Kgotlelelo Precious Ledwaba

Profitability Analysis

• Monthly and quarterly review of product profitability per SKU, per production line or process, per customer grouping
• Product category in order to deliver insight in regional EBIT reviews and support business decision. Detailed investigations into inter regional variances in order to drive behavior to lowest cost producer in order to maximize profitability.

Costings

• Costings for new Product Developments (NDP)
• Completion of NPD costings & spec amendments via workflow within 3 working days of receipt of the request on workflow.
• New Product Developments
• Involvement with NPD team when trials are done, in order to fully understand process, material requirement, labour

Actualization

• Monthly and quarterly completion of actualization process as follow:
• Production, material prices, output & manload, KPI’s, GL, Manload allocations, CCC recovery, GL vs MACS recon, one pager, variance analysis, per SKU comparison between months and quarters.
• Presentation to Commercial team.
• Production, material prices, output & manload, KPI’s, GL, Manload allocations, CCC recovery, GL vs MACS recon, one pager, variance analysis, per SKU comparison between months and quarters.
• Presentation to Commercial team

Audits

• On yearly cycle, audit all Bill of Materials (BOM).
• Meat, packaging and ingredients – usage against spec.
• Carton mass – actual against spec, investigate fixed mass gain / loss.
• On yearly cycle.
• Spin chiller pickup & drip loss to cutline.
• Get sign off from processing, QA and commercial on required BOM changes.
• Feed required BOM changes for discussion with R&D.
• Cut & trim differences on deboning specific, understanding which SKU’s causes trimmings and which SKU’s consume trimmings.
• Audit linkage on routings – products per line as well as standard output per hour.

Controls

• Implement & maintain the recording of actual waste per line.
• Report back on a weekly basis on weekly actual waste recording.

General

• Ad hoc functions as required by Commercial Manager (National Costing) from time to time.

• Performing professional Audit work
• Conduct pre-engagement activities, aligning with clients on audit approach
• Conducting financial and compliance audit on projects
• Performing audit Planning on assigned engagements (Including risk assessment from designing of audit procedures to respond to risks identified)
• Evaluating entities risk areas and providing recommendations
• Preparation of audit budgets
• Performing test of controls on operating effectiveness of internal controls
• Execution of planned audit procedures for the financial statement Areas
• Reviewing and analysing of financial statements and commenting on credibility of the report in terms of applicable legislation
• Drafting audit reports & Preparation of financial statements
• Reviewing audit work completed by junior team members
• Responsible for coaching of junior Staff
• Communication of audit findings to clients and providing recommendations
• Managing audit team of 3 to 12 members, across various industries
• Responsible for calculating and testing current tax and differed tax
• Ensuring all working papers & Evidence are updated & saved on the auditing system
• Ensuring Timely completion of audits
• Ensuring Timely status update with the manager& on auditing system
• Overseeing and track Audit budget and report on variances
• Responsible for assisting with managing client relationships
• Responsible finalization of the audit file
• Determining planning activities and materiality
• Analyse of business process and identification of Key controls
• Present audit strategy to senior management
• Assess entity's going concern and future operations through budget analysis
• Journal Testing.

• Management of receipts of payments from supply chain management
• Management of Invoices
• Safekeeping of payments batches
• Processing of payment and Journals on BAS (Basic Accounting System)
• Administration of Petty Cash
• Capturing high volume of sundry payments (Over 50)
• Allocation of payments
• Management of petty cash
• Draw relevant reports for month/year end closure
• Reconciliation of petty cash
• Administration of Persal Tax Transactions (Manual Tax Payment)
• Debt Administration
• Performed Bank & creditors reconciliations.

• Performed Invoice management
• Verified banking details before processing payments and update if necessary
• Added Suppliers on the system (Create new vendors)
• Captured invoices, high value of transactions and credit notes on to the Accounting system
• Prepared payment pack and review against checklist (Admin and Discretionary grants) for over 50 Suppliers.
• Download and forward proof of payments to relevant department or suppliers
• Monitor accounts payable on the accounting system (Using the age analysis)
• Capture bank charges, reversed transactions, debit orders and refunds on the accounting system (General Journal) for all bank accounts
• Performed Bank Reconciliation for all bank accounts
• Performed Reconciliation of creditor's accounts (Suppliers & Discretionary grant creditors)
• Attend to internal & external queries of stakeholders
• Retrieve audit documentation and attend to audit queries
• Receive petty cash invoices and capture them
• Arrange finance meetings and write minutes
• Reception duties.