I am a practicing company’s secretariat service, able to register companies for the clients
I am offering consultant advice in terms of the types of companies to be registered for the clients
Assisting the clients with amendments or changes in their company ownerships, director amendments, change of addresses, financial year end, and also issuing of shareholder certificates, including memorandum of incorporation (MOI), assisting the clients with Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) affidavits, and lastly assist the client with Central Supplier
Compilation of various companies’ annual financial statements (AFS) since 2009, and still practicing accountant
Ensuring that the clients companies have annual financial statements drafted and finalised and signed by the client
Auditing of various companies annual financial statements with my associates
Designing and set up of financial management processes and controls in place for various organisations/businesses
Designing and drafting financial management policies for various organisations/businesses
Submission of various companies statutory submissions or returns relating to the South Africa Revenue Services (SARS)
Calculation of income tax, provisional tax of the companies and submit the returns to sars on a regular basis
Also preparing of other statutory returns such as unemployment insurance fund (UIF), Pay As You Earn (PAYE), as well as value added tax (VAT) submissions
These statutory returns need to be compiled, calculated accurately, and communicated with the relevant clients prior to submissions to sars
Generating of valid tax clearance certificates for the clients after submission of the statutory returns to sars and send the tax clearance certificates to the clients
Processing of the sars information is done via the sars efilling system and the generating of relevant tax registration notices
Compiling and drafting of various clients business development documents such as business plans, business profiles and development of company policies such as human resource (HR) Policies, Financial Management policies and tailor made to the relevant client
I have managed to be part of service providers who provided assistance to other organizations such as SEDA and ECDC in developing their clients business plans, business profiles and other relevant documents
Coaching and mentoring of young people, through an internship development programme we had in the company
Providing mentorship and coaching to the interns and ensuring that they get to be part of the company and learn and get knowledge, experience and good coaching
Assist the interns to complete the training and obtain their diplomas and or degrees
I was part of the UDDI Women Owned Business mentorship and coaching project in the area of Uitehage (now known as Kariega) and Port Elizabeth (now known as Gqeberha) in 2016
I was also a member of the board appointed for the recruitment and selection of the women owned businesses
Assisted in compilation of the businesses accounting services and assisted in compiling their annual financial statements, financial management and also their business plans
Mentoring and coaching co-operatives, small micro enterprises (SMMES), and other business organisation in accounting, taxation and business development
I am currently involved in the skills development space as a Facilitator, Assessor, and Moderator (now known as Subject Matter Expert (SME))
I am working and registered with various services setas, now replaced by (Quality Council for trade Occupations (QCTO)
I am currently offering skills development to clients via the tvet colleges and other private training institutions
I have and still currently working with various organisations/businesses in providing skills development services, for instance tvet colleges, private training institutions and other organisations
ICT Services Manager
Department of the Premier: Centre for E-Innovation
01.2013 - 01.2016
Manage a team of professionals and service providers, directly or indirectly, that are necessary to perform and deliver services in accordance with the approved requirements and prioritised needs relating client services
Ensures quality control
Ensure that the expense structure remains within the budgets allocated to the department for information technology by tracking expenditures
Ensure effective capacity management and planning to meet business demands relating to services, and liaison with client departments
Manage the following client services: Decision Support Systems, Help-Desk and Change Management, Business and Systems Analysis, WEB support and Desktop Applications, IT user training, Advisory Services and MSP’s, Business Continuity Planning and Change management
Provide inputs on to the development and planning of provincial ICT policy and strategy
Develop and manage appropriate departmental service level agreements and contracts
Provide inputs into the budget and fiscal process
Deputy Director: Forensic Information Technology (IT) & Accounting Services
Department of the Premier: Forensic Investigative Unit
01.2010 - 01.2013
General supervision, controlling, organising and management of activities of the IT and Accounting section
Responsible for human resource management (development and planning)
Responsible for compiling of own budget
Responsible for compiling of the Unit’s Zero Based Budget administration
Analysis of financial information
Perform reconciliation of accounting information
Responsible for the Income and Expenditure control of the Unit
Responsible for the planning of In Year Monitoring and Strategic Planning
Responsible for the analysis of confiscated hard drives
Confiscation of all IT related documents and or hard drives
Responsible for the Unit logging of IT Helpdesk calls
Assistant Director: Internal Control & Enterprise Risk Management
Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Developmental Planning
01.2007 - 01.2010
To ensure compliance with financial norms and standards (PFMA, NTR’s, PTI’s, Delegations and relevant prescripts)
To ensure accountable financial administration and the implementation of efficient, effective and economic systems of risk management, internal control
General supervision, controlling, organising and management of activities of the component
Responsible for human resource management (development and planning)
Responsible for compiling of own budget and expenditure control of own budget
Giving inputs to Directorate’s business plan (especially with regard to internal control)
Assist in develop policies with regard to internal control systems/measures in respect of both financial and general risk management
Render guidance to component heads and/or officials regarding the correct interpretation of financial prescripts and provide assistance with in order to rectify matters, where applicable
Maintenance of the Departmental Risk Management Policy
Must ensure that communication strategy is developed to inform managers of their responsibility towards measures of internal control
Give training to line managers (information sessions, etc.)
Assist in develop self-assessment programmes for managers to monitor internal control and risk management
Report regularly on state of internal control for the Department to the Provincial Treasury
Senior State Accountant
Western Cape Department of Local Government
01.2005 - 01.2007
To ensure compliance with financial norms and standards (PFMA, NTR’s, PTI’s, Delegations and relevant prescripts)
To ensure accountable financial administration and the implementation of efficient, effective and economic systems of risk management, internal control
Manage and facilitate the Risk Assessment Process (Risk Analysis and Risk Evaluation)
Setting and establishing risk policy and structures
Building a risk aware culture and provide training where necessary
Facilitate risk identification workshops
State Accountant
Western Cape Department of Education
01.2003 - 01.2005
To ensure compliance with financial norms and standards (PFMA, NTR’s, PTI’s, Delegations and relevant prescripts)
To ensure accountable financial administration and the implementation of efficient, effective and economic systems of risk management, internal control
Co-ordinate, plan, if necessary, executes inspections for the Department
Report on findings of such inspections; less serious findings to the relevant section head Co-ordinate the execution of all possible irregular expenditure cases
Evaluate and monitor the progress and recommendations of all inspections
Provide man-to-man training where necessary and development of internal control systems and procedures
To regularly follow up in order to ensure that deviations as indicated during previous inspections have in fact been rectified and that the prescripts are adhered to
Manage and facilitate the Risk Assessment Process (Risk Analysis and Risk Evaluation)
Setting and establishing risk policy and structures and building a risk aware culture and provide training where necessary
Facilitate risk identification workshops and report and communicate risks to stakeholders
Facilitate and manage the risk treatment process and monitor and review of the Risk Management process