Bernadette Dyani
Assistant Director: Financial Accounting
Cape Town
Summary
Industrious and enthusiastic Manager proven to consistently meet productivity goals and business and customer service objectives. Skillfully works with all employees to enhance performance and improve day-to-day processes. Diplomatic in resolving customer issues to maximize satisfaction and meet targeted service level.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
ASISTANT DIRECTOR, PAYMENTS AND SYSTEMS
Western Cape Government Health and Wellness
2019.04 - Current
- Lead, direct, and strategically manage operations of the 13 Finance team members within the Directorate: Financial Accounting (Payments &Systems)
- Manage the key performance areas and result indicators to enable them to meet the Directorate objectives and maintain a high level of performance and achieve financial goals
- Oversee, and manage staff members, which will include training and development
- Work closely with the Deputy Director and Director being fully accountable for the full accounting function, accounts receivable and payable, reporting and managing supplier accounts
- Ensuring seamless transaction of all operational finances whilst ensuring compliance with all the relevant standards and company policies and procedures
- Ensure appropriate, financial management, funding, budgetary provisions, and control procedures are in place
- Working in collaboration with Supply Chain Management, Budgets, Bookkeeping, Financial Systems and Revenue Management
- Responsible for expensing the Programme 1: Administration budget R1.522 billion FY 2022
- Reviewing and releasing/authorise supplier payments more than R2 million rand on BAS/LOGIS
- Develop and implement policies to mitigate potential risk in the processing of payments and systems management
- Drive Compliance, ensure that all compliance related to policy and procedures are adhered to
- Define key performance indicators, monitor performance, and initiate corrective action where necessary to ensure the unit performs effectively and in line with the Departmental policies and procedures
- Review internal control procedures,
- Facilitate audit process with internal and external audit
- Set up and maintain computerized administrations and/or financial databases.
ASISTANT DIRECTOR
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, Premier
2012.02 - 2019.03
- Coordinate the annual statutory audits
- Coordinate and review within agreed time frames the submission of any financial reports/assignments as directed by the Finance Audit and Compliance Manager
- Perform primary reviews of financial statements, review accounting transactions,
- Playing a key role in annual audit, responsible for the compilation of information for preparation
- Facilitate audit process with internal and external audit
- Prepare for the audit and liaise with auditors on all matters pertaining to departments audits
- Ensure interpretation and compilation of business processes of the unit, Provide business insights to different business units a
- Responsible for rendering audit support services
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with other role players (e.g., auditors, arrangers, lawyers, directorates etc.)
- Preparation and review of management accounts and statutory annual accounts in accordance with the applicable accounting standards; and
- Coordination of specific processes to support the implementation and execution of the Company's audit plan, monitoring compliance, preparing, and presenting audit findings and recommendations and providing assurance of compliance to statutory requirements and policies and procedures
- Direct the preparation of financial reports summarizing and forecasting the organizations financial position such as income statements, balance sheets and analyses of future earnings and income
- Responding to financial/audit queries by gathering data and interpreting data
- Accountable reporting through monthly In Year Monitoring, Interim and Annual Financial Statements
- Preparation of consolidated management accounts monthly, together with comments for presentation to EXCO
- Resolution of auditor issues in a timely manner
- Reviewing monthly reports prepared by centre and understanding material deviations from strategy and forecasts
- Support the Financial Manager in financial audit of their financials, statutory accounting practices and regulations relevant to the three
- Responsible for expensing the Programme 1: Administration budget R1.522 billion FY 2022
- Respond to queries from management and group finance in an accurate and prompt manner
- Oversee and report on cashflow
- Manage costs / expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
- Assist in cash management including the management of bank accounts and payment instr
- Enhancing the understanding of the revenue/cost drivers, Cash Flow generating elements and the Balance Sheet by working across the boundaries of the Target Operating Model
- Ensure cash flow is appropriate for the organization’s operations
- Ensure cash flow is appropriate for the organizations operations
- Perform primary reviews of financial statements, review accounting transactions, perform month end accounting close processes and deliver on month end reporting
