Xero
Chioneso Kuwengwa
Senior Accountant
Johannesburg
Summary
Finance professional prepared to deliver strategic financial insights and manage complex accounting operations. Skilled in consolidating financial statements and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Known for fostering team collaboration and driving results through adaptable strategies.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
1
1
Language
Work History
Group Accountant
Bsure Insurance Advisors
06.2023 - 05.2025
- Processing cashbooks for all bank accounts, invoicing, and creating bills to pay on Xero for multiple group companies.
- Reviewing monthly profit & loss statements and investigating discrepancies.
- Performing monthly journal adjustments such as Depreciation, interest on financing, payroll, activation, and dealer payment journals.
- Preparing VAT201 reports on Xero and submitting them to SARS. Efiling.
- Compiling monthly recons such as Asset financing, bank, fixed assets, inter-company age analysis, inter-company loan, PAYE, VAT, Payroll liabilities, salary deductions, and VAT recons.
- Working on commission statements and compiling consolidation statements for all insures using Excel formulas.
- Managing petty cash.
- Processing daily payments and transfers on the bank.
- Prepare trade payable and receivable reconciliations.
- Review and preparation of departmental report.
- Budget preparation and review.
- Preparation of payroll using simple pay, and submitting of EMP201 on efiling.
- Preparation of financial statement, management accounts using draft.
- Performed audits and stock counts.
Grant Accountant
South Africa National Aids Council
04.2020 - 05.2023
- Schedules and trains new Grant managers on accessing their grant budget reports.
- Responsible for budgetary control and post-award compliance with federal, state, local, sponsor, and college regulations.
- Responsible for the invoicing and reconciliation processes.
- Responsible for the monitoring of grant activity including cost overruns, cost sharing, and unallowable administrative expenses.
- Reconciles and prepares monthly and quarterly financial grant reports according to generally accepted accounting procedures.
- Attends monthly review meetings with the Grants Administrators.
- Assists the grant administrators with Grant Monitoring and Grant Audits.
- Communicate with management, staff, and funders to provide financial and accounting information and support as needed.
- Maintain knowledge of internal control requirements.
- Verify the accuracy of invoices and other accounting documents or records.
- Update and maintain accounting journals, ledgers, and other records detailing financial business transactions (e.g., disbursements, expense vouchers, receipts, accounts payable).
- Enters data into computer systems using defined computer programs.
- Compile data and prepare reconciliation.
- Prepare sundry debtors and prepayment reconciliation.
- Maintains accounting records by making copies, and filing.
- Reconciles bank statements by comparing statements with general.
- Maintains accounting databases by entering data into the computer, and processing.
Junior Accountant
Ocean Basket Head Office SA
01.2019 - 03.2020
- Ensure all authorized transactions are captured and processed in time and accurately on the financial accounting system to provide businesses with good financial record keeping.
- Accurate statutory reporting.
- Accurate intercompany processing, shared services billings, prepare calculations.
- Follow up with the creditor's team when invoices are not in order.
- Verifying that all expenditure is signed off by authorized signatories.
- Audits - Assist the auditors with tasks, reports, and queries.
- Client service - Conclude all internal and external client queries.
- Processing of monthly Journal.
- Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts i.e fixed assets, bank, vat, salary recons.
- Cashbook processing.
- Creditors processing.
Trainee Accountant (SAIPA ARTICLES)
123 Consulting
01.2016 - 12.2018
- Financial Processing.
- Financial Journal Processing & Control.
- Salaries Journal Processing & Control.
- Loan Account Journal Processing & Control.
- Inter-Company Billing Processing.
- Tax Journal Processing.
- SARS Processing and Payment (VAT201, EMP201).
- Financial Management.
- Balance Sheet Accounts Reconciliation & Maintenance.
- Budget Forecasting.
- Project Cost Analysis.
- Cost Centre Analysis.
- Reporting.
- Monthly Management Packs.
- Value Added Products and Services Report.
- Monthly & Bi-Monthly VAT Reconciliation & Payment.
- Fixed Asset Register & Monthly Depreciation Calculation.
- Cashbook.
- Reconciliation & Maintenance of Cashbooks.
- Reconciliation & Maintenance of Company Credit Cards.
- Reconciliation & Updating of all Bank Accounts.
- Payment Allocations (Account Receivable, Account Payable, General Ledger).
- Loading supplier payments.
Education
Bachelor in Accounting Science - Accounting & Auditing
UNISA
Skills
Bank reconciliation
Income statement analysis
Payroll processing
Tax compliance
Cash flow management
Accounts receivable management
Audit coordination
Balance sheet analysis
ERP system proficiency
Internal controls
Intercompany transactions
Fixed assets management
Month-end closing
Year-end closing
Financial statement preparation
General ledger maintenance
Accounts payable management
Microsoft Excel
Accounting and bookkeeping
General ledger entries
Financial statements
Auditing
Accounts payable
Attention to detail
Audit support
Accounts payable and receivable
Account reconciliation processes
Administrative support
Invoice balancing
Software
Sage Intact
Sage One
Pastel
Evolution
Caseware
Draftworx
Sap
Certification
ACCA,-IN PROGRESS
Timeline
Group Accountant
Bsure Insurance Advisors
06.2023 - 05.2025
SAP S4HANA
01-2022
SAP S4HANA-SALES
10-2021
Grant Accountant
South Africa National Aids Council
04.2020 - 05.2023
Junior Accountant
Ocean Basket Head Office SA
01.2019 - 03.2020
ACCA,-IN PROGRESS
06-2016
Trainee Accountant (SAIPA ARTICLES)
123 Consulting
01.2016 - 12.2018
Bachelor in Accounting Science - Accounting & Auditing
UNISA
Languages
English
Skills - Accounting Software
- Microsoft Office packages
- Sage One
- Sage Intact
- Simple Pay
- Pastel Version 19
- Evolution
- CaseWare
- Fundamental system
- Xero
- Draft Worx
Voluntary
Volunteering for financial literacy programs or non-profit organizations
- Participating in accounting or taxation-related professional development courses
- Mentoring students or junior colleagues in accounting and taxation
Projects:
- Successfully implemented a financial management system for a small business or non-profit organization
- Conducted a tax planning project for a corporate client, resulting in significant tax savings
- Developed and presented a financial literacy workshop for a community group
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
Personal Information
- Gender: Female
- Driving License: Code 08 (with own car)
- Status: SA ID (Permanent Resident)
Skills - Accounting Software
- Microsoft Office packages
- Sage One
- Sage Intact
- Simple Pay
- Pastel Version 19
- Evolution
- CaseWare
- Fundamental system
- Xero
- Draft Worx
Voluntary
Volunteering for financial literacy programs or non-profit organizations
- Participating in accounting or taxation-related professional development courses
- Mentoring students or junior colleagues in accounting and taxation
Projects:
- Successfully implemented a financial management system for a small business or non-profit organization
- Conducted a tax planning project for a corporate client, resulting in significant tax savings
- Developed and presented a financial literacy workshop for a community group
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills