careful analysis of balance sheet accounts and thorough management of fixed assets and depreciation schedules, I provided stakeholders with valuable insights into the company's financial performance, contributing significantly to informed strategic decision-making across the organization.

Viamo • Canada

Managed an integrated finance and operations role for the Kenya country office. Ensured financial integrity through precise accounting and compliance while providing critical administrative support to drive organizational efficiency. • Financial Management & Compliance: Managed all financial transactions in QuickBooks, guaranteeing data integrity through meticulous processing of vendor payments and comprehensive month-end reconciliations (GL, bank, petty cash). • Spearheaded the preparation of cash flow reports and partnered with Program Managers on project budgeting, providing key insights that directly informed the country's strategic financial planning. • Played a key role in internal and project audits, promptly addressing auditor inquiries and providing precise sample documentation to ensure a smooth process and demonstrate strict adherence to financial controls and donor regulations. • Payroll & HR System Implementation: Excelled in end-to-end payroll management for national staff, ensuring 100% accuracy and compliance in processing and statutory deductions. Pioneered the implementation of Workpay HR software, significantly improving operational efficiency by automating staff reimbursements, enhancing the accuracy of payroll deductions, and digitizing payslip distribution. • Procurement & Operational Efficiency: Led the country office's procurement lifecycle; developed vendor scopes of work, negotiated contracts, and enforced policy adherence, resulting in optimized workflows and measurable cost savings. • Administrative Support: Provided robust administrative support to the Country Director, including planning project workshops and managing the complete end-to-end work permit process for expatriate staff. Liaised with government authorities to secure timely approvals, ensuring a smooth transition for international team members. Managed the acquisition and ongoing administration of comprehensive staff medical insurance coverage.

Freelance • Nairobi, Kenya

• Full-Cycle Accounting & Financial Control: Optimized cash flow and strengthened financial integrity through end-to-end management of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger activities, ensuring accurate reporting and robust internal controls. • Strategic Tax Advisory & Compliance: Proactively identified and resolved complex tax compliance issues, mitigating financial risks and ensuring optimal outcomes. Expertly managed end-to-end tax preparation, guaranteeing accuracy and maximizing compliance for diverse business entities. • Process & Technology Transformation: Drove the adoption of advanced accounting software for startups (Wave,QuickBooks) implementing tailored systems that minimized errors and unlocked operational efficiency by automating core financial processes. • Expense Management Automation: Spearheaded the implementation of integrated expense platforms (Ramp, Expensify), automating data entry to achieve a faster reimbursement cycle, which enhanced employee satisfaction and freed up administrative resources. • Payroll System Excellence: Deployed and managed fully automated payroll systems (Workpay, Wingubox) for organizations with 50-200 employees, ensuring 100% accuracy in processing, statutory deductions, and multi-state compliance.

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