Accountant

Financial Planning and Budgeting:

• Develop and manage annual budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, providing insights and recommendations to senior management.

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare and present accurate and timely financial statements, reports, and disclosures in line with regulatory standards.
• Manage month-end and year-end close processes, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.

Risk Management & Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with local regulation such as BEE,Tax,company registered, etc.
• Oversee internal controls, risk management frameworks, and audit processes.
• Collaborate with the legal and compliance teams to meet regulatory reporting requirements

Accounting & Taxation:

• Ensure the accurate and timely filing of all financial, statutory, and regulatory returns, including tax obligations.
• Liaise with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory authorities as necessary.

Treasury Management:

• Oversee cash management, including monitoring daily transactions, fund transfers, and bank reconciliations.
• Manage relationships with banks and financial institutions, ensuring efficient cash flow and currency risk management.

Operational Support:

• Collaborate with the tenders, projects and operations teams to ensure accurate financial control over project budgets, costing and other key operational activities.
• Implement and maintain financial systems to streamline reporting and improve operational efficiency

• Reconciliation and analysis of balance sheet accounts.
• Responsible for complete and accurate financial and management accounts reporting for all entities within the sector which includes month end reporting, consolidation, quarterly, interim and year end processes.
• Processing standard journals and raising accruals at month end
• Assisting management with annual budget process
• Preparing VAT recon and, filing VAT201 and processing payment to SARS
• Maintaining fixed assets register, processing journals for scrapping of assets, depreciation, sale and moving of assets to other cost centers.
• Raising invoices and ensuring that monthly billing is completed accurately and on time.
• Reviewing AP recons and loading payments accurately onto the banking system
• Processing payroll entries and payments for SARS-PAYE, Medical aids, provident funds, etc.
• Preparing cash forecasts and submitting to treasury department
• Maintained R500k in petty cash and administration of the funds.
•  Liaising with auditors and overseeing the audit process
• Completed stock audits at all branches, reported any control deficiencies to management and implemented internal controls & processes to be followed.
• Delivered training for corporate cards expenses on the Travel and Expenses system -SAP Concur and resolved queries relating to capturing and submission of expenses

• Supervised and managed a team of  6 Accounts clerks
• Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the finance department – AR and AP
•  Monitored queries on workflow and ensured that they are responded to and resolved within SLA by the team
• Managing staff’s KPI Resolution of escalation queries and taking corrective action
• Reconciling and managing client’s funds (float accounts) for international schemes
• Reviewing and signing-off sundry payment requisitions
• Documenting process flows and internal controls
• Reviewing and posting captured journals on ACCPAC

Accounts clerk

May 2011 - March 2012

• Efficiently processed all A/P invoices, and ensured 100% of approved invoices were paid in-full and on-time while maximizing cash-flow
• Entered key journal entries into the general ledger with minimal oversight
• Reconciled accounts, managed the petty cash box, and processed payroll payments
• Performed all reconciliations of bank statements
• Reduced the manual work required for month-end close by improving the processes for account reconciliations

• Full cashbook function and reconciliation of 3 main bank accounts
• Processing sundry payments via EFT to creditors on ABSA cash-focus weekly
• Capturing bank transactions on ACCPAC
• Payroll administration for contractual staff
• Reporting on daily cash flow and weekly forecast to CFO and Accounts
• Petty cash reimbursement & float reconciliation

• Full function and reconciliation of main bank accounts Processing sundry payments via EFT on ABSA cash-focus Petty cash reimbursement & float reconciliation Fleet Management and performing analytical review of costs to ensure reasonableness
• Updating the fixed asset register, calculating depreciation & ensuring that it complies with IFRS
• Handling and updating import stock account by determining value of imported stock purchases & matching it to foreign currency payments
• Processing journals for stock value adjustments & forex gains & losses

Clearing of the municipal suspense account
Capturing payment transactions on BAS system
Reconciling cashier surplus accounts
Compiling and reporting on Performance Scorecard for Revenue Collection department
Processing journals