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France Sputla Masemola
Professional Accountant (SA)
Midrand,GP
Summary
Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 13 years of expertise overseeing transactions and reconciling monthly financial reports. Highly collaborative individual with track record of effectively training and coaching staff members. Offering confidence, team contribution and decision making skills.
Bringing solution-focused mindset and strong analytical skills. In-depth understanding of financial analysis and budgeting, paired with proficiency in financial reporting and forecasting. Committed to driving financial success and optimizing resource allocation.
Overview
9
years of professional experience
1
year of post-secondary education
5
Languages
Work History
FM Infrastructure (Pty) Ltd
Finance Manager
09.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Construction
- Type of Company: Multinational
- Develop both flexible and static budgets to ensure alignment with organizational goals and objectives
- Analyze financial data to derive meaningful insights, highlighting past performance trends and projecting future financial probabilities
- Prepare detailed financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results analysis to support long-term financial planning
- Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations to ensure their accuracy and completeness
- Draft monthly management reports, offering clear insights into the organization's financial status
- Prepare comprehensive financial performance reports and variance analyses for individual projects
- Oversee cash flow management to promote operational efficiency and maintain financial stability
- Monitor and evaluate compliance with statutory legislation, regulatory frameworks, and tax laws to ensure adherence to all legal requirements
- Analyze and interpret accounting records to provide valuable support for decision-making processes
- Maintain the accuracy and integrity of financial records, collaborating with auditors and supplying necessary documentation for seamless audits
- Assist senior management in analyzing financial data to drive strategic decisions and foster organizational success
- Develop financial models to evaluate future investment opportunities, providing robust analytical support for business growth
- Manage special projects and ad hoc assignments, demonstrating adaptability and effective problem-solving skills
- Review and approve project reports, ensuring they meet financial analysis and organizational standards
- Nature of Business: Construction
- Type of Company: Multinational
Merck (Pty) Ltd
Financial Manager
03.2024 - 09.2024
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Pharmaceutical
- Type of Company: Multi-International, headquarters in Germany
- Conduct thorough reviews of group annual financial statements to ensure adherence to audit standards and accurate preparation of working papers
- Monitor developments in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and act as the primary internal resource for IFRS compliance and applications
- Prepare detailed financial performance and variance analysis reports for informed decision-making
- Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations, guaranteeing their accuracy and alignment with financial policies
- Oversee and assess compliance with statutory legislation to ensure regulatory adherence
- Analyze and interpret accounting records to provide actionable insights for informed management decision-making
- Prepare Financial Performance and Variance Analysis Reports to evaluate and effectively communicate key financial outcomes
- Manage annual audits for the group and subsidiary companies, ensuring all processes are executed efficiently and meet regulatory expectations
- Conduct reviews of group accounts and consolidation processes to ensure accuracy and precision in financial reporting
- Lead the timely and accurate reporting of group results, meeting organizational and statutory deadlines
- Manage and authorize workflows within the division for operational efficiency
- Supervise and authorize the work output within the division to uphold standards and accountability
- Oversee group cash flow management to maintain liquidity and financial stability
- Prepare budgets and forecasts to support strategic financial planning
- Monitor financial performance against budgets for property development accounts, providing detailed commentary on variances
- Ensure internal controls meet statutory and company requirements
- Uphold financial discipline by maintaining accuracy and compliance across all operations
- Manage special assignments and ad-hoc projects as required, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Nature of Business: Pharmaceutical
- Type of Company: Multi-International, headquarters in Germany
Rebosis Property Fund Limited
Financial Manager
03.2023 - 03.2024
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Property Investment and Management
- Type of Company: Multinational
- Oversee the management of expenditures and ensure reporting aligns with strategic objectives and budgetary parameters
- Optimize revenue generation while effectively managing losses to enhance financial performance
- Prepare detailed financial performance and variance analysis reports for informed decision-making
