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Education
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Zandile Dlamini

Zandile Dlamini

PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT (SA)
Reservoir Hills

Summary

Detail-oriented Professional Accountant (SA) with 15 years in financial accounting and asset management. Expertise in managing fixed assets, capital expenditures, reconciliations, and compliance, alongside preparing financial statements. Demonstrated leadership in enhancing systems and ensuring regulatory compliance within complex finance environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Financial Controller

Durban Point Development Company (Pty) Ltd a Division of UEM Sunrise South Africa (Pty) Ltd
11.2021 - Current
  • Preparation of Annual Financial Statements for 4 group companies
  • Monthly management accounts with full set of reports for analysis of performance against budget
  • Review monthly journals
  • Maintain fixed asset register and CAPEX
  • Completion and submission of monthly VAT returns
  • Prepare tax computation and vat recon
  • Supervise and guide finance team
  • Manage and resolve SARS queries and audits
  • Submit CIPC returns for compliance purposes and update directors
  • Review COP's for authorisation and capture payments online banking and request release
  • Review cashbook and prepare bank reconciliation
  • Ensure timeous invoicing to debtors
  • Monitor project progress and financial activities while ensuring timely communication to relevant stakeholders
  • Review and approve petty cash slips and petty cash box reconciliations
  • Support internal and external auditors

Reason for leaving: Seeking better opportunities for professional development.

Assistant Accountant

Pharmed Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd (Division of Imperial Group)
02.2018 - 04.2021
  • Assist with Preparation of financial reports
  • Ensure compliance of statutory requirements (IFRS, companies act)
  • Assisting in annual/reforecast budget preparation
  • Prepare and assistance with external and internal audit
  • Fixed asset register control and maintenance
  • Review and authorize payment of customer data fees
  • Reviewing the feasibility of customer data fees
  • To ensure ad hoc fees recoverable from suppliers are billed and recovered from suppliers.
  • Monthly sustainability submission to head office (isms)
  • Support ad hoc projects, reviews and analysis required by management
  • Conducting financial investigations and internal reviews, involving the examination of the organization’s accounts, inspecting the organization’s current practices and recommending improvements.
  • Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls (SOP reviews related to the finance department)
  • Provide support and guidance to members of the finance and data capturing team.

Reason for Leaving: Retrenched

FINANCE CONTROLLER

Bidvest Freight Port Operations
10.2014 - 01.2018
  • Preparation of all general ledger recons
  • Weekly forecast
  • Preparing asset take on forms
  • Monthly TNPA rental provisions
  • Preparation of normal journals and adjusting journals
  • Review of standing journals
  • Prepare prepayments recons during month end
  • Review recons prepared by the facilities and other departments.
  • Deal and follow up on queries with the facilities Finance Admin Managers
  • Review vat schedule and preparing monthly vat recons.
  • Reviewing of all stock and petty recons from facilities.
  • Maintaining asset register
  • Follow up on WIP
  • Asset journals, Disposals, Depreciations, Scrapping and Additions
  • Follow up on CAPEX approval and informing the facilities about approved and queried CAPEX
  • Asset and WIP recons
  • Month end journals
  • Ensure that all month end accrual entries are reversed in the new month
  • Maintaining asset clearing account
  • Capital expenditure monthly update
  • Quarterly Budgets

Reason for Leaving: For growth within the Finance field,

Exposure on the finance reporting field.

AUDITOR

OMA CA (SA)
08.2014 - 09.2014
  • Audit planning for municipalities
  • Inspecting disclosure and compliance of municipal policies (e.g. IDP, PSM, SDBIP, SCM, labour relations etc.)
  • Assisting in execution of the audit
  • Setting up meetings and consulting with all directors of department, CFO and Municipal manager
  • Physical verification of WIP sites and employees
  • Inspecting funds received are complete by agreeing them to COGTA and checking if they are used for the intended expenditure.

Reason for Leaving: 3-4 Months contract (Only when the Governments department start their Audits)

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT

McCarthy Mercedes Inyanga Motors Empangeni
11.2013 - 02.2014
  • Foofplans,stock, petty cash, vehicle creditors and bank reconciliation
  • Preparations of sustainability recons
  • Preparation of BEE certificate
  • Data Processing
  • Analysing budgets and variances

Reason for Leaving: 3 Months contract.

