Wanda Golden Hlase
Professional Accountant (SA)
Soshanguve,PRETORIQ
Summary
Finance Manager experienced in all levels of accounting, including financial management, financial reporting, payroll, accounts payable and accounts receivable. Hardworking and able to prepare financial statements and utilize knowledge of cost accounting principles and compliance requirements for purposes of reporting in compliance with IFRS. Excellent understanding of the latest accounting and financial concepts and possesses the ability to deal with ambiguity and changing business requirements. Diplomatically assertive, approachable, skilled in leading and motivating staff teams Effective in interacting with diverse groups and individuals while being recognized for consistently maintaining a positive and professional attitude. Looking for an exciting managerial opportunity with a rapidly expanding and dynamic company.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Finance Officer
International Water Management Institute (SA)
Pretoria, Gauteng
01.2022 - Current
- Responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial management and reporting for the IWMI South Africa office.
- Providing strategic guidance to IWMI SA management and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal financial regulations.
- Lead the IWMI SA finance team in implementing financial processes and procedures and develop sound workflow actions for effective business continuity, including reviewing of the financial procedures manual for the IWMI SA office as needed to comply with updated accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee financial budgeting processes, working closely with IWMI SA management and HQ to develop annual operating budgets for the office.
- Monitor financial performance for office and projects against budget and forecast, analyze variances and identifying areas for improvement or cost-saving opportunities.
- Support IWMI SA research staff with providing project expenditure and budget reports as required.
- Prepare and present financial reports to management and HQ, providing insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
- Prepare and compile monthly partnership and donor reports as required according to audit and financial requirements.
- Manage cash flow, working capital and financial risk, ensuring adequate liquidity to support ongoing operations by submitting cash flow projections to HQ for disbursement on a monthly basis.
- Oversee accounting operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger and financial reporting, to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and internal financial processes.
- Ensure implementation of all approved updated financial procedures based on audit findings.
- Oversee and review monthly tracking reports for IWMI SA vehicle fleet and report any discrepancies to Office Manager and Country Representative.
- Review and check payment vouchers for online and international fund transfers (USD & ZAR), ensuring compliance to internal financial procedures and ensuring supporting documentation and approvals are correct and submitting to authorized signatories for processing.
- Coordinate with project leads, PMO and HQ Finance on project budget issues to ensure correct accounting practices are applied.
- Respond to all project and operational queries received from HQ in a timely and efficient manner.
- Coordinate external audits and tax filings, liaising with auditors, tax advisors and regulatory authorities as necessary.
- Stay abreast of regulatory changes and industry trends affecting financial operations, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to finance team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and professional development.
- Review prepared monthly bank reconciliations for all IWMI SA and GWP SA bank accounts for submission to IWMI-HQ.
- Follow up of recoveries of staff receivables and vendor receivables and include the status in the Month end summary reports submitted to HQ.
- Review and verify staff payroll, including computing and remitting statutory tax and other deductions to the SA Revenue Service.
- Prepare yearly reconciliation of payroll deductions and issuing IRP5 certificates to NRS staff.
- Check the monthly VAT claims prepared by the Finance Clerk and oversee the recovering of all outstanding claims in a timely manner.
- Review GWPSA quarterly expenditure reconciliations, including payable/receivable vendor balances.
- Ensure receipt of Quarterly reports from GWPSA and recovering of host fees according to the hosting agreement.
- Liaise with Office Manager and Country Representative on hosting and hosted institution agreements for preparation of monthly expenses and reporting as needed.
- Responsible for support and assistance in HQ and regional office audits: GWPSA, CGIAR, IWMISA, VIP (Payroll) and project and partner audits.
- Provide IWMI SA Regional office support for Zambia and Zimbabwe on operational and financial requirements as needed.
- Comply with company’s Financial and other policies and establish reliable internal control procedures.
- Issue staff and program related reimbursements in a timely manner and in accordance with applicable internal guidelines.
- Undertake field visits to validate systems and procedures followed, comment on data integrity and train partner/community on applicable accounting and reporting skills.
- Lead and/or participate in projects that have departmental, cross-departmental, regional or global impact, such as projects on Cost Analysis, etc.
- Ensure all relevant Government Acts, Rules, and Regulations like provision of taxation, Value Added Tax etc, as applicable are followed.
- Identify and monitor risks relating to legal and statutory compliances.
Finance Officer / Acting Office Manager
International Water Management Institute (SA)
Pretoria, Gauteng
01.2010 - Current
- Directed finance team of three encompassing controllership, Business operations Decision Support, Financial Planning and analysis.
- Giving support to regional partner in SADC region (CCARDESA –Botswana, SADC Rap-Botswana and Re-Napri- Zambia).
- Manage and give support to Hosted institute Global Water Partnership -SA.
- Giving support to CEO, and CFO at HQ.
- Ensure that the financial administration of the IWMI-SA RO is properly executed, and that all the financial operations in the office comply with existing financial regulations.
- Follow up of recoveries of staff receivables and vendor receivables and include the status in the Month end summary reports submitted to the HQ.
- Make regular follow up with staff vendors to ensure that settlements are done monthly.
- Issue travel advances and administer vendor accounts and ensure to clear these accounts by collecting the liquidation of expenses and balance money.
- Ensure no second advance is given unless the first advance is fully settled.
- Follow up with staff on travel advances given for trips.
- Also ensures that there are no second advances given if the first advance is not settled.
- Review statement of expenses submitted by staff/vendors after checking the accuracy by the finance clerk.
- Check the monthly VAT claims prepared by Finance Clerk and ensure to recover all the outstanding claims in a timely manner and include a reconciliation on a monthly basis when reporting to the HQ.
