Gloria Mwende
@gloriamwende1
Finance and accounting professional improving AP/AR accuracy, audits, and cash-flow decisioning.
ZimbabweWhat I'm looking for
I’m a finance and accounting professional with 7 years of diverse experience, focused on budgeting, analyzing financial data, and delivering reliable financial reporting. I’m astute at bank & general ledger reconciliations, debt collection, and preparing financial statements that support confident decision-making.
I help organizations develop and implement efficient and effective accounting systems and policies that result in a 95% reliability rating with unqualified audit opinions. I’ve supported major improvements such as assisting in the development and implementation of the Sage Accounting System, optimizing transparency by 90% and accuracy by 98%, and reducing audit queries by 98% by ensuring documentation is complete and compliant.
I also bring a strong operational and stakeholder mindset—establishing tuition fee policies that optimized revenue collection by 99% and minimized bad/doubtful debtors to 1%. Through budgeting and analytics, I’ve helped slash excess expenditures by KES 100,000 per month, identify overspending, negotiate vendor pricing to minimize costs by 70%, and drive measurable impact through systems and donor communication improvements (40% higher contributions and 30% higher retention).
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
• Prepared, examined, and analyzed financial statements and reports to ensure 100% accuracy and presented financial insights clearly through reports and verbal communication to diverse audiences.
• Increased operational efficiency to 95% by developing, implementing, and maintaining financial databases, computer software systems, and manual filing systems, creating and maintaining workflow systems
As an accountant at Regis School Runda, I Revamped the current account receivables templates enhancing transparency to 95% and accuracy to 93%.
Key Contributions:
🔹 Tasked with updating all Accounts Payable and Receivables transactions resulting in a 98% accuracy on financial reports and statements.
Established the debt collection structure in liaison with the financial manager resulting in an o
As a Financial Assistant at GEMS Education, I assisted in performing a financial review to identify 10 key areas of overspending that resulted in slashing excess expenditures by KES.100,000 per month.
Key Contributions:
🔹 As a team of 4, we implemented a new financial accounting system which proved to be 86% more efficient than the previous one.
🔹 In liaison with the chief accountant, I assisted
As a finance intern, I analyzed the current financial reporting process and identified bottlenecks that caused delays reducing the error rate by 20%, and the overall efficiency of the financial reporting process improved by 40%.
Key Contributions:
🔹 Prepared monthly petty cash reports that helped the accounting team track the petty cash expenditure enhancing disbursement controls and protecting t
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Kenyatta University
Bachelor of Economics and Finance
2014 - 2019
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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