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NOMAPHELO JOLIMVABA

NOMAPHELO JOLIMVABA

JOHANNESBURG

Summary

Results-driven Financial Accountant with over 5 years of experience in financial management, reporting, and analysis across retail and wholesale sectors. Proficient in SAP, Great Plains, and Sage Business Cloud Accounting, with expertise in reconciliations, vendor management, and compliance with tax and auditing requirements. Adept at overseeing financial activities for multiple stores, ensuring accurate cash management, payroll processing, and asset tracking while preparing management accounts and collaborating with cross-functional teams for strategic decision-making. Educational qualifications include a B.Com honours and B.Com in Accounting, supplemented by management and human resource management courses, emphasizing a commitment to continuous professional development. Eager to leverage financial expertise to contribute to the financial success of a dynamic organization..

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Accountant

ITALTILE LIMITED (PTY) LTD
11.2020 - Current
  • Responsible for approximately 26 stores across South Africa (this may increase or decrease in the future, depending on new stores that may open)
  • Daily clearing of banking general ledger accounts on SAP, relating to daily cash ups by the stores
  • Cash and credit card payments are received from the bank daily and needs to be reconciled back to the store cash ups
  • Daily bank clearing for all other deposits and payments
  • Assisting the stores with queries relating to customer card issues, refunds to customers or customer receipts
  • Daily processing of payments to non-stock suppliers on behalf of the stores
  • This will include receiving and validating Tax Invoices, Supplier entity details and BBBEE certificates, for capturing to SAP
  • Full Stock vendor reconciliations completed on SAP for payments to suppliers on the 15th and 31st of the month
  • Monthly Sundry Creditors reconciliations and payments
  • Maintaining the Asset register for each store on SAP - new assets, retirements and monthly depreciation
  • Paying Salaries and Reconciling and Uploading the Payroll Journal on SAP
  • Monthly review of stores income statement and ensure that all entries are recorded correctly
  • Assisting the stores with Income statement queries and resolutions to such queries
  • Monitor and query any variances to the stores budgets
  • Balance sheet and Bank reconciliations completed on SAP monthly and in agreed time frame
  • Resolving any balance sheet items within the following month
  • Reconcile and complete monthly Vat return for the company
  • Preparation of monthly management accounts by 7th
  • Attending monthly financial review meetings with directors
  • Assisting with providing information with for Income Tax calculations
  • Assisting with all audit queries, in a timeous manner, at half year, interim and year end audit
  • Income statement training for store operators
  • Assist Company Directors with queries
  • Assist stores with annual budget process
  • Preparation of final budget for all stores

Rebates Administrator - Contract

MASSCASH (PTY) LTD
07.2020 - 10.2020
  • Responsible for but not limited to accurate and timely data entry of vendor rebates into internal and/or vendor systems of record
  • This requires coordinating with Sales, Finance, and Pricing team members, as well as various vendor representatives

This also includes,

  • Uploading and processing Journals on SAP
  • Preparing, administering and maintaining vendor rebate agreements; liaising with relevant stakeholders and maintaining appropriate documentation for them
  • Sending relevant information to internal and external stakeholders )e.g)
  • Statements and agreement status
  • Ensuring timely and accurate processing of rebate claims, managing and monitoring rebate calculations to ensure all rebate payments are calculated accurately and with correct supporting information
  • Working with Contracts, Rebates and Pricing Team to ensure that all rate related queries are resolved effectively and efficiently
  • Ensuring that tax invoices and breakdowns are sent to suppliers on monthly basis
  • Ensuring that rebates entered internal/ vendor systems are correct
  • Ensuring that rebates are created and submitted in a timely manner
  • Process Credit Notes, Invoices and miscellaneous transactions on Great Plains Wholesale and Retail
  • Process rebate claims timeously and in line with company policies
  • Process reversals, Re-allocations Accruals and Billings (claims) on SAP and Great Plains
  • Ensure that all GP and SAP tax Invoices and Breakdowns (Report 7A, 6 & 52D etc.) are sent to suppliers timeously
  • Submit rebate claims to vendors as per vendor timelines and other submission requirements
  • Reconcile rebate payments received from vendors with Company's internal accounts
  • Handled sensitive information discreetly, maintaining strict confidentiality at all times as required by company policy or legal regulations.

