Your Name
Pretoria
Summary
Highly skilled financial accountant with extensive experience in financial reporting, variance analysis, and compliance with international accounting standards. Demonstrates expertise in budget forecasting, cash flow management, and audit coordination, ensuring accuracy and transparency in financial operations. Adept at implementing robust internal controls and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align financial strategies with organisational goals. Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other accounting software, leveraging advanced analytical skills to optimise processes and support strategic decision-making. Career focus includes driving operational efficiency and delivering actionable insights to enhance organisational performance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial accountant
The Aurum Institute
Johannesburg
03.2023 - Current
- Processing of financial transactions up to the financial report
- Prepared detailed monthly financial reports, including balance sheets and profit and loss statements, for senior management review.
- Posted journal and ledger entries, prepared financial statements and reports and closed books.
- Maintained updated chart of accounts following correct procedures and including current, accurate details.
- Reconciled monthly bank statements and resolved discrepancies.
- Updated general, sales and purchasing ledgers on schedule and verified information against documentation.
- Reported on operating income, expenses against budgets and forecasted trends.
- Used Excel spreadsheets and freshbooks software to manage clients and projects, reducing errors and optimising process.
- Produced monthly and year-end closing statements, financial documents and invoices.
- Produced profit and loss statements to balance spreadsheets and provide information to management.
- Completed detailed reviews of accounts and bookkeeping records to verify compliance with standards.
- Conducted thorough variance analysis, comparing budgeted figures to actual outcomes, and provided insights for financial planning.
- Compiled financial information, figures and forecasts for budgetary decision-making.
- Forecasted loss and revenues to balance risk and benefits, aiming to meet target goals.
- Analysed financial data to identify trends and forecast future financial performance, supporting strategic decision-making.
- Coordinated external audits, providing all necessary documentation and explanations to ensure compliance with financial regulations.
- Contributed to the development of financial policies and procedures, promoting transparency and accountability in financial management.
- Monitored cash flow projections regularly, adjusting strategies to address shortfalls and surplus to optimise financial health.
- Implemented robust internal controls to mitigate financial risk and comply with regulatory requirements and accounting standards.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and monitor annual budgets, aligning financial strategies with organisational goals.
- Reviewed accounting methodologies to recommend financial actions and improve strategies.
- Addressed customer questions, problems and complaints in person and via phone to maintain positive relationships and support smooth communications.
Accounting Manager
Khumalo and Mabuya Chartered Accountants
01.2023 - 03.2023
- Preparation and review of AFS
- Review of monthly management accounts
- Review and preparation of AFS
- Ensuring that they are in comply to the IFRS for SMEs
- Review and preparation of Tax returns
- Preparations and review of VAT returns
- Attending to audit queries for clients
- Guiding and managing Junior staff
- Reason for leaving: I received an offer from The Aurum Institute
Accountant
Applemed Tax and Consulting
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Full Financial accounting and Reporting Function for UK based companies
- Accounts payable
- -Adding new suppliers to the accounting system
- -Capturing supplier invoices to the accounting system
- -Ensuring that all payments to suppliers are authorized
- -Allocating payments to the correct suppliers
- -Reconciling supplier accounts on monthly basis
- -Ensuring that all supplier supporting documents are filed
- Accounts receivables
- -Adding new debtors to the accounting system
- -Processing and sending debtors invoices
- -Allocating payments received to the correct accounts
- -Reconciliation of each debtors
- -Making follow ups from debtors
- -Sending statements to debtors
- -Filing debtors supporting documents for audit purposes
- Payroll
- -Adding employee details on the payroll system
- -Processing employee payroll on pastel
- -Ensuring that any changes increments, or bonuses are accounted for
- -Distributing pay slips to all employees
- -Loading weekly and monthly salaries payable to employees into the banking system
- -Weekly and monthly processing of payroll journals
- -Allocating payments from the bank statements to the salary control account
- -Submitting tax returns to Her Majesty Revenue and customs (HMRC)
- -Preparing payroll reconciliations
- -Answering any queries that employees have and making adjustments
- Property plant and equipment
- -Adding new assets on the asset register
- -Calculating monthly depreciation
- -Recording depreciation journals monthly
- -Ensuring that the asset carrying amounts are reconciled to the financial statements
- -Ensuring that any adjustments and changes in the value of assets are recorded
- Intercompany loans and transactions
- -Capturing Intercompany loans and transactions
- -Allocating payments to loans
- -Reconciling intercompany loans
