Masesi Maria Grace Shabalala

• Overseeing the ongoing management of loan accounts, including tracking payments, interest calculations, and adjusting for changes in terms or conditions.
• Managed the processing and disbursement of vehicle loans. This includes ensuring that the loan agreements, terms, and conditions are correctly set up and that funds are disbursed to customers or dealerships as per the terms, ensuring that the correct origination and cession of loan agreement and the recognition and completeness of the commission receivable from broker and commission payable to dealers.
• Develop and maintain financial policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance and best practices.
• Ensure accuracy and compliance of financial records, transactions and documentation.
• Preparation of VAT calculations and reconciliations.
  Prepare and review monthly journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Coordinating with external auditors and preparing documentation for annual audits, ensuring transparency and accountability in financial operations.
• Manage relationships with internal departments, banks, and stakeholders to align with business goals and growth of the company.
• Responsible for cash management, reconciliation and suspense account resolution and liaising with the company’s broker.
• Coordinated with external auditors regarding audit queries the fiscal year.
• Reviewing and processed invoices and contacted appropriate parties for timely payment receipt.

❖ Highlight supported the Finance team in the testing and implementation of a new Loan management system including but not limited to: System testing (UAT) to ensure accuracy and validate compliance with financial regulations, performing settlement calculations to ensure the new system is performing correctly, to ensure the accuracy and completeness and posting of our GL from the system.

Managed and monitored overall deliverance progress of audit project tasks and proactively engaged with senior management.

• Managed strong client relationships to deliver exceptional service and maintain repeat business.
• Initiated comprehensive account assessments to check viability, stability, and profitability of business operations.
• Managed and monitored overall deliverance progress of audit project tasks and proactively engaged with senior management.
• Developed good understanding of client to adapt approach and communication leading to maximum client satisfaction.
• Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings using US GAAP.
  Led multiple assignments simultaneously, taking responsibility for completion before set deadlines.
• Liaised with manager on audit plan, extent and duration of work to map out workflow, operating budgets and financial planning for maximum efficiency.
• Investigated financial statements to confirm compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and applicable laws.

• Liaise with suppliers to receive, reconcile and capture invoices and the processing of payments on Dext and Xero.
• Maintaining Fixed Asset register and monthly reconciliation.
• Assisting the Financial Controller with forecasting and budgeting.
• Performing Billable expenses and Advisory Fee calculations for intercompany invoicing.
• Capturing expense claims, compiling expense claims reports for employees and submitting to manager.
• Facilitating month end, quarter end systems as necessary and financial reporting (Accruals, Prepayments, Refunds and staff reimbursements).
• Update the consolidation sheet on a quarterly basis.
• Prepare VAT summary and VAT reconciliations every month.
• Assisting on ad hoc projects and investigations from manager.
• Reconciled monthly bank statements and resolved discrepancies.
• Maintained integrity of general ledger and chart of accounts.

Contracted on a listed South African company:

• Developed comprehensive audit plans, ensuring thorough coverage of all areas within the organisation.
• Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings.
• Performing the audit test work and substantive testing in financial statement captions including but not limited to IFRS 9 asset valuation and impairment testing.
• Performing reconciliations of financial information.
  Managing the audit team and was responsible for strong client relationships.

Leading statutory audits for clients in various industries and sizes, including overall managing of the audit and teams, reviewing the work of junior members and ensuring that the team meets deadlines including but not limited to the following:

Planning

• Planning of the audit file and setting up the audit file including risk assessment procedures as prescribed by ISA.
  Take initiative to become familiar with information about the client's business, environment and industry.
• Ensure system descriptions have been updated, controls identified, and the implementation test completed timeously.
  Investigated levels of financial risk within organisations by assessing finances, opportunities and cash flow.
• Evaluated the effectiveness of clients'' internal control systems in preventing, detecting, and correcting financial misstatements.
• Set expectations based on company performance, the market and entity's environment before completing the review, where exceptions to the expectations determine if it is appropriate).

Execution

• Performing audit test work, including internal controls of entities and substantive testing of amounts in the financial statements, performing reconciliations of financial information and preparing for meetings with stakeholders.
• Review the work of the team and ensure that work is per the BDO standard and if any assistance is needed.
• Developed strong analytical skills through the examination of complex financial data and identification of key issues affecting clients businesses.
• Supervise and review certain sections before the manager reviews and at least browsed through the other work papers. Ensure sufficient time is planned in the budget for this.
• Completed all the procedures as per the audit plan and reviews items critically for accuracy and determines the best possible solution and processes.
• Demonstrated adaptability by quickly learning new industries specific requirements during diverse client engagements across various sectors.

Finalisation

• Completion of audit engagements including assessing going concern and subsequent events of the company subject to the audit.
• Reviewed financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS, including reviews of tax computations of audit clients.
  Liaised with specialists on audits (Tax/Valuation specialists).