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Yolanda Putter

Yolanda Putter

Financial Accountant
Sunningdale

Summary

Finance professional with a solid background in financial management and accounting. Strong analytical skills, knowledge of financial reporting, and ability to manage ledgers and reconcile accounts. Known for fostering team collaboration and adapting to changing needs. Reliable and goal-focused, ensuring accuracy and timely results.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Assistant Financial Accountant

Collinson Group SA
04.2024 - Current
  • Prepare and post approved journal entries, based on journal policies to record various financial transactions in accordance with the established operating procedures and ensure that recurring entries are changed or terminated at appropriate trigger points.
  • Ensure that reversing entries occur and supporting information is recorded for all journal entries.
  • Prepare and distribute financial reports as required by the business
  • Provide audit support specific to general accounting
  • Process accounting transactions in line with company policy and reporting requirements to support business operations
  • Review bank reconciliations and advise on any issues.
  • Prepare accurate balance sheet reconciliations with clear ownership and resolution of outstanding items.
  • Prepare intercompany reconciliations and settlements in line with Group policy.
  • Collaborate with Commercial Finance Business Partners to ensure accurate accruals, prepayments, and ad hoc journals for month-end close.
  • Prepare periodic and ad hoc financial reports and analysis for management.
  • Support the Finance Operations team to ensure accurate and timely transaction processing.
  • Other duties and support of ad hoc projects as required.
  • Payment approvals/sign off, checking of invoices and payments to ensure accuracy before payments are made.

MSD Data Cleanse Lead FTC turned into a permanent position

Collinson Group SA
11.2024 - 03.2025
  • Examining data for issues like typos, duplicates, incorrect formatting, or missing values.
  • Ensuring that data is consistent across different sources.
  • Determining how to deal with missing or incomplete data.
  • Identifying and removing duplicate records, ensuring each data entry is unique and doesn’t cause inaccuracies in analysis.
  • Validating data like checking against predefined rules or against external sources to ensure accuracy.
  • Transforming raw data into more useful forms.
  • Analyzing data to understand its structure, patterns and quality, to detect issues that need addressing.
  • Keeping track of the data-cleansing steps and ensuring that any changes are well-documented so that the integrity of the data can be maintained over time.
  • Managing within a data cleanse role, working with a team, collaborating with other professionals, analysts, and head of department.

Accountant

Jurie Geldenhuys & Co
04.2024 - 10.2024
  • Performance of all financial accounting up to trial balance, prepare annual financial statements and verifying ALL relevant working papers.
  • Prepare and review bank, long term borrowings, intercompany loans, forex difference calculations, inventory, payable and receivable accounts and prepare year end journals.
  • Prepare weekly and monthly management reports for clients and cashflow projections.
  • Tax registrations for individuals, companies and trusts, VAT registrations & PAYE registrations.
  • Individual, companies and trusts tax calculations as well as provisional calculations and submissions.
  • Full payroll service and EMP201 submissions.
  • SARS revies and disputes.
  • CIPC annual returns, compliance checklists, beneficial ownership submissions, director changes and UI19 forms.

Accountant

Audax Accounting Solutions
10.2022 - 02.2024
  • Performance of all financial accounting up to trial balance, prepare annual financial statements and verifying ALL relevant working papers.
  • Prepare and review bank, long term borrowings, intercompany loans, forex difference calculations, inventory, payable and receivable accounts and prepare year end journals.
  • Prepare weekly and monthly management reports for clients and cashflow projections.
  • Tax registrations for individuals, companies and trusts, VAT registrations & PAYE registrations.
  • Individual, companies and trusts tax calculations as well as provisional calculations and submissions.
  • Full payroll service and EMP201 submissions.
  • SARS revies and disputes.
  • CIPC annual returns, compliance checklists, beneficial ownership submissions, director changes and UI19 forms.

SAIPA Article Clerk

Finley's Outsourced Business Services
01.2020 - 09.2022
  • Performance of all financial accounting up to trail balance, prepare annual financial statements in accordance with the accounting policies and requirements of the Companies Act of SA with CASEWARE.
  • Prepare weekly / monthly reports for clients, assist with monthly cashflow projections.
  • Tax registrations for individuals, companies, and trusts, VAT registrations, PAYE registrations
  • Individual, company and trust tax computations and completing relevant tax forms.
  • Maintain fixed asset registers, prepare and review bank, long term borrowings, inventory accounts payable and receivable reconciliations, prepare year end and corrective journal entries, assist senior staff with audits and account reports
  • Full Payroll service, EMP201 submissions, EMP501 submissions. Completed SAIPA articles but only 85% was signed off - Member number 74223.

Jnr Accountant

Enslins Auditors
03.2019 - 09.2019
  • Monthly allocations for VAT purposes and day-to-day accounting up until trial balance.
  • VAT reconciliations and submissions.
  • Full payroll functions including EMP201 submissions.
  • CIPS filings and changes.
  • Journals.
  • Depreciation and fixed asset register calculations.
  • Income tax calculations.

Accounting Clerk

Cornelissen & Partners
08.2011 - 12.2013
  • Day to day accounting up until trial balance.
  • Debtors and creditors management.
  • Admin and filing.
  • VAT and EMP submissions on e-filing.
  • SARS admin.
  • Individual tax calculations and provisional tax calculations, invoices of client retainers and ad hoc services.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

UNISA
Online
04.2001 -

BCom - Management Accounting

Akademia
01.2024

BCom - Accounting

University of the Free State
01.2019

Skills

Attention to detail

Certification

South African Accounting Academy – Professional Certificate in Drafting Financial Statements

Interests

Camping

Walking my dogs on the beach

Sketching

Timeline

MSD Data Cleanse Lead FTC turned into a permanent position

Collinson Group SA
11.2024 - 03.2025

Assistant Financial Accountant

Collinson Group SA
04.2024 - Current

Accountant

Jurie Geldenhuys & Co
04.2024 - 10.2024

Accountant

Audax Accounting Solutions
10.2022 - 02.2024

SAIPA Article Clerk

Finley's Outsourced Business Services
01.2020 - 09.2022

Jnr Accountant

Enslins Auditors
03.2019 - 09.2019

Accounting Clerk

Cornelissen & Partners
08.2011 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Science -

UNISA
04.2001 -

BCom - Management Accounting

Akademia

BCom - Accounting

University of the Free State
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