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Elmien Kruger

Elmien Kruger

Gqeberha

Summary

Chartered Accountant with six years of post-article experience, specializing in IFRS and IFRS for SMEs, demonstrating expertise in team leadership and consistently producing high-quality deliverables.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Audit manager (Promoted in October 2023)

BDO South Africa
Gqeberha
09.2021 - Current
  • Review work performed under PCAOB, AICPA and ISA audit assignments based on IFRS/ US GAAP accounting standards from the planning phase to the finalisation phase.
  • Communicate and collaborate with clients during engagements, and maintain professional relationships.
  • Consolidation testing and all related journals applicable to the consolidation.
  • Lead audit engagements for diverse clients across various industries.
  • Review financial statements to ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
  • Mentor junior auditors, providing guidance on auditing practices and methodologies.
  • Perform detailed risk assessments and design audit procedures to address the risks, including complex auditing areas.
  • Manage a team of auditors to ensure the timely completion of projects at a high audit quality standard.
  • Evaluate operational efficiency by reviewing current systems, processes, documents, records.
  • Conduct audits on internal controls and developed reports on findings.
  • Industries: Oil and gas industry, motor retail industry, gambling industry, and staffing industry.

Assistant audit manager

Moore
Humansdorp
01.2020 - 08.2021
  • Coach audit team members to perform their work with due care, effectively, and efficiently.
  • Supervise the audit team during the performance of an ISA audit and ISRE review engagements based on IFRS for SME accounting standards.
  • Review the work of other audit team members for compilations of financial statements, independent reviews, and audits.
  • Ensure that the quality of the audits is effectively and efficiently managed within the allocated resources.
  • Attend to the requests of the directors relating to audits.
  • Manage the budgets of all engagements.
  • Approve team members' timesheets.
  • Building relationships with clients.
  • Duties have been executed mainly in the following industries: agricultural industry, property investment industry, fishing industry, manufacturing industry, export industry, and real estate and conveyancing industry.

Audit Trainee

Moore
Humansdorp
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Perform ISA audit assignments from the planning phase to the finalisation phase.
  • Perform independent review assignments from the planning phase to the finalization phase for a variety of independent review clients.
  • Perform agreed-upon procedures for entities.
  • Prepare financial statements in accordance with an accounting framework.
  • Prepare and submit statutory returns on SARS e-filing, including income taxes and VAT for companies, close corporations, trusts, and individuals.
  • Prepare tax calculations for companies, close corporations, and individuals.
  • Communicate with clients during engagement in a professional manner, verbally or by means of e-mail and/or telephonically.
  • VAT and PAYE reconciliations to the general ledger.
  • Reconcile payroll to the general ledger.
  • Assess the compliance and appropriateness of the financial accounting framework.
  • Assess compliance with relevant laws and regulations for the audit client.
  • Identify weaknesses and inefficiencies in the control environment of an audit client, and recommending safeguards and suggestions to improve the inefficiencies.
  • Test the operating effectiveness of the control environment within an entity.
  • Prepare annual and quarterly management accounts for clients.
  • Prepare valuations for companies.
  • Perform attorneys trust audits and estate agency trust audits.
  • Process and recording of invoices, supplier invoices, bank accounts, and journal entries for clients.

Education

SAICA Assessment of Professional Competence -

SAICA
12.2018

SAICA Initial Test of Competence -

SAICA
12.2017

Bachelor of Accounting Honors - Advanced Taxation, Advanced Managerial Accounting and Finance, Advanced Financial Accounting, Advanced Auditing

University of the Free State
12.2016

Bachelor of Accounting - Accounting and Finance

University of The Free State
12.2015

Skills

  • Time management
  • Planning and organisation
  • Pressure resilience
  • Solution orientation
  • Attention to detail
  • Analytical skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Team collaboration
  • Performance management
  • Effective communication
  • Mentoring and training
  • Client relationship management
  • Financial statement review
  • Consolidation
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Risk assessment
  • Tax preparation
  • Internal controls, including process improvements
  • SOX compliance
  • IFRS compliance
  • Budget management
  • Team leadership

Cell Phone Number

0796113939

Languages

  • English
  • Afrikaans

Personal Information

  • ID Number: 9404070122085
  • Health Status: Excellent
  • Criminal Record: No
  • Gender: Female
  • Nationality: South African
  • Driving License: Yes
  • Marital Status: Married

Certification

  • Chartered Accountant (S.A.)

Languages

Afrikaans
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1

Affiliations

  • Reading
  • Cooking
  • Walking
  • Building puzzles

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Audit manager (Promoted in October 2023)

BDO South Africa
09.2021 - Current

Assistant audit manager

Moore
01.2020 - 08.2021

Audit Trainee

Moore
01.2017 - 01.2019

SAICA Assessment of Professional Competence -

SAICA

SAICA Initial Test of Competence -

SAICA

Bachelor of Accounting Honors - Advanced Taxation, Advanced Managerial Accounting and Finance, Advanced Financial Accounting, Advanced Auditing

University of the Free State

Bachelor of Accounting - Accounting and Finance

University of The Free State

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