Highly skilled accounting and finance professional with over ten(10) years of international experience across various industries. Demonstrated expertise in accounting software, financial analysis, and business process improvement. Proven track record in successful project management and team leadership. Currently pursuing postgraduate studies and seeking a challenging role in an international organization to drive strategic growth and achieve financial success.
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TAWANDA WELLINGTON MADZIWA
PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT
Midrand
Summary
Overview
22
years of professional experience
Work History
THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC LLC
ACCOUNTANT III
07.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Handling day to day accounting operations to ensure timely monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing
- Responsible for Balance sheet reconciliation and making necessary adjustments and analysis for the Balance sheet Flux
- Working with divisional Management and Financial Controllers to prepare Journal entries, Financial and Audit packs
- Technical accounting research of complex issues to ensure proper accounting treatment and compliance with US GAAP, company policies, and statutory regulations for all Distribution, Freight and Depot activities
- Actively support the Finance and Accounting team during month-ends on complex accounting treatments as defined in the close schedules and check lists to ensure accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and completeness of the financial results
- Constantly review and improve accounting activities & internal controls that are in adherence with SOX, USGAAP and statutory laws within Johannesburg South Africa, ensuring compliance
- Support all internal and external audits
- Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to ensure enough support for changing business dynamics
- Provide advice and guidance to business on all finance related matters, ensuring consistency and compliance with Finance policies and standards
- Ad-Hoc: Perform other duties as assigned
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
BOSWORTH ENGINEERING
MANUFACTURING ACCOUNTANT
02.2023 - 07.2023
Job overview
- Stock and inventory calculations and reconciliations
- Work in progress calculations and reconciliations
- Stock obsolescence calculations and reconciliations
- Bad debt calculations and reconciliation
- Costing calculations and reconciliations
- Overlook debtors and creditor's function
- Profit & Loss reviews
- Managing tax submissions and payments
- Final TB and monthly management accounts
- Budget formulation and analysis
- Quarterly and annual financial reports
- Ensuring all standard journals are processed
- Preparing journals for processing
- Salary and wages processing and management
- Reviewing balance sheet reconciliation and addressing queries
- Reporting on financial performance
- Reviewing the VAT recon before submission
- Performing internal audits
- Analyzing financial data to provide organizations with strategic
- Any other ad hoc costs/expenditure analysis and reporting
- Reviewing and preparing all accounts up to the financial statement level
- Reporting and accounting as per regulatory and legal requirements including taxation, annual reports and accounts for the company
- Assisting with external and internal audits
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
FIDELITY ADT SERVICES
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT
10.2021 - 10.2022
Job overview
- Preparation of annual budgets, monthly forecasts & projections
- Preparation & review monthly management reports & flashes
- Review of actual performance against targets with detailed variance analysis
- Management of the Financial Accountant to Review & analyze the GL of the region, and provide clear commentary to aid in decision making by Senior Management
- Preparation & review of Weekly Activity Reports (WAR)
- Provide financial support to the HoD, to achieve targets, optimize costs, improve EBIT
- Responsible for the investment request process, including investment / project appraisal & management of head office Capex spend
- Review & approval of various Head Office expenditure items (e.g
- Commissions & Incentives)
- Ensuring all internal accounting procedures & policies are sound
- Monitor processes in the business unit to ensure compliance with the company's ethical values
- Ensure an adequate control environment, SOX compliance & other regulatory requirements
- Develop close business partnering with the District Managers and other Senior Internal Customers
- Maintain and develop financial policies & management information systems
- Provide a high-quality support service by liaising with management colleagues on all aspects of finance
- Approving I/S and Balance sheet Recons
- Approval of Online payments and Creditors refunds on all 15 bank Accounts and 6 Companies
- Cash flow forecast reviewing and approvals
- Interbank transfer approvals
- E-filing VAT 201 reconciliation and submission
- PAYE Reporting and Submission
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
DIMENSION DATA NTT
FIXED ASSET ACCOUNTANT
08.2020 - 07.2021
Job overview
