Anasuya Naidoo

Overall responsibility for statutory and management reporting for all relevant legal entities within the reporting division. Responsible for the review of the balance sheet and financial control of the reporting division.

FUNCTIONS / RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reporting
• Assisting in preparing the FD/Controller report inputs
• Responsible for all Walmart reporting requirements
• Ad hoc reporting
• Ensure the integrity of financial records
• Continued improvement of processes
• Compilation of the monthly HFM reporting pack with commentary.
• Compilation of monthly Management accounts
• Point of contact with Massmart & Walmart colleagues.
• Ensuring efficient and effective processes are in place for the completion of month-end close of the general ledger for reporting purposes in accordance with Massmart reporting requirements and continuously improving these processes.
• Ensure strict accounting processes are followed to ensure monthly results are accurate and timely.
• Review tasks on a daily basis to ensure all entries are accounted for each month
Half-year, year-end and Statutory
• Completion of Annual Financial Statements
• Completion of reporting for Stats SA
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Ad hoc statutory reporting
• Audit committee reporting
• Assistance in the year-end audit process ensuring the general ledger team adheres to the stipulated deadlines.
Strategic
• To support the Finance Controller in contributing to the implementation of Business and Finance strategy within the division.
• Adding value to the business by proactively analysing our numbers and implementing relevant measurement matrices required for decision-making.
Balance sheet
• Management of the legal entity balance sheets where necessary
• Ensuring intercompany balances between the different legal entities agree at each month-end
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations monthly
• Overall ownership of the general ledger and all related entries each month where relevant.
• Ensuring all accounting and general ledger processes are in line with all Division and Massmart related policies.
• Management of process to ensure effective sub-ledgers are maintained for all relevant areas.
• Ensure that all internal controls within the general ledger team are sufficiently adequate and that these are in line with MAS and external audit requirements.
• Ensure all finance control policies are adhered to and where necessary, implement remediation for any deficiencies.

Stakeholder engagement
• Ensure our key service provider, Genpact delivers the agreed and required level of service and communicating any challenges with them timeously.
• Maintain open communication and positive working relationship with the Genpact team to ensure all transactional processing

• Review of the Final Sales Submission to Massmart (post FP&A review and submission)
• Ownership of Equity, Investment, NDR, Share Capital, Other Comprehensive Income, NCI (Minority reconciliations), Share based Payments, Extra Ordinary Provisions, IAS2 Settlement discount in stock, Circular 9 (Settlement Discount included in creditors)
• Preparation of FRAP Reporting Commentary and analysis
• Preparation of the PPE RF for monthly submission (independent of the Genpact process) - This includes the Forex
• Submission of Equity Roll Forward monthly
• Statutory reporting – Stat packs at Y/End including Dry Run Packs
• Walmart and Massmart Group reporting - GL validation, PPE RF and submissions, Equity RF, RF Validation in the required standards and metrics, CECL
• Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet recons in accordance with the Walmart Reconciliation policy, - IFRS9, IFRS 5, IFRS 2, And various other
• Balance Sheet Review - Review various recons and highlight any anomalies, process changes etc
• ERP Account Maintenance - Preparation and submission of new accounts, segment, cost centre requests.
• Assisting with the PPE and Impairment reconciliation for Annual Financial Statement
• Retained Income Check between AFS and TB
• Sustainability data
• Facilitating the Opening and closing of periods in Great Plains
• Year-end Roll-forward on Great plains (CCW Wholesale, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia & Shield)
• Year-end Roll-forward SAP
• Adding value to the business by proactively analysing our numbers and implementing relevant measurement matrices required for decision making
• Completion of the Wal-Mart Tax Pack
• Quarterly Reporting submissions

• Manage a team of 8 including assistant accountants and accountants
• Responsible for Role clarity Documents, Performance feedback and appraisals
• Effective and timeous communication with the FM to keep her updated and abreast of all matters in the team
• Timeous and accurate review of income statements, balance sheets in accordance with Masscash and Massmart deadlines
• Preparation and Management of Credit insurance – Recons, journals, recoveries and premium pay-outs
• Preparation and Management of Share Based Payments
• Current account Balancing monthly
• Review of functional level which include all expenses excluding Personnel and Bank Charges
• Resolving queries in good time, reporting unresolved queries to management
• Actively involved in training staff
• Direct involvement with the interim and year-end external audits as well as internal audits.
• Ad hoc requests from Massmart/Wal-mart – Fixed assets, Leases, Insurance Claims

• Manage a team of 2 people
• Properties and Central Service cost centre review
• Responsible for Role clarity Documents, Performance feedback and appraisals
• Current account Balancing monthly
• EFT Payments- Signatory
• Authorize certain Sundry payments ensuring they are paid correctly and timeously
• Work with auditors during mid-year and year-end audit process
• Provided regular feedback to direct line manager
• Authorised teams leave
• Training of staff
• Coached staff on an ongoing performance
• Internal reporting – Monthly completion of all reports to the executive committee and regional managers completed timeously and accurately
• PowerPoint slides
• Maintenance of the cost centre check list and new account process
• Maintenance of the Wal-mart store header file and chart of Account mappings
• Ad-hoc queries and requests
• Budgeting for all required cost centres
• Import of group budgets into Great Plains
• Annual SAMPRA/SAMRO Music licence renewals
• Tax schedule review for the group

• Cellular Reporting, reconciliation and allocations of cellular ongoing revenue and activation revenue for the Masscash group. From 2004 - December 2010
• Setup of reporting templates on FRX
• Debtors reporting for a period of 6 -8 months within the 2008 financial period
• Acting Rebates Manager – April 2008 to December 2008
• Preparation of management reports for the regional managers until June 2010
• Preparation of management reports for the executive team
• Review of Vat Reconciliations for the group
• Adhoc reports
• Preparation of annual tax returns, Allocation of tax assessments
• Preparation of annual financial statements
• Correspondence with SARS on any tax related issues for the group – including vat and tax audits
• Vat registrations for new entities
• Due Diligence store visits for new acquisitions
• Write up of reports on specific sections included in the due diligence report presented to all key stakeholders
• Cash control Training for cash office personnel at the newly acquired stores
• Calculation of provisional taxes payable by all legal entities within the group
• Tax schedule review for the group
• Various balance sheet reconciliations
• Intercompany balancing
• CCW Virtual
• Other Adhoc duties
• A review of all new stores and hybrid cash controls and respective sales journals during the normal month cut off times.
• A review of selected balance sheet recons for all new acquisitions
• Annual SAMPRA/SAMRO Music licence renewal

• Sales Reporting for the KZN region
• Sales Reporting to Massmart
• Month End Journal input
• Analysis of income statements, Working Capital, Tax Schedules for the KZN region
• Preparation and Review Balance sheet recons for KZN
• Preparation of various Group Recons
• Cellular – Group Reconciliation of income from Vodacom to pack track
• Claims from Future Cell
• Process ongoing and activation revenue for the Group.
• All cellular related balance sheet reconciliations
• Cash Forecasting and daily investments to Massmart including 8 week cash forecasts
• Massmart management Pack
• Preparation of the Profit analysis Report
• Renewal of Liquor licences
• Preparation of various reports for the marketing team
• Review of the CCW Virtual recons and processes

• Processing of EFT payments for the Group
• Reconciliation of Expense accounts
• Queries
• VAT Reconciliations

• Capturing for 12 stores, Reconciliation and Payment of Creditor accounts
• Manual rebate Calculations for each store
• Consolidate Creditor Payments