Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Languages
Voluntary Experience
Personal Information
Seminars Participated
Home Town
Hobbies and Interests
References
Timeline
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MICHAEL ASARE-BAAH

Kumasi
MICHAEL ASARE-BAAH

Summary

Adept at managing budgets, payroll, invoicing and general accounting functions. Instrumental in keeping business operations fully compliant and working within budgetary guidelines.

Overview

17
years of professional experience

Work History

National Health Insurance Authority

District Accountant
06.2012 - Current

Job overview

Job purpose: Responsible for the financial function of the Scheme.

Job duties:

Technical / Operations duties

  • Increased efficiency by streamlining accounting processes and implementing new financial software.
  • Improved financial reporting accuracy through meticulous data analysis and reconciliation efforts.
  • Establishes and maintains proper financial books of Account of the Scheme
  • Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and presents to management
  • Prepares monthly bank reconciliation statements
  • Institutes internal control mechanisms for proper financial management
  • Assists the Scheme Manager in the preparation of annual budget and financial reports
  • Produces quarterly financial reports to the Scheme Manager
  • Provides training for direct subordinates and other office staff where necessary
  • Supervises immediate subordinates including Accounts Officers and Clerks
  • Monitors, evaluates and appraises the performance of direct subordinates
  • Supervises and ensures that all monies collected are properly accounted for, and entered in the Daily Cash Books
  • Supervises and provides guidance to Accounts clerks to ensure accuracy and quality

General duties (managerial/administrative)

  • Organizes and leads regular meetings with Scheme staff
  • Ensures timely banking of daily monies collected

Abuohia Tophill Hospital

Accountant
01.2012 - 05.2012

Job overview

Job title: Accountant

Job purpose: Responsible for the financial function of the Hospital.

Job duties:

  • Establishes and maintains proper financial books of Account of the Scheme
  • Prepares monthly bank reconciliation statements
  • Institutes internal control mechanisms for proper financial management
  • Assists the Director in the preparation of annual budget and financial reports
  • Produces quarterly financial reports to the Director
  • Supervises and ensures that all monies collected are properly accounted for, and entered in the Daily Cash Books;

Chados Trading Enterprise

Accountant
08.2011 - 12.2011

Job overview

Job title: Accountant

Job purpose: Responsible for the financial function of the organization.

Job duties:

  • Schedule and analysis of expenses and income
  • Bank statement reconciliation
  • Analysis and payment of debt owing to suppliers
  • Prompting debtors to pay their debt when due
  • Taking of stocks at the various warehouses

Department Of Birth And Death Registry, Kumasi

National Service Person
10.2010 - 07.2011

Job overview

  • Enhanced teamwork skills by participating in group tasks and collaborating with fellow National Service members
  • Verification of data entries in the computer system
  • Editing of entries in the computer system

Asamoa Bonsu & Co Auditing Firm, Kumasi

Student Intern
05.2010 - 09.2010

Job overview

  • Schedule and analysis of bank statements
  • Schedule and analysis of expenses and income
  • Writing of cash books
  • Extraction of trial balance
  • Extraction of cash balance

Asamoa Bonsu & Co Auditing Firm, Kumasi

Student Intern
05.2009 - 08.2009

Job overview

  • Schedule and analysis of bank statements
  • Schedule and analysis of expenses and income
  • Writing of cash books
  • Extraction of trial balance
  • Extraction of cash balance

Manhyia Government Hospital

Student Intern
05.2007 - 08.2007

Job overview

  • Verification of drug cost
  • Vetting of drugs administered to patients
  • Calculation of total drugs cost administered to a patient daily

Education

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCINCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Kumasi, Ghana

Bsc. Business Administration (Accounting Option)
01.2010

ST.HUBERT MINOR SERMINARY
Kumasi, Ghana

Senior Secondary Certificate Examination
01.2004

Skills

  • Cash Flow Management
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Accounts receivable management
  • Audit Coordination
  • Financial Forecasting
  • Tax Compliance
  • Debt management
  • Payroll Processing
  • Internal Controls
  • Governmental Accounting
  • Nonprofit Accounting
  • Good knowledge in Sage 300 Accounting Software, word, Excel, Power point as well as surfing the internet

Accomplishments

  • Best elective maths student in the year 2002 at St. Hgubert Minor Seminary
  • Completed a thesis on Credit Management Practices of Microfinancial Institutions in Ghana

Languages

English and Twi

Voluntary Experience

  • Enumerator for 2010 population and housing census in Ghana
  • Immunization volunteer for the eridication of polio in Ghana

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Kumasi
  • Health Status: Excellent
  • Date of Birth: 01/29/84
  • Nationality: Ghanaian
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Religion: Christian

Seminars Participated

  • May 2015: partaking in a two-day training programme on Internal Control for Finance and Accounting Professionals.
  • December 2014: partaking in a two-day training on Financial Administration In Public Sector (Financial Administration Act 2003, Act 654)
  • October 2014: partaking in a two-day training on International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)
  • July, 2014: partaking in a three-day MS Excel Foundation and Intermediate programme.

Home Town

Tano Boasi, Brong Ahafo Region - Ghana

Hobbies and Interests

Currently include Football, Listening to music and keeping fit

References

  • MR. ERIC OWUSU

      H. R. MANAGER – ASHANTI REGION

      NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AUTHORITY

      TEL:+233 243887281


  • DR. ALEXANDER EGOTE

     DIRECTOR – ABUOHIA TOPHILL HOSPITAL

     P O BOX SE 1360, SUAME-KUMASI

     TEL: +233 243708599


  • MR. MOSES TANO ESHEMELE

     OFFICE MANAGER, ASAMOA BONSU & CO.,

     P O BOX KS 790 

     TEL: +233 244450684

Timeline

District Accountant

National Health Insurance Authority
06.2012 - Current

Accountant

Abuohia Tophill Hospital
01.2012 - 05.2012

Accountant

Chados Trading Enterprise
08.2011 - 12.2011

National Service Person

Department Of Birth And Death Registry, Kumasi
10.2010 - 07.2011

Student Intern

Asamoa Bonsu & Co Auditing Firm, Kumasi
05.2010 - 09.2010

Student Intern

Asamoa Bonsu & Co Auditing Firm, Kumasi
05.2009 - 08.2009

Student Intern

Manhyia Government Hospital
05.2007 - 08.2007

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCINCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bsc. Business Administration (Accounting Option)

ST.HUBERT MINOR SERMINARY

Senior Secondary Certificate Examination
MICHAEL ASARE-BAAH