- Assisting with annual financial audits
- Review GL accounts at month end to ensure that all accounts are in line with the budget and provisions have been made accordingly
- Accountable reporting through monthly In Year Monitoring, Interim and Annual Financial Statements
- Preparation of consolidated management accounts on a monthly basis, together with comments for presentation to EXCO
- Preparation and sign off of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Reporting, including but not limited to:
- Submission of the Monthly Management Reports (income Statement and Balance Sheet), reporting on actual versus budget
- Interacts with the Group Financial Manager to produce timely, efficient, and accurate month-end close and financial reporting through to year-end
- Preparation of reports for Head office monthly
- Prepare the finance inputs and analysis for monthly shareholder and stakeholder
- Resolution of auditor issues in a timely manner
- Prepare quarterly reports to lenders, where applicable to by agents on calls
- Guide, advise and implement policies, procedures, systems, and processes in the development so that operations are efficiently and effectively managed
- Ensure appropriate, financial management, funding, budgetary provisions and control procedures are in place
- Ensuring Financial Management, Risk Identification, and Internal Control within the Accounting environment
- Develop policies, procedures, and financial delegations in line with
- Ensure compliance with internal control
- Review of financial statements variances to
- Monitor the internal control environment within DHL Anglophone entities in SSA through the operation of a regular internal accounting review process
- Coordinate the annual statutory audits and ensure all adverse management findings are followed up and addressed within the set deadline
- Ensure adherence with the corporate deadline for completion of statutory audits
- SSA
- Perform month end accounting close processes and deliver on month end reporting
- Plan, organize and execute financial tasks as required by the Head of Finance and/or Group Finance
- Treasury Management
- Monitoring and ensuring correct accounting principles are applied
- Ensure interpretation and compilation of business processes
- Preparation, review and submission of
- Collaborate with the Manager: Structured Finance & Agency Services in respect of the:
- Prepare for the audit and liaise with auditors on all matters pertaining to company audits
- Timeous submission of the trial Balance to the group finance function
- Coordination of specific processes to support the implementation and execution of the Company's audit plan, monitoring compliance, preparing and presenting audit findings and recommendations and providing assurance of compliance to statutory requirements and policies and procedures
- Completes and exports trial balances and general ledgers
- Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with clients and other role players (e.g
- Auditors, arrangers, bankers, lawyers, associates, etc.)
- Provide business insights to different business units and entities to assist with forecasting and predictive decision making
- Provide financial information and interpreting the implications for business performance and funding needs
- Direct the preparation of financial reports summarizing and forecasting the organizations financial position such as income statements, balance sheets and analyses of future earnings and income
- Report identified risks to relevant stakeholders and action plans thereof
- Prepare ad-hoc, monthly and quarterly reporting
- Prepare statutory reporting (interim and year-end)
- Ensure alignment of financial transactions and reporting with relevant statutory requirements
- Ensure accurate reporting of significant transactions in the financial statements (e.g
- Acquisition and disposal impact on cash flow, net debt and interest)
- Provide advice on financial reporting issues and standards
- Ensure compliance to financial reporting standards e.g
- Budgets
- Collecting and analysing data, which will be used to provide information to other departments, enabling them to make informed budgeting, investment and/or cost decisions
- Join us as a Specialist Financial Reporting where you will be responsible for the following:
- Interpret and cascade financial accounting/reporting policy, standards, procedures and timetables
- Coordinating internal and external audits
- Performing financial statement disclosure checklists
- This includes financial statements prepared using IFRS, IFRS for SMEs and other relevant reporting frameworks
- Direct the preparation of financial reports summarizing and forecasting the organizations financial position such as income statements, balance sheets and analyses of future earnings and income
- Assisting with Financial Statement Quality Checks (FSQCs) on financial statements may also be required from time to time
- FSQCs include for example:
- Agreeing comparative figures to prior year financial statements
- Checking mathematical accuracy
- Checking internal consistency i.e
- Between the face of the statements and the notes thereto; page references; note references
- Sequence checks i.e
- Page numbers; note numbers
- Agreeing current year figures to supporting documentation