- Statutory Returns
- VAT returns
- -Ensuring that all transactions are included in the general ledger for the period
- -Ensuring that all supporting documents exist for all the transactions
- -Reviewing all Matching the transactions with supporting documents
- -Preparing the VAT returns
- -Ensuring that they are submitted on time to avoid any penalties
- -Ensuring that any queries from HMRC are attend to on time
- Tax Returns
- -Ensuring that all tax returns are submitted to HMRC
- Banking
- -Allocating accurately the banking transactions to the correct accounts
- -Ensuring that the bank account in the GL is reconciled to the bank statement
- Monthly Journals
- -Accruals
- -Payroll Journals
- -Other adjusting monthly and year end journals
- Preparing Monthly, Quarterly and Annual management accounts
- -Ensuring that the management accounts are submitted on time
- -Variance analysis
- -Analysis of the financial
- -To compare budgeted with actual expenditure
- Annual financial statements and audits
- -Assisting in preparing annul financial statements in CaseWare
- -Preparing information for audits
- -Ensuring that supporting documents are provided to auditors (internal, external and HMRC)
- -Responding to any queries from Auditors
- -Making adjustments to AFS
- Reason for leaving: After a year of financial losses the company decided to retrench all its South African employees and close SA office
Accountant
Scorebet South Africa
09.2018 - 07.2022
- Full Financial Accounting function
- Accounts payable
- -Adding new suppliers to the pastel accounting system
- -Ensuring that all supplier invoices are recorded in the accounting system
- -Ensuring that all payments to suppliers are authorized
- -Ensuring that all payments are allocated to the correct supplier
- -Ensuring that all supplier accounts are reconciled on monthly basis
- -Ensuring that all supplier supporting documents are filed
- Accounts receivables
- -Adding new debtors to the accounting system
- -Ensuring that debtors invoices are sent to debtors
- -Ensuring that payments received are
- -Making follow ups from debtors
- -Sending statements to debtors
- -Filing debtors supporting documents for audit purposes
- Statutory Returns
- VAT returns
- -Ensuring that all transactions are included in the general ledger for the period
- -Ensuring that all supporting documents exist for all the transactions
- -Reviewing all Matching the transactions with supporting documents
- -Preparing the VAT returns
- -Ensuring that they are submitted on time to avoid any penalties
- -Ensuring that any queries from SARS are attend to on time
- Tax Returns
- -Ensuring that all tax returns are submitted to SARS
- -Responding to any queries that SARS have
- Banking
- -Allocating accurately the banking transactions to the correct accounts
- -Ensuring that the bank account in the GL is reconciled to the bank statement
- Monthly and year-end Journals
- -Accruals
- -Payroll Journals
- -Other adjusting monthly and year end journals
- Preparing Monthly, Quarterly and Annual management accounts
- -Ensuring that the management accounts are submitted on time
- -Variance analysis
- -Analysis of the financial
- -To compare budgeted with actual expenditure
- Annual financial statements and audits
- -Assisting in preparing annul financial statements
- -Preparing information for quarterly and annual audits
- -Ensuring that supporting documents are provided to auditors (internal, external and SARS)
- -Responding to any queries from Auditors
- -Adjusting the AFS
- Reasons for leaving: Found an opportunity in another company
Junior Internal and external Auditor
Morar Incorporated Auditors
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Accounting
- Cashbook processing
- Journal processing
- Invoice processing
- Preparing invoices of debtors
- Processing journals
- Duties: Internal audits
- Planning and execution of risk-based audits for the clients in accordance with the approve Audit plan and IIA standards.
- Participating in preliminary and closing meetings with clients of ethics
- Assist in compiling audit working papers and executing audit procedures
- Assist in ensuring that audit working papers adequately support audit findings, conclusions and reports.
- Gathering of adequate, competent, relevant and useful audit evidence and participating in audits in the assigned area of responsibility
- Assist in conducting follow-up audits to ensure that remedial measures were implemented.
- Ensuring that audit assignments are executed efficiently and in good time
- Preparation of draft audit reports about working papers to ensure full and complete reporting in a professional manner prior to review by the senior
- Assist in ensuring that all audit findings are recorded and communicated to relevant authorities and drafting of comprehensive and complete reports in which the findings queries are documented.
- Compiling system descriptions and risk audit programs
- Ensuring that confidential and sensitive information is communicated appropriately and in good time.
- Assist in performing administrative duties within the unit as and when requested by audit Supervisor.
- Assist in developing recommendations for bringing clients operations in compliance with goals and objectives.
- External audits
- Planning and execution of risk-based audits for the clients in accordance with the approved audit plan and ISA standards
- Participating in preliminary and closing meetings with clients of ethics of the IAS
- Assist in compiling audit working papers and executing audit procedures
- Assist in ensuring that audit working papers adequately support audit findings, conclusions and reports.
