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Katrina Kouveldt

Katrina Kouveldt

CIMA Adv Dip MA
Bloemfontein

Summary

Dedicated Finance Professional who is experienced in accounting and financial management. Demonstrated talents in financial administration and management and creating impactful strategies to achieve business objectives and increase revenue. Excellent leadership skills with business optimization expertise

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Financial Officer

University Of The Free State
09.2023 - Current
  • Strengthened internal controls, minimizing potential for fraud or errors in finance department.
  • Implement and ensure compliance with internal financial and accounting policies and procedures. This relates to procurement, travel and expenses, journals, general entity/account structure processes and other relevant financial policies.
  • Ensure that all statutory requirements of the University are met.
  • Ensure compliance with NRF policies and guidelines.
  • Ensure compliance with Reserve bank policies and regulations in relation to foreign payments.
  • Oversee employee claims and advance processes to ensure that employees are reimbursed timeously and accurately.
  • Implement financial policies and procedures.
  • Prepare monthly general ledger reconciliations.
  • Oversee one-time creditors claim payment and review process to ensure all vendors paid via this route are paid timeously and accurately
  • Review of transaction allocations in preparation for the year-end process and external audit.
  • Compile Bank reconciliations of the UFS and follow-up relating to possible control/system deficiencies.
  • Compile exception reports regarding expenses, journals, foreign payments, and other general ledger queries.
  • Review and approve financial transactions, expense claims, advance requests, once-off F1creditor claims (including foreign payments), petty cash claims, and journal requests
  • Generate and follow-up exception reports and internal management reports on travel and expense claims, journals, the general ledger data and NRF.
  • Prepare external audit files.
  • Compile management reports
  • Manage Debit and credit cards issued to employees

Financial Officer

University Of The Free State
03.2022 - 08.2023

•Responsible for preparing and capturing journals on the system

•Managing Entities of the university per specific departments

•Processing and preparing payments of employees cash advances for

travels

•Process employee claim and advance processes to ensure that employees are reimbursed timeously and accurately

• Manage employee expense reports for travelling

• Create entities for departments

• Follow up and create journals to rectify overdrawn entities

• Perform genera office administration

• Advice the employees of how to manage their entities

• Ensure that claims and journals are in accordance with university policies and procedures

• Prepare and process petty cash claims

• Review one-time creditors claim payment to ensure all vendors paid via this route are paid timeously and accurately

• Implement financial policies and procedures.

• Attend to General ledger queries

• Provide assistance and guidance on how the funds were used on the queried entities

• Perform general office administration and management

• Responsible for Monthly reporting

• Perform financial transactions,journals and reconciliations and reports

• Maintain a system of financial accounting, reporting, and record keeping in accordance to International Financial Reporting Standards(IFRS

Senior Assistant Officer Accounts Payable

University Of The Free State
11.2018 - 02.2022

• Responsible for processing once off creditor claims

• Creating Vendors on PeopleSoft and sending for approval

• Processing International once off creditor claims and capturing on relevant banking systems

• Reviewing claims for Procurement of the Once off creditor claim forms

• Assist with creation of the receipts for Purchase orders

• Assist with creating the Vouchers for Purchase Orders

• Address once off creditors related queries and follow up on queries

• Ensure claims are in Compliance to policies / procedures / regulations / legislation (SARS, BBBee).

• Perform general office administration and management

Education

Bachelor of Commerce Honors In Management Account - Management Accounting

University Of The Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Commerce In Accounting - Accounting And Finance

University of The Free State
Bloemfontein, South Africa
04.2001 -

Skills

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Affiliations

Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Additional Information


1. Name : Sarie Beckmann

Institution : University of the Free State

Designation: Chief Officer Finance

Contact : 051 401 3028 /fisb@ufs.ac.za


2. Name : Jane Jordaan

Institution : University of the Free State

Designation : Financial Officer

Contact : 051 401 3037/ jordaanjm@ufs.ac.za


3. Name :Nozipho Ndlovu

Institution : Stadio

Designation: Senior Lecturer Contacts : 0788407241/ noziphoprlndlovu@gmail.com

Timeline

Senior Financial Officer

University Of The Free State
09.2023 - Current

Financial Officer

University Of The Free State
03.2022 - 08.2023

Senior Assistant Officer Accounts Payable

University Of The Free State
11.2018 - 02.2022

Bachelor of Commerce Honors In Management Account - Management Accounting

University Of The Free State
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Commerce In Accounting - Accounting And Finance

University of The Free State
04.2001 -
Katrina KouveldtCIMA Adv Dip MA