Thandeka Traicy Mokoena-Mzimba
Senior Accountant/ Finance Manager
Nelspruit
Summary
To work in an environment which encourages success and growth professionally where all skills attained can be utilized appropriately. A focused Accountant committed to producing accurate, reliable management accounts. Improved reporting frameworks for enhanced analysis and forecasting. Skilled in line management and staff training for productive, high-performing finance teams. Knowledgeable Accountant proficient in laws and procedures governing business operations, tax filings and regulatory compliance.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Group Accountant/Financial Manager
Khayalami Hotel Group
06.2023 - Current
- Managing day to day operations of the finance department
- Oversee the operations and development of the finance department, including creating and reviewing policies
- Preparation of the groups financial budgets
- Tracked expenses, ensuring spending remained within approved budgets
- Prepare management accounts for stakeholders
- Identify opportunities for cost-cutting and bring them to the attention of executives
- Ensuring compliance with local tax laws
- Creating and implementing the groups SOP's
- Training hotel managers regarding all finance policies
- Recruiting for the finance department,
- Training all finance team members on policies, systems and procedures
- Reporting on financial status of individual hotels
- Drafting and presenting consolidated reports for the Khayalami Hotel Group
- Assessing the effectiveness of any finance procedures put in place
- Managing all major travel agent accounts, liaising with them and ensuring payments received are allocated
- Overseeing debtors function, ensuring invoicing is accurate
- Conducting audits between hotel management system (Hotsoft) and finance system to ensure completeness
- Overseeing creditors function, ensuring all bills have been accounted for
- Overseeing payment of all creditors through review of weekly payment schedule
Finance Manager/ Senior Accountant
Mpuluzana Trading
8 2020 - 05.2023
- Preparation and analysis of financial data
- Preparing monthly management reports
- Drafting of Financial Statements for completion by external accountants
- Submission of VAT Returns
- Submission of all company tax returns
- Updating of all information on the accounting system
- Management of all tax related issues
- Management and ensuring that the company complies with the tax laws
- Management of all intercompany loans and transactions
- Management and reconciliation of creditors accounts
- Management and reconciliation of debtors' accounts
- Xero and ApprovalMax being used for financial reporting and capturing.
Finance Manager/Accountant
Malongwe Quarry
08.2018 - 07.2020
- Preparation and analysis of financial data
- Preparing monthly management reports
- Drafting of Financial Statements for completion by external accountants
- Submission of VAT Returns
- Submission of all company tax returns
- Management of all tax related issue
- Set and manage budgets
- Management of quarry personnel and ensuring all duties are executed
- Management and reconciliation of stock on hand
- Processing of payments
- Management of HR function
- Completion and submission of all employee related returns
- Sales
- Preparation of all sales reports
- Identification of new client base and sourcing leads
- Reaching sales targets as set out by management
- Management of sales function
- Ensuring timely delivery to all customers
- Managing and remedying all customer grievances
- Sending out monthly statements to all customers
- Performance Management
- Management of HR function
- Management of all employee contracts
- Review of employee job descriptions
- Finalization of all offers
- Review of all employee performance
- Xero and ApprovalMax being used for financial reporting and capturing.
Finance Officer
Zap Travel and Tours
04.2017 - 07.2018
- Preparation of daily sales reports
- Performing weekly and monthly creditors accounts reconciliations
- Attending to all creditor queries and preparing monthly age analysis of all creditors
- Send creditor remittances and payment proofs on payment dates
- Negotiating payment terms, new accounts, and commissions
- Updating Quicktrav General Ledger on a weekly basis
- Ensuring that Quicktrav bank reconciles
- Invoice clients timeously and accurately.
Intern
Department, Education
08.2016 - 03.2017
- Compile monthly, Quarterly and Annual financial statements
- Coordinate, collect and collate all information needed to prepare a complete set of Financial Statements
- Facilitate internal review mechanisms such as AFS committees' meetings, compiling verification procedures for supporting schedules
- Review all applicable legislations and Reporting Frameworks for full compliance when preparing Financials
- Prepare and Update Remedial Action Plans at all levels
- Serve as secretariat of the Audit Steering Committees (Internal and External)
- Consolidate external and internal audit queries and responses
- Analyze financial reports and advise on the financial weakness of the department
- Develop and monitor financial reporting guidelines and systems
- Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommend controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity
- Monitoring progress on implementation of Auditor General and Internal audit
- Recommendations, Monitoring implementation of the stakeholder key controls
- Coordinate the External Audit process.
Trainee Accountant
Stabilis Accountants
06.2015 - 06.2016
- Record transactions on pastel from customer and supplier invoicing to bank processing
- Perform bank reconciliations on Pastel
- Perform VAT recons monthly to submit to SARS
- Submission of Vat returns on e-filing
- Filling in and submission Income tax returns for clients
- Bookkeeping to trial balance
- Draft management reports on Draftworx
- Doing monthly salaries and wages recon and compiling reports
- Completing audit and compilation files
- Preparing complete written working papers and reports, presenting these reports to clients and staff
- Identify weakness in the client internal control systems, possible consequences of these weaknesses and to make practical recommendations for improvement by the client
- Determine that the audit opinion is supported by the audit evidence gathered during the audit
- Report on audit work performed to senior audit personnel
- Pastel used for reporting and capturing.
Education
B Com Accounting - Accounting
UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
Johannesburg South Africa 01.2011 - 12.2014
Senior Certificate -
SITINTILE HIGH SCHOOL
Nelspruit South Africa 01.2009 - 12.2009
Skills
- Communication skills
- Computer literacy
- Time management
- Detail oriented
- Attention to details
- Ability to work under pressure
References
- Thulile Mkhatshwa, Senior Finance Officer, Zap travel, 079 285 9835
- Nomvuyo Thela, HR Manager, Malongwe Quarry, 071 312 0271
- Hlobisile Simelane, Manager, Mpuluzana Trading, 071 432 5655
Timeline
Group Accountant/Financial Manager
Khayalami Hotel Group
06.2023 - Current
Finance Manager/Accountant
Malongwe Quarry
08.2018 - 07.2020
Finance Officer
Zap Travel and Tours
04.2017 - 07.2018
Intern
Department, Education
08.2016 - 03.2017
Trainee Accountant
Stabilis Accountants
06.2015 - 06.2016
B Com Accounting - Accounting
UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
01.2011 - 12.2014
Senior Certificate -
SITINTILE HIGH SCHOOL
01.2009 - 12.2009
Finance Manager/ Senior Accountant
Mpuluzana Trading
8 2020 - 05.2023
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