- Handle the management of debts to maintain financial health
- Monitor and evaluate compliance with statutory legislation to ensure adherence to applicable regulations
- Detect and prevent irregular, fruitless, and unauthorized expenditures
- Supervise the integration of the accounting system with the reporting system for seamless data flow
- Review all payroll transactions, ensuring they are accurately accounted for and reconciled
- Review VAT and PAYE reconciliations, along with other statutory submissions, ensuring compliance and accuracy
- Authorize monthly statutory payments in line with organizational and regulatory requirements
- Manage and authorize workflows within the division for operational efficiency
- Supervise and authorize the work output within the division to uphold standards and accountability
- Cultivate and manage relationships with banking partners, ensuring compliance with covenants and assisting with annual credit reviews
- Oversee group cash flow management to maintain liquidity and financial stability
- Prepare budgets and forecasts to support strategic financial planning
- Monitor financial performance against budgets for property development accounts, providing detailed commentary on variances
- Ensure internal controls meet statutory and company requirements
- Uphold financial discipline by maintaining accuracy and compliance across all operations
- Manage special assignments and ad-hoc projects as required, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Nature of Business: Property Investment and Management
- Type of Company: Multinational
Surtees Group Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Senior Cost and Management Analyst
11.2021 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Engineering & Manufacturing
- Type of Company: Multi-national
- Oversee the complete finance and administration function for Surtees Group Holdings and its subsidiaries across all operating countries
- Manage rental agreements, payroll, and other operational expenses efficiently
- Maintain and prepare the general ledger, completing the full month-end accounting process and reconciliations
- Prepare monthly trial balances and management income statements in line with Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (GAAP) and company accounting policies
- Compile and report results of Surtees Group Holdings (SGH) entities to executive and management teams
- Report on work in progress (WIP) weekly, ensuring timely processing of inputs as per agreed timelines with operational management
- Prepare financial performance reports for projects/jobs and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for job costing, maintenance reserves, and warranty provisions
- Prepare monthly reports, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, and year-end packs while ensuring compliance with tax legislation (income tax, withholding taxes, VAT, customs, payroll) in all jurisdictions
- Ensure adherence to IFRS, Local GAAP, tax, corporate legislation, and other regulations in regions such as South Africa, Mauritius, Zambia, Namibia, and Congo
- Prepare all necessary audit files, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for both internal and external audits
- Manage the year-end results process and oversee the entire external audit cycle
- Compile cash flow budgets for current and future periods while monitoring council bank accounts and scrutinizing daily transactions
- Reconcile investments and borrowing registers, as well as all bank accounts and petty cash, ensuring accuracy and resolving exceptions promptly
- Apply and continuously evaluate the effectiveness of practical internal controls
- Ensure the clearing of long-outstanding items on bank reconciliation statements
- Analyze bank transactions to identify and resolve exceptional cases
- Deliver accurate financial reports to support decision-making processes and enhance operational efficiency
- Manage special assignments and ad-hoc projects as required, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Nature of Business: Engineering & Manufacturing
- Type of Company: Multi-national
Airfield Maintenance Contractors
Financial Manager
03.2019 - 03.2021
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Building and Construction
- Planned and directed departmental activities, offering technical advice and support to staff
- Collaborated with the IT team to design and implement a new accounting system for efficient data processing and reporting
- Managed revenue processes, including debt collection and credit control, to optimize cash inflows
- Prepared detailed cash flow forecasts and oversaw financial performance, ensuring operational efficiency
- Developed and monitored financial systems, internal controls, and company policies to promote sound governance and financial integrity
- Conducted VAT, PAYE, and income tax reviews, preparing accurate submissions in compliance with statutory requirements
- Maintained the general ledger in accordance with IFRS for SMEs to ensure accurate and reliable data for annual financial statements
- Performed month-end cost cycle runs, expenditure management, and prepared cost center reconciliations
- Monitored control accounts and resolved VAT and tax queries with SARS to ensure compliance and accountability
