Curriculum Vitae
Balraj Singh Bhachu
[email protected], 0711354711
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date and Place of Birth: 06.06.1993, Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality: Kenyan
Marital Status: Single
SHORT PROFILE:
• Quick learning and hardworking
• Able to work under minimum supervision
• Easily able to work through teamwork
• Self-motivated, diverse and resourceful
WORK EXPERIENCE
Simba General Merchants Ltd: May 2021 – Current
● Employed as an assistant accountant/credit controller
Responsibilities:
● Ensure all debtors are upto date with payments.
● Carry out payment and bank reconciliations daily and monthly.
● Ensure supermarket chains pay accordingly as per contracts and ensuring that rebates are
applied accordingly.
● Liaising with new potential clients and managing and recording credit history in order to
negotiate terms provided.
● Ensuring monthly management reports such as sales, tax returns are generated.
● Carrying out general bookkeeping within the company accounts.
● Establishing sufficient credit controls with all debtors of the company.
● Preparing supplier payments and ensuring that forwarding companies are upto date with
paperwork for shipments.
● Trace stock via sales from Quick-books system in order to ensure that invoices, credit notes
and LPOs have matching figures.
● Creating invoicing for sister companies and ensuring all VAT related tasks such as ETR/ESD
signed slips are generated in the correct manner and recorded as such to maintain normalcy in
company accounts.
Nanak Creations: January 2019 – April 2021
• Employed as an assistant manager to run the daily operations.
Responsibilities:
• Opening and closing of shop at required times.
• Handling dispatch and receiving supplies for materials and hardware.
• Ensuring maintenance of healthy and safe working environment.
• Carrying out stock control functions.
• Liaising with clients on pricing and specifications of required items.
• Maintaining price control for profitability.
• Creating quotations and ensuring samples are provided as per customer specifications.
• Ensuring staff is available as per order requirements and maintaining their payroll.
• Finance assistance functions include: bank reconciliations, preparing client statements,
working on the Quickbooks system, creating new client accounts on the system, receiving
payments from clients & preparing payments to suppliers, handling debt collections, handling
petty cash payments, preparing reports which include sales & purchases and overviews,
among various other functions.
Powerex Lubricants Ltd.: March 2018 – December 2018
• Employed as a temporary warehouse assistant manager and also functioning as a sales
assistant.
Responsibilities:
• Opening and closing of factory at required times.
• Handling dispatch and receiving supplies for lubricants.
• Ensuring maintenance of healthy and safe working environment.
• Carrying out stock control functions.
• Going out to the field to follow up customer requirements and getting orders, while ensuring
services are provided for as requested.
• Keeping records of all raw materials and packaging materials and providing them so as to
allow creation of production plans.
• Planning the delivery of goods on the daily as per customer requirements.
• Ensuring the blending plant and machinery within the factory are all maintained and kept in
the best conditions for use within the factory.
Styroplast Ltd./Vectus Kenya Ltd.: May 2016 – December 2017
• Employed as an Accounts/Administration Assistant Manager
Responsibilities:
• Preparing payments to creditors.
• Managing property accounts, including some invoice preparation.
• Managing payroll functions of the company and its sister companies, including preparation of
NHIF, NSSF and PAYE for employees including preparing Pay slips, and then preparing the
salary payments
• Carrying out all banking for all the companies and directors personal accounts and carrying
out bank reconciliation for the same.
• Liaising with banks and preparing instructions for carrying out payments to suppliers abroad.
• Handling the importation of raw materials for the companies, including carrying out
applications for Marine Certificates, Import Declaration
Forms among others.
• Managing all iTax functions for Styroplast Ltd and its sister companies, including filing VAT
returns, payments for VAT, preparing returns for Excise, VAT withholding and all others
associated with the system.
• Preparing all letters to be sent to different customers, suppliers, and other organizations.
• Managing factory expenses and arranging for payments for the same for example, the
electricity bills, water bills, security expenses and also,
payments for internet connectivity.
• Managing of company functions such as applications for PVOC exemptions, following up
KEBS certificates renewals or cancellations,
managing the Kentrade system online for the company’s account.
• Preparing and sending statements to customers and following up payments when asked to
do so.
• Carrying out office functions, when needed, for example, preparing photocopies, printing,
among others.
• Preparing reports for auditors and also any other documentation they may require.
Le Baguette Ltd.: April 2013 – March 2016
• Employed as a cashier/assistant manager.
Responsibilities:
• Carrying out all the transactions between customers and/or suppliers/creditors.
• Acting as a mediator in case of any issue that the customer may experience.
• Managing the shop during a shift of 5 hours, everyday including weekends and holidays.
Key Accomplishments:
• Learning interaction between various types of customers and creditors.
• Gained experience on cash management to run the shop.
• Learned how to manage documents such as invoices, receipts etc. • Time management as
the work involved being on time everyday throughout the year.
• Gained experience working with other shop staff as a team consisting of over 15 employees.
• Learned of pricing of supplies and products offered to consumers.
Sentrim Hotels and Lodges (at 680 Hotel): July 2012 – November 2012
Started a work attachment to gather experience in different functions and roles in an enterprise.
Work Experience:
• Acquired more experience with the IT department of the hotel, learning to maintain IT
related systems within the hotel.
• Worked also in the stores and procurement department so as to learn basic stock keeping,
and running the stores in general.
• Worked as per school program so as to garner experience in employment conditions in
the meantime of completion of school.
EDUCATION:
S.C.L.P. Samaj School: September 1999 – June 2012:
• Completed O-Levels
• Completed A-Levels
Graffins College: January 2013 – June 2014:
Received First Level Diploma in Business Management (ABE)
January 2015:
• Studied ACCA for application as a certified and qualified chartered Accountant.
LANGUAGES:
English, Punjabi (mother-tongue), Kiswahili fluently spoken, Hindi
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Computer Literate being able to run office applications such as MS Office.
• Conversant with iTax KRA website.
• Fully conversant in QuickBooks Accounting system (both Desktop and Online versions)
• Conversant with the different types of taxes charged such as VAT withholding, withholding
tax, installment taxes.
• Conversant with payroll system whereby the knowledge of NSSF, NHIF and PAYE is
calculated for employees.
• Conversant with company functions of providing returns for NSSF, NHIF and PAYE for
employees.
• Able to carry out bank reconciliation for multiple accounts for companies on daily basis and
transferring amounts wherever needed such as for offshore transfers, using correct protocols
and formats.
• Knowledge in TALLY system to process invoices, calculating and adding
VAT/ETR receipts for the documents.
• Fully comprehensive in preparing payments regarding supplier invoices, credit notes and
other documents.
• Stock control and inventory management.
REFERENCES
Hemal Pindolia
Sentrim Hotels & Lodges Ltd.
0722779127
Sati S. Reel
Phoenix Aviation Ltd.
0722520440
Hardip S. Jheeta
Le Baguette Ltd.
0720204482
Preet Chheda
Vectus Kenya Ltd / Styroplast Ltd
0733333884
Satinderpal S. Matharu
Nanak Creations
0720815273
