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Summary
Dynamic and detail-oriented finance professional with a proven track record of excellence, having recently completed three years of articles at SNG Grant Thornton. Achieved eligibility for CA(SA) registration by passing both SAICA board exams on the first attempt, demonstrating strong proficiency in accounting, tax, auditing, and managerial accounting principles.Driven by a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth across diverse business domains, with a passion for applying innovative thinking to solve complex challenges. Eager to leverage expertise to make impactful contributions within a forward-thinking organization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Audit Consultant
SNG Grant Thornton Inc
02.2025 - Current
- Performing the audit of complex sections on the audit, such as consolidation procedures on group audits, standard costing audit, contract assets and liabilities under IFRS 15,revenues, impairment of assets,expected credit loss provision, goodwill testing and testing of IAS 37 provisions.
- Managing and resolving conflicts within the audit team, including the client.
- Documenting and communicating audit findings, and recommending solutions to the clients.
- Managing the audit deadlines, resolving issues identified in the audit, and ensuring that they are resolved before they affect the audit deadlines.
- Assigning work to the audit team, and monitoring the progress of the allocated work.
- Providing guidance to the audit team regarding their allocated work and client communications.
- Management of the audit to ensure that audits are delivered effectively, at the highest quality.
- Management of audit team members to ensure that the work is allocated appropriately and performed at the highest quality.
Trainee Accountant
SNG Grant Thornton Inc
02.2022 - 01.2025
- Performing the audit of complex sections on the audit such as consolidation procedures on group audits, standard costing audit and performance of the costing, activity based costing audit and reperformance of the costing, disposal groups held for sales under IFRS 5, contract assets and liabilities under IFRS 15 and Impairment of assets and goodwill testing which include the evaluation of the financial models used, design of audit procedures to test the IFRS 15 transactions between group entities where the IT systems are interfaced, transfer pricing audit and testing of IAS 37 provision, going concern assessment including budgeting and forecasting and other sections requiring judgment on the audit.
- Managing and resolving conflicts within the audit team and including the client
- Documenting and communicating audit findings and recommending solutions to the clients
- VAT returns, their compliances and reconciliations
- Managing the audit deadlines, resolving issues identified on the audit and ensuring that they are resolved before they affect the audit deadlines
- Assigning work to the audit team and monitoring the progress of the allocated work
- Providing guidance to the audit team regarding their allocated work and client communications
- Performing IAS 16 (property plant and equipment) and IAS 36 (impairment) tests from an internal control review perspective to ensure that the fixed asset register is maintained accurately and correctly
- Supervising and giving guidance on the performance of fixed assets and inventory physical verifications
- Performing IFRS 16 calculations for right of use and lease liability for finance leases relating to a normal lease, sublease, sale-and-leaseback transactions
- Performing IFRS 15 calculations for different types of revenues in different industries such as Industrial equipment, telecommunications, logistics, energy and mining.
- Performing the IFRS 9 calculations and reviewing accounting models relating to the measurement and recognition of financial liabilities and financial assets
- Reviewing the intercompany matrix and re-performing the journal entries that eliminate intercompany transactions at the consolidation level
- Performing walkthroughs in different accounting systems (CaseWare, SAP, Navision, HFM, Oracle, Syspro, AX, Sage etc.) as part of the test of control procedures
- Reviewing and performing analysis on management accounts to understand the behavior of cashflow movements and the performance of the client to understand the client's balance sheet status
- Performing the journal testing from the business process point of view, ensuring that internal controls assigned to journal entries are adhered to, and confirming that all the journal entries passed to the accounting system have proper support and test the rationale of the journal
- Re-performing the Payroll tax, VAT, and Income Tax calculations and reviewing compliance with the relevant Tax Act
- Reviewing the going concern by re-performing financial ratios that show the liquidity and solvency of the company, also reviewing non-financial factors that give evidence of the company's performance
- Performing financial ratio analysis to understand debt management, liquidity, solvency, and profitability
- Reviewing the client forecast budgets for the reasonability of inputs and assumptions and discussing management recommendations where necessary
- Performing annual financial statement tie-ups and ticking to ensure that all the amounts in the financial statements are recorded correctly and disclosure notes are prepared correctly as per the requirements of the financial reporting standards.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Reporting, Tax, Auditing & Financial Management
University of Fort Hare
11.2021
Bachelor of Accounting Sciences - Accounting, Finance, Tax, Audit, Economics and Statistics
Walter Sisulu University
11.2019
Skills
- IFRS, IFRS for SME’s, GRAP, US GAAP, UK GAAP
- CaseWare
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Access
- MS Word
- Income Tax Act, VAT Act
- Payspace
- TeamMate
Certification
SAICA ACCREDITED QUALIFICATIONS
Client Experience & Industry
- Scaw Metal Group - Mining
- Barloworld Limited - Industrial Equipment & Consumer Industry
- Sentech SOC Limited – Broadcasting & Telecommunications Industry
- Media Diversity & Development Agency – Media Industry (CWC)
- Barloworld UK Ltd -Industrial Equipment & Consumer Industry
- The Prepaid Company (Pty) Ltd – Telecommunications Industry
- Clarins (Pty) Ltd – Cosmetics and Skincare Industry
- Barloworld Logistics (Pty) Ltd - Logistics Industry
- University of Johannesburg – Higher Education Industry
- Q-Tique (Pty) Ltd – Retail Estate Industry
- Pinnacle Micro (Pty) Ltd -Information & Communication Technology
- Obscure Technologies – Cybersecurity
- Kivu Petrole et Stockage– Energy/ Petroleum
- Congo Petrol Gas Stockage – Energy/Petroleum
- Howden Group South Africa – Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering
Software
SAP
SAGE
Workiva
SAGE ESS
Timeline
Senior Audit Consultant
SNG Grant Thornton Inc
02.2025 - Current
Trainee Accountant
SNG Grant Thornton Inc
02.2022 - 01.2025
Bachelor of Accounting Sciences - Accounting, Finance, Tax, Audit, Economics and Statistics
Walter Sisulu University
Post Graduate Diploma - Financial Reporting, Tax, Auditing & Financial Management
University of Fort Hare
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