Mbirimuje Ngupandjara

Role (Financial Accounting/Revenue Assurance)

Responsible to ensure the collection of all revenue for the authority to feed into the expected budgeted income report for CRAN.

Key Performance Areas:

• Cooperated with senior leaders to create operating budgets and initiate financial planning.
• Provide support on preparation of project and annual budgets.
• Monitor, evaluate, analyze and report on business unit activities.
• Controlled and forecasted incomes and expenditures.
• Developed financial models to assess and analyze financial performance of clients.
• Ensure that new systems/functionalities are implemented to meet operational requirements and to optimize operational efficiency.
• Ensure that operational users are appropriately and adequately trained to utilize existing systems and functionality towards operational efficiency.
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
• Collaborated with accounting manager to comply with governing bodies and limit regulatory risks.
• Implement and continuously manage employee development.

Role (Revenue, Credit Management, Sales Strategy, Taxation, Inventory Management, Cashbook and General Ledger Reconciliation)

Key Performance Areas:

• Be the primary resource for technical revenue issues for sales and marketing departments.
• Compiled budget figures by reviewing past budgets, evaluating estimated income, and assessing expenses.
• Review revenue contracts and deals to ensure compliance with revenue recognition guidelines.
• Facilitated month-end and year-end closing processed to support accuracy and completeness of financial reports.
• Contributed to annual budget development and quarterly forecasts to support continuous adherence.
• Completed financial reports, providing insight into performance, operations and cash flow.
• Reconciled daily AR ledger and verified proper posting.
• Created financial dashboards to provide insights into key performance indicators.
• Compile Financial Reports, lead the month-end closing process and conduct monthly financial sales forecast.
• Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Analyzed business processes to identify cost savings and operational efficiencies.
• Manage Imports and VAT account for MTC to ensure compliance with the VAT legislation of Namibia and verify accurate VAT calculations for reporting in the Annual Financial Statements.
• Participated in regular cycle counts to confirm accuracy of inventory records.
• Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.

Role (Financial Accounting and Administration, Financial Director

Key Performance Areas:

• Organize the Finance function of the organization and manage the employees, volunteers, activities and all aspects within the team in accordance with the approved plans, budgets and relevant procedures.
• Oversaw to the timely and accurate development of the country budgets, financial reports. This was done to assist the country director with making informed decisions in terms of the program strategy, resource allocation, and investment decisions.
• Plan, develop and implement business unit objectives.
• Oversaw all aspects of Treasury Management including cash flow forecasting, budgeting, collections and vendor payments for all country operations.
• Monitor, evaluate, analyze and report on business unit activities.
• Provide strategic overview in quarterly budgetary reports for each regional office and make appropriate recommendations.
• Monitor and control fund budget spending, reviewing budget versus actuals and report as per requirements.
• Established and maintained all corporate insurance, including property, liability, social security compensations.
• Created a comprehensive training program for employees on the new systems and processes, reducing implementation time from 6 months to 2 weeks.
• Perform all relevant accounting functions, cashflow analysis, monthly management accounts, interim financial statements, and prepare annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
• Prepare AFS for submission to External Auditors. Audit liaison with External Auditors.
• Provided monthly income statements, cash forecasts and other assigned financial analyses to management, board of directors and international office.
• Prepare and implement plans of action for company investments based on analyses of financial markets and the current economy.
• Oversaw cross-functional cash flow forecasting process, improving quarterly forecast accuracy and manage all cashflow requirement in a accordance to a payables forecast.
• Prepared and managed large capital expenditure budgets to effectively handle infrastructure investment and long-term operations.
• Monitored and coordinated workflows to optimize resources.
• Implemented systems and procedures to strengthen internal controls
• Monitor and control business unit spending, reviewing budget versus actuals and report as per requirements.
• Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.

Role (Revenue, Credit Management, Sales Strategy, Inventory Management, Cashbook and General Ledger Reconciliation)

Key Performance Areas:

• Monitor, evaluate, analyze the performance of the sales distribution channels and report on key issues to management.
• Generated monthly accounts receivable reports to submit developments for management review.
• Identified, researched, and resolved billing variances to maintain system accuracy and currency.
• Contacted clients with past due accounts to formulate payment plans and discuss restructuring options.
• Negotiated payment arrangements with customers to establish timely receipt of payments.
• Monitored accounts to verify compliance with payment terms and schedules.
• Contributed to annual budget development and quarterly forecasts to support continuous adherence.
• Facilitated month-end and year-end closing processed to support accuracy and completeness of financial reports.

Role (Global Sales Controlling/Revenue Controlling and Pricing for Japan and South Africa)

Key Performance Areas:

• Control Revenue Budget and Pricing for the Japanese and South African Markets. Responsible for monthly budgetary forecasts and reporting.
• Variance Analysis and Reporting. Analysis and determination of potential savings and addressing them to the markets.
• Prepared cash flow projections, cost analysis and monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Tracked budget forecasts and monitored budget performance.
• Market Risk Analysis – Study markets and identify potential risks in market. Created financial dashboards to provide insights into key performance indicators.
• Product Costing. Engage in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the product development for all Mercedes vehicle classes.
• GoFor10 Project - Oversee the global warranty budget for all Mercedes Benz Divisions and report variances to management.
• Reviewed documents and data to give accurate presentations and forecasts to upper management.