Accountant - Retrenched

BCX (PTY) LTD/ UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
04.2018 - 05.2019

• Ensuring that an organization’s accounting information and practices are accurately reflected.
• Gathering and verifying the accuracy of financial data.
• Checking journal entries and reconciling accounts.
• Recording daily transactions, maintaining balance sheets, and checking the general ledger monthly and annually to ensure accuracy.
• Reconciling accounts, recording financial transactions, and assisting in the preparation of financial statements
• Collaborating with other departments to complete accurate records and provide accounting support
• Supporting the Auditor, Controller and other financial professionals in their duties as needed
• Generating Purchase Requisitions (PR) and Capturing Service Entries
• Preparing and processing Journals
• Preparing and Distributing Salary/Manpower Reports for all cost centres
• Assisting Auditors by providing supporting documents
• Payroll Reconciliations/Trade Creditors - General Ledger Accounts, Vendor and Customer Age Analysis

Junior Cost Accountant - Merger

UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
10.2017 - 03.2018
  • Prepare and review monthly uploads of supplier transactions
  • Assist with audit preparation and liaise with auditors
  • Review and recommend improvements to existing processes
  • Cost Center Reporting
  • Project Billing - Annuity Increases (Consulting Fees)
  • Actual VS Budgeted Revenue (Variance Analysis)
  • Responsible for Preparing CAPEX Requirements Reports
  • Net Pass through Costs – Variance Analysis Reports
  • Run Monthly SAP reports
  • Ensure that costs are allocated to correct cost/profit centers and authorized for payment
  • Follow up on workflows which are outstanding
  • Process journals on SAP
  • Sending remittance advices to suppliers after completion of payment run as and when required
  • Provide documentation upon request by business and to the satisfaction of client and maintain all accounts payable files
  • Liaise with clients to ensure all queries are resolved timeously
  • Responsible for entering, maintaining and reconciling monthly creditors’ invoices and statements and ensure that all invoices/credit notes received are authorized and captured correctly and accurately in SAP
  • Ensure all payments are handed in for authorization by set cut-off dates and executed accurately when due according to set time frames
  • Accruals - Prepare list of accruals - Correct capturing and reversing of accruals
  • Perform ad hoc tasks as requested by management
  • Ensure all relevant documentation is stored on SharePoint, Unique and SCHUBED
  • Facilitate the learning and transfer of skills.

Creditors Clerk - Promoted

UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
06.2016 - 09.2017
  • Responsible for reconciling travel & project expenses for all the UCS Solutions (Pty) Ltd branches by:
  • Ensuring that costs are allocated to the correct cost/profit centers and authorized for payment
  • Following up on workflows, which are outstanding
  • Correctly processing journals on SAP
  • Sending remittance advices to suppliers after completion of payment run as and when required
  • Providing documentations upon request by the business and to the satisfaction of the client maintain all accounts payable files
  • Liaising with clients to ensure that all queries are resolved timeously
  • Entering, maintaining and reconciling monthly creditors’ invoices and statements and ensure that all invoices/credit notes received are authorized and captured correctly and accurately in SAP
  • Ensuring all payments are handed in for authorization by set cut-off dates and executed accurately when due according to the set time frames
  • Accruals – Preparing a list of accruals - Correctly capturing and reversing accruals
  • Performing ad hoc tasks as requested by management
  • Ensuring all relevant documentation is stored on SharePoint, Unique and SCHUBED
  • Facilitating the learning and transfer of skills
  • Reconciling Overseas Travel Expenses

Education

B. Com Honours - Business Administration And Management

Regent Business School
Johannesburg
2022

Management Development Programme 4.0 - Management

Regent Business School
Johannesburg
09.2023 - 10.2023

Management Development Programme (MDP) -

Regent Business School
Johannesburg
09.2022 - 10.2022

Human Resource Management Certificate - Human Resources Management

Damelin
Johannesburg
2020

B.Com Accounting -

University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg
2013

National Senior Certificate - Matric

Aha-Thuto Secondary School
Johannesburg
2008

Skills

  • SAP
  • Proficiency MS Office (Excel (Macros), Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc)
  • Great Plains Retail & Wholesale
  • Shield Report Manager (Retail)
  • Report Manager (Wholesale)
  • Sage Business Cloud Accounting System
  • GVA Compliance Certification
  • Trade Sanctions
  • Competition La Africa
  • Reconciliations

Languages

English
Upper intermediate (B2)
IsiZuli
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Sotho
Upper intermediate (B2)

Timeline

Management Development Programme 4.0 - Management

Regent Business School
09.2023 - 10.2023

Management Development Programme (MDP) -

Regent Business School
09.2022 - 10.2022

Financial Accountant

ITALTILE LIMITED (PTY) LTD
11.2020 - Current

Rebates Administrator - Contract

MASSCASH (PTY) LTD
07.2020 - 10.2020

Accountant - Retrenched

BCX (PTY) LTD/ UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
04.2018 - 05.2019

Junior Cost Accountant - Merger

UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
10.2017 - 03.2018

Creditors Clerk - Promoted

UCS SOLUTIONS (PTY) LTD
06.2016 - 09.2017

B. Com Honours - Business Administration And Management

Regent Business School

Human Resource Management Certificate - Human Resources Management

Damelin

B.Com Accounting -

University of Johannesburg

National Senior Certificate - Matric

Aha-Thuto Secondary School
NOMAPHELO JOLIMVABA