- Produced data reports for budgeting and forecasting CAPEX
- Maintained organized and accurate records by accounting for fixed assets invoices correctly
- Maintained accurate records in ledgers and journals to produce financial reports
- Used historical budget information and company's present situation to assess
- Estimated income and expenses to assemble accurate and current budget information
- Produced detailed Mass Additions Reports monthly to be capitalized distribution to various department heads
- Prepare reports for Senior Managements detailing budgets and expenditures
- Analyzing financial information using SAP to identify spending Variances and predict trends
- Liaise with management and other business units under budgetary issues
- Extracting and reviewing procurement invoices advise proper booking of assets via PO's and Invoices to ensure better Asset Categorization
- Updating the Fixed Assets Register with the new asset details and asset classes
- Extracting Mass Additions reports from ERP and publishing to stakeholders to advise on assets to be capitalized
- Resolving any discrepancies between the Fixed Assets Register and the General Ledger by reconciliations
- Identifying assets to be written off and issued to admin to expense them to the income statement
- Recognizing proceeds from the sale of assets, invoicing, capitalization, depreciation and processing any manually process where there are discrepancies
- REPORTING TO: FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
FACHS CONSULTING & TRAINING
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
01.2018 - 06.2020
Job overview
- Receiving remittance advice from customers and allocating correctly
- Processing all discounts and rebates for release before month and close
- Clearing all allocated cash in the General Ledger
- Prepare stock tolerance journals and matching journals on SAP
- Preparing GL accounts for authorization
- Running statements FOR month-end-close reports on SAP
- Ensuring credit limits are adhered
- Consulting with customers to inform them of balances
- Processing stops supply instructions where non-payment has occurred
- Advising customers of blocked accounts
- Investigating pricing claims and reviewing deals on SAP
- Obtaining authorization for valid deals
- Scheduling claims on SAP where no valid deal exists
- Managing stock claims including returns, damages, and shortages
- Assessing if I have passed credit on queries
- Ensuring they tracked stock claims on SAP, and I completed queries
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
DIGICEL PACIFIC GROUP
FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST
08.2015 - 12.2017
Job overview
- Gather and interpret requirements from key stakeholders/customers in line with business analysis and existing product team frameworks
- Analyze product and business' requirements and validate and translate these into clear and effective requirement specifications, for each impacted development area
- Ensure that I document requirements and business process specifications and presented in line with both current best practices, and existing product team specification frameworks
- In collaboration with project and testing teams, oversee the quality delivery of requirements and business process specifications that meet the agreed deliverables in line with best practices and business process
- Ensure that requirements and business process specifications are reviewed, validated, tested, and approved by relevant stakeholders at each stage in the development cycle, from conceptual to product
- Participate in the conceptual solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that are innovative, duplicable, and sustainable and solve complex business problems
- Collaborate closely with all stakeholders and solutions teams, in an ongoing process from end to end, to ensure delivery requirements and expectations remain current and adaptive to the changing environment
- Participate in User Acceptance testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business requirements
- Manage change requests and queries, collaborating with all stakeholders, and facilitate prioritization of changes to specifications and processes, and ensure that queries, changes are tracked and accurately resolved
- Use scenario testing and test cases to ensure that testing covers all aspects of the business specification and expected processes
- Keep abreast of relevant legislative, IT and business trends and practices to optimize service offering and minimize risk
- Recommend improving client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility
- Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback, and provides exceptional client service
- Drive client service delivery goal achievement in line with predefined standards to ensure that clients receive advice and after sales service
- Contribute to creating a positive work climate and culture to energize employees, give meaning to work, minimize work disruption and maximize employee productivity
- Be and encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the team
- Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency
- Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due respect
- REPORTING TO: CEO & HEAD OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
VODAFONE LTD
