Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Volunteer Work
Timeline
Receptionist

Josephine Awenatey Issah

Administrative Specialist
Accra

Summary

Energetic Administrative Specialist dedicated to assisting highly effective administrative teams and managing office operations with efficiency and grace. Six years of excellent communication and relationship-building skills with proficiency in customer care, payment processing, financial control, budgeting, accommodation and conference booking et cetera.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Administrative Specialist

Huawei Technologies (Ghana) S.A. Ltd (Contract Role Through Ad-Precision Ltd)
Accra
04.2018 - Current

Major duties under Payment and Financial Control:

  • Maintaining financial control accuracy for Admin. department within Huawei payment platform.
  • Creating timely Purchase Orders (POs) for Admin. Dept and occasionally supporting other departments.
  • Timely processing of supplier invoices in variety of Huawei payment platforms.
  • Monitored and managed expenses with allotted budgets and reviewed and approved expense reports
  • Created and updated physical records and digital files to maintain current, accurate, and compliant documentation
  • Ensuring that payments strictly follow contract stipulations and Huawei regulations.
  • Auditing of payments and POs to avoid duplicates, close expired POs and so on.


Major duties under Accommodation and Integrated Facility Mgmt.:

  • Supervision of implementation of professional one-stop check-in service (hotel/apartment booking, sim card registration, airport pickup, preparation of check-in welcome pack, assistance with luggage and so on) for incoming foreign staff arriving in Ghana on business trips & high level Huawei guests.
  • Supervising maintenance of accurate data in Huawei accommodation tracking platform.
  • Following up on completion of maintenance work in staff apartments.
  • Resolving customer concerns efficiently to promote satisfaction and loyalty (monthly surveys included)
  • Quarterly Environmental Health and Safety checks in staff apartments, to ensure staff's continual safety
  • Maintained supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level and ordering new supplies when inventory runs lows.
  • Sending out monthly surveys to capture staff complaints and conduction of face to face follow-ups, to build staff confidence in department
  • Sending out monthly progress reports detailing stock levels in apartment warehouse, utility consumption reports, problem resolution etc. to head of department for subsequent analysis and progress planning.
  • Review monthly reports of vendors by measuring their performance against KPIs and giving appropriate awards or punishments.
  • Booking of conferences for external Huawei meetings.
  • Delivered top-notch administrative support to office staff, promoting excellence in office operations
  • Supporting head of Administration department in any other tasks assigned.

Administrative Assistant and Estate Officer

Lands Commission Head Office, Accra (Public & Vested Land Management Division)
09.2016 - 08.2017
  • Conducting inspection at office premises and other property sites, and submitting reports on findings
  • Supervising all repair activities of artisans to completion
  • Preparing letters, reports, memos and petty cash payments
  • Conference room booking and preparation for meetings.
  • Assisting Chief Estate Officer in carrying out all other duties assigned.

Education

MBA - Finance

University of Ghana
Legon, Accra, Ghana
10.2023 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science and Chinese

University of Ghana
Legon, Accra, Ghana
09.2011 - 05.2016

Certificate of Completion - Chinese Immersion Course

Zhejiang University of Technology
Hangzhou, (Pingfeng Campus)
09.2014 - 07.2015

High School Diploma -

Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School, S.A. Ltd
Tanoso, Ashanti Region, Ghana
09.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

Document management

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Accomplishments

  • Best Service Award (Developing New Staff Category) - 2018 (Awarded by Reliance Personnel Services. Transferred to Ad-Precision Ltd in 2022)


PAYMENT AND FINANCIAL CONTROL

  • Took on responsibility for financial control, as well as purchase requests and budgeting in administrative department after 9 months of starting work.
  • Member of team that won the "Outstanding Team Award for Internal Control of Financial Reporting (ICFR) Improvement", as awarded by the Huawei Global Administrative Service Department in March 2019;
  • Made urgent combined payment of USD 7.5 million in time, thus saving company over USD 250,000 in delay penalties. (Dec 2022 - March 2023)


ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT

  • Moved from hands-on operations to a supervisory role within seven months of starting work.
  • Supervised team of five (5) staff members.
  • Member of team that won the "Integrated Facility Management (IFM) Transformation Award", as awarded by the Huawei Global Real Estate and Integrated Facility Management Department in October 2019.

Volunteer Work

China Ghana Graduate Association (CGGA)

  • Together with other CGGA executives, coordinated project sponsored by the Chinese Embassy - Renovation of ICT lab for Ejisuman Senior High School, Ejisu, Ashanti Region. (November 2017 - December 2017)
  • Organized info session with other CGGA executives for the 2017 winners of the China Government Scholarship prior to their departure for school. (August 2017)


Calvary Baptist Church, Adenta (Joshua Caleb)

  • Joined Adult Sunday School Teachers Group in August 2017 to lead Young Adult Class in Bible Study on Sunday mornings.

Timeline

MBA - Finance

University of Ghana
10.2023 - Current

Administrative Specialist

Huawei Technologies (Ghana) S.A. Ltd (Contract Role Through Ad-Precision Ltd)
04.2018 - Current

Administrative Assistant and Estate Officer

Lands Commission Head Office, Accra (Public & Vested Land Management Division)
09.2016 - 08.2017

Certificate of Completion - Chinese Immersion Course

Zhejiang University of Technology
09.2014 - 07.2015

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science and Chinese

University of Ghana
09.2011 - 05.2016

High School Diploma -

Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School, S.A. Ltd
09.2007 - 05.2011
Josephine Awenatey IssahAdministrative Specialist