Senior Accountant

Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure.

Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets.

Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet and general ledger accounts.

Assisting with annual audit preparations.

Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance.

Preparing federal, state, local, and special tax returns.

Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.

Performing other accounting duties and supporting junior staff as required or assigned

To ensure that all asset and coordination related activities are efficient and effective across the business.

Ensure continuous quality control to deliver excellent quality information to existing and new clients.

Execution of business strategies related to assets and logistics within the business.

Provide tactical and operational information to internal stakeholders for initiative-taking decision making.

Development and Implementation of asset monitoring structure.

Implementation, monitoring and initiative-taking management of asset and logistics related policies, procedures, and processes.

Management and monitoring of company assets (such as company vehicles).

Management of the billing or client invoicing processes related to all assets and logistics.

Control and management system of inventory assets.

Implementation of control measures which will ensure clean audit reports

Monthly review and responsibility for all expenses and cost allocations.

Ensure prompt GRV of all goods and services received on SITE.

Ensure best practice inventory principles are complied with.

Review and processing of petty cash claims.

Prepare budgets and financial forecasts. Verify validity and accuracy of the submitted fuel reports.

Ensure accuracy of submitted production, equipment, payroll, and HR information.

Verify validity and accuracy of the site fixed asset register monthly.

Manage and eliminate fruitless and wasteful expenditure to ensure resources are correctly allocated.

Initiate cost investigation studies; and Preparation of detailed site reports and detailed packs.

Working on the Accountability program, changing Oracle Daily, monthly and year budgets, setup, and control.

Full store’s function (Warehouse Manager).

Controlling Petty cash. Resolve accounting discrepancies. Other duties as assigned.

Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.

Analyse and review budgets and expenditures for local, state, federal, and private funding, contracts, and grants.

Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.

Analyse revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels and ensure expenditure control.

Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.

Explain billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors, and clients.

Recommend, develop, and maintain financial databases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.

Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems

Pastel Accounting System.

Responsible for IT Department, and reception area and personnel.

Checking all contacts and invoices accordingly.

Debtors and creditors.

All admin related work and filing

Issuing of stock/ material and spares Storage levels, Accurate control of materials and equipment.

Sequencing of delivery of materials and equipment, safe storage of all equipment and material, Adherence to loading and unloading procedure, prioritise work orders Effective store supervision, Quality of work performed,

all safety devices maintained and used as specified ISO 14001/18001 Integrated accredited.

Stopping of activities if equipment or environment is unsafe, SHEQ awareness.

Good employee relations, Time duration for task completion, Vehicles used and maintained to standard operating requirements All work performed to ‘Zero Tolerance’ (OTTO) principles.

Application of procedures, Effective administration of necessary systems.

December 2004 to April 2005 Acting Business Area Accountant.

Previous Position Held

Manager Jan 2003 - Feb 2003 IFAFI Car Wash & Trailer Rentals

Materials Assistant (Temp) Feb 2003 - Jul 2003 Rustenburg Platinum Mine -Anglo Platinum

Customer service.

Effective shelf management, team supervision, trading, and administration.

To ensure an excellent Customer shopping experience by providing a shopping environment which is clean, and fully merchandised and displayed, achieved by the effective supervision of a highly trained floor merchandising team and so enhancing sales and profitability which will ensure sustainability.

Effective handling of stock and receiving room and all BACK-STORE areas.

Controlling of incoming stock, checking, and merchandising of all stock.

Admin, filling, co-coordinating stock by Inter Branch Transfers (IBT) to other stores in the company.

Coordinate team OF WORKERS and supervise.

Supervise large amount of money and banking of all money.

Customer service Pricing and repricing of stock Controlling profit and losses (PNL).

All banking responsibilities and reconciling at all daily figures.

Stock loss under 0.5 % Controlling of budgets in store and controlling GP.

Monthly target over 100 %, monthly store turnover of 2.5mil.

Marketing and promotions as per set standard.

Training of personnel and other store Managers on new training course -Red Institute.

Acting area manager.

Training of all staff and managers on the new POS system, Mr. Price RED, and ten stores in total.

Handling and organising stock take at all stores, implementing new stock take procedures in all stores

Stock control of two branches, De Rust and Hazyview.

Ordering and receiving all stock, creating of Goods Received Notes and Goods Return Note when short delivered or damaged.

Control of the correct quantity of stock in store and on order.

Take of sectional stock takes.

Handling and storing of chemicals as per set instructions of the supplier.

Controlling and maintaining stock levels as per customer needs.

Finding and sourcing new stock and seeing that the correct quality is kept for all items, if not communicating with suppliers to correct the quality of items.

Co-coordinating and handling of all stock queries, customers, as well as supplier queries.

Keeping inventory of all items in two separate stores and keeping inventory up to date, daily.

Departmental Purchase Order capturing and office order creating.

Handling and ordering chemicals.

Vets and splits all official orders successfully created and printed to Trade Accounts, Receiving Department and posting to suppliers.

Communicates with user departments and co-workers to resolve mutual problems.

Assist the Local Bayer with all purchase order scrutinization and queries.

Maintaining a high degree in consistency and accuracy of filling all contracts, catalogues, tender documents, Head Office correspondence and other relevant documents pertaining to the purchasing function.

Communicates both verbal and in writing with vendors (suppliers) to assist the Local Buyer in obtaining information and quotations.

Purchasing stationery, computer requisites and furniture as main criteria.

Telephonically place all CONTRACTS stock orders received from the stores, with suppliers DAILY.

Work related documents done on Microsoft Office, Platinum Stores System, and the newly developed SAP system from Anglo American Mines.

Relieving local buyers when needed when local buyers are not available or on leave.

Previous Position Held

Rustenburg Platinum Mines - Security Officer

Grade 2 Dec 1993 - Feb 1996