Anna Catharina Stacco (Claassen)
Bookkeeper, Administrator
Louisrus
Summary
Professional Profile of Anna Stacco (Claassen)
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Administration and Bookkeeping
Badger Consulting
05.2025 - Current
- Debtors full function including reconciliation
- Creditor’s full function including reconciliation
- Cash Transactions
- Bank Reconciliation
- Log Books
- Loan Accounts
- Rental Accounts
- Diesel Reconciliation
- General Administration
- Filling
- Scanning
- Contract Consultants
- Current Position: Temporary position 1 – 2 days a week or as needed
Small Business Owner
Claud9 Herbal Wellness
03.2022 - Current
- Create and produce organic herbal wellness products for humans and animals mainly focusing on dogs.
- Create and formulate original skin care recipes for specific medical needs such as psoriasis, eczema, discoid erythematosus, alopecia, etc. Balms, oils, bath salts, and scrubs.
- Research on all herbs and medical conditions.
- Conducting market research.
- Performing all office duties – administration, accounts, bookkeeping, sales, and reconciliations.
- Create and formulate original recipes.
- Grow all organic herbs, and medicinal plants.
- Created a full dog range that includes dog biscuits and oils for sick and elderly dogs, a calming range for nervous and anxious dogs, and a range for inflammation. Currently working on a range of products for cats and horses.
- Addressed customer complaints and feedback with prompt and effective solutions, maintaining a high level of customer service.
Recruitment Officer
Cinnabar Consulting
03.2010 - 01.2011
- Permanent, contract and occasionally temporary recruitment of various positions for a variety of industries and sectors.
- Responsible for setting up and diarising appointments with pre-screened candidates.
- Responsible for the capturing of all candidate documentation from typing of profiles through to the loading and saving of candidate details, certificates etc onto the company database.
- Reference checking of all suitable candidates before presentation to client.
- Presentation of suitable candidates to clients, for available positions within their establishments.
- Liaising with both candidate and client alike with regards to any issues raised salary, benefits, candidate details etc.
- Responsible for own weekly / month statistics.
- Cold calling on possible new clientele.
- Client management, liaising with clients regarding recruitment needs, candidates presented and any other enquires they may have.
- Candidate management, liaising with candidates regarding the progress of their applications, salary discussions, futures goal aspirations and general assistance with regards to any further educational requirements.
- Recruitment
- Reported to: Adriaan Bester (Managing Member) and Anel Bester (Managing Member)
- Contact Number: +27 11 794 5886
Recruitment Officer
Leegra Marketing
07.2009 - 11.2009
- Develop and execute recruitment plans nationally
- Efficiently and effectively fill open positions within the company - nationally
- Research and recommend new sources for active and passive candidate recruitment
- Post opening in newspaper advertisements, with professional organisation and appropriate venues for region recruitment
- Utilisation of internet recruitment - social and professional networks to identify and source candidates
- Network through industry contacts, associations memberships, trade groups and employees
- Administration and data maintenance
- Candidate screening through various methods, telephonic interviews, questionnaires, etc
- Maintaining all pertinent applicant and interview data on the system
- Regretting applicants
- Interviewing and photographing promoters
- Loading profiles and photographs onto the system and maintenance thereof
- Recruit permanent and contract staff for external clients – banking (ABSA), retail (Samsung, Jet, MTN)
- Reference checking
- Marketing
- Reported to: Claire Pellar (Operations Manager) Rene Doig (Human Resources Manager)
- Contact Number: +27 11 781 4502
Recruitment Consultant / Junior Consultant / Administrator
M-Ploy Personnel Consultants
06.2007 - 06.2009
- Established a Long-Term insurance desk as the company specialises in the placement of insurance personnel
- Cold calling on a regular basis in order to obtain new business and new clients, promoting the company and it’s services - forwarding company profiles and fee structures for the prospective clients perusal
- Building and maintaining relationships with clients and applicants
- Liaising with clients twice a month to ascertain their recruitment needs
- Acquiring new business for the company
- Building up and maintaining an office support, information technology and finance desk from scratch – sourcing and building a database of prospective clientele which are contacted on a regular basis
- Taking of detailed job specifications from clients, ensuring employment equity and affirmative action plans are taken into consideration whilst doing so
- Constantly liaising with clients with regards to feedback, suitable candidates, availability of candidates, salary ranges, company cultures, assessments, interviews etc
- Searching for suitable applicants utilising various methods such as company database, job portals (PNet), applicant referrals etc
- Matching of applicant to job specification ensuring at least 80% - 90% match, ensuring correct skills set, experience, ethnicity (AA / EE) etc.
