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Lebogang Molefe

Lebogang Molefe

Financial Administrator
Birch Acres

Summary

I'm a diligent person who seeks to be challenged in every role I occupy and I aspire to learn new things and being a team player thus enhancing my character to be innovative and a problem solver, futhermore I believe that I am highly knowledgeable in the finance sphere, adept easily to change. I pay attention to detail and can organize data to be used by senior personnel, I have great planning and communication skills, strong multitasker, good in excel and CAMS.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Administrator

First National Bank - FNB Credit
9 2021 - Current
  • Served as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on financial matters, offering insights and recommendations for improved fiscal management.
  • Reconciliation of accounts - Reconciling of issuing and acquiring suspense accounts and follow ups of outstanding items on the accounts (OTP)
  • Maintained an organized filing system for all financial documents, ensuring easy access during audits or other reviews as needed.
  • Achieve and maintain a high degree of organizational cooperation to guarantee the provision of expert services.
  • Developed monthly financial statements that provided valuable insights into company performance, leading to informed decision-making by management.
  • Assisting different department within the business unit with their financial queries.
  • Working on the Data inventory Mapping processes within the Finance space.

Fraud Consultant

First National Bank - Transactional Banking
11.2018 - 08.2021
  • Fraud disputes - Analysing of cardholder disputes, performing retrieval requests, chargebacks, fulfilments, presentments, pre arbitration and good faiths for FNB cardholders disputing transactions on their accounts and ensuring customer satisfaction within required time frames
  • Working on the new system power card which soon FNB will be using it for all their cardholders and the bank will be issuing virtual cards to their clients.
  • Recognize risk factors that could have a negative impact on the company, follow protocols that reduce exposure to risk or hazards that have been discovered, and notify pertinent internal and external stakeholders of risk information.
  • Enhanced communication among team members, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.
  • Liaised with customers, management, and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.

Corporate Acquiring Merchants

Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Acquiring)
09.2016 - 10.2018
  • Utilized excellent communication skills to resolve customer complaints promptly and professionally.
  • Managed vendor relationships effectively, leading to more reliable deliveries and fewer stockouts.
  • Customer service exclusively to the corporate clients i.e
  • Bidvest, Cash Build, Dis-Chem, Europcar, First Car Rental, Italtile, Liquor City, Makro, McDonalds, Shoprite Checkers & all Sun international Merchants
  • Chargeback Backs, Voucher requests and retrievals requests for Master Card, Visa, American Express and Diners Club
  • Association international rules
  • Pre-arbitration, compliance and good faith attempt on VROL, Mastercom and GNS with SLA
  • Merchant reconciliation of suspense accounts daily on Excel and internal systems
  • Query resolution within 24hrs not exceeding 5days
  • Settlement queries and telephonic assistance to merchant.
  • Training in the MIS department for the past year running with the CRM report, daily reports, and Recons for the department in the acquiring OPS space. Preparing month end Buva reports for the Head of the department so she can make an informed decision.
    Preparing of figures and updates for the head of the department so she can run her daily meetings.
    Preparing different buckets(work) for the whole department.
    Below is the list of reports-
    • CRM report.
    • DR44578 – Outstanding transactions to be processed. (OTP) The bucket lists as follows
    ➢ AF1 Acquiring Merchant batch Headers.
    ➢ AF2 Merchant acquiring chargebacks.
    ➢ AF3 Merchant acquiring Retrievals.
    ➢ AF4 Merchant acquiring presentments.
    ➢ AR1 Acquiring returned re-presentments.
    ➢ AR2 Acquiring returned presentments.
    ➢ IF1 Card acquirer posting transactions/presentment.
    ➢ IF3 Card acquirer retrievals.
    ➢ IF6 Card acquirer second presentments.
    ➢ IR2 Issuer returned chargebacks.
    • XR56997

Disputes Analyst

Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Issuing)
05.2011 - 08.2016
  • Kept up to date on industry information, system changes, network rules and compliance issues.
  • Analysing of cardholder disputes, performing retrieval requests, chargebacks, fulfilments, presentments, pre arbitration and Good faiths for Nedbank cardholders disputing transactions on their accounts and ensuring customer satisfaction within required time frames
  • Used sound judgment and available resources to make well-informed decisions for case approval or denial.
  • Working on different buckets - IF3, IF6, IR2, IF1 & IF2
  • Would also stand in for our manager and lead the team effectively for more than 6 months.

Rejections team & AF2 Chargeback

Nedbank Ltd - Operations
03.2007 - 04.2011
  • Promoted a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication, and employee recognition initiatives.
  • Enhanced overall team performance by providing regular coaching, feedback, and skill development opportunities.
  • Identify and recommend improvements to rejections tem and reporting processes.
  • Legal & Collections - Performing chargeback for legal department, collections department and for all other closed accounts to recover for the bank
  • Acquiring - Performing voucher request to our merchants, processing chargebacks, representment of documentation to the foreign and local issuers
  • Pre - arbitration, compliance and good faiths attempts on VROL, Mastercom and GNS within SLA
  • Working on different buckets - AR1, AR2, AF2 & AF3
  • Reconciliation of accounts - Reconciling of issuing and acquiring suspense accounts and follow ups of outstanding items on the accounts (OTP)
  • Monitor GL accounts on daily basis
  • Clearing of OTP entries
  • Providing of stats for month end
  • Assisting different department within the business unit with their financial queries
  • AOM & RTM - is a system used currently for planning to manager our work follows
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, and annual planning on AOM
  • Daily downloads
  • Daily graphs
  • Weekly meetings on variances and loading
  • INCIDENTS - investigating and advising on the system rejections and managing incidents raised and finding solution to the problem
  • Route cause analysis of why the transaction rejected by the using the edit package
  • Attending weekly meetings for any updates on the incidents logged with other departments
  • Raising of new incidents for system resolutions.

