Extremely efficient and effective administrator with experience in overall accounts payable processes. Possesses core ethics such as confidentiality, transparency and integrity in the finance department.
Hi, I’m
Hemarani Govender
Durban
Summary
Overview
19
years of professional experience
Work History
CHEP South Africa
Accounts Payable &Treasury Administrator/ Concur Administrator
6 2015
Job overview
- Obtaining the necessary approvals from Managers and Directors and ensuring all urgent payment requests are sent to our business party operators
- Assisting business and Invoice processing team with invoice queries to ensure invoices are processed in time before the scheduled payment dates
- Liaising with the Cash Management (payments team), ensuring that all vendor invoices are included in the weekly / monthly payment runs
- Reviewing payments in Coupa portal for over 13 different CHEP entities and ensuring payments, once loads in Trax are released before bank cut-off times
- Providing information for internal and external auditors
- Reviewing advances rentals and HR employee payment requests in Coupa
- Weekly reporting of list of all advance requests from business, ensuring business sends invoices to clear advances
- Monthly reporting of all debit balances for the various different CHEP entities to management
- Meetings with business party operators and managers to resolve balances more than 90 days old
- Drafting of vendor journals
- Monthly reporting of accruals between Concur and SAP
- Weekly reporting of any missing transactions not transferred into SAP
- System Administrator for Concur Travel expense system: Creation of employee profiles, updating of employee details, and maintaining the profiles
- Providing support to employees relating to expense claims queries.
Weatherboard (Pty) Ltd
Assistant Accountant
02.2013 - 05.2015
Job overview
- Processing of wages hours into VIP Payroll, updating of employee details, submission of monthly reports
- Processing of Invoices, Creditors Recons, Preparation and loading of Payments for creditors
- Balance sheet recons, Reconciliation of Weatherboard and Braecroft bank accounts
- Timber receipting- receipting of raw materials into stock, Invoicing of debtors’ delivery notes, Attending to debtors’ queries, clearing and receipting of Debtors deposits into customer accounts
- Raising of Raw material and Standard Purchase orders in SAP, goods receipting for Braecroft, account allocation of non-purchase order invoices, attending to Basware and supplier queries, set-up and submission of weekly and month-end payments to P2P, completion and submission of vendor activation forms, providing assistance and support to the Mill staff.
P.G. Bison (Pty) Ltd subsidiary of Steinhoff International
Assistant Accountant
09.2011 - 02.2013
Job overview
- Processing of Invoices, preparation and general ledger allocation, processing and posting of invoices and processing of Credit notes
- Creditors Recons: Preparation of the creditor reconciliations, queries with outstanding invoices and delivery notes, resolving queries with price differences
- Preparation and loading of Payments for creditors, requesting of statements and original invoices for payment.
P.G. Bison (Pty) Ltd subsidiary of Steinhoff International
Assistant Accountant
03.2007 - 02.2011
Job overview
- Maintenance of Fixed Assets register, capex control, disposals, additions and transfers
- Year end requirements
- Cashbook - Journals, Balancing and Reconciliation
- SARS - Preparation and submission of VAT returns, reconciliation of general ledger Vat input and output accounts, balancing of General ledger accounts against payments and refunds and follow up on outstanding refunds from SARS
- Preparation of journals: Preparation and processing of Petty cash journals, insurance, prepayments, intercompany, salaries
- Preparation of General Ledger Reconciliations: Debtors and Sundry Debtors, fixed Assets, sundry Creditors, intercompany, accruals and provisions
- Follow up differences on reconciliations and ensure it is cleared timeously
- Monthly Management Reports: Monthly report on schedules required for Management purposes and analysis of month end expenses in comparison to the budgeted figures
- Accruals & Provisions: Calculation and processing of Provisions and accruals
- Intercompany: Confirm Intercompany balances: Quarterly, Half yearly and at Year end and follow up and clear any differences
- Assisting in Half Year and Year end Audit Pack and Tax schedules
- Creditors: for EMPULUZI TIMBERS TRANSPORTERS, THESENS SAWMILLING AND ROTIQUE TIMBERS
- Processing of Invoices: Preparation and general ledger allocation, processing and posting of invoices, processing of Credit notes
- Creditors Recons: Preparation of the creditor reconciliations, queries with outstanding invoices and delivery notes, and resolving queries with price differences
- Preparation and loading of Payments for creditors: Requesting of statements and original invoices for payment.
