GRACE ANSOMAH
Osu
Summary
Focused Administrator / Project Manager with expertise in guiding organizational growth through robust administrative, human resource, financial strategies and management. Accomplished in recognizing operational and human inefficiencies and risks and improving internal controls, standards and procedures. Keen to bring Ten years of background experience to a growing organization.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Manager/Marketing Manager
SQUARE MILE PROPERTIES LIMITED
02.2021 - Current
- Handles all marketing activations and write ups
- Communicate job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff contributions
- Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews
- Prepare monthly budget in line with corporate annual budget
- Analyze and improve organizational process and workflow, employee and space requirements, and equipment layout; implement changes
- Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
- Accomplish operations and organization job tasks by completing related results as needed
- Responsible for all department managers and supervisors, with review/approval responsibility for all operations employees
- Review and approve all operational requisitions and ensure they are submitted for payment
- Serve as point of contact when there are customer issues related to accidents and mishaps on-site
- Communicate customer issues with operations team and devise ways of improving the customer experience, including resolving problems and complaints
- Work closely with Managing Director and management team to set and/or implement policies, procedures, and systems and to follow through with implementation
- Communicate all operating policies and/or issues at department meetings
- Work closely with the inventory manager and team to perform analysis of our inventory and ensure we are utilizing our inventory effectively, purchasing the right items, maintaining solid inventory data, and reduce sub-rental expenses.
Financial and Human Resource Consultant
KS PRESTIGE CONTRACT WORKS
01.2020 - Current
- Registration of business with all legal entity
- Disburse all constructional and administrative expenses
- Issue Invoices and receipts to clients
- Weekends Site Checks and report writing
- Handles all administrative works of the business.
Internal Control Officer
SQUARE MILE PROPERTIES LIMITED
05.2018 - 01.2021
- Conduct compliance monitoring to verify compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
- Carry out control functions, reviews and certify disbursement request and other request
- Periodically performs auditing of the accounting and financial data of the various department units
- Undertake variety of internal control tasks, including verification and maintenance of internal control checks and records including asset tags to ensure safeguard of company assets
- Carry out investigation and disciplinary sitting where required
- Make recommendation regarding facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and systems to carry out internal control functions
- Ensure employee awareness of relevant policies and procedures of the company
- Identify areas of administrative weaknesses and develop best practices
- Monitor and provide advice to management to minimize risk resulting from poor controls
- Support the development of policies and programs that encourage managers and employees to report suspected fraud and other improprieties without fear of retaliation
- Training New Staff on company compliance requirements & code of conduct
- Review company manuals and update them as and when need arises
- Review Company Trucks Tracker report weekly to generate report for sales collection
- ACHIEVEMENT: Enhancing Google Drive Data Storage for future references
- Established the Internal Control Department and it proceedings
- Safeguard the company from fraud and theft cases.
Administrator/ Assistant Head
MOUNT OLIVES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
07.2012 - 04.2018
- Supervise teaching and non-teaching staff
- Contribute in formulating school policies and planning
- Assist with staff recruitment, school budgeting and staff performance evaluation process
- Deal with staff, parents and students queries and complaints procedures
- Prepare reports for both internal and external use
- Prepare and coordinate examination and assessment process
- Communicate with other institutions, external agencies, government departments and prospective students
- Manage students' life cycle from admission, Registering of Form 3 students for the B.E.C.E examination to graduation
- Ensure staff and students compliance to Institution's rules and regulations
- Organize and facilitate a variety of educational or social activities for both staff and students
- Perform all other administrative and clerical duties
- ACHIEVEMENT: Introduction of New Report Booklet
- Introduction of Friday Group Competition with varieties of group activities
- Establishment of the School Computer Laboratory
- Keeping systematic manual and computerized records of both students and staff
- An on-going establishment of School Library
- Introduction of Staff Friday wear.
Data Entry Clerk / Presiding Officer
ELECTORAL COMMISSION (OSU KLOTTEY CONSTITUENCY)
04.2012 - 05.2012
- Keying in applicants details
- Taking applicants photograph
- Assisting applicant to scan their finger prints
- Printing of start-of-day report and End-of-day report
- Assisting team members to set up centre and convey equipment to appropriate quarters after end of day activities
- Precede all the activities during the election and submitting all documents to the Coalition Centre.