- Placing effective advertisements for applicants not currently available on database utilising various methods – relevant local newspapers, job portal sites, relevant networking sites and any other suitable advertising sites
- Short listing applicants
- Setting up of interviews for suitable candidates
- Creating questionnaires relevant to each individual position with regards to job specifications, skills set, experience and knowledge ensuring all tests comply with employment equity legislation
- Capturing applicant’s curriculum vitas onto company templates
- Placing applicants onto the company’s database and ensuring all tests, qualifications, identification, references, and any ITC checks necessary are present and accounted for in each applicant’s file to ensure that anyone can pick up the file and work with it
- Reference taking for all applicants interviewed (at least 3 of the most recent), ensuring compliance with employment equity legislation this entailed contacting previous employers human resource centres ensuring all information given regarding the employment of candidates is true and documented correctly
- Maintaining applicant records on all databases
- Liaising with clients with regards to suitable applicants, setting up of interviews, arranging parking, arranging assessments etc
- Liaising with client and applicant with respect of feedback as soon as possible
- Undertaking salary negotiations and counselling with applicants where salary expectations may be unrealistic
- Regretting applicants that are not suitable
- Liaising with applicants currently on database as to new positions that may be available, updating and ensuring all information is current and true
- Compiling Statistic and reports for the company on various elements: Ratio between applicants seen and applicants missing appointments, Number of candidates seen by each consultant, Client ratios – how many applicants sent and seen to how many applicants placed with each client
- Compiling statistics and ratios (how many positions received and how many positions placed with each client etc)
- Undertaking client visitations and agency briefings to better ascertain the clients needs and company culture
- Acting as a back to the senior consultant, liaising with her clients, applicants and assisting with feedback, setting up or cancelling interviews with both applicants and clients etc
- Due to the departure of the administrator all the administration duties fall within my capacity at this stage which includes – Switchboard, reception, capturing of all data and records for the company, setting up of interviews, overflow of references, filing and assisting the senior consultant where possible
- Assisting in the creation of the company’s website
- Recruitment Specialists
- Reported to: Tammy Mukheiber (Manager) and Shirley Tarry (Owner)
- Contact Number: +27 11 442 6425 / +27 11 442 6814
Accountants Assistant / Office Administrator / Girl Friday
Taurus Products
09.2006 - 01.2007
- Head office, responsible for 4 costal branches administration, accounts, banking, and books
- Debtors full function including reconciliation, for all 4 branches
- Creditor’s full function including reconciliation, for all 4 branches
- Cash books for all 4 branches
- Bank reconciliation for all 4 branches
- General ledgers and balance sheet for all 4 branches
- Assisting the accountant in all aspects
- Handling all supplier payments via electronic fund transfers
- Handling all inter company monetary transfers as well as inter company loan accounts and the reconciliation thereof
- Dealing with overseas clientele (Japan etc) and handling all foreign exchange payments in and out, booking of foreign exchange rates with the dealer room (standard bank)
- Handling all licenses, and assisting with shipping information and levies
- Handling all account queries
- Handling all supplier queries and issues
- Liaising with customers with regards to stock availability and charges
- Sales of certain products kept at the head office
- Responsible for all office administration – filing, faxing, reports, statistics, stock control, stationery, and consumables etc
- Petty cash for all 4 branches as well as reconciliation thereof
- Invoicing
- Querying and resolving any queries or discrepancies with the relative office managers
- Liaising with all the office managers with regards to the payment and reconciliation of salaries, VAT, UIF, SDL, Levies fines etc
- Responsible for the reconciliation and payment of all personal accounts for all managers – petrol, entertainment allowance, travel allowances etc
- Reception
- Ensuring all is up to date, all reports are completed and all is for the monthly shareholders meeting
- Responsible for general house keeping
- Manufactures of seaweed and kelp by-products and sole distributors
- Reported to: Wendy
- Contact Number: +27 11 803 8330
Education
CAPES / SSETA - Embedded Knowledge Training
03.2009
Presentation Skills - undefined
01.2009
Introduction To Agency Recruitment - Recruitment
Human Insights Consulting (APSO)
02.2008
IPSC Entrance Exam & Lecture - Recruitment
APSO
02.2008
Recruitment Training & Mentoring for SA Staffing Industry - Recruitment
Virtual HR
Gauteng01.2008
Basic Bookkeeping & Pastel V5 Certificate - Accounting And Finance
Quest Computer Skills Centre
01.2006
Secretarial Diploma - Computer Literacy
Quest Computer Skills Centre
01.2002
Grade 12 - English, Afrikaans, History, Geography, Biology, Art
Springs Girls High School
12.1996
Skills
Gemini Ai
Affiliations
- Association of Personnel Service Organisation
- AIPSC – Associate of the Institute of Personnel Service Consultants
Timeline
Administration and Bookkeeping
Badger Consulting
05.2025 - Current
Small Business Owner
Claud9 Herbal Wellness
03.2022 - Current
Recruitment Officer
Cinnabar Consulting
03.2010 - 01.2011
Recruitment Officer
Leegra Marketing
07.2009 - 11.2009
Recruitment Consultant / Junior Consultant / Administrator
M-Ploy Personnel Consultants
06.2007 - 06.2009
Accountants Assistant / Office Administrator / Girl Friday
Taurus Products
09.2006 - 01.2007
Presentation Skills - undefined
CAPES / SSETA - Embedded Knowledge Training
Introduction To Agency Recruitment - Recruitment
Human Insights Consulting (APSO)
IPSC Entrance Exam & Lecture - Recruitment
APSO
Recruitment Training & Mentoring for SA Staffing Industry - Recruitment
Virtual HR
Basic Bookkeeping & Pastel V5 Certificate - Accounting And Finance
Quest Computer Skills Centre
Secretarial Diploma - Computer Literacy
Quest Computer Skills Centre
Grade 12 - English, Afrikaans, History, Geography, Biology, Art
Springs Girls High School
Personal Information
- Available: Immediately
- ID Number: 790814 0229 086
- Nationality: South African Citizen
- Marital Status: Married
- Availability: Immediately
- ID Number: 790814 0229 086
Dependants
0
Physical Address
Plot 80 Roots Road, Louisrus, Gauteng
Salary Expectation
Negotiable
Personal Attributes
- Punctual
- Accurate
- Methodical
- Systematic
- Team player
- Goal orientated
- Diligent
- Dedicated
- Loyal
- Friendly
- Outgoing