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WANDILE ZAMEKO
Senior Financial Accountant
Cape Town
Summary
Experienced senior financial accountant with a decade of expertise in group reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and audit preparation. Strong proficiency in public sector auditing and private sector finance, consistently partnering with management to achieve financial accuracy. Skilled in meeting stringent deadlines while ensuring compliance with IFRS and statutory regulations.
Overview
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14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Accountant – Reporting
NUtec Digital Ink (Pty) Ltd
Cape Town, Western Cape
05.2015 - 06.2026
- Prepare and process monthly journal entries to ensure the accurate and complete recording of financial transactions in accordance with IFRS and company policies.
- Prepare intercompany loan schedules, calculate and process interest transactions, and reconcile intercompany balances across group entities.
- Reviewed monthly trial balances for multiple legal entities, ensuring integrity and accuracy of financial records.
- Perform detailed balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are fully supported, accurately reconciled, and resolved within reporting deadlines.
- Convert foreign currency trial balances into local currency and perform foreign exchange translation for consolidated group reporting.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly consolidated management accounts, including the Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position, and Cash Flow Statement.
- Prepare annual financial statements and supporting movement schedules in compliance with IFRS and statutory reporting requirements.
- Coordinate external audit engagements by preparing audit schedules, providing supporting documentation, and responding to audit queries to facilitate timely audit completion.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, financial forecasts, and long-term planning models.
- Partner with operational and business stakeholders to provide financial insights and support strategic decision-making.
- Analyse budget-to-actual performance, investigate material variances, and provide detailed commentary and recommendations to management.
- Maintain and reconcile the fixed asset register, ensuring the accurate recording of acquisitions, disposals, depreciation, and asset transfers.
- Produced ad hoc financial reports and business performance analyses, providing management with critical insights for decision-making.
- Prepare and monitor weekly cash flow forecasts, ensuring effective liquidity management and working capital optimisation.
- Oversee the ERP month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring the timely completion of all financial reporting activities.
- Supervise the cashbook and accounts receivable functions, ensuring strong financial controls, accurate cash management, and timely collections.
- Implemented finance process improvements, enhancing reporting accuracy and strengthening internal controls.
- Support finance automation initiatives and the continuous optimisation of financial systems and reporting processes.
- Manage the corporate credit card programme, ensuring compliance with company policies, timely reconciliations, and accurate expense reporting.
- Review and authorise electronic fund transfer (EFT) payments, ensuring compliance with delegated authority and internal control procedures.
Trainee Auditor (SAICA Articles)
Auditor-General of South Africa
Cape Town, Western Cape
03.2012 - 02.2015
- Prepare the engagement letter to ensure the terms of engagement are communicated and agreed to by the Senior Auditor Manager and the client.
- Obtain background information about the client from management and the search engine to obtain an understanding of the business.
- Perform risk assessment procedure to determine the number and type of procedures to perform.
- Calculated performance materiality based on audit standards and client risk factors.
- Document the system description of material account balances and transactions.
- Perform analytical procedures and inquiry from management for any material variances and assess for reasonableness.
- Document identified risks in risk register and outline procedures to address them.
- Compile engagement strategy and assemble engagement team to ensure audit objectives are met.
- Obtain sufficient appropriate evidence for material balances in AFS to support compliance and accuracy.
- Obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence on supply chain management to ensure compliance with supply chain management policy and applicable laws and regulations.
- Raise communication of finding where discrepancies have been identified.
- Assigned tasks to team members and monitored their progress.
- Evaluated team members' work for accuracy and compliance with standards.
- Attend meeting to give progress of the audit to the client.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Advanced Accounting
UNISA
Cape Town, South Africa01-2013
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) -
University of Fort Hare
East London, South Africa01-2010
Matric -
Village Senior Secondary School
Bizana, South Africa01-2004
Skills
Financial analysis
General ledger management
Budget development
Financial statements
Cash flow management
Account reconciliation
Fixed asset management
Tax compliance management
Attention to detail
Problem-solving skills
Team collaboration
Effective communication
Affiliations
SAICA Member
Software
Draftworx
Timeline
Finance Accountant – Reporting
NUtec Digital Ink (Pty) Ltd
05.2015 - 06.2026
Trainee Auditor (SAICA Articles)
Auditor-General of South Africa
03.2012 - 02.2015
Postgraduate Diploma - Advanced Accounting
UNISA
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) -
University of Fort Hare
Matric -
Village Senior Secondary School