Trouble Njana

Position: Senior Accountant

Duration: November 2018 to Current

Development and implementation of Annual Performance Plan (APP)

As a Senior Accountant within Assets and Financial Reporting division, I took a lead in the process of developing and implementing APP for my team and, ultimately, the municipality as whole. Prior to developing and implementing APP for the team I would:

· Discuss my divisional APP with HR and upper managers

· Discuss with my team about the development and implementation of APP

· Set goal and objectives based on the vision for improvement

· Define and agree on KPIs

· Agree on ways to monitor, review, and provide feedback

· Have Human Resource (HR) assess the performance plan before its implementation

Development and implementation of Departmental strategy

As a lead accountant within Assets and Financial Reporting, I developed and implemented strategy as the process of turning the designed plan (APP) into action of reaching the desired departmental outcome. I developed and implemented the strategy as I believe that the success of every organisation rest on its capacity to implement decisions and execute key process efficiently, effectively, and consistently. To ensure that the development and implementation of my divisional strategy is a success, I usually:

· Set clear goals and define key variables

· Determine roles, responsibilities and relationships

· Execute the plan, monitor progress and performance

· Take corrective actions (adjust or revise, as necessary)

· Get closure on the project, and agreement on the output

· Conduct a retrospective or review of how the process went

Development and implementation of Annual Operational Plan

To outline the tasks each team member will have to carry out to accomplish the goal laid out in the strategic plan, I usually prepare an annualdivisional/departmental operational plan. To ensure development of accurate operational plan I development the operational plan that will provide answers to the following questions:

· Which personnel and department are responsible?

· What tasks is each team member or department responsible for?

· Where precisely will daily operations occur?

· How much should be budgeted to each department to complete these tasks?

· What are the deadlines for the completion of each task?

Design a complete, accurate and valid financial reporting

My responsibilities in this regards includes:

· Assist with preparation of timely and accurate annual financial statements

· Review of monthly financial reconciliations

· Review of general ledger for accuracy, validity and completeness of transactions.

· Organise trial balance for the preparation of Annual Financial Statements

· Reports on all financial aspect, trends and ratio anaalysis

· Design complete, accurate and valid financial forecasting

· Advise Management regarding :

o Assets quality

o Liability position

o Cash flow sufficiency, revenue/expenses issues.

o Use of Municipal resources.

o Budgets and the results of the projects.

· Lead and support teams in financial management

· Provide a support on external audits

Position: Accountant-Assets and Financial Reporting

Duration: November 2014 to October 2018

Manage budget planning and forecasting process

My responsibilities in this regards include:

· Produce monthly and quarterly management accounts

· Assessing the risk of the material items of income and expenditure

· Ensure that the spending is in line with the budget (budget confirmation)

· Reports on major budget risks to council.

· Provide reports to Management and Committees of Council

· Coordinate budget Committee, bilateral departmental

· Reviewing budgets for compliance with Treasury’s prescribed regulations

· Assess capital investment requirements

· Analyse variences and assist divisions in taking corrective measures

· Presents budgets and forecasts to management and budget holders

· Record keeping ensuring clear audit trail of changes to plans and budgets.

INDIRECT TAXES

Description of duties and responsibilities

· Ensure end-to-end VAT and Employees taxes compliance,

· Preparation and submissions of monthly returns and other related reports

· Reconciliation of indirect tax balance sheet accounts

· Support VAT and Employees taxes process standardization projects

· Registering employees for PAYE, UIF and SDL

· Monthly preparation and submission of VAT201 and EMP201

· Support month-end closing procedure

· Ensure internal and external control processes

· Support internal/external VAT and Employees tax audits

· Meet all reporting deadlines

· Support issue resolution

Auditee: Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SITA (MERSITA)

Responsibilities:

· Perform and supervise the auditing of Annual Financial Statements

· Oversee and review large and more complex engagements

· Plan and coordinate the various phase of the field work

· Schedule, delegates and review the work of audit team

· Guide the decision making process on unusual audit and accounting matters

· Ensure complete and timely engagements wrap-up

· Schedules principal and central reviews and coordinate closing meetings

· Advice during the audit steering committee and managements meetings

Audit Executed

During the term as a trainee accountant, I have carried out the audit of large government departments including:

· South African Revenue Services (SARS)

· South African Police Services (SAPS)

· Sector Education Training Authority (SETA)

· Primary Agriculture Education & Training (PAETA)

· Department of Transport

· SARS Criminal Investigation

Responsibilities:

At planning stage:

· Gaining knowledge of the business activities.

· Participated in compiling the Audit Strategy Document.

· Assessment of fraud risk consideration

· Drawing up detailed system descriptions for the following components

o Provisional payments, Cash and cash equivalent

o Miscellaneous revenue

o Debtors, Deferments, VAT, Credits awaiting approval, Imports refunds

o Compliance section

· Reviewing of first year trainee accountants’ work.

· Drafting audit procedures

· Identifying key controls that were to be tested from the auditee’s systems.

At execution stage:

· Designing and executing procedures

At reporting stage:

· Raising audit findings and communicating them to management.

· Prepare and discuss management letter with the governance

Different sections of SARS audited

· SARS Assessment section

· SARS Enforcement section

· SARS Taxpayer services

· SARS Customs