Hope Mohanoe

I am a detail-oriented Accountant with completed SAICA articles and a strong foundation in financial reporting, accounting, and audit. I possess strong analytical abilities and a keen attention to detail, enabling me to ensure accuracy, compliance with regulatory standards, and the integrity of financial information. With a proactive and solutions-driven approach, I am adept at managing deadlines, improving processes, and supporting sound financial decision-making.

I am committed to continuous professional development and motivated to add value within a dynamic and high-performing finance team.

Accountant at Nashua Tshwane (2025-12 – Present)

Maintain the general ledger and ensure accurate recording of financial transactions and journal entries. Perform monthly bank reconciliations and resolve variances. Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring timely reporting. Maintain fixed asset register and ensure accurate asset accounting. Assist with audits and prepare supporting documentation. Prepare and submit VAT returns to SARS.

Oversee Accounts

Payable administrators to ensure accurate allocations and timely payments. Prepare and reconcile intercompany confirmations to ensure accurate balances between entities. Draft and review financial statements in accordance with IFRS, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and audit readiness. Prepare monthly sales commission calculations, ensuring accuracy and alignment with contracts and performance targets.

• Maintain the general ledger and ensure accurate recording of financial transactions and journal entries
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations and resolve variances
• Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring timely reporting
• Maintain fixed asset register and ensure accurate asset accounting
• Assist with audits and prepare supporting documentation
• Prepare and submit VAT returns to SARS
• Oversee Accounts Payable administrators to ensure accurate allocations and timely payments
• Prepare and reconcile intercompany confirmations to ensure accurate balances between entities
• Draft and review financial statements in accordance with IFRS, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and audit readiness
• Prepare monthly sales commission calculations, ensuring accuracy and alignment with contracts and performance targets
• Identified outdated accounting policies and inconsistencies in financial statements; redrafted statements and created a new reporting template, approved by auditors, improving accuracy and compliance
• Streamlined processes across Athena and Sage X3, eliminating redundancies and simplifying workflows while ensuring accurate integration between systems and alignment with business objectives
• Identified and flagged unnecessary costs during bank reconciliations where services were not being utilised

Trainee Accountant (SAICA Articles – Completed) at Crowe JHB (2023-01 – 2025-11)

Led audit engagements, supervising junior team members to ensure quality and deadlines are met. Planned and executed full audit cycles, including risk assessment, fieldwork, and reporting. Prepared and reviewed financial statements in accordance with IFRS and IFRS for SMEs.

Communicated audit findings and recommendations to management and those charged with governance. Evaluated internal controls and identified areas for improvement. Performed analytical reviews, reconciliations, and audit working papers.

• Led audit engagements, supervising junior team members to ensure quality and deadlines are met
• Planned and executed full audit cycles, including risk assessment, fieldwork, and reporting
• Prepared and reviewed financial statements in accordance with IFRS and IFRS for SMEs
• Communicated audit findings and recommendations to management and those charged with governance
• Evaluated internal controls and identified areas for improvement
• Performed analytical reviews, reconciliations, and audit working papers

Junior Accountant at CaseWare Africa, a division of Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd (2022-05 – 2023-01)

Reconciling balance sheet and ensuring outstanding items are cleared timeously. Preparing monthly journals including - adjusting entries for amortisation of prepayments and accruals.

Fixed assets: Additions, disposals, depreciation and reconciliation. Assisting with the external audit functions. Preparation and accurate processing of payments on the banking system.

Booking

Forex deal requests from Standard Bank. Resolving supplier payment queries. Monthly review of actual expenditure and forecast planning with department managers. Preparing management accounts on excel.

• Reconciling balance sheet and ensuring outstanding items are cleared timeously
• Preparing monthly journals including - adjusting entries for amortisation of prepayments and accruals
• Fixed assets: Additions, disposals, depreciation and reconciliation
• Assisting with the external audit functions
• Preparation and accurate processing of payments on the banking system
• Booking Forex deal requests from Standard Bank
• Resolving supplier payment queries
• Monthly review of actual expenditure and forecast planning with department managers
• Preparing management accounts on excel

Finance Graduate Intern at CaseWare Africa, a division of Adapt IT (Pty) Ltd (2021-05 – 2022-04)

Ensured timely payment of invoices to suppliers, maintaining favourable payment terms. Prepared monthly and ad-hoc creditors reporting. Managed a large creditors book, handling administration, resolving issues, and ensuring collection of outstanding amounts.

Fostered strong cross-departmental relationships to streamline operations and enhance collaboration. Reconciliation of supplier accounts. Efficiently captured invoices and payments into the system, maintaining meticulous records.

Managed daily download of bank statements and reconciled cashbooks.

• Ensured timely payment of invoices to suppliers, maintaining favourable payment terms
• Prepared monthly and ad-hoc creditors reporting
• Managed a large creditors book, handling administration, resolving issues, and ensuring collection of outstanding amounts
• Fostered strong cross-departmental relationships to streamline operations and enhance collaboration
• Reconciliation of supplier accounts
• Efficiently captured invoices and payments into the system, maintaining meticulous records
• Managed daily download of bank statements and reconciled cashbooks

Junior Bookkeeper at iProtect Trust Accounting (Pty) Ltd (2020-09 – 2021-02)

Maintaining records of financial transactions by establishing accounts, posting transactions, ensure compliance with legal requirements. Maintaining subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions. Balancing general ledger by preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries. Adhering to bookkeeping policies and procedures. Filling of tax computation on eFilling.

• Maintaining records of financial transactions by establishing accounts, posting transactions, ensure compliance with legal requirements
• Maintaining subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions
• Balancing general ledger by preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries
• Adhering to bookkeeping policies and procedures
• Filling of tax computation on eFilling

Payroll Support Agent (Temp) at Sage South Africa (2020-01 – 2020-03)

Assisted clients telephonically with Year-End processes and Pastel Payroll queries. Encouraged use of self-service tools and guided clients through the process. Suggested improvements to simplify and enhance the customer support experience.

• Assisted clients telephonically with Year-End processes and Pastel Payroll queries
• Encouraged use of self-service tools and guided clients through the process
• Suggested improvements to simplify and enhance the customer support experience

Strategic level in Management Accounting – CIMA (2026)

Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting in Management Accounting – CIMA (2026)

Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Financial Accountancy – North West University, SA (2019)

Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accountancy – North West University, SA (2018)