Francis Kojo Sackey
Accra
Summary
Kojo is a Chartered Certified Accountant, Investment Professional and a Corporate
Trainer with over 16 years working experience. He is a global finance and
accounting professional with expertise in Accounting; Corporate Finance; Financial
Analysis; Investment; Corporate and Private Fund Management; Governance, Risk
& Ethics; Management and Corporate Training; Human Capital Management;
Extensive Real Estate Development and Property Management experience.
Kojo has also successfully delivered Senior Finance, Accounting, Tax, Corporate
Training, Human Capital Management positions and Consultancy roles in many
organizations.
Kojo possesses an outstanding track record of meeting assigned goals in an
efficient and effective manner, dealing with core and external clients, skilled
problem-solver with proven record of working in dynamic teams in a fast-paced
environment and has worked with QuickBooks, Pastel Partner, Sage Evolution, Tally
and Sun Systems software packages.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder
Ark Kasa Global Ltd
Accra
12.2022 - Current
- Strategic and Management Roles
- Provide finance, accounting and tax consultancy services to Small and Medium
- Enterprises (SMEs)
- Provide guidelines on finance, tax, accounting systems and procedures
- Ensure annual budgetary and cashflow support to Small and Medium
- Enterprises (SMEs)
- Ensure total compliance with all the relevant Statutory bodies, Ghana Revenue
- Authority, Social Security and National Insurance Trust, Registrar General
- Departments and any relevant regulatory bodies
- Lead trainer for management and staff on business developments
- Oversee the management and supervision of all departments under the
- Company
- Provide human capital management advisory and consultancy roles to (SMEs)
- Ensure monthly, quarterly and yearly management report are done according to client’s request
- Ensure the preparation, completion of year-end financial statement and facilitating the audit
- Any other strategic and management role as demanded by the Company.
Receivables Ledger
CURRICULUM VITAE
09.2014 - 11.2014
- PageFrancis ’ s Resume | C onfidential,
- Prepare detail schedule of all rentals and sales of all Goldkey property due from clients
- Ensuring prompt follow-ups and collection of rent and sale due.
Co-Founder
De – Kkej Company Ltd
Accra
06.2017 - 12.2022
Director & Chairman
Goldkey Properties & Denton Property Managers Ltd
02.2007 - 05.2017
- Provide finance, accounting and tax consultancy services to Small and Medium
- Enterprises (SMEs)
- Provide guidelines on finance, tax, accounting systems and procedures
- Ensure annual budgetary and cashflow support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Ensure total compliance with all the relevant Statutory bodies, Ghana Revenue
- Authority, Social Security and National Insurance Trust, Registrar General
- Departments and any relevant regulatory bodies
- Lead trainer for management and staff on business developments
- Oversee the management and supervision of all departments under the Company
- Provide human capital management advisory and consultancy roles to (SMEs)
- Ensure monthly, quarterly and yearly management report are done according to client’s request
- Ensure the preparation, completion of year-end financial statement and facilitating the audit
- Any other strategic and management role as demanded by the Company.
Acting Finance Manager
Properties Ltd, Sage
Accra
01.2012 - 03.2017
- Of CH Group of Companies: Real Estate Entities
- Achievement
- Developed Accounting Manual for Goldkey,
- Restructured the Account Chart for System upgrade from Pastel Partner to, Evolution Accounting Software
- And awarded for effective management of the Finance and Accounting Department
- Study growth in organizational promotion from Account Officer to Senior
- Accountant
- Initiated Microsoft Outlook System and Security System for the Company.
Senior Accountant
CURRICULUM
02.2013 - 05.2017
- Prepare yearly budget to management and shareholders at board meetings
- Supervise the schedule accountants of the various entities
- Prepare monthly business review meeting report
- Prepare monthly sales report
- Prepare monthly flash report
- Prepare quarterly homeowners’ statement of accounts
- Prepare quarterly and yearly management accounts with variances
- Prepare unaudited financial Statements to management and shareholders at board meetings
- Facilitate the auditing of the financial statements
- Any other Report as demanded by the organization
- VITAE 3 | PageFrancis ’ s Resume | C onfidential
- Payroll Administration
- Prepare an accurate payroll schedule
- Ensure accurate calculation and timely payment of all the staff cost to all employees and statutory organizations
- Administer and reconcile employee details and balances of staff loans and advance schedules, maintained in both Payroll master file and general ledger
- Monthly payroll reconciliations
- Receivables
- Prepare detail schedule of all rental income and sales schedules of all Goldkey property due from clients
- Supervising prompt follow-ups and collection of rent and sales due
- Others
- Adjust journal entries quarterly or annual adjustment periods
- Trial balance reconciliation.