Steinhoff Doors and Building Materials (Pty) Ltd t/a Bruply Doors
Assistant Accountant
05.2006 - 03.2007
Job overview
- General Ledger Reconciliations, Fixed assets
- Financial Accounting: Processing of month-end journals, processing of Intercompany transactions, processing Credit notes, request and Preparation of Foreign payments and assisting during stock take
- Budgets and Forecasts - Assisting in preparation of budgets and forecasts
- Year-end - Assisting in year –end Audit pack and Tax schedules.
PG Bison (Pty) Ltd
Bookkeeper
04.1998 - 04.2006
Job overview
- Monthly / Yearly reporting of Statistics, Reporting KPI on Comshare, Income statement departmental expenses, timber analysis, overtime, headcounts
- Ad Hoc: Time and Attendance Management Administrator, Telephone Management Administrator, ad Hoc duties delegated by the Financial Manager, communication with factory staff with regard to queries and purchases and distribution of staff tea and Christmas vouchers.
Laboratory Consumables and Chemicals cc
Accounts Clerk
02.1997 - 03.1998
Job overview
- Debtors’ collection, GL Recons, Account payable and Accounts receivable Recons, review age analysis, banking, payments, invoicing.
W.R.I.T.E. Advice cc
Secretary/ Sales Consultant
08.1996 - 02.1997
Job overview
- Quotations for Life and Motor Insurance, completion of application forms and visiting clients.
Education
Glenover Secondary School
National Senior Certificate
University Overview
University of South Africa
Bachelor of Accounting Science (BCompt)
University Overview
The nature of my Accounting and Auditing majors has provided me with theoretical knowledge about:
1. Business Ethics
2. Analytical skills
3. Strong understanding of financial principles, regulations and best practices
4. Business operations
Skills
Triton ERP
MS Excel 1998, 2000, 2003
MS Word 1998, 2000, 2003
Microsoft outlook 2000, 2003
Accsys (Time and attendance system)
Proteus (Telephone Management system)
Accpac ERP
SSA ERP
VIP Payroll
SAP ERP
Concur Travel Expense system
Coupa ERP
Payment Processing
Tax Compliance
Forecasting Techniques
Budget Planning
Internal Controls
Accounting Principles
Working capital management
Classification
Classification
GeneralVolunteer Experience
Volunteer Experience
- Part of the Monthly Sankirtan Book distribution team – Religious organization.
- Assist the Food of Life organization with free meal distribution for underprivileged communities.
- Voluntary services during festivals – ISKCON religious organization.
Timeline
Assistant Accountant
Weatherboard (Pty) Ltd
02.2013 - 05.2015
Assistant Accountant
P.G. Bison (Pty) Ltd subsidiary of Steinhoff International
09.2011 - 02.2013
Assistant Accountant
P.G. Bison (Pty) Ltd subsidiary of Steinhoff International
03.2007 - 02.2011
Assistant Accountant
Steinhoff Doors and Building Materials (Pty) Ltd t/a Bruply Doors
05.2006 - 03.2007
Bookkeeper
PG Bison (Pty) Ltd
04.1998 - 04.2006
Accounts Clerk
Laboratory Consumables and Chemicals cc
02.1997 - 03.1998
Secretary/ Sales Consultant
W.R.I.T.E. Advice cc
08.1996 - 02.1997
Accounts Payable &Treasury Administrator/ Concur Administrator
CHEP South Africa
6 2015
Glenover Secondary School
National Senior Certificate
04.1993
University of South Africa
Bachelor of Accounting Science (BCompt)
04.2006