Portia Dingashe
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Treasury Bookkeeper
South African Weather Service
01.2023 - Current
- Train divisions on the effective use of petty cash
- Petty cash management
- Effective management of bank charges
- Prepare daily cashflows
- Preparing and updating cashbook and bank balance daily
- Uploading of payments into the banking system
- Liaise with banks to ensure banking system is running smoothly
- Add, amend, and delete operators on the banking system
- Ensure Delegated persons release payments on time
- Load supplier, subsistence, and travel payments on the banking system
- Load payments and salaries on the banking system
- Opening and closing bank accounts
- Requesting interest rates from the Bank for using AFS
- Replacing of petty cash cards
- Assist the Cost and Management Manager with preparation of the budget process and MTEF
- Assist the Cost and Management Manager with the preparation of the annual financial statements (AFS)
- Prepare monthly recons for the following
- Bank reconciliations
- Petty cash reconciliations
- Donor funded project
- Reconciliation of the government grant to budget, Unspent conditional grant
- Follow up and resolve any queries that might arise from these analysis and recons; find and document the supporting documentation relevant to these reconciliations
- Assist Departmental variance reports per cost Centre for Quarterly MANCO meeting
- Prepare reports for donor funded projects and submit them to project leaders
- Collecting Data for updating ABC Model
- Prepare the quarterly report for submission to National Treasury
- Collate the information necessary for monthly cash book and reallocations journals
- Confirm budget availability and GL account used on daily purchase requisition
- Approve/reject requisitions and travel request on NetSuite
- Capture monthly cashbook journal
- Regular update of the SAWS policy, SOP and business process pertaining to the treasury function
- Regular update of the SAWS policy and business process pertaining to the treasury function
- Provide assistance during internal, external and compliance audits.
Cashbook Clerk
National Credit Regulator
04.2014 - 12.2022
- Extract statement from online banking, convert it to excel and upload it into GP
- Processing claims
- Monitor the payments made by customers
- Clearing of suspense account
- Performing weekly and monthly bank reconciliations and General Ledger
- Payment of Board members’ fees
- Reconciliation of employees’ salaries account
- Monitoring of usage, invoice, and payments to the service provider
- Assist with cash flow projections
- Prepare variance reports and submit to managers and management on monthly basis
- Assist with completion of budget input template
- Assist with the facilitation of budget mid-year review
- Monitoring of the budget and spending and signing of Purchase Orders as and when required
- Conduct quarterly departmental risk assessment (operational)
- Implement mitigating controls as per operational risk register
- Report progress on the department risk register
- Review and follow-up on age-analysis
- Creating, Deactivating debtor’s accounts
- Ensure adherence to relevant statutory requirements
- Attending to customer queries
- Billing of Customers
- Preparing Cash flow Projections
- Sending statements and invoices to customers
- Verifying payments of new applicants
- Registering Credit providers, Debt counsellors, Credit bureaus and Payment distribution agencies
- Preparing monthly provisions
- Updating Customer’s Accounts
- Reconciling Debtors Accounts
- Processing of Refunds due to Debtors
- Processing invoices, credit notes and debit notes to correct accounts
- Reporting on cashbook and the suspense account on regular basis
- Assists with the capturing of Invoices for payment
- Disbursing Petty Cash
- Reconciling Petty Cash
- Applying of payment
- Processing Journals for accruals
- Respond to all audit requirements and address findings thereof.
Junior Bookkeeper
Sisonke Fund Managers and Mentors
05.2011 - 03.2014
- Ensuring that all the necessary documentation will be received from the clients
- Ensuring that the logbook for dealings with clients is up to date
- Ensuring that all documentation is filed in each of the clients’ files
- Capturing of daily transactions on pastel (sales, customers, suppliers, bank transactions and cashbook, Sales Journal)
- Send out invoices and statements monthly
- Follow up of on customer that are owing
- Preparing weekly and monthly reports
- Capturing of the bank transactions in cash
- Follow up on payments
- Preparing Budgets on Pastel
- Bank Reconciliation
- Vat Returns
- Calculation of loan amortization
- Calculation of borrowers instalments repayments
- Updating borrowers statements with repayments and changes to interest rates
- Writing arrears and default notice letters to customers.
Receptionist
Sisonke Fund Managers and Mentors
02.2011 - 05.2011
- Answering the phone
- Greeting clients and offer them Hospitality
- Attend client’s queries and request
- Assists bookkeepers to ensure all reports are received
- Filing
- Sending clients an sms and standard e-mail confirming receipt of application
- Reviewing all required Information & documents in new applications
- Updating clients information
- Binding
- Reporting faults
- Ordering stationery
- Receive incoming, outgoing mails and parcels and distribute
- Calling clients and ask for reports and progress
- Make arrangements with couriers for parcels and mails
- Make bookings (flight, car, accommodation)
- Photocopying
- Faxing.
Education
Operational Level (In progress) -
Charted Institute of Management Accountants
01.2024
BTech Cost and Management Accounting -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
01.2020
National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
01.2009
National Higher Certificate in Accountancy -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
01.2008
HIGH SCHOOL -
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
01.2004
Skills
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Outlook
- Pastel
- Great Plains
- SAP
- NetSuite
- Financial Recordkeeping
Contact Numbers
073 712 0446
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 03/08/1986
- Driving License: Code 08
References
- Mr. Mandla Mokoena, 011 554 2657/084 972 0889, Finance Manager, MMokoena@ncr.org.za, National Credit Regulator
- Miss Portia Nonyane, 011 554 2745/078 383 7422, Senior Financial Administrator, Pnonyane@ncr.org.za, National Credit Regulator
- Miss Palesa Disanyane, 083 981 4266, Senior Bookkeeper, Palesa083@gmail.com, Sisonke Fund managers & mentors
- Miss Khanya Kheswa, 012 367 6223/068 690 8598, Senior Manager: SCM, Khanya.Kheswa@weathersa.co.za, South African Weather Service
Timeline
Treasury Bookkeeper
South African Weather Service
01.2023 - Current
Cashbook Clerk
National Credit Regulator
04.2014 - 12.2022
Junior Bookkeeper
Sisonke Fund Managers and Mentors
05.2011 - 03.2014
Receptionist
Sisonke Fund Managers and Mentors
02.2011 - 05.2011
Operational Level (In progress) -
Charted Institute of Management Accountants
BTech Cost and Management Accounting -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
National Higher Certificate in Accountancy -
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
HIGH SCHOOL -
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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