Letago Maake
Alberton,South Africa
Summary
Accomplished finance professional with a results-oriented mindset and extensive expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. Demonstrates exceptional proficiency in financial software, time management, and critical thinking within the finance sector. Known for ethical conduct, proactive engagement, and strong communication skills. Adept at performance measurement, process improvement, and team leadership. Career goal: to leverage comprehensive financial competencies to drive organisational success and efficiency.
Overview
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Language
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years of post-secondary education
10
10
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior Accountant
Seriti Resources Pty Ltd, Khutala Colliery
Ogies, Mpumalanga
2025.05 - 2026.07
- Perform analysis to ensure that all commercial decisions consider value (cost, margin, EBIT, FCF), risk, cost and opportunity
- Finalise results of operational performance and report to management and stakeholders
- Execute budgeting and forecasting process, including budget submissions
- Perform financial analysis including variance, scenario, and option analysis
- Execute cost accounting processes timely and effectively, ensuring operational discipline and strict adherence to internal accounting guidelines and controls
- Execute month end costing activities
- Maintain accurate costing model of business
- Capture relevant transactional data into ERP system, review and request updates to Master Data as required
- Responsible for preparation of management reports to GM, line managers, budget holders and other stakeholders
- Track and report cost and productivity initiatives
- Continuously track and report operational financial performance
Performance Analyst
Seriti Resources Pty Ltd, New Vaal Colliery
Vereeniging, Gauteng
2021.06 - 2025.04
- Support operational managers, continuously report and manage financial performance such as cost drivers and productivity initiatives in Plant & Eskom Stockyard, Mining, Engineering & HR operational sections
- Governance for improving cost efficiencies for operational functional areas
- Responsible for preparation of management reports to GM, line managers, budget holders and other stakeholders
- Provide input on consolidated financial reports
- Perform financial analysis including variance, scenario, and option analysis
- Manage capital expenditure process, forecasting and budget reporting
- Execute month end costing activities timely and effectively
- Provide input into contractor management and accounts payable optimisation
- Assist in systems management and systems efficiency improvements
- Approve and manage purchase requisitions, reservations and commitments
- Facilitate service entry sheet approvals
- Manage delegation of authority database and facilitate change requests
- Goods and services GL valuation classifications
Professional in Training – Financial Management and Reporting
Exxaro Resources
Centurion, Gauteng
2018.06 - 2021.06
- Asset verification, confirmation, scrapping and transfers between entities
- Capitalise assets on fixed asset register
- Prepare monthly mine CAPEX report and summary
- Monthly low value assets and income account cost element analysis for small entities
- Monthly cost variance analysis
- Complete monthly VAT returns for Corporate Centre and Business Units on Microsoft Teams
- Monthly Corporate Centre Import VAT analysis report on foreign goods and services
- Upload monthly recoveries, reallocation journals and generate invoices on SAP
- Compile monthly income and expense reports
- Update recons checklist and prepare monthly GL account reconciliations (assets, equity, liability, inventory & salaries)
- Allocation of bank entries to relevant GL accounts and Business Units
- Month end reporting (SAP closure and HFM postings)
- Prepare entity budgets, forecasts and tax packs
- Prepare STATS SA quarterly financial statistics surveys
- Prepare South African Reserve Bank quarterly surveys
Derivatives Clearing Administrator – Corporate and Investment Banking
Nedbank CIB
Constantia Kloof, Gauteng
2017.11 - 2018.05
- Verify daily balancing to JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) clearing through comparing SAFEX (South African Futures Exchange) daily accounts summary reports with internally generated daily accounting summary reports from GCMS_PROD LT system across all derivative markets (APD, EDM and IRC) (Agricultural products division, Equity derivatives market, Interest rate and currency)
- Prepare end of day and interim reconciliations of suspense account using the bank statement on NTE system and Daily payment sheet for client reports. Report any anomalies and ensure that client overpayments are refunded and claim outstanding payments
- Email daily trade reports and cash positions to clients after market closure
- Email physical delivery notices from JSE to Commodities Market clients
- Liaise with Settlement team to facilitate daily settlement payments and receipts between JSE and clients as per EOD SAFEX balances
- Liaise with Securities Trading Technology (STT) system specialists to rectify report errors and implement report changes as requested by clients
- Assist trade dealers in accepting over limit unmatched trades and increasing dealer limits on NUTRON front end system
- Balance GCMS_LT QA parallel runs to GCMS_LT PROD daily
- Download new client account information from JSE on GCMS and load new client accounts on NUTRON as per clients request then send system generated client codes
- Effectively resolve client queries and requests