Education

Information Technology Systems Development NQF 5 - Information Technology Systems Development

Mindworx
Rosebank, South Africa
04.2001 -

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Processing Skills

Self Confidence Skills

Attention to detail

Ability to multitask

Microsoft Excel expertise

Bank Reconciliation

Asset Management

Discrepancy investigations

Career Overview

  • First National Bank - FNB Credit, Financial Administrator, 09/01/21, Present, Reconciliation of accounts - Reconciling of issuing and acquiring suspense accounts and follow ups of outstanding items on the accounts (OTP)., Monitor GL accounts on daily basis., Clearing of OTP entries., Providing of stats for month end., Assisting different department within the business unit with their financial queries., Working on the Data inventory Mapping processes within the Finances space, Ntombi Lebuso, 082 534 5356
  • First National Bank - Transactional Banking, Fraud Consultant, 11/01/18, 08/31/21, Fraud disputes - Analysing of cardholder disputes, performing retrieval requests, chargebacks, fulfilments, presentments, pre arbitration and good faiths for FNB cardholders disputing transactions on their accounts and ensuring customer satisfaction within required time frames., As at present I am working on the new system power card which soon FNB will be using it for all their cardholders and the bank will be issuing virtual cards to their clients., Miss Emely Bogopane, 0849511293
  • Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Acquiring), Corporate Acquiring Merchants, 09/01/16, 10/31/18, Customer service exclusively to the corporate clients i.e. Bidvest, Cash Build, Dis-Chem, Europcar, First Car Rental, Italtile, Liquor City, Makro, McDonalds, Shoprite Checkers & all Sun international Merchants., Chargeback Backs, Voucher requests and retrievals requests for Master Card, Visa, American Express and Diners Club. Association international rules., Pre-arbitration, compliance and good faith attempt on VROL, Mastercom and GNS with SLA., Merchant reconciliation of suspense accounts daily on Excel and internal systems., Query resolution within 24hrs not exceeding 5days., Settlement queries and telephonic assistance to merchant., Mr Wayne Ellapen, 084 527 7079
  • Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Issuing), Disputes Analyst, 05/01/11, 08/31/16, Disputes Analyst - Analysing of cardholder disputes, performing retrieval requests, chargebacks, fulfilments, presentments, pre arbitration and Good faiths for Nedbank cardholders disputing transactions on their accounts and ensuring customer satisfaction within required time frames., Working on different buckets - IF3, IF6, IR2, IF1 & IF2, Would also stand in for our manager and lead the team effectively for more than 6 months., Rudi Snyman, 084 702 9458
  • Nedbank Ltd - Operations, Rejections team & AF2 Chargeback, 03/01/07, 04/30/11, Legal & Collections - Performing chargeback for legal department, collections department and for all other closed accounts to recover for the bank., Acquiring - Performing voucher request to our merchants, processing chargebacks, representment of documentation to the foreign and local issuers. Pre - arbitration, compliance and good faiths attempts on VROL, Mastercom and GNS within SLA., Working on different buckets - AR1, AR2, AF2 & AF3, Reconciliation of accounts - Reconciling of issuing and acquiring suspense accounts and follow ups of outstanding items on the accounts (OTP)., Monitor GL accounts on daily basis., Clearing of OTP entries., Providing of stats for month end., Assisting different department within the business unit with their financial queries., AOM & RTM - is a system used currently for planning to manager our work follows., Daily, weekly, monthly, and annual planning on AOM., Daily downloads, Daily graphs, Weekly meetings on variances and loading., INCIDENTS - investigating and advising on the system rejections and managing incidents raised and finding solution to the problem., Route cause analysis of why the transaction rejected by the using the edit package., Attending weekly meetings for any updates on the incidents logged with other departments., Raising of new incidents for system resolutions., Maria Thape, 064 627 1611

Timeline

Fraud Consultant

First National Bank - Transactional Banking
11.2018 - 08.2021

Corporate Acquiring Merchants

Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Acquiring)
09.2016 - 10.2018

Disputes Analyst

Nedbank Ltd - Operations (Issuing)
05.2011 - 08.2016

Rejections team & AF2 Chargeback

Nedbank Ltd - Operations
03.2007 - 04.2011

Information Technology Systems Development NQF 5 - Information Technology Systems Development

Mindworx
04.2001 -

Financial Administrator

First National Bank - FNB Credit
9 2021 - Current

Lebogang MolefeFinancial Administrator