Nwabisa Zitha
Accountancy
Phoenix
Summary
Accounting professional prepared for advanced role with focus on accurate financial management and process improvement. History of enhancing financial reporting accuracy and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Known for reliability, adaptability, and strong analytical skills that drive results and support organizational goals.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Financial Accounting Officer/Accounts Payable Supervisor
South African Sugar Association
10.2015 - 12.2025
- Prepare Monthly General Reconciliations
- Prepare Monthly Variance Reports(5 divisions)
- Review Variance Reports (various divisions)
- Prepare Annual Budgets (5 divisions)
- Receiving and Reconciling Divisional Reports
- Compile Insurance Declarations
- Review Insurance Claims
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Verify Stock Adjustments Report
- Verify Stock Masterfile Amendments
- Manage Forms & Templates(quality assurance)
- Syspro Administration
- Absa Fleet Management Solutions Admin
- Review and Upload Daily Payment batches
- Supervise a team of 6
- Review Accounts data capturing
Finance Administrator
Bidvest Panalpina Logistics
06.2014 - 10.2015
- Prepare requisitions, obtain quotes, and repair orders
- Quality check supplier invoices for validity and accuracy
- Reconcile Labour broker timesheets
- Petty Cash control (R3000. Float)
- Check forklift hours and maintenance costs
- Daily diesel Recon
- Check overtime to Access reports and attendance registers and collate for approval
- Asset verifications/disposals forms/transfer forms
- Prepare accrued expense/accrued income/provision journals
- Complete the Auditors Revenue Schedule
- Complete the Volume templates
- Prepare OE invoices
- Prepare Proformas
- Send Customer invoices
- Attend to customer & service provider queries
- Following up on outstanding debtors
- Prepare reversible and non-reversible journals for month
- Ensuring inter-department revenue/costs are processed
- Reconcile GL and do necessary adjustments if required
- Review income statements per department (5)
- Compile monthly stats reports/Revenue analysis/Management report
- Monthly Forecast (5 departments)
- Budgets (5 departments)
- Monitor claims & ensure correct procedures are followed for reporting/provision/processing of invoices.
- Ensure that all financial requirements are met as per deadlines
- Assist in EC audits
Trainee Accountant (SAIPA articles)
McGough and Associates Chartered Accountants
06.2011 - 06.2014
- Keep records of the company’s income and expenses, using - cash books, general and subsidiary ledgers (debtors and creditors) subsidiary journals, purchase journal, monthly journals
- Reconciling and balancing the above books on a monthly basis
- Responsible for petty cash and petty cash book
- Keep a record of all cash received bank statements and daily balances
- Reconcile the bank statements and daily balances from the above books drawing up and extracting the Trial Balance
- General administration.
- Calculation and submission PAYE, UIF, SDL, UI19
- Communicating with the Inland Revenue
- Communication with CIPC, Labour department
- Preparing Fixed Asset Registers
- VAT, UIF, INCOME TAX & Company registrations
- Preparing Financial Statements
- Management of monthly petty cash
- Doing VAT Reconciliation
- Managing Customer Accounts
- Managing Supplier Accounts
Education
National Diploma - Cost and Management Accounting
Durban University of Technology
01.2010
Grade 12 - English, Afrikaans, Accounting, Biology, Computer Studies and Mathematics
Temple Valley Secondary School
01.2007
Skills
Invoice processing
Account reconciliation
Bank reconciliation
Payment processing
Accruals and prepayments
Inventory auditing
Microsoft Excel expertise
Payment collection
GL entry verification
Tax compliance
General ledger management
Month-end reporting
Budget review
Other Training
- Name of Institution : Guarantee Trust Corporate Support Services
- Position : Trainee Accountant
- Training completed : FASSET funded Work Readiness Programme
- Duties : Basic Bookkeeping:
- How to study and extract information from source documents
- How to fill deposit slips and cheques
- How to fill stock sheets
- What makes a tax invoice valid?
- How does a business register for vat?
- What is VAT?
- Debits and Credits
- Processing Books of Prime Entry
- Financial categories’ of General Ledger Accounts
- Subsidiary Ledgers
- General Ledger
- Trial Balance, Basic Income Statement and Balance Sheet
- Various tax Forms, namely VAT 101, VAT 201, EMP 101, EMP 201, IT 12, IT 14 (Manuel Completion)
- Virtual Office:
- Disposal of Fixed asset
- Purchase of Fixed Asset-Cash or Financed
- Provision of accounts for different expenses
- Depreciation calculation an journals
- Preparing a Fixed Asset Register
- Preparing an Amortization Schedule
- VAT Calculations
- Calculation of PAYE/UIF and SDL and completion of manual EMP 201
- Forms for businesses- Sole Trader, CC
- Different Kind of Business viz, Engineering, Service, Rental Property and Logistics and studied their different chart of accounts in relation to their main business
- Excel:
- Data Capture- Processing Books of prime entry- (12 month period) posing to the General Ledger manually
- Linking to Extended TB
- Salary Schedules and Calculation of monthly PAYE/UIF
- Pastel:
- Processing 12 month period Books of Prime Entry on the programme
- Doing VAT Reconciliation
- Bank Reconciliation
- Managing Customer Accounts
- Managing Supplier Accounts
- : Dictionary course
- Study Skills for Life
- Communication Skills
- Rules of Professional Conduct
- Office Orientation
Timeline
Financial Accounting Officer/Accounts Payable Supervisor
South African Sugar Association
10.2015 - 12.2025
Finance Administrator
Bidvest Panalpina Logistics
06.2014 - 10.2015
Trainee Accountant (SAIPA articles)
McGough and Associates Chartered Accountants
06.2011 - 06.2014
Grade 12 - English, Afrikaans, Accounting, Biology, Computer Studies and Mathematics
Temple Valley Secondary School
National Diploma - Cost and Management Accounting
Durban University of Technology