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Andisiwe Baliso

Accountant
Kraaifontein

Summary

Focused Accounting professional with 10 years of experience maintaining financial records and reviewing account activity. Proven track record of developing accurate spreadsheets and delivering organized reports with multiple softwares. Accomplished in taking on tasks within strict deadlines while prioritizing urgent needs.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Finance Associate

Dimagi
12.2023 - 3 2024
  • Oversee the weekly review of US & South Africa entities' AP, AR, employee ledgers, and aging reports to ensure accuracy and work with the bookkeeper and action any corrections or updates needed
  • Run quarterly report-out meetings for US & South Africa with the Accounting & Compliance team
  • Coordination and completion of the monthly cash projections and cash requests for the South African entity
  • Reviewing the weekly bank account clearings and reconciliations prepared by the bookkeeper to ensure completeness and accuracy
  • Ensuring all monthly credit card reconciliations are completed by the required deadlines
  • Reviewing the US & South Africa entities’ monthly payroll journals processed by the Bookkeeper against the payroll information supplied
  • Coordinate the information relating to salary deductions per the employees’ expense reconciliations
  • Oversee the replies and feedback to US & South Africa staff’s questions about invoices, payments, and expense reports
  • Provide accurate and timely entity financial data for the Finance Lead to review
  • Oversee the completion of the monthly South Africa VAT reports and sharing with external accountants within the required timeline
  • Coordinate any VAT payments due to SARS with external accountants
  • Providing general support and coordination with various Accounting & Compliance initiatives, OKR’s, ad hoc projects and general financial administration.

Senior Accountant

ITL Holdings SA
08.2023 - 11.2023
  • Full Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable for SA & UK entity
  • Petty cash: Weekly/monthly reconciliation, posting journal entries to Sage
  • Rebates and listing fees: Assist in the facilitation of the monthly calculations, reporting, and accounting for rebates and listing fees making use of internal sales systems and liaising with marketing and finance teams where needed
  • Foreign currency: restating foreign balances at month-end spot rates
  • Preparing and submitting the monthly VAT return
  • Maintenance of fixed asset register
  • Maintenance of lease register
  • Reconciliation of bank accounts and cash book, credit card receipts and statement reconciliation, processing and payment of staff expenses, VAT receipt submission, posting payments and expenses to Sage, account balances reconciled in Sage
  • Preparing monthly reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts including intercompany reconciliations and confirmations with counterparties
  • Preparing monthly set of management accounts (vs budget) with commentary for relevant head office entities
  • Support the preparation of the annual budgets for the head office entities responsible for
  • Monitor monthly expenditure to ensure it remains within budget
  • Monitor balances across bank accounts (local and foreign)
  • Monitor appropriate internal controls
  • Preparing payment listing for approval, loading and releasing payments, verifying new banking details, maintaining banking records and signatory updates etc
  • Provide all necessary information for cashflow forecasting
  • Provide necessary schedules and information to tax consultants
  • Provide input and schedules required by external auditors
  • Reason for leaving: Short term contract.

Accounting officer (Payroll)

South African National Biodiversity Institute
12.2020 - 04.2023
  • Reconciling the liability accounts
  • Prepare monthly reports for payroll
  • Prepare payroll repots for various projects
  • Preparing and processing of the payroll income and expense journal entries
  • Processing the cashbook and reconciliation of the payroll bank accounts
  • Processing the Main & Supplementary PERSAL salaries journals
  • EMP201 submissions to SARS & EMP501 Reconciliation
  • Third party payments
  • Reason for leaving: Contract ended.

Financial Accountant

Mags@ Home a division of CTP Limited
09.2018 - 06.2020
  • Prepare asset, and liability account entries by compiling and analysing account information
  • Document financial transactions by entering account information
  • Summarize current financial status by collecting information, preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports
  • Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents
  • Maintain accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures
  • Reconcile financial discrepancies by collecting and analysing account information
  • Verify, allocate, post, and reconcile transactions
  • Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
  • Provide technical support and advice on management
  • Provide input into the department’s goal-setting process
  • Support month-end and year-end close process
  • Completing half-year and year-end tax packs
  • Reconciliation of inter-company loan accounts
  • Month-end and year-end journals
  • Payroll reconciliations
  • Handles audit queries
  • Assisting with drafting of budgets
  • Budget variances report
  • VAT reconciliations
  • Reason for leaving: The Company closed the division.

Senior Analyst

Deloitte
04.2016 - 08.2018
  • Prepare and process journals including monthly accruals, depreciation, year-end and provisions
  • Prepare VAT recon
  • Preparation and input of information from source documents to trial balance
  • Accounts receivables and accounts payable reconciliations
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Asset register
  • Preparation of monthly management reports for various companies
  • Income Statement
  • Balance sheet
  • VAT recons
  • Preparation and processing of payments (Citibank, Nedbank, Standard Bank)
  • Preparation of internal reports for financial analysis
  • Communicating with clients to resolve queries
  • Working with multiple currencies
  • Reason for leaving: Department carved out of the company.

Education

Btech in Taxation -

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

National Diploma in Accounting - undefined

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Skills

Recordkeeping

Payroll

Reconciliations

Audit preparation

Audit support

Financial Reporting

General Ledger Accounting

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Xero

Sage Accpac 300, Sage X3, Sage Intacct and Sage One

Pastel Partner and Evolution

Sage VIP

Advance Ms Excel

CaseWare

Google sheets

Asana, Slack and Expensify

Microsoft Office

Quickbooks

  • Monthly Reporting
  • Financial record keeping

Timeline

Finance Associate

Dimagi
12.2023 - 3 2024

Senior Accountant

ITL Holdings SA
08.2023 - 11.2023

Accounting officer (Payroll)

South African National Biodiversity Institute
12.2020 - 04.2023

Financial Accountant

Mags@ Home a division of CTP Limited
09.2018 - 06.2020

Senior Analyst

Deloitte
04.2016 - 08.2018

Btech in Taxation -

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

National Diploma in Accounting - undefined

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

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