Theodelsea Goliath

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Enthusiastic Accountant eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Clear understanding of Financial Management. Motivated to learn, grow and excel.

To seek and maintain a position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

• Collaborated with team of 10 in the development of Internal Templates to assist with better Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects.
• Showed initiative and dedication and was approached to Head the Finance Department.
• Successful outcomes to Funding requests by assisting with the formulation and development of Budgets for input to call for Proposals.

• At Iranti NPC, I was hired to head the Finance Unit, which comprised of 2 individuals, myself and the bookkeeper. The Annual Budget at the time was R10mil, and I was in a position, due to my experience obtained from SAIIA to setup Management Reports, Donor templates and Finance Templates. As the Finance Manager, I was also mandated by the Executive Director and board to source a Pension Fund, source a change in Auditors and provide a Finance, Procurement and Risk Policy. All tasks was completed by myself in the first half of (2020). Iranti also changed from a NPO to a NPC. I had to ensure the NPO was deregistered, and that the NPC was fully functional and compliant. A property was also acquired in September 2021. and my role was to ensure that all compliant documents was submitted to the relevant parties (Lawyers, Banks). The Registration was finalised in December 2021. During my time at Iranti, the organsation grew from a budget of R10 mil Annually to R18mil. My involvement in the assistance with the Budgets for Proposals submitted and the management therefore, ensured the successful approval of multiyear Discretionary Funding. I was also required to ensure the timeously updating of Donor Funding Portals to access Funding, TechSoup. At The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), My initial role as a Management Accountant. The Finance Department had a compliment of 3 staff members, comprising of the Director of Finance, myself as the Management Accountant and the Bookkeeper. During my first few months, I identified a disconnect between the various Units and the Finance Unit. I then moved to work as a Project Accountant directly with one of the Progrom Units. This was to better understand how Finance could assist the programs with better managing of their budgets.My role entailed the development of the templates for the Annual Budgets These were in turn compiled by all Program Units, including Shared Cost Units. The various units comprised 4 Program Units and 5 Shared Cost Units (Finance /Communications / Publications / Events / Executive Support). The templates created in Excel allowed the programmes the ability to track against budget and to ensure the spending remained within the annual budget, which was developed by Organisational Budget and well as Donor Allocations. An analysis and Variance to Budget done by the Finance unit on a Monthly basis to allowing corrective action to be done timeously. SAIIA had a Annual Budget of R28 million, as well as a mixture of Discretionary and Non-Discretionary funding. The Management Accounts was done monthly and share with management by the 10th working day of the month. Monthly meetings were setup to discuss deviations and corrective action. The reporting templates created gave a view of Actual to Budget, as well as Actual to Donor Recoveries for both Human resources, as well as Operating and Administration costs. A detailed report was also produced reflecting Per Program Unit, per donor, per Activity / output. With my knowledge of Excel, I was able to create templates which allowed the various units the ability to create Purchase Orders which automate the allocation to correct Cost Centres / Donors / Activities. The source was always per Approved Annual Budget. Any variations was highlighted. At Iranti NPC, I was hired to head the Finance Unit, which comprised of 2 individuals, myself and the bookkeeper. The Annual Budget at the time was R10mil, and I was in a position, due to my experience obtained from SAIIA to setup Management Reports, Donor templates and Finance Templates. As the Finance Manager, I was also mandated by the Executive Director and board to source a Pension Fund, source a change in Auditors and provide a Finance, Procurement and Risk Policy. All tasks was completed by myself in the first half of (2020). Iranti also changed from a NPO to a NPC. I had to ensure the NPO was deregistered, and that the NPC was fully functional and compliant. A property was also acquired in September 2021. and my role was to ensure that all compliant documents was submitted to the relevant parties (Lawyers, Banks). The Registration was finalised in December 2021. During my time at Iranti, the organsation grew from a budget of R10 mil Annually to R18mil. My involvement in the assistance with the Budgets for Proposals submitted and the management therefore, ensured the successful approval of multi year Dicretionary Funding. I was also required to ensure the timeously updating of Donor Funding Portals to access Funding, TechSoup.

I love singing in our Church Choir, I also play the Violin in the church Orchestra. I love gardening and find this very relaxing. I am a Sunday School teacher and love teaching.