- Assist the finance clerk with follow ups of recoveries from SARS.
- Coordinate with HQ and clear any budget issues on a daily basis and charge to the correct code rather than parking the expenditure in vendor accounts.
- Assist Researchers with providing project expenditure and preparing project budget reports.
- Reconcile tax deductions and yearly issuing IRP5 certificates to NRS.
- Reconcile quarterly the GWP expenditure and the payable/receivable balances of vendors with the quarterly reports in the following month.
- Put more effort to ensure that reconciliation with GWP are finalized quarterly and send to HQ.
- Responsible for monitoring and payments of vehicle and other insurances.
- Ensure recovering of Host fees on quarterly basis within the subsequent month.
- Provide support to Country Rep with annual regional budgeting and forecasting processes and submit to HQ on time.
- Provide support to the Country Rep on monthly cost monitoring of the regional budget to ensure that the budget breaks even.
- Prepare RO annual financial statements.
- Provide financial analysis for the vehicle replacement and building reallocation reviews.
- Constantly explore ways to transition financial processes to efficient online systems e.g. electronic month-end report form and sign-off procedure, work to transition IWMI-SA team to online travel request submissions on TSIP, keep record of travel requests to ensure accurate processing of staff expense claims.
- Support CR on managing the budget and finances of large projects such as AICCRA and Ukama Ustawi.
- Keep abreast of latest One CGIAR developments in finance and communicate this timeously to the CR and IWMI-SA team.
- Play a proactive role in the direct management of finance clerks in the IWMI-SA office.
- Oversee/supervise financial staff in all three IWMI Southern Africa offices (South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia).
- Coordinate with financial managers/officers in the IWMI hosted CG centres in Zambia (IITA) and Zimbabwe (CIMMYT) to ensure accurate financial reporting.
Corporate Bookkeeper/Accountant
Prestige Cleaning (Pty) Ltd (Head office) (Bidvest Group)
RANDBURG
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Managing a team of ten regional bookkeepers and giving support to nine joint venture in all the provinces of South Africa.
- Preparing board packs for the board members.
- Preparing financial analysis and on monthly basis to divisional managers.
- Developing strategies for the divisional managers to save cost and improve productivity in the divisions.
- Evaluating new business venture, prepare operational strategy.
- Preparing group packs to Bidvest and board of directors.
- Performing monthly bank reconciliation, debit order verification Journal for interest.
- Monthly allocation of petrol card cost allocation, telephone bill allocation per division, stock journal.
- Balance sheet schedules and P&L notes and entries reallocation.
- Maintain monthly fixed assets.
- Setting monthly activity plans and deadlines for regions.
- Balancing Inter divisions Current account, Payment of admin fee and rental to Bidvest.
- Cash management daily deposit reallocations.
- Group balancing of fixed assets, Monthly Group VAT payment to SARS effiling.
- Group Balance sheet file, Group P&L file to BIDVEST.
- Monthly consolidations reports, P&L prints for Prestige Group and Joint ventures.
- Equity loan Prestige Group, retain income payment and goodwill payment.
- Reconcile GL Bidserv, Prestige Group and Joint ventures.
- Group Banking and reconciliation.
Trainee Accountant (4 Year: SAIPA - Articles)
ACT Solutions WPR Incor
Pretoria, Gauteng
01.2003 - 01.2007
- Prepared basic bookkeeping and financial statements for various types of clients.
- Assisted commercial and individual clients on tax matters and financial planning.
- Helped commercial client with securing funding from banks to expand their business and also to implement internal controls to their organization.
- Performed auditing for clients in their premises.
- Maintaining fixed assets register.
- Performing monthly bank reconciliation, Payroll and payroll reconciliation.
- Drafting Annual Financial Statements for entities that apply IFRS for Small and Medium sized entities.
- Monthly VAT and Vat reconciliation.
- Calculation of companies taxation.
- Completing IT14 and SARS E-filling.
- Individual taxation.
- Performing audit procedures required in terms of ISA.
- Planning and concluding audits.
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Regent Business School
Durban 01.2013 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of South Africa
PRETORIA 01.2025 - Current
National Diploma Accounting - Accounting
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg 01.2000 - 01.2003
Grade 12 -
HOLY HIGH SCHOOL
Pretoria 01.1994 - 01.1998
Skills
Budget
Analyses financial data
Project Management
WORD
EXCEL
CASEWARE (CQS)
TAXWARE
PASTEL (VERSIONS 35; 4; 52; 6; 7; 9, 11, 14 and Express)
LOTUS 123
PASTEL PAYROLL
DRAFTWORX
SAP
Telephone Number
- 072 105 8232
- 071 469 9573
Personal Information
- Nationality: South African
- Marital Status: Single
- Religion: Christian
Computer Experience
- Word
- Excel
- CaseWare (CQS)
- TaxWare
- Pastel (various versions)
- Lotus 123
- Pastel Payroll
- Draftworx
- SAP
Timeline
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of South Africa
01.2025 - Current
Senior Finance Officer
International Water Management Institute (SA)
01.2022 - Current
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Regent Business School
01.2013 - 01.2015
Finance Officer / Acting Office Manager
International Water Management Institute (SA)
01.2010 - Current
Corporate Bookkeeper/Accountant
Prestige Cleaning (Pty) Ltd (Head office) (Bidvest Group)
01.2007 - 01.2010
Trainee Accountant (4 Year: SAIPA - Articles)
ACT Solutions WPR Incor
01.2003 - 01.2007
National Diploma Accounting - Accounting
University of Johannesburg
01.2000 - 01.2003
Grade 12 -
HOLY HIGH SCHOOL
01.1994 - 01.1998