- AD HOC – email client account movement reports, positions reports, margin reports, client exposure reports and booking fees and market to market reports
- Participate in systems projects including testing and implementation of systems prior to roll out
- Ensure all processes and procedures are constantly documented, reviewed and updated
- Month end duties
- Download information from JSE, run month end procedures on GCMS and ensure that month end interest statements balance with SAFEX
- Run GCMS_LT PROD scheduler for all three markets at end of day to generate client month end interest statement reports and ensure correct reports are distributed to clients after end of day balancing with SAFEX
- Distribute monthly deals and commission fee statements to member clients
- Reconcile revenues recorded on GCMS and NTE bank statement then compile, analyse and communicate monthly reporting on member level monthly revenue statistics to senior management
- Facilitate monthly booking fee payments/receipts of JSE and member clients
- Run month end tax pack reports and issue out to member clients
- Prepare payments/receipts; JSE liquidity fees, JSE default fund interest and quarterly JSE default fund rebalancing
- Ensure compliance to all relevant policies and procedures, complete month end compliance key control checklist
Financial Control Intern
Total South Africa (Pty) Limited
Rosebank, Gauteng
2017.05 - 2017.10
- Analyse company support fixed costs, investigate and follow up with business channel operations management teams
- Compile and record variance analysis commentary on actual and budgeted results from various business channels
- Report operations volume production and monitor support financial efficiency
- Assist in preparing management reports
- Prepare quarterly company reporting presentations for business performance results
- Assist in month end financial reporting process
- Reconciliation of yearly planned financial budgets on BUDCOM system and SAP GR55 financial reports on monthly year-to-date basis
- Create monthly company fuel sales volume reports and send out to Department of Energy
- Create, change and close company profit and cost centres on SAP
- Conduct various ad hoc duties
Institutional Distribution and Product Solutions Graduate Trainee
STANLIB Asset Management Limited
Melrose , Gauteng
2017.01 - 2017.04
- Analyse business processes to aid direct institutional strategy and identify new business opportunities to streamline in marketplaces
- Prepare and compile investment tender bid documentation
- Prepare due diligence reports through understanding unique requirements of Distribution team and tailor them to needs of clients to effectively represent organisation capabilities
- Provide support to Client Fund Managers in maintain existing and developing new client relationships in all aspects of client services by, responding to request and inquiries from both prospective and existing clients
- Liaise with Portfolio Fund Managers to obtain investment fund information for Institutional client reporting and ensure expectations of distribution and investments are aligned
- Directly interact with pricing team to obtain previous, current and forecasted pricings as requested by clients
- Liaise with Portfolio Analytics, Risk and Implementation Team (PARI) to verify that Portfolio Managers are investing in line with their investment philosophy and within risk limits
- Document and maintain accurate client relationship management records, ensuring that activities of Distribution team are current and up to date
- Report relevant and current information through conducting market research and analysing changing institutional themes such as asset classes, client behaviours, pricing, regulatory and company market share
Education
CIMA Strategic Level - Financial Management
CharterQuest Financial Training Institute
South Africa 2026.07 -
Bachelor of Commerce Honours - Financial Management
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2015.02 - 2015.11
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2012.02 - 2014.11
Skills
- Results-Oriented mindset
- Financial software literacy
- Time management mastery
- Critical thinking in finance
- Ethical conduct
- Financial analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Performance measurement
- Communication proficiency
- Spreadsheet competencies
- Proactive engagement
- Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
COURSES, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
- Oracle SmartView - Seriti New Vaal Colliery
- Emotional Intelligence and Assertiveness - Maccauvlei Learning Academy
Languages
English
Fluent
Accomplishments
- Acting Financial Controller Dec'2025 (recognition on Betterworks, performance management system)
- UJ 70% - 75% Academic Merit (2012-2014)
- Academic Merit Badge (2010-2011)
- IsiZulu Top Student (2011)
- Academic Scroll (2010-2011)
Timeline
CIMA Strategic Level - Financial Management
CharterQuest Financial Training Institute
2026.07 -
Senior Accountant
Seriti Resources Pty Ltd, Khutala Colliery
2025.05 - 2026.07
Performance Analyst
Seriti Resources Pty Ltd, New Vaal Colliery
2021.06 - 2025.04
Professional in Training – Financial Management and Reporting
Exxaro Resources
2018.06 - 2021.06
Derivatives Clearing Administrator – Corporate and Investment Banking
Nedbank CIB
2017.11 - 2018.05
Financial Control Intern
Total South Africa (Pty) Limited
2017.05 - 2017.10
Institutional Distribution and Product Solutions Graduate Trainee
STANLIB Asset Management Limited
2017.01 - 2017.04
Bachelor of Commerce Honours - Financial Management
University of Johannesburg
2015.02 - 2015.11
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting
University of Johannesburg
2012.02 - 2014.11