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Education
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Certification
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Nicolla Shezi

Accountant
Johannesburg

Summary

Nicolla is an enthusiastic and determined Accountant at Nandos, excelling in month end closing, report preparation, journal processing,management accounts,strong analytical skills and more. With experience in different industries such as financial services, property management, telecommunications,fast foods and manufacturing and advertising, she has honed her skills in accounts receivables, financial control, financial reporting, budgets,cashbook, reconciliations,excel and more. Currently enrolled at CIMA Strategic level and on track to complete her strategic case study exam, Nicolla already holds a CGMA Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting and CGMA Diploma in Management Accounting. Her immediate goal is to achieve her CGMA ACMA designation by further developing her expertise in finance and management accounting.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Accountant

ChickenLand (Pty) Ltd T/A Nandos
Johannesburg
01.2024 - Current
  • Managing Accounts receivable policies and procedures
  • Processing monthly intercompany Recoveries
  • Processing payments and refunds
  • Cashbook & IT Billing
  • Updating and sending monthly statements to Franchisees
  • Initiating Monthly Debit order Collections
  • Processing international payments
  • Processing & creating invoices and credit notes
  • Reporting on monthly Accounts receivables ageing Analysis
  • General ledger reconciliations
  • Journal processing & Posting
  • Calculating Forex Gains & Losses
  • Posting Accruals
  • Initiating Month-end and Period end processing and closing
  • Assisting with audit queries
  • Assisting with credit card reconciliations
  • Regularly liaising with major stakeholders
  • Liaising between Insurance broker and Nando’s regarding all new insurance policies, policy updates, claims processes.
  • Manage the relationship with 3rd party broker regarding maintenance of licenses
  • Reviewing financial entries
  • Monitoring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and Company procedures
  • VAT compliance and processing

Senior Billing Specialist (fixed Term Contract)

SearchKings Africa
Johannesburg
05.2023 - 12.2023
  • Revenue and Debtors Management:
  • Creating invoices, quotes & credit notes
  • Reporting on monthly revenue
  • Reviewing monthly invoices before sending to clients
  • PO management
  • Sending monthly statements to clients
  • Preparing weekly debtors age analysis reports
  • Preparing annual increases
  • Building and managing new invoice subscriptions management system
  • Collecting outstanding payments on clients accounts
  • Monthly CMT invoicing report
  • Analyzing new customer contracts
  • Preparing cashflow reporting
  • Processing company credit card details & client credit card details
  • System management:
  • Create and updating customer profiles on internal systems and Xero
  • Set up & process payments on multiple billing and collection platforms
  • Help improve company processes on existing financial systems
  • Creating standard operating procedures for the department
  • Training new employee on the internal systems
  • Google billing & analytics
  • Microsoft billing & analytics
  • Financial Management:
  • Analyzing Budgets versus Actuals per internal department
  • Reporting on budgets variances
  • Maintaining and improving internal control environment
  • Reconciling invoices and payments received to statements
  • Managing & implementing subscription tool project
  • Internal audit:
  • Completing checklists on systems
  • Ensuring other departments have completed checklist correctly and accurately.
  • Submitting CIPC documents for companies for verification purposes
  • Reason for leaving: I was on a fixed term contract.
  • Verified accuracy of accounts payable payments, resulting in [90]% reduction in payment errors and check reissues.

Financial Controller (CIMA)

Angor Property Specialists
Johannesburg
01.2022 - 04.2023
  • Processing adjustments and journals on debtors’ accounts
  • Billing debtors on their monthly charges
  • Cashbook reconciliations
  • Processing cheque requisitions, debit orders, eft bank charges and interests
  • Reconciling suspense accounts and control accounts
  • Completing monthly statement runs and sending them to debtors.
  • Linking invoices
  • Generating monthly financial reports
  • Updating Income statements and balance sheets
  • Preparing financial statements for complexes
  • Assisting with sending monthly financial reports by deadline
  • Loading bank statements on the system
  • Updating fixed charge batches
  • Loading utility charges to clients’ accounts
  • Initiating repayments of credit balances due to clients
  • Providing provisional statement for 500+ properties during the property transfer process
  • Generating levy statements for new owners and ex owners
  • Training and supervising 1st year trainees
  • Delegating work to teammates
  • Assisting client queries
  • Instructing other departments to pay refund credit balances due to clients.
  • Updating client details on the system
  • Following up on outstanding payments
  • Issuing clearance certificates to attorneys upon receipt of payment
  • Reason for leaving: I was on a CIMA contract as a Financial controller, contract came to an end and found an opportunity to upskill as a Billing Specialist
  • Improved financial reporting accuracy by streamlining processes and implementing efficient financial controls.
  • Conducted regular variance analyses between actual results and budget projections to identify trends or issues requiring further investigation or action by management staff.
  • Prepared accurate financial reports and monthly statements for accounts receivable.
  • Managed a team of finance professionals, providing guidance, support, and ongoing training to ensure continued growth and development.