- Checking changes across multiple drafts
- Attending to monthly invoices to clients for 300 communities/companies
- Budgeting and projections
- Reports and board reports
- Prepare monthly actual vs budget reports for budget holders
- Manage the monthly financial close process, including ensuring all costs incurred are properly recorded, reviewing journal entries, account balance reconciliations and report preparation
- Budget preparation
- Analytical review of monthly management report and reports on deviations from budget
- Accurate and timeous production of monthly management accounts, ensuring that monthly reporting is properly planned and executed, and all queries are addressed
- Review the reports and assist in sending out the monthly reports
- Analyze monthly management accounts and make the necessary adjustments
- Engage management on operations within the Financial Accounting and Systems environment
- Produce daily Age Analysis on production
- Understand and integrate various accounting and record management operating sytems to produce accounts in SAGE / Evolution
- Review operational expenditure budgets to support growth strategies, in conjunction with Financial Director
- Drive the implementation and provision of sound financial, Business Intelligence and CRM management services to the organization through (internal control, internal and external audit, treasury, compliance legislation)
- Ensure adequate procurement practices and vendor management, - I make the payment and to execute this activity I must have gone through the SCM process to ensure all boxes are ticked there is quite a few boxes that must be ticked
- E.g
- Hospital manager comes wanting to procure specific items not contracted and you must pay (horizontal and vertical leadership
- Manage relationship with service provider and other agreed stakeholder management across the entire business
- Deciding on investment strategies by considering cash and liquidity risk
- Performing risk management by analyzing the organizations liabilities and investments
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with Board and Shareholders so as to identify their needs and seek full range of business solutions
- Ensure credibility of Finance department by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial trends and forecasts
- Manage the year end budget process, including the preparation of the consolidated budget and quarterly forecasts
- Manage the cash resources to ensure the most optimum return
- Prepare monthly management accounts for Logistics
- Prepare the annual budget and the quarterly forecasts
- Assist respective Managing Executive with ad-hoc projects
- Management of a Debtors team
- Effectively collect outstanding balances and manage the company exposure
- Any Ad Hoc requests to support the business
- Utilizing key agronomic indicators, delivering budgets and forecasts in partnership with the controlling team in the Regional Finance team
- Coordinate the development, implementation and monitoring of accounting and business systems and processes
SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2009.02 - 2012.01
- Strategic and Operational management of the Payments and Systems unit consisting of 13 team members
- Managing functions in relation to Budgeting, Processing Payments, Recording Revenue, Reporting, Supply Chain Management
- Responsible for expensing the Programme 1: Administration budget R1.522 billion FY 2022
- Ensuring Financial Management, Risk Identification, and Internal Control within the Accounting environment
- Develop policies, procedures, and financial delegations in line with
- Accountable reporting through monthly In Year Monitoring, Interim and Annual Financial Statements
- Engage management on operations within the Financial Accounting and Systems environment
- Facilitate audit process with internal and external audit
Education
Honors Degree - Public Management And Development
University of Stellenbosch
2016.01 - 2019.12
National Diploma - Public Management
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cape Town 2010.01 - 2013.12
Grade 12 - Matric
Belhar High School
1992.01 - 1996.12
Skills
Billing systems and software
undefinedAdditional Information
Lionel Petersen - Deputy Director: Financial Management Department of the Premier
Contact: Lionel.petersen@westerncape.gov.za
Phone number: 021 483 5758
Delmaine Hendricks - Deputy Director: Financial Accounting Department of Health and Wellness
Contact: Delmaine.hendricks@westerncape.gov.za
Phone number: 021 483 4398
Ebrahim Mohamed - Deputy Director: Resource Management Department of Social Development
Contact: Ebrahim.mohamed@westerncape.gov.za
Phone number: 021 483 6738
Timeline
ASISTANT DIRECTOR, PAYMENTS AND SYSTEMS
Western Cape Government Health and Wellness
2019.04 - Current
Honors Degree - Public Management And Development
University of Stellenbosch
2016.01 - 2019.12
ASISTANT DIRECTOR
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, Premier
2012.02 - 2019.03
National Diploma - Public Management
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2010.01 - 2013.12
SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2009.02 - 2012.01
Grade 12 - Matric
Belhar High School
1992.01 - 1996.12
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