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JAMES MATUMBA
Thornton Cape Town,WC
Summary
To secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize my training and skills, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company. While collaborating with people forms the nucleus of my strength, being a business leader and entrepreneur are my aspirations. PEOPLE SKILLS My work ethics embraces hard work and open– mindedness, fairness, and integrity. I can work under pressure in a fast-paced working environment. I am a willing learner and effective communicator at all levels of management. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS Attained a Supervisory Skills Development Programme certificate in 2012 offered by the Taj Hotel. This equipped me with necessary tools and skills on how to supervise and manage people, own tasks, and proper time management. Developed a process improvement strategy for the Accounts Payable and Stock system by collaborating with various suppliers and departmental heads that resulted in cutting payable days from 30 to 15 days. Also, a holder of Code 10 drivers’ licence.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Finance Clerk
Paramount Holdings
- Reconciling branch accounts
- Auditing branches for compliance
- Investigating variances to accounts mis matches
- Daily balancing of cash register
Credit Controller
The Silo Hotel
02.2017 - Current
- Responsible for monitoring day to day purchasing, capturing and stock disbursement operations and overseeing inventory
- Worked collaboratively with departmental heads and managers for monthly stock counts and reconciling to ensure controls and growth hence attaining the best hotel award in Africa (2020)
- Spearheaded the internal controls process across the organization by auditing the existing processes and identifying opportunities, which resulted in Food & Beverage Cost of Sales reduction by 4%
- Established a new Accounts Payable review process by addressing aged supplier accounts which resulted in a reduction of AP interest payments by 80%,from (30 to 15 days)
- Supervise reconciliation of supplier invoices to system ledger for payments
- Liaising with suppliers for contract pricing
- Formulating and implementing procurement policy and procedures to eradicate loopholes for unethical conduct
- Develop procurement policy for the organisation for the approval of the General Manager taking account of local and international best practices
- Consult with departmental heads on procurement policy development and implementation
- Monitoring of stock takes for hotel and investigating variances.
Accounts Payable Controller
Taj Hotel Cape Town
05.2010 - 01.2017
- Supervise capturing of Invoices onto the system
- Processing and verifying Payments to suppliers
- Monitoring and reviewing Creditor’s reconciliations to supplier statements
- Assisting with monthly financial reports
- Review bank reconciliation report.
Inventory Controller
Vineyard Hotel
12.2008 - 04.2010
- Maintaining par levels of all stock items
- Goods receiving
- Forecasting levels of demand for services and products to meet the business needs
- Matching invoices to purchase orders for accuracy
- Liaising for contract prices with suppliers
- Purchasing various stock items of the hotel
- Raising purchase orders on FIDELIO Materials Control based on approved quotations
- Capturing invoices on the system
- Issuing stock to various outlets of the hotel
- Conducting and producing monthly inventory reports on all stock items.
Store Supervisor
Eastlake SPAR Muizenberg
01.2008 - 11.2008
- Goods receiving
- Merchandising
- Cashiering, Cashiers Supervision and Banking
- Attending to and resolving customer queries.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Accounting
Masvingo Polytechnic
Zimbabwe 01.2000 - 01.2001
MBA -
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Cape Town, WC 01.2016 - 03.2018
Skills
COMPUTER SKILLSundefined
Timeline
Credit Controller
The Silo Hotel
02.2017 - Current
MBA -
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
01.2016 - 03.2018
Accounts Payable Controller
Taj Hotel Cape Town
05.2010 - 01.2017
Inventory Controller
Vineyard Hotel
12.2008 - 04.2010
Store Supervisor
Eastlake SPAR Muizenberg
01.2008 - 11.2008
Some College (No Degree) - Accounting
Masvingo Polytechnic
01.2000 - 01.2001
Finance Clerk
Paramount Holdings
References
Mr Herberto Camara
Assistant FC Taj Hotel
+27 72 175 9040
The Human Resources Manager
Human Resource Manager
Vineyard Hotel & Spa
+2721 657 4500
Mr Devon Labuschagne
The HR Manager
Taj Hotel Cape Town
+27 21 819 2000
Michael Pownall
Managing Partner at Valor Hospitality
michael@valorhospitality.com
+27 83 307 4409
Mr Honest Chatikobo
Director
Paramount Holdings (Zimbabwe)
+263 774 100 840
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