Debtors Clerk (temp)

Blue Label Telecoms
Johannesburg
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Customer management on AEON & CRM
  • Processing refunds
  • Reconciling payments received on bank statements to clients accounts
  • Daily reporting on outstanding debtors
  • System management: Aeon & CRM
  • Updating products on customers’ accounts
  • Responding to email queries on open cases.
  • Transferring funds from one account to another
  • Following up on overdue payments & overdrafts
  • Processing credit limit increases in customers account
  • Reason for leaving: I was working on a temporary role for maternity cover

Cashbook Clerk (Intern)

Industrial Development Corporation
Johannesburg
06.2019 - 12.2020
  • Preparing daily cashbook reconciliations for main bank accounts
  • Preparing daily payment status reports for main accounts
  • Preparing audit trail reports daily
  • SAP reconciliation.
  • Preparing financial statements for intercompany loans
  • Updating ETF numbers for payments daily on SAP
  • Processing & posting journal entries
  • Petty cash reconciliations
  • Intercompany loans reconciliations
  • Preparing general ledger reconciliations
  • Filing and administration
  • Cofax invoicing
  • Pay card reconciliations.
  • Updating systems and procedures: accounting for bank accounts, foreign loans, loans taken short-term and call, money market.
  • Reconciling intercompany loan accounts
  • Preparing month end cashbook reconciliations for major accounts
  • Reason for leaving: This role was a 1.6 years internship position
  • Supported senior clerks with document preparation, resulting in smoother workflow and increased productivity.

Vacation Student

Industrial Development Corporation
Johannesburg
01.2017 - 01.2017
  • Processing payment claims on SAP in the travel and tourism department.
  • Clearing payments on SAP in the travel and tourism department
  • Filing and Administration work in both tourism and financial management department
  • Shadowing Financial Managers
  • Assisting with preparations of financial statements and caseware

Education

Post graduate diploma - management accounting

CIMA- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
South Africa
02.2024 - Current

Advanced diploma - management accounting

CIMA- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
South Africa
01.2022 - 02.2023

CIMA Finance Leadership Program -

University of Johannesburg
South Africa
01.2022 - Current

Advanced Diploma - Financial Management

University of Johannesburg
South Africa
01.2018 - 01.2018

Diploma - Accounting

University of Johannesburg
South Africa
01.2015 - 01.2017

Skills

Income statements preparation

Balance sheets reconciliations

  • Forex gains & Losses

  • Accruals

Cashflows & accounts receivables analysis reports

  • Invoices, quotes, credit notes, PO

Payments & Banking processing

Cashbook & petty cash Reconciliations

  • General ledger reconciliation

Running monthly collections

Budgets & forecasting

  • Provisional tax submissions

  • Sage Pastel premium evolution

Period end and month end closing

Journal processing and posting

  • Intercompany loans

  • SAP

  • Xero Accounting

Management accounting

Certification

CGMA Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting 2023

References

Available upon request

Training

  • Xero Accounting Advisory
  • SAGE X3
  • Anti-money laundering and FICA
  • Public finance management act
  • Ethics and corruption
  • IFRS 9: financial instruments impairments
  • Employee relations
  • Sage pastel premium evolution
  • Pastel partner
  • POPIA act
  • Eft-sure
  • Angor system
  • Zoho system
  • CIMA Dip MA
  • CIMA Adv Dip MA
  • Bookkeeping
  • Financial management
  • Time management
  • Excel
  • Google sheets
  • Reporting

Timeline

Post graduate diploma - management accounting

CIMA- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
02.2024 - Current

Accountant

ChickenLand (Pty) Ltd T/A Nandos
01.2024 - Current

Senior Billing Specialist (fixed Term Contract)

SearchKings Africa
05.2023 - 12.2023

Financial Controller (CIMA)

Angor Property Specialists
01.2022 - 04.2023

Advanced diploma - management accounting

CIMA- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
01.2022 - 02.2023

CIMA Finance Leadership Program -

University of Johannesburg
01.2022 - Current

Debtors Clerk (temp)

Blue Label Telecoms
06.2021 - 09.2021

Cashbook Clerk (Intern)

Industrial Development Corporation
06.2019 - 12.2020

Advanced Diploma - Financial Management

University of Johannesburg
01.2018 - 01.2018

Vacation Student

Industrial Development Corporation
01.2017 - 01.2017

Diploma - Accounting

University of Johannesburg
01.2015 - 01.2017

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