Experienced finance specialist with a strong background in various industries, including supply chain and logistics, security, mining, and manufacturing. Demonstrated expertise in financial accounting and reporting, pricing, variance analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. Committed to delivering high-quality financial information to drive business performance. Thrives in collaborative, cross-functional environments and constantly seeks opportunities for process improvement to optimize efficiency and accuracy.
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Ennie Chisango
Management Accountant
Johannesburg
Summary
Overview
14
years of professional experience
10
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Nissan South Africa
Acting Vehicle Costing & Foreign Payables Manager
08.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Conducting stock reconciliations and investigations to ensure accuracy and resolution of discrepancies
- Preparing and posting journal entries to reflect financial transactions and adjustments
- Preparing finished goods inventory reconciliation monthly and vehicle aging reports
- Preparing foreign payments' monthly forecast schedule and ensuring foreign creditor's payments are made on time
- Compiling and distributing financial reports, such as the Volume All Vehicle summary, Finished goods inventory provisions schedule, and royalty schedule
- Ensuring compliance with financial regulations and accounting standards, including customs and logistics costs, NRV provisions, and deterioration provisions
- Organizing financial aspect of annual stock take with the external auditors as well as the quarterly wall-to-wall counts done on Finished goods inventory
- Analyzing financial data to identify trends and areas for improvement
- Preparing financial forecasts and budgets for foreign creditors
- Develop and implement financial plans to achieve business objectives
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial records, including accounts payable and general ledger accounts
- Administration of inventory accounting and control processes
- Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures, including accounting for MIRO Forex price variance, and provision for salaries
Nissan South Africa for Solugrowth (Pty) Ltd
Inventory Accountant
01.2023 - 07.2024
Job overview
- Working Cross Functionally to obtain information as part of ITP settings process
- Validating cost and calculations from MRP and updating with latest cost
- Sorting out cost and calculation differences
- Updating all relevant parties and schedules, with progress and ITPs (CFT, ITP setting schedules etc.)
- Resolving and concluding ITP differences and agreeing ITP before Start of Production (SOP)
- Calculating value of WIP at month end and posting relevant journals
- Preparing various GL recons at month end
- Providing support during budgeting and forecasting with pricing information
- Participating in ad hoc duties as requested by management
DSV Global Transport
Accounts Payable Specialist
07.2021 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Preparation of accurate recons for all accounts
- Forging partnerships with suppliers, branch administrators and VHQ team in ISSC
- Performing root cause analysis and resolving queries related to accounts payable timeously
- Monitoring adherence of all payments to policy and procedures on a Global and local level
- Mediator in conflict resolution
- Submission of outstanding invoices for processing and approval
Afratop South Africa
Assistant Financial Manager
03.2020 - 06.2021
Job overview
- Customer invoicing
- VAT preparations on Excel and SARS E-filing
- Payroll and salary recons
- Processing month end journals
- Preparing and reporting of income and expense forecasts weekly to senior management
- Preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement
- Assisting with audits and compiling audit files
- Spearheading the process of accounting controls through the process of policy development
RTT Group
Financial Controller
06.2019 - 02.2020
Job overview
- Management of client's financial accounts
- Analysis of financial results, ongoing control cost control and proposing corrective action
- Preparation of monthly reports, budgets, forecasts and any ad-hoc duties
- Evaluation of financial reporting systems, accounting and operating systems, budgets and other financial control functions
- Authorization of limits and approval paths for system input
- Auditing warehouse stock counts
- Minimizing inventory control risk through enforcing inventory control processes, cycle counts, audits, stock take procedures and accurate stock take
- Investigation of client inventory claims and charges
- Analysis of costs in the business and identifying possible areas of correctly apportion costs and cost allocation
- Management and setting performance objectives for junior employees where required
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
Financial Accountant
05.2018 - 05.2019
Job overview
- Reconciliation of general ledgers
- Review of stock accounts from valuation to GL
- Fixed asset verification
- Checking authorized purchased requisitions for allocations before requisition is captured
- Verifying costs captured by the AP team to make sure they are in the correct cost centers
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
Junior Reporting Analyst
07.2017 - 05.2018
Job overview
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
Corporate Credit Controller
10.2015 - 06.2017
Job overview
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
Residential Credit Controller
07.2014 - 09.2015
Job overview
Convoy Logistics
Financial Administrator
08.2011 - 05.2014
Job overview
- Invoicing and allocation of payment
- Accounts payable - allocating and processing expenses in the system
- Reconciliation of all accounts of billable and non-billable work
- Creditors reconciliation and preparing payment schedule
- Manage item Master, Vendor Master and Customer Master Data
Education
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS (CGMA
Diploma Management Accounting from Accounting
02.2024 - 05.2025
University Overview
University of South Africa
Bachelor of Commerce from FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
01.2010 - 05.2018
University Overview
ILearn
Project Management from Project Management
University Overview
Skills
Microsoft Word
Timeline
Acting Vehicle Costing & Foreign Payables Manager
Nissan South Africa
08.2024 - Current
CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS (CGMA
Diploma Management Accounting from Accounting
02.2024 - 05.2025
Inventory Accountant
Nissan South Africa for Solugrowth (Pty) Ltd
01.2023 - 07.2024
Accounts Payable Specialist
DSV Global Transport
07.2021 - 12.2022
Assistant Financial Manager
Afratop South Africa
03.2020 - 06.2021
Financial Controller
RTT Group
06.2019 - 02.2020
Financial Accountant
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
05.2018 - 05.2019
Junior Reporting Analyst
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
07.2017 - 05.2018
Corporate Credit Controller
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
10.2015 - 06.2017
Residential Credit Controller
ADT Security (Pty) Ltd
07.2014 - 09.2015
Financial Administrator
Convoy Logistics
08.2011 - 05.2014
University of South Africa
Bachelor of Commerce from FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
01.2010 - 05.2018
ILearn
Project Management from Project Management
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