Accountant
04.2009 - 01.2013
- Prepare and post various entries such as:
- Review all daily inputs of transactions into Pastel Accounting Software before update
- Review and signing off all bank and cash reconciliations Statement
- Review monthly accounting journals including prepayment, accrual, depreciation, payroll among others
- Perform trial balance reconciliations
- Create new accounts or edit existing accounts in the general, payable and receivable ledgers
- Payables Ledger
- Vet project and administrative request and processing for approval
- Ensure the preparation of cheques to cover outstanding payment for onward approval & payment
- Ensure prompt payment of suppliers for goods and services supplied in agreement with agreed payment terms
- Communicate effectively with suppliers and answering all their queries promptly
- Obtain suppliers statements where necessary to reconcile with ledger balances.
Account officer
CURRICULUM
02.2007 - 03.2009
- Maintenance of ten system cash books
- Prepare monthly bank & cash reconciliations
- Ensure petty cash management: prepare daily cash movement & periodic petty cash analysis report
- VITAE 4 | PageFrancis ’ s Resume | C onfidential
- Ensure daily inputs of all transactions and it accuracy of all ledgers in the Pastel
- Software for review
- Prepare monthly withholding tax schedule for processing and payment to Ghana
- Revenue Authority
- Maintenance of fixed asset register
- Preparation of schedules for external auditors and coordinate with them to audit the company financial statements annually.
Finance Officer/Office Manager
Multiquip Company Ltd, Accra - Ghana
05.2006 - 01.2007
- A Telecommunication, Civil and Electrical Engineering Company
- Achievement:
- Single-handedly set-up and managed the Account Department during my period of stay
- Prepare and keep accounting records: cashbook, petty cash book, ledgers and among others
- Review and where necessary redesign the administrative and financial policies; regulations and procedures of the Company
- Prepare quarterly and yearly budget
- Supervision of staff in the performance of their duties and keeping of staff records
- Prepare staff payroll schedule including social security payment and income tax payment to statutory bodies
- Ensure effective inventory management including quarterly stock-taking
- Prepare and maintain fixed asset register of the Company
- Prepare quarterly and yearly financial statement.
Audit Service
Accra-Ghana
01.2005 - 04.2006
- Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
- Achievement
- Single handedly assigned to Audit Salary of Ghana Statistical Service from July
Management Trainee
CURRICULUM VITAE
- 12.2005
- A member of the Audit team that audited inventory management including movable and non-movable asset of the ministry of finance and its agencies
- Validation of public account of Ghana
- Any other audit work assigned by the Assistant Auditor General., PageFrancis ’ s Resume | C onfidential
Management Trainee
Lower Pra Rural Bank, Western Region
10.2002 - 12.2002
- Industrial placement – responsibilities include:
- Attend to clients at the Counter; recording of overdrafts request in the Overdrafts
- Registry book
- Update clients’ accounts and any other duty assigned to me by the Branch
- Manager.
Management Trainee
Ghacem Ltd, Western Region
09.2000 - 12.2000
- Responsibilities include:
- Responsible for: Recording issues and receipt of materials from Stores into Stores
- Ledger Book and Bin Cards and entering the data into MP2 and Sun System
- Software.
Education
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) - undefined
Chartered
Accountancy (ICA)
2021
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) Advanced Corporate Finance, Strategic Reporting, Taxation, Management, Audit. United Kingdom - undefined
2019
Ghana Stock Exchange - undefined
2006
Institution of Chartered - undefined
Accountancy
ICA) - Ghana Certificate Programs: on-going - undefined
Agile MBA Excel Dashboard and Data Analysis Masterclass Training and Development Year Institution - undefined
Association
2022
of Chartered Certified - undefined
2021
Green Finance Skills – Cost and Opportunities - undefined
2022
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant – - Global Economic
2020
Volatility - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
2022
Ghana Internal Audit Agency, Global Competency Framework - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
2022
Ghana Tax Legislation, Tax Planning and Tax Administration - undefined
2022
Golden opportunity of small and medium enterprise: sustainability services - undefined
2022
CURRICULUM VITAE - undefined
C onfidential - undefined
2022
Tackling today's audit challenges - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
2021
Cyber security for Finance - undefined
Covid-19 era - undefined
2021
Institute of Chartered Accountancy - undefined
Ghana Internal Audit - undefined
2021
Finance function in - undefined
2021
Invest in Ghana Webner Series Ghana Commodity Exchange - undefined
2021
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant – United Kingdom Public Sector Conference - undefined
2021
New models of public procurement - undefined
2020
Health financing during a pandemic - undefined
2020
Ethics in a Covid-19 world - undefined
