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Sarah Khoza

Basic Accounting Clerk
Rustenburg,NW

Summary

Dynamic finance professional with a friendly demeanor and strong teamwork skills, experienced at the Department of Correctional Services. Proven track record in management of losses and debts, ensuring compliance, while enhancing customer service. Proficient in Basic Accounting Systems, demonstrating a commitment to accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting and reconciliation.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Basic Accounting Cler

Department of Correctional Services
04.2020 - Current
  • Management of losses and debts
  • Expenditure Management
  • LOGIS compliance and administration
  • Handling of monthly returns

Finance Intern

Correctional Services
10.2018 - 04.2020

DUTIES PERFORMED AS AN INTERN

ACTIVITIES

Cash Payments and Receipts:

  • Receiving and sorting source documents for payments made
  • Receiving and recording money
  • Issuing receipts
  • Compiling payments for the invoices received in order to pay outstanding invoices/creditors within 30 days.
  • Requesting document control on monthly basis for filling of payments, journals, receipts, disbursements, debts and other relevant documents.
  • Keeping record of petty cash and weekly balancing of petty cash register.

Bank Reconciliation

  • Verification of payments made on a bank statement to actual payments made
  • Verification of receipts on a bank statement as reflected in records.
  • Verification of all outstanding payments when doing a bank reconciliation
  • Clearing any remaining amounts from the previous month’s reconciliation and carrying forward any unresolved amounts. Total cashbook receipts and payments, and posting to the bank.
  • Preparing a payments proposal with supporting documentation.
  • Preparing a receipt record with supporting documentation
  • Printing age Analysis for supervisor.

Reconciling Supplier Statements/ Billing

  • Capturing/processing receipts, journals, payments & debts.
  • Ensure the correct management of ledgers
  • Implementation of measures to rectify identified errors in financial administration
  • Ensuring that supporting documents are attached
  • Managing petty cash

Handing of losses:

  • Reporting on the status of losses recorded and investigated
  • Reporting of loss to regional office when occurred within 24 hours.
  • Making follow ups on outstanding investigations.
  • Compiling and capturing disallowance journals on Basic Accounting System.

The management of transport and telephone

  • The evaluation of losses incurred with government vehicles
  • The controlling of transaction history reports
  • Ensuring the clearance of fleet services Expenditure to different objectives

Documents Control and Safe

  • Investigation of irregularities in financial management in the Management area
  • Reporting on irregularities to the SSA Financial Accounting
  • Submission of recommendations on the countering of maladministration
  • Manage document control on a monthly basis.
  • Checking and monitoring of handing over certificate when the custody of a safe/strong room is taken over permanently.

Budget

  • Set up parameters for a budget system in the computerized accounting system compare budget with actual figures
  • Draw up capital budget with actual and budgeted figures.
  • Transfer budget figures from accounting package to a spread sheet
  • Execute a year percentage increase of the budget using the computerized accounting system
  • Draw up a master budget

Handling of Monthly Returns

  • Accruals and payables
  • Certification of payments
  • Clearing of Fleet Services & Telephone
  • Debtors schedule
  • Financial minutes
  • Financial training
  • Salary tax debts and deduction disallowance's
  • Workflow group
  • Payment 30 days
  • Earmarked/finalized losses
  • Suspense balance
  • Section 32
  • Ledger reporting Balance
  • Debt Management
  • Cost Containment
  • Petty Cash Reconciliation
  • Finance Meeting
  • Creditors Reconciliation
  • In Year Monitoring

Bank reconciliation:

  • Reconcile supplier statements: process receipts and payments, check invoice received against order and prepare bank reconciliation statement.
  • Prepare financial statements

Budgeting and standard costing:

  • Calculate standard cost by utilizing the cost of direct labour.
  • Develop and monitor allocated budget.
  • Controlling inventory and overheads cost

Financial Accounting:

(BAS): Basic Accounting systems:

  • Request document control on Basic Accounting System (BAS) on a monthly basis.
  • Use spread sheet and accounting software to maintain and update records and use data base and other computer manage office records
  • Request matching reports on Basic Accounting system
  • Reconciled statement on monthly basis and up loaded them on (BAS)
  • Accounting transactions
  • Requesting proof of payments on Basic Accounting System
  • Requesting Bank reconciliation on monthly basis
  • Requesting Detailed reports on daily basis.
  • Requesting Maintenance of code file on monthly
  • Authorization payment under the supervision of the Senior State Account
  • Requesting Entity Maintenance on Basic Accounting System.
  • Requesting Expenditure Reports on daily basis.

Education

N6 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (Awaiting Diploma) - Financial Management

ORBIT TVET COLLEGE
RUSTENBURG , SOUTH AFRICA
04.2001 -

Skills

Friendly, positive attitude

Teamwork and collaboration

Computer skills

Customer service

Timeline

Basic Accounting Cler

Department of Correctional Services
04.2020 - Current

Finance Intern

Correctional Services
10.2018 - 04.2020

N6 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (Awaiting Diploma) - Financial Management

ORBIT TVET COLLEGE
04.2001 -

REFEREES

REFERENCE

NKEANE L.T

State Accountant: Financial & Management Accounting

066 306 2544/014 592 5180

Department of Correctional Services

PENYENYE S.R

Area Coordinator: Finance & SCM

064 753 0330/078 421 9329

Department of Correctional Services

Sarah KhozaBasic Accounting Clerk