Clifford Matlaila
Creditors Clerk
Pretoria
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Cleaner
Thata Thata Trading and Projects
08.2022 - Current
- Provide cleaning services in the Packaging Department at SA Breweries (Rosslyn Plant):
- Cleaning of various machines (bottle washers, crate washers and pasteurizer machines)
- Removing glasses and bottles from the machines and discard them in their respective bins.
- Removing paper labels from the machines and discard them in their respective bins.
- Use water to flush out sludge from the bottle washer and crate washer machines.
- Remove any other debris from the machines.
- Remove glasses, papers, mud and bottle caps from the floor and discard them in the bins provided.
- Report To: Supervisor
CATI Clerk (Enumerator)
Statistics South Africa
08.2020 - 09.2020
- Conduct telephonic Interviews with households during the Census 2021 Trial Project.
- Capture household responses using a mobile tablet.
- Note every glitches encountered on the system and report on them.
- Note any problems encountered with each household and report on them.
- Attend virtual meetings on Microsoft Teams.
- Perform adhoc duties as required from time to time
- Report To: Supervisor
- System Used: Microsoft Teams, Excel, Powerpoint, Vodacom OneNet
- Reason for Leaving: Contract expired
SAP FI Data Capture/Creditors Officer
Beyond Continuous Improvement
12.2018 - 02.2019
- Providing consulting services at South African Airways (SAA) finance department
- Prepare reconciliations on Accounts Payable Clearing Accounts
- Prepare reconciliations on Sales Clearing Accounts
- Match and manually clear open items from the GRIR clearing accounts
- Match and manually clear open items from the Sales clearing accounts
- Charge-off Sales clearing difference’s to the surplus/shortage account.
- Perform adhoc duties as required from time to time
- Report To: Manager
- System Used: SAP FI, Excel
- Reason for Leaving: Contract expired
Point of Sale Integrator
S.A Post office
02.2017 - 12.2017
- Daily maintenance of all clearing accounts relating to Point of Sale integration with aim of being cleared daily by:
- Match uncleared transactions manually
- Identify missing data and escalate to interface controllers for investigation
- Where all data has been processed escalate to IT Flight Deck for further investigation
- Prepare and process corrective journals whenever required
- Liaise with Postmasters/Tellers/Corporate staff whenever necessary and provide advice/training/coaching when the need arises
- Assist in full cycle testing of software release prior to implementation
- Attend to internal/external queries (liaison and assistance to external clients regarding data correction and enquiry resolution)
- Resolve IT-related issues to ensure internal and external customer satisfaction (e.g. late payments due to system error result in the recapturing of Third Party Management system transactions)
- Prepare reconciliations on clearing accounts
- Prepare and process journals to correct entries in SAP that were posted to wrong accounts or vendors.
- Provide second line support to Helpdesk escalations, Business Support and Procedural Analyst on Finance related issues
- Proactively attend to incoming direct calls from branches to resolve and advise correctly on accounting procedures, thereby preventing them from becoming regional issues and thus providing 1st line support to Retail in this regard
- Co-ordinate the resolution of agency client enquiries within the set time
- Responsible for data management of all external POS systems (e.g. Lotto, Remote Pension Payment Devise, Postilion Office, etc) to ensure completeness of financial transactions
- Assist in data clean-up on SAP for the re-implementation of the Cash and Voucher on hand accounts and the product material master database
- Report To: Manager
- System Used: SAP FI, TPMS (third party management system), Excel
- Reason for Leaving: Resigned to pursue a business interest.
IT Financial Administrative Specialist
S.A Post office
06.2009 - 01.2017
- Monitor and report on liabilities for third party suppliers.
- Liaise with Management Accounting for budget transfer requests.
- Source quotations for goods or services below R1000 from suppliers.
- Pull income statement report for a cost center to check available budget before procuring goods/services.
- Prepare and process SAP requisitions for procurement of goods or services.
- Process SAP GRV (goods receipt) on invoices from suppliers.
- Scan invoices and attach to SAP as supporting documents.
- Submit invoices to Accounts Payable for payment.
- Compile monthly reports on IT Financial Performance.