SENIOR ANALYST
04.2012 - 07.2015
Job overview
- Managed all transactional accounting including Accounts Payables, Billing, A/R, Fixed assets & Contract sales on ERP Oracle NetSuite
- Reconciled Tax reports for Contract Credit Sales
- Recommend to management any updates to accounting policies related to Intercompany
- Responsible for ensuring all transactions in the GL are accurate and complete and uploaded in HFM monthly
- Resolved Intercompany accounting discrepancies and irregularities
- Responsible for preparing balance sheet reconciliations
- Analysis of income statement accounts, trial balance downloads, explanation on monthly movements
- Compiled and analyzed financial information to prepare financial statements including monthly and annual accounts
- Ensure they maintained financial records in compliance with accepted policies and procedures
- Chart of Accountants and drive correct classification of GL accounts across the business
- Prepared management reports in line with the policies and procedures
- Continuously managed and supported budgets and forecast activities
- Monitored and supported taxation requirements for South African Revenue Authority
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
VODACOM (PTY) LTD
ACCOUNTANT/ANALYST
04.2008 - 07.2012
Job overview
- Preparing the monthly profit and loss, and balance sheet reports
- Tax reporting and inventory processing
- Collecting and analyzing data, which is then used in the preparation of weekly and monthly estimates
- Advising on estimates for project funding
- Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reports
- Preparing weekly cash flow statements and controlling expenditure and cash flow
- Assisting with preparing year-end accounts and statutory accounts
- Responding to financial inquiries by gathering and interpreting data
- Conducting internal audits such as wage reviews
- Managing and training staff when necessary
- Compiles and analyzes account data to create capital, liability, and asset account entries
- Enters account details to document financial transactions
- Analyzes accounting alternatives to suggest financial actions
- REPORTING TO: FINANCE MANAGER
ALLTECH AUTOPAGE CELLULAR
CORPORATE CREDIT CONTROLLER
01.2003 - 10.2008
Job overview
- Ensures the day-to-day processing of incoming payments to ensure that the company's finances are maintained in an effective manner
- Manage the receipt and verification of invoices and verify that transactions comply with financial policies and procedures
- Ensure that it followed established procedures for processing cash receipts
- Ensure that it allocated all payments to the correct accounts
- Daily reconciliation of bank deposits and cash receipt system entries for the bank accounts
- Timely researching and following through of unreconciled items
- Maintain a good and open collaboration with the Collections team to ensure we solved the customer disputes in due time
- Prepare and send monthly account statements to the customers with open balances and outstanding receivables
- Ensure that they collected all receivables as per the contractual term, on time and in a professional manner, by following the collections strategy
- Perform regular age analysis on client accounts, decide on the collections approach considering the customer specifics, monitor account details for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities
- Follow up for Collections against Overdue invoices and start collection efforts: start escalations when needed
- REPORTING TO: NATIONAL CREDIT MANAGER
Education
Metropolitan School of Business And Management London UK
Master of Science from Accounting And Finance
01-2025
University Overview
Vodafone PLC South Africa
Certificate from SAP Financials
12-2016
University Overview
PwC/Vodafone PLCSouth Africa
Certificate from Lean Six Sigma - Project Management
12-2015
University Overview
Institute of Credit Management Zimbabwe
Diploma from Credit Management
12-2000
University Overview
Skills
- Microsoft Excel proficiency
- General ledger accounting
- ERP systems
- Financial Forecasting
- Budget Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Data Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Data Visualization
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
Affiliations
Affiliations
- CIMA
Timeline
ACCOUNTANT III
THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC LLC
07.2023 - Current
MANUFACTURING ACCOUNTANT
BOSWORTH ENGINEERING
02.2023 - 07.2023
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT
FIDELITY ADT SERVICES
10.2021 - 10.2022
FIXED ASSET ACCOUNTANT
DIMENSION DATA NTT
08.2020 - 07.2021
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
FACHS CONSULTING & TRAINING
01.2018 - 06.2020
FINANCIAL BUSINESS ANALYST
DIGICEL PACIFIC GROUP
08.2015 - 12.2017
SENIOR ANALYST
VODAFONE LTD
04.2012 - 07.2015
ACCOUNTANT/ANALYST
VODACOM (PTY) LTD
04.2008 - 07.2012
CORPORATE CREDIT CONTROLLER
ALLTECH AUTOPAGE CELLULAR
01.2003 - 10.2008
Metropolitan School of Business And Management
Master of Science from Accounting And Finance
Vodafone PLC
Certificate from SAP Financials
PwC/Vodafone PLC
Certificate from Lean Six Sigma - Project Management
Institute of Credit Management
Diploma from Credit Management
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