- Prepared monthly management reports and conducted risk assessments to support strategic decision-making
- Planned and prepared budgets and forecasts to align financial activities with organizational goals
- Compiled annual financial statements and conducted year-end preparations for audit readiness
- Provided comprehensive asset management functions to ensure proper allocation and maintenance of resources
- Assisted in identifying and managing risks to safeguard financial and operational stability
- Compile cash flow budgets for current and future periods while monitoring council bank accounts and scrutinizing daily transactions
- Reconcile investments and borrowing registers, as well as all bank accounts and petty cash, ensuring accuracy and resolving exceptions promptly
- Apply and continuously evaluate the effectiveness of practical internal controls
- Ensure the clearing of long-outstanding items on bank reconciliation statements
- Analyze bank transactions to identify and resolve exceptional cases
- Deliver accurate financial reports to support decision-making processes and enhance operational efficiency
- Nature of Business: Building and Construction
WBHO Construction (Pty) Ltd
Accountant
02.2016 - 02.2019
Job overview
- Company Overview: Nature of Business: Building and Construction
- Prepared monthly budgets and reviewed site cost reports to ensure strict adherence to budgetary guidelines
- Scrutinized ledger costs and revenue balances, comparing them with cost report balances for accuracy
- Developed and processed schedules for social security, PAYE, excise duties, and customs tax payments on cross-border transactions in compliance with statutory requirements
- Managed withholding tax schedules and facilitated payments to relevant authorities
- Ensured timely preparation and submission of VAT returns and reconciliation schedules while addressing necessary corrections
- Conducted detailed reviews of balance sheet reconciliations for WBHO East Africa Divisions and Subsidiaries, identifying and resolving discrepancies between reconciliations and the ledger
- Prepared monthly management reports for presentation at Divisional Directors meetings
- Review Balance Sheet recons
- Conducted quality checks on payments received from various sites and reviewed bulk purchase payments, ensuring compliance and financial accuracy
- Performed month-end cost cycle runs, expenditure management, and prepared cost center reconciliations
- Reviewed and ensured timely submissions of PAYE, social security, VAT, and withholding tax declarations to the Receiver of Revenue
- Administered effective and accurate processes for monthly statutory payments to local and international authorities
- Provided comprehensive asset management functions to ensure proper allocation and maintenance of resources
- Assisted in identifying and managing risks to safeguard financial and operational stability
- Review bank reconciliations
- Apply and continuously evaluate the effectiveness of practical internal controls
- Ensure the clearing of long-outstanding items on bank reconciliation statements
- Analyze bank transactions to identify and resolve exceptional cases
- Deliver accurate financial reports to support decision-making processes and enhance operational efficiency
- Manage special assignments and ad-hoc projects as required, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Prepared a schedule and payments for withholding tax and facilitated the payment
- Nature of Business: Building and Construction
Education
Tshwane University of TechnologyPretoria, South Africa
Bachelor of Science from Accounting,Commercial
04.2007 - 12.2007
Skills
Financial management
Budget forecasting
Financial analysis
Strategic planning
Cash flow management
Regulatory compliance
Financial budgeting
Performance analysis
Financial modeling
Tax compliance
Project finance
Internal controls
Verbal and written communication
Continuous improvement
Variance analysis
Cost accounting
Investment analysis
Revenue recognition
Debt management
Working capital management
Financial audits
Financial reporting
Financial analysis and reporting
Problem-solving abilities
Decision-making
Accounting management
Analytical skills
Budget planning
Excellent communication
Operational reporting
Analytical thinking
Consolidation accounting
Staff training
Proficient in [Sage, Pastel, SAP, Caseware, Quickbooks, MRI Software, Draftworx]
Professional Memberships
- South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA), 51282
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), 61401223
Special Achievements
2003, Winner of the Annual Debate Tournament at Phumzile High School
Ethnicity
African
Personal Information
- Available: 1 month (Negotiable)
- ID Number: 8601075308087
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
Timeline
Finance Manager
FM Infrastructure (Pty) Ltd
09.2024 - Current
Financial Manager
Merck (Pty) Ltd
03.2024 - 09.2024
Financial Manager
Rebosis Property Fund Limited
03.2023 - 03.2024
Senior Cost and Management Analyst
Surtees Group Holdings (Pty) Ltd
11.2021 - 02.2023
Financial Manager
Airfield Maintenance Contractors
03.2019 - 03.2021
Accountant
WBHO Construction (Pty) Ltd
02.2016 - 02.2019
Tshwane University of Technology
Bachelor of Science from Accounting,Commercial
04.2007 - 12.2007