2020
Technology: analytics and the future of predictions - undefined
2020
Rebuilding the global economy - undefined
2020
Diversity and inclusion: force for good in finance and accountancy - undefined
2013
Ghana Anti-Corruption and Bribery Training - undefined
2013
PricewaterhouseCoopers Ghana Impact of International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS) - undefined
Skills
- Language Skills
- Language Speaking Reading Writing
- English Excellent Excellent Excellent
- Twi /Fanti Native Native Native
Accomplishments
- Adoption 2005 Institute of Statistical Social and
- Economic Research and Merchant
- Bank
- Effective data acquisition and management for public policy making
- 2005 Institute of Statistical Social and
- Economic Research and Merchant
- Bank
- Negotiating “Public Interest and
- Private interest in Policy Analysis 2005 Institute of Internal Auditors
- Internal Auditing: Adding Value to
- Business
- Voluntary Services
- Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International
- Ghana
- CURRICULUM VITAE 7 | PageFrancis ’ s Resume | C onfidential
- Glorious Chapter President Current
- National Corporate Business Board Secretary Current
- Development Directorate
- Glorious Chapter Business Director 2018-2021
- Year Organization Training/Knowledge
- Sharing
- Chapter/Hotel/
- Online 2022 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Tax Advisory on Small &
- Medium Enterprises
- Runway
- Chapter/Oak Plaza
- Hotel – East Legon 2021 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Accounting for Small
- Businesses
- Dome, Motorway,
- Pokuase and
- Amasaman
- Chapters – Online 2020 The Mindset Group Accounting for Small
- Businesses
- Online 2020 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Accounting for Small
- Businesses
- Runway Chapter –
- Online 2019 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Financial Independence as a Christian Professional
- Cedar
- Chapter/Tomriek
- Hotel – East Legon 2018 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Financial Independence as a Christian Professional
- Cedar
- Chapter/Tomriek
- Hotel – East Legon 2018 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Financial Independence as a Christian Professional
- Grace Chapter /Airport West Hotel – Airport 2018 Full Gospel Businessmen
- Fellowship Inter
- Ghana
- Financial Independence as a Christian Professional
- Glorious Chapter/
- Tomriek Hotel –
- East Legon
- Hobbies
- Intellectual dialogue and strolling
Timeline
Founder
Ark Kasa Global Ltd
12.2022 - Current
Co-Founder
De – Kkej Company Ltd
06.2017 - 12.2022
Receivables Ledger
CURRICULUM VITAE
09.2014 - 11.2014
Senior Accountant
CURRICULUM
02.2013 - 05.2017
Acting Finance Manager
Properties Ltd, Sage
01.2012 - 03.2017
Accountant
04.2009 - 01.2013
Director & Chairman
Goldkey Properties & Denton Property Managers Ltd
02.2007 - 05.2017
Account officer
CURRICULUM
02.2007 - 03.2009
Finance Officer/Office Manager
Multiquip Company Ltd, Accra - Ghana
05.2006 - 01.2007
Audit Service
Accra-Ghana
01.2005 - 04.2006
Management Trainee
Lower Pra Rural Bank, Western Region
10.2002 - 12.2002
Management Trainee
Ghacem Ltd, Western Region
09.2000 - 12.2000
Management Trainee
CURRICULUM VITAE
- 12.2005
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) - undefined
Chartered
Accountancy (ICA)
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) Advanced Corporate Finance, Strategic Reporting, Taxation, Management, Audit. United Kingdom - undefined
Ghana Stock Exchange - undefined
Institution of Chartered - undefined
Accountancy
ICA) - Ghana Certificate Programs: on-going - undefined
Agile MBA Excel Dashboard and Data Analysis Masterclass Training and Development Year Institution - undefined
Association
of Chartered Certified - undefined
Green Finance Skills – Cost and Opportunities - undefined
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant – - Global Economic
Volatility - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
Ghana Internal Audit Agency, Global Competency Framework - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
Ghana Tax Legislation, Tax Planning and Tax Administration - undefined
Golden opportunity of small and medium enterprise: sustainability services - undefined
CURRICULUM VITAE - undefined
C onfidential - undefined
Tackling today's audit challenges - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy
Cyber security for Finance - undefined
Covid-19 era - undefined
Institute of Chartered Accountancy - undefined
Ghana Internal Audit - undefined
Finance function in - undefined
Invest in Ghana Webner Series Ghana Commodity Exchange - undefined
Association of Chartered Certified Accountant – United Kingdom Public Sector Conference - undefined
New models of public procurement - undefined
Health financing during a pandemic - undefined
Ethics in a Covid-19 world - undefined
Technology: analytics and the future of predictions - undefined
Rebuilding the global economy - undefined
Diversity and inclusion: force for good in finance and accountancy - undefined
Ghana Anti-Corruption and Bribery Training - undefined
PricewaterhouseCoopers Ghana Impact of International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS) - undefined
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