Amanda Coceka Hlakanyana

• Providing an executive assistant function, administrative support and office management provincially/regionally
• Identifying challenges and creating solutions - translating business needs
• Budget drafting and budget expenditure control
• Ensuring compliance and with statutes and other policies
• Stakeholder engagements and liaison
• Managing and ensuring good working relations with all stakeholders, community forums, local and provincial councils.

• Natural resources management project management (Working for Water, Dept of Environmental Affairs)
• Monitoring and Evaluation of EPWP projects in the Amathole District (Community development projects)
• Stakeholder engagements and liaison ensuring that NRM projects are delivered and the objectives are achieved within the Amathole District
• KPI reports, dashboard reports and project progress reports
• Development and implementation of Annual Plans of Operation
• Procurement and SCM processes management.

• Managing project budgets of projects within the Amathole district, Eastern Cape
• Financial reporting using cashflow spreadsheets
• Tender administration and processing
• Thorough understanding of environmental policies and legislation
• Stakeholder management and engagements
• Project resources recruitment management
• Promoting NRM projects and programmes in platforms such as Municipal Council sittings, district municipal sittings to ensure development and expansion for the benefit of communities within the Amathole District.

· Speak with customers to organise repayments.

· Start legal proceedings if debts are not paid within an agreed time.

· Process payments and keep customer records up to date.

· Produce credit reports for management.

· Performing auxiliary duties to support the Senior Finance Manager.

· Compiling of creditor statement reconciliations

· Perform controls on creditors' accounts with various companies

· Liaise with legal department to ensure that bad debts is recovered

· Review outstanding claims and track processing time/period

· Calculate and report on loss on interest

· Compile adjusting journal entries or review journal entries captured on the system for relevance, accuracy and validity;

· Supervise and verify that expenditure is in line with budget and item provisioning;

· Supervise the correct capturing of banking details on the accounting system;

· Review creditors’ reconciliations and ensure that main service providers are paid timely and correctly;

· Supervise and safeguard source documents and face value forms

· Working on accounts payable, accounts receivable and monitoring expenditure

· Co-ordinate day-to-day functions and services of the Natural resource management provincial office

· Diary planning and management

· Financial reports

· Monthly and quarterly reports drafting

Budget monitoring