Front End Controller
SHOPRITE GHANA
10.2011 - 02.2012
- Assisting Cashiers to perform special duties (price reduction of products, cancellation of scan products, key in unscannable products)
- Writing out VAT invoice for customers
- Providing of coins for cashiers as and when needed
- Examine Cashiers to cash-up (total daily sales) and pick-up (part of daily sales)
- Attending to customers grievances
- Operate e-zwich and Visa cards terminal for customers
- Filing up sales documents
- Serve as a cashier when need arises.
Assistant Human Resource Officer(National Service)
ELECTRICITY COMPANY OF GHANA – HEAD OFFICE
10.2010 - 08.2011
- Writing and typing of memos, letters and minutes
- Recording of outgoing files and dispatching them to the various division and directorates after it has been processed
- Keeping and updating records of applications for Fuel Subsidy and Vehicle Maintenance Allowance
- Assisting Human Resource Officers to process Staff Overnight Allowances, Acting Allowances and Transfer Grant
- Assisting Human Resource Officers to vet Staff that are due for Long Service Awards
- Picking and filing back files for the Division
- Checking staff placement in their personal files for their annual incremental awards
- Creating of notices, flyers for the division meetings and booking of venue.
Sales Personnel
MTN SALES DISTRIBUTOR
01.2006 - 08.2006
- Selling of MTN credit cards and starter parks
- Call Services
- Recording day-to-day transactions.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Strategic Human Resource Management
University of Professional Studies
East Legon - Accra04-2023
B.A: Sociology with Information Studies -
University of Ghana
01.2010
S.S.C.E: Business -
Odorgonno Senior School
01.2004
B.E.C.E -
Independence Avenue ‘2' JSS
01.2001
Skills
- Good writing and analytical skills
- Good Interpersonal relation
- Hardworking and resourceful
- Work effectively and efficiently under little supervision
- Honest and very tolerant
- Possess strong leadership skills
- Computer literate
- Policy planning
- Project management
- Internal controls development
- Program Administration
- Inventory Management
- Marketing
- Customer Service
- Budgeting and Cost Control
- Staff Management
- Budget Development and Management
- Business and Operations Management
Personal Information
Nationality: Ghanaian
Languages
- English
- Twi
- Ga
References
- Mr. Daniel Owusu, District Pastor - Apostolic Church of Ghana, P. O. Box OD433, Odorkor, Accra, dangifty@yahoo.com, +233 244 467 927
- Kwaku Atta Sarpong, CEO/ Managing Director, SPINTEX, ACCRA, +233 203540902
- Mr. Akomea Kwaku Ohemeng-Agyei, Managing Director/C.E.O, P. O. Box UP 696 KNUST, Kumasi, Oh3meng@squaremilehomes.com, (024-940 6217)
Hobbies and Interests
- Researching
- Sharing ideas
- Reading
- Typing and calculating
- Singing
Training and Certification
- April, 2023, Ghana Real Estate Developers Association, Business Review – Strategic and Operational Roles
- June, 2023 - A member of Multimedia Broadcasting Company Limited Management BootCamping
Timeline
Operations Manager/Marketing Manager
SQUARE MILE PROPERTIES LIMITED
02.2021 - Current
Financial and Human Resource Consultant
KS PRESTIGE CONTRACT WORKS
01.2020 - Current
Internal Control Officer
SQUARE MILE PROPERTIES LIMITED
05.2018 - 01.2021
Administrator/ Assistant Head
MOUNT OLIVES PREPARATORY SCHOOL
07.2012 - 04.2018
Data Entry Clerk / Presiding Officer
ELECTORAL COMMISSION (OSU KLOTTEY CONSTITUENCY)
04.2012 - 05.2012
Front End Controller
SHOPRITE GHANA
10.2011 - 02.2012
Assistant Human Resource Officer(National Service)
ELECTRICITY COMPANY OF GHANA – HEAD OFFICE
10.2010 - 08.2011
Sales Personnel
MTN SALES DISTRIBUTOR
01.2006 - 08.2006
Some College (No Degree) - Strategic Human Resource Management
University of Professional Studies
B.A: Sociology with Information Studies -
University of Ghana
S.S.C.E: Business -
Odorgonno Senior School
B.E.C.E -
Independence Avenue ‘2' JSS
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