- Gathering of adequate, competent, relevant and useful audit evidence and participating in audits in the assigned area of responsibility
- Ensuring that audit assignments are executed efficiently and in good time
- Preparation of draft audit reports about working papers to ensure full and complete reporting in a professional manner prior to review by the senior
- Assist in ensuring that all audit findings are recorded and communicated to relevant authorities and drafting of comprehensive and complete reports in which the finding queries are documented.
- Compiling system descriptions and risk audit programs
- Reason for leaving: Contract ended
Junior Risk Analyst (Forensic)
Deloitte and Touché
10.2014 - 02.2016
- Inspecting the work queues and mailbox for new client acceptance tasks created
- Running the Conflict Check System and interrogating the search results to assess the nature and extent of work required on a check and identifying any perceived or potential conflicts
- For client continuance, performing research to detect any shareholder or major changes in ownership structure and Google results to detect any reputational issues
- Informing the relevant teams of any updates required to be actioned on the client profile
- Performing annual reviews of client acceptance to ensure that client continuances are performed in a timely manner.
- Detecting any client risk factors
- Inspecting if there are any opportunities for clients in foreign jurisdictions and confirm that conflict check was logged as part of the opportunity.
- This is required to detect any territorial rights as per the engagement acceptance policy and ensuring that jurisdictional requirements are met.
- While performing research for a new client acceptance check-inspect conflict check system to detect if there are conflict checks logged for the entity already.
- If so, share / use previous and current knowledge obtained to perform the conflict check
- Resolving queries via communication with senior management.
- Reason for leaving: Contract ended
Forensic Financial Crime Graduate trainee
Deloitte and Touché
10.2014 - 02.2015
- Identification and verification of KYC documents done.
- Ensuring compliance with the provisions of FICA and other related regulations.
- Determination of ultimate beneficial ownership for different types of entities.
- Compiling a physical customer file with the documents that are necessary for FICA compliance.
- Reviewing the file to ensure compliance/ determine the missing documents/information.
- Account activity for the purposes of customer risk profiling.
- Liaising with customers via email or telephonically to obtain the required documents/information.
- Reason for leaving: Contract ended.
Intern Financial Management
National Department of Public Works, Eastern Cape
06.2012 - 07.2013
- Capture payments of suppliers on BAS
- Ensure proper allocation are correctly allocated
- Monitoring and recording of all debtors and debt statements and reminder letters
- Ensure implementation of audit recommendations
- Capturing of journals on BAS for allocation of rental
- Collection and clearing of inter responsibility accounts.
- Administer and coordinate payments and controlling of sundry payments
- Calculating Partial Reversals
- Maintain accurate filing system
- Downloading and requesting reports on BAS
- Dealing with write offs.
- Preparation and compilation of monthly financial reports
- Answering employees
- Creating BAS Entity Forms
- Preparation of the bank reconciliation account
- Payroll management
- Capturing subsistence and travel claims on Persal
- Capturing of overtime on Persal
- Capturing of garnishee order on Persal
- Reason for leaving: Internship contract ended.
Education
Applied skills -
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
09-2022
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
The University of Fort Hare
01-2011
High school -
Holy Cross High
01-2006
Skills
- Good Communication
- Leadership
- Numerical
- Analytical
- Report writing
- Interpersonal skills
- Planning and organizing
- Computer literacy (Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel and Word PowerPoint)
- Attention to detail
- Planning and good time management skills
- Prioritizing goal directed
- Result driven
- Financial reporting
- Variance analysis
- Financial compliance
- Budget forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- Data reconciliation
Languages
English
IsiXhosa
Swati
Systems
- Sage 300
- Sage payroll
- Sage 50 accounts
- Sage evolution
- Case ware
- Basic Accounting System
Custom Section
Willing to relocate
References
- Anish Jose, Applemed Tax and Consulting UK, Manager, +447475387823, anish.jose@siharacare.co.uk
- Lucky Mdluli, Scorebet SA, Manager Risk and Compliance, 0814062324, Lucky.xaba@scorebet.co.za
- Maggie Rameetse, TNC/client, Manager, 0828508550
Personal Information
Available: 30 Calender days
Timeline
Financial accountant
The Aurum Institute
03.2023 - Current
Accounting Manager
Khumalo and Mabuya Chartered Accountants
01.2023 - 03.2023
Accountant
Applemed Tax and Consulting
07.2021 - 09.2022
Accountant
Scorebet South Africa
09.2018 - 07.2022
Junior Internal and external Auditor
Morar Incorporated Auditors
03.2016 - 04.2018
Junior Risk Analyst (Forensic)
Deloitte and Touché
10.2014 - 02.2016
Forensic Financial Crime Graduate trainee
Deloitte and Touché
10.2014 - 02.2015
Intern Financial Management
National Department of Public Works, Eastern Cape
06.2012 - 07.2013
Applied skills -
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
The University of Fort Hare
High school -
Holy Cross High