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Grace Noge
Group Financial Manager
Johannesburg,Gauteng
Summary
Business-minded Finance Manager promoting more than 5 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.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Finance Manager
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
Fourways
03.2020 - Current
- Create budgets, forecasts, and financial models to guide decision-making.
- Prepare and manage the organization's budget, ensuring that it aligns with the company's goals and objectives.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards are met through the assistance of in-house legal advisor.
- Develop and maintain processes and procedures for finance team
- Coordinate with auditors to facilitate financial audits for foreign and local entities
- Prepare taxation calculations for P1 and P2 as well as ITR14 for SARS
- Review and when needed prepare reconciliations and returns for VAT to SARS
- Check and approve weekly payments that need to be made
- Assist the Finance Director in the management of the organization's cash flow to ensure liquidity and financial stability..
- Maintain up to date financial system knowledge.
- Supervise employees who maintain daily bookkeeping and monthly reporting
- Train new and existing staff members in various financial procedures to help each prepare for job requirements.
- Check and approve monthly trial balance reconciliations
- Review and ensure intercompany accounts are balanced at month end.
- Oversee bookkeeping, reporting and compliance of foreign entities in UK, Guernsey, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Philippines, Netherlands and USA
- Oversee bookkeeping, reporting and compliance in South African entities
- Group reporting on aggregate and consolidated level.
- Assist in the preparation of annual Financial Statements
- Maintain fair knowledge of IFRS
Senior Bookkeeper
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
Fourways
08.2019 - 02.2020
- Provided comprehensive accounting support to company by managing functions like payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and business expense processing.
- Maintained accurate historical records.
- Matched purchase orders with invoices and recorded necessary information.
- Worked with senior accounting staff to prepare financial documents and reports such as bills and invoices, year-end analysis, budgets, financial records and financial statements.
- Reviewed account discrepancies and proposed courses of action to minimize losses.
- Verified postings to ledgers to confirm accurate entry and account balances.
- Computerized recordkeeping systems, initiating and maintaining financial accurate and current tracking in our accounting system.
- Reconciled accounts, managed audits and updated financial records with remarkable accuracy.
- Monitored, verified and approved invoices and reviewed balances using financial software to assess balance sheet for variances.
- Reconciled intercompany balances within the group
- Generated invoices upon receipt of billing information and tracked collection progress.
Bookkeeper
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
Fourways
03.2015 - 07.2019
- Reviewed and filed financial documents, coded accounting entries for data processing and posted daily receipts and payments in accordance with all corporate protocols.
- Analyzed figures, postings and documents to maintain accounting program accuracy.
- Reported financial data and updated financial records in ledgers and journals.
- Verified accurate recordkeeping processes, effectively reducing financial inconsistencies.
- Processing payments
- Updating bank activities to accounting system daily then reconciling at month end. Currencies for ZAR, USD, GBP, EUR etc
- Assisted in bookkeeping of our Zimbabwean and Rwandan entities, checking allocations then converting to ZAR for our head office month end reporting
- Captured invoices in local and foreign currency and maintained spreadsheet showing commissions due to partners and sales staff.
- Developed and maintained commission structure for in-house debt collector
- Assisted Manager and Director with any adhoc duties.
Financial Assistant
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
Fourways
08.2014 - 02.2015
- Filing
- Archiving
- Scan and file customer and other contracts
- Asset Labelling
- Deleting of unfulfilled orders
- Completing new Bank forms & Supplier contracts
- Ensuring new assets & filing Claims for company assets
- Cell phone Voice and Data accounts
- Creditors Payment Prepping, Queries, Account Recons, Proof of payment send outs
- Cell Contracts; Invoice processing, payment prepping
- Stock: Monthly stock take, recon and investigate differences
Accounts Clerk
Ceebee Debt Management Services
Boksburg
05.2012 - 07.2014
- Relief reception duties
- Data capturing of information received from clients
- Bulk e-mailing to debtors and clients
- Generating bulk credit-listing batches
- Generate daily sms batches
- Account reconciliations – Calculation of interest
- Identify years of debt, check prescription
- Create batch number and unique ref number
- Load all debtor information to system
- Trace to verify information given from client
- Allocate deposits received from debtors onto system
- Data capturing deposits and payments to Pastel
- Debit Order Recon to Pastel
- Daily & Weekly Stats reports to Accounts manager
- Invoicing – Create and maintain monthly invoice control
Debt Collector
Ceebee Debt Management Services
Boksburg
02.2012 - 04.2012
- Liaison with debtors owing money to company’s clients
- General correspondence and typing of legal correspondence
- Analyzing and reconciling of debtor accounts
- Any administration required by the company
- General invoices
- Including (from time to time) duties of an assistant collector
Assistant Debt Collector
Ceebee Debt Management Services
Boksburg
08.2011 - 01.2012
- Calling on new accounts
- Working on broken payment arrangements
- Follow up on legal lists
- Send letters to debtors
- Filing
- Pre-legal emails
- Payment Schedules
- Faxing
- Information requests to clients
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting Sciences
University of South Africa
Pretoria 01.2021 - Current
Professional Certificate - Taxation
The Tax Faculty
Pretoria 01.2021 - 06.2022
Higher Certificate - Accounting Sciences
University of South Africa
Pretoria 01.2015 - 10.2017
High School Diploma -
Sandringham High School
Johannesburg 01.2002 - 12.2006
Skills
Financial analysis
Software
Quickbooks Accounting Software
Xero Accounting Software
INFOR ERP Software
Acumatica ERP Software
Qlikview Business Analytics Software
IBM Cognos Analytics
IDU Financial Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting
Caseware IDEA - Data Analysis Software
Accomplishments
- Assisted in the opening of our Rwandan entity in 2015, by creating necessary resolutions and minutes, couriering over relevant documents to BDO Rwanda, attending online meetings with Rwandan Development Board in order to open the company, ensuring we meeting all compliance requirements with the assistance of BDO and our in-country resource.
- Was selected in 2019 to attend a Inspired Leadership programme called "Manager to Leader" which taught us on how to be better leaders in our respective departments.
Interests
Reading
Watching documentaries and movies
Timeline
Bachelor of Science - Accounting Sciences
University of South Africa
01.2021 - Current
Professional Certificate - Taxation
The Tax Faculty
01.2021 - 06.2022
Finance Manager
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
03.2020 - Current
Senior Bookkeeper
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
08.2019 - 02.2020
Bookkeeper
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
03.2015 - 07.2019
Higher Certificate - Accounting Sciences
University of South Africa
01.2015 - 10.2017
Financial Assistant
Sybrin Systems (Pty) Ltd
08.2014 - 02.2015
Accounts Clerk
Ceebee Debt Management Services
05.2012 - 07.2014
Debt Collector
Ceebee Debt Management Services
02.2012 - 04.2012
Assistant Debt Collector
Ceebee Debt Management Services
08.2011 - 01.2012
High School Diploma -
Sandringham High School
01.2002 - 12.2006
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