Kholosa Tshemese

• During my training contract at EY, I had the opportunity of developing myself through the various clients I worked in
• The client's range over a variety of industries which include Manufacturing, Telecommunications and ENR (Energy and Natural Resources).

Supervisor (1st-3rd Year)

• Ernst And Young
• My key responsibilities were:
• Completion of audit procedures and documentation for higher risk areas to broaden technical skills
• Completion of the EY independence form and procedures that were applicable to the entities I worked on.
• Building strong internal relationships within assurance and across other service line.
• Taking ownership for the delivery of high-quality audit work.
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring junior staff.
• Understand, follow, and communicate workplace policies and procedures to junior staff.
• Completing deliverables to group team on year end and half year audits
• I have been on two clients in which the systems have changed during the year and posed changes to the audit plan and required the team to adapt

Through the above-mentioned responsibilities, I gained more experience in terms of time management, problems solving skills, people’s skills, relationship building skills with client and fellow colleagues, and leadership skills.

Throughout my articles life I reported to various reporting lines depending on the complexity of the entity I was auditing. I have reported to assistant managers, managers, senior managers and associate directors.

My major clients during the training programme, with my tasks in each client, are the following:

Bosch Rexroth company

• I have had the responsibility of overseeing the work of
  the junior on the team which included individuals from our Mauritius Team
• I have performed the following significant accounts which are, Intercompany accounts as well as Taxation
• I have had to work closely work with the manager to achieve the signing off of the nine entities under Bosch Rexroth.

Pandora Joint Venture

• I have performed AUPs for the this entity for 3 years
• I have in my supervisor year reviewed work that have

been performed by the junior team members

• Preparation of results based work performed

Sibanye UK/Great award/LSA

• On this client I had been the only trainee on this team and was tasked with the scope and strategy of the audit all the way to general execution
• I further delivered quality work on the audit for these entities in line with the deadlines

Pirtek Afrika

• I had worked on the two entities under Pirtek. I had achieved competencies under Cost of sales relating of Purchases in this entity as well as export sales
• I have further learnt how to work in a paper environment, giving me the ability to adapt to different working environments.

Marikana Operations (Main Entities and Small entities)

• I have played a key role in the signing off on all the AFS under this component of Sibanye Stillwater Limited.
• I have performed work on the financial statement process and assisted in adding value to the processes in the Company
• I have worked on the disclosure of the financial statements through agreeing to the work performed and ensuring that the disclosures made are in with IFRS standards
• I have learnt SOX controls as this entity is a PCAOB client, which assisted in the testing of controls.
• I have comprehensive understanding of ISA controls
• I have done the SOX controls for the financial statements process, BEE, Taxation and VAT and added value to the Marikana Entity by discussions of recommendation of performance of controls and the documentation thereof to ensure that the control is robust enough to mitigate the risk
• I have learnt and used the tools for Journals selection as well as substantive work.
• I worked with the Tax team in the completion of Taxation.
• I have worked closely and communicated with the RDS(EY Mauritius) team and facilitated the work that had to be performed on the team.
• I have had the opportunity of allocating work to the team and communicating that to the managers
• On this client I had been the only trainee on this team and was tasked with the scope and strategy of the audit all the way to general execution
• I further delivered quality work on the audit for these entities in line with the deadlines

SAGE

• I have performed the test of controls and substantive testing of payroll and dealt with the complexity of the payroll system changing and the effect that that has on the work performed
• I was tasked the responsibility to communicate with the client on the progress of the audit and the requirements in of documentation for the team

• Prepare full set of management accounts and supporting schedules
• Prepare month end reconciliation file
• Ad hoc financial/management reporting
• Monthly actual v budget allocation into support service budget templates and variance reporting

Year End Audit

• Prepare audit file and supporting schedules
• Coordinate sourcing of information for auditors

Compliance

• Monthly VAT returns/audit
• STATSSA reporting
• Firm Tax Compliance i.e., residency and tax clearance certificates
• Importing of data to BEE123 system
• BBBEE management reporting

Budgeting

• Assisting in the annual budget preparation
• Monitor and update income statement budget rollout
• Weekly Petty Cash Count and approval
• Weekly Petty Cash Count
• AP Vendor creation
• SARS Efiling-Transfer duty payment submissions
• Review of subsidiary company management accounts (A&A Forensics)
• Use of SQL to pull data.