Maneka Seechurn

• Prepare monthly management accounts for review by management.
• Reporting of company figures on FCCS (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow) as per IFRS and US GAAP requirements.
•Ensure timely reporting within Zone finance functions and prepare ad hoc reports on monthly variance analysis & cashflow forecast as per regional treasury center and any other reports on request with required format.
• Monthly monitoring of ZBB (operating expenses) by achieving results of over 24% positive variance at zone level.

• Work in collaboration with other user departments for financial reports (latest estimates, actuals and budget).
• Prepare journals requires for month end purposes such as payroll, accruals, treasury loan, FX revaluation and prepayments.
• Prepare end of month Balance Sheet exposure and send to global treasury team.
• Submission of end of month reporting and end of month closure at zone level requirement. – Inventory, Fixed Assets and General Ledger and supervise month end activities of Accounts Payables and Accounts Receivables.
•Finalized monthly statutory reporting through processing of tax payments and returns (Monthly TDS, VAT returns, PAYE returns and NSF/NPF returns).
• Prepare local statutory reports as and when required by local authorities.

• Prepare daily bank reconciliations of local and foreign accounts.
• Assist external auditors for annual audit.

• Assist and drive management internal control systems through 80% of SOX compliance and KPIs implementation.

• Perform monthly accounts reconciliations for sub modules.

• Supervise and review Assistant Accountant jobs with regards to posting of transactions for accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash book and journal processing.

• Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly yearly financial reports in a timely, complete and accurate manner.
• Assist the Management Accountants in the provision of high quality financial information to the Management team to support them in their decision making.
• Maintain the Fixed Asset register and monthly Capex reporting
• Assist in the preparation of manual report templates to submit to the Zone in a timely, complete and accurate manner.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly cost centre reports including ZBB reporting.
• Perform daily Bank reconciliation.
• Assist in preparation of annual budget and monthly latest estimates.

• Monitoring of customers on payment plans as well as rehabilitate overdue accounts.
• Contacting customers to align payment dates and amount to be paid.
• Resolving customer issues pertaining to delivery.
• Address complex and urgent operational issues with account /order blocking or disputes related which were escalated, drive issues resolution through negotiations with external customers, third parties and internal departments.
• Ensuring end-to-end process of credit, collections and disputes is proceeded in an efficient way.
• Prepare age analysis and assist in end of month reporting.

• Verified and processed invoices from vendors and contacted suppliers regarding billing errors.
• Reconciled monthly recon and transactions to keep records accurate and current
• Problem-solved accounts payable questions on behalf of internal team members, management and vendors.
• Handled high-volume invoice processing with minimal supervision.
• Worked with purchasing group to resolve purchase order matching issues alongside GRN matching on time
• Kept detailed records of accounts payable by creating reports and updating vendor balance sheets.
• Detail monitoring on creditors ageing and cashflow forecast in relation to suppliers terms of payment and statement of accounts.

• Computation of Mileage allowances.
• Assisting Managing Support Officers in preparing travel grants, imprest account, telecom and rentals bills.
• Preparing returns on Utilities and answering queries from suppliers.