RUTH ADONGO

• Lead execution of direct purchasing and inventory control of raw and packaging materials for feed mill and flour mill factories
• Manage the end-to-end sourcing of goods and services within capital expenditure, maintenance, repair, and operations and general purchases for total business operations
• Oversee vendor management through optimization and building of long-term relations with suppliers for value creation and mutual benefits
• Lead strategic supply chain contracts and negotiations to achieve cost savings and business value with suppliers and service providers

Key Achievements

• Renegotiation of existing key contracts for raw materials to realize savings of USD 790,500 YTD
• Optimization of vendors to reduce numbers and establish service and supply agreements of approved vendors leading to USD 30,000 YTD in savings
• Streamlining of payment terms of vendors from an average of 14 days to a standard of 30 days thereby improving working capital by 3%
• Establishment of consignment stocking of general consumables by suppliers to improve cash management
• Implementation of JIT Inventory management.

• Executed internal department reporting requirements such as audit and tax schedules
• Ensured timely submission, accuracy, and validity of inventory, and gross margin schedules to management
• Prepared monthly statements by collecting data; analyzing and investigating variances
• Verified, allocated, posted, and reconciled general ledger and sub-ledger accounts
• Managed petty cash and ensured postings of all transactions to appropriate accounts
• Liaised with the procurement team and warehouse keepers and verify invoices from vendors before posting to a general ledger
• Prepared aged account payables and paid vendors weekly
• Lead month-end closing to prepare journal entries as necessary and analyze inventory evaluation, inventory roll forward

Key achievements

• Led review and modification of accounting system procedures inputs for accounting software upgrade to reduce month-end closing days from 6 to 3 days.

• Managed accounts payable and receivable record keeping and reconciled accounts with the general ledger
• Managed all business transactions including payroll, payment of bills, filling of tax
• Managed customer invoices for accuracy, and appropriateness and tracked on-time payments
• Reviewed the accuracy of information required for all financial transactions
• Processed all invoice requests by the sales team
• Managed payroll of company staff
• Managed all customer accounts and information data for sales.

• Executed extraction of primary and secondary sales data and showed trends over set periods e.g
• Monthly, quarterly, or annually for the sales department
• Generated weekly and monthly sales performance reports across all sales regions in Ghana
• Compiled and ensured data integrity of sales operations data to feed into a regional scorecard for leadership team review
• Generated monthly and quarterly customer and sales team performance report
• Prepared monthly retail data based on Ac Nielsen report shared data from business warehouse per request.