Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
References
Hobbies and Interests
Certification
References
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SAMUEL MILLS AMOAH

SAMUEL MILLS AMOAH

Accra

Summary

Results-driven CEO with a proven ability to optimize operations, implement strategic plans, and lead teams. Proficient in financial management and adept at navigating complex business environments to achieve goals. Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Committed to fostering collaboration and driving innovation for sustained success.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Chief Executive Officer

Earlbeam Company Ltd
Accra
09.2024 - Current
  • Developed strategic plans and objectives to ensure organizational growth and profitability.
  • Created financial models to forecast future business performance and identify areas of improvement.
  • Oversaw all aspects of financial management, including budgeting and forecasting.
  • Facilitated communication between board members, executives, staff members, and other stakeholders.
  • Represented the company at conferences, trade shows, networking events.
  • Reviewed employee performance evaluations in order to make personnel decisions.
  • Monitored industry developments in order to stay competitive in the marketplace.
  • Ensured compliance with government regulations regarding safety standards and labor laws.

Group Finance Manager

Earlbeam Company Limited
12.2022 - 08.2024
  • Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve business and company goals
  • Reviews financial reports
  • Prepares financial forecasts
  • Monitors financial details to ensure legal compliance
  • Assists management to make financial decisions
  • Supervises finance team
  • Investigates means to improve profitability
  • Provide relevant documentations required for internal & external audit purposes

Finance Manager (Acting)

Root Digital Limited
12.2021 - 04.2023
  • Preparation of Financial Statements; income statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statement on a monthly basis
  • Be the center of excellence on all financial matters within the business; providing sound financial advice as and when required within a matrix environment
  • Develop financial policies and procedures for operational efficiency
  • Provide relevant documentations required for internal & external audit purposes
  • Work with banks daily to solve operational issues
  • Assist in the year end audit
  • Provide tax planning and accounting duties such as monthly and annual filings with GRA
  • Involved in liaising with prospective investors by providing documents and response

General Ledger and Fixed Assets

Surfline Communications Limited
02.2017 - 12.2022
  • Coordination and review of the finance team's activities and report
  • Supervision of a team of competent accountants in the treasury, credit control and account payable teams
  • Review of bank reconciliation statements
  • Reviewing, amending and posting all journals passed in accordance with IFRS after ascertaining that all journals have appropriate supporting documents
  • Ensuring proper tracking of Prepayments and Accruals
  • This involves keeping detailed schedules for both and raising journals each period to reflect the true position
  • Computing assets cost and capitalizing thereof
  • Capital Work In Progress (CWIP) is computed afterwards with monthly ageing and assets capitalized
  • Registration of capitalized assets in the Fixed Assets Register
  • This is done after tagging the asset with the company's tag
  • Computation of depreciation for each accounting period (month)
  • This is after all disposals, impairments and additions, if any
  • Extraction of the trial balance to prepare financial statement on monthly basis
  • Adjustments such as revaluation of foreign currency based liabilities is made; reclassification of transactions, where need be, is done
  • The financial statement is then presented to the finance team for further review and the resulting statement is translated into United States Dollars which is the company's secondary presentation currency
  • Preparation of comparative report on the financial statements for senior management
  • Ensuring performance of Reconciliation of Physical Counts Of Assets and Fixed Assets Register (FAR) at least once a Year
  • Preparing variance analysis report for the CEO on monthly basis
  • Organized all exhibits requested by the court for some suits; some of which were reports not readily available in the normal course of operation in the company
  • Personally picked cash sales from shops for a whole month (April 2018), spending almost the whole day to collect not less than a hundred thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS100, 000), and personally lodging them in the bank account; when the company had Banking Issues
  • However, extra time was spent beyond office hours to meet deadlines in spite of the above
  • Has been the only person handling General Ledger and Fixed Assets accounting as a senior officer since November 2017
  • Before, it used to be manned by a manager and an officer

Accounts Payable

Surfline Communications Limited
10.2015 - 01.2017
  • Accounting for all invoices after they have been approved by end user departments
  • This involves creating a liability in the accounts for the transaction; and recognizing all taxes as well
  • Accounting for all payments made in each period by preparing payment vouchers, writing cheques or preparing fund transfer letters or any other to facilitate the payment
  • After these, accounting entries are made to reflect the payment accordingly
  • Computation and filing of VAT and withholding tax for each period
  • Management of Petty Cash
  • This includes the disbursement of petty cash to authorized persons upon approval; writing of payment vouchers of each payment as well as accounting for the payment appropriately in the ERP
  • Vendor management
  • Creditors whose payment terms have been defaulted are met and managed by negotiating for alternative terms or timelines
  • The result of this is escalated to the Director of Treasury for planning and action
  • Reconciliation of vendor balance with vendor statement
  • On several occasions, major vendors like Mainone Cable Limited, HTG Helios Towers Limited and so on, threatened to suspend their services to Surfline due to nonpayment
  • I happen to be a part of the team to manage the situation
  • For instance, I once lobbied Mainone Cable limited to extend deadline when the Treasurer and CEO were not available though I was not a manager
  • When I left the Accounts Payable section, it took three accountants to fill gap created by my transfer

Education

Chartered Accountancy - Member

Institute of Chartered Accountants-Ghana (ICAG)
Accra
03-2018

Certificate In Banking - Operations

Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB)
08-2015

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

University of Cape Coast
08-2015

WASSCE -

Adisadel College
01.2011

Skills

  • Oracle ERP Proficiency
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office
  • Negotiation
  • Budgeting and cost control
  • Policy development and optimization
  • Procedure redesign
  • Shareholder accountability
  • Corporate leadership
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Productivity performance
  • Consulting
  • Public relations

References

Available upon request

Hobbies and Interests

  • Listening to gospel music
  • Reading biographies of successful people

Certification

  • Project Management Certificate-University of California
  • Mergers and Acquisition-Institute of Chartered Accountants

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Chief Executive Officer

Earlbeam Company Ltd
09.2024 - Current

Group Finance Manager

Earlbeam Company Limited
12.2022 - 08.2024

Finance Manager (Acting)

Root Digital Limited
12.2021 - 04.2023

General Ledger and Fixed Assets

Surfline Communications Limited
02.2017 - 12.2022

Accounts Payable

Surfline Communications Limited
10.2015 - 01.2017

Chartered Accountancy - Member

Institute of Chartered Accountants-Ghana (ICAG)

Certificate In Banking - Operations

Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB)

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting And Finance

University of Cape Coast

WASSCE -

Adisadel College

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