AUDIT SENIOR

A2A Kopano Incorporated CA (SA)
06.2013 - 11.2013
  • Leading and assisting audit team on planning and execution of internal audit programmes.
  • Develop and maintain service standards
  • To ensure overall program effectiveness is in line with applicable legislation.
  • Prepare monthly/ annual reports
  • Facilitating training and development of staff
  • Manage correspondence
  • Interpret and analyze data to influence decision and opinion.

Reason for Leaving: Month to Months contract

SAICA TRAINEE ACCOUNTANT

A2A Kopano Incorporated CA (SA)
04.2009 - 05.2013
  • Working as part of a team that is responsible for making sure that financial statements are presented fairly in all material respects.
  • Communicating clearly and effectively with clients
  • Drafting of Financial statements in terms of IFRS
  • Auditing planning
  • Preliminary engagement activities execution (Test of controls and reporting
  • Controls and substantive testing – Public entities
  • Audit of financial statements - Execution and performance
  • Preparing Tax computations
  • Preparation of tax returns
  • Dealing and resolving tax and vat queries from SARS
  • Business Valuations
  • Assisting in preparation of BEE certificate

Reason for Leaving: Contract competed and got promoted to be an Audit Senior.

BOOKKEEPER

Charteris and Barnes CA (SA)
01.2008 - 03.2009
  • Completed and ensured accuracy of monthly management accounts.
  • Recorded financial transactions in accounting software.
  • Preparing trial balance
  • Registered clients for VAT and PAYE compliance with tax regulations.
  • Preparing and filing vat and EMP201 returns
  • Compiled summaries of invoices and bank statements for review.
  • Conducted reconciliations for bank, petty cash, debtors, and creditors.
  • Prepared monthly and quarterly management accounts.
  • Preparing output and input VAT schedules and VAT Returns.
  • General ledger entries including accruals and Prepayments.
  • Updated and maintained the fixed asset schedule for accurate tracking.
  • Drafting financial statements in terms of Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Reason for Leaving: Started trainee accountant training.

Education

BTech - Internal Auditing

University of South Africa
East London, South Africa
01-2013

National Diploma - Internal Auditing

Durban University of Technology
Durban
01-2008

Grade 12 (Matric) -

Hexagon High School
Queenstown, South Africa
01-2004

Skills

  • Financial reporting
  • Asset management and CAPEX
  • Sage X3
  • Pastel Accounting

CaseWare

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Outlook

Budget preparation

Certification

SAIPA Membership Number :31887

Additional Information

Improved financial reporting accuracy and internal controls.
Managed month-end and year-end reporting within deadlines.
Maintained fixed asset registers and strengthened asset controls.
Reduced reconciliation discrepancies and improved financial accuracy.
Supported preparation of AFS and audit readiness.
Managed budgets, forecasting, and expenditure control.

References

Elaine Pillay

Position: Assistant Finance Director

Company: DPDC

Contact number: 083 515 5645

Suveer Bhagowaat

Position: Finance Admin Manager

Company: Bidvest Freight Ports Operations 

Contact number: 031 274 2510

Timeline

Financial Controller

Durban Point Development Company (Pty) Ltd a Division of UEM Sunrise South Africa (Pty) Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Assistant Accountant

Pharmed Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd (Division of Imperial Group)
02.2018 - 04.2021

FINANCE CONTROLLER

Bidvest Freight Port Operations
10.2014 - 01.2018

AUDITOR

OMA CA (SA)
08.2014 - 09.2014

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT

McCarthy Mercedes Inyanga Motors Empangeni
11.2013 - 02.2014

AUDIT SENIOR

A2A Kopano Incorporated CA (SA)
06.2013 - 11.2013

SAICA TRAINEE ACCOUNTANT

A2A Kopano Incorporated CA (SA)
04.2009 - 05.2013

BOOKKEEPER

Charteris and Barnes CA (SA)
01.2008 - 03.2009

BTech - Internal Auditing

University of South Africa

National Diploma - Internal Auditing

Durban University of Technology

Grade 12 (Matric) -

Hexagon High School
Zandile DlaminiPROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT (SA)