- Compile consolidated monthly report on IT Performance.
- Coordinate the collation of the IT Budget.
- General administrative duties as requested from management.
- Report To: Manager
- System Used: SAP (FI, MM, CO), MS Sharepoint, Excel
- Reason for Leaving: Assume a new position in Finance division (Point of Sale)
Creditors Clerk
S.A Post office
11.2003 - 05.2009
- Pre-auditing of suppliers invoices for VAT compliance.
- Reversal of duplicate invoices and invoices processed with errors.
- Parking of invoices before posting.
- Process SAP IR (invoice receipt) on invoices from suppliers.
- Preparing and process of credit notes on SAP.
- Verify that all documentations are attached before processing once-off payments.
- Prepare and process journals.
- Monthly reconciliations of all vendor line items not paid in time.
- Monthly clearing of GRN’s after payment run.
- Handling and resolving (telephonic & emailed) internal and external suppliers queries.
- Matching of invoices to order/requisitions before payment.
- Check open items on SAP daily and ensure that they are cleared within a specified timeframe.
- Report on items not cleared and over benchmark.
- Complete an age analysis report.
- Filing invoices processed on a daily basis.
- Pull all documents requested by Internal/External Auditors.
- Request statements from suppliers for month-end reconciliations.
- Reconciliation of supplier payments to statements.
- Download and send SAP remittances to suppliers on request.
- Procurement of office stationery.
- Submitting weekly and monthly reports.
- General administration duties and ad-hoc requests.
- Highlights: I was selected to be on an AAT programme where I studied and graduated with a Diploma – Accounting Technician.
- Report To: Supervisor
- System Used: SAP FI, Excel
- Reason for Leaving: Assume a new position in IT division
Mail handler
S.A Post office
02.1998 - 10.2003
- Receiving incoming mail from various Hubs and Post Offices.
- Dispatching mail to various Hubs and area offices.
- Scanning incoming and outgoing rolltainers & minitainers.
- Create and acknowledge a special dispatch of minitainer,trays, empty bags or rolltainers on the Track & Trace System.
- Submit daily reports of rolltainer, bags, trays and minitainer movements.
- Manage overnight cage and handover the keys to nightshift supervisor.
- Ensure that every truck scheduled for arrival, arrives on time and depart on time.
- Create an exception on track & trace system for any late arrival or departure of trucks.
- Load containers on trucks using a forklift in cases of staff shortages.
- Perform ad-hoc duties
- Highlights: Acting as a supervisor when the supervisor is absent or on leave.
- Report To: Supervisor
- System Used: Track & Trace, Excel, Word
- Reason for Leaving: Assume a new position in finance.
Education
Diploma - Accounting Technician
Association of Accounting Technicians (SA)
01-2011
Grade 12 (Matric) - North Sotho, English, Afrikaans, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics
Saulridge Secondary
Atteridgeville 01.1991 - 11.1995
Skills
SAP ERP application expertise
Asset lifecycle management
Client support services
Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE)
Professional writing skills
Office productivity software
Financial administration
Journal entry processing Account reconciliation Financial reporting
Advanced Excel integration
Information gathering
Records organization Filing systems and processes Registry management
Public finance management
References
- Christa, Joshua, Manager (Shared Services), 0824992587, (012) 407 7000, S.A Post Office
- Martin, Malati, Supervisor, 0723841753, (012) 407 7000, S.A Post Office
Timeline
Cleaner
Thata Thata Trading and Projects
08.2022 - Current
CATI Clerk (Enumerator)
Statistics South Africa
08.2020 - 09.2020
SAP FI Data Capture/Creditors Officer
Beyond Continuous Improvement
12.2018 - 02.2019
Point of Sale Integrator
S.A Post office
02.2017 - 12.2017
IT Financial Administrative Specialist
S.A Post office
06.2009 - 01.2017
Creditors Clerk
S.A Post office
11.2003 - 05.2009
Mail handler
S.A Post office
02.1998 - 10.2003
Grade 12 (Matric) - North Sotho, English, Afrikaans, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics
Saulridge Secondary
01.1991 - 11.1995
Diploma - Accounting Technician
Association of Accounting Technicians (SA)